Mazell
| Mazell | |
|---|---|
| General info | |
| Home: | Fleeth |
| Alignment: | Unknown |
| Gender: | Female |
| Species: | Human (Ur-Flan) |
| Class: | Mage |
| Dates | |
| Age: | Unknown (deceased) |
Mazell is Vecna's mother.
Description
Mazell was a slender, mature woman with bronze skin, black hair, dark eyes, and tattoos on her face, neck, arms, and chest. She was always shown with her hair at least partly covered. During the day she wore white, but while performing magic in secret she wore black robes trimmed in red and gold.
Mazell was a witch of sorts, knowing enough arcane magic to create undead, blind an opponent, and transform the arm of another opponent into a snake.
Relationships
Mazell despised Fleeth and its people, saying she desired nothing more than to see the severed heads of every citizen stacked in its marketplace. Failing that, she expressed the hope that her son Vecna would one day become the greatest wizard in all of history. Her son would eventually grant both of those wishes, albeit 900 years after her death.
History
Mazell claimed that every Ur-Flan tribe she was aware of but hers was either destroyed by witch-hunters or forgot the worship of Mok'slyk, leaving she and Vecna as the Serpent's last worshipers.
Mazell and Vecna were slaves and untouchables, part of Fleeth's lowest social caste. They were allowed to live so that they could perform unclean tasks such as the embalming of the dead. In secret, Mazell's family preserved knowledge of her people's ancient ways, including their arcane magic, which was forbidden by Fleeth's theocracy. She taught young Vecna some magic, at least enough for him to enspell a snake's skull as a birthday gift to her and to cast a spell from an ancient tablet.
One day a chambermaid came to her, requesting an abortifacient for a "friend." The drug was actually for the princess of Fleeth, who had been scandalously impregnated by one of her guards even though she was betrothed to the prince of Almadia. Mazell prescribed a pinch of the abortifacient every day for a month, but the queen tried to hurry the procedure, tripling the dosage. The princess died, and Mazell took the blame for it. The town guards were ordered by the queen to kill Vecna in front of her in retribution for the death of the queen's daughter, but Mazell used her magic to distract them while the boy escaped. While Vecna ran away, Mazell was burned to death in the public square. As she died, an apparition of Mok'slyk could be seen taking the her soul.
Bibliography
- Thorsson, Modi, and Kevin McCann. Vecna: Hand of the Revenant. Lakewood, CO: Iron Hammer Graphics, 2002.