#ilphaer

Ilphaer has something of a difficult personality. While Ilphaer likes to think that she thinks before she acts, the truth of the matter is that she is very reactive person by nature. Her hands move faster than her brain, and her mouth faster than her hands. She doesn’t have a particularly strong filter, often saying the first thing that comes to her mind in any given situation. In many ways, she can come across as deeply vulgar and (to the more judgemental) classless - Both in her vocabulary and behavior. She’s someone who can be rather snarky when she’s not actively thinking about it, and she has no interest in changing this about herself.

While she is otherwise amicable to strangers and those she doesn’t have as much of a history with, Ilphaer is someone who will unabashedly treat someone differently depending on how much she likes or dislikes them, becoming more difficult and stubborn the less she respects a person. She already finds it difficult to share the company of others, and becomes more irritated in the presence of those she finds distasteful or uncomfortable to be around. She can be rather judgemental about people, though that judgement does little in the way of being an actual deciding factor on whether or not she’ll continue to work with and talk to them.

Ilphaer is a person whos main motivator in life, for better and for worse, is spite. In the past, this was something that consumed her as a person - She knows, looking back on the person she was even just a few decades ago, that she was a deeply bitter and somewhat irritable person. As she’s gotten older and more content with her place in the world, she’s learned to better manage some of the stronger emotions (and, in turn, impulses to act on those emotions) that she feels.

On the other hand, she thinks very lowly of those who betray people they’re close to. The general drow mindset that results in the ever changing alliances of the nobility never sat well with her, and she sees and understands the importance of keeping the people you value safe and taken care of. Ilphaer herself would give her life for those she keeps most close - However, it is hard to get to that level of trust with her. Despite the value she has on that (Or, perhaps because of it) She’s otherwise disinterested in letting most people in, and she believes that people have to earn the place they have in her life and prove themselves worthy of that protection and love. She believes strongly in taking care of the community, though she has a the flaw of having a rather limited idea of that community.

Even at her best, she enjoys finding ways to get under peoples skin. Teasing and gossip is a bonding activity for her, though it is one that can quickly become sincerely meanspirited and cruel in the face of someone she doesn’t hold as high of opinions on. Though, to her credit she can take what she gives in this regard, and has a high tolerance for being teased in return. She's someone who knows she's funny, and can be rather snippy as a result of it.

At her worst, Ilphaer is smug, vindictive, and cynical. She’s stubborn and loud about it, holds rather ridiculous grudges, and actively enjoys getting under people’s skin. She’s someone who acts rashly, thinks herself and her own suffering above the suffering of others, and (At the worst period of her life) was prone to self-destructive spirals in which she was willing to do little to pull herself out of. She can be self-important, short sighted, and impulsive. 

At her best, however, Ilphaer is someone that’s able to see past her own immediate biases, and able to stomach swallowing the worst of her traits in search for a better tomorrow. She is incredibly protective of those that she keeps close to her and those she sees as more immediately weaker and defenseless, and is otherwise rather generous with sharing what she’s managed to obtain in her life. She’s done a lot in recent years to self-actualized - All of the growth she’s had as a person has been a proactive attempt to be better and happier than she was in her youth. And realistically, though she is unaware of it herself, she’s willing to show others far more grace and kindness than even she would generally accredit herself for.

Bio: 

Self-care:

The kindest way to describe Ilphaer’s self-care habits is that they are okay. 

Her habits used to be far worse in her younger years, and many of the issues that she has now adays are holdovers from the habits she developed in her youth and never quite learned how to break - when she was particularly younger, she was end up lost to her room for days at a time lost in any number of studies or projects that she’d been assigned to. When her hair was longer, it was notoriously a tangled and unkempt mess that she refused to either cut or care for. To this day, her work space is an organized mess, with everything seeming to have a place but those places sometimes being in places like a pile on her desk and days old makeup isn’t an uncommon sight on her.

However, as she’s gotten older there are parts of her life that she’s gotten better at keeping up with. She keeps a rather consistent sleep schedule (Of which she prefers to do rather than trance) and she found a hobby-esc level of enjoyment in cooking that has allowed her to remember to eat more regularly. While there will still be days where she sometimes gets absorbed in whatever larger project she’s working on, she’s now better about the smaller parts of life and personal upkeep. 

