Female drow Rogue9/Assassin10
Medium-size Fey (elf)
Hit Dice: 19d6+38 (hp 104)
Initiative: +10
Speed: 30 ft
AC: 19 (+6 Dex, +5 Armor)
BAB: +13/+8/+3
Grapple:
Attacks: Melee keen undead bane rapier +21/16/11 (1d6+4/crit
18-20), or dagger +17/12/7 (1d4+4/crit 19-20); Ranged dagger +21 (1d4+2/crit
19-20)
Special Attacks: death attack, sneak attack, spell-like abilities, spells
Special Qualities: +2 Will save vs. spells or spell-like abilities,
+5 save vs. poison, darkvision 120 ft, evasion, light blindness, poison use,
SR 30, uncanny dodge
Saves: Fort +8, Ref +19, Will +11
Abilities: Str 15, Dex 22, Con 15, Int 17, Wis 18, Cha 15
Skills: Balance +28, Move Silently +28, Hide +38, Read Lips +9, Bluff
+24, Disguise +18, Escape Artist +28, Intimidate +14, Jump +14, Open Locks +18,
Spot +26, Tumble +18 (doesn’t include -1 armor check penalty)
Feats: Improved Initiative, Weapon Finesse, Quick Draw, Dodge,
Mobility, Improved Critical, Spring Attack
Climate/Terrain: Erelhei-Cinlu
Organization: House Torrae
Challenge Rating: 21
Treasure: +2 Keen Undead Bane Rapier, +2 Keen Aberration Bane Dagger,
+2 Silk Shadow Armor, Z’henra’s tools (torture kit), 5 doses of Chiff, 7 doses
of Medusa poison.
Alignment: Neutral Evil
"Cerlyn had a cruel reputation, even among the horrible monsters known
as the Drow, for she was a dreaded and beautiful assassin. Her head and shoulders
were draped by a cascade of fine, snow-white hair, which fell lightly around
her shoulders, down her back, reaching its end at the small of her back. Her
red eyes were cold, but were yet strangely captivating to look upon."
~Illithid Slayer Chronicles X
"Cerlyn Ilphu was a gorgeous, short Elven beauty with the characteristic
slanted eyes, black skin, and long, long white hair. Hate danced in her eyes,
and she had power in her bearing despite her slight four and a half feet of
height. She was still wearing the black silk armor, and the rapier."
~Illithid Slayer Chronicles I
"She stood only four
and a half feet in height, but Zografos could sense the power held by the dark
elf. She was no soft palace girl, but had a hard face, one that had seen and
lived with death on a daily basis. She
was elemental, a living hurricane of hate that seethed beneath her iron willed
self-control. He could see that hate
plainly in her eyes. Zografos made sure he had a good grip on his dagger.
She wore black silk armor, and a long rapier hung low on her hips.
Zografos thought this scene would make a good painting, which led him to
think he should run now. But he did
not. He nodded and said, "Hello."
"I am Cerlyn Ilphu." Her
voice was confident, beautiful, and menacing, all at once.
He felt as if she had already envisioned his death, figured out multiple
ways he could be killed, and none of those were quick deaths.
Although he had never before met a dark elf, and knew little of them, he
could sense that she was the sort that preferred to play with her prey, making
them break before she gave them the dubious solace of death.
"I am Domnhall."
She smiled, and her deathly cold eyes seemed to draw him in. 'Well met,
Domnhall. Together we are meat for
Lolth.'"
~Ingaran Adventures 38: Enter
the Drow
Cerlyn Ilphu is a minor noble belonging to a minor House. She was extremely
cunning as a child, and had killed seven children before she was six years old.
The junior priestesses who tutored her would cage her, douse her with scalding
or freezing water, poison her, and poke her with sharpened sticks when she misbehaved.
She was drilled in combat maneuvers, literacy, mathematics, alchemy, natural
history, and various artisan skills. By the time she was ten years old, she
had already earned three levels in rogue, and was beginning to show an inclination
toward assassination. She had also passed the first two Tests of Lolth, the Chwineka and the Chwikezzar by that young age. Her ambition was unquestioned
and unstoppable.
She latched onto a famed assassin as a mentor and learned from her. She killed
fourteen rival apprentices. By the time she was 80 years old, she was an accomplished
assassin, and her House bard had written over seventy murder ballads in her
honor. She had been married three times, and killed each husband after each
was caught cheating – despite her own dalliances with her followers, servants,
slaves, and even with travelers from other communities.
During the Chwiakrell, she caused the fall of a rival
minor house, causing the Matriarch of that house to become one of Lolth's sacrifices.
During the Chwidevbril she brought down and destroyed an allied House.
She loves going to the temples and watching the ritual slayings by Lolth's priestesses,
and she revels in demented artwork. She prefers to remain in Erelhei-Cinlu,
close to her own power. She wants to become the Matriarch of her House, and
somehow manage to make her minor House into a major one.
Most recently, however, she was zwy'il for the Chwihendrell, the Test of Domination. She saw spiders attacking
a mind flayer in Erelhei-Cinlu, and she knew she had to destroy mind flayer
communities. She gathered an elite group of drow and went forth from her city
to destroy as many mind flayer communities as she could. One of the drow fell
in combat, and she traveled to the surface city of Alisander and contracted
the services of Zografos, Lord Domnhall to join her elite corps of mind flayer
hunters.
Now her Test is over – she passed it; but most of her elite corps were killed
or captured by Yuan-Ti. Now that she has fought her way back to Erelhei-Cinlu
alone, she is eager to regain her position and restore herself in her old circles
of political power. Unfortunately, the mind flayers found her first…
She has now been dominated by a circle of mind flayers, and the illithids
intend to use her to lure Zografos into a trap. She is fighting the domination,
but is losing the battle. She did manage to kill one of her drow companions
in front of Zografos, knowing she would return to life, in hopes that Zografos
would pick up on the clue that she was not under her own mental control. She
wants fervently to destroy the mind flayer infestation that is rotting the foundation
of Erelhei-Cinlu.
Spell-Like Abilities: 1/day Dancing lights, darkness, and faerie
fire. These abilities are as the spell cast by a sorcerer of 41st
level.
Light Blindness (Ex): Abrupt exposure to bright light blinds her for
1 round. In addition she suffers a -1 penalty to all attack rolls, saves,
and checks while operating in bright light.
Death Attack: If Cerlyn Ilphu makes a successful sneak attack
after observing the victim for 3 rounds, the victim is killed or paralyzed for
1d6+10 rounds (Fort negates DC 23).
Sneak Attack (Ex): Cerlyn Ilphu deals +10d6 damage against an opponent
with a discernable anatomy who is denied a Dex bonus or is flanked.
Uncanny Dodge: Dex bonus to AC, can't be flanked, +3 vs. traps.
Assassin Spells Prepared (-/3/3/3/1):
1st level – (DC 14) Change self, detect poison, spider climb
2nd level – (DC 15) Alter self, darkness, pass without trace
3rd level – (DC 16) deeper darkness, invisibility, nondetection
4th level – (DC 17) dimension door