The One True Mr Defira

Gromph Baenre has fucked up. His last gamble for power in the political games of the Underdark have seen him exiled, his wife is dead after attempting to murder their daughter and his sister, his sister hates him (nothing new there) and his youngest daughter carrying the reincarnated soul of his mother has absconded from the Underdark to chase dreamily after Drizzt Do'Urden. His elder daughter wants nothing to do with him. He has lost everything.

So when word reaches him of the survival of his old paramour, the former Zedriniset of Lolth, living and thriving in Waterdeep and teaching at the famed Blackstaff Academy, it seems too good to be true. He will simply seduce her, secure a lofty academic position at Blackstaff that requires little effort on his part, and return to a life of power and decadence once more.

Unfortunately, his former paramour is now married - to a Chosen of Mystra, no less. A handsome, dashing human wizard. But marriage has never been an impedance to his schemes before, and perhaps a handsome, dashing human wizard might be a little more pliable than his prickly ex-lover...