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PCs:Damar Ogdem

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=Basic Information=
[[Image:DamarPortrait2.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Portrait of '''Damar Ogdem''' by [[PCs:Ayren_Milen|Ayren Tochi'larian]]]]
'''Current Age:''' Old 
'''Appearance:''' Middle-Aged 
'''Race:''' Human 
'''Gender:''' Male 
'''Class:''' Wizard 
'''Residence:''' [[Mikona]], [[Visimontium]] 
'''Affiliations and Titles:'''
* Member Magus, [[Guild:GoldOrder|Gold Order of the Sand]]
* Lecturer: Post-Andrinor's Ascension History, [[Arcane#Academy_of_Mortal_Magic|Academy of Mortal Magic]] 
'''Former Affiliations and Titles'''
* Great Magus of Internal Affairs, [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony Order of the Moon]]
* Great Magus of Relations, [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony Order of the Moon]]
* Archmagus, [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony Order of the Moon]]
* Four of Seven, Coven of Seven
* Archmagus, [[Guild:GoldOrder|Gold Order of the Sand]]
* Moderator of the [[Arcane#The_High_Mage_Council|High Mage Council]], High Mage Council Representative on the [[Visimontium]] City Council 
'''Research Interests''' 
* Necromancy & Enchantment, Negative Energy Manipulation In Golem Creation
* Conjuration, Teleportation
* Evocation, Contingency Development
* Archeology, Arcane Relics 

=Select History=
==Early Life==
===Childhood===
Damar was born during the fall of 2044, the second child of the [[M'Chek|M'Chekian]] Daram Ogdem and his wife Cynia, the first being his older brother Baran five years Damar's senior. For the first years of his life, Damar lived on his Father's farm, not far from the city of [[Mikona]]. In his small communal school, Damar proved to be a precocious student, showing a quick wit and a keen intellect, but above all a thirst for knowledge. Unfortunetly for him, there was only so much to be learned in a small farm community.

The highlight of his childhood were the trips taken with his brother, and sometimes father, to sell goods in Mikona. The Rush of activity, the new sights and smells, so much different than his home gave him a glimpse of a larger world, a world with countless secrets to discover.

===Introduction to the Art===
On one such trip during the summer of Damar's 10th year he and his brother came across a group of other children crowded around an ancient man robed in grey. As Damar approached, the man shot his arms up, a multicolored light bursting into the sky. Damar leapt back in fright, only to soon notice the other children had not done the same, but were hopping up and down, cheering the man. Damar slipped in closer to the group, the childrens' ease granting him courage. The robed man, whose name
was said to be Lydon, continued with his illusions. As the other children looked on in amusement, Damar looked at what would become his future, magic. For the remainder of that summer any time he visited Mikona, Damar would break off from his father or brother to look for Lydon's show, which more often than not was in progress. The answer "magic" was a satisfying enough answer to most of the
children's questions, but not for Damar. He insisted on knowing how and why. He spent hours watching Lydon, at home it was all he spoke of. Some days he was even able to convince his brother Baran to take him to Mikona at the break of dawn, returning at nightfall to a furious father. The first week of fall, Damar was in Mikona with his brother, but found no Lydon. For the next eight months trip after trip, he was not to be found. Damar even prefered now to stay at home rather than venture south. It was not until the next summer that he once again found Lydon, with another group of children. Lydon explained that for most of the year, he was in [[Andarr]] of [[The Seven Cities|the seven cities]]. This summer the young boy even took it upon himself to invite Lydon to his home.

When Damar was 14 the Ogdem farm began suffering from the withering of crops and dryland sickness that most of the nation was now subject to. In effort to help the family's economic situation, Baran decided to join the M'chek army in their fight against the [[Elf|elves]] of [[T'Nanshi]]. Damar's own solution was to leave M'Chek for Andarr, where he Lydon had agreed to apprentice him.

===Apprenticeship in Andarr===
What Damar felt when first arriving in Mikona was multiplied tenfold when first entering the city of Andarr. This time however, he had a focus, his apprenticeship to Lydon. Immediately Lydon brought his apprentice to his humble home. Books covered much of the floor, covered with the thickest layers of dust. A pet raven caughed from the corner at their arrival.

Damar's first task was to clean up his new home. Lydon would only permit Damar to leave on errands for him. The transformation from jovial magician in Mikona to strict old wizard in Andarr was jarring, and Damar could not be sure which was the true Lydon. Damar however took everything in stride, now so close to learning the secrets behind Lydon's magic.

During the first months of tedious chores, he often thought of his home, his parents. It was only in the last month before summer that Damar was given his first elementary lesson in true magic. In the summer, Lydon and Damar returned to M'Chek. Lydon never answered Damar's question as to what Lydon's business was in Mikona every year. Damar returned to his family and to his amazement saw the farm was more productive than it had ever been. Damar's father could not explain how their luck had changed. His father wanted to know if he would come back to them. Damar refused, and giving his family what gold Lydon had paid him, he left. Damar returned to Lydon, requesting they return to Andarr so that he could immediately continue his studies. To Damar's surprise, Lydon accepted.

Damar studied under Lydon for the next few years: languages, geography, and finally the art. Damar's mind became solely focused on the magic. He no longer thought about his past or his family this time, he had but one goal, comprehension of the arcane.

===Stranger in the Night===
Finally the day came when Damar cast his first cantrip, a simple spell of light, cast on Lydon's raven who did not appreciate it. It was no grand magic, but for that moment Damar felt like a grand wizard. That same night as Damar was reading about ganooms by the fire, a loud knock sounded from the door. Lydon answered the door himself. A hooded man in dark robes entered the house. Lydon and his guest moved upstairs. What was strange was that in all his time in Andarr, Lydon never had any type of guest. Damar attempted to eavesdrop on the conversation to no avail. Damar returned to his reading spot. A few minutes later, he heard their voices rise, shouting at eachother. The ceiling began to shake, as Damar ran to the stairs he identified the chants of spellcasting. Lydon's body tumbled down the stairs rolling into his apprentice. Recovering from the fall, Damar looked down at a broken body, smokes rising from it's chest. Damar looked up the stairs frozen, and the hooded man came down, offering him a slight nod as he walked out the door.

While Lydon had meant much to Damar, investigations by the law would only hinder Damar's quest for knowledge and so the body was disposed of. With what gold Lydon kept in the house, Damar was able to live on his own for a time. Now there were no limits to what he could and could not read, what knowledge could be absorbed. For one brief moment it occurred to Damar that it may be proper for him to return to his parents. This notion was dismissed as Damar found Lydon's private collection.

===Return Home===
Even with such knowledge at his fingertips, no matter the dedication, there is only so much time a young man can endure cooped up in a house reading. Damar returned to M'Chek, now in his early twenties. In the end he had decided to visit his family. Arriving at the farm late in the evening, he entered his former home to find the corpses of his parents and two young children. It was then Damar realized how long he had been gone, he had two more siblings without even knowing it. In his search for answers, neighbors revealed that recently there was much more bandit activity, with raiders behaving more brave than usual. He also learned that his brother was missing in action, his body not found after a skirmish with elven soldiers at the village of [The_Village_of_Blandenberg|Blandenberg].

The evident question, at least regarding his parents and sisters, was had he been there could he have stopped it? Most likely not he concluded. Settling affairs on the farm, Damar traveled south back to Mikona, a familiar raven flying over him.

==Magus==
===Adventuring Career===
Arriving in Mikona, Damar made his way to the City Gate Inn. Here as fortune would have it, he encountered a group of three older men. Joining the conversation, Damar learned all three were wizards. [[PCs:Peregryne Twostep|Peregryne Twostep]] who for the next few years Damar would look to as omnipotent, [[NPCs:Melonius Mennallin|Melonius Mennallin]], and [[PCs:Talman Grumb|Talman Grumb]]. Watching and listening to these three men only confirmed to Damar that his quest for arcane knowledge was a valid one.

Damar began his career of adventure, first exploring the Mikona crypts alongside Talman and Talman's bear Octavius. He met many others who would move on to accomplish great deeds, and was dragged off to many dangerous places where it was a miracle he survived. Throughout these days he had three close companions, each very different from the other. One was the monk [[PCs:Tren Ster|Tren Ster]], it was with him Damar shared the most of his early adventures. The Second was the [[cleric]] of [[Gorethar]] [[PCs:Jorio Alerian|Jorio Alerian]], who would one day become a High Priest. Third was the elven [[Sorcerer|sorceress]] [[PCs:Elrandra Glyndorr|Elrandra Glyndorr]].

===Fenius & The Bandit Queen===
Facing all of these trials, Damar found many opportunities to apply his studies. His skill with the art began to grow as the difficulty of his challenges became greater. One afternoon Damar stood by the entrance to one such challenge, [[The Hills of Tumult]]. Here he awaited the arrival of Tren as together they had planned to pick a fight with some giants. Waiting there alone he heard the sounds of battle and rushed into the hills for a closer look. It was there he heard the crackle of evoked lightning and smelt sizzling flesh as he came to a lone man surrounded by a pile of burnt giant corpses. The sorcerer, who would reveal his name as Fenius, told Damar he had destroyed the giants out of revenge for having previously been embarrassed by them. This show of arcane power was the most impressive Damar had seen up to this point in his life. The two spoke for a time until Fenius left as Tren arrived.

Not long after his encounter with Fenius, Damar was shopping for supplies in the Marketplace of Mikona when an excited Tren came to him, going on about an expedition to defeat a "witch". Soon many were gathered in the Rompin Romini Inn as a [[dwarf]] told them of the Bandit Queen Hugar and her approximate location. Of most interest to Damar, was the dwarf's mentioned Fenius as a companion to this [[NPCs:Hugar|Hugar]]. Narin Grans, a kindly priest, was on a quest to cure lycanthropy, and was in need of a tome in Hugar's possession. Against the protests of some of the gathered adventurers who included [[PCs:Mari Briggs|Mari Briggs]] and Anspach, Narin wished to meet with Hugar and bargain for the tome peacefully. Nonetheless many joined Narin on his trip, including Damar who wanted to learn if there was truth behind the talk of Fenius being involved.

Traveling north at great speed, the large group found Hugar quickly. Narin wished to meet Hugar alone, but most objected, and so Narin was to take a few bodyguards. Among them were Tren and Talman. As many suspected, Hugar had no desire for negotiating for the tome, and attacked Narin and his guards. Soon the battle was joined with the party of adventurers in it's entirety fighting Hugar, Fenius, and a coal dragon. During the fight Damar did his best not to target Fenius, and in the end Hugar and the dragon lie slain. Fenius had managed to escape, and later Damar joined a smaller force who wished to hunt him down. Fenius was able to dispatch most of the group, but left Damar unharmed. Damar could not find any moral compulsion to force him into a fight with the sorcerer.

==The Vortex of Chaos==
===Fateful Encounters===
Some months later, word spread of powerful mages momentarily losing their power. Melonius was one example, while another was a great dragon whose lair was in the [[The Lost River Caverns|Lost River Cavern]]. This marked the beginning of what would lead into the [[Vortex of Chaos]] Saga. It was one day, not long after these oddities began to occur, that Damar was once again near the Hills of Tumult when a magical gate opened and a dark robed mage appeared. The mage, [[NPCs:Cyprian|Cyprian]], spoke of events to come and of an order which was being founded, an [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony Order]]. As the man spoke of his Order Damar became intrigued. Perhaps he would find others to work with, those who valued knowledge as much as he. Damar left the outskirts of the Hills thoughtful.

Taking the path from the east to Mikona, Damar was almost at the city gates when before him in the middle of the road another magical gate manifested. Before him stood a dark skinned man in simple black clothes, with horns protruding from his head. A fiendish trait. Damar asked the stranger who he was and the stranger responded that Damar knew exactly who he was. It was [[Andrinor]], the God of Mortal Magic. Damar simply knew. Andrinor told him that he wanted Damar to become the leader of this new Ebony Order and should he, that he would gain Andrinor's favor. However, should he reveal this conversation to anyone...and as the God trailed off he summoned flaming debris, a meteor storm which left the surrounding area aflame. Andrinor's avatar disappeared as quickly as it had arrived (Note: it is only with this writing that the mention of this meeting has now been permitted).

===The Ebony Order===
Only a few days after those encounters the first meeting of the Ebony Order took place. Here Damar and Fenius were two of the founding members and were joined by three other younger mages along with older mages who had been accompanying Cyprian for years.

Aside from Cyprian, Damar was the only one who wore his robes in public, allowing others to know of his allegiance to the Ebony Order. He was also the Order's only mouthpiece. In time he was joined by [[PCs:Vanyankaya Del'Trion|Vanyankaya Del'Trion]], his first recruit for the Order and the first after its founding. Damar continued to work for the Order, staying active in developments regarding the Vortex of Chaos, and also recruitment. For his dedication, Cyprian made him the Order's first Great Mage of Internal Affairs. Not long after that, he switched positions with the first Great Mage of Relations, Seven, who preferred not to speak in public, nor reveal her identity as an Ebony mage.

===Sereg'wethrin en Edan===
Not all of Damar's dealings during this period revolved around the Vortex. He defended [[Equaloria keep]] and other locations from [[Elf,Sereg|sereg'wethrin]]. Standing high on the ledge surrounding Equaloria, Damar was firing off his magic into groups of sereg'wethrin, while the warriors below engaged the dark elves in melee. Upon the ledge also stood Melonius Mennallin, then Archmage of the [[Guild:IvoryOrder|Ivory Order]], alongside [[PCs:Mari Briggs|Mari Briggs]], and another member mage of the Ivory. This other mage, introduced himself as [[PCs:Aramil Fynn|Aramil Fynn]] and joined Damar in his spell flinging. As the two rained death upon the small sereg'wethrin army, Melonius kept remarking with a sneer, as so many old men who know better do, about waiting for the right time and how they must conserve their magic. Aramil and Damar continued, in the end sharing a grin as both noticed Melonius had never flung a single spell. Aramil and Damar would one day clash, in the closing events of the chase for the Vortex of Chaos.

Eventually the campaign of the sereg'wethrin ended with a massive assault on Mikona. Damar was among those who defended the city, then moving north to aid another army of defenders fending off a secondary force. For their actions, Cyprian rewarded both Damar and Vanyankaya with amulets of Ebony Obedience.

===The Coven===
As an Ebony mage, Damar also became involved with another organization. One day while passing through the Mikona Crypt, he was assaulted by a powerful vampiric creature. Upon defeating it, a mysterious woman appeared and called the fight a test to see if he was worthy. The woman told of a powerful group being formed, to which Damar replied that he had enough masters already. Days later he encountered the woman [[NPCs:Lanessa|Lanessa]] again and she announced that the leadership of this organization had accepted him as another co-leader. Damar found that two people he had fought beside on many occasions were this group's leadership, joined by Lanessa.

As time passed Damar saw that their group was possessed great strength, but it lacked a true focus, a goal. Power must be used for something. Lanessa presented a goal. She spoke of an old relic, a tome containing great summoning magics. From that point on that book, the Necronomicon, was their focus. Lanessa, a "vampyre", (powerful vampires seemingly immune to daylight) revealed the one who held the tome, an enemy from her past known as Nastassiou, a supposedly hybrid Demon-Vampyre. In the end, many contributed to the demon's defeat. But it was this group Damar was part of which left with the tome. Or more specifically, Lanessa left with it. From Nastassiou's remains, Lanessa crafted several magical rings, known as Nastassiou's knuckles. Damar received one.

===Mortality===
Between the business involved with his and his allies' "Legion", his Ebony duties, and tracking the Vortex, Damar had become an accomplished wizard. But as his power had grown, and more secrets were unraveled, Damar was confronted by the realization many magi and persons of power eventually come to. He was mortal, he could not practice the art forever. Earlier in his career he had become interested in the concept of immortality, the opportunity to practice the art for eternity. His first knowledge of one possible method had come with the talk of the lich [[NPCs:Sorvanok|Sorvanok]], residing deep below the city of Mikona. Damar had previously been involved on several small quests to learn of a method do defeat the lich alongside heroes such as [[PCs:Timo_Karr|Timo Karr]], [[PCs:Kima_Karr|Kima Karr]], and [[PCs:Hargas_Steelhead|Hargas Steelhead]], and so was aware of certain details concerning the lich, such as the exact location of its home. He entered the domain of the lich with the hope that he would learn more of lichdom. This was a mistake. Damar barely escaped the ill humored Sorvanok with his life. Nevertheless, Damar continued focusing in the necromantic arts, to discover the secrets of lichdom on his own. While he would continue the study of necromancy for many years to come, his reasons would change as he learned of another method leading to immortality.

While studying in the Great Library of Mikona, Damar met a plump old half-elf named Jestan, whose eyes seemed to betray an age even older than his face revealed. The two spoke of several subjects, and being suspicious of the half-elf, eventually the conversation came to extended life, immortality. He explained to Damar that there are those who serve their God so well that they are granted a true immortality, not the farce that is lichhood. He told Damar that he himself was one such immortal. This route interested Damar greatly. Of course such a feat was no simple undertaking, but in theory time spent serving a higher being would be acceptable, providing over an endless amount of years ample time to continue one's own personal studies.

It was also during this period of time that Damar took on his first apprentice, a mage called Vladmir Hurst, in an effort to pass down what he had learned.

===The End of the Vortex of Chaos===
Two more events of importance involving Jestan and Sorvanok would occur before the Saga of the Vortex came to its end. The first came when Damar was certain the Vortex would soon fall into his hands. Not wishing to take any chances however, he struck a deal with the Immortal's Deity. In exchange for the power of the Vortex of Chaos, Damar swore loyalty to this Deity.

The second came when Damar was exploring the Mikona [[Underdark]] for a rumored second entrance. Sorvanok apparently was aware of the intrusion, which triggered one of many undead attacks on the city, headed by the lich's powerful balor. The balor announced Damar as the intruder, and shortly after Damar was banished from the city despite his many previous services to it.

The next day Damar was found in the city by the great demon. They fought but the fiend seemed invulnerable. The pain inflicted on Damar that day was something he would never forget. Shortly after the experience, Damar again defended the city from another threat and was acquitted of the charges and welcomed back into the city.

The Vortex did end up in Damar's hands for a time, before he was advised to pass it to Cyprian. As is recounted in the [[Academy of Mortal Magic]]'s History of Mortal Magic volumes, Damar unleashed the power of the Vortex of Chaos, killing Cyprian. Andrinor than appeared before all those gathered above the Lost River Cavern and announced the creation of Andrinor's Trust and set the members of his first three Orders of magic to creating a council and an academy of the art. Damar asked Andrinor why he had created the Vortex of Chaos. The god famously replied that gods do things for only two reasons, to gain power and for amusement, and in this case it was both.

With Cyprian dead and the Vortex of Chaos no more, Damar had his Order's support in becoming its second Archmage. Meeting with Jestan, Damar was not pleased with the turn of events which had required Cyprian's death, and the fact that when the dust had settled, he did not have exactly what was promised, his deal having been very specific. Jestan pointed out that he may not have received everything he wanted, but he was Archmage. Damar agreed on that point and continued to "serve" the Deity, preferring to deal with the immortal rather than fellow followers. Damar knew however that the contract had not been lived up to, and he was not held to this union. In the meantime he figured there may be something to gain from it. In the aspects of religion after all, Damar was most mercenary. He saw Deities as potential employers, and this one seemed to have made the highest offer at the time.

==Archmage of Ebony==
===Andrinor's Trust===
The Ebony was not the only Order to have a change of leadership. In the weeks after Damar became the Archmage of the Ebony, Elrandra was named the second Archmage of the [[Guild:AshenOrder|Ashen Order of the Stars]], replacing the missing Belaluldor, and Talman became the second Archmage of the Ivory Order of the Sun, successor to Melonius who left the Order. During this time the High Mage Council of Avlis was created, with Damar among its founding members.

===Departure from the Coven===
As Damar adjusted to his new leadership role, the Legion he was a part of was not doing well. Again with no goal, all the strength in the world meant nothing. Lanessa shortly thereafter betrayed the Legion she had founded. She turned to a Deity from her own world with no power here, the one known as Vecna. Lanessa left Avlis with the necronomicon in her posession, leaving her associates without their prize. After this a god expressed his will that those who worshipped him were to leave this Legion. It is possible more than one Deity made this demand, but the one of importance here is the same god Damar at the time was serving. Damar, never seeing himself as a true "worshipper", and believing the Legion may still hold potential, for the first time in his life sought spiritual guidance. He prayed. Later that night he had a dream.

He stood in a temple, surrounded by hundreds of people wearing the colors of his God. They danced around what he saw to be the body of Lanessa, impaled on a wooden pike, celebrating the death. Then the dream changed from a usual dream of images into a fast moving stream of consciousness and concept transfer. Damar realized this was how Gods communicated among themselves. He sensed an object of a certain shape and size, an object he knew represented the Legion. He then sensed another object, one he felt was fueled by the loyalists of his Deity. When comparing the two, it was clear the second was larger, continuing to grow. Meanwhile the first went on to exist, totally independent of the second, no connection between the two apparent. Damar left the Legion, as did others among its leadership. It lingered on for a short while after.

===Sinister Deeds===
At this time, the Ebony Order began to expand under Damar's command. It was also during this period that a great many of the rumours involving Damar Ogdem and various sinister dealings and deeds take place. While many still remain only known to him and others involved, one of particular note is the massacre of [[Le'Or T'Nanshi]].

Several Ebony Order mages had recently been attacked without provocation by members of the T'Nanshi army. In response to this, Damar and two other powerful Ebony mages entered the garrison of Le'Or T'Nanshi and slayed dozens of soldiers. As they made their escape some brave (or foolish) citizens attempted to strike back at the mages. They died. From this attack many rumours spread, incredulous numbers were repeated. Some said thousands died, others that the city was under siege, districts destroyed. False accounts, but such events do have effect on a man's reputation. Soon the [[Council of Nine]] declared that the entirety of the Ebony Order of the Moon was banished from T'Nanshi.

Damar and other Ebony magi continued to enter T'Nanshi when business deemed it necessary. Damar went so far as to occasionally join M'Chek soldiers in the borderlands, shifting loss to victory. While officially they were to treat such combatants as bandits, no soldier ever refused his aid. These stints in the warzone however did not come often, and Damar usually had his hands full in M'Chek.

For some time before this and for some years after, Damar would occasionally make his way to the island of Hala in the plane of Ysgard. There he became allies with a lich known as Shagarath. He aided the lich in certain endeavors and in one of his later visits helped transform Shagarath into a more powerful demilich. Years later, it is said Shagarath ascended to godhood, though he is not known to have influence on Avlis.

With the appearance in Negaria of the Ravager, also known as the "[[NPCs:Gentleman|Gentleman]]", Damar saw a possible opportunity. Their first meeting however did not go well, with the tainted spirit assaulting him. There is little one could do with a powerful being bent on world destruction he reasoned. Damar in the end was among those who joined together to reseal the Ravager, Damar getting his revenge. He would soon have another more satisfying revenge. One against two beings who had wronged him years ago.

===Fall of Sorvanok===
In Mikona, Sorvanok's growing cult began conducting attacks on the city. It was discovered Sorvanok had become a demilich, and was on the verge of becoming a God of Undeath. The night before his fall, he sent his minions up to assault the city. Damar alongside many adventurers moved through the Mikona, dispatching the demilich's forces. Eventually they came to the North road and Sorvanok's mighty balor. The fight began, with more than a dozen warriors and priests surrounding the demon. But as time passed on, it continued to hold its own, even against Damar's onslaught of spells. Soon he had exhausted all of his offensive magicks, and the Balor still appeared to be in perfect condition while was tilting the melee into his favor. Damar searched through his bags for anything that may turn the tide. He found a single scroll. As the battle continued in front of him, he recited the parchment's inscriptions. The scroll disintegrating, Damar stretched out his arm, pointing his index finger at the demon. This last effort proved to be enough, the spell destroying the demon.

After the battle, Damar was approached by the [[Equalizer]] of [[Mikon]] [[PCs:Agatha Dane|Agatha Dane]]. Agatha wanted Damar to join her for a special meeting. The next day Agatha, Damar, and Jorio Alerian of the [[Guild:Order of Gorethar|Order of Gorethar]] entered the Great Library to speak with the wizard sage Meliorn. It was Meliorn who revealed the secret door in Sorvanok's throne room leading to the small temple housing his soul jar. Later, Damar joined the assembled heroes for the final operation against Sorvanok, which lead to the demilich's destruction. For his part in the campaign against the demilich, Damar was awarded an Amulet of Balance, marking him as a hero of Mikona.

===Artifacts of Najera===
It would not be long until Damar learned of the powerful Artifacts of Najera. While the other Orders learned of the artifacts on their own, Damar and the Ebony would not come into conflict with them as it was the returned Reyes, former partner and rival to Cyprian, who would be their main competition. Damar was able to stay ahead of Reyes, having planted a spy among his ranks named Peron, who then passed reports to the Ebony. Damar learned of the Demiliches Lobera, a former Archmage of the old [[Guild:GoldOrder|Gold Order]] during the period when it was no longer among the Fold (small and mostly insignificant), and Ibrasis, also from that period having been one of Lobera's officers.

In their time, they had planned to bolster the Gold Order with undead, restoring the power it lost when the orc magi were destroyed, and once again joining the Fold. It was not to be however, as once Lobera obtained the Artifacts of Najera, Ibrasis turned on him after Lobera refused to honor their agreement of sharing both the Staff and Amulet. Ibrasis took half of the undead they had gathered and fled Lobera, who now sought his destruction.

One note sent to Damar from his spy detailed a planned expedition by Reyes and his people into the Mikona Underdark to search for Ibrasis. the Ebony Order was able to defeat Reyes' group, and in return for his life Reyes gave Damar a key to Ibrasis's lair which was said to be deep in the Underdark.

Days after this, Damar was on the road to Mikona when he saw a zombie wandering out of the crypt. Upon closer inspection he determined this zombie was differant than the usual variety. He dealt with it and entered the crypt. On the lowest level with a swirl of blood, a floating skull appeared before Damar, an amulet hanging from a non existant neck, a staff held by invisible arms. This was Lobera. The two spoke, and Lobera said that he could take the key to Ibrasis's lair now if he desired, but that he would wait for Damar to come to him, after meeting Ibrasis. Before Lobera left, the demilich stated that he resided someplace Damar had been, but could no longer go.

Weeks later, the Ebony held an expedition to the greater Underdark in search of Ibrasis. Finally after scouring the Underdark for days, the key triggered a secret door. Damar and the others met with Ibrasis, who was in posession of a magical mirror capable of watching the artifacts' bearer. This was how he had managed to keep away from Lobera these three hundred years. Their host told them that the Ashen had already been to see Ibrasis, and confirmed Damar's suspicion that Lobera was in Le'Or T'Nanshi.

It was between these events that Damar completed his contribution to the Academy of Mortal Magic's History of Mortal Magic, and concluded his mentorship of a half-elven sorcerer Heiran Va'Mairne, who he trained alongside his former apprentice Vladmir Hurst.

Later in the year, Peron interrupted a meeting of the Ebony to announce that Reyes and some of his magi were in the Underdark below the city. He passed to Damar something he had just stolen, a peice of Sorvanok's flesh. Damar and the Ebony rushed below and confronted Reyes's group. The two factions began to negotiate. Damar was going to give Reyes the flesh in return for more information on Lobera and the Artifacts of Najera. As they were finalizing their agreement, Reyes vanished. Suspicious now, Damar quietly passed the flesh to Vanyanakya, as he questioned Reyes' mages. They did not know what happend to their leader either. It was then that what seemed to be a modified gate manifested, pulling Damar through it.

