Lae'zel

Lae'zel is reserved when it comes to herself, and shares only fragments of her past before the conflict against the Absolute. She hails from crèche K'liir, also known as Stardock,[1] a githyanki enclave on an asteroid in the Tears of Selûne, an asteroid cluster near the namesake moon.[2] There, Lae'zel received the customary githyanki martial education, with lessons on how to battle, raid and plunder in the name of Vlaakith. This brutal training instilled a hatred for illithid in her, as well as turn her into an ruthless warrior who would do anything to accomplish her missions. The indoctrination further gave her a racial superiority complex, and contempt for races other than githyanki. During her time in the creche, she and her clutch battled beholders in a nearby asteroid and infiltrated a neogi spelljammer, slaying its entire crew.[3] Tested by battle, but still considered a youngling by her people, she sought to prove herself to Vlaakith as a worthy warrior, and be welcomed to the Astral Plane among her kin.[4] Thus, she set out in search of mind flayers, until then only heard in stories, to battle and present her queen a severed illithid head as proof of worth.[4][5] Lae'zel is captured by the nautiloid during this mission, tadpoled in a cruel mockery of their ancestral feud. Kept in a pod, she awaited ceremorphosis, doomed to her fate.