Base: Abandoned ceiling houses over Eastmyr, House Baenre, Oozing Myconid
Leaders: Yvonnel Baenre II, Quenthel Baenre, Mal'a'voselle Amvas Tol, Jarlaxle
Members: House Baenre, Blaspheme, Callidaeians, Eilistraeean Clerics, Bregan D'aerthe, House Fey-Branche
Beliefs: Anti-Lolth

Base: Fane of the Quarvelsharess, House Melarn
Leaders: Sos'upmto Baenre, Zhindia Melarn
Members: House Do'Urden, House Hunzrin, House Barrison Del'Armgo, Clerics of Lolth
Beliefs: Pro-Lolth

"What else can my hands do with the blood? Pray?"

"I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind- how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall." - Pierce Brown

"Find God in the line of your jaw and break it."

"You will open your wounds and make them a garden."

"Make death proud to take us." - William Shakespeare

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity." - Edvard Munch

"If God could heal me, why haven't they yet. If God could heal me. why didn't they make them right the first time."

"They tell me 'it all happens for a reason' and I gently cover the ears of the child within me then whisper to her. 'You did not deserve this and this is not your fault.'"

"I spoke, hands trembling - 'How can you be mad at me for my sins? You made me like this.' God replied, firmly - "I gave you all the tools, you never utilized them." I scream, voice raw - "You're a LIAR! I tried, I begged and I gnawed my way out of the box they buried me in and still it was not enough!"

"You need the sickness inside you like a body needs a spine. You may survive without it, but oh, how deformed and misshapen you'd become."

"Stop looking at me like that, with pity in your glassy eyes. All I am to you is a tragedy right? Stop it. Stop fucking looking at me like that. Do you hear me?

"My abuse isn't poetic. It was not justice or necessary. The Earth left me to die and there is no such thing as karma. The gods watched idly by as I was killed in that house and not a damn person tried to help me."

"So many broken children living in grown bodies mimicking adult lives."

"Don't you dare, for one minute, believe that my kindness makes me anything but insurmountable. I did not unzip my chest to every kind of hurt, and stagger back, wounded and alive, just to hear you call me weak for trying."

"Some people are just born to fight, I think. It's not that they're born brave. It's not that they're born strong. It's just that the universe has decided that this one, this one will have grit and fire and steel in their blood. And it'll be tested, this cosmic mettle of theirs. They'll face trial after trial, be broken and damaged in countless ways. But this one ws born to fight. Maybe it's not the life they would have chosen. Maybe they'd love to lay down their arms. But they were born to fight. It's what they know. It's what they do best. It's all they can do."

"God was silent."

"Of all the ways to lose a person, Death is the kindest."

Name: Pillanyl Baenre
Class: Wizard
Illusionist
Background:
Yor'thae (Acolyte)
Alignment:
Lawful Neutral
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Archetypes

King: She did not ask for this.
Slytherin: She would do everything.
Daughter of Nemesis: "Give me somewhere to stand and I will move the Earth."

Characteristics

Gender: Female
Features: Red Eyes, White Hair, Deep Purple Skin, 5ft, 100lbs
Age: 134

Personality

Traits: I've spent so long in the temple that I have little practical experience dealing with people in the outside world.
Ideals: The ancient traditions of worship and sacrifice must be preserved and upheld.
I trust that my deity will guide my actions. I have faith that if I work hard, things will go well. It has to.
Bonds: I owe my life to the clerics who took me in and raised me. I cannot end up like my sister.
Flaws: I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely.
Once I pick a goal, I become obsessed with it to the detriment of everything else in my life.

Relationships

Organizations: After being taken in by several clerics of Lolth as a child, namely from House Melarn, Pillanyl became a devoted cleric of Lolth. As Lolth has already taken a favor to her, even at her young age, she is treated as a Yor'thae. She has decent associations with Menzoberranzan's political figures through her servitude to Lolth.
Allies: Zhindia Melarn acts as Pillanyl's primary mentor, but is extremely busy and is not around her much anymore. She still aids with magic and religion.
Many other clerics of Lolth, especially House Melarn, act as Pillanyl's allies. All of them could turn on her at any moment, especially if there was a hint of disfavor towards Lolth.
Enemies: Pillanyl has no true passionate hatred for anyone except her father. Men are already useless, and this one brought her into the world just to leave her to monsters. Her sister is stupid and unintentional, but it would take too much work to hate her.

Backstory

Pillanyl grew up with her sister, Irrbryn, in the care of clerics of Lolth. She was groomed into devotion from a young age, and Lolth took a liking to her when she attended Arach-Tinilith to become a cleric and devote her life to her. During her time at Arach-Tinilith, the magic Pillanyl had been taught to hide her vitiligo began to call to her, and she left the academy to become an illusionist. This teaching was done by private tutors, as Irrbryn had "changed" after going to Sorcere.
During her education, Irrbryn became distant and eventually chose to leave Menzoberranzan, requesting Pilla go with her. Pillanyl declined, knowing one of them had to stay to appease Lolth. Once Irr was gone, all attention turned to Pillanyl and she was trained as a weapon. Beautiful, terrible, malleable.
After years spent in depression and dissociation, at age 100 Pillanyl decided the balance Lolth promised to maintain through chaos was not sufficient. She launched herself back into magic and grew away from her faith.
Now, and for the last 30 years, Pillanyl has acquired devotion from Lolth-Sworn that not even Lolth herself has. She is on her way to being one of the youngest Matron Mothers and is one of the only active women overseeing Menzoberranzan's military.

