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Maretta
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Maretta along with Red Shroud and Chiryn are a trio of Succubus NPC characters in the Dungeons and Dragons RPG game. She is a member of the Original Sins Cartel.
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- Name: Maretta
- Title: The succubus Lady of the Counting-House in Graz'zt's realm.
- First Appearance: Planes of Chaos, The Book of Chaos, page 28
- General Description: Late 20's, blue eyes, wings are gold. She favors sequined, gold lame evening gowns and lots of jewelry.
Description
Co-founder of the Original Sins Cartel. Maretta rules a city (Counting House) on the 6?th layer of the Abyss (Triplerealm). This city essentially one large casino and den of iniquity (think Las Vegas, only worse). She likes to corrupt mortals through vices - drugs, gambling, drinking, etc. However, she prefers to maintain her city at its present size and keep it out of the Blood War. Her natural appearance is that of a tan woman with blond hair (worn up in a beehive). Late 20's, blue eyes, wings are gold. She favors sequined, gold lame evening gowns and lots of jewelry. She is a 6th level thief.
History
One of Graz'zt's trusted servants, the succubus Maretta, keeps track of her lords innumerable dealings with the greedy, power-hungry mortals of many worlds. The Lady of the Counting-House also presides over the deals and bargains that Graz'zt has struck with other Abyssal Lords and even fouler creatures over time. Both making and maintaining these deals requires a great deal of creativity.
Maretta protects her lords interests as well, for she commands 13 alu-fiends that patrol the Counting-House, the dungeons beneath, and the city of Samora. These 13 are known as the Lady's Lancers for their preferred means of attack, which involves flying above a foe and then diving toward their target with the lances they carry for just such circumstances. The Lancers usually work alone, though a distress call from Maretta brings any of them in the area to her aid. Several of the Lancers are assigned to guard the currently mortal Waukeen.
Further Notes
At the time of Red Shroud's and Chiryn's betrayal, the succubus known as Maretta was still new to her position as one of Graz'zt's trusted vassals. Although being responsible for one of the layers of the Triple Realm is an incredible success for a lesser tanar'ri, Maretta found she missed the freedom of being able to travel as she wished to the Prime and engage in the seduction of mortals. The succubus was almost desperate to find some way to get some of her "glory days" back again. Fortunately for the fiend, her two traitorous sisters of Red Shroud and Chiryn were fleeing a pair of vengeful armies and seeking refuge. The two had come to Maretta's holdings in hopes of pledging themselves to Graz'zt's cause - as well as playing on the slim chance that she would have some sympathy for them since they were all of the same breed. It was fortunate for Red Shroud and Chiryn that Maretta was not yet comfortable with her position. The Lady of the Counting House took them in, and made them pledge themselves to her - and didn't inform Graz'zt about it. Instead, Maretta used the two traitors as a pair of personal hunters - she would send them to the Prime to bring back mortals for her own personal use.
Over the course of several centuries, the three succubi found this arrangement to be very profitable for all involved, especially when they managed to ignore their jealousy and paranoia long enough to actually work together. They eventually formalized their arrangement and began consistently harvesting more souls combined than if the three had worked individually. Although this group success granted an increase in status to the trio, Red Shroud still chafed at the idea of being beholden to any one - even a supposed equal. In addition to using the partnership to further perfect her skills as a poisoner and gatherer of information, Red Shroud took the opportunity to study Maretta to learn how gain and maintain a position of importance. Finally, Red Shroud felt confident enough to take the next step on the path to power.
About four hundred years ago, Red Shroud physically distanced herself from her partners and assumed control of a small (for the Abyss) army on the Plain of Infinite Portals, thus breaking up the trio.