Beyosh
Yuan-ti pureblood companion famous for her Medusa-like snake hair.
Originally from an isolated settlement on the Yar Kanti Islands, Beyosh was captured by slavers at age 9 and sold into slavery after they killed her family right in front of her. The trauma of this eventually caused her normal dark hair to fall out, and living snakes to grow in its place, a blessing and sign of favor, she believes, from the Snake Gods. When this happened her owner, a human crime Lord of Sablos, tried to kill the girl, considering her an abomination and ill omen. Her snakes killed him instead, and Beyosh escaped his minions, stowing away on a ship to Dref Dral, where she lived on the streets as a thief and sometime prostitute.
When she had saved enough money, at age 18, she took a ship to Lutran and enrolled in a university there. Intellectually gifted but hating the structure of school, she stole money from it and drifted across Itrefaulk, thieving, prostituting, and occasionally adventuring until she decided to settle down as a companion at The Broken Wheel. Her ambition is to one day own the whole place, and even rule Zeron's Point. She is 26 years old.
Her "hair" consists of 13 living white snakes, each with its own mind, personality, and name, though Beyosh can control them all. They are fiercely protective of her and have very venomous bites. They are
- Chlat the Sinister
- Vaak the Disturbed
- Susmos the Devilish
- Irkan the Brutal
- Asoon the Hungry
- Weol the Sleepy
- Airto the Mystic
- Frin the Psychotic
- Joor the Just
- Eesdor the Friendly
- Breeth the Prophet
- Cata the Sly
- Nalg the Quarrelsome
