Eksuru¶
Contested
Named in the open question Eksuru's aim: wake Vixseranyol or breed without her. The newer notes (S060, S061) have Eksuru trying to wake her mistress Vixseranyol; the older arcs (S028) have her raising a red brood without her. The page follows the newer.
Eksuru is a red dragon, Eksurinyol, called Emberclaw, who lives in Proturas in human form and is known to her followers only as a warlock (S028, S061, S068).1 She sits on the Proturan Council as one of the two representatives of the warlocks (S040, S041). She brought the necromancer Malathar back from death and set him to work on a plague, keeps agents across the city and the Rift, and works against the Circle of Eternity to free the spirit of her mistress, the primal red dragon Vixseranyol (S061).
Also called: Eksurinyol, Emberclaw (S028, S061, S068); Eksura (S051).
The dragon in the council¶
"The Red Dragon (Eksuru in human form) Eksurinyol (Emberclaw)" is "a warlock as far as most of her followers know" (S061). She "is one of 11 Proturan High Councillors (Grand Councillor is the 12th). She is one of 2 representatives for the WARLOCKS" (S040); the next session's notes make the twelfth seat that of the High Councillor (S041). The council as these notes give it has two seats each for the warlocks, the Uk'zerai, the wood elves, the Alliance and the Kalari, and one for the Old City (S040, S041); the council itself is described on the Proturan Council page. She has rivals there: assassins sent to destroy her expedition into the Etterwood came from "another Proturan High Councillor, ?? … which will NOT be revealed" (S056, S057).
Aims¶
"She is trying to wake her mistress Vixseranyol and needs things which the Circle have in order to achieve it" (S061; S060 "her mistress"). She and her people "are NOT working for the Circle" (S061).
She revived Malathar, whom the Circle had expelled and killed. "He is seeking revenge and does not know his current patroness is a Dragon", and he "isn't working for Eksuru": he was "recruited to dismantle the Circle" (S028, S061). Her purpose for him is the plague: Eksuru "brought [him] back … to re-engineer the magical plague" that once saved the High Elves. "EKSURU wants it to be lower mortality, more contagious and cross-species. Specifically, she wants it to neuter Humanoid's magical abilities" (S042). She provided the hired swords of his keep at Urdhar (S045, S049).
Her circle included the witch-queen Marcella, her spy inside the Circle, and Marcella's agent Dala Stonefoot (S028, S061). Dala wanted the Dracius Cradle taken from the warlock Valtor "for Eksuru" (S040), and spoke of Eksuru's "holdings in the RIFT" (S041). By the war with the Boreal Elves Dala had broken with her, and Eksuru's agents were hunting her with wanted posters (S051).
The war and the Etterwood¶
When the Proturan Council declared war on the Boreal Elves of the Etterwood, Malathar "implied that Eksura had a hand in it" (S051). Under cover of the war her agents and Malathar's sent an expedition into the forest. Its rift-gate in a tower at Etterdun is "operated by Eksuru's agents" (S052); its guide, the wood elf Pye'dara, was one of "Eksuru's other people" (S051); its camp of about fifty diggers and rangers worked "for Malathar/Eksuru" (S053). Its object lay in the ruined Shrine of Kae'Ferrel, where a claw of Vixseranyol had been kept (S051, S056).
Gap
The sources do not describe Eksuru's human guise, her lair, her age or her place in Vixseranyol's brood, how long she has sat on the council, or what exactly she needs from the Circle. "TODO: I should work out some Kobold stuff into the stuff with EKSURU" (S040) was never written up.
Earlier accounts¶
The first campaign arcs gave her the opposite aim: "She is trying to create a brood of red dragons without Vixseranyol and needs things which the Circle have in order to achieve it" (S028). The question is filed.
What the party did for and against her is told in the Proturan Campaign.