Mina

Article written by Kranar Drogin, Weldon Chen, Uziel

Mina (Mee-na) (Awakened: 404 AC) was a born of the joy of Mishakal and Paladine. She came known to mortals on Krynn when she took the form of a Human girl. When she washed up on the shores of Schallsea Isle, near the Citadel of Light, she was adopted by the great Hero of the Lance Goldmoon. During the war she rode on a blood-red horse named Foxfire. Mina was awarded the titles of Dragonslayer and Savior of the Silvanesti by the elven king Silvanoshei Caladon.

Mina used to have long dark red hair, but one day her One God told her to cut it all off because she cared too much for her looks. So following the orders of her god, Mina shaved all her hair off close to the skull. Mina also has high cheekbones, a sharp chin, large, deep-set amber-colored eyes, tall, and physically fit. Mina knew how to speak at least the Silvanesti Elven as a language.

Name	Mina
Alias	God of Tears
Birth	? PC
Death	? AC
Awakened	404 AC
Race	God
Gender	Female
Hair Color	Red
Eye Color	Amber
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Class	Cleric
Occupation	Lord of the Night / High Priestess of Chemosh
Spouse	Unknown
Children	Unknown
Siblings	Unknown

Early Life

Mina's very early life is unknown at this time due to the fact that all records and family members are thought to have been lost in a shipwreck, which caused Mina to wash up on the shores of Schallsea in 413 AC at the age of nine. A local fisherman found her lying on the beach of Schallsea and ran to get help. When the group of people arrived to get her, Mina woke briefly and she was taken to the orphans' home at the Citadel of Light.

Over the years though, Mina came to become an adopted daughter to the great Goldmoon, living a pampered and easy life in the Citadel of Light. Every night, before Mina would go to bed Goldmoon would brush her long hair. Goldmoon would tell her the stories of the old gods and how sad she was that they were gone. Mina vowed to help her mother out by finding the true gods and bringing them back to the world of Krynn for all.

Then in about 418 AC at the age of fourteen, Mina heard the call of the voice again, the first being when her ship was sinking. The voice was the one that was responsible for saving Mina from the shipwreck, and singing to her as she was sent to Schallsea. The voice told her that it was a god and to seek her out so she could come into the world of men. Eventually Mina finds this god and finds out it calls itself the 'One God', and spends the next three years learning in this god's presence before bringing word of this god back to the world.

War of Souls

In the summer of 421 AC, a great storm came to Krynn that caused much destruction. From this storm, Mina was returned to the world, arriving in Gamashinoch, which is near the Neraka Valley. There she met a patrol of Knights of Neraka then led by Galdar, following the death of Talon Leader Ernst Magit in the Great Storm. At first she was not accepted when she said she wanted to join, but she healed Galdar of his missing right arm. He quickly swore fealty to her and made her his commander, along with the rest of the troops with him. Mina then picked up Ernst Magit's fried armor and re-formed the armor to fit her body. The symbol on the breatplate became a skull sliced in two by lightning. It was also noted that she wore a silver medallion with no markings on it.

Mina admits to Galdar that she has never trained in weapon use. Galdar teaches her the use of a morning star and Shield combination, and in just two hours, Mina was able to fight with both to a good degree.

Mina then led her troop to Sanction, where she had her troops and another officer named Samuval fight the Dark Knight's own troops in turning a route into a victory. This only resulted in the Solamnic Knights being holed back up in Sanction, but the Dark Knights weren't routed for this. The Dark Knights all praised Mina and swore to follow her. She also ordered General Dogah to send his troops to Silvanesti rather than Sanction.

Silvanesti Conquest

Mina led her troops to the ancient elven nation of Silvanesti, which had the Silvanesti Shield around it to protect it. She was able to bypass the shield thanks to the One God again, and march straight to the elven capital. She was able to take over the nation with little effort and the help of the new Speaker of the Stars Silvanoshei. Mina then assists him in taking down the Silvanesti Shield and destroying the great Cyan Bloodbane who was in hiding in the nation. Mina then helped heal Silvanesti Elves that were afflicted by sickness from the Shield, and preached about her One God while doing so hoping to start converting some of the Silvanesti to the worship of the One God.

Silvanoshei gives Mina a ring that he thought would make her love him, but it happened to have been planted in his room by an agent of Morham Targonne. The ring was poisoned so that when someone would wear it, they would die within a matter of seconds. Mina knew of this trickery, and took a potion to fake her death to flush him out. Mina put the ring on, and she 'died'.

Lord of the Night Targonne was summoned to attend her funeral, which he did. At the funeral it was revealed that Targonne was the one who had her poisoned. She orders Galdar to behead the Lord of the Night, and she took the title, assuming complete authority over the Dark Knights.

Confrontation with Khellendros

Following her victory, she briefly visits with the great Blue Dragon Overlord Khellendros at his lair. She offers him to join with her in the conquest of the world, but he refuses breathing his lightning breath weapon on her. She turns his lightning back on him and mortally wounds him. She leaves him for Malystryx to come and finish off so she could return to her conquest of Ansalon.

Attack on Solanthus

Mina led her Army of the Dead on an attack on the great-fortified city of Solanthus next. She confused the Solamnics based there, fore when they charged out of the city to attack this ghost army, her army dropped into the city on dragonback, taking the city from them while sending the Solamnics on their way after locking the city to them.

Tower of Nightlund

Mina traveled to the Tower of Nightlund to confront the worlds two greatest wizards, Dalamar Argent and Palin Majere. She finds them in the Chamber of Seeing and kills both of them when she threw a spear made of magic at each of them. She then raises them back up from the dead by animating their bodies and attaching their souls to that body. Orders them into the wagon with the encased body of Goldmoon.

