Zuzanna was a female spider mage spoken of in legend of the Moon Festival said to have resided in the Shadow Forest. Her exact species is unknown.
Biography[]
The mage of the Shadow Forest, Zuzanna was sought out by Vilis, who begged for her replenish his strength in flight, offering to give anything in exchange. Demanding that two of the three moons that currently lit the night sky be removed, as their glow was too bright for her, Zuzanna offered eternal youth and power as a prize, reassuring Vilis when he complained about how such a demand was one he could never carry out that she had concocted an elixir that would undo the restrictions of age. Zuzanna, however, warned her visitor that he alone was to take the potion and instructed him only to take ten drops to gain the strength of a thousand owls combined. Once the deed was done, Zuzanna made good on her promise and, with the instruction of taking a single drop per years, the mystic spider gave Vilis more of her elixir of youth.
After the folly of Ilona, Zuzanna was against sought out by Vilis, who told him that his mate had, in an act provoked by Ilona's desire to join her beloved in the prime of life and shed her feeble and elderly body, had consumed enough drops of elixir to send her to the moon, where she had been stranded, a fate Zuzanna decreed was punishment. Zuzanna, however, felt a stab of pity as Vilis grieved tearfully for his love, and amended her proclamation so that Vilis might visit the moon every year to reunite with his beloved.