==Avernus==
===Prisoner===
The Archmage found himself in a large room of gold. Two stories of bookshelves lined its walls. Reyes stood to his side. First, they accused each other of being behind this "kidnapping". During their accusations, it was a familiar voice to them both that ended their bickering. Turning in unison, they both witnessed a figure dressed in holy robes of Valok. With supreme shock, Damar recognized the figure. It was Cyprian. Damar had been responsible for Cyprian's death, he had watched as the force of the Vortex of Chaos tore him to pieces, but there he stood. They spoke and Cyprian then sent a message to the Ebony, that Damar had placed Vanyankaya in charge until further notice, and that he would be busy for an undetermined amount of time.

Cyprian was calm, and seemed to bear no grudge. He soon vanished, leaving Reyes and Damar alone. Neither mage could find a way to escape this place.

Cyprian would appear from time to time as the days passed, offering nothing but idle conversation. Damar looked through the many tomes within the room. He found many of them revolved around Valok, His orc creations, His philosophy, or a combination of them all to some degree. With little to do, Damar read.

After what the Archmage of the Ebony assumed to be two months into his "prison sentence", Cyprian shared a meal with his so called guests. When Damar brought up the day of Cyprian's death, claiming innocence, Cyprian broke out of his good humored character and stated flatly that he knew exactly what had happened that day.

The weeks became months and when the tension between Damar and Reyes finally came to a boiling point, Cyprian appeared and put an end to it. He announced that today they would be taking a walk.

===A New Path===
Cyprian brought the two to a large courtyard. Here he answered many of the questions plaguing his guests. Cyprian explained that on the day of his death, His Lord Valok had rescued him from oblivion, that Valok had made him an Immortal. They were standing in Valok's domain on Avernus. It was at this point Reyes snapped. It was Reyes that had led a broken Gold Order, while Cyprian was safely in the Fold as Archmage of the Old Ebony Order. And yet it was Cyprian blessed with immortality. Reyes continued to explode at Cyprian until the immortal had him removed. Reyes was not seen again.

Damar continued to listen to Cyprian, not being in a position to do otherwise. Cyprian revealed the purpose for which he had abducted both the Archmage and Reyes. He explained to Damar that Valok had appointed him the task of seeing that a new Gold Order was created, that the time had come for Valok to gain a foothold in the world of the arcane once more. This was not such an amazing quest in itself, except that Cyprian also revealed that Valok wished for his creations, orcs, to be among this new order's ranks. A requirement if the Gold was to succeed as more than a puppet of the church.

Damar and Reyes were Cyprian's choices to carry out this mission on the prime, and with Reyes' tantrum, that left only the Archmage of the Ebony. Damar was left in his room to think matters over.

Why would he accept Cyprian's offer? The Ebony grew stronger by the day. Did he have a choice? It would be a challenge. Cyprian seemed well off after accepting Valok as his master. If Damar accepted, what would he receive as payment? Was the Ebony strong enough to continue without him? If this Order would be created no matter what, as the new Green Order had been, would he not be the best choice to avoid wasted effort on the part of Ebony in attempting to destroy it?

For several long days Damar thought over those very questions. Ultimately, he accepted Cyprian's quest of creating a new Gold Order. In return, Cyprian shared with Damar some of the secrets that had kept him youthful in his many years before becoming an immortal. It would not last forever, but it would be a start. Damar left that meeting appearing no older than 30 years old, and with another gift, a staff Cyprian had created not long after his ascension into immortality.

The now youthful Archmage spent the remaining portion of his time on Avernus training with Cyprian. The time came when Damar was ready to return to Avlis. He stepped through a gate and back into the Prime.

==Foundations of Gold==
===Return to the Prime===
Pursued through the gate by wandering devils, Damar's return was something of a show to those gathered outside the City of Mikona. It was not long until Damar met with several Ebony mages, Vanyankaya included. As they caught up, Damar learned that Vanya had assumed the title of Archmage as expected. She offered him his old station, but he declined, stating that it was not time yet to become an Archmagus again. Damar kept secret the details of his trip.

By choosing to create this Gold Order, Damar did not forget about the Ebony, the Order he had shaped. He had taught them all to hunt down competition, and while he guessed that he could achieve his goals with Vanya having this secret knowledge, there was no reason to take such a risk. As he would work to build his new Order, he would also watch over the old, as an Ebony magus, to be certain it was in proper hands. There were several promising magi who could take over even should Vanya leave, such as the then Great Mage of Arms, Sand.

As Damar began to recruit suitable Ebony veterans during his first days back on the prime, Cyprian appeared to him, saying that he should seek out the Artifacts of Najera. Damar had forgotten about them during his trip, and was surprised they were still in Lobera's possession. Around this time Damar also became a teacher at the Academy of Mortal Magic.

News to him also, was that the Ravager had returned, broken from his prison. Damar took this opportunity to work with the Order of Valok, who would be the ones to destroy the Ravager. He accompanied them on their quest to secure the Sword of Severing, studying who he knew would be future enemies. When the time for the final fight came, Damar allowed the Order of Valok, including several magi who would eventually join the Gold, to face the creature themselves. With their victory he noted their competence.

===Securing Ebony===
Damar encountered a young dabbler of the art in Mikona. Her name was Micah, and her thirst for knowledge of the Art led to her being accepted as what would become his most accomplished apprentice.

As he continued his recruitment for Gold, he looked to what business must be completed in the Ebony first. The Order was still banished from the nation of T'Nanshi, he wanted to rectify this. Fortunately, opportunity soon presented itself with Zevarion's escape from his prison within Zelvan Dur.

Many groups and orders had joined in an effort to reseal the master of the pale arts. But it was the Ebony Order that acquired a scroll containing the same curse that the seal warden Zal recently broken. With the threat of being cursed again, Zal was blackmailed into aiding the Trust restore the seal. As the ritual finished, word came of two undead armies. One tearing through the warzone to the south, and one coming straight to Le'Or. All present separated into two groups to meet each army. The Ebony went towards the war zone. That night Zevarion was defeated in Le'Or, and Damar's group put a dent in the warzone army, which had been led by Lobera. Apparently Lobera had been using Zevarion to strengthen his own legion of undead. In the aftermath, the banishment of the Ebony was lifted by the Council of Nine.

Eventually, Vanya was to leave her position as Archmage to pursue personal affairs. She left the decision of who would be the next to lead the Order to Damar and the three Great Magi. Votes were cast between the four. It was a tie, and Sand was willing to concede to Damar. Damar however told him it was still not time yet, and thus the elf Sand became the fourth Archmage of the Ebony Order of the Moon.

As far as Damar's own business, there were still the Artifacts of Najera to take care of. As Lobera grew impatient in his hunt for Ibrasis, he began to attack the cities of Le'Or T'Nanshi and Mikona. Several times they came face to face, Lobera now wearing the perverted body of the former Ivory Archmage D'Anjal. Not much came of these meetings, Lobera solely interested in Ibrasis.

===Lobera & Ibrasis===
By this time, Damar had returned to the High Council. It was through here and the Academy that he first heard of vampires within Lobera's Le'Or roots tower wearing gold robes and carrying Andrinor's mark. It seemed others were claiming to be of the Gold Order. Damar decided it was time to confront Lobera in his home.

Damar traveled beneath Le'Or, passing invisibly by its denizens. When he came to the magical door leading to Lobera's throne room, Cyprian appeared offering him passage through before disappearing again. The room was empty of life (and un-life). As Damar began to make himself comfortable, Lobera appeared. Their discussion was long with Lobera explaining his previous attempts at reviving the Gold Order during the days of the Fold of Eight, and then Damar telling his story. Lobera laughed at him, not believing Damar's story and accusing him of being an Angadarian, but as Damar continued the lich ultimately saw truth in his words. Lobera left momentarily and returned with three artifacts.

Two were matching bracers known as Valok's chosen. These were forged by Valok and given to the first Archmage of the Fold's Gold Order, and passed down to each until the Evocation tragedy. The other was a greatsword, surrounded by the aura that was clearly of Valok. Lobera explained that the blade had been created by Valok for the time when a sign would be needed to show his will. Specifically, that his anger had subsided. The weapon was heavily enchanted against orc blood, but the runes of the blade also only permitted its wielder to be a user of the art. Damar had never seen a weapon with power of this magnitude. Unfortunately, few if any mortals across the planes possess the power to wield it effectively, to do so would require divine intervention. The Equalizer of Valok as it was called, remained more a symbol than a weapon. He handed these to Damar.

Cyprian appeared again, and the three began to discuss their plans for the future. This was when the demilich Ibrasis appeared. Ibrasis, in posession of a mirror through which he could watch the bearer of the Artifacts of Najera, had been watching these conversations. Only with Cyprian's appearance did he finally begin to believe. The four spoke of how to proceed. Ibrasis and Lobera argued of course, but Damar brought them to reason, that this was their chance succeed where they had failed in the past. Working together a new Gold would rise. A problem quickly presented itself: The Trust wanted blood (or bone). Lobera had gone to the extreme in his massacres, furthermore he was still wearing the former Ivory Archmage.

Lobera expressed his pain, the pain of wielding the Artifacts of Najera for so long. He revealed his willingness to sacrifice himself and appease Andrinor's Trust and all those who had a score to settle. He warned Damar against taking the artifacts, that the price was too high. Damar noted the advice, but it was not necessary. He had already sought out the Artifacts as Cyprian had told him to, and found something greater.

Lobera made his final orders. His undead, including the marked ones, would follow Ibrasis but only on the condition that Ibrasis aid Damar in his restoration of the Gold. Lobera would allow the Trust their shot, but he would go down fighting.

The next day Damar joined a large assortment of Trust mages in their assault on Lobera's tower. During the battles, he and many of the other senior Trust members were split from the main group and left in Lobera's throne room. Lobera confronted the main group, and was finally destroyed by Fergus Goodman and the Hammer of Lithandiel. Meanwhile Ibrasis appeared to the group Damar was in, claiming to be the leader of the Gold Order. It suited Damar's purpose as he concentrated on assembling the flesh of the Order.

===Moderator===
As things settled after Lobera's fall, Melonius Mennallin announced the construction of the city of Visimontium, what many believe to be the one Andrinor prophesized many years earlier. He would be stepping down as Moderator of the High Council, and a new one would be elected in his place. It was Damar who eventually took the position of Moderator uncontested. Damar also aided in defending the Visimontium immigrant caravans as they traveled trough M'Chek.

===The Fist===
The Dwarven Quarters of M'Chek had for many years been infested with the ghosts of its former inhabitants. As the Order of Gorethar worked to free their dwarven brothers, an ancient artifact was discovered. The ring most commonly known as The Fist. This ring, once being part of a greater artifact, in its current form was said to possess magics for use against undeath. Several attempted to learn its secrets. The Noble House of M'chek was to have the ring sent north to Galdos, believing it to have once belonged to the Galdosians, when Damar appeared and presented evidence contrary to this, that the artifact had history from before its first finding in Galdos. The Noble House allowed Damar to take the ring, for the purpose of unlocking its power with the intention of using it to rid their sewers of the ghostly dwarves. Damar proved succesful where others had failed, but at the same time the Order of Gorethar cleansed the Quarters on their own through another method. With the Quarters cleansed, all lost interest in the Fist and it now remains safe inside Damar's robe pocket.

Returning to his work of completing the Gold Order, He had Ibrasis work on making contact with the mage cults of Brekon. Ibrasis would prove unsuccessful however.

===Bold Claims===
Damar continued to teach at the Academy. One student of his post-ascension class was the half-elf Cyprius. Cyprius took an interest in Damar and eventually claimed that he was his son, that he had grown up under the care of his mother, a sorceress from Damar's past. Uncharacteristically Damar seemed to accept or at least tolerate Cyprius's claim. He continued to guide Cyprius for a short time. Cyprius would eventually join the Ivory Order. He found Damar was not willing to be more than a strict teacher and so Cyprius continued on his own path.

===Glaring Gaze===
Having his hands in so many matters did not stop Damar from continuing his personal studies and further growth in the art. In Visimontium, Damar completed the invention of a powerful spell, Damar's Glaring Gaze. During his life, Damar had become what some would call an intimidating individual. Damar found that this was often useful. This spell was created for the occasions when his personal aura was not enough to achieve the desired effect.

==Archmage of Gold==
===In The Open===
By this time Micah had completed her apprenticeship and was well on her way to becoming a master of the art. As Damar was ready to make the split in the Order and have his magi reveal themselves, Micah became the Ebony Order's Archmage, making the split painless on both sides. The Gold Order of the Sand presented its living members to the world, and Damar publicly took the position he had held in secret for so long, that of Archmage of the Gold Order of the Sand.

===The Cults of Brekon & War in Visimontium===
Damar was regularly traveling between M'Chek and his new home of Visimontium where he sat in the City Council. Ibrasis had not made the contact he was supposed to and a faction of the Grantir army had also begun assaulting the City of Andrinor. The contact Damar wanted was eventually made by Marcus Deth. Marcus had learned of Kasaan, an orc mage who acted as a diplomat for several of Brekon's orc mage cults. Kasaan arrived in Visimontium after he and many other orc mages had received a dream they believed to have been from Valok, which sent them to Visimontium to defend it. As assaults on Visimontium continued, Damar solidified the Brekon magi joining the Gold Order.

During this Andrinorian-Angadarian "war", Damar spent time acting as interrogator and often visited the High Temple of Visimontium for long talks with the High Priestess Rayna Na'Tanlynn. He was one of the few to receive a divine dream from Andrinor showing how the god wished for the war to end. When the final day of the war came, Damar and all Orders joined together in defending Visimontium alongside the Sentinels of Visimontium. The splinter Grantir army was crushed, and Damar presided over the peace talks which followed.

The next several years would prove less eventful, as he continued on with his administrative duties as Archmage and Moderator. Damar had completed the task Cyprian had given him: The Gold Order of the Sand stood strong. Damar however, wanted to take it further. Many of his magi, orcs, were still not as safe as they should be. Since its existence, the Order had been threatened by the Church of Valok. While there were obvious casualties in this continuing feud, it led to some important events such as the discovery of the island academy "Sliver of Gold" and Gold magi entering the forbidden Fortress of Qaditha among them.

[[Category:PCs|Ogdem]]

PCs:Damar Ogdem

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=Basic Information=
[[Image:DamarPortrait2.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Portrait of '''Damar Ogdem''' by [[PCs:Ayren_Milen|Ayren Tochi'larian]]]]
'''Current Age:''' Old 
'''Appearance:''' Middle-Aged 
'''Race:''' Human 
'''Gender:''' Male 
'''Class:''' Wizard 
'''Residence:''' [[Mikona]], [[Visimontium]] 
'''Affiliations and Titles:'''
* Member Magus, [[Guild:GoldOrder|Gold Order of the Sand]]
* Lecturer: Post-Andrinor's Ascension History, [[Arcane#Academy_of_Mortal_Magic|Academy of Mortal Magic]] 
'''Former Affiliations and Titles'''
* Great Magus of Internal Affairs, [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony Order of the Moon]]
* Great Magus of Relations, [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony Order of the Moon]]
* Archmagus, [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony Order of the Moon]]
* Four of Seven, Coven of Seven
* Archmagus, [[Guild:GoldOrder|Gold Order of the Sand]]
* Moderator of the [[Arcane#The_High_Mage_Council|High Mage Council]], High Mage Council Representative on the [[Visimontium]] City Council 
'''Research Interests''' 
* Necromancy & Enchantment, Negative Energy Manipulation In Golem Creation
* Conjuration, Teleportation
* Evocation, Contingency Development
* Archeology, Arcane Relics

=Select History=
==Early Life==
===Childhood===
Damar was born during the fall of 2044, the second child of the [[M'Chek|M'Chekian]] Daram Ogdem and his wife Cynia, the first being his older brother Baran five years Damar's senior. For the first years of his life, Damar lived on his Father's farm, not far from the city of [[Mikona]]. In his small communal school, Damar proved to be a precocious student, showing a quick wit and a keen intellect, but above all a thirst for knowledge. Unfortunetly for him, there was only so much to be learned in a small farm community.

The highlight of his childhood were the trips taken with his brother, and sometimes father, to sell goods in Mikona. The Rush of activity, the new sights and smells, so much different than his home gave him a glimpse of a larger world, a world with countless secrets to discover.

===Introduction to the Art===
On one such trip during the summer of Damar's 10th year he and his brother came across a group of other children crowded around an ancient man robed in grey. As Damar approached, the man shot his arms up, a multicolored light bursting into the sky. Damar leapt back in fright, only to soon notice the other children had not done the same, but were hopping up and down, cheering the man. Damar slipped in closer to the group, the childrens' ease granting him courage. The robed man, whose name
was said to be Lydon, continued with his illusions. As the other children looked on in amusement, Damar looked at what would become his future, magic. For the remainder of that summer any time he visited Mikona, Damar would break off from his father or brother to look for Lydon's show, which more often than not was in progress. The answer "magic" was a satisfying enough answer to most of the
children's questions, but not for Damar. He insisted on knowing how and why. He spent hours watching Lydon, at home it was all he spoke of. Some days he was even able to convince his brother Baran to take him to Mikona at the break of dawn, returning at nightfall to a furious father. The first week of fall, Damar was in Mikona with his brother, but found no Lydon. For the next eight months trip after trip, he was not to be found. Damar even prefered now to stay at home rather than venture south. It was not until the next summer that he once again found Lydon, with another group of children. Lydon explained that for most of the year, he was in [[Andarr]] of [[The Seven Cities|the seven cities]]. This summer the young boy even took it upon himself to invite Lydon to his home.

When Damar was 14 the Ogdem farm began suffering from the withering of crops and dryland sickness that most of the nation was now subject to. In effort to help the family's economic situation, Baran decided to join the M'chek army in their fight against the [[Elf|elves]] of [[T'Nanshi]]. Damar's own solution was to leave M'Chek for Andarr, where he Lydon had agreed to apprentice him.

===Apprenticeship in Andarr===
What Damar felt when first arriving in Mikona was multiplied tenfold when first entering the city of Andarr. This time however, he had a focus, his apprenticeship to Lydon. Immediately Lydon brought his apprentice to his humble home. Books covered much of the floor, covered with the thickest layers of dust. A pet raven caughed from the corner at their arrival.

Damar's first task was to clean up his new home. Lydon would only permit Damar to leave on errands for him. The transformation from jovial magician in Mikona to strict old wizard in Andarr was jarring, and Damar could not be sure which was the true Lydon. Damar however took everything in stride, now so close to learning the secrets behind Lydon's magic.

During the first months of tedious chores, he often thought of his home, his parents. It was only in the last month before summer that Damar was given his first elementary lesson in true magic. In the summer, Lydon and Damar returned to M'Chek. Lydon never answered Damar's question as to what Lydon's business was in Mikona every year. Damar returned to his family and to his amazement saw the farm was more productive than it had ever been. Damar's father could not explain how their luck had changed. His father wanted to know if he would come back to them. Damar refused, and giving his family what gold Lydon had paid him, he left. Damar returned to Lydon, requesting they return to Andarr so that he could immediately continue his studies. To Damar's surprise, Lydon accepted.

Damar studied under Lydon for the next few years: languages, geography, and finally the art. Damar's mind became solely focused on the magic. He no longer thought about his past or his family this time, he had but one goal, comprehension of the arcane.

===Stranger in the Night===
Finally the day came when Damar cast his first cantrip, a simple spell of light, cast on Lydon's raven who did not appreciate it. It was no grand magic, but for that moment Damar felt like a grand wizard. That same night as Damar was reading about ganooms by the fire, a loud knock sounded from the door. Lydon answered the door himself. A hooded man in dark robes entered the house. Lydon and his guest moved upstairs. What was strange was that in all his time in Andarr, Lydon never had any type of guest. Damar attempted to eavesdrop on the conversation to no avail. Damar returned to his reading spot. A few minutes later, he heard their voices rise, shouting at eachother. The ceiling began to shake, as Damar ran to the stairs he identified the chants of spellcasting. Lydon's body tumbled down the stairs rolling into his apprentice. Recovering from the fall, Damar looked down at a broken body, smokes rising from it's chest. Damar looked up the stairs frozen, and the hooded man came down, offering him a slight nod as he walked out the door.

While Lydon had meant much to Damar, investigations by the law would only hinder Damar's quest for knowledge and so the body was disposed of. With what gold Lydon kept in the house, Damar was able to live on his own for a time. Now there were no limits to what he could and could not read, what knowledge could be absorbed. For one brief moment it occurred to Damar that it may be proper for him to return to his parents. This notion was dismissed as Damar found Lydon's private collection.

===Return Home===
Even with such knowledge at his fingertips, no matter the dedication, there is only so much time a young man can endure cooped up in a house reading. Damar returned to M'Chek, now in his early twenties. In the end he had decided to visit his family. Arriving at the farm late in the evening, he entered his former home to find the corpses of his parents and two young children. It was then Damar realized how long he had been gone, he had two more siblings without even knowing it. In his search for answers, neighbors revealed that recently there was much more bandit activity, with raiders behaving more brave than usual. He also learned that his brother was missing in action, his body not found after a skirmish with elven soldiers at the village of [The_Village_of_Blandenberg|Blandenberg].

The evident question, at least regarding his parents and sisters, was had he been there could he have stopped it? Most likely not he concluded. Settling affairs on the farm, Damar traveled south back to Mikona, a familiar raven flying over him.

==Magus==
===Adventuring Career===
Arriving in Mikona, Damar made his way to the City Gate Inn. Here as fortune would have it, he encountered a group of three older men. Joining the conversation, Damar learned all three were wizards. [[PCs:Peregryne Twostep|Peregryne Twostep]] who for the next few years Damar would look to as omnipotent, [[NPCs:Melonius Mennallin|Melonius Mennallin]], and [[PCs:Talman Grumb|Talman Grumb]]. Watching and listening to these three men only confirmed to Damar that his quest for arcane knowledge was a valid one.

Damar began his career of adventure, first exploring the Mikona crypts alongside Talman and Talman's bear Octavius. He met many others who would move on to accomplish great deeds, and was dragged off to many dangerous places where it was a miracle he survived. Throughout these days he had three close companions, each very different from the other. One was the monk [[PCs:Tren Ster|Tren Ster]], it was with him Damar shared the most of his early adventures. The Second was the [[cleric]] of [[Gorethar]] [[PCs:Jorio Alerian|Jorio Alerian]], who would one day become a High Priest. Third was the elven [[Sorcerer|sorceress]] [[PCs:Elrandra Glyndorr|Elrandra Glyndorr]].

===Fenius & The Bandit Queen===
Facing all of these trials, Damar found many opportunities to apply his studies. His skill with the art began to grow as the difficulty of his challenges became greater. One afternoon Damar stood by the entrance to one such challenge, [[The Hills of Tumult]]. Here he awaited the arrival of Tren as together they had planned to pick a fight with some giants. Waiting there alone he heard the sounds of battle and rushed into the hills for a closer look. It was there he heard the crackle of evoked lightning and smelt sizzling flesh as he came to a lone man surrounded by a pile of burnt giant corpses. The sorcerer, who would reveal his name as Fenius, told Damar he had destroyed the giants out of revenge for having previously been embarrassed by them. This show of arcane power was the most impressive Damar had seen up to this point in his life. The two spoke for a time until Fenius left as Tren arrived.

Not long after his encounter with Fenius, Damar was shopping for supplies in the Marketplace of Mikona when an excited Tren came to him, going on about an expedition to defeat a "witch". Soon many were gathered in the Rompin Romini Inn as a [[dwarf]] told them of the Bandit Queen Hugar and her approximate location. Of most interest to Damar, was the dwarf's mentioned Fenius as a companion to this [[NPCs:Hugar|Hugar]]. Narin Grans, a kindly priest, was on a quest to cure lycanthropy, and was in need of a tome in Hugar's possession. Against the protests of some of the gathered adventurers who included [[PCs:Mari Briggs|Mari Briggs]] and Anspach, Narin wished to meet with Hugar and bargain for the tome peacefully. Nonetheless many joined Narin on his trip, including Damar who wanted to learn if there was truth behind the talk of Fenius being involved.

Traveling north at great speed, the large group found Hugar quickly. Narin wished to meet Hugar alone, but most objected, and so Narin was to take a few bodyguards. Among them were Tren and Talman. As many suspected, Hugar had no desire for negotiating for the tome, and attacked Narin and his guards. Soon the battle was joined with the party of adventurers in it's entirety fighting Hugar, Fenius, and a coal dragon. During the fight Damar did his best not to target Fenius, and in the end Hugar and the dragon lie slain. Fenius had managed to escape, and later Damar joined a smaller force who wished to hunt him down. Fenius was able to dispatch most of the group, but left Damar unharmed. Damar could not find any moral compulsion to force him into a fight with the sorcerer.

==The Vortex of Chaos==
===Fateful Encounters===
Some months later, word spread of powerful mages momentarily losing their power. Melonius was one example, while another was a great dragon whose lair was in the [[The Lost River Caverns|Lost River Cavern]]. This marked the beginning of what would lead into the [[Vortex of Chaos]] Saga. It was one day, not long after these oddities began to occur, that Damar was once again near the Hills of Tumult when a magical gate opened and a dark robed mage appeared. The mage, [[NPCs:Cyprian|Cyprian]], spoke of events to come and of an order which was being founded, an [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony Order]]. As the man spoke of his Order Damar became intrigued. Perhaps he would find others to work with, those who valued knowledge as much as he. Damar left the outskirts of the Hills thoughtful.

Taking the path from the east to Mikona, Damar was almost at the city gates when before him in the middle of the road another magical gate manifested. Before him stood a dark skinned man in simple black clothes, with horns protruding from his head. A fiendish trait. Damar asked the stranger who he was and the stranger responded that Damar knew exactly who he was. It was [[Andrinor]], the God of Mortal Magic. Damar simply knew. Andrinor told him that he wanted Damar to become the leader of this new Ebony Order and should he, that he would gain Andrinor's favor. However, should he reveal this conversation to anyone...and as the God trailed off he summoned flaming debris, a meteor storm which left the surrounding area aflame. Andrinor's avatar disappeared as quickly as it had arrived (Note: it is only with this writing that the mention of this meeting has now been permitted).

===The Ebony Order===
Only a few days after those encounters the first meeting of the Ebony Order took place. Here Damar and Fenius were two of the founding members and were joined by three other younger mages along with older mages who had been accompanying Cyprian for years.

Aside from Cyprian, Damar was the only one who wore his robes in public, allowing others to know of his allegiance to the Ebony Order. He was also the Order's only mouthpiece. In time he was joined by [[PCs:Vanyankaya Del'Trion|Vanyankaya Del'Trion]], his first recruit for the Order and the first after its founding. Damar continued to work for the Order, staying active in developments regarding the Vortex of Chaos, and also recruitment. For his dedication, Cyprian made him the Order's first Great Mage of Internal Affairs. Not long after that, he switched positions with the first Great Mage of Relations, Seven, who preferred not to speak in public, nor reveal her identity as an Ebony mage.

===Sereg'wethrin en Edan===
Not all of Damar's dealings during this period revolved around the Vortex. He defended [[Equaloria keep]] and other locations from [[Elf,Sereg|sereg'wethrin]]. Standing high on the ledge surrounding Equaloria, Damar was firing off his magic into groups of sereg'wethrin, while the warriors below engaged the dark elves in melee. Upon the ledge also stood Melonius Mennallin, then Archmage of the [[Guild:IvoryOrder|Ivory Order]], alongside [[PCs:Mari Briggs|Mari Briggs]], and another member mage of the Ivory. This other mage, introduced himself as [[PCs:Aramil Fynn|Aramil Fynn]] and joined Damar in his spell flinging. As the two rained death upon the small sereg'wethrin army, Melonius kept remarking with a sneer, as so many old men who know better do, about waiting for the right time and how they must conserve their magic. Aramil and Damar continued, in the end sharing a grin as both noticed Melonius had never flung a single spell. Aramil and Damar would one day clash, in the closing events of the chase for the Vortex of Chaos.

