Zhara

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• Location: Crystal Caves
• Occupation: Chaotic Krystallaturge

• Looks

This is a female chaosborn with glowing white skin, auburn hair, and rainbow eyes.  She is
known as Zhara famed for her pioneering of crystalline and chaotic magicks in her research for the
Courts of Chaos.  She was known to explore the Exoma often; however, she never returned from her
most recent expedition. She is permeated by a haze of surging radiance, a blue-white radiance, a
vivid, pulsing chaotic glow, a thick shadow, a shimmering radiance, a silvery light, a sparkling
light, lightning, and glinting pattern.  She has a few thin wisps of wavering iridescence within
and around her.

• Info

    Her limbs are named head, chest, right wing, left wing, right arm, left arm, right hand, left
hand, right leg, left leg, right foot, and left foot.  Zhara is an instructor and responds to the
following verbal commands:
    Availability inquiry: Zhara, what do you teach?
    Cost inquiry:         Zhara, what would a lesson in <subject> cost?
    Instruction request:  Zhara, teach me <subject(s)>.
  Zhara was created by Starhound; the source code was last updated Sun Oct 08 00:01:48 2017.  The
chaosborn race was created by Chaos, who wishes to credit Roger Zelazny as inspiring this work; the
source code was last updated Tue Oct 17 18:54:59 2017.

• Teaches

 abjuration
 aeroturgy
 alchemy
 arcane lore
 astrology
 centering
 chaoturgy
 concentration
 cosmology
 divination
 equilibrium
 evocation
 illusion
 krystallaturgy
 logic
 meditation
 metaphysics
 mineral lore
 physics
 symbology
 thari
 vocalization
 wyrding 

• Notes
  • Understands Thari, Cilaghai, Archaen, Nilasnai, and Enochian.
  • Idly casts various OZM spells, sometimes in Cilaghai.
  • Has a pet imaginary fish named Ripple.
  • Has the Shadow Staff, along with a paraquerlos and a couple of ioun stones.
  • Is the target of a quest.

   You state, [tell me a story]

   Zhara intones, -{ Hm. I guess it's always good to reflect upon how one ends up in such a situation as mine. }- in Thari.

   Zhara intones, -{ Well, I assume you ended up here because of the voices? Yes, you're not the first to be sent to join me in this prison.}- 
in Thari.

   Zhara intones, -{ I stumbled upon this place hundreds of years ago.  I made my home among the upper tunnels, and spent long years studying 
the crystal inhabitants and their environment.  Eventually, I discovered how to infuse parts of my essence into crystalline forms, allowing me 
to craft little golem servitors.  I directed them to gather the glowing shards which litter this realm, intending to amplify the energy within 
to create larger and more powerful versions of such golems. }- in Thari.

   Zhara intones, -{ As the years progressed, I began to mine out larger areas of the area, displacing greater and greater proportions of 
crystal.  However, I soon discovered that my efforts were much more dangerous than I had originally anticipated.  A hostile force invaded my 
mind, incapacitating me and mentally torturing me for several days.  When I eventually managed to utilize my mental training to shut down the 
connection, I realized that the force that had attacked me was a strange genius loci -- a formless intelligence which inhabits the crystal 
caves themselves. }- in Thari.

   Zhara intones, -{ Thinking quickly, I had my golems work feverishly to mine out a small tunnel down to what I had determined to be the 
exact center of the largest mass of crystal, where I judged the intelligence to be most likely to be located.  Unfortunately, I soon found 
that it was a trap; as I reached the heart of the crystal, the walls liquified around me and I found myself imprisoned. The genius loci 
quickly resumed its attacks upon me, but I was able to place enchantments upon the walls of the prison to blind itself to my mind.  
Regrettably, the loci then set up its own defenses outside my own -- effectively trapping me in here permanently. }- in Thari.

   Zhara intones, -{ And that is how things stand now: the loci and its minions have been locked in a stalemate with me for some years.  
Lacking a way to attack me on its own, the genius loci has taken to trapping other intruders and sending them into this prison, forcing them 
to attempt to kill me.  As long as you make no move to attack me, our truce can continue; but in the end, there is no way to leave that 
doesn't involve death for one of us or the other. I'm sorry, but this is the reality of our situation. }- in Thari.

   Zhara intones, _.- ~ I didn't know I was hurting them... I just needed crystal to study... ~*@-. in Thari.