![[SeltharaMournePathfinder-v2.webp]] # Selthara Mourne _Elf High Priestess | [[Maidens of Misfortune]] | [[Yartar]]_ ## Summary The last surviving royal diviner of fallen [[Shilrua]], transformed by witnessing her city's destruction into [[Beshaba]]'s High Priestess. Her warnings about the Elder Brain were ignored by the Mage Council over a thousand years ago, and she spent centuries ensuring such willful blindness was punished across the realms. The heroes killed her during the final battle against [[Beregond]] in the Halls of Calamity beneath [[Yartar]]. %% ## Now _Deceased — killed by the heroes in the Halls of Calamity beneath [[Yartar]]._ ## Appearance Impossibly ancient elf, tall and skeletal with eerie grace, paper-thin skin over angular features covered in writhing tattoos, and eyes that are pools of pure ink. Wears shadowed crimson robes and the cracked crown of [[Shilrua]]. ## Personality Eerily serene, fatalistic, and patient as eternity. Bitter about wisdom ignored. She views ignored warnings as invitations to disaster — if people refuse to heed them, perhaps they deserve the catastrophes that follow. Speaks in archaic patterns with unnatural pauses; fingers constantly trace invisible patterns. ## Quote _"I warned them of the madness beneath Shilrua. They called me paranoid. Now I ensure the willfully blind receive the misfortune they court."_ ## Connections **[[Beregond]]** — served alongside him, conducting rituals to make [[Yartar]] a permanent misfortune site. **[[Thalorien Duskwalker]]** — dismissed her warnings, dooming [[Shilrua]]. ## Background **The Diviner:** Princess Selthara served as royal diviner in ancient [[Shilrua]] over a thousand years ago. When her visions revealed the danger of linking the dormant Elder Brain to the city's mythal, [[Thalorien Duskwalker]] and the Mage Council dismissed her warnings and proceeded — unleashing the [[Cacophony]] and dooming the city. **The Survivor:** As the only survivor of [[Shilrua]]'s royal court, she watched her civilization fall to psionic madness. In her grief and rage at being proven right too late, she embraced [[Beshaba]], the goddess who governs the misfortunes that befall those who ignore obvious dangers. **The Priestess:** Became [[Beshaba]]'s High Priestess, dedicating her immortal existence to ensuring willful blindness receives its reward. Served alongside [[Beregond]] conducting rituals to transform [[Yartar]] into a permanent misfortune site. ## Stats **Base:** Custom (CR 10). AC 16, HP 144, Legendary Resistance 2/day. - Fate's Threads aura: disadvantage on d20 rolls within 5 ft. - Multiattack: Fate Dagger (2d6+5 piercing + 4d8 necrotic) or Oracle's Vision (4d12+5 psychic, learns target's secret). - Spellcasting: at will *thaumaturgy*; 3/day *bane, fear, counterspell*; 1/day *harm, mass suggestion*. %%