Eventually the campaign of the sereg'wethrin ended with a massive assault on Mikona. Damar was among those who defended the city, then moving north to aid another army of defenders fending off a secondary force. For their actions, Cyprian rewarded both Damar and Vanyankaya with amulets of Ebony Obedience.

===The Coven===
As an Ebony mage, Damar also became involved with another organization. One day while passing through the Mikona Crypt, he was assaulted by a powerful vampiric creature. Upon defeating it, a mysterious woman appeared and called the fight a test to see if he was worthy. The woman told of a powerful group being formed, to which Damar replied that he had enough masters already. Days later he encountered the woman [[NPCs:Lanessa|Lanessa]] again and she announced that the leadership of this organization had accepted him as another co-leader. Damar found that two people he had fought beside on many occasions were this group's leadership, joined by Lanessa.

As time passed Damar saw that their group was possessed great strength, but it lacked a true focus, a goal. Power must be used for something. Lanessa presented a goal. She spoke of an old relic, a tome containing great summoning magics. From that point on that book, the Necronomicon, was their focus. Lanessa, a "vampyre", (powerful vampires seemingly immune to daylight) revealed the one who held the tome, an enemy from her past known as Nastassiou, a supposedly hybrid Demon-Vampyre. In the end, many contributed to the demon's defeat. But it was this group Damar was part of which left with the tome. Or more specifically, Lanessa left with it. From Nastassiou's remains, Lanessa crafted several magical rings, known as Nastassiou's knuckles. Damar received one.

===Mortality===
Between the business involved with his and his allies' "Legion", his Ebony duties, and tracking the Vortex, Damar had become an accomplished wizard. But as his power had grown, and more secrets were unraveled, Damar was confronted by the realization many magi and persons of power eventually come to. He was mortal, he could not practice the art forever. Earlier in his career he had become interested in the concept of immortality, the opportunity to practice the art for eternity. His first knowledge of one possible method had come with the talk of the lich [[NPCs:Sorvanok|Sorvanok]], residing deep below the city of Mikona. Damar had previously been involved on several small quests to learn of a method do defeat the lich alongside heroes such as [[PCs:Timo_Karr|Timo Karr]], [[PCs:Kima_Karr|Kima Karr]], and [[PCs:Hargas_Steelhead|Hargas Steelhead]], and so was aware of certain details concerning the lich, such as the exact location of its home. He entered the domain of the lich with the hope that he would learn more of lichdom. This was a mistake. Damar barely escaped the ill humored Sorvanok with his life. Nevertheless, Damar continued focusing in the necromantic arts, to discover the secrets of lichdom on his own. While he would continue the study of necromancy for many years to come, his reasons would change as he learned of another method leading to immortality.

While studying in the Great Library of Mikona, Damar met a plump old half-elf named Jestan, whose eyes seemed to betray an age even older than his face revealed. The two spoke of several subjects, and being suspicious of the half-elf, eventually the conversation came to extended life, immortality. He explained to Damar that there are those who serve their God so well that they are granted a true immortality, not the farce that is lichhood. He told Damar that he himself was one such immortal. This route interested Damar greatly. Of course such a feat was no simple undertaking, but in theory time spent serving a higher being would be acceptable, providing over an endless amount of years ample time to continue one's own personal studies.

It was also during this period of time that Damar took on his first apprentice, a mage called Vladmir Hurst, in an effort to pass down what he had learned.

===The End of the Vortex of Chaos===
Two more events of importance involving Jestan and Sorvanok would occur before the Saga of the Vortex came to its end. The first came when Damar was certain the Vortex would soon fall into his hands. Not wishing to take any chances however, he struck a deal with the Immortal's Deity. In exchange for the power of the Vortex of Chaos, Damar swore loyalty to this Deity.

The second came when Damar was exploring the Mikona [[Underdark]] for a rumored second entrance. Sorvanok apparently was aware of the intrusion, which triggered one of many undead attacks on the city, headed by the lich's powerful balor. The balor announced Damar as the intruder, and shortly after Damar was banished from the city despite his many previous services to it.

The next day Damar was found in the city by the great demon. They fought but the fiend seemed invulnerable. The pain inflicted on Damar that day was something he would never forget. Shortly after the experience, Damar again defended the city from another threat and was acquitted of the charges and welcomed back into the city.

The Vortex did end up in Damar's hands for a time, before he was advised to pass it to Cyprian. As is recounted in the [[Academy of Mortal Magic]]'s History of Mortal Magic volumes, Damar unleashed the power of the Vortex of Chaos, killing Cyprian. Andrinor than appeared before all those gathered above the Lost River Cavern and announced the creation of Andrinor's Trust and set the members of his first three Orders of magic to creating a council and an academy of the art. Damar asked Andrinor why he had created the Vortex of Chaos. The god famously replied that gods do things for only two reasons, to gain power and for amusement, and in this case it was both.

With Cyprian dead and the Vortex of Chaos no more, Damar had his Order's support in becoming its second Archmage. Meeting with Jestan, Damar was not pleased with the turn of events which had required Cyprian's death, and the fact that when the dust had settled, he did not have exactly what was promised, his deal having been very specific. Jestan pointed out that he may not have received everything he wanted, but he was Archmage. Damar agreed on that point and continued to "serve" the Deity, preferring to deal with the immortal rather than fellow followers. Damar knew however that the contract had not been lived up to, and he was not held to this union. In the meantime he figured there may be something to gain from it. In the aspects of religion after all, Damar was most mercenary. He saw Deities as potential employers, and this one seemed to have made the highest offer at the time.

==Archmage of Ebony==
===Andrinor's Trust===
The Ebony was not the only Order to have a change of leadership. In the weeks after Damar became the Archmage of the Ebony, Elrandra was named the second Archmage of the [[Guild:AshenOrder|Ashen Order of the Stars]], replacing the missing Belaluldor, and Talman became the second Archmage of the Ivory Order of the Sun, successor to Melonius who left the Order. During this time the High Mage Council of Avlis was created, with Damar among its founding members.

===Departure from the Coven===
As Damar adjusted to his new leadership role, the Legion he was a part of was not doing well. Again with no goal, all the strength in the world meant nothing. Lanessa shortly thereafter betrayed the Legion she had founded. She turned to a Deity from her own world with no power here, the one known as Vecna. Lanessa left Avlis with the necronomicon in her posession, leaving her associates without their prize. After this a god expressed his will that those who worshipped him were to leave this Legion. It is possible more than one Deity made this demand, but the one of importance here is the same god Damar at the time was serving. Damar, never seeing himself as a true "worshipper", and believing the Legion may still hold potential, for the first time in his life sought spiritual guidance. He prayed. Later that night he had a dream.

He stood in a temple, surrounded by hundreds of people wearing the colors of his God. They danced around what he saw to be the body of Lanessa, impaled on a wooden pike, celebrating the death. Then the dream changed from a usual dream of images into a fast moving stream of consciousness and concept transfer. Damar realized this was how Gods communicated among themselves. He sensed an object of a certain shape and size, an object he knew represented the Legion. He then sensed another object, one he felt was fueled by the loyalists of his Deity. When comparing the two, it was clear the second was larger, continuing to grow. Meanwhile the first went on to exist, totally independent of the second, no connection between the two apparent. Damar left the Legion, as did others among its leadership. It lingered on for a short while after.

===Sinister Deeds===
At this time, the Ebony Order began to expand under Damar's command. It was also during this period that a great many of the rumours involving Damar Ogdem and various sinister dealings and deeds take place. While many still remain only known to him and others involved, one of particular note is the massacre of [[Le'Or T'Nanshi]].

Several Ebony Order mages had recently been attacked without provocation by members of the T'Nanshi army. In response to this, Damar and two other powerful Ebony mages entered the garrison of Le'Or T'Nanshi and slayed dozens of soldiers. As they made their escape some brave (or foolish) citizens attempted to strike back at the mages. They died. From this attack many rumours spread, incredulous numbers were repeated. Some said thousands died, others that the city was under siege, districts destroyed. False accounts, but such events do have effect on a man's reputation. Soon the [[Council of Nine]] declared that the entirety of the Ebony Order of the Moon was banished from T'Nanshi.

Damar and other Ebony magi continued to enter T'Nanshi when business deemed it necessary. Damar went so far as to occasionally join M'Chek soldiers in the borderlands, shifting loss to victory. While officially they were to treat such combatants as bandits, no soldier ever refused his aid. These stints in the warzone however did not come often, and Damar usually had his hands full in M'Chek.

For some time before this and for some years after, Damar would occasionally make his way to the island of Hala in the plane of Ysgard. There he became allies with a lich known as Shagarath. He aided the lich in certain endeavors and in one of his later visits helped transform Shagarath into a more powerful demilich. Years later, it is said Shagarath ascended to godhood, though he is not known to have influence on Avlis.

With the appearance in Negaria of the Ravager, also known as the "[[NPCs:Gentleman|Gentleman]]", Damar saw a possible opportunity. Their first meeting however did not go well, with the tainted spirit assaulting him. There is little one could do with a powerful being bent on world destruction he reasoned. Damar in the end was among those who joined together to reseal the Ravager, Damar getting his revenge. He would soon have another more satisfying revenge. One against two beings who had wronged him years ago.

===Fall of Sorvanok===
In Mikona, Sorvanok's growing cult began conducting attacks on the city. It was discovered Sorvanok had become a demilich, and was on the verge of becoming a God of Undeath. The night before his fall, he sent his minions up to assault the city. Damar alongside many adventurers moved through the Mikona, dispatching the demilich's forces. Eventually they came to the North road and Sorvanok's mighty balor. The fight began, with more than a dozen warriors and priests surrounding the demon. But as time passed on, it continued to hold its own, even against Damar's onslaught of spells. Soon he had exhausted all of his offensive magicks, and the Balor still appeared to be in perfect condition while was tilting the melee into his favor. Damar searched through his bags for anything that may turn the tide. He found a single scroll. As the battle continued in front of him, he recited the parchment's inscriptions. The scroll disintegrating, Damar stretched out his arm, pointing his index finger at the demon. This last effort proved to be enough, the spell destroying the demon.

After the battle, Damar was approached by the [[Equalizer]] of [[Mikon]] [[PCs:Agatha Dane|Agatha Dane]]. Agatha wanted Damar to join her for a special meeting. The next day Agatha, Damar, and Jorio Alerian of the [[Guild:Order of Gorethar|Order of Gorethar]] entered the Great Library to speak with the wizard sage Meliorn. It was Meliorn who revealed the secret door in Sorvanok's throne room leading to the small temple housing his soul jar. Later, Damar joined the assembled heroes for the final operation against Sorvanok, which lead to the demilich's destruction. For his part in the campaign against the demilich, Damar was awarded an Amulet of Balance, marking him as a hero of Mikona.

===Artifacts of Najera===
It would not be long until Damar learned of the powerful Artifacts of Najera. While the other Orders learned of the artifacts on their own, Damar and the Ebony would not come into conflict with them as it was the returned Reyes, former partner and rival to Cyprian, who would be their main competition. Damar was able to stay ahead of Reyes, having planted a spy among his ranks named Peron, who then passed reports to the Ebony. Damar learned of the Demiliches Lobera, a former Archmage of the old [[Guild:GoldOrder|Gold Order]] during the period when it was no longer among the Fold (small and mostly insignificant), and Ibrasis, also from that period having been one of Lobera's officers.

In their time, they had planned to bolster the Gold Order with undead, restoring the power it lost when the orc magi were destroyed, and once again joining the Fold. It was not to be however, as once Lobera obtained the Artifacts of Najera, Ibrasis turned on him after Lobera refused to honor their agreement of sharing both the Staff and Amulet. Ibrasis took half of the undead they had gathered and fled Lobera, who now sought his destruction.

One note sent to Damar from his spy detailed a planned expedition by Reyes and his people into the Mikona Underdark to search for Ibrasis. the Ebony Order was able to defeat Reyes' group, and in return for his life Reyes gave Damar a key to Ibrasis's lair which was said to be deep in the Underdark.

Days after this, Damar was on the road to Mikona when he saw a zombie wandering out of the crypt. Upon closer inspection he determined this zombie was differant than the usual variety. He dealt with it and entered the crypt. On the lowest level with a swirl of blood, a floating skull appeared before Damar, an amulet hanging from a non existant neck, a staff held by invisible arms. This was Lobera. The two spoke, and Lobera said that he could take the key to Ibrasis's lair now if he desired, but that he would wait for Damar to come to him, after meeting Ibrasis. Before Lobera left, the demilich stated that he resided someplace Damar had been, but could no longer go.

Weeks later, the Ebony held an expedition to the greater Underdark in search of Ibrasis. Finally after scouring the Underdark for days, the key triggered a secret door. Damar and the others met with Ibrasis, who was in posession of a magical mirror capable of watching the artifacts' bearer. This was how he had managed to keep away from Lobera these three hundred years. Their host told them that the Ashen had already been to see Ibrasis, and confirmed Damar's suspicion that Lobera was in Le'Or T'Nanshi.

It was between these events that Damar completed his contribution to the Academy of Mortal Magic's History of Mortal Magic, and concluded his mentorship of a half-elven sorcerer Heiran Va'Mairne, who he trained alongside his former apprentice Vladmir Hurst.

Later in the year, Peron interrupted a meeting of the Ebony to announce that Reyes and some of his magi were in the Underdark below the city. He passed to Damar something he had just stolen, a peice of Sorvanok's flesh. Damar and the Ebony rushed below and confronted Reyes's group. The two factions began to negotiate. Damar was going to give Reyes the flesh in return for more information on Lobera and the Artifacts of Najera. As they were finalizing their agreement, Reyes vanished. Suspicious now, Damar quietly passed the flesh to Vanyanakya, as he questioned Reyes' mages. They did not know what happend to their leader either. It was then that what seemed to be a modified gate manifested, pulling Damar through it.

==Avernus==
===Prisoner===
The Archmage found himself in a large room of gold. Two stories of bookshelves lined its walls. Reyes stood to his side. First, they accused each other of being behind this "kidnapping". During their accusations, it was a familiar voice to them both that ended their bickering. Turning in unison, they both witnessed a figure dressed in holy robes of Valok. With supreme shock, Damar recognized the figure. It was Cyprian. Damar had been responsible for Cyprian's death, he had watched as the force of the Vortex of Chaos tore him to pieces, but there he stood. They spoke and Cyprian then sent a message to the Ebony, that Damar had placed Vanyankaya in charge until further notice, and that he would be busy for an undetermined amount of time.

Cyprian was calm, and seemed to bear no grudge. He soon vanished, leaving Reyes and Damar alone. Neither mage could find a way to escape this place.

Cyprian would appear from time to time as the days passed, offering nothing but idle conversation. Damar looked through the many tomes within the room. He found many of them revolved around Valok, His orc creations, His philosophy, or a combination of them all to some degree. With little to do, Damar read.

After what the Archmage of the Ebony assumed to be two months into his "prison sentence", Cyprian shared a meal with his so called guests. When Damar brought up the day of Cyprian's death, claiming innocence, Cyprian broke out of his good humored character and stated flatly that he knew exactly what had happened that day.

The weeks became months and when the tension between Damar and Reyes finally came to a boiling point, Cyprian appeared and put an end to it. He announced that today they would be taking a walk.

===A New Path===
Cyprian brought the two to a large courtyard. Here he answered many of the questions plaguing his guests. Cyprian explained that on the day of his death, His Lord Valok had rescued him from oblivion, that Valok had made him an Immortal. They were standing in Valok's domain on Avernus. It was at this point Reyes snapped. It was Reyes that had led a broken Gold Order, while Cyprian was safely in the Fold as Archmage of the Old Ebony Order. And yet it was Cyprian blessed with immortality. Reyes continued to explode at Cyprian until the immortal had him removed. Reyes was not seen again.

Damar continued to listen to Cyprian, not being in a position to do otherwise. Cyprian revealed the purpose for which he had abducted both the Archmage and Reyes. He explained to Damar that Valok had appointed him the task of seeing that a new Gold Order was created, that the time had come for Valok to gain a foothold in the world of the arcane once more. This was not such an amazing quest in itself, except that Cyprian also revealed that Valok wished for his creations, orcs, to be among this new order's ranks. A requirement if the Gold was to succeed as more than a puppet of the church.

Damar and Reyes were Cyprian's choices to carry out this mission on the prime, and with Reyes' tantrum, that left only the Archmage of the Ebony. Damar was left in his room to think matters over.

Why would he accept Cyprian's offer? The Ebony grew stronger by the day. Did he have a choice? It would be a challenge. Cyprian seemed well off after accepting Valok as his master. If Damar accepted, what would he receive as payment? Was the Ebony strong enough to continue without him? If this Order would be created no matter what, as the new Green Order had been, would he not be the best choice to avoid wasted effort on the part of Ebony in attempting to destroy it?

For several long days Damar thought over those very questions. Ultimately, he accepted Cyprian's quest of creating a new Gold Order. In return, Cyprian shared with Damar some of the secrets that had kept him youthful in his many years before becoming an immortal. It would not last forever, but it would be a start. Damar left that meeting appearing no older than 30 years old, and with another gift, a staff Cyprian had created not long after his ascension into immortality.

The now youthful Archmage spent the remaining portion of his time on Avernus training with Cyprian. The time came when Damar was ready to return to Avlis. He stepped through a gate and back into the Prime.

==Foundations of Gold==
===Return to the Prime===
Pursued through the gate by wandering devils, Damar's return was something of a show to those gathered outside the City of Mikona. It was not long until Damar met with several Ebony mages, Vanyankaya included. As they caught up, Damar learned that Vanya had assumed the title of Archmage as expected. She offered him his old station, but he declined, stating that it was not time yet to become an Archmagus again. Damar kept secret the details of his trip.

By choosing to create this Gold Order, Damar did not forget about the Ebony, the Order he had shaped. He had taught them all to hunt down competition, and while he guessed that he could achieve his goals with Vanya having this secret knowledge, there was no reason to take such a risk. As he would work to build his new Order, he would also watch over the old, as an Ebony magus, to be certain it was in proper hands. There were several promising magi who could take over even should Vanya leave, such as the then Great Mage of Arms, Sand.

As Damar began to recruit suitable Ebony veterans during his first days back on the prime, Cyprian appeared to him, saying that he should seek out the Artifacts of Najera. Damar had forgotten about them during his trip, and was surprised they were still in Lobera's possession. Around this time Damar also became a teacher at the Academy of Mortal Magic.

News to him also, was that the Ravager had returned, broken from his prison. Damar took this opportunity to work with the Order of Valok, who would be the ones to destroy the Ravager. He accompanied them on their quest to secure the Sword of Severing, studying who he knew would be future enemies. When the time for the final fight came, Damar allowed the Order of Valok, including several magi who would eventually join the Gold, to face the creature themselves. With their victory he noted their competence.

===Securing Ebony===
Damar encountered a young dabbler of the art in Mikona. Her name was Micah, and her thirst for knowledge of the Art led to her being accepted as what would become his most accomplished apprentice.

As he continued his recruitment for Gold, he looked to what business must be completed in the Ebony first. The Order was still banished from the nation of T'Nanshi, he wanted to rectify this. Fortunately, opportunity soon presented itself with Zevarion's escape from his prison within Zelvan Dur.

Many groups and orders had joined in an effort to reseal the master of the pale arts. But it was the Ebony Order that acquired a scroll containing the same curse that the seal warden Zal recently broken. With the threat of being cursed again, Zal was blackmailed into aiding the Trust restore the seal. As the ritual finished, word came of two undead armies. One tearing through the warzone to the south, and one coming straight to Le'Or. All present separated into two groups to meet each army. The Ebony went towards the war zone. That night Zevarion was defeated in Le'Or, and Damar's group put a dent in the warzone army, which had been led by Lobera. Apparently Lobera had been using Zevarion to strengthen his own legion of undead. In the aftermath, the banishment of the Ebony was lifted by the Council of Nine.

Eventually, Vanya was to leave her position as Archmage to pursue personal affairs. She left the decision of who would be the next to lead the Order to Damar and the three Great Magi. Votes were cast between the four. It was a tie, and Sand was willing to concede to Damar. Damar however told him it was still not time yet, and thus the elf Sand became the fourth Archmage of the Ebony Order of the Moon.

As far as Damar's own business, there were still the Artifacts of Najera to take care of. As Lobera grew impatient in his hunt for Ibrasis, he began to attack the cities of Le'Or T'Nanshi and Mikona. Several times they came face to face, Lobera now wearing the perverted body of the former Ivory Archmage D'Anjal. Not much came of these meetings, Lobera solely interested in Ibrasis.

===Lobera & Ibrasis===
By this time, Damar had returned to the High Council. It was through here and the Academy that he first heard of vampires within Lobera's Le'Or roots tower wearing gold robes and carrying Andrinor's mark. It seemed others were claiming to be of the Gold Order. Damar decided it was time to confront Lobera in his home.

Damar traveled beneath Le'Or, passing invisibly by its denizens. When he came to the magical door leading to Lobera's throne room, Cyprian appeared offering him passage through before disappearing again. The room was empty of life (and un-life). As Damar began to make himself comfortable, Lobera appeared. Their discussion was long with Lobera explaining his previous attempts at reviving the Gold Order during the days of the Fold of Eight, and then Damar telling his story. Lobera laughed at him, not believing Damar's story and accusing him of being an Angadarian, but as Damar continued the lich ultimately saw truth in his words. Lobera left momentarily and returned with three artifacts.

Two were matching bracers known as Valok's chosen. These were forged by Valok and given to the first Archmage of the Fold's Gold Order, and passed down to each until the Evocation tragedy. The other was a greatsword, surrounded by the aura that was clearly of Valok. Lobera explained that the blade had been created by Valok for the time when a sign would be needed to show his will. Specifically, that his anger had subsided. The weapon was heavily enchanted against orc blood, but the runes of the blade also only permitted its wielder to be a user of the art. Damar had never seen a weapon with power of this magnitude. Unfortunately, few if any mortals across the planes possess the power to wield it effectively, to do so would require divine intervention. The Equalizer of Valok as it was called, remained more a symbol than a weapon. He handed these to Damar.

Cyprian appeared again, and the three began to discuss their plans for the future. This was when the demilich Ibrasis appeared. Ibrasis, in posession of a mirror through which he could watch the bearer of the Artifacts of Najera, had been watching these conversations. Only with Cyprian's appearance did he finally begin to believe. The four spoke of how to proceed. Ibrasis and Lobera argued of course, but Damar brought them to reason, that this was their chance succeed where they had failed in the past. Working together a new Gold would rise. A problem quickly presented itself: The Trust wanted blood (or bone). Lobera had gone to the extreme in his massacres, furthermore he was still wearing the former Ivory Archmage.

Lobera expressed his pain, the pain of wielding the Artifacts of Najera for so long. He revealed his willingness to sacrifice himself and appease Andrinor's Trust and all those who had a score to settle. He warned Damar against taking the artifacts, that the price was too high. Damar noted the advice, but it was not necessary. He had already sought out the Artifacts as Cyprian had told him to, and found something greater.

Lobera made his final orders. His undead, including the marked ones, would follow Ibrasis but only on the condition that Ibrasis aid Damar in his restoration of the Gold. Lobera would allow the Trust their shot, but he would go down fighting.

The next day Damar joined a large assortment of Trust mages in their assault on Lobera's tower. During the battles, he and many of the other senior Trust members were split from the main group and left in Lobera's throne room. Lobera confronted the main group, and was finally destroyed by Fergus Goodman and the Hammer of Lithandiel. Meanwhile Ibrasis appeared to the group Damar was in, claiming to be the leader of the Gold Order. It suited Damar's purpose as he concentrated on assembling the flesh of the Order.

===Moderator===
As things settled after Lobera's fall, Melonius Mennallin announced the construction of the city of Visimontium, what many believe to be the one Andrinor prophesized many years earlier. He would be stepping down as Moderator of the High Council, and a new one would be elected in his place. It was Damar who eventually took the position of Moderator uncontested. Damar also aided in defending the Visimontium immigrant caravans as they traveled trough M'Chek.

===The Fist===
The Dwarven Quarters of M'Chek had for many years been infested with the ghosts of its former inhabitants. As the Order of Gorethar worked to free their dwarven brothers, an ancient artifact was discovered. The ring most commonly known as The Fist. This ring, once being part of a greater artifact, in its current form was said to possess magics for use against undeath. Several attempted to learn its secrets. The Noble House of M'chek was to have the ring sent north to Galdos, believing it to have once belonged to the Galdosians, when Damar appeared and presented evidence contrary to this, that the artifact had history from before its first finding in Galdos. The Noble House allowed Damar to take the ring, for the purpose of unlocking its power with the intention of using it to rid their sewers of the ghostly dwarves. Damar proved succesful where others had failed, but at the same time the Order of Gorethar cleansed the Quarters on their own through another method. With the Quarters cleansed, all lost interest in the Fist and it now remains safe inside Damar's robe pocket.

Returning to his work of completing the Gold Order, He had Ibrasis work on making contact with the mage cults of Brekon. Ibrasis would prove unsuccessful however.

===Bold Claims===
Damar continued to teach at the Academy. One student of his post-ascension class was the half-elf Cyprius. Cyprius took an interest in Damar and eventually claimed that he was his son, that he had grown up under the care of his mother, a sorceress from Damar's past. Uncharacteristically Damar seemed to accept or at least tolerate Cyprius's claim. He continued to guide Cyprius for a short time. Cyprius would eventually join the Ivory Order. He found Damar was not willing to be more than a strict teacher and so Cyprius continued on his own path.

===Glaring Gaze===
Having his hands in so many matters did not stop Damar from continuing his personal studies and further growth in the art. In Visimontium, Damar completed the invention of a powerful spell, Damar's Glaring Gaze. During his life, Damar had become what some would call an intimidating individual. Damar found that this was often useful. This spell was created for the occasions when his personal aura was not enough to achieve the desired effect.

==Archmage of Gold==
===In The Open===
By this time Micah had completed her apprenticeship and was well on her way to becoming a master of the art. As Damar was ready to make the split in the Order and have his magi reveal themselves, Micah became the Ebony Order's Archmage, making the split painless on both sides. The Gold Order of the Sand presented its living members to the world, and Damar publicly took the position he had held in secret for so long, that of Archmage of the Gold Order of the Sand.

===The Cults of Brekon & War in Visimontium===
Damar was regularly traveling between M'Chek and his new home of Visimontium where he sat in the City Council. Ibrasis had not made the contact he was supposed to and a faction of the Grantir army had also begun assaulting the City of Andrinor. The contact Damar wanted was eventually made by Marcus Deth. Marcus had learned of Kasaan, an orc mage who acted as a diplomat for several of Brekon's orc mage cults. Kasaan arrived in Visimontium after he and many other orc mages had received a dream they believed to have been from Valok, which sent them to Visimontium to defend it. As assaults on Visimontium continued, Damar solidified the Brekon magi joining the Gold Order.

During this Andrinorian-Angadarian "war", Damar spent time acting as interrogator and often visited the High Temple of Visimontium for long talks with the High Priestess Rayna Na'Tanlynn. He was one of the few to receive a divine dream from Andrinor showing how the god wished for the war to end. When the final day of the war came, Damar and all Orders joined together in defending Visimontium alongside the Sentinels of Visimontium. The splinter Grantir army was crushed, and Damar presided over the peace talks which followed.

The next several years would prove less eventful, as he continued on with his administrative duties as Archmage and Moderator. Damar had completed the task Cyprian had given him: The Gold Order of the Sand stood strong. Damar however, wanted to take it further. Many of his magi, orcs, were still not as safe as they should be. Since its existence, the Order had been threatened by the Church of Valok. While there were obvious casualties in this continuing feud, it led to some important events such as the discovery of the island academy "Sliver of Gold" and Gold magi entering the forbidden Fortress of Qaditha among them.

