NPC
Ysuran Auondril
Zarad Duskmarrow's severe apprentice, who rebound and annotated a damaged Netherese recurrence codex while adapting it to the clocktower.
General description
Ysuran Auondril was a moon-elf necromantic scholar and Zarad Duskmarrow's apprentice. He translated a damaged Netherese codex on fixing moments of death in magical time, then adapted its recurrence theory to the tower's bell. His exact notes show a disciplined researcher who understood the danger before his master admitted it.
Key facts
- Ysuran helped Zarad develop the bell and clockwork engine that briefly reanimates the dead.
- His ultimate fate is not established in the adventure.
- The object called his black tome is a Netherese recurrence codex that he rebound, translated, and filled with later notes.
- The tome absorbed part of the tower's necromantic resonance.
Research
Ysuran's notes are concise, procedural, and less self-deceiving than Zarad's. They translate and criticize the Netherese core text while preserving formulae that can explain the mechanism or tempt another researcher to continue the work.
Roleplaying profile
- Personality
- Severe, brilliant, disciplined, skeptical, and less willing than Zarad to disguise failure as progress.
- Motivation
- Understand the bell's threshold, document its failures accurately, and prevent Zarad's obsession from erasing the distinction between experiment and atrocity.
- Quirks
- Numbers observations before interpreting them, strikes through errors only once so the original remains legible, and records moral objections in the same precise hand as mechanical measurements.
Adventure appearances
Adventure 003
Ysuran is absent, but his annotated Netherese codex gives the party the clearest account of the tower and attracts Quentin's interest if recovered.
- Status: absent; fate unknown
- Legacy: annotated Netherese recurrence codex
Also known as
- Ysuran