Molantro was a Drow commoner with no surname. Two hundred and sixty years ago, she had graduated from Arachne and joined the city's Seventh Great Family, becoming a priestess sworn to the Mizzrym Family.
Renato stood in the shadow of a half-collapsed, two-story tower. Two still-warm, headless corpses lay in a corner where he had dragged them.
He began recalling what he knew about this ancient family of Sammoril.
The Mizzrym Family's Matron Mother was the High Priestess Delina Mizzrym.
Come to think of it, Renato had seen this Matron Mother himself at the gates of Samoriel City when he entered with Tristana.
Malicious and smarmy, she had made a terrible first impression on Renato.
No amount of perfume or magic disguising her appearance could conceal the nauseating old-person smell clinging to her.
And when faced with a provocation from Quelyn, the Nightwind Matron Mother, Delina had clearly come off worse.
She had not dared confront the Nightwind Family at all, merely throwing out a couple of threats before teleporting away with her tail between her legs.
This suggested that the Seventh Great Family was now weaker than the Nightwind Family, which ranked below it. Based on the descriptions in the [Guide], Renato suspected that some upheaval had weakened the Mizzrym Family.
Otherwise, no matter how much strength the Nightwind Family had amassed, the Matron Mother of a higher-ranking great family would never have been so humiliated in public.
Perhaps the Mizzrym Family's decline was connected to the failure of the so-called Second Daughter Coup.
Renato reined in his wandering thoughts and looked down at the noisy area beneath the tower.
A large black market in the Gray Zone lay below him.
There were no signs or storefronts, only a square cobbled together from mobile carts, magical houses, and half-collapsed