Hobbies

For much of her life, the majority of Ilphaer’s time consisted of working herself to death. It wasn’t a thought in her mind to try and take up hobbies, because the position that she was in for the majority of her life was one that didn’t afford it. When she was younger, she had to put that energy towards study and survival. When she joined Vhaeraun’s church, much of her energy was focused on the larger goals of it. Even once she first attempted to retire, she put more energy towards the various ongoings in the settlement she’d joined than she did in finding any one particular thing to spend her time doing.

Largely this left her feeling burnt out and miserable, and she doesn’t look back on those years fondly. It took the death of her god to go out of her way and discover things she could enjoy doing - and in recent years, Ilphaer has taken up quite a few different hobbies. When she joined Eilistraee’s church, she found an enjoyment for cooking and dance, both of which are ones that she keeps rather private. She first found her passion for item enchantment within this church as well, of which was inspired when she began creating flashy toys for the children within the community she’d been staying in. 

In recent years, she’s found a lot of enjoyment in the arts and in fashion, especially in figuring out ways to incorporate within her own personal wardrobe. 

Many of her hobbies involve the very magic she’d once burnt herself out on, and she largely accredits her hobbies for actually coming to enjoy what of the magic she actually uses to this day.

Personal Worship

Ilphaer’s personal worship is an odd by the standards of both of the churches that she’s been apart of.

The quiet, more meditative styles of worship popular within Vhaeraun’s church have never been something that suited her, as staying still for long periods of time irritated her more so than it has ever really made her feel connected to her god. She loses focus when she attempts to pray in the silence and the shadows, and for a while she felt a slight sense of dissonance towards her faith and god as a result of that.

During her time within Eilistraee’s church, she’d originally joined their rituals to step on the toes of the cleric’s who’d originally forbade her from doing so. She was surprised to discover that she actually rather enjoyed the far more freeform, mobile styles that her clergy tends towards - It allowed her to actually put her attention towards the worship itself, rather than her own thoughts. This is something that she’s kept up with even as she has changed her religious affiliation back to the Masked Lord - and likewise, something she’s deeply embarrassed about. She’s gone into embarrassed, though otherwise harmless, screeching fits for others having walked in on that before. (Some rumors say the target of this may have even been the god himself - But that’s mostly all hearsay) but she is under the impression her god holds some amount of amusement over her preferences.

While not a cleric she has a rather public, rather extravagant, and otherwise easily accessible shrine to Vhaeraun within her home to those in the know, and generally will allow even those who she holds major disagreements towards to come and worship. This action isn’t entirely benevolent - it allows her to keep an eye on who's coming in and out of Waterdeep. 

She doesn’t seem to use the public shrine that she’s set up for others for her own personal worship, instead doing most of it under the stars on particularly clear, moonless nights.

Underdark

While her main home is within Waterdeep, she travels between the Underdark and surface frequently and freely. These days, she travels to the Underdark more-so for business than out of any particular love of the place. 

While she does traditional forms of trade and business in the Underdark, going back down there under the guise of business and trade is just an excuse for Ilphaer’s actual point of interest - She wants to recover old and lost magic technology and items that have been long-abandoned in the ruins of long destroyed houses. While she will often go into the underdark herself to find these, she will pay big money for anyone else that has recovered them from these ruined houses - Only once she’s able to verify their authenticity, of course.

 Fortunately, she has a reputation for being an otherwise fair trader, and there have been very few circumstances to which she has not followed through on her word.

Romance and Sex

Ilphaer’s been married before. While her ex-wife is still alive, the circumstances of their separation have left the two of them largely on questionable terms. She doesn’t hate her ex-wife, and her ex-wife certainly doesn’t seem to hate her. But an event in the past has left them unable to stay together in the long term.

Beyond that, she’s polyamorous, but has “No Game”: She doesn’t sleep around not because she’s entirely unwilling to, but because she’s otherwise cynical about people and would never make the assumption that someone is interested in her unless they were very upfront about it. She’s also a “Notoriously difficult bed partner” - She has very specific preferences that she’ll rarely break for another person, and she’s very willing to leave intimate encounters over it. Neither particularly reserved or particular promiscuous, she’s difficult to get and keep the attention of in the long term.

She doesn’t care about her partners gender, though she will rather shamelessly pry into their own personal history. And, while she isn’t particularly jealous by nature, she likes knowing who her partners are sleeping with - if only because it might allow her access to another set of ears down the line.

