-------------- Old Calladon - Vhaerenydra S'rrothimor

Vhaeren was born into the vacuum left after Lolth was slain the first time. Her mother was a Witch, an up and coming star with the Coven of the Spider. Her father was an adventurer, a wanderer, and that's all she knew of him. Supposedly he was a powerful warrior, rumored to be a Drow Weaponsmaster. She found out only after reaching puberty that his identity was a fabrication, a lie, but whose lie she might never know. Her mother began teaching her in the old ways as soon as she was old enough to walk. She would be a priestess of Lolth when the plot of the Coven was realized and Lolth was resurrected. But Vhaeren's true talents lie along her mother's path, and as she began to develop magically much earlier than she should have, her mother changed her training to Witchcraft instead. But her mind wandered from her training. Her mother sensed her growing distaste with the old ways. And so began her torments. Her training became more and more brutal, designed to push her into the same evil that had consumed the Drow for millennia. She was about to succumb to the torture. Then something miraculous and horrifying occurred.

As she entered puberty, not only did the normal changes come upon her, but she gained a constitution and agility that were beyond other Drow. Her senses became hyper intensified. During one of her more painful training sessions, she changed for the first time, become a monster on the outside. She fought with her instructors, killing one of them. She turned to yell and saw instead a stream of sickly yellowish liquid melt the poor witch into a puddle of dissolving flesh. She took wing and flew away, trying to escape, horrified as to what she had become. She fell pray to a street gang and woke up in the arms of a Drow woman. She was not like Vhaeren's mother or any of the others of the Coven, but was kind and had a light in her eyes that Vhaeren had never seen in a Drow before. Vhaeren learned that her name was Kethrynar Lonishwyr, a Priestess of the outlawed Drow Goddess, Sehanine Moonbow. Kethryn took her in and tried to ease her transition into womanhood. They left the shores of the Oceans Below and traveled the wilderness of the Western UnderDark, and Vhaeren learned of the other Drow Gods, including Treallar and Selvatarm, and realized for the first time that the universe was greater than the tunnels and blackness of the UnderDark, and that there was more watching over the Drow than the evil spectre of Lolth's return. For a bastard Half-Dragon teenager, that meant more than all the demons in the Abyss.

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