Matron Baenre
STATISTICS FROM "VILLAINS' LOREBOOK" AND "MENZOBERRANZAN"
Inherent spell-like abilites : dancing lights, fearie fire, darkness, levitate, know alignment, detect magic, detect lie, clairvoyance, suggestion, dispel magic.
Commonly remembered spells: -first level: spider eyes, combine, command fear, invisibility to undead. -second level : augury, charm person, dark fire, messenger, wyvern watch. - third level : telepathy, spellweb, emotion control, animate dead, dispel magic - fourth level : divination, free action, passweb, mental domination, modify memory - fifth level : commune, dispel evil, flame strike, mind shatter, summon spider -sixth level : blade barrier, spiritual wrath, reverse time, word of recall - seventh level : creeping doom, unholy word.
the text below is from the Menzoberranzan boxed set and may be outdated...
Matron Mother is considered to be ancient, even as drow go and whereas most drow retain their youthful appearance for most of their lives, Matron Baenre has degenarated throughout her long and illustrious one. Her face is criss crossed with numerous deep wrinkles and her hair has become thin and stringy, giving her a strange wraith like appearance. There are whispers among the masses that the matron mother of house baenre should be dead and even quieter whisper that suggest that she already is..
Matron mother Baenre has acquired hunderds of interesting items in her long life, but she has a special place in her heart for a select few and these she carries with her at all times.
On her left hand she wears a large ornate gorld ring with a huge shimmering sapphire in it's setting. The gold band has been magically enchanted to writhe and squirm on the matron mother's finger as if alive and the saphire contains a magically sustained, live black widow spider. The ring, as a whole, has been enchanted to act as a ring of arachnid control ( 88 charges )
On her right hand, she wears a small ring made from the tooth of a mountain dwarf. The ring contains the trapped and tormented soul of a mountain dwarf king whose mining party ventured too near to menzoberranzan. The party was captured and sacrificed to Lloth and the king's soul was trapped within the ring. The ring now functions as a ring of anti-venom ( 18 charges ) and with every use the soul is brought one step closer to a final rest, a thought which displease Matron Baenre immensely.
The Matron Mother also carries a small bag filled with 25 tiny onyx spiders which acts similary to a bag of bones. Upon casting these items and uttering the command word the onyx spiders become huge spiders fully under the command of Matron Baenre.
Her favorite little toy is her prized sprider wand ( 63 charges ). Her preferred tactic is to use the web power of the wand to entangle her victim and then poison the hapless captive until either he dies or Matron Mother grows tired of the game.
Matron Baenre carries herself with an ease that reeks of cockiness; if she ever had any fears they have been long forgotten. Matron Baenre has grown tired of most physical pleasure so now she devotes her time to the pleasure of political intrigue and psychological web-weaving. She openly promotes strife within Menzoberranzan and seems to draw energy from the resulting chaos. Feeling confident that she is safely set as First Matron Mother, she encourages ambitious on to great and sometimes gory, glory.
Having lived for such a long time, the first matron mother of Menzoberranzan has realised her greates goals and, for the present, seems content to serve the spidr queen as well as she can and let the chaotic story unfold around her ( with her ineviatble nudging ). Unfortunatly for Menzoberranzan, she still reatins her natural drow craving for more and moer power, so althrough the other houses do'nt have to worry about house Baenre' s personals ambitions for ascension, they certainly have to keep wary of Matron Baenre's love of chaos.