Name:
Irrbryn
Baenre
Class:
Wizard
Illusionist
+ Rogue Assassin
Background: Acolyte
Alignment: Chaotic Good
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Archetypes

Soldier: She pretends she is a King. It only makes her more of a soldier.
Slytherin: She would do anything.
Daughter of Aphrodite: "Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely."

Characteristics

Gender: Female
Features: Red Eyes, White Hair, Deep Indigo Skin, 5'2, 110lbs
Age: 142

Personality

Traits: I am intolerant of all faiths and condemn the worship of all gods. I am incredibly slow to trust. Those who seem the fairest often have the most to hide.
Ideals: I always try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. Let me seem selfless.
Bonds: I will someday get revenge on the corrupt temple hierarchy who branded me a heretic, even if it means killing my sister.
Flaws: I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely. I am inflexible in my thinking.

Relationships

Organizations: Schooled at Sorcere, the wizard school of Tier Breche, Menzoberranzan's academy from ages 26-51. Apprenticed under Noori Baenre, the first female drow permitted to attend Sorcere and Grendan Baenre, a tenth-year apprentice at Sorcere.
Currently a spy and assassin for the resistance network against Lolth.
Allies:
FAMILY:
Close with her father, Vuzfryn Oblodra. Reunited when Irr was ~65 after she had turned against Lolth and was brought into the resistance network by Jalynfein. Respects him, but disagrees with his softness towards Pillanyl.
Sibling relationship with Malwen who she met when she reunited with Vuzfryn, as he had taken Malwen in as a child. Argue a lot but love eachother deeply and constantly lean on eachother. Irr is extremely protective of Mal.
Close with Vierna and Neerlin, though not a part of Malwen, Vierna, and Neerlin's trio.
Comradery with most of the family's close allies. Has an uncle-like relationship with Jarlaxle and Kimmuriel Oblodra, Vuzfryn's close allies and the leaders of Bregan D'aerthe.
CLOSE ALLIES:
Worked with Jalynfein, the most powerful spellcaster in Menzoberranzan, who although thought to be Lolth-Sworn and insane, was actually a spy for the rebels. Met while Irr attended Sorcere and continued to work together until she left Menzoberranzan at 70. Have been working together the last 5 years that Irr has been back in Menzoberranzan.
ALLIES:
Allies in the war against Lolth include the Blaspheme, Bregan D'aerthe, Eilistraeean clerics, Callidaeians, majority of House Fey-Branche, majority of House Baenre, and her team.
Has various allies across Faerun, mostly magic users who are a part of ruling councils or are in line of succession. Few know Irr's true identity, only knowing her as a powerful, beautiful elf wizard.
Enemies: Detests all worshippers of Lolth, some for selfishness, some for stupidity. Dislikes her adoptive mothers the most, several clerics of Lolth, who attempted to groom her into a Yor'thae. Pretends to have a decent relationship with them and the broader clergy in order to gather information for the rebel network.
Hates Pillanyl, her younger sister. Believes her to be stupid for having stayed devoted to Lolth and becoming the "chosen one". Hates that when she offered for Pillanyl to leave Menzoberranzan with her when she was 70, Pillanyl turned her down. Barely speak now, and only in public. Pillanyl is the only cleric of Lolth that knows Irrbryn is not devoted.

Backstory

Raised by mother, a member of House Baenre and father, a member of House Oblodra, until age 8, where her mother died in childbirth. Moved to live with her younger sister, Pillanyl, and the clerics of Lolth. Groomed from a young age to worship Lolth and eventually become a cleric of Lolth.
Was incredibly devoted and intelligent, so was permitted to attend Sorcere instead of Arach Tinilith once she tuned 26. While at Sorcere, surrounded by primarily drow males, began to realize the beliefs Lolth and her clerics pushed were incorrect. After becoming radical and loud at school, was taken under Jalynfein's, one of her professors, wing. Taught illusion magic and how to hide her true intentions and beliefs by Jalynfein while continuing to study broader wizardry at Sorcere. Graduated early at 51.
Between 51 and 70, continued to work with Jalynfein, eventually being introduced to other members of the rebel network, and reuniting with her father, Vuzfryn Oblodra. Grew to have a father-daughter relationship with him and a familial relationship with his close allies. Met Malwen and their best friend, Vierna, forming a sibling and friend relationship respectively. She trained with Vuzfryn and several member of Bregan D'aerthe to become an assassin and poison master.
At 70, decided to leave Menzoberranzan to broaden her understanding of Faerun and unlearn what she was taught by the clerics of Lolth. Before leaving, she asked Pillanyl, who she previously had hardly spoken to for ~20 years, to come with her, explaining that the clerics of Lolth were corrupt, and was denied. Irrbryn disguised her vitiligo and dark skin, turning towards a seductive side of illusion magic. Over her 50 years in Faerun, she formed bonds with several close allies, but never stayed in one place, using her illusion magic and assassin training to eliminate corrupt dictators and cultists.
Upon hearing about the rising conflicts in Menzoberranzan, Irrbryn retuned home and started working as a spy for the resistance network. She has now been a spy for ~10 years and lives with Vuzfryn, Malwen, Vierna, and Neerlin in one of the rebel bases.

As a spy and assassin, presents herself as shallow and unaffected. Uses her body to her advantage, often seducing the people she assassinates or manipulates.
As seen by the resistance network, she is a brash radicalist with a strong personal vendetta against Lolth. She is on her way to being one of the best illusionists in the underdark, and Faerun as a whole. She seems to have fun getting to pull strings and have power over others.
At her core, Irrbryn feels extremely deeply, and cuts off a lot of that emotion instead of managing it. She is prone to emotional outbursts. She is work obsessed, often staying "in character" even when she doesn't need to as a defense mechanism.
Pillanyl is Irrbryn's biggest weakness.