[[Category:PCs|Ogdem]]

PCs:Damar Ogdem

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=Basic Information=
[[Image:DamarPortrait2.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Portrait of '''Damar Ogdem''' by [[PCs:Ayren_Milen|Ayren Tochi'larian]]]]
'''Current Age:''' Old 
'''Appearance:''' Middle-Aged 
'''Race:''' Human 
'''Gender:''' Male 
'''Class:''' Wizard 
'''Residence:''' [[Mikona]], [[Visimontium]] 
'''Affiliations and Titles:'''
* Member Magus, [[Guild:GoldOrder|Gold Order of the Sand]]
* Lecturer: Post-Andrinor History, [[Arcane#Academy_of_Mortal_Magic|Academy of Mortal Magic]]
'''Former Affiliations'''
* Great Magus of Internal Affairs, [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony Order of the Moon]]
* Great Magus of Relations, [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony Order of the Moon]]
* Archmagus, [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony Order of the Moon]]
* Archmagus, [[Guild:GoldOrder|Gold Order of the Sand]]
* Moderator of the [[Arcane#The_High_Mage_Council|High Mage Council]], High Mage Council Representative on the [[Visimontium]] City Council
'''Research Interests''' 
* Necromancy
* Divination

=Select History=
==Early Life==
===Childhood===
Damar was born during the fall of 2044, the second child of the [[M'Chek|M'Chekian]] Daram Ogdem and his wife Cynia, the first being his older brother Baran five years Damar's senior. For the first years of his life, Damar lived on his Father's farm, not far from the city of [[Mikona]]. In his small communal school, Damar proved to be a precocious student, showing a quick wit and a keen intellect, but above all a thirst for knowledge. Unfortunetly for him, there was only so much to be learned in a small farm community.

The highlight of his childhood were the trips taken with his brother, and sometimes father, to sell goods in Mikona. The Rush of activity, the new sights and smells, so much different than his home gave him a glimpse of a larger world, a world with countless secrets to discover.

===Introduction to the Art===
On one such trip during the summer of Damar's 10th year he and his brother came across a group of other children crowded around an ancient man robed in grey. As Damar approached, the man shot his arms up, a multicolored light bursting into the sky. Damar leapt back in fright, only to soon notice the other children had not done the same, but were hopping up and down, cheering the man. Damar slipped in closer to the group, the childrens' ease granting him courage. The robed man, whose name
was said to be Lydon, continued with his illusions. As the other children looked on in amusement, Damar looked at what would become his future, magic. For the remainder of that summer any time he visited Mikona, Damar would break off from his father or brother to look for Lydon's show, which more often than not was in progress. The answer "magic" was a satisfying enough answer to most of the
children's questions, but not for Damar. He insisted on knowing how and why. He spent hours watching Lydon, at home it was all he spoke of. Some days he was even able to convince his brother Baran to take him to Mikona at the break of dawn, returning at nightfall to a furious father. The first week of fall, Damar was in Mikona with his brother, but found no Lydon. For the next eight months trip after trip, he was not to be found. Damar even prefered now to stay at home rather than venture south. It was not until the next summer that he once again found Lydon, with another group of children. Lydon explained that for most of the year, he was in [[Andarr]] of [[The Seven Cities|the seven cities]]. This summer the young boy even took it upon himself to invite Lydon to his home.

When Damar was 14 the Ogdem farm began suffering from the withering of crops and dryland sickness that most of the nation was now subject to. In effort to help the family's economic situation, Baran decided to join the M'chek army in their fight against the [[Elf|elves]] of [[T'Nanshi]]. Damar's own solution was to leave M'Chek for Andarr, where he Lydon had agreed to apprentice him.

===Apprenticeship in Andarr===
What Damar felt when first arriving in Mikona was multiplied tenfold when first entering the city of Andarr. This time however, he had a focus, his apprenticeship to Lydon. Immediately Lydon brought his apprentice to his humble home. Books covered much of the floor, covered with the thickest layers of dust. A pet raven caughed from the corner at their arrival.

Damar's first task was to clean up his new home. Lydon would only permit Damar to leave on errands for him. The transformation from jovial magician in Mikona to strict old wizard in Andarr was jarring, and Damar could not be sure which was the true Lydon. Damar however took everything in stride, now so close to learning the secrets behind Lydon's magic.

During the first months of tedious chores, he often thought of his home, his parents. It was only in the last month before summer that Damar was given his first elementary lesson in true magic. In the summer, Lydon and Damar returned to M'Chek. Lydon never answered Damar's question as to what Lydon's business was in Mikona every year. Damar returned to his family and to his amazement saw the farm was more productive than it had ever been. Damar's father could not explain how their luck had changed. His father wanted to know if he would come back to them. Damar refused, and giving his family what gold Lydon had paid him, he left. Damar returned to Lydon, requesting they return to Andarr so that he could immediately continue his studies. To Damar's surprise, Lydon accepted.

Damar studied under Lydon for the next few years: languages, geography, and finally the art. Damar's mind became solely focused on the magic. He no longer thought about his past or his family this time, he had but one goal, comprehension of the arcane.

===Stranger in the Night===
Finally the day came when Damar cast his first cantrip, a simple spell of light, cast on Lydon's raven who did not appreciate it. It was no grand magic, but for that moment Damar felt like a grand wizard. That same night as Damar was reading about ganooms by the fire, a loud knock sounded from the door. Lydon answered the door himself. A hooded man in dark robes entered the house. Lydon and his guest moved upstairs. What was strange was that in all his time in Andarr, Lydon never had any type of guest. Damar attempted to eavesdrop on the conversation to no avail. Damar returned to his reading spot. A few minutes later, he heard their voices rise, shouting at eachother. The ceiling began to shake, as Damar ran to the stairs he identified the chants of spellcasting. Lydon's body tumbled down the stairs rolling into his apprentice. Recovering from the fall, Damar looked down at a broken body, smokes rising from it's chest. Damar looked up the stairs frozen, and the hooded man came down, offering him a slight nod as he walked out the door.

While Lydon had meant much to Damar, investigations by the law would only hinder Damar's quest for knowledge and so the body was disposed of. With what gold Lydon kept in the house, Damar was able to live on his own for a time. Now there were no limits to what he could and could not read, what knowledge could be absorbed. For one brief moment it occurred to Damar that it may be proper for him to return to his parents. This notion was dismissed as Damar found Lydon's private collection.

===Return Home===
Even with such knowledge at his fingertips, no matter the dedication, there is only so much time a young man can endure cooped up in a house reading. Damar returned to M'Chek, now in his early twenties. In the end he had decided to visit his family. Arriving at the farm late in the evening, he entered his former home to find the corpses of his parents and two young children. It was then Damar realized how long he had been gone, he had two more siblings without even knowing it. In his search for answers, neighbors revealed that recently there was much more bandit activity, with raiders behaving more brave than usual. He also learned that his brother was missing in action, his body not found after a skirmish with elven soldiers at the village of [The_Village_of_Blandenberg|Blandenberg].

The evident question, at least regarding his parents and sisters, was had he been there could he have stopped it? Most likely not he concluded. Settling affairs on the farm, Damar traveled south back to Mikona, a familiar raven flying over him.

==Magus==
===Adventuring Career===
Arriving in Mikona, Damar made his way to the City Gate Inn. Here as fortune would have it, he encountered a group of three older men. Joining the conversation, Damar learned all three were wizards. [[PCs:Peregryne Twostep|Peregryne Twostep]] who for the next few years Damar would look to as omnipotent, [[NPCs:Melonius Mennallin|Melonius Mennallin]], and [[PCs:Talman Grumb|Talman Grumb]]. Watching and listening to these three men only confirmed to Damar that his quest for arcane knowledge was a valid one.

Damar began his career of adventure, first exploring the Mikona crypts alongside Talman and Talman's bear Octavius. He met many others who would move on to accomplish great deeds, and was dragged off to many dangerous places where it was a miracle he survived. Throughout these days he had three close companions, each very different from the other. One was the monk [[PCs:Tren Ster|Tren Ster]], it was with him Damar shared the most of his early adventures. The Second was the [[cleric]] of [[Gorethar]] [[PCs:Jorio Alerian|Jorio Alerian]], who would one day become a High Priest. Third was the elven [[Sorcerer|sorceress]] [[PCs:Elrandra Glyndorr|Elrandra Glyndorr]].

===Fenius & The Bandit Queen===
Facing all of these trials, Damar found many opportunities to apply his studies. His skill with the art began to grow as the difficulty of his challenges became greater. One afternoon Damar stood by the entrance to one such challenge, [[The Hills of Tumult]]. Here he awaited the arrival of Tren as together they had planned to pick a fight with some giants. Waiting there alone he heard the sounds of battle and rushed into the hills for a closer look. It was there he heard the crackle of evoked lightning and smelt sizzling flesh as he came to a lone man surrounded by a pile of burnt giant corpses. The sorcerer, who would reveal his name as Fenius, told Damar he had destroyed the giants out of revenge for having previously been embarrassed by them. This show of arcane power was the most impressive Damar had seen up to this point in his life. The two spoke for a time until Fenius left as Tren arrived.

Not long after his encounter with Fenius, Damar was shopping for supplies in the Marketplace of Mikona when an excited Tren came to him, going on about an expedition to defeat a "witch". Soon many were gathered in the Rompin Romini Inn as a [[dwarf]] told them of the Bandit Queen Hugar and her approximate location. Of most interest to Damar, was the dwarf's mentioned Fenius as a companion to this [[NPCs:Hugar|Hugar]]. Narin Grans, a kindly priest, was on a quest to cure lycanthropy, and was in need of a tome in Hugar's possession. Against the protests of some of the gathered adventurers who included [[PCs:Mari Briggs|Mari Briggs]] and Anspach, Narin wished to meet with Hugar and bargain for the tome peacefully. Nonetheless many joined Narin on his trip, including Damar who wanted to learn if there was truth behind the talk of Fenius being involved.

Traveling north at great speed, the large group found Hugar quickly. Narin wished to meet Hugar alone, but most objected, and so Narin was to take a few bodyguards. Among them were Tren and Talman. As many suspected, Hugar had no desire for negotiating for the tome, and attacked Narin and his guards. Soon the battle was joined with the party of adventurers in it's entirety fighting Hugar, Fenius, and a coal dragon. During the fight Damar did his best not to target Fenius, and in the end Hugar and the dragon lie slain. Fenius had managed to escape, and later Damar joined a smaller force who wished to hunt him down. Fenius was able to dispatch most of the group, but left Damar unharmed. Damar could not find any moral compulsion to force him into a fight with the sorcerer.

==The Vortex of Chaos==
===Fateful Encounters===
Some months later, word spread of powerful mages momentarily losing their power. Melonius was one example, while another was a great dragon whose lair was in the [[The Lost River Caverns|Lost River Cavern]]. This marked the beginning of what would lead into the [[Vortex of Chaos]] Saga. It was one day, not long after these oddities began to occur, that Damar was once again near the Hills of Tumult when a magical gate opened and a dark robed mage appeared. The mage, [[NPCs:Cyprian|Cyprian]], spoke of events to come and of an order which was being founded, an [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony Order]]. As the man spoke of his Order Damar became intrigued. Perhaps he would find others to work with, those who valued knowledge as much as he. Damar left the outskirts of the Hills thoughtful.

Taking the path from the east to Mikona, Damar was almost at the city gates when before him in the middle of the road another magical gate manifested. Before him stood a dark skinned man in simple black clothes, with horns protruding from his head. A fiendish trait. Damar asked the stranger who he was and the stranger responded that Damar knew exactly who he was. It was [[Andrinor]], the God of Mortal Magic. Damar simply knew. Andrinor told him that he wanted Damar to become the leader of this new Ebony Order and should he, that he would gain Andrinor's favor. However, should he reveal this conversation to anyone...and as the God trailed off he summoned flaming debris, a meteor storm which left the surrounding area aflame. Andrinor's avatar disappeared as quickly as it had arrived (Note: it is only with this writing that the mention of this meeting has now been permitted).

===The Ebony Order===
Only a few days after those encounters the first meeting of the Ebony Order took place. Here Damar and Fenius were two of the founding members and were joined by three other younger mages along with older mages who had been accompanying Cyprian for years.

Aside from Cyprian, Damar was the only one who wore his robes in public, allowing others to know of his allegiance to the Ebony Order. He was also the Order's only mouthpiece. In time he was joined by [[PCs:Vanyankaya Del'Trion|Vanyankaya Del'Trion]], his first recruit for the Order and the first after its founding. Damar continued to work for the Order, staying active in developments regarding the Vortex of Chaos, and also recruitment. For his dedication, Cyprian made him the Order's first Great Mage of Internal Affairs. Not long after that, he switched positions with the first Great Mage of Relations, Seven, who preferred not to speak in public, nor reveal her identity as an Ebony mage.

===Sereg'wethrin en Edan===
Not all of Damar's dealings during this period revolved around the Vortex. He defended [[Equaloria keep]] and other locations from [[Elf,Sereg|sereg'wethrin]]. Standing high on the ledge surrounding Equaloria, Damar was firing off his magic into groups of sereg'wethrin, while the warriors below engaged the dark elves in melee. Upon the ledge also stood Melonius Mennallin, then Archmage of the [[Guild:IvoryOrder|Ivory Order]], alongside [[PCs:Mari Briggs|Mari Briggs]], and another member mage of the Ivory. This other mage, introduced himself as [[PCs:Aramil Fynn|Aramil Fynn]] and joined Damar in his spell flinging. As the two rained death upon the small sereg'wethrin army, Melonius kept remarking with a sneer, as so many old men who know better do, about waiting for the right time and how they must conserve their magic. Aramil and Damar continued, in the end sharing a grin as both noticed Melonius had never flung a single spell. Aramil and Damar would one day clash, in the closing events of the chase for the Vortex of Chaos.

Eventually the campaign of the sereg'wethrin ended with a massive assault on Mikona. Damar was among those who defended the city, then moving north to aid another army of defenders fending off a secondary force. For their actions, Cyprian rewarded both Damar and Vanyankaya with amulets of Ebony Obedience.

===The Coven===
As an Ebony mage, Damar also became involved with another organization. One day while passing through the Mikona Crypt, he was assaulted by a powerful vampiric creature. Upon defeating it, a mysterious woman appeared and called the fight a test to see if he was worthy. The woman told of a powerful group being formed, to which Damar replied that he had enough masters already. Days later he encountered the woman [[NPCs:Lanessa|Lanessa]] again and she announced that the leadership of this organization had accepted him as another co-leader. Damar found that two people he had fought beside on many occasions were this group's leadership, joined by Lanessa.

As time passed Damar saw that their group was possessed great strength, but it lacked a true focus, a goal. Power must be used for something. Lanessa presented a goal. She spoke of an old relic, a tome containing great summoning magics. From that point on that book, the Necronomicon, was their focus. Lanessa, a "vampyre", (powerful vampires seemingly immune to daylight) revealed the one who held the tome, an enemy from her past known as Nastassiou, a supposedly hybrid Demon-Vampyre. In the end, many contributed to the demon's defeat. But it was this group Damar was part of which left with the tome. Or more specifically, Lanessa left with it. From Nastassiou's remains, Lanessa crafted several magical rings, known as Nastassiou's knuckles. Damar received one.

===Realization of Mortality===
Between the business involved with his and his allies' "Legion", his Ebony duties, and tracking the Vortex, Damar had become an accomplished wizard. But as his power had grown, and more secrets were unraveled, Damar was confronted by the realization many magi and persons of power eventually come to. He was mortal, he could not practice the art forever. Earlier in his career he had become interested in the concept of immortality, the opportunity to practice the art for eternity. His first knowledge of one possible method had come with the talk of the lich [[NPCs:Sorvanok|Sorvanok]], residing deep below the city of Mikona. Damar had previously been involved on several small quests to learn of a method do defeat the lich alongside heroes such as [[PCs:Timo_Karr|Timo Karr]], [[PCs:Kima_Karr|Kima Karr]], and [[PCs:Hargas_Steelhead|Hargas Steelhead]], and so was aware of certain details concerning the lich, such as the exact location of its home. He entered the domain of the lich with the hope that he would learn more of lichdom. This was a mistake. Damar barely escaped the ill humored Sorvanok with his life. Nevertheless, Damar continued focusing in the necromantic arts, to discover the secrets of lichdom on his own. While he would continue the study of necromancy for many years to come, his reasons would change as he learned of another method leading to immortality.

While studying in the Great Library of Mikona, Damar met a plump old half-elf named Jestan, whose eyes seemed to betray an age even older than his face revealed. The two spoke of several subjects, and being suspicious of the half-elf, eventually the conversation came to extended life, immortality. He explained to Damar that there are those who serve their God so well that they are granted a true immortality, not the farce that is lichhood. He told Damar that he himself was one such immortal. This route interested Damar greatly. Of course such a feat was no simple undertaking, but in theory time spent serving a higher being would be acceptable, providing over an endless amount of years ample time to continue one's own personal studies.

It was also during this period of time that Damar took on his first apprentice, a mage called Vladmir Hurst, in an effort to pass down what he had learned.

===The End of the Vortex of Chaos===
Two more events of importance involving Jestan and Sorvanok would occur before the Saga of the Vortex came to its end. The first came when Damar was certain the Vortex would soon fall into his hands. Not wishing to take any chances however, he struck a deal with the Immortal's Deity. In exchange for the power of the Vortex of Chaos, Damar swore loyalty to this Deity.

The second came when Damar was exploring the Mikona [[Underdark]] for a rumored second entrance. Sorvanok apparently was aware of the intrusion, which triggered one of many undead attacks on the city, headed by the lich's powerful balor. The balor announced Damar as the intruder, and shortly after Damar was banished from the city despite his many previous services to it.

The next day Damar was found in the city by the great demon. They fought but the fiend seemed invulnerable. The pain inflicted on Damar that day was something he would never forget. Shortly after the experience, Damar again defended the city from another threat and was acquitted of the charges and welcomed back into the city.

The Vortex did end up in Damar's hands for a time, before he was advised to pass it to Cyprian. As is recounted in the [[Academy of Mortal Magic]]'s History of Mortal Magic volumes, Damar unleashed the power of the Vortex of Chaos, killing Cyprian. Andrinor than appeared before all those gathered above the Lost River Cavern and announced the creation of Andrinor's Trust and set the members of his first three Orders of magic to creating a council and an academy of the art. Damar asked Andrinor why he had created the Vortex of Chaos. The god famously replied that gods do things for only two reasons, to gain power and for amusement, and in this case it was both.

With Cyprian dead and the Vortex of Chaos no more, Damar had his Order's support in becoming its second Archmage. Meeting with Jestan, Damar was not pleased with the turn of events which had required Cyprian's death, and the fact that when the dust had settled, he did not have exactly what was promised, his deal having been very specific. Jestan pointed out that he may not have received everything he wanted, but he was Archmage. Damar agreed on that point and continued to "serve" the Deity, preferring to deal with the immortal rather than fellow followers. Damar knew however that the contract had not been lived up to, and he was not held to this union. In the meantime he figured there may be something to gain from it. In the aspects of religion after all, Damar was most mercenary. He saw Deities as potential employers, and this one seemed to have made the highest offer at the time.

==Archmage of Ebony==
===Andrinor's Trust===
The Ebony was not the only Order to have a change of leadership. In the weeks after Damar became the Archmage of the Ebony, Elrandra was named the second Archmage of the [[Guild:AshenOrder|Ashen Order of the Stars]], replacing the missing Belaluldor, and Talman became the second Archmage of the Ivory Order of the Sun, successor to Melonius who left the Order. During this time the High Mage Council of Avlis was created, with Damar among its founding members.

===Departure from the Coven===
As Damar adjusted to his new leadership role, the Legion he was a part of was not doing well. Again with no goal, all the strength in the world meant nothing. Lanessa shortly thereafter betrayed the Legion she had founded. She turned to a Deity from her own world with no power here, the one known as Vecna. Lanessa left Avlis with the necronomicon in her posession, leaving her associates without their prize. After this a god expressed his will that those who worshipped him were to leave this Legion. It is possible more than one Deity made this demand, but the one of importance here is the same god Damar at the time was serving. Damar, never seeing himself as a true "worshipper", and believing the Legion may still hold potential, for the first time in his life sought spiritual guidance. He prayed. Later that night he had a dream.

He stood in a temple, surrounded by hundreds of people wearing the colors of his God. They danced around what he saw to be the body of Lanessa, impaled on a wooden pike, celebrating the death. Then the dream changed from a usual dream of images into a fast moving stream of consciousness and concept transfer. Damar realized this was how Gods communicated among themselves. He sensed an object of a certain shape and size, an object he knew represented the Legion. He then sensed another object, one he felt was fueled by the loyalists of his Deity. When comparing the two, it was clear the second was larger, continuing to grow. Meanwhile the first went on to exist, totally independent of the second, no connection between the two apparent. Damar left the Legion, as did others among its leadership. It lingered on for a short while after.

===Sinister Deeds===
At this time, the Ebony Order began to expand under Damar's command. It was also during this period that a great many of the rumours involving Damar Ogdem and various sinister dealings and deeds take place. While many still remain only known to him and others involved, one of particular note is the massacre of [[Le'Or T'Nanshi]].

Several Ebony Order mages had recently been attacked without provocation by members of the T'Nanshi army. In response to this, Damar and two other powerful Ebony mages entered the garrison of Le'Or T'Nanshi and slayed dozens of soldiers. As they made their escape some brave (or foolish) citizens attempted to strike back at the mages. They died. From this attack many rumours spread, incredulous numbers were repeated. Some said thousands died, others that the city was under siege, districts destroyed. False accounts, but such events do have effect on a man's reputation. Soon the [[Council of Nine]] declared that the entirety of the Ebony Order of the Moon was banished from T'Nanshi.

Damar and other Ebony magi continued to enter T'Nanshi when business deemed it necessary. Damar went so far as to occasionally join M'Chek soldiers in the borderlands, shifting loss to victory. While officially they were to treat such combatants as bandits, no soldier ever refused his aid. These stints in the warzone however did not come often, and Damar usually had his hands full in M'Chek.

With the appearance of the Ravager, also known as the "[[NPCs:Gentleman|Gentleman]]", Damar saw a possible opportunity. Their first meeting however did not go well, with the tainted spirit assaulting him. There is little one could do with a powerful being bent on world destruction he reasoned. Damar in the end was among those who joined together to reseal the Ravager, Damar getting his revenge. He would soon have another more satisfying revenge. One against two beings who had wronged him years ago.

===Fall of Sorvanok===
In Mikona, Sorvanok's growing cult began conducting attacks on the city. It was discovered Sorvanok had become a demilich, and was on the verge of becoming a God of Undeath. The night before his fall, he sent his minions up to assault the city. Damar alongside many adventurers moved through the Mikona, dispatching the demilich's forces. Eventually they came to the North road and Sorvanok's mighty balor. The fight began, with more than a dozen warriors and priests surrounding the demon. But as time passed on, it continued to hold its own, even against Damar's onslaught of spells. Soon he had exhausted all of his offensive magicks, and the Balor still appeared to be in perfect condition while was tilting the melee into his favor. Damar searched through his bags for anything that may turn the tide. He found a single scroll. As the battle continued in front of him, he recited the parchment's inscriptions. The scroll disintegrating, Damar stretched out his arm, pointing his index finger at the demon. This last effort proved to be enough, the spell destroying the demon.

After the battle, Damar was approached by the [[Equalizer]] of [[Mikon]] [[PCs:Agatha Dane|Agatha Dane]]. Agatha wanted Damar to join her for a special meeting. The next day Agatha, Damar, and Jorio Alerian of the [[Guild:Order of Gorethar|Order of Gorethar]] entered the Great Library to speak with the wizard sage Meliorn. It was Meliorn who revealed the secret door in Sorvanok's throne room leading to the small temple housing his soul jar. Later, Damar joined the assembled heroes for the final operation against Sorvanok, which lead to the demilich's destruction. For his part in the campaign against the demilich, Damar was awarded an Amulet of Balance, marking him as a hero of Mikona.

===Artifacts of Najera===
It would not be long until Damar learned of the powerful Artifacts of Najera. While the other Orders learned of the artifacts on their own, Damar and the Ebony would not come into conflict with them as it was the returned Reyes, former partner and rival to Cyprian, who would be their main competition. Damar was able to stay ahead of Reyes, having planted a spy among his ranks named Peron, who then passed reports to the Ebony. Damar learned of the Demiliches Lobera, a former Archmage of the old [[Guild:GoldOrder|Gold Order]] during the period when it was no longer among the Fold (small and mostly insignificant), and Ibrasis, also from that period having been one of Lobera's officers.

In their time, they had planned to bolster the Gold Order with undead, restoring the power it lost when the orc magi were destroyed, and once again joining the Fold. It was not to be however, as once Lobera obtained the Artifacts of Najera, Ibrasis turned on him after Lobera refused to honor their agreement of sharing both the Staff and Amulet. Ibrasis took half of the undead they had gathered and fled Lobera, who now sought his destruction.

One note sent to Damar from his spy detailed a planned expedition by Reyes and his people into the Mikona Underdark to search for Ibrasis. the Ebony Order was able to defeat Reyes' group, and in return for his life Reyes gave Damar a key to Ibrasis's lair which was said to be deep in the Underdark.

Days after this, Damar was on the road to Mikona when he saw a zombie wandering out of the crypt. Upon closer inspection he determined this zombie was differant than the usual variety. He dealt with it and entered the crypt. On the lowest level with a swirl of blood, a floating skull appeared before Damar, an amulet hanging from a non existant neck, a staff held by invisible arms. This was Lobera. The two spoke, and Lobera said that he could take the key to Ibrasis's lair now if he desired, but that he would wait for Damar to come to him, after meeting Ibrasis. Before Lobera left, the demilich stated that he resided someplace Damar had been, but could no longer go.

Weeks later, the Ebony held an expedition to the greater Underdark in search of Ibrasis. Finally after scouring the Underdark for days, the key triggered a secret door. Damar and the others met with Ibrasis, who was in posession of a magical mirror capable of watching the artifacts' bearer. This was how he had managed to keep away from Lobera these three hundred years. Their host told them that the Ashen had already been to see Ibrasis, and confirmed Damar's suspicion that Lobera was in Le'Or T'Nanshi.

It was between these events that Damar completed his contribution to the Academy of Mortal Magic's History of Mortal Magic, and concluded his mentorship of a half-elven sorcerer Heiran Va'Mairne, who he trained alongside his former apprentice Vladmir Hurst.

Later in the year, Peron interrupted a meeting of the Ebony to announce that Reyes and some of his magi were in the Underdark below the city. He passed to Damar something he had just stolen, a peice of Sorvanok's flesh. Damar and the Ebony rushed below and confronted Reyes's group. The two factions began to negotiate. Damar was going to give Reyes the flesh in return for more information on Lobera and the Artifacts of Najera. As they were finalizing their agreement, Reyes vanished. Suspicious now, Damar quietly passed the flesh to Vanyanakya, as he questioned Reyes' mages. They did not know what happend to their leader either. It was then that what seemed to be a modified gate manifested, pulling Damar through it.

==Avernus==
===Prisoner===
The Archmage found himself in a large room of gold. Two stories of bookshelves lined its walls. Reyes stood to his side. First, they accused each other of being behind this "kidnapping". During their accusations, it was a familiar voice to them both that ended their bickering. Turning in unison, they both witnessed a figure dressed in holy robes of Valok. With supreme shock, Damar recognized him...It was Cyprian. Damar had been responsible for Cyprian's death, watched as the force of the Vortex of Chaos tore him to pieces, but there he stood. In a daze Damar answered the questions posed to him by Cyprian. Cyprian then sent a message to the Ebony, that Damar had placed Vanyankaya in charge until further notice, and that he would be busy for an undetermined amount of time.

Cyprian did not lash out at Damar. In fact, he seemed content. However, he did not answer any questions that first day. Cyprian vanished, and the two prisoners searched for an escape route. They found none. In the coming moments and days, they would find the room protected from their magic, with no apparent exit.

