Guiliana Mortidus was born to members of the Horned
Society. Her mother was an evil fighter and her father was
an evil priest. They dedicated their child to the service of
the Society before her birth. When she was old enough, she
was tested exhaustively, and the tests indicated that she
had the potential to be a cleric. Accordingly, she began clerical
training at the earliest possible age.

Guiliana Mortidus was not a popular pupil-her sneering
contempt for those who were less talented, combined with
her ability to hold a grudge ensured that she would have
few friends.

She advanced through the school precisely on schedule,
but did not show any unusual talent. She performed the
menial tasks that were assigned to the pupils without complaint,
although without enthusiasm. When she had completed
her training, she was invested with the rank of
cleric.

She had carefully concealed her burning hatreds from
her superiors and teachers, estimating that they would
betray her to her enemies. Secretly, she raged that she was
not in a position to crush everyone who had ever dared
offend her. When she was assigned to a low-ranking task in
the temples of the Horned Society, she smiled politely and
accepted, biding her time.

After several years, her patience was rewarded. She was
given a position as a clerical “adviser” to the armies of the
Horned Society, which were preparing for a war. She happily
went off with the armies with her eyes open for possible
means of promoting herself.

She gained experience rapidly with the armies, and
gained a few magic items, but none of any great value. The
valuables always went to the high command, and seeing
them flaunting objects she craved for herself made her
blood boil.

Finally, after a battle against the Shield Landers, her
patience was rewarded. Searching among the dead and
wounded Horned Society members for those who needed
healing, the young cleric found a ring of human influence
on a dead leader of Shield Lands troops, and a talisman of
pure evil on a wounded and unconscious Horned Society
cleric, whom she promptly killed so that she could take his
talisman.

She has used these items ever since, but always carefully:
She doesn’t want anyone to know she possesses them.
She has seen many of her colleagues stabbed or smothered
in their sleep for their magical items, and does not wish to
share that fate. Using the ring, she has suggested to her
peers that they shouldn’t oppose her in her climb to the top,
and she has been experimenting with suggesting to her
superiors that she is worthy of promotion.

Owning these two items makes Guiliana even more vain
and unpopular than before. Previously, she was merely
unbearable, with her disagreeable behavior and her wellfounded
defensiveness about her unattractive appearance.
Now, with her special magic items, she has alienated nearly
every one of equal or lower rank in the Society. She is
carefully watched by her superiors, who correctly suspect
her of ambition.

Guiliana Mortidus is a thin, slatternly woman with
stringy brown hair, weak features, bad teeth, and faded
blue eyes. She wears a battered suit of banded mail and
carries a shield in battle.,She does exactly what her superiors
in the Horned Society tell her to do, and nothing more.

She has started a small network of spies who work
directly for her, consisting mostly of hobgoblins who think
that this activity is authorized by the Horned Society. With
their information, she plans to try to incriminate her enemies,
so that she can avenge herself. She is not aware that
a lowly potboy she recruited is really an assassin using his
disguise to spy on her.

Her superiors do not currently have reasons to be concerned
about her schemes, but they want to be sure that
her schemes do not endanger them. Ifher plans are consistently
inept, she will be brought up on charges, condemned,
and executed. If her plans show promise, she will be subtly
encouraged to adapt them to the overall plans of her superiors.

Guiliana is currently a cleric of medium rank at the main
temple of the Horned Society, in the city of Molag. She has
been on several minor missions to allies of the Society, such
as Iuz. She has a few underlings, whom she rules by threats
and abuse. Everyone unfortunate enough to be beneath
her in rank hates and fears her.

In addition to her other items, Guiliana owns a staff of
withering which also functions as a staff sling +2, and a
mace +l. She is currently negotiating for a set of chain
mail +2 with the hobgoblins who captured it in a recent
fight. Unfortunately, the hobgoblin shaman who owns the
armor is quite aware of its value and is asking a high price.

Except for her ambition for revenge, Guiliana is completely
loyal to the ideals and goals of the Horned Society.
Her relative lack of experience with the outside world has
left her with almost no comprehension that any other view
of life is even possible, much less reasonable.

Secretly, she thinks that anyone who fails to convert to
the tenets of the Horned Society is at least guilty of willful
self-deception, if not insanity. She has seldom conversed
with prisoners, and the few times she did, she was unable
to comprehend that the prisoners could hold views so diametrically
opposed to her own. She will gladly argue points
of philosophy and alignment, but will not be convinced that
the Horned Society is anything but a paradise on earth for
those wise souls who work hard and obey the Society’s
laws.