Zinzerena
| Zinzerena | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Portfolio: | Chaos, Assassins |
| Home: | Prime Material Plane |
| Alignment: | Chaotic Neutral (Evil) |
| Superior: | Lolth |
Zinzerena is the drow deity of chaos and assassins.
Myths and legends
Zinzerena's apotheosis: The myth, according to the game materials, is this: Zinzerena was 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 myth written for Zinzerena in Drow of the Underdark says that at the time where her 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. She 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.
References
- Marmell, Ari, Anthony Pryor, Robert J. Schwalb, Greg A. Vaughan. Drow of the Underdark. (Wizards of the Coast, 2007).
- McComb, Colin. On Hallowed Ground (TSR, 1996).
- Sargent, Carl. Monster Mythology (TSR, 1992).
- Weining, Frederick. "The Vault of the Drow." Dragon Magazine #298. (Wizards of the Coast, 2002).