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Matriarch Raszagal is leader of the Dark Templar people in the fictional StarCraft universe. She rules from her citadel on Shakuras, the nearly lightless homeworld of the Dark Templar.

At 1,045 years of age, she is one of the oldest living Protoss, and the oldest of the Dark Templar. She is the only one old enough to clearly remember Aiur from before their exile.

Raszagal is the first (and only) female Protoss portrayed by Blizzard Entertainment. Unlike other Dark Templar, she appears to have long psionic appendages. Perhaps it is only necessary to remove the tips of these appendages to sever the link to the Khala.

A powerful psychic, with one of the most powerful minds in the galaxy, she has led the Dark Templar Tribes for nearly 500 years. But as she aged, her control over her powers began to slip.

Due to this loss of control she became vulnerable to the mechanations of Infested Kerrigan. Kerrigan made Raszagal her slave before or early in Episode IV.

Welcome to Darkness

By the time Zeratul returned to Shakuras, many decades after he had left on missions, bringing the Khalai refugees with him, Raszagal was already under Kerrigan's influence.

She was willing to forgive the Protoss of Aiur for exiling the Dark Templar, as the agency that enforced that act, the Protoss Conclave, had been destroyed. She was even willing to make peace with Aldaris, a former member of the Conclave.

The Zerg had followed the Protoss to Shakuras, and Raszagal told her now-expanded military of a potential solution: the Xel'Naga Temple. Its powers enable it to destroy the Zerg. Unfortunately, the temple needs the Uraj and Khalis crystals to be activated. Her first request was to destroy the Zerg Cerebrates which had nestled against the Xel'Naga Temple. The Protoss forces were up to the task, slaying both Cerebrates with Dark Templar energies.

Strange Alliances

Infested Kerrigan appeared to the Protoss military leaders, Artanis, Aldaris and Zeratul, asking for a meeting with Raszagal. The Protoss were even more surprised when Raszagal said she was willing to host a meeting.

Kerrigan explained that, with the death of the Zerg Overmind, she was no longer under its control. Mentally, she was back to normal. Unfortunately there was a new Overmind growing on Char, and when it reached maturity, it would take control of her. Zeratul told her he was more concerned with protecting Shakuras than destroying a new Overmind.

While Artanis and Zeratul were grudgingly willing to work with Kerrigan, Aldaris stormed out of the meeting.

The Zerg had been dealt a harsh blow, but they were still spreading over Shakuras, and there were not enough Protoss to defeat them. Believing the Uraj to be on the world Braxis, she ordered her warriors to retrieve it, "and let nothing stop you from recovering it."

Betrayal

The Protoss recovered the Uraj and Khalis with help from Infested Kerrigan, but returned to find Shakuras in a state of uproar. The Judicator, Aldaris, had taken control of the Judicator and Templar refugees, and led them in an attack against Raszagal herself.

Raszagal claimed they were being driven by their old prejudices, and ordered Zeratul and Artanis to terminate Aldaris. She would tolerate no dissent while the Zerg were poised to strike.

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