On Violence and fighting:

Due to the circumstances she grew up within, she’s rather detached and apathetic to the suffering of others. Seeing others in pain doesn’t bring her much discomfort, and she’s not someone who would flinch away from the sight of larger displays of gore and atrocity. Though, at this point in her life she knows that it’s a character flaw of hers and she’s at least aware enough to stop most obvious torments. As far as Ilphaer figures, she’s already desensitized to these things, and the least she can do is best take advantage of it to stop others from needing to do the same.

The only exception to this is children, to which she’s come to feel very strongly about the abuse of. For as much apathy that she feels towards the suffering of others, she also doesn’t take pleasure or enjoyment in it. And as far as she figures, it’s deeply cowardly to go after someone that can’t defend themself in return. 

Despite that, she can be something of a hypocrite in this regard. She is an arms dealer, and while she has a few standards on who she’ll sell to, she largely is uninterested in the specifics of what her weapons will be used for once they’re out of her hands. She specializes in putting larger, more destructive spells in the hands of those that would not easily be able to use them. Her logic is that if it wasn’t her they were getting it from, then they’d just be dragging some other wizard along to do it for them. It only makes sense to profit off of that need.

Children

Ilphaer has complicated feelings on children.

On one hand, to any adult in the room she would say that she hates them, and she’s not lying in that she finds them to be personally rather annoying and overwhelming for long periods of time. She holds no desire to personally have any of her own, and has always seen the drow nobilities push to have children that they will just dump into the larger crab bucket of drow society to be “Somewhat odd.”

On the other hand (as mentioned) in spite of her personal feelings towards children, one of the crimes she feels the strongest negative reaction towards is cruelty and violence towards children. She believes heavily in at least feigning kindness towards them - Something that she acknowledges that she needs to do with business and interests like hers. This is something she feels towards any child, but admittedly is particularly attentive towards those of her kin. In her eyes, they’re already bound to face countless cruelty in the world. She doesn’t need to be another voice within that.

It’s likely that she would insert herself into a situation if she saw a child being hurt. She's particularly diligent about her own sects crimes on the matter, as she knows the bulk of her church hasn't had the best history with this, even at their most well-meaning.

Familiar:

Ilphaer has a black cat familiar - It’s a small, scarred up street cat, with no other immediate magical properties at a glance.  

This cat, known only as “The Cat,” is little talked about. When acknowledged, Ilphaer will gripe that he “Comes and goes as he likes,” and insists at length about how very much not her responsibility “The Cat,’ is.

Truthfully, this one is as much of an act as it is sincere - Ilphaer knows exactly what this cat is to her, and uses him as an extra set of eyes and ears around the city and her home. When no one else is looking, she is fairly affectionate with her cat, and her workshops window is always cracked open to give him access in and out of the building. This makes her workshop no less easy to break into, though that is for any would-be intruders to discover on their own time.

Ilphaer’s sect:

While not a cleric, Ilphaer is the head of the local Vhaeraunite sect within the surface city of Waterdeep. She’s fairly indiscriminate about the race of those she allows to join her sect, though her distrust and suspicion (While not immediately self evident) is as equally indiscriminate. 

You would think that this is something that becomes easier for her to manage upon her gods return, however she’s learned this loyalty towards Vhaeraun and his cause does not inherently mean well-meaning and loyal to the whole of the group. As a result, she tends to keep pretty consistent eyes not only on those joining her sect, but of other Vhaeraunite and Eilistraee worshipers that come in and out of the city of Waterdeep. 

Her sects interests lay less in the more immediate scheming, subterfuge, and militaristic that seem to act as groundwork to their religions survival. Instead, she's interested in establishing a film of legitimacy to their presence within more multi-cultural cities (though, she's admittedly not entirely unopposed to using underhanded means to do so - No more than anyone human in these businesses tend to.)

She does not look down upon other Vhaeraunite groups for using these tactics - She understands that the position that she's in is inherently one of a luxury, as they don't need to be in constant survival mode with where she's set up shop. However, she sees the value in at least attempting to play by whatever rules exist in these larger cities - And hopefully in offering a space to those that can't exist in the more militaristic environment she herself stemmed from.

She hosts more bards and rangers than she does clerics and rogues, though (For evident reasons) she does go out of her way to equip them with the same rogue-ish skills her religion is known for when at all possible. Even amongst Vhaeraunites, her people are known for sticking their nose into things they don’t belong in, and even amongst Vhaeraunite’s her sect is known for being particularly cage-y about who all specifically is apart of it, let alone specific connections they’ve earned over the years. Ilphaer views this as a matter of basic safety for everyone involved, though this also undeniably gives her a bit of an upperhand. 

