At a glance
Type: Lich · Title: Duchess of Rot · Lair: Zaldara’s Lair, sea cliffs outside Baldur’s Gate · Status: alive, presumably holding her phylactery again · First seen: S1
- One of the more powerful liches near Baldur’s Gate and a long-standing thorn in the magistrates’ side. She snatches farmers from the countryside “for nefarious purposes”.
- Besieged by the Harpers while the party burgled her lair.
- Her phylactery is a cup on red velvet, in an iron-bound chest between two lightning pillars. → Zaldara’s Phylactery
- She appeared as a gaunt, skeletal apparition trailing glowing tendrils of magic, said “Put that down,” and hit the whole party with 38 lightning damage.
- She is said to be an old acquaintance of Acererak. While she was away from her study, the Harpers stole a book from it linking her to him.
- Kale knows her by reputation as a bad employer.
Spelling: heard as Saldara / Zaldara Cordris.