As the weeks passed, Cyprian would appear for minutes each day, offering food and irrelevant conversation. Reyes chose to brood, as Damar looked through the many tomes within the room. He found they all dealt with Valok, His orc creations, His philosophy, or a combination of them all to some degree. With little to do, Damar read.

After what the Archmage of the Ebony assumed to be two months into his "prison sentence", Cyprian shared a meal with his so called "guests". When Damar brought up the day of Cyprian's death, claiming innocence, Cyprian broke out of his good humored character and stated flatly that he knew exactly what had happened that day.

The weeks became months. Damar read a large majority of the room's literature in between arguing with Reyes. Finally the day came when neither Reyes nor Damar could tolerate the existence of the other. They fought with staff and spell for several minutes. Cyprian appeared and put an end to it. He announced to the exhausted and weakened magi that today they would be taking a walk.

===A New Path===
Cyprian brought the two to a large courtyard. Here he answered many of the questions plaguing his guests. Cyprian explained that on the day of his death, His Lord Valok had rescued him from oblivion, that Valok had made him an Immortal. They were standing in Valok's domain on Avernus. It was at this point Reyes finally snapped. It was Reyes that had led a broken Gold Order, while Cyprian was safely in the Fold as Archmage of the Old Ebony Order. And yet it was Cyprian blessed with immortality. Reyes continued to explode at Cyprian until the immortal had him removed. Damar did not see Reyes again.

Damar continued to listen to Cyprian, not being in a position to do otherwise. Cyprian revealed the purpose that he had abducted both he and Reyes. He explained to Damar that Valok had appointed him the task of seeing that a new Gold Order was created, that the time had come to place a foothold in the world of the arcane. This was not such an amazing quest in itself, except that Cyprian also revealed that Valok wished for his creations, orcs, to be among this new order's ranks. A requirement if the Gold was to succeed as more than a puppet.

Damar and Reyes were Cyprian's choices to carry out this mission on the prime, and with Reyes' tantrum, that left only the Archmage of the Ebony. Damar was left in his room to think matters over.

Why would he accept Cyprian's offer? The Ebony grew stronger by the day. Did he have a choice? It would be a challenge. Cyprian seemed well off after accepting Valok as his master. If Damar accepted, what would he receive as payment? Was the Ebony strong enough to continue without him? If this Order would be created no matter what, as the new Green Order had been, would he not be the best choice to avoid wasted effort on the part of Ebony in attempting to destroy it?

For days Damar thought over those very questions. Ultimately, he accepted Cyprian's quest of creating a new Gold Order. In return, Cyprian shared with Damar some of the secrets that had kept him youthful in his many years before becoming an immortal. It would not last forever, but it would be a start. Damar left that meeting appearing no older than 30 years old, and with another gift, a staff Cyprian had created not long after his ascension into immortality.

The now youthful Archmage spent the remaining portion of his time on Avernus training with Cyprian. The time came when Damar was ready to return to Avlis. He stepped through a gate and back into the Prime.

==Foundations of Gold==
===Return to the Prime===
Pursued through the gate by wandering devils, Damar's return was something of a show to those gathered outside the City of Mikona. It was not long until Damar met with several Ebony mages, Vanyankaya included. As they caught up, Damar learned that Vanya had assumed the title of Archmage as expected. She offered him his old station, but he declined, stating that it was not time yet to become an Archmagus again. Damar kept secret the details of his trip for a time.

By choosing to create this Gold Order, Damar did not forget about the Ebony, the Order he had shaped. He had taught them all to hunt down competition, and while he guessed that he could achieve his goals with Vanya's knowledge, there was no reason to take such a risk. As he would work to build his new Order, he would also watch over the old, as an Ebony magus, to be certain it was in proper hands. There were several promising magi who could take over even should Vanya leave, such as the then Great Mage of Arms, Sand.

As Damar began to recruit suitable Ebony veterans during his first days back on the prime, Cyprian appeared to him, saying that he should seek out the Artifacts of Najera. Damar had forgotten about them during his trip, and was surprised they were still in Lobera's possession. Around this time Damar also became a teacher at the Academy of Mortal Magic.

News to him also, was that the Ravager had returned, broken from his prison. Damar took this opportunity to work with the Order of Valok, who would be the ones to destroy the Ravager. He accompanied them on their quest to secure the Sword of Severing, studying who he knew would be future enemies. When the time for the final fight came, Damar allowed the Order of Valok, including and joined by several magi who would eventually join the Gold, to face the creature themselves. With their victory he noted their competence.

===Securing Ebony===
Damar encountered a young dabbler of the art in Mikona. Her name was Micah, and her thirst for knowledge of the Art led to her being accepted as what would become his most accomplished apprentice.

As he continued his recruitment for Gold, he looked to what business must be completed in the Ebony first. The Order was still banished from the nation of T'Nanshi, he wanted to rectify this. Fortunately, opportunity soon presented itself with Zevarion's escape from his prison within Zelvan Dur.

Many groups and orders had joined in an effort to reseal the master of the pale arts. But it was the Ebony Order that acquired a scroll containing the same curse that the seal warden Zal recently broken. With the threat of being cursed again, Zal was blackmailed into aiding the Trust restore the seal. As the ritual finished, word came of two undead armies. One tearing through the warzone to the south, and one coming straight to Le'Or. All present separated into two groups to meet each army. The Ebony went towards the war zone. That night Zevarion was defeated in Le'Or, and Damar's group put a dent in the warzone army, which had been led by Lobera. Apparently Lobera had been using Zevarion to strengthen his own legion of undead. In the aftermath, the banishment of the Ebony was lifted by the Council of Nine.

Eventually, Vanya was to leave her position as Archmage to pursue personal affairs. She left the decision of who would be the next to lead the Order to Damar and the three Great Magi. Votes were cast between the four. It was a tie, and Sand was willing to concede to Damar. Damar however told him it was still not time yet, and thus the elf Sand became the fourth Archmage of the Ebony Order of the Moon.

As far as Damar's own business, there were still the Artifacts of Najera to take care of. As Lobera grew impatient in his hunt for Ibrasis, he began to attack the cities of Le'Or T'Nanshi and Mikona. Several times they came face to face, Lobera now wearing the perverted body of the former Ivory Archmage D'Anjal. Not much came of these meetings, Lobera solely interested in Ibrasis.

===Lobera & Ibrasis===
By this time, Damar had returned to the High Council. It was through here and the Academy that he first heard of vampires within Lobera's Le'Or roots tower wearing gold robes and carrying Andrinor's mark. It seemed others were claiming to be of the Gold Order. Damar decided it was time to confront Lobera in his home.

Damar traveled beneath Le'Or, passing invisibly by its denizens. When he came to the magical door leading to Lobera's throne room, Cyprian appeared offering him passage through before disappearing again. The room was empty of life (and un-life). As Damar began to make himself comfortable, Lobera appeared. Their discussion was long with Lobera explaining his previous attempts at reviving the Gold Order during the days of the Fold of Eight, and then Damar telling his story. Lobera laughed at him, not believing Damar's story and accusing him of being an Angadarian, but as Damar continued the lich ultimately saw truth in his words. Lobera left momentarily and returned with three artifacts.

Two were matching bracers known as Valok's chosen. These were forged by Valok and given to the first Archmage of the Fold's Gold Order, and passed down to each until the Evocation tragedy. The other was a greatsword, surrounded by the aura that was clearly of Valok. Lobera explained that the blade had been created by Valok for the time when a sign would be needed to show his will. Specifically, that his anger had subsided. The weapon was heavily enchanted against orc blood, but the runes of the blade also only permitted its wielder to be a user of the art. Damar had never seen a weapon with power of this magnitude. Unfortunately, few if any mortals across the planes possess the power to wield it effectively, to do so would require divine intervention. The Equalizer of Valok as it was called, remained more a symbol than a weapon. He handed these to Damar.

Cyprian appeared again, and the three began to discuss their plans for the future. This was when the demilich Ibrasis appeared. Ibrasis, in posession of a mirror through which he could watch the bearer of the Artifacts of Najera, had been watching these conversations. Only with Cyprian's appearance did he finally begin to believe. The four spoke of how to proceed. Ibrasis and Lobera argued of course, but Damar brought them to reason, that this was their chance succeed where they had failed in the past. Working together a new Gold would rise. A problem quickly presented itself: The Trust wanted blood (or bone). Lobera had gone to the extreme in his massacres, furthermore he was still wearing the former Ivory Archmage.

Lobera expressed his pain, the pain of wielding the Artifacts of Najera for so long. He revealed his willingness to sacrifice himself and appease Andrinor's Trust and all those who had a score to settle. He warned Damar against taking the artifacts, that the price was too high. Damar noted the advice, but it was not necessary. He had already sought out the Artifacts as Cyprian had told him to, and found something greater.

Lobera made his final orders. His undead, including the marked ones, would follow Ibrasis but only on the condition that Ibrasis aid Damar in his restoration of the Gold. Lobera would allow the Trust their shot, but he would go down fighting.

The next day Damar joined a large assortment of Trust mages in their assault on Lobera's tower. During the battles, he and many of the other senior Trust members were split from the main group and left in Lobera's throne room. Lobera confronted the main group, and was finally destroyed by Fergus Goodman and the Hammer of Lithandiel. Meanwhile Ibrasis appeared to the group Damar was in, claiming to be the leader of the Gold Order. It suited Damar's purpose as he concentrated on assembling the flesh of the Order.

===Moderator===
As things settled after Lobera's fall, Melonius Mennallin announced the construction of the city of Visimontium, what many believe to be the one Andrinor prophesized many years earlier. He would be stepping down as Moderator of the High Council, and a new one would be elected in his place. It was Damar who eventually took the position of Moderator uncontested. Damar also aided in defending the Visimontium immigrant caravans as they traveled trough M'Chek.

===The Fist===
The Dwarven Quarters of M'Chek had for many years been infested with the ghosts of its former inhabitants. As the Order of Gorethar worked to free their dwarven brothers, an ancient artifact was discovered. The ring most commonly known as The Fist. This ring, once being part of a greater artifact, in its current form was said to possess magics for use against undeath. Several attempted to learn its secrets. The Noble House of M'chek was to have the ring sent north to Galdos, believing it to have once belonged to the Galdosians, when Damar appeared and presented evidence contrary to this, that the artifact had history from before its first finding in Galdos. The Noble House allowed Damar to take the ring, for the purpose of unlocking its power with the intention of using it to rid their sewers of the ghostly dwarves. Damar proved succesful where others had failed, but at the same time the Order of Gorethar cleansed the Quarters on their own through another method. With the Quarters cleansed, all lost interest in the Fist and it now remains safe inside Damar's robe pocket.

Returning to his work of completing the Gold Order, He had Ibrasis work on making contact with the mage cults of Brekon. Ibrasis would prove unsuccessful however.

===Son===
Damar continued to teach at the Academy. One student of his post-ascension class was the half-elf Cyprius. Cyprius took an interest in Damar and eventually claimed in private that he was his son, that he had grown up with his mother, a sorceress from Damar's past. For unknown reasons, Damar accepted Cyprius's claim. He continued to guide his son, who would join the Ivory Order in time. Cyprius however, wanted the father he had been missing his entire life but found Damar was not willing to be more than a strict teacher, nor open his heart as Cyprius longed for. Cyprius continued on his own path.

===Spell Creation===
Having his hands in so many matters did not stop Damar from continuing his personal studies and further growth in the art. In Visimontium, Damar completed the invention of a powerful spell, Damar's Glaring Gaze. During his life, Damar had become what some would call an intimidating individual. Damar found that this was often useful. This spell was created for the occasions when his personal aura was not enough to achieve the desired effect.

==Archmage of Gold==
===Reveal===
By this time Micah had completed her apprenticeship and was well on her way to becoming a master of the art. As Damar was ready to make the split in the Order and have his magi reveal themselves, Micah became the Ebony Order's Archmage, making the split painless on both sides. The Gold Order of the Sand presented its living members to the world, and Damar publicly took the position he had held in secret for so long, that of Archmage of the Gold Order of the Sand.

===The Cults of Brekon & War in Visimontium===
Damar was regularly traveling between M'Chek and his new home of Visimontium where he sat in the City Council. Ibrasis had not made the contact he was supposed to and a faction of the Grantir army had also begun assaulting the City of Andrinor. The contact Damar wanted was eventually made by Marcus Deth. Marcus had learned of Kasaan, an orc mage who acted as a diplomat for several of Brekon's orc mage cults. Kasaan arrived in Visimontium after he and many other orc mages had received a dream they believed to have been from Valok, which sent them to Visimontium to defend it. As assaults on Visimontium continued, Damar solidified the Brekon magi joining the Gold Order.

During this Andrinorian-Angadarian "war", Damar spent time acting as interrogator and often visited the High Temple of Visimontium for long talks with the High Priestess Rayna Na'Tanlynn. He was one of the few to receive a divine dream from Andrinor showing how the god wished for the war to end. When the final day of the war came, Damar and all Orders joined together in defending Visimontium alongside the Sentinels of Visimontium. The splinter Grantir army was crushed, and Damar presided over the peace talks which followed.

The next several years would prove less eventful, as he continued on with his administrative duties as Archmage and Moderator. Damar had completed the task Cyprian had given him: The Gold Order of the Sand stood strong. Damar however, wanted to take it further. Many of his magi, orcs, were still not as safe as they should be. Since its existence, the Order had been threatened by the Church of Valok. While there were obvious casualties in this continuing feud, it led to some important events such as the discovery of the island academy "Sliver of Gold" and Gold magi entering the forbidden Fortress of Qaditha among them.

[[Category:PCs|Ogdem]]

Guild:GoldOrder

2009-06-05T20:24:29Z

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<Big>'''Gold Order of the Sand'''</Big>

'''Alignment:''' Lawful Evil

'''Restrictions:''' Wizards and Sorcerers Only

'''Contacts:'''
*''Archmagus:'' Kasaan Avasi [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=3538 PM]
*''Great Magus of Internal Affairs:'' Sayyid Nassyr [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=3538 PM]
*''Great Magus of Arms:'' [[PCs:Crunk Steelcaster|Crunk Steelcaster]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=4030 PM]
*''Great Magus of Relations:'' Gustav Telamon [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=3538 PM]
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'''History According To The Gold'''

Several years after the Creation of the Trust and the new Orders of Magic, certain events brought the then Archmage of the Ebony Order of the Moon, [[PCs:Damar Ogdem|Damar Ogdem]], to [[Valok]]'s fortress on Avernus. There, an immortal servant of Valok revealed to the Archmage Valok's will, that the Gold Order be reformed. Of greater interest however, was that it was to include orc mages. During this arcane revolution, Valok was willing to put aside his anger over the past to gain a foothold in the world of the art once more. The servant of Valok delegated the quest to Damar, who for unknown reasons accepted.

Returned to the Prime, Damar slowly but carefully began making preparations for the new Order, recruiting some of the continents most renown spell casters. Near immediately after his return, the first of those mages not yet marked by Andrinor, found themselves with the God's blessing. This signified the start of a less hostile relationship between the Two Gods [[Andrinor]] and Valok, whose history to that point was not a friendly one.

In time Damar was introduced to Kasaan, a spokesman for many of [[Brekon (nation)|Brekon]]'s underground cults. Kasaan and his companions had been sent to the city of [[Visimontium]] by a dream believed to have come from Valok. With Kasaan's help, the Gold Archmage was able to recruit many of Brekon's mages, which would form the core of the Order. A large number of these orcs have now come to Visimontium, where they believe they are safe from the prosecution of Brekon.

'''Structure and Philosophy'''

Hierarchy within the order is strict and many of its members undergo rigorous interrogation until they are trusted to work within the framework. Ranks and achievements tend to be based on not only the raw arcane ability of each individual member, but also upon their ability to utilize their arcane talents to further their self-interest and maneuver themselves into the positions that they desire. Much like the Gold of the Fold before it, the Gold Order of the Sand's philosophies share much in common with the religion of Valok. Ultimately, the acquisition of personal power is the goal of the mages in the Gold Order, as they dedicate their lives heavily to the Arcane Art in order to yield the greatest dividends from its fruits. Overall the members of the Gold Order are generally more subtle and restrained in public than their peers in [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony]] or [[Guild:VioletOrder|Violet]], twisting law and order into a tool rather than a hindrance.
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[[Category:Guilds|Gold]]
[[Category:Mage Orders|Gold]]

Guild:GoldOrder

2009-06-05T20:18:44Z

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<Big>'''Gold Order of the Sand'''</Big>

'''Alignment:''' Lawful Evil

'''Restrictions:''' Wizards and Sorcerers Only

'''Contacts:'''
*''Archmagus:'' Kasaan Avasi [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=3538 PM]
*''Great Magus of Internal Affairs:'' Sayyid Nassyr [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=3538 PM]
*''Great Magus of Arms:'' [[PCs:Crunk Steelcaster|Crunk Steelcaster]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=4030 PM]
*''Great Magus of Relations:'' Gustav Telamon [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=3538 PM]
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'''History According To The Gold'''

Several years after the Creation of the Trust and the new Orders of Magic, certain events brought the then Archmage of the Ebony Order of the Moon, [[PCs:Damar Ogdem|Damar Ogdem]], to [[Valok]]'s fortress on Avernus. There, an immortal servant of Valok revealed to the Archmage Valok's will, that the Gold Order be reformed. Of greater interest however, was that it was to include orc mages. During this arcane revolution, Valok was willing to put aside his anger over the past to gain a foothold in the world of the art once more. The servant of Valok delegated the quest to Damar, who for unknown reasons accepted.

Returned to the Prime, Damar slowly but carefully began making preparations for the new Order, recruiting some of the continents most renown spell casters. Near immediately after his return, the first of those mages not yet marked by Andrinor, found themselves with the God's blessing. This signified the start of a less hostile relationship between the Two Gods [[Andrinor]] and Valok, whose history to that point was not a friendly one.

In time Damar was introduced to Kasaan, a spokesman for many of [[Brekon (nation)|Brekon]]'s underground cults. Kasaan and his companions had been sent to the city of [[Visimontium]] by a dream believed to have come from Valok. With Kasaan's help, the Gold Archmage was able to recruit many of Brekon's mages, which would form the core of the Order. A large number of these orcs have now come to Visimontium, where they believe they are safe from the prosecution of Brekon.

'''Structure and Philosophy'''

Hierarchy within the order is strict and many of its members undergo rigorous interrogation until they are trusted to work within the framework. Ranks and achievements tend to be based on not only the raw arcane ability of each individual member, but also upon their ability to utilize their arcane talents to further their self-interest and maneuver themselves into the positions that they desire. Much like the Gold of the Fold before it, the Gold Order of the Sand's philosophies share much in common with the religion of Valok. Ultimately, the acquisition of personal power is the goal of the mages in the Gold Order, as they dedicate their lives heavily to the Arcane Art in order to yield the greatest dividends from its fruits. Overall the members of the Gold Order are generally more subtle and restrained in public than their peers in [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony]] or [[Guild:VioletOrder|Violet]], twisting law and order into a tool rather than a hindrance.
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[[Category:Guilds|Gold]]
[[Category:Mage Orders|Gold]]

PCs:Damar Ogdem

2006-12-08T00:20:45Z

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''An elderly sage garbed in dull brown robes, a holy symbol of Vorin hanging from his neck, sits at his desk and begins to write…''
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====The Beginning====
[[Image:DamarPortrait2.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Portrait of '''Damar Ogdem''' by [[PCs:Ayren_Milen|Ayren Tochi'larian]]]]

Damar was born during the fall of 2044, the second child of the [[M'Chek|M'chekian]] Daram Ogdem and his wife Cynia, the first being his older brother Baran five years Damar's senior. For the first years of his life, Damar lived on his Father's farm, not far from the city of [[Mikona]]. In his small communal school, Damar proved to be a precocious student, showing a quick wit and a keen intellect, but above all a thirst for knowledge. Unfortunetly for him, there was only so much to be learned in a small farm community.

The highlight of his childhood were the trips taken with his brother, and sometimes father, to sell goods in Mikona. The Rush of activity, the new sights and smells, so much different than his home gave him a glimpse of a larger world, a world with countless secrets to discover.

On one such trip during the summer of Damar's 10th year he and his brother came across a group of other children crowded around an ancient man robed in grey. As Damar approached, the man shot his arms up, a multicolored light bursting into the sky. Damar leapt back in fright, only to soon notice the other children had not done the same, but were hopping up and down, cheering the man. Damar slipped in closer to the group, the childrens' ease granting him courage. The robed man, whose name
was said to be Lydon, continued with his illusions. As the other children looked on in amusement, Damar looked at what would become his future, magic. For the remainder of that summer any time he visited Mikona, Damar would break off from his father or brother to look for Lydon's show, which more often than not was in progress. The answer "magic" was a satisfying enough answer to most of the
children's questions, but not for Damar. He insisted on knowing how and why. He spent hours watching Lydon, at home it was all he spoke of. Some days he was even able to convince his brother Baran to take him to Mikona at the break of dawn, returning at nightfall to a furious father. The first week of fall, Damar was in Mikona with his brother, but found no Lydon. For the next eight months trip after trip, he was not to be found. Damar even prefered now to stay at home rather than venture south. It was not until the next summer that he once again found Lydon, with another group of children. Lydon explained that for most of the year, he was in [[Andarr]] of [[The Seven Cities|the seven cities]]. This summer the young boy even took it upon himself to invite Lydon to his home.

The same cycle would continue, until Damar was 14. It was then matters took a turn for the worse. Overnight almost, it seemed as though the Ogdem farm began suffering from the withering of crops and dryland sickness that most of the nation was now subject to. There was hope, at first, that perhaps it was a temporary affliction. But as days became months, that hope was lost. As the crops died, so did Daram's coffers dry up. He had to figure out how best to save his family. When the suggestion
was made, Baram willingly decided to join the M'chek army in their fight against the [[Elf|elves]] of [[T'Nanshi]]. Young Damar however had no interest in war.

As matters became worse, it was clear Daram could not support both his wife and son. Damar knew this, and as summer neared it's end, he came up with his solution. After a trip to Mikona, he returned home and told his parents that he would be leaving M'chek. Leaving M'chek for Andarr, where he would be Lydon's apprentice. What Damar felt when first arriving in Mikona was multiplied tenfold when first entering the city of Andarr. This time however, he had a focus, his apprenticeship to Lydon. Immediately Lydon brought his apprentice to his humble home. Books covered much of the floor, covered with the thickest layers of dust. A pet raven caughed from the corner at their arrival.

Damar's first task was to clean up his new home. Lydon would only permit Damar to leave on errands for him. The transformation from jovial magician in Mikona to strict old wizard in Andarr was jarring, and Damar could not be sure which was the true Lydon. Damar however took everything in stride, now so close to learning the secrets behind Lydon's magic.

During the first months of tedious chores, he often thought of his home, his parents. It was only in the last month before summer that Damar was given his first elementary lesson in true magic. In the summer, Lydon and Damar returned to M'chek. Lydon never answered Damar's question as to what Lydon's business was in Mikona every year. Damar returned to his family and to his amazement saw the farm was more productive than it had ever been.

Damar's father could not explain how their luck had changed. The question Damar dreaded was asked, his father wanted to know if he would come back to them. Damar refused, and giving his family what gold Lydon had paid him, he left. Damar returned to Lydon, requesting they return to Andarr so that he could continue his studies. To Damar's suprise, Lydon accepted.

Damar studied under Lydon for the next few years: languages, geography, and finally the art. Damar's mind became soley focused on the magic. He no longer thought about his past or his family this time, he had but one goal, comprehension of the arcane.

Finally the day came when Damar cast his first cantrip, a simple spell of light, cast on Lydon's raven who did not appreciate it. It was no grand magic, but for that moment Damar felt like a grand wizard. That same night as Damar was reading about ganooms by the fire, a loud knock sounded from the door. Lydon answered the door himself. A hooded man in dark robes entered the house. Lydon and his guest moved upstairs. What was strange was that in all his time in Andarr, Lydon never had any type of guest. Damar attempted to eavesdrop on the conversation to no avail. Damar returned to his reading spot. A few minutes later, he heard their voices rise, shouting at eachother. The ceiling began to shake, as Damar ran to the stairs he identified the chants of spellcasting. Lydon's body tumbled down the stairs rolling into his apprentice. Recovering from the fall, Damar looked down at a broken body, smokes rising from it's chest. Damar looked up the stairs frozen, and the hooded man came down, offering him a slight nod as he walked out the door.

While Lydon had meant much to Damar, investigations by the law would only hinder Damar's quest for knowledge and so the body was disposed of. With what gold Lydon kept in the house, Damar was able to live on his own for a time. Now there were no limits to what he could and could not read, what knowledge could be absorbed. For one brief moment it occured to Damar that it may be proper for him to return to his parents. This notion was dismissed as Damar found Lydon's private collection.

Even with such knowledge at his fingertips, no matter the dedication, there is only so much time a young man can endure cooped up in a house reading. Damar returned to M'chek, now in his early twenties. In the end, he had decided to visit his family. Arriving at the farm late in the evening, he entered his former home to find his father impaled on some crude spear. In another room was the corpse of his mother, and under her the bodies of two young girls no older than three. It was then
Damar realized how long he had been gone, he had two more siblings without even knowing it. In his search for answers, neighbours revealed that recently there was much more bandit activity, the raiders behaving more bravely than usual. He also learned that his brother was missing in action, his body not found after a skirmish with elven soldiers.

The evident question, at least regarding his parents and sisters, was had he been there could he have stopped it? Most likely not he concluded. Settling affairs on the farm, Damar traveled south back to Mikona, a familiar raven flying over him.

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====Adventurer====

Arriving in Mikona, Damar made his way to the City Gate Inn. Here as fortune would have it, he encountered a group of three older men. Joining the conversation, Damar learned all three were wizards. [[PCs:Peregryne Twostep|Peregryne Twostep]] who for the next few years Damar would look to as omnipotent, [[NPCs:Melonius Mennallin|Melonius Mennallin]], and [[PCs:Talman Grumb|Talman Grumb]]. Watching and listening to these three men only confirmed to Damar that his quest for arcane knowledge was a valid one.

Damar began his career of adventure, first exploring the Mikona crypts alongside Talman and Talman's bear Octavius. He met many others who would move on to accomplish great deeds, and was dragged off to many dangerous places where it was a miracle he survived. Throughout these days he had three close companions, each very different from the other. One was the monk [[PCs:Tren Ster|Tren Ster]], it was with him Damar shared the most of his early adventures. The Second was the [[cleric]] of [[Gorethar]] [[PCs:Jorio Alerian|Jorio Alerian]], who
would one day become a High Priest. Third was the elven [[Sorcerer|sorceress]] [[PCs:Elrandra Glyndorr|Elrandra Glyndorr]].

Facing all of these trials, Damar found many opportunities to apply his studies. His skill with the art began to grow as the difficulty of his challenges became greater. One afternoon Damar stood by the entrance to one such challenge. [[The Hills of Tumult]]. Here he awaited the arrival of Tren, and together they had planned to pick a fight with some giants. Waiting there alone he heard the sounds of battle and rushed into the hills for a closer look. It was there he heard the crackle of evoked lightning and then he experienced the smell of sizzling flesh as he came to a lone man surrounded by a pile of burnt giant corpses. The sorceror, who would reveal his name as Fenius, told Damar he had destroyed the giants out of revenge for having previously been embarrased by them. This show of arcane power was the most impressive Damar had seen up to this point in his life. The two spoke for a time, finally Fenius left as Tren arrived.

Not long after that meeting, Damar was shopping for supplies in the Marketplace of Mikona when an excited Tren came to him, going on about an expedition to defeat a "witch". Soon many were gathered in the Rompin Romini Inn as a [[dwarf]] told them of the bandit queen Hugar and her approximate location. Of most interest to Damar, the dwarf mentioned Fenius as a companion to this [[NPCs:Hugar|Hugar]]. Narin Grans, a kindly priest, was on a quest to cure lycanthropy, and was in need of a tome in Hugar's posession.
Against the protests of some of the gathered adventurers, Narin wished to meet with Hugar and bargain for the tome peacefully. Nonetheless many joined Narin on his trip, including Damar who wanted to learn if there was truth behind the talk of Fenius.

