Thalantyr
The reclusive conjurer of High Hedge and the foremost living scholar of Ulcaster's work, Hilather's binding magic, and the Demonshields.
General description
Thalantyr is an older human conjurer who lives at High Hedge northwest of Beregost. He is lean, severe, and impatient with visitors who substitute civic rank for arcane proof. His dark robes, worn component belt, and guarded spellbooks reflect a wizard who works alone and expects trouble to find him.
Key facts
- Nimra Keld is his former apprentice and a specialist in magical-site surveying. In Adventure 007 she has missed an agreed return from work at Ulcaster. He asks the party to find her, but does not yet know she is a prisoner.
- Thalantyr's estate is guarded by griffons and magical servants.
- He recognizes Shoon-era shield-work tied to Hilather and Ulcaster's research.
- He believes Hilather's Workbook and a surviving Demonshield could reveal the method Ulcaster nearly recovered.
- After Mordas's ritual phase-rejects, Thalantyr recognizes that a damaged Ulcasterian glyph described a separate prison-key rather than doubled amplification.
- He and Quentin can explain why Mordas's spell-lens method could never create a Demonshield: the lens opens and magnifies, but it cannot invert planar resonance or seal a vessel.
- He has considered using that discovery as the foundation for a refounded Ulcasterian school.
- He can identify arjale and tantulhor by description.
- He regards a fiend-bound shield as a prison before he regards it as treasure.
Roleplaying Thalantyr
Roleplaying profile
- Personality
- Terse, brilliant, severe, reclusive, and wary of anyone who values civic rank above arcane evidence.
- Motivation
- Prevent careless handling of fiend-binding magic, preserve Ulcaster's surviving work, and recover enough evidence to make a refounded Ulcasterian school possible.
- Quirks
- Corrects magical terminology before answering, ignores titles, and visibly inventories a visitor's evidence before acknowledging the visitor.
Adventure appearances
Adventure 006
Thalantyr can name the Shoon and Hilather connection and warn the party that the suspected Demonshield is a fiend's prison.
- Motivation: prevent careless handling of binding magic
- Approach: responds to arcane proof, not civic authority
Adventure 007
Thalantyr detects repeated conjuration disturbances at Ulcaster, summons Quentin, and provides surveys and countermeasures. After phase rejection, he identifies Mordas's fatal mistranslation and explains why the shield could never become a Demonshield.
- Wants the binding archive preserved
- Wants the shield for study if it exists
- Maintains the outer containment lattice
- Identifies the missing prison-key after phase rejection