Mogora

Mogora
Interpretation of Mogora by slaine69
Biographical information
Race	Human (Dal Honese)
Gender	Female
Family	Iskaral Pust (husband)
Social information
D'ivers	Spiders

"Spiteful, condescending, a sneering bitch in every way!"

―Iskaral Pust, appraising his future wife.

Mogora [moe-GORE-ah] was a D'ivers witch and the wife of Iskaral Pust. She sembled between a human female form and a pack of hundreds of spiders. Originally from Dal Hon, she was a squat, wiry, and mostly toothless old woman with wild black hair, steely black eyes, and a sharp-featured face, who bore a startling resemblance to Iskaral Pust.

Her clothes were covered in cobwebs.

In Deadhouse Gates

Mogora secretly observed Pust for months as he laid the false trail for the Path of Hands. She finally appeared before him as a pack of spiders pouring from his clothing after the crisis had passed. Pust accused her of scheming to gain access to the gate in Tesem's crypt in order to gain Ascendancy. Mogora denied this, replying, "I escaped Dal Hon to be rid of idiots. Why would I become Ascendant just to rule over other idiots." The two entered the Shadow Priest's temple together with Pust suggesting she serve as the new cook.

In House of Chains

Mogora and Pust were now married, a marriage Pust considered perfect because they had not seen each other for months. Pust hid in Tesem's shadows while Mogora stalked the halls hunting him. She refused to search for him in her D'ivers form as it would make her the one being hunted. She otherwise spent her time cleaning and clearing, although she refused to touch the 'offerings' left behind by the temple's population of Bhok'arala.

Mogora played unwilling hostess and cook for Kalam Mekhar during his recuperation and for Cutter and Apsalar after their adventure on Drift Avalii.

In The Bonehunters

Iskaral Pustl, Mogora and the mule by Dejan Delic

Mogora secretly followed Iskaral Pust to the newly reborn Raraku Sea, which she stocked with a half-dozen young freshwater sharks. Then she followed his trail through the warren of Shadow to witness the High Priest drive away the T'rolbarahl, Dejim Nebrahl, and recover the dying body of Mappo Runt. Mogora interceded in what she characterised as Pust's idiotic attempts to heal the Trell. She performed a healing ritual that called upon the power of the Moon and drew down a rain of spiderwebs to cover Mappo's body. After Pust fell asleep, Cotillion appeared, speculating that she was "one of Ardata's". Mogora veered into a mass of spiders and disappeared.

When Mappo recovered, Iskaral Pust joined the Trell on his quest to reunite with Icarium. On their journey, the two encountered Spite, who commented that Mappo had been healed by the Queen of Spiders. Spite offered her services in locating Icarium and the three boarded a ship and traveled the Otataral Sea. Mappo noted the presence of spiders aboard the ship and doubted Mogora was fooling anyone with her disguise. Pust swore he could smell her and searched the ship. Later, when a dozen Jade giants fell from the sky above them, it seemed to spell certain doom. Pust cried out for Mogora in a panic, demanding sex before he died. Mogora stood by watching her husband fret and wondering why she had married "that pathetic creature."

In Toll the Hounds

After a miserable, much-delayed trip that took two whole seasons, Spite's ship brought Mogora, Iskaral Pust (and his mule), Mappo Runt, Barathol Mekhar, Scillara, Chaur, and Cutter to Darujhistan. While preparing to disembark, Pust squabbled with Mogora, bragging he would use his prominence to take over the local Temple of Shadow and bed his pick of the priestesses. Mogora warned him that she foresaw he would meet his nemesis in the city before collapsing into a pile of spiders when she could stand Pust's "charms" no more.

Leaving the ship, Pust was followed into the waterfront crowds by a score of scampering bhok'arala and an unknown number of mostly unseen spiders. But when he triumphantly presented himself at the temple, High Priestess Sordiko Qualm had never heard of him. She politely invited him inside and the bhokarala somehow followed him despite the temple wards meant to keep them out. Mogora was soon revealed as another unwanted guest.

High Alchemist Baruk went to the temple to visit Sordiko Qualm and found Mogora busily tearing up a straw broom. She cast a curse on him, but Baruk forced her to retract it. The annoyed witch collapsed into a pile of spiders and disappeared.

On the last night of the Gedderone Fête, when powerful forces converged on Darujhistan, Iskaral Pust left Sordiko's bedchamber, mounted his mule, and charged out of the Temple of Shadow followed by a squall of flying bhokorala and a river of spiders. After the fall of Anomander Rake, he meant to claim Dragnipur for himself and make Shadowthrone grovel. Instead, it was Kruppe, mounted on a mule of his own in the middle of the cobbled street, who defended the sword and put himself in the way of Pust's ambition. Pust first tried to command his bhokarala to attack and, when they ignored him, Kruppe and Iskaral Pust engaged in a mounted mule charge against one another. Kruppe inadvertently punched Pust in the nose and Kruppe, Pust, Mogora (as spiders), and the Bhokarala all ended up toppling into a writhing heap upon the cobbles--a mass from which Kruppe somehow disappeared. By the time Pust resurfaced from the brawl covered in spider bites, his moment to seize the sword was gone.

Mogora was incredulous at Pust's seeming success with the High Priestess, asking if he had drugged her. She argued that ugly people like she and Pust were meant to be together and suggested they make hundreds of babies to Pust's disgust. Pust fled to the temple to pore through the Book of Shadows trying to find a provision allowing for two wives. As Pust had written the book, which was also the source of his claim to be Magus, the revision was easily made. Mogora began scheming of alliances with Sordiko Qualm.

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