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LADY L LMARROW The line of Vol had long been rivals of the Undying
Court, and many whisper even today that the attack on
Lady Illmarrow is a legend-an ancient lich said to dwell House Vol was nothing more than an excuse to elimi
in a castle of bone and ice in the coldest regions of the nate a political rival. But others believe that what the
Lhazaar Principalities. Some stories say that she is Undying Court truly feared was a path shown in the
served by a legion of undead and that she maintains a Draconic Prophecy-that a child born of dragon and elf
court of vampires and ghosts in her palace of ice. Other could become a godlike avatar of death.
tales claim that when anyone dies in Lhazaar, Illmarrow 1 1 / m arrow Rises. Even as dragons and elves fought
chooses whether to take their soul before it passes on to to destroy the line of Vol, a child was born to the house:
the Keeper and Dolurrh. Erandis. A scion of elf and dragon, Erandis bore a Mark
But Lady Illmarrow is no folk tale. She is the greatest of Death unlike any other. In time, it might have been
necromancer in Eberron, and after centuries of silence, her gateway to immortality and unrivaled power, but she
she is setting ancient plots into motion at last. She is was hunted down and killed long before she could mas
the power behind the Order of the Emerald Claw, but ter the mark's magic. Her mother, Minara Vol, escaped
her motives for founding the order are buried in her with her daughter's body to the icy reaches of Farin en,
past. Lady Illmarrow has no interest in ruling the living. far from the conflict. There, Minara unleashed all her
Rather, she seeks to become Queen of the Dead. necromantic power to raise Erandis as a lich.
T h e M a r k of Death. Illmarrow is a fiefdom on the isle As an undead being, Erandis lost the use of her drag
of Farlnen-home to a community of elves exiled from onmark. Thus, when the diviners of Aerenal asked if
Aerenal, who have practiced necromancy for centuries. the line of Vol had been exterminated and the Mark
But Lady Illmarrow's roots extend far beyond her is of Death destroyed, they received a vision affirming
land domain. that the bloodline of Vol was no more. To the world,
Long ago, it was revealed that the elven line of Vol-a the last survivor of that bloodline is known as Lady
house that practiced the art of necromancy and bore Illmarrow. But in truth, she is Erandis Vol, heir to the
the Dragonmark of Death-was engaged in secret blood Mark of Death.
rites with a clan of dragons. The discovery of this pact T r apped in U n death. When Minara restored Erandis
triggered an unprecedented alliance between the Sib as a lich, she hid her daughter's phylactery, weaving
ling Kings of Aerenal and the dragons of Argonnessen. enchantments into it that cause Erandis to be reborn in
The Sibling Kings proclaimed that House Vol would be a random safe haven after she is destroyed. Thus, even
exterminated to the last member, and the Mark of Death Erandis herself doesn't know the location or form of her
would be eliminated from the world. phylactery.
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