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Tysiln San
First Protector--Valley of the Mage

AC = 4 (bracers of defense, AC 4)
MV = 12"
Class = MU8
hp = 35
#AT = 1
Dmg = by weapon type ([staff of striking], [dagger])
 

S: 12	I: 20	W: 9
D: 13	C: 17	CH: 13
Com: -	-	-

THACO = 19
AL = CN

SA = as female dark elf
Spells: 4-1st, 3-2nd, 3-3rd, 2-4th, 1-5th, and special
SD = as female dark elf

Tysiln San was born in the Vault of the Drow, to a family
of merchants. She was trained in magic use by her family,
and expected to spend her life with them. She was unflinchingly
loyal to her kinfolk, and when they began planning
to overthrow the priestesses of Lolth, she gave them her
full cooperation.

Unfortunately, her family’s plan failed, and the attempted
rebellion was crushed almost before it started. Fleeing
for her life, Tysiln San met a human mage who had come to
the Vault of the Drow on magical business. She threw herself
on his mercy, and he agreed to take her back to the surface
with him.

Once she was on the surface, Tysiln San found herself in
a world for which her training had not prepared her. For
several weeks, she had agoraphobia (fear of large open
spaces), and refused to go out-of-doors. The mage managed
to overcome her fears, and gave her a pair of magical
lenses. The lenses were fashioned by a master mirror
maker so that the wearer could see through them, but the
lenses resembled mirrors from the outside. Before he gave
them to her, he cast glassteel on them to make them almost
unbreakable.

With the new lenses, Tysiln San could function in bright
sunlight as well as she could in darkness. For several years
she assisted the mage in his magical experiments, until
one of the experiments went seriously wrong. The mage
tried to create a variation of the gate spell, and thought he
had succeeded. His first experiment was an attempt to gate
in a heirarch modron. He got a frog-like death slaad
instead, who promptly killed him and tried to kill Tysiln
San. Only her dark-elf ability to levitate saved her.

Alone on the surface for the first time, Tysiln San wandered
for several years. She settled into a halfling community,
casting spells such as mend in return for her food and
shelter. When she left there, she wandered through many
lands until she was caught wandering through the Dim
Forest by a patrol of Valley Elves.

Taken before the Mage of the Valley by his faithful guardians,
the female dark elf found herself falling insanely in
love. At this time, the Mage was still consolidating his
power in the valley, and the sudden appearance of a skilled
mage who idolized him was like a gift from the gods. After
determining that Tysiln San was indeed loyal to him, the
Mage gave her freedom, on condition she pass a series of
tests. These tests placed her in greater and greater danger,
but she passed them all, and became the mistress of the
Mage at the same time that she became his most trusted
servant.

Tysiln San is an exquisitely beautiful dark elven female,
with long, straight, white hair, white upswept eyebrows,
huge yellow eyes, delicate features, and black skin. She is
quite aware of her beauty, and is perfectly willing to
exploit it, or anything else she has, in the service of the
Mage of the Valley. !b her, the Mage decides right and
wrong. She is completely loyal to him and madly in love
with him. She realizes that the Mage is perfectly capable of
sacrificing her in order to fulfill his own ends, but this does
not bother her. She looks forward to the day he becomes a
shade, since she feels that his only flaws are his pale skin
and his short human lifespan.

Tysiln San owns, besides her mirrored lenses, a pair of
elven boots, a cloak of arachnidia (a souvenir of her family’s
attempt to overthrow Lolth’s priestesses), a bag of holding,
a wand of lightning, a ring of elemental command, and a
staff of striking.

She has complete access to her lover’s spellbooks, as well
as her former master’s collection of spellbooks. Having
learned from her former master’s demise, she has a set of
scrolls of protection, including those against demons, devils,
lycanthropes, snakes, and undead.

At the present time, Tysiln San is the First Protector of
the Valley of the Mage. She begged her lover for a responsible
post, and he gave her the task of supervising the guards
of his Valley, thereby ensuring the area’s safety. She took
the post with joy, and set to work to try to make the Valley
impregnable to all enemies.

Taking command of the gnomes and valley elves who normally
guarded the entrance, Tysiln San went to work with
an intensity that astonished the Mage. She created
inviting-looking paths, studding them with many subtle
but dangerous traps. She created paths that seemed
impassable, but which led right into the Valley, and secret
hiding-places where gnomish and valley elf assassins could
watch the paths, and ambush any intruders. When she was
done, she had hardly altered the entrance to the Valley, but
she had ensured that any enemy would be warned away (by
magic mouth spells placed in unexpected and creative
spots), scared off by illusions placed by gnomish spell casters,
or killed if they persisted.

Her own post is at the narrowest part of the entrance to
the Valley, and is heavily fortified. If anyone gets that far, a
huge statue standing nearby will announce (by magic
mouth): “Stop at the station and state your business!’’ This
statue is designed to look like a stone golem, and gnomish
spellcasters will make it appear to move to further the
impression that it is a golem.

When meeting Tysiln San in the Valley, intruders will be
quizzed by her, to determine if they have valid reasons to be
there. The more dissatisfied she is with their answers, the
more flirtatious she will be, to distract them. Meanwhile, a
real and invisible stone golem awaits her signal to squash
the intruders. Tysiln San will use her female drow abilities
of clairvoyance, detect lie, know alignment, and suggestion
to determine intruders’ business. If she is satisfied that the
intruders are on legitimate business, she will guide them
through the entrance, past the traps.