Tysiln San

First Protector-Valley of the Mage

Tysiln San was born in the Vault of the Drow, to a family of merchants. She was trained in magic use by her family, and expected to spend her life with them. She was unflinchingly loyal to her kinfolk, and when they began planning to overthrow the priestesses of Lolth, she gave them her full cooperation.

Unfortunately, her family’s plan failed, and the attempted rebellion was crushed almost before it started. Fleeing for her life, Tysiln San met a human mage who had come to the Vault of the Drow on magical business. She threw herself on his mercy, and he agreed to take her back to the surface with him.

Once she was on the surface, Tysiln San found herself in a world for which her training had not prepared her. For several weeks, she had agoraphobia (fear of large open spaces), and refused to go out-of-doors. The mage managed to overcome her fears, and gave her a pair of magical lenses. The lenses were fashioned by a master mirror maker so that the wearer could see through them, but the lenses resembled mirrors from the outside. Before he gave them to her, he cast glassteel on them to make them almost unbreakable.

With the new lenses, Tysiln San could function in bright sunlight as well as she could in darkness. For several years she assisted the mage in his magical experiments, until one of the experiments went seriously wrong. The mage tried to create a variation of the gate spell, and thought he had succeeded. His first experiment was an attempt to gate in a heirarch modron. He got a frog-like death slaad instead, who promptly killed him and tried to kill Tysiln San. Only her dark-elf ability to levitate saved her.

Alone on the surface for the first time, Tysiln San wandered for several years. She settled into a halfling community, casting spells such as mend in return for her food and shelter. When she left there, she wandered through many lands until she was caught wandering through the Dim Forest by a patrol of Valley Elves.

Taken before the Mage of the Valley by his faithful guardians, the female dark elf found herself falling insanely in love. At this time, the Mage was still consolidating his power in the valley, and the sudden appearance of a skilled mage who idolized him was like a gift from the gods. After determining that Tysiln San was indeed loyal to him, the Mage gave her freedom, on condition she pass a series of tests. These tests placed her in greater and greater danger, but she passed them all, and became the mistress of the Mage at the same time that she became his most trusted servant.

Tysiln San is an exquisitely beautiful dark elven female, with long, straight, white hair, white upswept eyebrows, huge yellow eyes, delicate features, and black skin. She is quite aware of her beauty, and is perfectly willing to exploit it, or anything else she has, in the service of the Mage of the Valley. !b her, the Mage decides right and wrong. She is completely loyal to him and madly in love with him. She realizes that the Mage is perfectly capable of sacrificing her in order to fulfill his own ends, but this does not bother her. She looks forward to the day he becomes a shade, since she feels that his only flaws are his pale skin and his short human lifespan.

Tysiln San owns, besides her mirrored lenses, a pair of elven boots, a cloak of arachnidia (a souvenir of her family’s attempt to overthrow Lolth’s priestesses), a bag of holding, a wand of lightning, a ring of elemental command, and a staff of striking.

She has complete access to her lover’s spellbooks, as well as her former master’s collection of spellbooks. Having learned from her former master’s demise, she has a set of scrolls of protection, including those against demons, devils, lycanthropes, snakes, and undead.

At the present time, Tysiln San is the First Protector of the Valley of the Mage. She begged her lover for a responsible post, and he gave her the task of supervising the guards of his Valley, thereby ensuring the area’s safety. She took the post with joy, and set to work to try to make the Valley impregnable to all enemies.

Taking command of the gnomes and valley elves who normally guarded the entrance, Tysiln San went to work with an intensity that astonished the Mage. She created inviting-looking paths, studding them with many subtle but dangerous traps. She created paths that seemed impassable, but which led right into the Valley, and secret hiding-places where gnomish and valley elf assassins could watch the paths, and ambush any intruders. When she was done, she had hardly altered the entrance to the Valley, but she had ensured that any enemy would be warned away (by magic mouth spells placed in unexpected and creative spots), scared off by illusions placed by gnomish spell casters, or killed if they persisted.

Her own post is at the narrowest part of the entrance to the Valley, and is heavily fortified. If anyone gets that far, a huge statue standing nearby will announce (by magic mouth): “Stop at the station and state your business!’’ This statue is designed to look like a stone golem, and gnomish spellcasters will make it appear to move to further the impression that it is a golem.

When meeting Tysiln San in the Valley, intruders will be quizzed by her, to determine if they have valid reasons to be there. The more dissatisfied she is with their answers, the more flirtatious she will be, to distract them. Meanwhile, a real and invisible stone golem awaits her signal to squash the intruders. Tysiln San will use her female drow abilities of clairvoyance, detect lie, know alignment, and suggestion to determine intruders’ business. If she is satisfied that the intruders are on legitimate business, she will guide them through the entrance, past the traps.

AC 4 (bracers of defense, AC4 MV 12”; MU 8; hp 35; #AT 1; Dmg by weapon type (staff of striking, dagger Str 12, Int 20, Wis 9, Dex 13, Con 17, Cha 13; THACO 19; AL CN; SA as female dark elf, Spells: 4-lst, 3-2nd, 3-3rd, 2-4th, 1-5th, and special; SD as female dark elf.