Shaaan the Serpent Queen was a nefarious wizard that once challenged the Sage of Shadowdale, Elminster.[1]
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Shaaan was a mysterious woman with scales who once ruled a snake cult in Tashalar. She had fought many times with Elminster.[1]
Once, around 1340 DR, the Company of Crazed Venturers fought Shaaan on a small isle on the Sword Coast,[1] off the coast of Mintarn. They broke her concentration on spellcasting and bid her to stop what she was working on, otherwise they'd destroy it. Then one of their members threatened Shaaan by using the disintegrate spell on a nearby stone. Shaking her head in derision, Shaaan touched ground and disintegrated the entire island, dumping the Company into the ocean as she levitated and continued to work on her spellcasting.[1][3]
In the Year of the Prince, 1357 DR, the Zhentarim considered Shaaan, together with Maraunth Torr, Szass Tam, and Larloch, as one of the most powerful evil archmages.[4]
At last, in an inter-dimensional place where Elminster sometimes met people from other planes, Shaaan appeared and tried to seduce the archmage Dalamar the Black from Krynn, but Elminster, with the help of the archmage Mordenkainen from Oerth, who'd also had an encounter with Shaaan, used Ed Greenwood to imprison her in the Floating Helm of Tharados (a unique ancient Netherese magic item).[1]
Shaaan resurfaced around 1487 DR and competed with other archmages for the possession of the Lost Spell during a spellstorm. Shaaan was ultimately killed by the combined effort of both Malchor Harpell and Manshoon.[2]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Ed Greenwood (July 1995). “The Wizards Three: Warmer Than Expected”. In Wolfgang Baur ed. Dragon #219 (TSR, Inc.), pp. 90–98.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ed Greenwood (June 2015). Spellstorm. (Wizards of the Coast), p. ?. ISBN 978-0-7869-6571-7.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood. The Ultra-Lich Larloch. Pages From the Sages. Archived from the original on 2002-11-21. Retrieved on 2021-08-31.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (September 2002). Hand of Fire. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 8, p. 132. ISBN 0-7869-2760-7.