Confrontation with Lord Soth

Mina goes to the dreaded Dargaard Keep in Nightlund to ask the Death Knight Lord Loren Soth if he would be willing to join with her and lead her undead armies. Lord Soth declines, stating that Takhisis had left him alone for too long and he is at peace. Mina even tried to charm the Death Knight, but to no avail. In anger, Lord Soth was destroyed by the power of Takhisis.

Siege of Sanction

Mina arrived outside of Sanction before the Festival of the Eye. She calls up her Army of the Dead again to destroy the defenders, and she marches her army in triumphantly, lifting the Siege of Sanction. Eventually word spread that the city had fallen, and everyone on Ansalon heard of this very quickly and armies began to march on the city.

Mina then stole Skie's, Beryl's, and Malys' Skull Totem from their lands, bringing all the skulls back to Sanction and erecting the skulls into one huge totem there. Malys was very angry with this and declared that she would destroy Mina and the entire city. When word arrived of the great red Malystryx was on her way to Sanction to attack, Mina decided to ride on a bone dragon to battle the red. Galdar wanted to go with, but Mina would not allow him to ride with her. Instead he had to find his own dragon to ride with her, which he did in Marshal Alexius Medan's former mount Razor.

Together Galdar and Mina flew out from Sanction to meet Malys in battle, Mina knew this was her time to show the One God how much she loved the god. During the ensuing battle, Malys struck down Mina and Galdar called to Takhisis to save Mina for all the work she had done for the god. Takhisis then joined with the bone dragon to continue the attack on the large red. Together with her god, Mina was able to kill the large red, but was buried under the weight of the oversized dragon upon crashing to the ground. Galdar dug Mina out from under Malys' body and was able to nurse her back to health.

Dark Queen's Return

Mina had the Temple of Duerghast refurbished to hold a grand ceremony for the return of Takhisis to the world. She had to speed up her ceremony and had to have it the day she heard that the Silver Dragons and Gold Dragons were freed. Those dragons were speeding towards Sanction to stop this ceremony, bearing Solamnics and elves on their backs. While the Battle of Sanction took place around the city, Takhisis held court of all the major leaders of Ansalon to gloat in her return to Krynn. In her highest moment though, Paladine took the greatest sacrifice that could be asked of a god, to give up his godhood. Takhisis didn't know this until a council of the gods arrived, and Silvanoshei killed Mina's beloved god with a broken Dragonlance. Mina then in turn takes Takhisis' sword and kills Silvanoshei with it. Mina vowed to Paladine, now Valthonis that she will kill many elves to pay for the death of her goddess. She then leaves with the body and Galdar went with her.

Post War of Souls

Following the war in 422 AC, Mina went and buried Takhisis in a concealed tomb. Galdar arrived after praying to Sargas to allow him to find her and assist her. For this, he had to agree to assist Sargas in the conquest of Silvanesti, which Galdar did quickly. While there, a new god came to her named Chemosh, asking her to join with him. Mina at first tried killing herself with Galdar's knife, but Chemosh melted it. Chemosh touched Mina and she felt desire for the first time. Takhisis had suppressed this emotion from her before. Mina quickly agreed to serve this new god in exchange for power over life and death and for his love. Mina also realized that she was grateful that Silvanoshei killed the Dark Queen, and for this personal shame, she killed the elf king.

Her first task assigned to her was to get a Death Knight named Ausric Krell back to Chemosh from the Sea Witch. She then sailed off to Storm's Keep where he was holed up, using her experience as a sailor to get there. At first Krell didn't believe she was there at the behalf of Chemosh and tried to kill her. Mina ended up defeating him by using an iron crowbar to knock his helm off. She brings this helm back to Chemosh and he received his Death Knight back.

For this, Chemosh branded her his High Priestess by kissing her over her heart and leaving the imprint of lips on her flesh. He tells her to go forth and bring followers to him. Her first known victim was a human named Lleu Mason, brother to Rhys Mason. She got him to commit to serving Chemosh, kissed him over the heart, and changed him into a Beloved of Chemosh. Told him to continue converting people over to Chemosh.

While Chemosh and Mina were down in the Blood Sea of Istar swimming, Mina apparently drowns, but in reality the Wizards caught her in the Tower of the Blood Sea. Chemosh was tricked into thinking she was dead and leaves her in the tower with the illusion of her body back to his home. She was last known to be alive and well in the Tower, a prisoner of the wizards and Nuitari.

Inconsistencies

It is said she is very slight in build, thin, childlike, with a small crown of red hair, and is very short according to a minotaur.

References

Citadel of Light, p.
Amber and Ashes, p. 3-10, 15, 19-22, 24, 27, 30, 32, 40, 50, 54, 57, 59, 64, 67, 76, 81, 90, 101-102, 144, 251, 303, 312
Dragons of a Fallen Sun (HC), p. 12-13, 17-19, 89, 91, 93, 95, 218, 325, 327, 491, 533
Dragons of a Lost Star, p. 3-6, 68-70, 72, 78, 91, 97, 100, 106, 108, 109, 114, 121, 127, 142, 145, 247, 263, 329, 452-453
Dragons of a Vanished Moon (HC), p. 4-9, 13-15, 24, 32, 35-37, 62-63, 71, 118-119, 150, 226, 228, 236, 239, 248-249, 285, 289, 304, 328, 339, 346, 357, 363, 367-368, 391, 468, 473, 499-501, 506-507
Empire of Blood, p. 32

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