a.k.a. The Stranger
A creature of initially unknown (humanoid) species first seen in the Act I Interlude.
She wears yellow leather tightly bound over a thin body that bulges in unsettling and unexpected places. She radiates euphoria and agony. She smells of alien flowers blossoming beneath the red rays of an alien sun. Her eyes are milky pale orbs sans pupil or iris. Her mouth is covered by a yellow scarf, which moves even when she’s not talking. An extremely powerful being, capable of taking out almost an entire party in just a few rounds. Carries a black-bladed rapier, and her bite drains Dexterity.
In the Act I Interlude, it was learned that she was an associate of Gulliver Vatticus, and that fifteen years before the start of the campaign she provided him with “special cargo” on the docks of Cassomir.
She encountered Dora, Grip, Gull, and Ray as 9-year-old children, as seen in visions from the Act I Interlude and Act I Epilogue.
In the Act II Prologue, the scene from the Cassomir docks fifteen years previously continued, and she was seen handing over Grip and Rony to Vatticus.
In a psychometry vision in Chapter 62, Dora learned that she was working with a “device” on a “project” in the crypt of Iris Hill. The party also determined at that time that she was a Denizen of Leng.
She experienced such frustration and rage over the results of her work in the basement of Iris Hill that in Chapter 77 Weiralai killed an ally named Daelene and nearly killed Deggorhbaatha before he escaped.
In Chapter 78, she confronted the party in the courtyard of the Iris Hill estate. Before combat began, she confirmed her allegiance to Hastur (referring to him as her King) and berated Haserton Lowls’ efforts on behalf of Xhamen-Dor (seeding Dabwick in the process). She told Thema (calling her “Anathema”) that she had wanted the pleasure of killing Ray herself and that Haserton had robbed her of a vengeance she had been waiting over 60 years to take when he stole the party’s memories away. At the end of a brutal fight, she was sent back to Leng.
In Chapter 79, the party found the remnants of Weiralai’s “project” in the basement of the Iris Hill estate: a line of dozens of corpses with flattened heads and violated mouths. In Chapter 81, they located the device she had used to enact her project: a set of jury-rigged Confabulation Plates.
According to Lowls’ journals read by Dora in Chapter 86, Weiralai clearly felt that Thema, Riptusk, and Viktor were special and kept tabs on them over the many years after she sold them to Lowls.
In Chapter 89, Dora learned from Lowls’ journals that Weiralai’s “project” involved using the confabulation plates to question the many mercenaries Lowls had disposed of after they helped him in his travels in the Dreamlands.
In the Act III Prologue, the party experienced a series of visions from Xhamen-Dor's impossibly long lifespan, which included flashes of her being seeded with the name of Xhamen-Dor by Nemira Lowls.
In Chapter 93, the party learned that she was an associate of Vadrack and Ellish, and had spent time aboard the Bloodwind. In Chapter 101, the party learned that Vadrack was essentially considered to be her “right hand” in the Dreamlands.
In Chapter 108, Dora saw visions of her and an adolescent Gruk in a psychometry vision of the time when Gruk murdered a group of Gnolls in order to complete his Nurgal tattoos.
In Chapter 117, the party encountered Captain Vadrack, who informed them that his “debt” had been paid and his “mistress” (presumably Weiralai) had been recovered.
In Chapter 121, Dora saw visions of her and an adolescent Thema in a psychometry vision of the time when Thema/Anathema used a devil to murder a Wizard holding her captive.
In Chapter 123, the party learned some details from Captain Vadrack's journal about what Vadrack found when he recovered Weiralai from the slave pits of the Moon-beasts in Leng. She had been, in her words, “embraced by the King,” who had “hollowed her heart and warped her flesh,” and she had new, apparently divine, powers granted to her by Hastur.
In Chapter 125, Dora observed Weiralai on the surface of the Dreamland's moon, in a psychometry vision from Deggorhbaatha’s headband. She had been delivered there by Vadrack, and that appeared to be the end of their dealings. Her body had changed. It was simultaneously hollowed-out, yet larger. And atop her skull sprouted two massive horns, at least four feet long , straight up for most of their length, then curled like a nautilus at the ends.
At the end of her conversation with Vadrack, she made clear her intention to travel to Neruzavin.
In Act III Interlude 2, much of Weiralai's history was uncovered. In brief: in 4660 AR, she was a smuggler of Androffan tech and was noticed by a trio of criminals. Gavrony, Nicholas, and Mej raided her caravan with the help of the Last Chancers. They took control of her entire stash and tortured her, keeping her in perpetual suffering, until she gave up the secret of all her technological weapons. Then they killed her—or rather, sent her back to Leng.
It took her ten years to return to the waking world (and an unknown number of years in the slave pits of the Moon-beasts), after which she began her quest to hunt down the three men, arriving in time to witness Nicholas’ death, which inspired her to visit vengeance not just upon her torturers’ but their entire bloodlines. She took Anathema and built an empire on slavery, and then hooked up with Nemira and became a worshipper of the King in Yellow. Gavrony’s nephew was next, claimed from an orphanage, and then three years later she claimed the runt Riptusk, and both were sent to Biting Lash’s fortress for a time. At the beginning of this campaign, Weiralai was returning to Thrushmoor in triumph, planning to torture and murder the party, but Lowls’ plans thwarted her project.
In Chapter 143, Dora saw visions of her and an adolescent Vik in a psychometry vision of a time when she re-captured Vik after he’d escaped from Blossoming Thorn and murdered an innocent man in order to avoid detection.
In Chapter 144, Dora saw visions of her and an adolescent Ray in a psychometry vision of a time when she visited Ray in Cheliax, just before he murdered Kristoph van Horten.
In Chapter 147, Mister Wanderlust revealed that Weiralai had no idea where Neruzavin could be found, but that she was relying on Ulf as her “ace in the hole” for locating it.
In Act IV, Interlude Part 1, Weiralai was spotted by Nheb in the city of Katheer, being followed by Ulf.
In Chapter 175, Hadranna Ibren told Pandora and Dabwick that she had dreamed of Ulf joining up with Weiralai.
First Reference: Act I Interlude
Other Notable References: Act I Epilogue, Act II Prologue, Chapter 62, Chapter 77, Chapter 78, Chapter 79, Chapter 81, Chapter 86, Chapter 89, Act III Prologue, Chapter 93, Chapter 101, Chapter 108, Chapter 116, Chapter 117, Chapter 121, Chapter 123, Chapter 125, Act III Interlude 2, Chapter 143, Chapter 144, Chapter 147, Chapter 150 (Part 3), Act IV Interlude Part 1, Chapter 175