In spite of this, she is not so distrustful and spiteful that she’s unwilling to work with other Vhaeraunite groups. This, in her eyes, would be rather hypocritical to the tenants of her religion. Rather, that she is rather open about the apprehension that she has towards putting those apart of her sect in any immediate risk through trusting the wrong person - Something she suspects most members of Vhaeraun’s faith could respect and agree with. Likewise, while inherently suspicious to most, her sect has been known to act as host for a fair few of the faith who have been pulled from the Underdark. She is known to have rather low immediate expectations for those coming up from the Underdark, as she believes heavily in the idea of letting them forge their own path and being allowed the time to adjust and explore the surface on their own terms. 

That path isn't- however, without some amount of manipulation on her part.

Ilphaer’s businesses:

Ilphaer is a filthy and shameless capitalist, often monetizing off of the interest that she’s found focus on. She operates on a limited-runs, only creating for each when the fancy strikes her to do so. She has rather high standards for herself and what she creates, and even higher standards for the materials that she uses. Even that of which she makes that doesn’t have particularly complicated magic tends to be highly sought after, let alone the more volatile and extreme forms of magic that she manages to capture down into artifacts.

While she’s willing to create for on commission, she charges more and begrudges the act of doing so. This is something she’s rather upfront about, calling it an “inconvenience fee.” She wouldn’t dare to worsen the quality of her works for it. Otherwise, she’s known for being a mostly equitable trader, whose prices are fair and quality is consistent.

 The only groups she’s willing to give discounts to at large are other Vhaeraun worshipers - particularly those she believes needs the supplies to better defend themselves. 

The Wilted Rose: Deceptively, this is the label she runs her weapons business under. 

It is the business that brings in the most amount of money, particularly within the underdark. While she makes the most individually off of specialty weapons with magical enchantments on them, her most consistent source of income comes from creating and supplying weapons to middle class and noble underdark houses who are looking to quickly arm the bulk of their personal army for whatever inner-house political fight they’ve encountered. 

To that end, there are a few rumors going around about her personal business dealings. The first being that many of her weapons are resold. That is - somehow, she manages to retrieve many of the weapons she sells from the losing end of whatever inner-house war has taken place. This has never been proven, and it largely does not seem to dissuade people from working with her. Secondarily, however, It’s believed by her closest that most of the magic weapons she creates have a fail-safe in them - That is, should they dare to turn her own weapons around on her, she can cause them to implode within the very hands that wield them with the right set of words. 

Whether this is true or not is something she’d not even told her closest friends, however whatever system she has set up seems to keep her god seems content in letting her sell to the enemy. 

The business isn’t strictly one that sells within the Underdark, though the weapons she creates on the surface are more-often on commission rather than any particular bulk sale for armies and mercenary groups. 

The False Phoenix: Her children’s toy business. She designs toys of questionable safety standards. Her most popular toy and the namesake of the business is a fully moving mechanical doll phoenix. When the magic on the toy wears off, it explodes in a loud (but otherwise harmless) display of sparks and colors. Her second most popular toy is that of a miniature Skyship, similar to those found around the ports of Waterdeep. It’s enchanted in much the same way the ships themselves are, though on a far smaller scale. These ships tend to fly about aimlessly in whatever room they’re in (though when equip with the proper toy soldiers may engage in battle with one another.)

It’s one of the only businesses she allows herself to bring in extra help on in creation of her product itself (Within the realms of her arms business she’s largely doing resale work, and largely only invested in it in as much as it takes in making sure she herself is not being screwed over), though her standards for that extra help are as high as they are for herself.

Bitter Button: Ilphaer’s cosmetic business. “Bringing magic to the common folk.” Almost all of the enchantments that she places on her clothing and jewelry through this business is strictly aesthetic, though it’s not outside of her capability to create more utilitarian clothing (Such as invisibility cloaks, ect.)

Her most popular items are that of minor illusions that act as cosmetics - Music notes,  harmless glitter effects, smoke and flame sparks, and flower petals that follow the person wearing it (Though, not all are visual - Small gusts of wind that occasionally catch the person's hair is also a rather popular effect) 

Of her clothing, she’s experimenting with fabric that has “dancing” imagery along the bottom - One of a unicorn running across the hemline of a dress is seeing growing popularity.

Drunken Kitten: While not selling a product in its own right, it is the business she does all of her dealings in whatever entertainment industry she’s worming her fingers into.