Traveling north at great speed, the large group was nearly in sight of Hugar. Narin wished to meet Hugar alone, but most objected, and so Narin was to take a few bodyguards. Among them were Tren and Talman. As many suspected, Hugar had no desire for negotiating for the tome, and attacked Narin and his guards. Soon the battle was joined, the party of adventurers in it's entirety, fighting Hugar, Fenius, and a coal dragon. During the fight Damar did his best not to target Fenius, and in the end
Hugar and the dragon lie slain. Fenius had managed to escape, and later Damar joined a smaller force who wished to hunt him down. Fenius was able to dispatch most of the group, but left Damar unharmed. Try as he could, Damar could not find any moral compulsion to force him into a fight with the sorceror.

Some months later, word spread of powerful mages momentarily losing their power. Melonius was one example, while another was a great dragon lairing in the [[The Lost River Caverns|Lost River Cavern]]. This marked the beginning of what would lead into the [[Vortex of Chaos]] Saga. It was one day, not long after these oddities began to occur, that Damar was once again near the Hills of Tumult when a magical gate opened and a dark robed mage appeared. The mage, [[NPCs:Cyprian|Cyprian]], spoke of events to come, and of an order which was being founded, an [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony Order]]. As the man spoke of his Order Damar became intrigued. Perhaps he would find others to work with, those who valued knowledge as much as he. Damar left the outskirts of the Hills thoughtful.

Taking the path from the east to Mikona, Damar was almost at the city gates when before him in the middle of the road another magical gate manifested. Before him stood a dark skinned man in simple black clothes, with horns protruding from his head. A fiendish trait. Damar asked the stranger who he was, the stranger responding that he knew exactly who he was. It was [[Andrinor]], the God of Mortal Magic, Damar simply knew. Andrinor told him that he wanted Damar to become the leader of this new Ebony Order and should he, that he would gain Andrinor's favor. However, should he reveal this conversation to anyone...and as the God trailed off he summoned flaming debris, a meteor storm which left the surrounding area aflame. Andrinor's avatar dissapeared as quickly as it had appeared (Author's note: it is only with this writing that the mention of this meeting has now been permitted).

Not long after this, the first meeting of the Ebony Order occured. Here Damar and Fenius were two of the founding members and were joined by three other younger mages along with older mages who had been accompanying Cyprian for years.

Aside from Cyprian, Damar was the only one who wore his robes in public, allowing others to know of his allegiance to the Ebony Order, he was also the Order's only mouthpiece. In time he was joined by [[PCs:Vanyankaya Del'Trion|Vanyankaya Del'Trion]], his first recruit for the Order and the first after it's founding. Damar continued to work for the Order, staying active in developments regarding the Vortex of Chaos, and also recruitment. For his dedication, Cyprian made him the Order's first Great Mage of Internal Affairs. Not long after that, he switched positions with the first Great Mage of Relations who prefered not to speak in public, nor reveal her identity as an Ebony mage.

Not all of Damar's dealings during this period revolved around the Vortex. He defended [[Equaloria keep]] and other locations from [[Elf,Sereg|sereg'wethrin]] attacks alongside others. It was during one such attack that Damar first met one he would come to butt heads with in the closing weeks of the Vortex hunt. Standing high on the ledge surrounding Equaloria, Damar was firing off his magic into groups of sereg'wethrin, while the warriors below engaged the dark elves in melee. Upon the ledge also stood
Melonius Mennallin, now Archmage of the [[Guild:IvoryOrder|Ivory Order]], alongside [[PCs:Mari Briggs|Mari Briggs]], and another member mage of the Ivory. This other mage, introducing himself as [[PCs:Aramil Fynn|Aramil Fynn]], joined Damar in his spell flinging. As the two rained death upon the small sereg'wethrin army, Melonius kept remarking with a sneer, as so many old men who know better do, about waiting for the right time and how they must conserve their magic. Aramil and Damar continued, in the end sharing a grin as both noticed Melonius
had never flung a single spell.

Eventually the campaign of the sereg'wethrin ended with a massive assault on Mikona. Damar was among those who defended the city, then moving north to aid another army of defenders fending of a secondary force. For their actions, Cyprian rewarded both Damar and Vanyankaya with amulets of Ebony Obedience.

As an Ebony mage Damar also became involved with another group. One day while passing through the Mikona Crypt, he was assaulted by a powerful vampiric creature. Upon defeating it, a mysterious woman appeared, calling the fight a test to see if he was worthy. The woman told of a powerful organization being formed, to which Damar replied that he had enough masters already. Days later he encountered this [[NPCs:Lanessa|Lanessa]] again, who announced that the leadership of this organization had accepted him as another co-leader. Damar found that two people he had fought beside on many occasions were this group's leadership, joined be Lanessa.

As time passed Damar had to admit that their group was mighty, but it lacked a true focus, a goal. Power must be used for something. Lanessa created the goal which had been lacking. She spoke of an old relic, a tome containing great summoning magics. From that point on the Necronomicon was their focus. Lanessa, herself one of these so called "vampyres", (powerful vampires seemingly immune to daylight) revealed the one who held the tome, an enemy from her past known as Nastassiou, a supposedly hybrid Demon-Vampyre. In the end, many contributed to the demon's defeat. But it was this group Damar was part of which left with the tome. Or more specifically, Lanessa left with it. From Nastassiou's remains, Lanessa crafted several magical rings, known as Nastassiou's knuckles. Damar received one.

Between all the business involved with his and his allies' "Legion", his Ebony duties, and tracking the Vortex, Damar had become an accomplished wizard. But as his power had grown, and more secrets were unravaled, Damar was confronted by the realization many magi eventually come to. He could not practice the art forever. Earlier in his career he had become interested in the concept of immortality, the opportunity to practice the art for eternity. His first knowledge of one possible method had come with the talk of the lich [[NPCs:Sorvanok|Sorvanok]], residing deep below the city of Mikona. Damar had previously been involved on several small quests to learn of a method do defeat the lich, and so was aware of certain details, such as the exact location of its home. He entered the domain of the lich in hopes to learn more of lichdom. This was a mistake. Damar barely escaped the ill humoured Sorvanok with his life. Nevertheless, Damar continued focusing in the necromantic arts, to discover the secrets of lichdom on his own. While he would continue the study of necromancy for many years to come, his reasons would change as he learned of another method leading to immortality.

One day while studying in the Great Library of Mikona, Damar met a fat old half-elf, whose eyes seemed to betray an age older than his face revealed. The two spoke of several things, and being suspicious of the half-elf, eventually the conversation came to extended life, immortality. He explained to Damar that there are those who serve their God so well that they are granted a true immortality, not the farce that is lichhood. He told Damar that he himself was one such immortal. This route interested Damar greatly. Of course such a feat was no simple undertaking, but in theory time spent serving a higher being would be acceptable, providing over an endless amount of years ample time to continue one's own personal studies.

Two more events of importance involving the Immortal and Sorvanok would occur before the Saga of the Vortex came to its end. The first came when Damar was certain the Vortex would soon fall into his hands. Not wishing to take any chances however, he struck a deal with the Immortal's Deity. In exchange for the power of the Vortex of Chaos, Damar swore loyalty to this Deity.

The second came when Damar was exploring the Mikonan [[Underdark]] for a rumoured second entrance. Sorvanok apparently was aware of the intrusion, which triggered one of many undead attacks on the city, headed by the lich's powerful balor. The balor announced Damar as the intruder, and shortly after Damar was banished from the city despite his many previous services to it.

The next day Damar was found in the city by the great demon. They fought but the fiend seemed invulnerable. The pain inflicted on Damar that day was something he would never forget. Shortly after the experience, Damar again defended the city from another threat and was acquitted of the charges and welcomed back into the city.

The Vortex did end up in Damar's hands for a time, before he was advised to pass it to Cyprian. As is recounted in the [[Academy of Mortal Magic]]'s History of Mortal Magic volumes, that day Cyprian was killed and Andrinor appeared to make his announcement's regarding the future of the art and the three Orders of magic.

With Cyprian dead and the Vortex of Chaos destroyed, Damar held his Order's support in becomming its second Archmage. Meeting with the Immortal, Damar was not pleased with the turn of events which had required Cyprian's death, and the fact that when the dust had settled, he did not have exactly what was promised, his deal having been very specific. The Immortal pointed out that he may not have received everything he wanted, but he was Archmage. Damar agreed on that point and continued to "serve" the Deity, prefering to deal with the Immortal rather than fellow followers. Damar knew however that the contract had not been lived up to, and he was not held to this union. In the meantime he figured there may be something to gain from it. In the aspects of religion afterall, Damar was most mercinary. He saw Deities as potenial employers, and this one seemed to have made the highest offer at the time.

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====Archmage====

The Ebony was not the only Order to have a change of leadership. In the weeks after Damar became the Archmage of the Ebony, Elrandra was named the second Archmage of the [[Guild:AshenOrder|Ashen Order of the Stars]], replacing the missing Belaluldor, and Talman became the second Archmage of the Ivory Order of the Sun, successor to Melonius who left the Order. During this time the High Mage Council of Avlis was created, with Damar among its founding members.

As Damar adjusted to his new leadership role, the Legion he was a part of was not doing well. Again, with no goal all the strength in the world meant nothing. Lanessa shortly thereafter betrayed the Legion she had founded. She turned to a Deity from her own world with no power here, the one known as Vecna. Lanessa left Avlis, the necronomicon in her posession, leaving her associates without their prize. After this, a God expressed His will that those who worshipped Him were to leave this Legion. It is possible more than one Deity made this demand, but the one of importance here is the same God Damar at the time was serving. Damar, never seeing himself as a true "worshipper", and believing the Legion may still hold potential, for the first time in his life sought spiritual guidance. He prayed. Later that night he had a dream...

He stood in a temple, surrounded by hundreds of people wearing the colors of his God. They danced around what he saw to be the body of Lanessa, impaled on a wooden pike, celebrating the death. Then the dream changed from a usual dream of images into a fast moving stream of consciousness and concept transfer. Damar realized this was how Gods communicated among themselves. He sensed an object of a certain shape and size, an object he knew represented the Legion. He then sensed another object, one he felt was fueled by the loyalists of his Deity. When comparing the two, it was clear the second was larger, continuing to grow. Meanwhile the first went on to exist, totally independent of the second, no connection between the two apparent. Damar left the Legion, as did others among its leadership. It lingered on for a short while after.

At this time, the Ebony Order began to expand under Damar's command. It is also during this period when a great many of the rumours involving Damar Ogdem and various sinister dealings and deeds take place. While many still remain only known to him and others involved, one he has explained is a particular attack on [[Le'Or T'Nanshi]].

Several Ebony Order mages had recently been attacked without provocation by members of the T'Nanshi army. In response to this, Damar and two other powerful Ebony mages entered the garrison of Le'Or T'Nanshi slaying dozens of soldiers. As they made their escape some brave (or foolish) citizens attempted to strike back at the mages. They died. From this attack many rumours spread, ridiculous numbers were repeated. Some said thousands died, others that the city was under siege, districts
destroyed. Pure fiction, but such events do have effect on one's reputation. Soon the [[Council of Nine]] declared that the entirety of the Ebony Order of the Moon was banished from T'Nanshi.

Damar and other Ebony magi continued to enter T'Nanshi when business deemed it necessary. Damar went so far as to sometimes join M'chek soldiers in the borderlands, shifting loss to victory. While officially they were to treat such combatants as bandits, no soldier ever refused his aid. These stints in the warzone however did not come often, and Damar usually had his hands full in M'chek.

With the appearance of the Ravager, also known as the "[[NPCs:Gentleman|Gentleman]]", Damar first saw a possible opportunity. Their first meeting however did not go well, the tainted spirit assaulting him. There is little one can do with a powerful being bent on world destruction he reasoned. Damar in the end was among those who joined together to reseal the Ravager, Damar getting his revenge. He would soon have another more satisfying revenge. Revenge against two who had wronged him years ago.

In Mikona, Sorvanok's growing cult began making attacks on the city. It was discovered Sorvanok had become a demilich, and was on the verge of Godhood. The night before his fall, he sent his minions up to assault the city. Damar alongside many adventurers moved through the city, dispatching the demilich's forces. Eventually they came to the North road and Sorvanok's mighty balor. The fight began, more than a dozen warriors and priests surrounding the demon. But as time passed on, it
continued to hold its own, even against Damar's onslaught of spells. Soon he had exhausted all of his offensive magicks, and the Balor still in perfect condition was tilting the melee into his favor. Damar searched through his bags for anything that may turn the tide. He found a single scroll. As the battle continued in front of him, he recited the parchment's inscriptions. The scroll disintegrating, Damar stretched out his arm, pointing his index finger at the demon. This last effort proved to be enough, the spell destroying the demon.

Shortly after the battle, Damar was approached by [[Equalizer]] of [[Mikon]], [[PCs:Agatha Dane|Agatha Dane]]. Agatha wanted Damar to join her for a special meeting. The next day Agatha, Damar, and Jorio Alerian of the [[Guild:Order of Gorethar|Order of Gorethar]] entered the Great Library to speak with the wizard sage Meliorn. It was Meliorn who revealed the secret door in Sorvanok's throne room leading to the small temple housing his soul jar. Later, Damar joined the assembled heroes for the final operation against Sorvanok, which lead to the demilich's destruction. For his part in the campaign against the demilich, Damar was awarded an Amulet of Balance, marking him as a hero of Mikona.

It would not be long until Damar learned of the powerful Artifacts of Najera. While the other Orders learned of the artifacts on their own, Damar and the Ebony would not come into conflict with them as it was the returned Reyes, former partner and rival to Cyprian, who would be their main competition. Damar was able to stay ahead of Reyes, having planted a spy among his ranks, who then passed reports to the Ebony. Damar learned of the Demiliches Lobera, a former Archmage of the old [[Guild:GoldOrder|Gold Order]] during the period when it was no longer among the Fold (small and mostly insignificant), and Ibrasis, also from that period having been one of Lobera's officers.

In their time, they had planned to bolster the Gold Order with undead, restoring the power it lost when the orc magi were destroyed, and once again joining the Fold. It was not to be however, as once Lobera obtained the Artifacts of Najera, Ibrasis turned on him after Lobera refused to honor their agreement of sharing both the Staff and Amulet. Ibrasis took half of the undead they had gathered and fled Lobera, who now sought his destruction.

One note sent to Damar from his spy detailed a planned expedition by Reyes and his people into the Mikona Underdark to search for Ibrasis. the Ebony Order was able to defeat Reyes' group, and in return for his life Reyes gave Damar a key to Ibrasis's lair which was said to be deep in the Underdark.

Days after this, Damar was on the road to Mikona when he saw a zombie wandering out of the crypt. Upon closer inspection he determined this zombie was differant than the usual variety. He dealt with it and entered the crypt. On the lowest level with a swirl of blood, a floating skull appeared before Damar, an amulet hanging from a non existant neck, a staff held by invisible arms. This was Lobera. The two spoke, and Lobera said that he could take the key to Ibrasis's lair now if he desired, but that he would wait for Damar to come to him, after meeting Ibrasis. Before Lobera left, the demilich stated that he resided someplace Damar had been, but could no longer go.

Weeks later, the Ebony had an expedition to the greater Underdark, in search of Ibrasis. Finally after scouring the Underdark for days, the key triggered a secret door. Damar and the others met with Ibrasis, who was in posession of a magical mirror capable of watching the artifacts' bearer. This was how he had managed to keep away from Lobera these three hundred years. Their host told them that the Ashen had already been to see Ibrasis, and confirmed Damar's suspicion that Lobera was in Le'Or T'Nanshi.

It was between these events that Damar completed his contribution to the Academy of Mortal Magic's History of Mortal Magic.

Later in the year, the spy interrupted a meeting of the Ebony to announce that Reyes and some of his magi were in the Underdark below the city. He passed to Damar something he had just stolen, a peice of Sorvanok's flesh. Damar and the Ebony rushed below and confronted Reyes' group. The two factions began to negotiate. Damar was going to give Reyes the flesh in return for more information on Lobera and the Artifacts of Najera. As they were finalizing their agreement, Reyes vanished. Suspicious now, Damar quietly passed the flesh to Vanyanakya, as he questioned Reyes' mages. They did not know what happend to their leader either. It was then that what seemed to be a modified gate manifested, pulling Damar through it.

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====Avernus====
The Archmage found himself in a large room of gold. Two stories of bookshelves lined its walls. Reyes stood to his side. First, they accused each other of being behind this "kidnapping". During their accusations, it was a familiar voice to them both that ended their bickering. Turning in unison, they both witnessed a figure dressed in holy robes of Valok. With supreme shock, Damar recognized him...It was Cyprian. Damar had been responsible for Cyprian's death, watched as the force of the Vortex of Chaos tore him to pieces, but there he stood. In a daze Damar answered the questions posed to him by Cyprian. Cyprian then sent a message to the Ebony, that Damar had placed Vanyankaya in charge until further notice, and that he would be busy for an undetermined amount of time.

Cyprian did not lash out at Damar. In fact, he seemed in a rather good mood. However, he did not answer any questions that first day. Cyprian vanished, and the two prisoners searched for an escape route. They found none. In the coming moments and days, they would find the room protected from their magic, with no apparent exit.

As the weeks passed, Cyprian would appear for minutes each day, offering food and irrelevant conversation. Reyes chose to brood, as Damar looked through the many tomes within the room. He found they all dealt with Valok, His orc creations, His philosophy, or a combination of them all to some degree. With little to do, Damar read.

After what the Archmage of the Ebony assumed to be two months into his "prison sentence", Cyprian shared a meal with his so called "guests". When Damar brought up the day of Cyprian's death, claiming innocence, Cyprian broke out of his good humored character and stated flatly that he knew exactly what had happened that day. This did not sit well with Damar.

The weeks became months. Damar read a large majority of the room's literature in between arguing with Reyes. Finally the day came when neither Reyes nor Damar could tolerate the existence of the other. They fought with staff and spell for several minutes. Moments before their fight would have ended with a death, Cyprian appeared and put an end to it. He announced to the exhausted and weakened magi that today they would be taking a walk.

Cyprian brought the two to a large courtyard. Here he answered many of the questions plaguing his guests. Cyprian explained that on the day of his death, His Lord Valok had rescued him from oblivion, that Valok had made him an Immortal. They had been kept and at this very moment were standing in Valok's domain on Avernus. It was at this point Reyes finally snapped. It was Reyes that had led a broken Gold Order, while Cyprian was safely in the Fold. And yet it was Cyprian blessed with immortality. Reyes continued to share his more vulgar thoughts, until Cyprian had him removed. Reyes was not seen again.

Damar continued to listen to Cyprian, hardly in a position to do otherwise. Cyprian revealed the purpose that he had abducted both he and Reyes. He explained to Damar that Valok had appointed him the task of seeing that a new Gold Order was created, that the time had come to place a foothold in the world of the arcane. This was not such an amazing quest in itself, except that Cyprian also revealed that Valok wished for his creations to be among this new order's ranks. A requirement if the Gold was to succeed as more than a puppet.

Damar and Reyes were Cyprian's choices to carry out this mission on the prime, and with Reyes' tantrum, that left only the Archmage of the Ebony. Damar was left in his room to thing matters over.

Why would he accept Cyprian's offer? The Ebony grew stronger by the day. Did he have a choice? It could be a challenge. Cyprian seemed well off after accepting Valok as his master, if Damar accepted, what would he receive as payment? Was the Ebony strong enough to continue without him? If this Order would be made no matter what, would he not be the best choice to avoid wasted effort on the part of Ebony in attempting to destroy it?

For days Damar thought over those very questions. Ultimately, he called out to Cyprian with his answer. He would take up this quest but he first wanted a show of good faith. Through out all the time Damar had known his former Archmage, he did not seem to age, despite his prime having been before Damar himself was born. He wanted a taste of what Cyprian had. If Damar could not achieve immortality yet, he would at least buy some more time. Cyprian agreed, with his magics had given Damar the extra life he would require.

Damar left that meeting appearing no older than 30, and with another gift, a gold colored staff Cyprian had created not long after his ascension into immortality. It was a start.

The now youthful Archmage spent the remaining portion of his time on Avernus training with Cyprian. The time came when Damar was ready to return to Avlis. He stepped through a gate and back into the Prime.
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====The Return====
Pursued through the gate by wandering devils, Damar's return was something of a show to those gathered outside the City of Mikona. It was not long until Damar met with several Ebony mages, Vanyankaya included. As they caught up, Damar learned that Vanya had assumed the title of Archmage as expected. She offered him his old station, but he declined, stating that it was not time yet. Damar kept secret the details of his trip.

By choosing to create this Gold Order, Damar did not forget about the Ebony, the Order he had shaped. He had taught them all to hunt down competition, and while he guessed that he could achieve his goals with Vanya's knowledge, there was no reason to. As he would work to build his new Order, he would also watch over the old, as an Ebony magus, to be certain it was in good hands. There were several promising magi who could take over even should Vanya leave, such as the Great Mage of Arms, Sand.

As Damar began to recruit suitable Ebony veterans during his first days back on the prime, Cyprian appeared to him, saying that he should seek out the Artifacts of Najera. Damar had forgotten about them during his trip, and was surprised they were still in Lobera's posession. Near this time Damar also became a teacher in the Academy of Mortal Magic.

News to him also, was that the Ravager had returned, broken from his prison. Damar took this opportunity to work with the Order of Valok, who would be the ones to destroy the Ravager. He accompanied them on their quest to secure the Sword of Severing, studying what he knew would be future enemies. When the time for the final fight came, Damar allowed the Order of Valok, including and joined by several magi who would eventually join the Gold, to face the creature themselves. After succeeding, he noted their competence.

It was near this time Damar encountered a young dabbler of the art in Mikona. Her name was Micah, and her thirst for knowledge of the Art led to her being accepted as what would become his most successful apprentice.

As he continued his recruitment for Gold, he looked to what business must be completed in the Ebony first. The Order was still banished from the nation of T'Nanshi, he wanted to rectify this. Fortunately, opportunity soon presented itself with Zevarion's escape from his prison within Zelvan Dur.

Many groups and orders had joined in an effort to reseal the master of the pale arts. But it was the Ebony Order that acquired a scroll containing the same curse that the seal warden Zal recently broken. With the threat of being cursed again, Zal was blackmailed into aiding the Trust restore the seal. As the ritual finished, word came of two undead armies. One tearing through the warzone to the south, and one coming straight to Le'Or. All present separated into two groups to meet each army. The Ebony went towards the war zone. That night Zevarion was defeated in Le'Or, and Damar's group put a dent in the warzone army, which had been led by Lobera. Apparently Lobera had been using Zevarion to strengthen his own legion of undead. In the aftermath, the banishment of the Ebony was lifted by the Council of Nine.

Eventually, Vanya was to leave her position as Archmage to pursue personal affairs. She left the decision of who would be the next to lead the Order to Damar and the three Great Magi. Votes were cast between the four. It was a tie, and Sand was willing to concede to Damar. Damar however told him it was still not time yet, and thus the elf Sand became the fourth Archmage of the Ebony Order of the Moon.

As far as Damar's own business, there were still the Artifacts of Najera to take care of. As Lobera grew impatient in his hunt for Ibrasis, he began to attack the cities of Le'Or T'Nanshi and Mikona. Several times they came face to face, Lobera now wearing the perverted body of the former Ivory Archmage D'Anjal. Not much came of these meetings, Lobera solely interested in Ibrasis.

By this time, Damar had returned to the High Council. It was through here and the Academy that he first heard of vampires within Lobera's Le'Or roots tower wearing gold robes and carrying Andrinor's mark. It seemed others were claiming to be of the Gold Order. Damar decided it was time to confront Lobera in his home.

Damar traveled beneath Le'Or, passing invisibly by it's denizens. When he came to the magical door leading to Lobera's throne room, Cyprian appeared offering him passage through before disappearing again. The room was empty of life (and un-life). As Damar began to make himself comfortable, Lobera appeared. Their discussion was long, Lobera explaining his previous attempts at reviving the Gold Order during the days of the Fold of Eight, and then Damar telling his story. Lobera laughed, not believing Damar's story and accusing him of being an Angadarian, but as Damar continued he ultimately saw truth in his words. Lobera left momentarily and returned with three artifacts.

Two were matching bracers known as Valok's chosen. These were forged by Valok and given to the first Archmage of the Fold's Gold Order, and passed down to each until the Evocation tragedy. The other was a greatsword, surrounded by the aura of Valok. Lobera explained that the blade had been created by Valok for the time when a sign would be needed to show his will. Specifically, that his anger had subsided. The weapon was heavily enchanted against orc blood, but the runes of the blade also only allowed it's wielder to be a mage. To this day he has never seen an weapon of such force. Unfortunetly, few if any mortals across the planes possess the power to wield it effectively, to do so would require divine intervention. The Equalizer of Valok as it was called, remained more a symbol than a weapon. He handed these to Damar.

Cyprian appeared again, and the three began to discuss their plans for the future. This was when the demilich Ibrasis appeared. Ibrasis, in posession of a mirror through which he could watch the bearer of the Artifacts of Najera, had been watching this all. Only with Cyprian's appearance did he finally begin to believe. The four spoke of how to proceed. Ibrasis and Lobera argued of course, but Damar brought them to reason, that this was their chance succeed where they had failed in the past. Working together a new Gold would rise. A problem quickly presented itself: The Trust wanted blood. Lobera had gone to the extreme in his massacres, furthermore he was still wearing the former Ivory Archmage.

Lobera expressed his pain, the pain of wielding the artifact for so long. He revealed his willingness to sacrifice himself and appease Andrinor's Trust and all those who had a score to settle. He warned Damar against taking the artifacts, that the price was too high. Damar noted the advice, but it was not necessary. He had already sought out the Artifacts as Cyprian had told him to, and found something greater.

Lobera made his final orders. His undead, including the marked ones, would follow Ibrasis but only on the condition that Ibrasis aid Damar in his restoration of the Gold. Lobera would allow the Trust their shot, but he would go down fighting.

The next day Damar joined a large assortment of Trust mages in their assault on Lobera's tower. During the battles, he and many of the other senior Trust members were split from the main group and left in Lobera's throne room. Lobera confronted the main group, and was finally destroyed by Fergus Goodman and the Hammer of Lithandiel. Meanwhile Ibrasis appeared to the group Damar was in, claiming to be the leader of the Gold Order. It suited Damar's purpose as he concentrated on assembling the flesh of the Order.

As things settled after Lobera's fall, Melonius Mennallin announced the construction of the city of Visimontium, what many believe to be the one Andrinor prophesized many years earlier. He would be stepping down as Moderator of the High Council, and a new one would be elected in his place. It was Damar who eventually took the position of Moderator uncontested. During this period, Damar also aided in defending the Visimontium immigrant caravans as they traveled trough M'chek.

The Dwarven Quarters of M'chek had for many years been infested with the ghosts of its former inhabitants. As the Order of Gorethar worked to free their dwarven brothers, an ancient artifact was discovered. The ring most commonly known as The Fist. This ring, once being part of a greater artifact, in its current form was said to possess magics for use against undeath. Several attempted to learn its secrets. The Noble House of M'chek was to have the ring sent north to Galdos, believing it to have once belonged to the Galdosians, when Damar appeared and presented evidence contrary to this, that the artifact had history from before its first finding in Galdos. The Noble House allowed Damar to take the ring, for the purpose of unlocking its power with the intention of using it to rid their sewers of the ghostly dwarves. Damar proved succesful where others had failed, but at the same time the Order of Gorethar cleansed the Quarters on their own through another method. With the Quarters cleansed, all lost interest in the Fist and it now remains safe inside Damar's robe pocket.

