Zara

Zara is an elderly half-elf woman with long, thick gray curly hair. She is currently staying in her workshop at the base of the Sword Mountains about 30 miles north of Waterdeep.

Zara commissioned the Waterdeep Legionnaires to gather ingredients for a potion she planned to use to ward off Walpurgisnacht on the 30th day of Tarsakh.

The task was assigned to Legna Krad, Zelusa Hedros, Dallak, Gallandan, and Pudding as their first mission after training camp. They arrived at Zara's Workshop after 2 days travel on foot. They found a group of 5 men were looting the workshop and had Zara restrained. The Legionnaires killed all 5 bandits after they had already force-fed Zara the very potion whose ingredients she had commissioned.

This left the women inebriated and able to see into other planes of existence. Her memory suffered and she was repetitive and nonsensical.

Zara raised the bandit leader that evening as a ghoul to ask why it had attacked her. He told the group he was sent by a dwarf named Legna Krad to retrieve the Flesh Golem that Zara owed to him. Zara told the group she had sent the Flesh Golem to retrieve a basilisk eye from the Sword Mountain caves, but it never returned.

Legna Krad, Dallak, and Gallandan returned on the 28th day of Tarsakh with the materials for her potion and the Flesh Golem, who she sent to serve the dwarf Legna Krad. She admitted that she wasn't really planning to ward against Walpurgisnacht, but instead was planning on stealing the power it harnessed for an experiment. She paid the group an additional 9 gold pieces for their help with the potion and sent them off with 3 True Strike potions and a letter written to Renault Aurelius.

Legna later read the letter and handed it over to his father."Renault,""Hundreds of thousands of orcs have set up camp in the hills north of my workshop. According to the Legionnaires you sent me they have united and are preparing to attack Waterdeep.""In more interesting but perhaps less important news you'll be pleased to learn the potion has been completed and my experiment is underway. I will keep you updated.""- Zara""P.S. I heard you met with a drow priestess in the Underdark. How did that go?"