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| Zinzerena | |
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| General information | |
| Portfolio: | Chaos, Assassins |
| Home: | Prime Material Plane |
| Alignment: | Chaotic Neutral (Evil) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Superior: | Lolth |
Zinzerena is the drow deity of chaos and assassins.
Description
Relationships
Dogma
Worshippers
Myths and legends
Zinzerena's apotheosis
Zinzerena is said to have been born a drow mage with an aptitude for illusion magic. Her mother faked her death in order to smuggle her away from the priestesses of Lolth. She grew in power, studying alone as a spellcaster and assassin specializing in the use of poison and disguise, and gained her divinity by tricking Keptolo, Lolth's consort, out of a fraction of his.
A newer version of the myth appears in Drow of the Underdark (2007). Once Zinzerena's renown had grown to the point that she was worshipped by many drow as a goddess in her own right, she was betrayed by a client who had ostensibly hired her to kill a rival, trapping her with web golems. Zinzerena bragged that she had become entirely illusionary, immune to capture, and when her captors ordered their golems to rend her asunder, they found no body within her clothes. Immediately after Zinzerena's alleged death, drow everywhere gained their innate powers over light and darkness for the first time. Zinzerena continues to wander the Underdark to this day, an inspiration to rebels everywhere.
Bibliography
- Marmell, Ari, Anthony Pryor, Robert J. Schwalb, Greg A. Vaughan. Drow of the Underdark. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2007.
- McComb, Colin. On Hallowed Ground. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1996.
- Sargent, Carl. Monster Mythology. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1992.
- Weining, Frederick. "The Vault of the Drow." Dragon #298. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2002.