Returning to his work of completing the Gold Order, He had Ibrasis work on making contact with the mage cults of Brekon. Ibrasis would prove unsuccessful however.

Through out these last years, Damar had continued to teach at the Academy. One student of his post-ascension class was the half-elf Cyprius. Cyprius took an interest in Damar and eventually claimed in private that he was his son, that he had grown up with his mother, a sorceress from Damar's past. For unknown reasons, Damar accepted Cyprius's claim. He continued to guide his son, who would join the Ivory Order in time. Cyprius however, wanted the father he had been missing his entire life but found Damar was not willing to be more than that a strict teacher, nor open his heart to the extend Cyprius longed for. Cyprius continued on his own path.

Having his hands in so many things did not stop Damar from continuing his personal studies and further growth in the art. In Visimontium, Damar completed the invention of his greatest spell, Damar's Glaring Gaze. During his career, Damar had become what some would call an intimidating individual. And to his liking, Damar found that this was often useful. This spell was created for the occasions when his personal aura did not do the trick.

By this time Micah had completed her apprenticeship and was well on her way to becoming a mistress of the art. As Damar was ready to make the split in the Order and have his magi reveal themselves, Micah became the Ebony Order's Archmage, making the split painless on both sides. The Gold Order of the Sand presented its living members to the world.

Damar was regularly traveling between M'chek and his new home of Visimontium where he sat in the City Council. Ibrasis had not made the contact he was supposed to and a faction of the Grantir army had also begun assaulting the City of Andrinor. The contact Damar wanted was eventually made by Marcus Deth. Marcus had learned of Kasaan, an orc mage who acted as a diplomat for several of Brekon's orc mage cults. Kasaan arrived in Visimontium after he and many other orc mages had received a dream they believed to have been from Valok, which sent them to Visimontium to defend it. As assaults on Visimontium continued, Damar solidified the Brekon magi joining the Gold Order.

During this Andrinorian-Angadarian "war", Damar spent time acting as interrogator and often visited the High Temple of Visimontium for long talks with the High Priestess Rayna Na'Tanlynn. He was one of the few to receive a divine dream from Andrinor showing how the God wished for the war to end. When the final day of the war came, Damar and his Order, and all Orders, joined together in defending Visimontium alongside the sentinels. The splinter Grantir army was crushed, and Damar presided over the "peace talks" which followed.

The next several years would prove less exciting, as he continued on with his administrative duties as Archmage and Moderator. Damar had completed the task Cyprian had quested him with, The Gold Order of the Sand stood strong. Damar however, wanted to take it further. Many of his magi, orcs, were still not as safe as they should be. Since its existence, the Order had been threatened by the Church of Valok. While there were obvious casualties in this feud, it led to some important achievements, the discovery of the island academy "Sliver of Gold" and Gold magi entering the forbidden Fortress of Qaditha among them.

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[[Category:PCs|Ogdem]]

Guild:AshenOrder

2006-11-18T18:43:59Z

Sunscream: Apara was never Archmage of Ashen, removed her from list

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'''Ashen Order of the Stars'''
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'''Alignment:'''
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[[Alignment#True Neutral|True Neutral]]
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'''Restrictions:'''
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[[Wizard]]s and [[Sorcerer]]s Only
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'''Towers:'''
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*[[Visimontium]], District of the Trust. 
*[[Elysia]], Temple District. 
*[[M'Chek]], in planning. 
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==== Contacts ====
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! align=right width=40% | Title
! align=left | Name
! PM Link
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| align=right | ''Archmage, and Senior Mage of Mikona:''
| [[PCs:Robert Wallace|Robert Wallace]]
| align=center | [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=10012 PM]
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| align=right | ''Great Mage of Relations:''
| [[PCs:Arlin Everwine|Arlin Everwine]]
| align=center |  
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| align=right | ''Great Mage of Internal Affairs:''
| [[PCs:Ialath Fentellon|Ialath Fentellon]]
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| align=right | ''Great Mage of Arms:''
| [[PCs:Bragir Huginstunge|Bragir Huginstunge]]
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| align=right | ''Senior Mage of Deglos:''
| [[PCs:Igor Nappovich|Igor Nappovich]]
| align=center | [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=7026 PM]
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| align=right | ''Senior Mage of Elysia:''
| [[PCs:Xzar Nefzen|Xzar Nefzen]]
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| align=right | ''Senior Mage of Ferrell:''
| [[PCs:Marin Nemelgen|Marin Nemelgen]]
| align=center | [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=12936 PM]
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| align=right | ''Senior Mage of Le'Or T'Nanshi:''
| [[PCs:Imoth|Imoth]]
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| align=right | ''Senior Mage of Visimontium:''
| [[PCs:Coraline Clearwater|Coraline Clearwater]]
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=== Former Archmagi ===
* Belaluldor Fereiwaluin
* Elrandra Glyndorr
* Lomir Ma'fer
* Navarra Dyaniera
* Arlin Everwine
|}
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[[Category:Guilds|AshenOrder]]
[[Category:Mage Orders|AshenOrder]]

PCs:Damar Ogdem

2006-11-18T17:49:03Z

Sunscream: Fixed Elrandra link

PCs:Damar Ogdem

2006-11-18T01:27:56Z

Sunscream: typo

PCs:Damar Ogdem

2006-11-18T01:09:44Z

Sunscream: Put actual content, first part

Guild:GoldOrder

2006-09-04T22:10:34Z

Sunscream: Played with Colors

{{MageOrders}}
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<Big>'''Gold Order of the Sand'''</Big>

'''Alignment:''' Lawful Evil

'''Restrictions:''' Wizards and Sorcerers Only

'''Contacts:'''
*''Archmagus:'' [[PCs:Damar Ogdem|Damar Ogdem]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=3538 PM]
*''Great Magus of Internal Affairs:'' [[PCs:Crunk Steelcaster|Crunk Steelcaster]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=4030 PM]
*''Great Magus of Relations:'' [[PCs:Dralix|Dralix]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=4944 PM]
*''Senior Magus of Mikona:'' [[PCs:Grace Dane-Unuldur|Grace Dane-Unuldur]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=1616 PM]
*''Senior Magus of Le'Or T'Nanshi:'' [[PCs:Calenduil Jr'ein|Calenduil Jr'ein]] [http://www.avlis.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=9496 PM]
*''Senior Magus of Kitanya Hill:'' [[PCs:Ognar Kro-tash|Ognar Kro-tash]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=10209 PM]
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'''History'''

Several years after the Creation of the Trust and the new Orders of Magic,certain events brought the then Archmage of the Ebony Order of the Moon, [[PCs:Damar Ogdem|Damar Ogdem]], to [[Valok]]'s fortress on Avernus. There, an immortal servant of Valok revealed to the Archmage Valok's will, that the Gold Order be reformed. Of greater interest however, was that it was to include orc mages. During this arcane revolution, Valok was willing to put aside his anger over the past to gain a foothold in the world of the art once more. The servant of Valok delegated the quest to Damar, who for unknown reasons accepted.

Returned to the Prime, Damar slowly but carefully began making preperations for the new Order, recruiting some of the continents most reknown spell casters. Near immediately after his return, the first of those mages not yet marked by Andrinor, found themselves with the God's blessing. This signified the start of a less hostile between the Two Gods [[Andrinor]] and Valok, whose history to that point was not a friendly one.

In time Damar was introduced to Kasaan, a spokesman for many of [[Brekon]]'s underground cults. Kasaan and his companions had been sent to the city of [[Visimontium]] by a dream believed to have come from Valok. With Kasaan's help, the Gold Archmage was able to recruit many of Brekon's mages, which would form the core of the Order. A large number of these orcs have now come to Visimontium, where they believe they are safe from the prosecution of Brekon.

'''Structure and Philosophy'''

Hierarchy within the order is strict and many of its members undergo rigorous interrogation until they are trusted to work within the framework. Ranks and achievements tend to be based on not only the raw arcane ability of each individual member, but also upon their ability to utilize their arcane talents to further their self-interest and maneuver themselves into the positions that they desire. Much like the Gold of the Fold before it, the Gold Order of the Sand's philosophies share much in common with the religion of Valok. Ultimately, the acquisition of personal power is the goal of the mages in the Gold Order, as they dedicate their lives heavily to the Arcane Art in order to yield the greatest dividends from its fruits. Overall the members of the Gold Order are generally more subtle and restrained in public than their peers in [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony]] or [[Guild:VioletOrder|Violet]], twisting law and order into a tool rather than a hinderance.
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[[Category:Guilds|Gold]]
[[Category:Mage Orders|Gold]]

Guild:GoldOrder

2006-08-27T20:03:00Z

Sunscream: Updated Officers

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<Big>'''Gold Order of the Sand'''</Big>
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'''Alignment:''' Lawful Evil

'''Restrictions:''' Wizards and Sorcerers Only

'''Contacts:'''
*''Archmagus:'' [[PCs:Damar Ogdem|Damar Ogdem]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=3538 PM]
*''Great Magus of Internal Affairs:'' [[PCs:Crunk Steelcaster|Crunk Steelcaster]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=4030 PM]
*''Great Magus of Relations:'' [[PCs:Dralix|Dralix]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=4944 PM]
*''Senior Magus of Mikona:'' [[PCs:Grace Dane-Unuldur|Grace Dane-Unuldur]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=1616 PM]
*''Senior Magus of Le'Or T'Nanshi:'' [[PCs:Calenduil Jr'ein|Calenduil Jr'ein]] [http://www.avlis.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=9496 PM]
*''Senior Magus of Kitanya Hill:'' [[PCs:Ognar Kro-tash|Ognar Kro-tash]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=10209 PM]
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'''History'''

Several years after the Creation of the Trust and the new Orders of Magic,certain events brought the then Archmage of the Ebony Order of the Moon, [[PCs:Damar Ogdem|Damar Ogdem]], to [[Valok]]'s fortress on Avernus. There, an immortal servant of Valok revealed to the Archmage Valok's will, that the Gold Order be reformed. Of greater interest however, was that it was to include orc mages. During this arcane revolution, Valok was willing to put aside his anger over the past to gain a foothold in the world of the art once more. The servant of Valok delegated the quest to Damar, who for unknown reasons accepted.

Returned to the Prime, Damar slowly but carefully began making preperations for the new Order, recruiting some of the continents most reknown spell casters. Near immediately after his return, the first of those mages not yet marked by Andrinor, found themselves with the God's blessing. This signified the start of a less hostile between the Two Gods [[Andrinor]] and Valok, whose history to that point was not a friendly one.

In time Damar was introduced to Kasaan, a spokesman for many of [[Brekon]]'s underground cults. Kasaan and his companions had been sent to the city of [[Visimontium]] by a dream believed to have come from Valok. With Kasaan's help, the Gold Archmage was able to recruit many of Brekon's mages, which would form the core of the Order. A large number of these orcs have now come to Visimontium, where they believe they are safe from the prosecution of Brekon.

'''Structure and Philosophy'''

Hierarchy within the order is strict and many of its members undergo rigorous interrogation until they are trusted to work within the framework. Ranks and achievements tend to be based on not only the raw arcane ability of each individual member, but also upon their ability to utilize their arcane talents to further their self-interest and maneuver themselves into the positions that they desire. Much like the Gold of the Fold before it, the Gold Order of the Sand's philosophies share much in common with the religion of Valok. Ultimately, the acquisition of personal power is the goal of the mages in the Gold Order, as they dedicate their lives heavily to the Arcane Art in order to yield the greatest dividends from its fruits. Overall the members of the Gold Order are generally more subtle and restrained in public than their peers in [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony]] or [[Guild:VioletOrder|Violet]], twisting law and order into a tool rather than a hinderance.

[[Category:Guilds|Gold]]
[[Category:Mage Orders|Gold]]

Guild:GoldOrder

2006-07-31T19:07:05Z

Sunscream:

{{MageOrders}}
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<Big>'''Gold Order of the Sand'''</Big>
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'''Alignment:''' Lawful Evil

'''Restrictions:''' Wizards and Sorcerers Only

'''Contacts:'''
*''Archmage:'' [[PCs:Damar Ogdem|Damar Ogdem]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=3538 PM]
*''Great Magus of Internal Affairs:'' [[PCs:Crunk Steelcaster|Crunk Steelcaster]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=4030 PM]
*''Great Magus of Relations:'' [[PCs:Dralix|Dralix]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=4944 PM]
*''Senior Magus of Mikona:'' [[PCs:Grace Dane-Unuldur|Grace Dane-Unuldur]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=1616 PM]
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'''History'''



Several years after the Creation of the Trust and the new Orders of Magic,certain events brought the then Archmage of the Ebony Order of the Moon, [[PCs:Damar Ogdem|Damar Ogdem]], to [[Valok]]'s fortress on Avernus. There, an immortal servant of Valok revealed to the Archmage Valok's will, that the Gold Order be reformed. Of greater interest however, was that it was to include orc mages. During this arcane revolution, Valok was willing to put aside his anger over the past to gain a foothold in the world of the art once more. The servant of Valok delegated the quest to Damar, who for unknown reasons accepted.

Returned to the Prime, Damar slowly but carefully began making preperations for the new Order, recruiting some of the continents most reknown spell casters. Near immediately after his return, the first of those mages not yet marked by Andrinor, found themselves with the God's blessing. This signified the start of a less hostile between the Two Gods [[Andrinor]] and Valok, whose history to that point was not a friendly one.

In time Damar was introduced to Kasaan, a spokesman for many of [[Brekon]]'s underground cults. Kasaan and his companions had been sent to the city of [[Visimontium]] by a dream believed to have come from Valok. With Kasaan's help, the Gold Archmage was able to recruit many of Brekon's mages, which would form the core of the Order. A large number of these orcs have now come to Visimontium, where they believe they are safe from the prosecution of Brekon.

'''Structure and Philosophy'''



Hierarchy within the order is strict and many of its members undergo rigorous interrogation until they are trusted to work within the framework. Ranks and achievements tend to be based on not only the raw arcane ability of each individual member, but also upon their ability to utilize their arcane talents to further their self-interest and maneuver themselves into the positions that they desire. Much like the Gold of the Fold before it, the Gold Order of the Sand's philosophies share much in common with the religion of Valok. Ultimately, the acquisition of personal power is the goal of the mages in the Gold Order, as they dedicate their lives heavily to the Arcane Art in order to yield the greatest dividends from its fruits. Overall the members of the Gold Order are generally more subtle and restrained in public than their peers in [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony]] or [[Guild:VioletOrder|Violet]], twisting law and order into a tool rather than a hinderance.

[[Category:Guilds|Gold]]
[[Category:Mage Orders|Gold]]

Guild:GoldOrder

2006-07-05T21:15:53Z

Sunscream: Added Links

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<Big>'''Gold Order of the Sand'''</Big>
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'''Alignment:''' Lawful Evil

'''Restrictions:''' Wizards and Sorcerers Only

'''Contacts:'''
*''Archmage:'' [[PCs:Damar Ogdem|Damar Ogdem]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=3538 PM]
*''Great Magi of Internal Affairs:'' [[PCs:Crunk Steelcaster|Crunk Steelcaster]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=4030 PM]
*''Great Magi of Relations:'' [[PCs:Dralix|Dralix]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=4944 PM]
*''Senior Magus of Mikona:'' [[PCs:Grace Dane-Unuldur|Grace Dane-Unuldur]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=1616 PM]
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'''History'''

Several years after the Creation of the Trust and the new Orders of Magic,
certain events brought the then Archmage of the Ebony Order of the Moon, [[PCs:Damar Ogdem|Damar Ogdem]], to [[Valok]]'s fortress on Avernus. There, an immortal servant of Valok revealed to the Archmage Valok's will, that the Gold Order be reformed. Of greater interest however, was that it was to include orc mages. During this arcane revolution, Valok was willing to put aside his anger over the past to gain a foothold in the world of the art once more. The servant of Valok delegated the quest to Damar, who for unknown reasons accepted.

Returned to the Prime, Damar slowly but carefully began making preperations for the new Order, recruiting some of the continents most reknown spell casters. Near immediately after his return, the first of those mages not yet marked by Andrinor, found themselves with the God's blessing. This signified the start of a less hostile between the Two Gods [[Andrinor]] and Valok, whose history to that point was not a friendly one.

In time Damar was introduced to Kasaan, a spokesman for many of [[Brekon]]'s underground cults. Kasaan and his companions had been sent to the city of [[Visimontium]] by a dream believed to have come from Valok. With Kasaan's help, the Gold Archmage was able to recruit many of Brekon's mages, which would form the core of the Order. A large number of these orcs have now come to Visimontium, where they believe they are safe from the prosecution of Brekon.

'''Structure and Philosophy'''

Hierarchy within the order is strict and many of its members undergo rigorous interrogation until they are trusted to work within the framework. Ranks and achievements tend to be based on not only the raw arcane ability of each individual member, but also upon their ability to utilize their arcane talents to further their self-interest and maneuver themselves into the positions that they desire. Much like the Gold of the Fold before it, the Gold Order of the Sand's philosophies share much in common with the religion of Valok. Ultimately, the acquisition of personal power is the goal of the mages in the Gold Order, as they dedicate their lives heavily to the Arcane Art in order to yield the greatest dividends from its fruits. Overall the members of the Gold Order are generally more subtle and restrained in public than their peers in [[Guild:EbonyOrder|Ebony]] or [[Guild:VioletOrder|Violet]], twisting law and order into a tool rather than a hinderance.

[[Category:Guilds|Gold]]
[[Category:Mage Orders|Gold]]

Guild:GoldOrder

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<Big>'''Gold Order of the Sand'''</Big>
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'''Alignment:''' Lawful Evil

'''Restrictions:''' Wizards and Sorcerers Only

'''Contacts:'''
*''Archmage:'' [[PCs:Damar Ogdem|Damar Ogdem]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=3538 PM]
*''Great Magi of Internal Affairs:'' [[PCs:Crunk Steelcaster|Crunk Steelcaster]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=4030 PM]
*''Great Magi of Relations:'' [[PCs:Dralix|Dralix]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=4944 PM]
*''Senior Magus of Mikona:'' [[PCs:Grace Dane-Unuldur|Grace Dane-Unuldur]] [http://www.avlis.org/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=1616 PM]
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'''History'''

Several years after the Creation of the Trust and the new Orders of Magic,
certain events brought the then Archmage of the Ebony Order of the Moon, Damar Ogdem, to Valok's fortress on Avernus. There, an immortal servant of Valok revealed to the Archmage Valok's will, that the Gold Order be reformed. Of greater interest however, was that it was to include orc mages. During this arcane revolution, Valok was willing to put aside his anger over the past to gain a foothold in the world of the art once more. The servant of Valok delegated the quest to Damar, who for unknown reasons accepted.

Returned to the Prime, Damar slowly but carefully began making preperations for the new Order, recruiting some of the continents most reknown spell casters. Near immediately after his return, the first of those mages not yet marked by Andrinor, found themselves with the God's blessing. This signified the start of a less hostile between the Two Gods Andrinor and Valok, whose history to that point was not a friendly one.

In time Damar was introduced to Kasaan, a spokesman for many of Brekon's underground cults. Kasaan and his companions had been sent to the city of Visimontium by a dream believed to have come from Valok. With Kasaan's help, the Gold Archmage was able to recruit many of Brekon's mages, which would form the core of the Order. A large number of these orcs have now come to Visimontium, where they believe they are safe from the prosecution of Brekon.

'''Structure and Philosophy'''

Hierarchy within the order is strict and many of its members undergo rigorous interrogation until they are trusted to work within the framework. Ranks and achievements tend to be based on not only the raw arcane ability of each individual member, but also upon their ability to utilize their arcane talents to further their self-interest and maneuver themselves into the positions that they desire. Much like the Gold of the Fold before it, the Gold Order of the Sand's philosophies share much in common with the religion of Valok. Ultimately, the acquisition of personal power is the goal of the mages in the Gold Order, as they dedicate their lives heavily to the Arcane Art in order to yield the greatest dividends from its fruits. Overall the members of the Gold Order are generally more subtle and restrained in public than their peers in Ebony or Violet, twisting law and order into a tool rather than a hinderance.

[[Category:Guilds|Gold]]
[[Category:Mage Orders|Gold]]

PCs

2006-06-22T17:37:07Z

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[[#E|E]] [[#F|F]] [[#G|G]] [[#H|H]]
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[[#Q|Q]] [[#R|R]] [[#S|S]] [[#T|T]]
[[#U|U]] [[#V|V]] [[#W|W]] [[#X|X]]
[[#Y|Y]] [[#Z|Z]] | [[:Category:PCs| PCs Category]]

=Character Listing=
To make a new entry, [[PCs:Template|use this template]].

This is a section for writing about your PCs. This may seem redundant with the boards, since those have journals and biography sections already. However, unlike the boards, the wiki is considered OOC. Furthermore, as the wiki grows, these entries can be hyperlinked into various articles that are written. So if [[PCs:Samwir | Samwir]] causes trouble in Elysia, you can just click his name to read about him. Links to these bios will be added as the history section is fleshed out, so put your PC in here when you get a chance.

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As of May 15th, 2006, all Wiki information is to be considered [[OOC]]. You can see the ruling [[Rules:Specific_Rules:Metagaming#Wiki_Information|here]]. This means that using information here [[IC|ICly]] is considered griefing. 
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==A==
[[PCs:Aerill_Ailpera|Ailpera, Aerill]] 
[[PCs:Michael al'Aere|al'Aere, Michael]] 
[[PCs:Ankhara al'Khalid|al'Khalid, Ankhara]] 
[[PCs:Jorio_Alerian|Alerian, Jorio]] 
[[PCs:Friday_Alibar|Alibar, Friday]] 
[[PCs:Isogel Alleb|Alleb, Isogel]] 
[[PCs:Aeveras_Altaer|Altaer, Aeveras]] 
[[PCs:Nawen_Amakiir|Amakiir, Nawen]] 
[[PCs:Tamia_Amakiir|Amakiir, Tamia]] 
[[PCs:Amiru|Amiru]] 
[[PCs:Andrews, Russell|Andrews, Russell]] 
[[PCs:Anifail, Fealith|Anifail, Fealith]] 
[[PCs:Thalarian Arc'Thass|Arc'Thass, Thalarian]] 
[[PCs:Tenirra Arken'Held|Arken'Held, Tenirra]] 
[[PCs:Aspen (Eadha'Duir)|Aspen (Eadha'Duir)]] 
[[PCs:Ayiree|Ayiree]] 
[[PCs:Seretah Aylown|Aylown, Seretah]] 
[[PCs:Rune Amanta|Amanta, Rune]] 

==B==
[[PCs:Mieri Bellmaker|Bellmaker, Mieri]] 
[[PCs:Blake Benneset|Benneset, Blake]] 
[[PCs:K'Tomma Benneset|Benneset, K'Tomma]] 
[[PCs:Josoph Billearn|Billearn, Josoph]] 
[[PCs:Krator Blackfist|Blackfist, Krator]] 
[[PCs:Garek_Blackstone|Blackstone, Garek]] 
[[PCs:Glenda Blecherofferschnach|Blecherofferschnach, Glenda]] 
[[PCs:Dannar Blighte|Blighte, Dannar]] 
[[PCs:Vurk Bloodfang|Bloodfang, Vurk]] 
[[PCs:Arkn'sterod Bloodsaik|Bloodsaik, Arkn'sterod]] 
[[PCs:Hawk Bodyravager|Bodyravager, Hawk]] 
[[PCs:Harvey Boekhorst|Boekhorst, Harvey]] 
[[PCs:Gurky Bogglewig|Bogglewig, Gurky]] 

==C==
[[PCs:Arn_Callindraes|Callindraes, Arn]] 
[[PCs:Methuselah Caneras|Caneras, Methuselah]] 
[[PCs:Valeria Cavalieri|Cavalieri, Valeria]] 
[[Pcs:Caviel|Caviel]] 
[[PCs:Cloud|Cloud]] 
[[PCs:Celarisse Curanwen|Curanwen, Celarisse]] 

==D==
[[PCs:Llyshra Dald|Dald, Llyshra]] 
[[PCs:Fade Darkwing|Darkwing, Fade]] 
[[PCs:Gill Darkstar|Darkstar, Gill]] 
[[PCs:Kalgar Darthvord|Darthvord, Kalgar]] 
[[PCs:Day|Day]] 
[[PCs:Lucius D'Cythra|D'Cythra, Lucius]] 
[[PCs:Garret de'Karne|de'Karne, Garret]] 
[[PCs:Renard de'Tyrens|de'Tyrens, Renard]] 
[[PCs:Deider|Deider]] 
[[PCs:Vanyankaya (Vanya) Del'Trion|Del'Trion, Vanyankaya (Vanya)]] 
[[PCs:Evantis Delaxis|Delaxis, Evantis]] 
[[PCs:Madon "Madness" Dethrune|Dethrune, Madon "Madness"]] 
[[PCs:Shannen Di'rithia| Di'rithia, Shannen]] 
[[PCs:Dok|Dok]] 
[[PCs:Draconis|Draconis]] 
[[PCs:Havian O Dryinos|Dryinos, Havian O]] 
[[PCs:Celithril Dy'nen|Dy'nen, Celithril]] 

==E==
[[PCs:Dilvish_Eglath|Eglath, Dilvish]] 
[[PCs:Eldraea|Eldraea]] 
[[PCs:Elenya|Elenya]] 
[[PCs:Snorri Elfslayer|Elfslayer, Snorri]] 
[[PCs:El'Githoral|El'Githoral]] 
[[PCs:Leto von Elis|von Elis, Leto]] 
[[PCs:Elsie|Elsie]] 
[[PCs:Elyl|Elyl]] 
[[PCs:Rabiah_Endymion|Endymion, Rabiah]] 
[[PCs:Epiktetus|Epiktetus]] 
[[PCs:Sephira_Everliss|Everliss, Sephira]] 
[[PCs:Jared_Evershield|Evershield, Jared]] 

==F==
[[PCs:Zacharia FeatherFingers|FeatherFingers, Zacharia]] 
[[PCs:Ialath Fentellon|Fentellon, Ialath]] 
[[PCs:Ferris Floydsson|Floydsson, Ferris]] 
[[PCs: Artros|Forbeis, Artros]] 
[[PCs:Dorgan Fostwil|Fostwil, Dorgan]] 
[[PCs:Heronimous Fox|Fox, Heronimous]] 
[[PCs:Rorln Frizzlegomp|Frizzlegomp, Rorln]] 
[[PCs:Nord Fyne|Fyne, Nord]] 
[[PCs:Aramil Fynn|Fynn, Aramil]] 
[[PCs:Lotis Fynolis|Fynolis, Lotis]] 
[[PCs:Rolan Fyne|Fyne, Rolan]] 

==G==
[[PCs:Mellenco Gardastar|Gardastar, Mellenco]] 
[[PCs:Gladd'avenglori|Gladd'avenglori]] 
[[PCs:Pilder Glittermil|Glittermil, Pilder]] 
[[PCs:Alnusa Glutinosa|Glutinosa, Alnusa]] 
[[PCs:Goldie|Goldie]] 
[[PCs:Grano Goodman|Goodman, Grano]] 
[[PCs:Fergus Goodmane|Goodmane, Fergus]] 
[[PCs:Belevren Graniteanvil|Graniteanvil, Belevren]] 

==H==
[[PCs:Voyor Hadzum|Hadzum, Voyor]] 
[[PCs:Kharak Hammerstar|Hammerstar, Kharak]] 
[[PCs:Aramil Hanlen|Hanlen, Aramil]] 
[[PCs:Plitz Haubenschnaupf|Haubenschnaupf, Plitz]] 
[[PCs:Heldor|Heldor]] 
[[PCs:Odel Helmsplitter|Helmsplitter, Odel]] 
[[PCs:Gunsel Highbinder|Highbinder, Gunsel]] 
[[PCs:Trina Holyan|Holyan, Trina]] 
[[PCs:Brayon Hopper|Hopper, Brayon]] 
[[PCs:Simon Hytheria|Hytheria, Simon]] 

