Jallarzi Sallavarian

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Greyhawk Character
Jallarzi Sallavarian
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Jallarzi Sallavarian and Edwina c. 591 CY, as depicted in Living Greyhawk Journal #0 (2000). Art by Sam Wood
Homeland: Free City of Greyhawk (formerly Duchy of Urnst)
Class(es): Wizard 13/Archmage 2
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Alignment: Lawful Good
Age: 40+
Died: 581 CY
Raised: 582 CY

Jallarzi Sallavarian is a powerful human wizard of Greyhawk City and the only female member of the Circle of Eight. She is nearly always accompanied by her familiar, a red pseudodragon named Edwina. Jallarzi lives with her servants and Edwina in an exquisite tower in Greyhawk's Garden Quarter.

Description[edit]

Jallarzi is an attractive woman in her mid-forties. She stands 5', 7", and her pale skin and curly honey-blonde hair betray her nearly pure Suel heritage. She prefers comfortable clothes of silk or satin, often wearing fashionable breeches rather than skirts. Her outfits are often complemented by a pair of bracers of red dragon hide, set with bloodstones and bound with platinum filagree.

Relationships[edit]

Marial (CG female human Wiz12) is a close personal friend and follower of Jallarzi. She is a Greyhawker, through and through. Native to the city, the pair met when Jallarzi approached her for advice about some of the darker sides of the City of Greyhawk.[1]

Jallarzi has been romantically linked to Kieren Jalucian, and is a close friend of Tenser.

Lady Xenia Sallavarian, fiancé of King Lynwerd of Nyrond, is one of Jallarzi's distant cousins.

Home[edit]

Jallarzi keeps at stately home in Greyhawk's Garden Quarter.

History[edit]

Jallarzi was born in 549 CY into a minor noble family in the Duchy of Urnst. In her teen years, she studied magic under both the Seer of Urnst and Warnes Starcoat.

Sometime in the 570s CY, Jallarzi made her way to Greyhawk, where she studied under, and became good friends with, Tenser the archmage. Thanks to her training and natural talent, Jallarzi soon became the youngest wizard ever inducted into Greyhawk's Society of Magi. At some point during this period, Jallarzi became fast friends with another female mage, a native of Greyhawk named Marial, and also began a romantic relationship with Kieren Jalucian, master of Greyhawk's Guild of Wizardry.

In 581 CY, thanks to heavy lobbying by Tenser, Jallarzi became the youngest, and first female member of Circle of Eight, filling the seat left empty by Bucknard two years before. That same year, during the last week of her probationary period, Jallarzi, Tenser, and all the other members of the Circle save Mordenkainen were slain by Halmadar the Cruel, possessor of the Hand and Eye of Vecna, in the Kron Hills. Halmadar was under the control of Vecna himself, who sought to increase his divine power.

Once Vecna's plans were thwarted by adventurers recruited by Mordenkainen, the archmage began reassembling the Circle by cloning its fallen members. By the time the clones had matured and become aware, the Greyhawk Wars were in full swing.

At the end of the Great War in 584 CY, the Circle was sundered once more, when Rary's treachery resulted in the deaths of Tenser and Otiluke, as well as the destruction of all their clones, save one Tenser had hidden on the moon. In Goodmonth 585, Jallarzi was kidnapped, at the direction of Iggwilv, by Tuerny the Merciless, in a plot to create a distraction which would draw the Circle away from Iggwilv's true plan--to invade Oerth via a gate between Tenser's Fortress of Unknown Depths and an old lair of Iggwilv's on Luna. Tenser's clone on Luna had by this time matured, though it was discovered by Tuerny and transformed into a dretch. Tuerny had transported Jallarzi to the moon by this time, using dark magic to change her alignment, and gender, transforming her into an entity calling himself "Jay." Both Jallarzi and Tenser were rescued by adventurers recruited by the Circle, and restored to their former states. Tenser left the Circle at this time, though Jallarzi stayed.

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Notes[edit]

Citations[edit]

  1. WGA4 Vecna Lives! (1990), p.92.

Bibliography[edit]

———. Return of the Eight. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.

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Topic Type Description Product Page/Card/Image

Jallarzi Sallavarian, Tower of Building Defensive Structure, Tower, Reference SEE ALSO Sallavarian, Jallarzi
Jallarzi Sallavarian, Tower of Building Defensive Structure, Tower, Return of the Eight IC, 2, 6, 8, 10-18, 21, IBC
Jallarzi Sallavarian, Tower of Building Defensive Structure, Tower, The Adventure Begins 4, 88
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], Bigby's Curse 88, 89, 90, 106, 184, 185, 186, 187
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], The City of Greyhawk: Folks, Feuds and Factions 16, 17, 19, 22, 24, 27, 63, 66, 82
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], The City of Greyhawk: Gem of the Flanaess 61, 96
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], Dragon magazine #225 54
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], Dragon magazine #230 8
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], Dragon magazine #290 108
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], Dungeon magazine #042 34
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], From the Ashes: Atlas of the Flanaess 15
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], From the Ashes: Campaign Book 9, 30, 85
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], From the Ashes: References Card #13
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], Living Greyhawk Gazetteer 78, 156, 157
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], Living Greyhawk Journal #0 6, 8, 9, 11
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], Living Greyhawk Journal #2 5
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], Living Greyhawk Journal #5 6
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], Player's Guide to Greyhawk 21-23, 31, 48
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], Return of the Eight 2-6, 8-21, 23, 24, 26, 32, 37-39, 46-48, 50-54, 57
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], The Adventure Begins 6, 7, 31, 43, 60, 63, 71, 87, 88
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], 1992 TSR Trading Cards - Gold Set 173
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], LT1 The Star Cairns 2
Sallavarian, Jallarzi {Jallarzi Sallavarian} Non-player character Female, Human, [M14][3e M15], WGA4 Vecna Lives! 10, 14, 15, 20, 21, 85, 92