Fantasy NPC: Dame Zethala Virix

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Dame Zethala Virix

A stern-looking woman with blue-tinted skin, grey hair, and disturbing purplish eyes.

CR 9; 6,400 XP
Female drow-blooded half-elf slayer 10
LE Medium Humanoid (elf, human)
Init +4; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +16

Defense
AC 25, touch 14, flat-footed 21 (+7 armor, +4 Dex, +4 shield)
hp 79 (10d10+20)
Fort +11, Ref +13, Will +6; +2 to saves against Enchantment effects
Immune magic sleep
Weakness light blindness

Offense
Speed 20 ft.
Melee longsword +16/+11 (1d8+6/19–20/×2) or spiked shield +16/+11 (1d6+6) or longsword +14/+9 and spiked shield +14/+9
Ranged mwk composite longbow +15/+10 (1d8+4/×3)
Special Attacks sneak attack +3d6, studied target 3
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 10th, concentration +11)
Constant—detect magic
At Will—dancing lights, deeper darkness, faerie fire, feather fall, levitate

Statistics
Str 18, Dex 18, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 13
Base Atk +10; CMB +14; CMD 28
Feats Bashing Finish, Drow Nobility, Double Slice, Greater Drow Nobility, Improved Drow Nobility, Improved Shield Bash, Improved Two-Weapon Fighting, Shield Master, Two-Weapon Fighting
Skills Acrobatics +17, Climb +9, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +13, Knowledge (nobility) +10, Linguistics +4, Perception +16, Sense Motive +14, Survival +14, Swim +9
Language Abyssal, Aklo, Common, Duc, Elven, Infernal
SQ slayer talents (combat trick, hard to fool, 3 × ranger's style), stalker, track

Gear +1 mithril breastplate, +2 large spiked shield, +2 longsword, cloak of resistance +2, belt of physical might +2 (Str, Dex)


Dame Zethala Virix sprang out of an unexpected fling between a landed knight and a drow exile. Some time after the short affair, her father found the resulting offspring left at his manor. Raised by a stern and a distant father, she followed in his footsteps, mastering arts of war herself, though she also slowly discovered that her dark heritage is of no mere commoner either.

Zethala detests chaos and is willing to take the most ruthless steps to eradicate it, though sometimes, deep inside her heart she wonders if it is her lineage that pulls her toward excess violence, or if it is her own overreaction to her blood that drives her against chaos... Those moments are rare and she always chastises herself, confident in the path she follows. Or so she tells herself.