Barjin

Barjin is a Cleric of Talona.

Background
Barjin is the main enemy in R.A. Salvatore's book Canticle in the Cleric Quintet. Not much is known of the powerful cleric/sorcerer/necromancer named Barjin. Supposedly he was a leader of an army in Vaasa under a powerful leader who he refuses to write or say. He dabbled in sorcery and necromancy and became quite efficient in each skill. Supposedly his leader became a god-like figure, and that is where Barjin first became a cleric. When his leader and his army fell, only he and a few of his soldiers survived. He claimed to have been visited by Talona's avatar, and it was she who led him to Castle Trinity. Aballister Bonaduce's familiar, Druzil, later debunks this when he reads Barjin's journal. He quickly rose as the leader of Castle Trinity's triumvirate. He then became Aballister's nemisis.

The Most Fatal Horror
Aballister's familiar, the imp Druzil, lead Aballister on a quest to create the Chaos Curse. The Curse is a potion that brings people to do their most inner desires without thinking about it. When finished, Aballister named it "The Most Fatal Horror", a mock name of Barjin's title as a cleric of Talona. Barjin stated that because he is the leader of the Castle, he should lead the first strike-- alone. So, Barjin headed off with the curse, that has been put in an ever-smoking bottle, to make whoever breathes the mist "infected". First, he went to the Edificant Library. Unfortunately, the bottle could only be opened by one of pure heart, meaning having no inner desires. But before finding a catalyst, Barjin had to find a way in. Mulivy, the library's groundskeeper, after being tortured reluctantly lead him to the catacombs of the library. This proved quite fortunate for the necromancer, who immediately started to raise undead guardians - starting with Mulivy as his personal zombie guard to a mummy with the soul of one Khalif. Barjin found his catalyst for unleashing the Most Fatal Horror in the priest Cadderly Bonaduce who stumbled into Barjin's domain while sorting the bottles in the library's wine cellar. Somehow, Cadderly reached Barjin's altar room, and inadvertanly opened the bottle.

Barjin's Downfall
In the following days, the library slowly fell into chaos. Priests ate to obesity, others drank to insanity. The dwarven brothers Ivan and Pikel Bouldershoulder were able to resist the curse to a certain degree because of their inherit magic resistance. Cadderly himself remains immune being the catalyst who released the curse. The three of them went into the catacombs, battled hordes of skeletons, and almost reached Barjin's alatr room, when Druzil, who was sent by Aballister to spy on Barjin, stung Pikel with his deadly poisoned tail. Armed with Drow sleep poison, Cadderly fended Druzil off, but Pikel already suffered greatly from the imp's poison. Danica, Cadderly's girl-friend and experienced monk, who defeated the curse through mental discipline, and the druid Newander, who could only escape the curse because he wasn't sure what he truly desired, went to the catacombs in pursuit of Cadderly and the dwarves. Danica found Pikel's to the cleric and killing him.