Religions, Places, and Organizations: 

Waterdeep:

(In the tone of an average New Yorker talking about how much of a shithole New York is) She hates Waterdeep so fucking much. Everyone here is so obnoxious, they’re so full of themselves, the nobility in the area is awful and the closest Underdark city to it is somehow even worse then Waterdeep itself is. 

Unfortunately for her, it’s also the main city that she’s managed to settle into. She doesn’t know if she would call Waterdeep her home - She doesn’t know if at this point in her life she would say she has a proper home. However, it is the city that she most operates out of, and it is the one she finds herself continuing to come back to around the larger circumstances of her life. 

Eilistraee & Her Church

Ilphaer spent time in Eilistraee’s church during the era of the Masked Lady - The time in which the goddess Eilistraee and her twin brother spent merged together as one. Likewise, she remained in the church for a good few decades after the fact. While she didn’t go into their church with the same negative feelings that much of her brothers in the faith did (She mostly saw them as naive, but well meaning), the feelings she came out of Church of Eilistraee with are largely negative by this point. She joined it out of loyalty towards the Masked Lord (as she was one of those that had come to the conclusion that it was probably a larger, unseen scheme on his part) and spent the majority of her time within the church pushing as many buttons as she could. 

With the current hindsight she has now, however, she would also not deny the influence that the Church and its values eventually came to have on her, her values, or her personal sense of worship. Particularly the general culture of the church, and the attitudes of the layworshipers that existed outside of her higher clergy. The Vhaeraunite culture that she stemmed from (she believes) is militaristic to its own detriment, and makes it harder for the whole of them to actually see a better future - Or one where their end goal of truly leaving the underdark is appropriately realized. 

Likewise, while she might hold a lot of annoyance towards them, Ilphaer generally believes it’s beneficial to stay on good terms with Eilistraee’s clergy even after the two gods have stemmed back to life separate from one another. She understands that her larger clergy is forging connections that their own cannot individually afford, and that much of the surface-folk willing to give them the benefit of the doubt does so at her churches behest. 

As for the goddess herself, Ilphaer has far more complicated feelings on.

She actually kind of likes Eilistraee…? Not as much as she does Vhaeraun, but with her time away from the church she spent as long as she did in she sees the value in her larger philosophy. Eilistraee is by no means the main goddess Ilphaer worships - She left her church long before Vhaeraun came back, and made an active choice to go back to Vhaeraun and his. However, she may offer the occasional prayer to his twin sister, as she feels a small connection towards the goddess after the time she spent within her ranks. 

Vhaeraun & His Church

Despite the fact that she is the head of Waterdeeps main sect, Ilphaer is someone who holds and has always held a lot of criticism towards Vhaeraun’s church. She didn’t come into it having been abused to nearly the same extent as many of the men she’d come to be surrounded by, and in fact did so mostly as a result of her own mothers death at Lolth’s churches hands. When paired with her own apathy and disconnect towards suffering, it was incredibly difficult for her to understand the depth of the distrust the men of the church had towards Drow woman on the whole (Even before her transition, of course.) It’s not as though Drow woman specifically were worth distrusting when the entirety of their kin seemed to behaved like that, no..?

As such, she views a lot of Vhaeraunites to be rather hypocritical and shortsighted by nature, and equally finds a lot of annoyance in the way they behave and treat those she’s closest to. She often acts out in just as much spite towards them, and struggles to find a lot of trust within the sects that she’s not apart of.

She came back to the church in spite of these criticisms. As far as she is concerned, if you’re going to criticize something you may as well be the change you want to see towards it. And while she has her concerns about the way certain members of her faith behave, she believes that they (and the god attached to it) have a more realistic understanding of the power structures they’re being forced to operate within and against. In her mind, both the church of Vhaeraun and the Church of Eilistraee are filled with fools who are blindsided by their own biases - However, she’s see’s Vhaeraun’s church as the one more dedicated to keeping themselves and their own safer and cared for, and believes whole heartedly that they’re more honest and aware of how the rest of the world actually sees them and their actions.

As for Vhaeraun himself. She likes him, and holds a massive amount of respect for him and all he seems willing to do for his larger church - Especially after having been confronted with those more inscrutable members fo the divine. She’s nowhere near being considered close to him on an interpersonal level - In fact, while they have exchanged words, he somewhat intimidates her, and she views him largely as something unapproachable. 

