Role

Chapter 8

- Phindarn was the product (and son) of a Thar-Acacian mage's illegal
experiment to replicate the original anti magic warriors from information
retrieved from the ancient lab of the order magi beneath the slave mines of
Sitran. She failed utterly in this, though she did produce some odd
abnormalities in our intrepid villain.

- Phindarn is terrible at almost all magic. Invocation? Right out.
Transmutation? Not a chance. Conjuration? Noone wants to see that. He is
fairly adept at more negatively inclined magic, but one of the results of
his mother's experiments on him is he is hopeless at finesce work. Throwing
disease and such around, sure. Animating a corpse or the complexities of
the becoming? Not on his best day. As a result of this he is quite abnormal
for a drow in that he does not have a superiority complex at all, at least
starting out!

- As a result of this, Phindarn intended on joining the Thar-Acacian guard.
He'd always enjoyed fighting for some reason (more on this below), and
figured since he couldn't be a proper mage he'd do that instead. His mother
however was having none of that peasantry and got him an apprenticeship
with an old artificer instead, something Phindarn actually found he loved.
He's facinated in the creation of magical items of all kinds and this is a
genuine passion of his.

- Phindarn's artificing mentor abruptly died some months later. Someone
teleported in with the plague and infected the locals (as you do), and the
Veil was so thick that the transmuters couldn't save him. There are no
traditional healers in Thar-Acacia, so with the Veil being thick nothing
could be done.

- Phindarn began to wonder if it was possible to make something which could
not only thin the veil, but actually destroy it. This is his ultimate goal.

- He begins diving into research of magical weapons, looking for any hint
of things that can cut the immaterial. He comes across a discussion of AP
(a terribly brutish and unrefined practice, yes indeed), and it resonates
with him both because of the demonstrated capability to cut something
nonphysical (souls) and because it actually is something he thinks he could
do, not being finesce work and still being negatively inclined. Plus, he
even gets to hit things. Win win win, a good start.

- Phindarn gets much more excited about the big exciting ideas than the
small and likely sensible ones. Instead of staying in Thar-Acacia to do
more research with their vast reserves of knowledge and people who know
what they're doing, he decides he must leave to study to be an anti paladin
(since it isn't something taught in Thar-Acacia, pure mages only!)

- As a result of the experiments performed on him, Phindarn has certain
vague attributes that the order mages might have wanted in the original
antimagic army, but his mother got it all wrong so he only has the mental
benefits. This psychosis broadly consists of: