BESTIARY · THE MIRRENMERE
Issuthra, the Drowned Crown
aka the Naga Queen, the Mother of Scales, she who kept her coils
A primordial Hessk matriarch-serpent grown vast in the flooded dark beneath the Drowned Shrine — the living ancestress the scaled folk descend from, and the slow hymn the Kneeling Drowned mistake for the shrine's own.
When the valley drowned, most things that breathed the green water were born of the Mirrenmere. Issuthra was already old in it. The Hessk name her the first coil — the mother every clutch traces back to — and whether that is lineage or legend, she is real enough: a serpent long as a barge, crowned in a fan of frilled scale that flares the colour of bruised jade, lairing in the lowest flooded vault below the Drowned Shrine where the silt-pike will not go. She does not strike with fang alone. She rears and spits a venom that hangs in the water like smoke, and the toxin keeps working long after she has slid back into the dark. The Kneeling Drowned were meant to tend the shrine itself; instead they kneel to her, mistaking the water's pressure and her slow-moving mass for something divine. Sumeh Tideless has knelt longest of all. Issuthra does not correct them. A queen is owed her worshippers, however they came to her.
KIND
monster
DANGER
Tier IV
HAUNT
the lowest flooded vault beneath the Drowned Shrine, in the green water of the Mirrenmere
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located_in
- →The Drowned Shrine — Issuthra coils in the lowest flooded vault of the shrine, below the steps the silt-pike haunts.
descendant_of
- ←The Hessk — The Hessk name her the first coil — the mother every clutch traces back to, whether by blood or by legend.
worships
- ←The Kneeling Drowned — The penitents take her slow low hymn beneath the tide for the voice of the drowned god, and kneel to it — the heresy made flesh.
- ←Sumeh the Tideless — The eldest of the Kneeling Drowned has knelt in Issuthra's note longest of all, and hears it most clearly.
rival_of
- →Silt Pike — The silt-pike rule the flooded steps, but they keep to the upper water — they will not go down to where the queen lairs. She is the apex they defer to.
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