#iymrith

Anato Finnstark • "Iymrith"

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Iymrith (with an i not an L) is an ancient blue dragon who can assume the form of a storm giant. In this guise, she has infiltrated Hekaton's court. While concealing her true nature and agenda from the giants, Iymrith offers counsel to princess Serissa and at the same time secretly feeds the anger and jealousy of Serissa's older siblings, with the ultimate goal of thrusting the giants into war with the small folk. The dragon also wants to wrest the Wyrmskull throne from the storm giants and add it to her trove.

The disguised dragon put Mirran and Nym in contact with representatives of Slarkrethel, a legendary kraken that haunts the Trackless sea. These small folk belong to a secret yet widespread organization called the Kraken Society. using information given to them by the evil storm giant sisters, Kraken Society operatives ambushed and killed Queen Neri. Iymrith then planted rumors in the storm giant court that the queen had been assassinated by the Lords' Alliance, a confederacy of cities and settlements populated by small folk and scattered throughout the North. The Lords' alliance represents one of the greatest threats to dragons Fearûn, so Iymrith is keen to bring about its end.

Iymrith is the final adversary of the D&D 5E module, Storm King’s Thunder, an ancient and powerful dragon that the adventurers, under normal circumstances, would likely be destroyed by. However, they were given substantial magical and other aid by the Storm Giants they had allied with, the ones she had so deeply wronged, and they were eventually able to bring her down.

But, since I am simultaneously running a Planescape game in the Outer Planes, the destination of most dead mortals, I decided that death was not to be the end for her, though the party that slew her will not see her return. Dendar the Night Serpent has an interest in the Conspiracy, and Iymrith has been tapped to be her representative.

Iymrith High Concept: Doom of the Desert Trouble: Fallen in Battle

Phase Trio: First Adventure Iymrith, the Doom of the Desert, was an ancient blue dragon that terrorized the North for centuries. As her power grew, she established a lair in an ancient temple of the Yuan-ti, amassing treasure and fealty. As dragons are wont to do, she aged, and grew mighty, both physically and magically. Aspect: Ancient and Mighty Dragon

Encounter 1 Power, wealth, and the long life of her birthright eventually proved not enough for Iymrith. She set her gaze on becoming an even greater legend, a legend that would last for all time, and would benefit her greatly in life, as well. So, she set in motion a plot to destroy the great Ordning, the social order of the ancient enemy of dragonkind, the Giants. Having arranged the murder of the queen of the Storm Giants, she implicated the Small Races in her death. It didn’t matter so much which, humans, dwarves, elves, any would do. She then arranged for the King, enraged and grief stricken, to be captured and held, far from prying eyes. With her magic, she disguised herself as a giant herself, becoming an adviser to the three princesses in their undersea kingdom. She also manipulated events so that representatives of the other giant kingdoms, aligned with her plans even if they didn’t know of them, would be brought into Maelstrom, the undersea city of the Storm Giants. All was going according to plan, until the champions of Toril arrived to reveal her true nature, gaining for themselves an alliance with the youngest, and only good-natured, daughter of the king. Aspect: Eternal Legend

Encounter 2 The heroes of Toril continued unraveling her plans, freeing the King, escaping from the great Kraken that was her ally, and returning to Maelstrom, there to mount an expedition to slay her. The Doom of the North was now forced to face her own doom. With their new allies, the heroes that had continuously thwarted her moved to confront her in her lair, with giantish magic that made them her match.

Wrack and ruin, flash and thunder, Let them claim the dragon’s plunder; Death is close! Her doom has come! To blade and spell she will succumb.

Near the end, Iymrith beseeched the primordial deity Dendar the Night Serpent for solace, aid, words of wisdom. None were forthcoming, as Dendar had her own plans, and Iymrith surviving the attack was not part of them. Finally, with all the forces arrayed against her, to the glee of other power hungry dragons of the North and the sadness of none, the great Iymrith fell. But in a world in the Great Wheel of the Planes, death is not the end, and her power ensured that, though she would arrive in the Nine Hells, she would rule there rather than serving. Aspect: Hellish Rebirth

Aftermath and Notes Iymrith could have easily escaped her fate at any time. She could dig through stone as fast as a healthy human can run, she could fly faster than the heroes or the giants could follow. The most powerful weapons of the Storm Giants, the lightning and the storm, could do her no harm. She could teleport to safety. Why, then, did the Doom of the Desert fight to the finish? Was it simply pride? Being too old, too set in her ways? Not wishing to start again the acquisition of wealth? Or was it because she invited the Night Serpent into her home? She does not know, and it worries her, especially now that Dendar has come to her new lair in the second layer of Hell to propose an alliance, with greater power than she ever dreamed of in life promised to her.

Skills Great 1. Lore Good 1. Contacts 2. Fight Fair 1. Crafts 2. Deceive 3. Physique Average 1. Notice 2. Provoke 3. Resources 4. Will

Note: These are Iymrith’s skills as a newly minted spirit in the Hells. Her abilities in life were greater.

Stunts 1. Spellcasting and Natural Magic (Lore) 2. Worshipped (Contacts) 3. Claw and Fang (Fight)