==I==
[[PCs:Iako|Iako]] 
[[PCs:Imril|Imril]] 
[[PCs:Alphonse Irofin|Irofin, Alphonse]] 
[[PCs:Ixldor|Ixldor]] 

==J==
[[PCs:Jack|Jack (Ghallis Malignant)]] 
[[PCs:Jade|Jade]] 
[[PCs:Rhissaerk Jalesh|Jalesh, Rhissaerk]] 
[[PCs:Gram Jamjeans|Jamjeans, Gram]] 
[[PCs:Jard, Peren|Jard, Peren]] 
[[PCs:Merago Jert|Jert, Merago]] 
[[PCs:Jordaine|Jordaine]] 
[[PCs:Kaede Jr'ei'ren|Jr'ei'ren, Kaede]] 
[[PCs:Tri'as Ju'eir|Ju'eir, Tri'as]] 

==K==
[[PCs:The Kahn Family|The Kahn Family]] 
[[PCs:Kahn The Dark|Kahn The Dark]] 
[[PCs:Allana Kalene|Kalene, Allana]] 
[[PCs:Kanga|Kanga]] 
[[PCs:Karr, Timo|Karr, Timo]] 
[[PCs:Khan, Magnus|Khan, Magnus]] 
[[PCs:Khiya|Khiya]] 
[[PCs:Kim, Jenii|Kim, Jenii]] 
[[PCs:Aradan Kir|Kir, Aradan]] 
[[PCs:Lisa Kler|Kler, Lisa]] 
[[PCs:Dashel Knight|Knight, Dashel]] 
[[PCs:Sasha Konstantine|Konstantine, Sasha]] 
[[PCs:Yohan Kurgenson|Kurgenson, Yohan]] 
[[PCs:Shinaa Kuri-Assa'rai|Kuri-Assa'rai, Shinaa]] 
[[PCs:Darro "Ghostblade" Kwikfoot|Kwikfoot, Darro "Ghostblade"]] 

==L==
[[PCs:Law|Law]] 
[[PCs:Joren Le'Igh|Le'Igh, Joren]] 
[[PCs:Willem Lightheart|Lightheart, Willem]] 
[[PCs:Fraudoc Loclac|Loclac, Fraudoc]] 
[[PCs:Revjac Longtooth|Longtooth, Revjac]] 
[[PCs:Sydney Losstarot|Losstarot, Sydney]] 
[[PCs:Luna Luna|Luna, Luna]] 
[[PCs:Vichan Lyonsen|Lyonsen, Vichan]] 

==M==
[[PCs:Kareth Ma'fer|Ma'fer, Kareth]] 
[[PCs:Kaelyn MacCaddor|MacCaddor, Kaelyn]] 
[[PCs:Malulani jael MacMurray|MacMurray, Malulani jael]] 
[[PCs:Kitiara Maelstrom|Maelstron, Kitiara]] 
[[PCs:Jillanae Maleficarium|Maleficarium, Jillanae]] 
[[PCs:Manuel the White|Manuel the White]] 
[[PCs:Marie the Confounder|Marie]] 
[[PCs:Vichan Marndry|Marndry, Vichan]] 
[[PCs:Dale_Marshall|Marshall, Dale]] 
[[PCs:Derek_Matthews|Matthews, Derek]] 
[[PCs:Frida da Medican|Medican, Frida da]] 
[[PCs:Janur da Medican|Medican, Janur da]] 
[[PCs:Mendell|Mendell]] 
[[PCs:Melonius Mennallin|Mennallin, Melonius]] 
[[PCs:Quicksilver Meridan|Meridan, Quicksilver]] 
[[PCs:Shana Merlin|Merlin, Shana]] 
[[PCs:Godloth_Mikonar|Mikonar, Godloth]] 
[[PCs:Ayren_Milen|Milen, Sir Ayren]] 
[[PCs:Gilthodel Mir'Dolledh|Mir'Dolledh, Gilthodiel]] 
[[PCs:Julian Montfort|Montfort, Julian]] 
[[PCs:Mowghina Moonblood|Moonblood, Mowghina]] 
[[PCs:Zachar Mordecai| Mordecai, Zachar]] 
[[PCs:Mylo|Mylo]] 

==N==
[[Neren, Sywyn]] 
[[Nerivenne, Erriss]] 
[[Nightcrawler, Logani]]

==O==
[[PCs:Damar Ogdem|Ogdem, Damar]] 
[[PCs:Oorayv'levena|Oorayv'levena]] 
[[PCs:Aiquandol Orener the 3rd|Orener the 3rd , Aiquandol]] 
[[PCs:Anyamaur Orener|Orener, Anyamur]] 
[[PCs:Micah Elizabeth Ormane|Ormane, Micah Elizabeth]] 

==P==
[[PCs:Pajal|Pajal]] 
[[PCs:Ganden Pandorn|Pandorn, Ganden]] 
[[PCs:Leopold Phefefhur|Phefefhur, Leopold]] 
[[PCs:Kela Pureflank|Pureflank, Kela]] 

==Q==
==R==
[[PCs:D'Anjal Veskandar Ra|Ra, Veskandar D'Anjal]] 
[[PCs:Raen|Raen]] 
[[PCs:Chival Rai|Rai, Chival]] 
[[PCs:Edward Von Ravenstone|Von Ravenstone, Edward]] 
[[PCs:An'wen Re'lin|Re'lin, An'wen]] 
[[PCs:Rello|Rello]] 
[[PCs:Riadoc|Riadoc]] 
[[PCs:Brant Risko|Risko, Brant]] 
[[PCs:Kered Rose|Rose, Kered]] 
[[PCs:Jwolaroth Ruk|Ruk, Jwolaroth]] 
[[PCs:Ulfeit Rumnaheim|Rumnaheim, Ulfeit]] 
[[PCs:Revan|Revan]] 
[[PCs:Ruby|Ruby]] 

==S==
[[PCs:Theresa Saint Albion|Saint Albion, Theresa ]] 
[[PCs:Samwir|Samwir]] 
[[PCs:Resthal Sethi|Sethi, Resthal]] 
[[PCs:Sesamauhtis|Shaahilax]] 
[[PCs:Enzaneti Sighkopaf|Sighkopaf, Enzaneti]] 
[[PCs:Namlig Sirhc|Sirhc, Namlig]] 
[[PCs:Sinomi Sii|Sii, Sinomi]] 
[[PCs:Elong Singalong|Singalong, Elong]] 
[[PCs:Melakin Skyweider|Skyweider, Melakin]] 
[[PCs:Skavius Slaan |Slaan, Skavius]] 
[[PCs:Ellowin_Be'tend_Snyder|Snyder, Ellowin Be'tend]] 
[[PCs:Morgoth Sorben|Sorben, Morgoth]] 
[[PCs:Spit|Spit]] 
[[PCs:Raging Squirrel|Squirrel, Raging]] 
[[PCs:Crunk Steelcaster|Steelcaster, Crunk]] 
[[PCs:Hargas Steelhead|Steelhead, Hargas]] 
[[PCs:Raldar Stonecleaver|Stonecleaver, Raldar]] 
[[PCs:Shaniqua Stont|Stont, Shaniqua]] 
[[PCs:Aspen Stormcat|Stormcat, Aspen]] 
[[PCs:Thror Stormhammer|Stormhammer, Thror]] 
[[PCs:Straccio|Straccio]] 
[[PCs:Ruby Summerset|Summerset, Ruby]] 
[[PCs:Sagan Sunderin|Sunderin, Sagan]] 
[[PCs:Suuhoroh|Suuhoroh]] 
[[PCs:Terra Swift|Swift, Terra]] 
[[PCs:Danicia Swifthand|Swifthand, Danicia]] 

==T==
[[PCs:Nesara Tal'piriarn|Tal'piriarn, Nesara]] 
[[PCs:Ta'Ancorina|Ta'Ancorina]] 
[[PCs:Fassin Task|Task, Fassin]] 
[[PCs:Milora Tena'tneth|Tena'tneth, Milora]] 
[[PCs:Grag Tharashk|Tharashk, Grag]] 
[[PCs:Archibald Thel|Thel, Archibald]] 
[[PCs:Mereppi Tinkerspell|Tinkerspell, Mereppi]] 
[[PCs:Nirinthir Tir'ein |Tir'ein, Nirinthir]] 
[[PCs:Za'Mael Tir'Ent|Tir'Ent, Za'Mael]] 
[[PCs:Laen Toille|Toille, Laen]] 
[[PCs:Vroshgrak Treesitter|Treesitter, Vroshgrak]] 
[[PCs:Troth the Wanderer|Troth the Wanderer]] 
[[PCs:Tesh Tylnen|Tylnen, Tesh]] 
[[PCs:Miriel Hana Tel'Suzail|Tel'Suzail, Miriel Hana]] 

==U==
[[PCs:Frederrick Uffelinter|Uffelinter, Freferrick]] 
[[PCs:Grace Dane-Unuldur|Unuldur, Grace Dane]] 

==V==
[[PCs:Vana|Vana]] 
[[PCs:Vikaset|Vikaset]] 
[[PCs:Vuko, Magdalena|Vuko, Magdalena]] 
[[PCs:Vandor, Rika|Vandor, Rika]] 

==W==
[[PCs:Robert Wallace|Wallace, Robert]] 
[[PCs:Waylan in the Wood|Wood, Waylan in the]] 
[[PCs:Richance Weller|Weller, Richance]] 
[[PCs:Dala Wennen|Wennen, Dala]] 
[[PCs:Kai-Ral_Windspar|Windspar, Kai-Ral]] 
[[PCs:Moira_Celyn_Windspar|Windspar, Dame Moira Celyn]] 

==X==
[[PCs:Xen|Xen]] 
[[PCs:Xenith|Xenith]] 

==Y==
==Z==
[[Zamanaena, Karna'yeritath]] 
[[Zaviel]]

[[Category:PCs| PCs]]

Mikona:Recent Events

2006-01-22T16:02:13Z

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=Recent Events in Mikona and M'Chek=
This page will attempt to summarize the basics of various events that have taken place in Mikona and M'Chek since the servers came online.

In editing this, please try to keep it in rough chronological order, and to keep it factual.
'''And remember, just as on the boards, all information here can be taken as known in character, so don't post anything that you don't want known as common knowledge.'''
==Timeline==
===2006===
*(01/12/06) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=70325 The M'Chekian army begins recruitment again.] - M'Chek begins a project of farming portions of the underdark. The M'Chekian army announces it will be recruiting for the first time since the war's end in order to aid this project.

===2005===
*(12/05/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=67873 Kai'ral Windspar forms a wemic pride] - Though they aren't based in M'Chek necessarily, much of their activity takes place there as it is Kai'ral's home.
*(11/26/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=67582 The Gnomes begin to take on Tollgaroth's old role as Mikona's most prominent enemy,] as they begin to launch assaults on the city from their stronghold in the Hills of Tumult.
*(11/09/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=67839 Jand de la Fleur's banishment is lifted.] Accused of treason during the war, he is allowed back into M'Chek after his case is reviewed.
*(11/01/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=66206 The Windspars succeed in closing the Magma portal in Tollgaroth's abandoned halls.] The hills appear open for settlement, but are shortly invaged by Andrinorian Gnomes.
*(10/12/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=64883 Actions are taken to begin cleansing the Hills of Tumult for use by M'Chek.]
*(10/11/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=64799 The Dwarven Quarters are finally cleansed] - This operation is credited to Order of Gorethar, the Council of Balance, the Council of Dagath, the Keepers of the Cycle, and the M'Chekian Guards. This is perhaps the final step in releasin the Mikonian underdark from Sorvanok's hold.
*(09/25/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=63686 Dala Wennen, former Commander of the Alpha Corps, is granted a Common House seat based on her war record.]
*(09/09/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=66682 M'Chek establishes an island Garrison on the Western sea.]
*(09/04/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=62490 Houseman Kered Rose is reinstated in his position of Common House Representative] as all charges stemming from the Canvas Incident are cleared.
*(08/22/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=61701 The Vasharan begin to assault Mikona's temples.] The assaults, however, are short-lived.
*(08/21/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=61641 Some activity of Sorvanok's old cult seems to indicate that all is not well in Mikona's underdark.]
*(08/14/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=61225 Increasing pressure on M'Chek to seek land, and breaches of the treaty with Tollgaroth] lead to conflicts over Mikona's Dwarven Quarters and Tollgaroth's lair. By the word of the treaty, M'Chek is still bound to an uneasy alliance with Tollgaroth, but it becomes clear that will not last for long.
*(08/08/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=60884 The Sword of Toran gives up its duty as the elite law enforcement branch in M'Chek]. This duty passes to the newly formed M'Chekian Guards.
*(08/??/05) After much prodding and conflict with the city, Tollgaroth's forces depart from the Hills of Tumult.
*(08/02/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=60517 A last remnant of Sorvanok's power is found under Mikona] - A dracolich is discovered lurking in the depths and dispatched by a cooperative effort of the M'Chekian Guards, the Council of Balance, and the Order of Gorethar.
*(06/24/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=57579 Fulfordis begins assaulting Mikona.] His appearance is linked to Tollgaroth's plans, and the treaty between Tollgaroth and Mikona becomes strained.
*(06/10/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=56563 The M'Chekian Guards] are founded from the remnants of the Alpha Corps. They share law enforcement powers with the Sword of Toran.
*(05/11/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=54650 A joint coalition is able to discover a cure for the plague]. Those involved include Moira Windspar, Corporal Tivn Dimbzig and Frigate Captain Ayren Milen. The losses, however, have still been terrible. Estimates are that as many as 1 in 6 M'Chekians are dead from this plague.
*(04/29/05)[http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=54027 A dreaded plague that has been thus far confined to Elysia spreads to M'Chek]. The M'Chekian army declares that one of T'Nanshi's officers (a "Trethlawn Brother") is responsible for this deed. The plague, now no longer containd by Elysia's walls, quickly spreads to T'Nanshi as well. Military operations on both sides all but cease as thousands die.
*(04/21/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=53495 The Alpha Corps organizes an operation to secure Blandenberg for M'Chekian settlers.] This unprecedented operation involves capturing the village, securing it, then handing it over to neutral parties to settle as they will. Of the neutral parties involved, only the Church of Mikon, as represented by Moira Celyn, accepts responsibility for the settlement. The Blandenberg Protectorate is born. Despite [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=53703 T'Nanshi's rejection of the proposal], they do not attack the settlement, and it grows into what becomes the Blandenberg Protectorate.
*(04/17/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=53203 Drotid signs a ceasefire with T'Nanshi and Elysia] - Many in M'Chek are outraged that their ally would leave the war, and fear the wrath of the northern armies which have been freed by this treaty.
*(04/16/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=59274 The Blandenberg Protectorate] is formed from the Blandenberg Settlement, and many of the lands formerly known as "the warzone".
*(04/13/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?p=512371#512371 Plans are made to allow M'Chekians to relocate to Visimontium] - This city, far to the north is designed as a Magocracy, to be populated by M'Chekians who have fled from the war.
*(04/10/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=52735 Rhissaerk Jalesh's punishment in Elysia is complete]. He returns to M'Chek and is granted his place back in the army.
*(04/02/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=52254 The Alpha Corps' new public relations department begins making public announcements of battles.] - The first announcement concerns the victorious defense of the remnants of the Village of Blandenberg.
*(03/31/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=52076 General Marcus Deth is raised from the dead] and resumes his place as War Comissioner of M'Chek.
*(03/22/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=51581 Rhissaerk Jalesh is extradited to Elysia for crmies against their city.] Questions are raised whether the extradition of the "Slayer of Vanoviel" have political motives.
*(03/12/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=51027 The Canvas Affair] - A raid on the Canvas by the Sword of Toran leads to the expulsion of its owners from M'Chek, along with the expulsion of the Church of Angadar, and several of its allies. Prominent names among those found guilty include Amonien Amana, Tennira Arknheld, Lisa Kler, Jand le Fleure, and Houseman Kered Rose (who is stripped of his house seat). Houseman Rose is later cleared of these charges and granted his seat back.

*(02/01/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=47400 The Blandenberg Hospital is destroyed by terrorists.]
*(01/06/05) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=45557 The Wardens of M'Chek are founded] - This group is subordinate to the Sword of Toran, acting to restore M'Chek's lands and keep them peaceful.

===2004===
*(12/18/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=44589 After much agression between the two nations, M'Chek and Elysia finally declare war.]
*(12/09/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=43973 A formal treaty is finally made with Tollgaroth.] - This will later lead to military support by the giants.
*(12/04/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=43521 The Council of Balance is publically attacked for supposedly aiding Elysia.] - They vow that if war comes between the two nations, they will side with M'Chek.
*(11/28/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=43111 Revelations about the nature of the M'Chek-Drotid alliance] heighten tensions between M'Chek and Elysia. Specifically, evidence is purported to exist showing the desire of M'Chek to aid Drotid in destroying Elysia.
*(10/31/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=41426 High Reaver Kellid D'Prey begins motions to come to a formal treaty with Tollgaroth.]
*(10/26/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=41124 High Commands on both sides of the war institute a policy of fining civilians in the warzone], as the battles begin to escalate.
*(10/21/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=40780 It becomes clear that Mikona's ice caves are inhabited by powerful undead] - These undead make an attempt to slay Tollgaroth's giants, but are thwarted with the aid of the city. Once again, [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=40959 there is an uneasy alliance between Tollgaroth and Mikona.]
*(10/07/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=40064 War Comissioner Marcus Deth is assassinated]. He is replaced by General Tharius Grumbald, a relation of Lord Donie Grumbald.
*(09/11/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=38382 The Gentleman apparently returns to M'Chek.]
*(08/15/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=36558 The Sword of Toran announces a deputy program] - This program allows non-affiliated citizens to aid the Sword in the elite branch of M'Chek's law enforcement. This priveledge is later extended under the M'Chekian Guards.
*(08/14/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=36536 The undead child Joriah begins to cause trouble with the fire giants.] Specifically, he begins to agitate them against Mikona.
*(08/10/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=36259 Mikona begins an open alliance with the church of Titania] - This brings some anger from Elysia, which has been battling the Titanians recently.
*(07/31/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=35742 Mikona's infamous "Village Crypt" is cleansed of undeath] - This long-term project of the Temple of Dagath was finally completed by Jadrienne Starfire and members of the church.
*(07/17/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=34890 M'Chek enters into an alliance with Drotid in its war against T'Nanshi.] Captain Jake Bentsen of the Alpha Corps gives a [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=36061 famous speech] on the matter.
*(07/14/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=34696 The Gentleman's minions are apparently at work again.] They attempt to slay Lord Derrington, and in response he holds a public meetins, giving information about his role in the destruction of the Gentleman.
*(06/21/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=33388 The Blandenberg Ferry is destroyed]. This vital travel lane from M'Chek to T'Nanshi is destroyed by T'Nanshi soldiers.
*(06/01/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=32032 The frozen dead (numbering 2000)] are placed in the ice caves for storage while the city finds room to bury them. Necromancers begin using this as a supply of corpses.
*(05/23/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=31540 The cold is ended by an outside group.] -Blame is placed at the feet of the Mikonians who, " made and broke promises, pranced around arguing," rather than solving the problem. (A good accounting of Mikona in the lich->ice age times is given [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=26166 here])
*(05/17/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?p=271936#271936 It becomes apparent that the ice giants have a machine that is creating this weather.] The city seeks an alliance with Tollgaroth in this, but he refuses, since his aid against Sorvanok was spurned by Kharak Hammerstar.
*(05/11/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?p=261013#261013 General Marcus Deth is appointed as the new war comissioner of M'Chek]
*(05/05/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=30578 Frost giant attacks on Mikona begin]
*(04/27/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=30115 War Comissioner Dard Blake Dies] - Dard Blake, M'Chek's war comissioner is found to be involved in slave trade. He commits suicide rather than face justice.
*(04/27/04) Kered Rose appointed to the common house of M'Chek.
*(04/20/04) Intense cold strikes Mikona. Snows begin to fall and not abate. [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=30755 No one is certain yet of the cause.]
*(04/18/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=29561 Sorvanok Defeated] - The Lich Sorvanok who resided deep in the underdark below Mikona, and who sought godhood is finally defeated by the cooperation of scores of adventurers. A momnument comemmorating this is erected outside the City's gates. Notable at the time: Tollgaroth is turned away from the assault by Kharak Hammerstar, a member of the Order of Gorethar.
*(04/07/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=28994 Sorvanok's minions begin massed assaults on the temples of Mikona.] This serves as a call to those who oppose him to act immediately.
*(03/19/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=28037 Sorvanok's minions begin displaying priest-like powers]. This leads many to speculate that the lich may be near his goal of ascention.
*(02/08/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=26178 Fulfordis and his ice giants are found to be in league with Sorvanok.] This leads to another attempt at a truce with Tollgaroth, since he has no desire to be destroyed by the lich.
*(01/31/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=25830 Cha'reth ascends].
*(01/19/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=25110 The recipe for Bloodsmoke Infusion is found] - This new and potent cure for the spite means the disease is no longer a threat to non-elven victims.
*(01/12/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=24743 The Gentleman is destroyed.]
*(01/06/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=24499 A hospital opens in Blandenberg] - In the temple of O'Ma in the ruins Blandenberg village (now a battlefield), a hospital is opened jointly by clergy of O'Ma and Dru'el.
*(01/02/04) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=24296 Sorvanok steps up his attacks on Mikona] - Rather than merely attacking the city in retribution for raids on his lair, Sorvanok begins preparations to raze Mikona and ascend to godhood.

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===2003===
*(12/07/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=23056 The city of Mikona is quarantined] due to an extreme outbreak of the Spite.
*(11/15/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=22043 The Church of Dagath learns how to cleanse a crypt], thus making it useless to The Gentlemen for recruitment of his undead minions.
*(09/31/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=21358A woman known as Meisha or "mistress"] begins attacking M'Chekian nobles.
*(09/18/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=19447 Tollgaroth attacks Mikona again] - As will become a repeated theme in Mikonian history, Tollgaroth's promise of a truce is broken. Many question whether it is his nature to do so, or if Mikonian adventurers broke the truce first.
*(09/15/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=19294 First indication that Tollgaroth may be willing to come to terms with Mikona] - As Mikona is suffering from Sorvanok's assaults as well as Sereg raids, many are hopeful of this possibility.
*(09/12/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=19220 Lanessa Leaves M'Chek] - The Legion of Darkness apparently ceases to exist along with her.
*(09/10/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=20335 The infamous "Gentleman" is first sighted in M'Chek.] He attacks travellers seemingly at random.
*(08/29/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=18595] The Sereg return to Mikona, along with the spite.]
*(07/15/03) Despite claiming neutrality in the struggle for the vortex of chaos, struggle within Mikona results in [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=16835 a state of war between the Ebony Order of the Moon, and the Order of Gorethar and the Hands of Dru'el.]
*(07/14/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=16785 As the magi of Avlis struggle over the Vortex, Mikona outlaws all conflicts within its walls]. [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=16804 Damar Ogdem is acquitted] His banishment is lifted, and he is welcomed back to the City of Mikona.
*(06/27/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=16134 Damar Ogdem banished from Mikona] - For trespassing in Sorvanok's lair.
*(06/17/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=15641 The Order of Gorethar has its right to enforce M'Chekian laws revoked.] The Sword of Toran replaces them as an elite law enforcement organization.
*(06/05/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=15042 Hugar returns to M'Chek] - A task force is formed of adventurers to thwart her schemes.
*(05/31/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=14833 "Demon Prince Nastassiou" destroyed] - Lanessa claims that this will put an end to the vampire threat to M'Chek, and the Legion of Darkness will now operate independently of them. Shortly thereafter, [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=15079 Lanessa's banisment is lifted]
*(04/15/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=12713 Yet another strange disease descends on M'Chek.] - This time, it apparently is related to the vampire infestation.
*(04/13/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=12669 Lanessa nas T'jarra expelled from M'Chek].
*(04/10/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=12545 Tollgaroth's giants first attack Mikona in force] - Their plan is to apparently crush the M'Chekian capital in the hopes of stopping M'Chekian resistance to another giant army from the north.
*(04/09/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=12477 It becomes clear that the Legion of Darkness is in league with the vampires spotted around Mikona] (although they insist upon being called "vampyres"). Several break free from their pact with the Legion and Lenessa and begin preying on Mikonians. Cynics claim that this is the Legion's will.
*(03/19/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=11656 Frequent Vampire sightings begin] in M'Chek and in particular in Mikona.
*(03/13/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=11409 Legion of Darkness founded in M'Chek] - The aptly named Legion of Darkness is founded by Lanessa nas T'jarra as an organization for those "with darkness in their hearts." They declare themselves violently opposed to the Order of Gorethar.
*(03/04/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=11042 Order of Valok founded] in Mikona, by Fyren Tennimar.
*(02/28/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=10920 The Sereg'wethrin Spite first strikes M'Chek]
*(02/24/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=10756 The Sereg'wethrin are spotted in Mikona] - The Sereg'wethrin, a devious breed of elf bred for the destruction of all humans, are soptted in Mikona. It soon becomes obvious that this is [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=10710 more than an isolatet incident] and the city is in grave peril.
*(02/11/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?p=46905 Order of O'Ma founded] by Delen Lomar.
*(02/01/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=9902 Lanessa nas T'jarra arrives in Mikona] - She will later become infamous as the leader of a group of vampires.
*(01/26/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?p=42405 Dunster Commons Assaulted] by a man named Sigmar Heldenhammer and his followers, who wear the sign of a fist. After being denounced by M'Chek as a mercenary band, [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=9419 this group] soon dissolves.
*(01/20/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=9530 T'Nanshi terrorists "E.L.F." attack Mikona]
*(01/17/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=9456 Trials of Alladorn and Cuxn] Alladorn is not guilty of treason, but of lying to an officer. He recieves a sentence of 100.000 gold pieces and one week labor. Cuxn is found not guilty of treason, but guilty of murdering several M'Chekan soldiers, and sentenced to death.
*(01/15/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=9401 Order of Gorethar Founded] - The Order of Gorethar is founded by Lord Vian, Arch Paladin of Gorethar. Though technically based in Elysia, many membrs choose to reside in M'Chek.
*(01/14/03) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?p=39516#39516 The Vigil], a vigilante group seeking to "protect M'Chekians" is first spotted in M'Chek.

===2002===
*(12/15/02) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=8864 Alladorn taken into custody] - Alladorn Echindar is captured and held for an impending trial for treason against M'Chek.
*(12/13/02) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=8864 Cuxn taken into custody] - Cuxn Starfire's bounty is collected by Peregryne Twostep. Cuxn is held for an impending trial for treason against M'Chek.
*(12/04/02) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=8715 Alladorn and Cuxn wanted for Treason] - A bounty of 200,000 gold is placed for the capture or deaths of Alladorn Echindar and Cuxn Starfire, for treason against M'Chek.
*(12/02/02) [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=8681 Sorvanok attacks Mikona] - The Lich Sorvanok launchs what is to be the first of many assaults on Mikona in retaliation for adventurers raiding his lair.
*(09/??/02) Hugar begins wreaking havok in M'Chek.

==Notes==
Since translating real life dates to Avlis dates is notoriously strange, I've prefaced each event with the approximate RL date it occured, or was posted about. This will help keep this somewhat in chronological order.

==Missing info==
* Ending of the Hugar plot
* "Valley of Death"--the first huge Sereg event.
* Ending of "the mistress"/Meisha plot.
* More info on the Gentleman's demise, take I
* Anything on the Gentleman's demise, take II
* Lord Deth's Demise, take II.
* Lord Deth's resurrection, take II
* End of the war