Lenthaticus

Lenthaticus was a High Mage contemporaneous with Dravis Molique, who came by accident to the Isle of Mists shortly before its magical isolation. He became a court mage in a kingdom called Shu, whose good king Althos was beleaguered by bandits and pirates and burdened by worry over his less competent son Bron. At about this time, a new advisor named Kale appeared in the court, supposedly from a distant kingdom called Allinn, and rapidly gained power as competing advisors met with convenient deaths. Lenthaticus was busy planning to build a mage school, and traveled back to Aragard Reach to collect books while Kale was seizing power. Distracted, Lenthaticus allowed Kale to beguile him as well.

Kale discovered a powerful spell that would protect the kingdom from pirates by concealing the island and destroying the pirates’ ships. He talked Lenthaticus into performing the spell, then in mid-spell struck, stealing and twisting the energy of the spell. The results were catastrophic, leading to years of chaos, famine, and suffering. Prince Bron II, Bron’s more heroic son, tried to escape to seek help from the outside world; he was never heard from again.

Shortly before arriving on the Isle of Mists, Lenthaticus had discovered a magical means of extending his life. He remained alive on the island for nearly two thousand years (by the island’s timeline) after its isolation. When encountered by Garrett von Marck’s party, he was a frail old man who had been driven mad by guilt or loneliness, living alone in a remote forest and calling himself Tuber. However, he was able to recall his magical abilities to mind and went to the Towers to help Garrett’s band escape from the islands. He was apparently slain there by Cataline while holding a gate open so that the party could flee. (But a mage of such great ability, even if somewhat senile, may have surprising means of escaping apparent death, and there is some reason to suspect that “Tuber” still survives.)