Xanesha

Xanesha was a lamia matriarch who led the Skinsaw Cult. She appears as a beautiful woman above the waist and a snake below (lamias are descendants of clerics who brought shame on their god and were cursed with the lower halves of beasts).

Little is known about her purpose, however it appears that someone sent Xanesha to Magnimar to harvest the souls of the greedy using the Sihedron ritual. When she arrived in Magnimar, she infiltrated the already existing Skinsaw Cult (which operated a front as a respectable secret society called the Brothers of the Seven) and seduced several members, including Justice Ironbriar and Aldern Foxglove. With the cult now doing her bidding, dozens of known victims were murdered.

Xanesha met her end at the hands of the Drunkards, a party of adventurers who traces murders in Sandpoint back to the Skinsaw Cult via Aldern Foxglove.

Xanesha apparently had a sister, Lucrecia, who is also involved in sacrificing (although Lucrecia mocks Xanesha's quantity-over-quality approach).