However, she is loyal to him and his larger cause, and views him not as a tool to be yanked around for further power (of which she believes she has plenty of through her own skills alone, thank you very much) but as someone who has earned the respected and worship that he keeps. 

Lolth & Her Church

Ilphaer’s feelings on Lolth’s church are uncomplicated, and perhaps what is to be expected of someone in her position. She holds no love in her heart for Lolth, and even less for the Priestesses that worship under her. She is largely apathetic towards their suffering, and rather shortsighted about their lives and the weight their lives hold. 

They either needed to convert yesterday or die. She holds little patience for their schemes, and sees no issue in profiting off their crab bucket cannibalization schemes.

Dark Dagger, Skullport, and The Promenade of the Dark Maiden

Her feelings on Dark Dagger on the whole are nuanced. As each individual cell operates rather autonomously, it’s hard for her to have an opinion on the organization as a whole, as she knows that each cell that operates within it does so under its own terms, rules, and priorities. However, the closest cell to her is run by Malakuth Tabuirr, of whom she can’t bring herself to think highly of. She understands that he’s a pretty influential and respected member who brought a lot of stability to the local side of this organization, but he’s also generally example number one of members of their faith who are blinded by their own short sighted nature and personal experiences. 

However, she also cannot deny that he is taking care of his own just as much as she is hers. 

As such, their relationship in the field of business is one that is playing a fine line, both of them knowing that they can’t fully take the other out lest they create a power vacuum they themselves would be unsure how to fill, and that they’re unable to speak to the kind of person the other does; While also struggling to balance against the areas that they do compete in. These days, most of her time is spent “Messing with him.” - That is, while she knows that she can’t do anything to directly act on the position he’s in, she operates as a direct competitor to him and his capital.

Though When she’s bored, she’ll bother him directly. She thinks he’s particularly funny to get under the skin of, especially 

As for the Promenade, it is somewhere she is welcomed, as she has shown and proven her interest in actually working with them on more sincere terms. She tends to take a more careful hand when dealing with the priestesses within the Promenade - She understands that her presence there is far more conditional, especially after having left their faith herself. She cannot help the natural inclination she has towards bristling over some of their attitudes, but she understands that she doesn’t have nearly the same leeway that she does when handling those apart of her own. And so, she behaves herself. For the most part. 

Realistically, she always has her eyes and ears in the direction of both Skullport and The Promenade, as she suspects that it is a conflict that can very easily implode on itself - And if it does, she hopes to perhaps even collect those that survive whatever the fallout is.

Bregan D'aerthe & Jarlaxle

Ilphaer knows Jarlaxle from his various dealings within Waterdeep. She’s only had the opportunity to talk to the man directly a few times, the majority of which were business dealing she’d been strong-armed into (As she will never deny the coin of a man who seems to have more of it then he knows what to do with.)

She doesn’t know anything about his personal past, however clocked the fact that he was from Menzobarranzan and does not trust him on principle. (As far as she’s concerned, Menzobarranzan inspires a certain kind of stupid that she would rather avoid the larger scrutiny of.) However, she’s also under the impression that his allegiance is not… entirely (?) to the spider-kissers he stemmed from. 

As such, she’s at a bit of an impasse as to what to do with and about him, and is largely trying to get a feel for more information regarding him. It troubles her that she’s struggling to do so.

Largely, however, she doesn’t view him and his immediate organization as a threat. She’s under the impression (Though, acknowledges that she’s working off of rather limited information) that his attempts to empower Luksan probably aren’t for the worse, and that he’s more focused on Menzobarranzan and its larger connecting power structures than any larger scheme. And like, outside of the influence of it's immediate nobility, who actually cares about some backwater sinkhole like Menzobarranzan?

Cormanthor Drow

She knows vaguely about the event’s happening over in Cormanthor as a result of some of her sect having come from that direction, however her own brushes with the conflict within the Daleland are minimal at best. She's concerned about the state of things over there, but under the impression there's not much she can immediately do to help.

Nevertheless, depending on how things look going forward, she’s interested in either going out in that direction, or getting people out in that direction. However, her attention is currently elsewhere.

Jaezred Chaulssin

She’s aware enough of their activities in the underdark (It’s hard not to be, if you’re even slightly in the know. At least, if you ask her). She’s aware of the fact that they were once aligned with them, but now are only in part. She’s aware of the fact that they’re at least semi-effective at what they do, especially as she does trade in many of the cities they operate within.