History Characters / DrowtalesVelSharenClanSnadhyaruneAndHerBloodline

* ForMeItWasTuesday: [[spoiler: When Mel confronts her about lying about all her younger children being dead, she first replies to her that [[http://drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=13003 she will have to be more specific]].]]

* OffingTheOffspring: Sil'lice has made reference to Snadhya'rune murdering her children while still in the womb.
[[spoiler:And after Kalki disrupts Snadhya'rune's plans for Ariel by attacking her, Snad warns her single grown child not to cross her again. When Kalki tries to grab the airship, Snadhya'rune finally loses all patience with her and kills her with a summon]].

* OffingTheOffspring: Sil'lice has made reference to Snadhya'rune murdering her children while still in the womb. [[spoiler:And after Kalki disrupts Snadhya'rune's plans for Ariel by attacking her, Snad warns her single grown child not to cross her again. When Kalki tries to grab the airship, Snadhya'rune finally loses all patience with her and kills her with a summon]].

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Presents herself as this, at least, stating that drow should be ruled by drow rather than by dark elves. More specifically, she believes that the old guard has clung too strongly to outdated ideals and is trying to usurp them with people that will accept new ideas. She also agrees with the Sarghress dogma that everyone should have the right to prove themselves regardless of ancestry. Doesn't excuse [[spoiler:basically committing genocide through the Nidraa'chal, murdering her mother, ''and'' deliberately tainting people with seeds that will eventually kill them]]. In Chapter 49, [[spoiler:the new Holy Mother Anahid uses her empathy to look at Snadhya's sins, which are so terrible that she rejects an offer of negotiation with the Nidraa'chal. When Snadhya presents the IDidWhatIHadToDo excuse and asks for forgiveness, Anahid doesn't buy it and suggests that she look for forgiveness from her ''actual'' victims, the people her plans have screwed over]].

* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Snad's non-existent parenting of Kalki eventually ruins her attempt to recruit the 'daughter' she ''actually'' wanted -- after Kalki throws a tantrum, attacks and maims Ariel, the latter obviously wants nothing to do with the mother of the woman who ''cut her arm off.'']

* BodyBackupDrive: Discussed. One of her aides mentions having a back-up body prepared for her, but she's reluctant to use it unless she feels she has no other choice.

* SmugSnake: For all her rants about how her mother should have abdicated and let her take her 'rightful place' as Empress, her schemes to fully control Chel'el'sussoloth wind up dooming the city and killing most of the population.

** [[spoiler:The taint is a sort of demonic plague, that infects a fae's "soul" and gradually corrupts said fae into a new demon. She has been deliberately spreading the taint, encouraging it as a form of warfare ''and'' as a sort of vaccination from demonic attack. All of the demon seeds she has been promoting, including the "vaccinations", are specifically designed to eventually kill their hosts. After the TimeSkip, in chapter 44, she promotes a peace conference in Felde, presenting herself as a savior. She starts promising not only deliverance, but enlightenment, by offering her victims guidance to help them master their demon seeds]].

* BiTheWay: This is the norm for Drow society, but for a long time, she only expressed interest in other females such as Mel'arnach and her various other students, which is one reason she has no [[spoiler:publicly known]] children. Later events however suggest that this was solely to spite her [[IWantGrandkids mother's desire for grandchildren]] (despite having ''hundreds'' of grandchildren through her other daughters).After [[spoiler:her mother is publicly declared dead]], she takes interest in a broken Sharen knight, Jiaan, in the [[BrainwashedAndCrazy worst way]] [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul possible]].

* PyrrhicVillainy: Her efforts succeed in destabilising Chel'el'sussoloth -- to the point where it's a nearly deserted, rotting husk, with barely anyone or anything left for her to actually rule over.

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[[folder:[[spoiler:Kalki]]]]

* NoSell: She is immune to empathic attacks, though it's not without help from her own empaths. [[spoiler:When [[spoiler:Rann'dirk]] attacks her with earth sorcery, [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=9759 she calmly stops it before it even reaches her]] and serenely comments that it reminds her of Kalki's childhood games]].

* MindHive: There are [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=7913 references]] to Khaless being a "consensus of beings."

* CainAndAbel: The Cain to both Sil'lice and Nishi'kanta's Abel [[spoiler:as she wiped out most of her sisters' bloodlines during the Nidraa'chal War, while framing Sil'lice herself for matricide and treason, which forced her to become a fugitive hiding behind Sarghress protection]].
** [[spoiler:Recently it seems she has become the Cain to Zala'less as well, with her giving a special kind of demonic tainting that will screw with their fertility and result in Zala's clans giving birth to mutated, stillborn babies, if what happened to Shinae's child was of indication. Snad has no other purpose for this other than to inflict some delicious irony to one of her sister's most populous bloodlines]].

* FreudianExcuse: Claims this in regards to [[spoiler:killing her mother and hiding the existence of Kalki]] and says that the "death" of her protector twin Khaless made her crack. [[spoiler:It's implied that the incredible pressure Diva put on Snadhya as her heir and firstborn caused her to snap in a ''huge'' way, first coming up with the plan of sealing her mother in her own throne room so she can die of starvation, then engineering the deaths of her own family, her ''entire clan'', and anyone still loyal to Diva so she can be free to rule and make decisions on her own]].

* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler: She manages to live from being impaled with a large stone through the stomach, her spine and neck pretty much fragmented, her skull being stoved in like an egg and willingly stopping her pulse to fake her death. All of this while afterwards being able to casually order a minion of hers about as if [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction didn't even care]] about the state of her body.]]

* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=11667 Though it's hard to see]], in the last panel, she's got a nice summon-stone shaped glow where her womb should be, tucked under her clothes and her "smile" is Khaless level big. It's not yet known if she's hiding a stone under her robes, or she's .... something else.

* FakingTheDead: Presuming Jiaan is not hallucinating, [[spoiler: she manages to be able to fool a Nal'sarkoth into thinking she's dead by having no pulse ''in her neck.'']]

* WeCanRuleTogether: Well, not so much rule, but in Chapter 46, Snadhya does offer one of her enemies, [[spoiler:Mikilu]], the chance to join her after she is defeated.

* DeathByIrony: How does she finally go down? [[spoiler: She gets impaled with the rubble of her own gigantic Floor Dragon summon.]] AndThereWasMuchRejoicing.