Raleighna Forge

The Keeper of Northshire is an aged female drow mage who fled from Viveni in disgrace over two hundred years ago. She has a long, wild mess of white hair and weathered dark violet skin. Her body is well-kept, and she wears tight leather clothes to accentuate her frame.

Raleighna was exiled from Viveni after carrying on a flagrant and callous affair with a member of a noble family, cheating on her husband with whom she had already raised three children. She wandered the wastes for decades, using her charisma to wriggle her way into a position of power in small settlements across Myrias. She would always flee these places as their people turned against her, but she has repeated her grift for nearly two hundred years before settling in Northshire twenty years ago. Her cunning, charm, and magic allowed her to ingratiate herself to the town's ailing former Keeper and claim his position.

The Keeper of Northshire has kept watch over the Izvah'Tehragarb since the dawn of the Third Age, for the first Keeper was appointed by the head of the Temple of Baatei. The first Keeper was beloved by Northshire's people for her service as mystical protector of the town, and the five Keepers that have succeeded the first have enjoyed that love as well. Even Raleighna was beloved for a time—but she squandered any goodwill she was afforded as Keeper when she shut her doors and refused to house even a single one of her people when the undead descended upon the town.

She says that the ritual of the Izvah'Tehragarb was esoteric nonsense from an ancient age that constantly drained her time and resources. She dismissed her acolytes as a way to save money that could be better spent on the town (even though she just embezzled the money for her own purposes).