Seshathi

Seshathi used to be a high elf named Ungoriel before undertaking a ritual to become a Yuan-ti. She was and is a cleric of Zehir and she was involved in a plot to allow the Yuan-ti Empire to invade what is now Eolda through the use of portals. During the Scarring, before the invasion came into fruition, she went to Yohssalu in order to help save the empire from its downfall.

After the empire was gone she retreated with some of the yuan-ti survivors. She also managed to save an important artifact of Zehir from being lost in the chaos and destruction, at the sacrifice one of her legs. Later, her loyalty and great admiration to the Yuan-ti and her god led her to undergo a horrific and excruciatingly painful ritual that could end her life, that transformed her into a Yuan-ti Malison. When she transformed, she forsook her elven name, Ungoriel, and took the Yuan-ti name Seshathi.

Zehir apparently took notice to the exceptional loyalty she had for him, the sacrifices and changes she made in his name and the things she did in service of the race. After he put her on some trials to test her even further, he spoke to her in a dream. Because of her service, sacrifices, faith and talent and her successes at her trials, Seshathi was granted the ultimate honor from her god and became Zehir’s Chosen; his agent in the lands of the mortals. Many Yuan-ti scorned that notion and questioned her power and position. Seshathi is not one to suffer insults though and quickly proved unbelievers wrong by showing off her various divine gifts and using them to execute said unbelievers. She showed powers never again seen among the Yuan-ti, one of them being the power to transform into a huge snake capable of magical flight that also has a poison and acid breath. While in that form she was also unaffected by spells of lower levels and had other abilities as well. Zehir’s blessing also makes her immortal, and so she exists to the current day. Some Yuan-ti still do not understand why she of all Yuan-ti was chosen by Zehir but they follow, respect and fear her all the same.

Currently, Seshathi uses the unstable political scene of Yohssalu and the unrest it causes to her advantage. Her goal is of course to bring Yohssalu under Yuan-ti control one way or another. She has already absorbed some smaller clans into hers and has agents in all major cities and even inside some criminal organizations. Even one of the so-called Merchant Lords, Tasoyu Nesul, is in fact a Yuan-ti Pureblood under her command. Seshathi prefers underhanded tactics and manipulation to further her agenda using her agents to claim more influence. But should her initial plan of ruling Yohssalu behind the shadows fails, she has a second plan already in motion; that of uniting all hiding Yuan-ti clans under her leadership and using them for waging war against the so-called free people. Her first plan supplements her second as by using her agents she is dividing her enemies even further, leaving them more vulnerable in case of sudden assaults. Only she knows when the right time to strike would be and if provoked or if an opportunity presents itself Seshathi won’t hesitate to strike swiftly and hard.