Qesarayas
Qesarayas is a pseudohistorical wizard attested in a handful of sources from the Eleven Cities. She is chiefly noted as the daughter of the esteemed wizard Morogyad.
History
Qesarayas is discussed by two historians, Orrdelph and Hephryan of Tyros. Hephryan tells the story of Qesarayas's birth; she was the youngest of the three children, and the only daughter, born to Morogyan and his Tyrosian wife Abeyan. Neither historian goes into much detail on her early life, though both agree that Morogyad was for a number of years an attentive and munificent father. Qesaerayas's reaction to his eventual, apparently unheralded abandonment of his family is not recorded. Hephryan does not record anything about her later life or death.Thaumatological interest
Qesarayas's reputation as a thaumaturge rests entirely on Orrdelph's assertion that she was party of an exhausitng three-person ritual, along with her brother Pholadros and half-sister Jezarayn, that imparted the three siblings with the ability to transform into petrels. This story is told in Orrdelph's biography of Pholadros, with Qesarayas mentioned primarily as an aid to her brother; he does not accord her the dignity of a biographical essay of her own. Orrdelph avers that the three siblings spent more and more of their time living as seabirds and less and less as people, and eventually disappeared from human society altogether. Jezarayn was the only one who was ever seen in human form again, resuming her original shape and marrying in Dyqamay. What eventually became of Pholadros and Qesarayas is not stated. The notion that Qesarayas lived out her days as a petrel would explain why Hephryan says nothing about her later life in Tyros, since it would demonstrates she did not have one. The fact that Hephryan, a historian with an avowed intention to lionise the Tyrosian upper crust, remained silent on this story might be taken as evidence against its historicity.
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