Editing Deep Duerra (section)

==Duerra Herself==
Appearing as a stocky, powerful female duergar with her hair cut in a tonsure/braid combination, clad in ornate, gleaming chainmail and bearing a huge battleaxe, Duerra is bombastic, arrogant and imperious. She expects her every whim to be attended to instantly, is firmly convinced of her own inalienable right to rule, and is utterly ruthless in her pursuit of victory; no sacrifice is too great if the benefits it offers are greater still, and she has no tolerance for those who cannot live up to her standards. Constantly plotting, planning and strategizing, Duerra lives for the conquest, not the holding, and so can never be satisfied with what she already has.

Duerra has no real concern for the traditional enmity with the other [[dwarf]] races that [[Laduguer]] fosters; in her mind, the duergar's history is dust to be shaken from their boots, and more important is their glorious future. Duerra preaches that the manifest destiny of the duergar is the utter conquest of the [[Underdark]], and this is her driving goal above all else.

Duerra is characterized as being dismissive of [[wizard]]ly magic, seeing it as inferior to the powers of the mind.

===Relationships===
Despite serving under [[Laduguer]], Duerra truly hates her patron; she considers him a bitter, cantankerous, resentful old fool who squanders the future glories of her people with his inability to forget about the past. In 3rd edition, it's noted that she's grown so tired of him that she is now "a hair away" from attempting to depose him and lead the duergar as their new god.

[[Moradin]] disowned Duerra and cast her out of the [[Morndinsamman]] as soon as she ascended; Duerra, in return, couldn't give two bent coppers for any member of the dwarven pantheon.

Her bitterest enmity is with [[Ilsensine]], as Duerra has carried out a long campaign of psionic thefts from the god-brain and Duerra seeks nothing less than the extermination of the illithids.

Truth be told, none of the patron gods of the [[Underdark]] races particularly like her.