Herminicle Duperdas

Herminicle Duperdas was a novice mage from Helgabal, who later became a lich.

Description
Herminicle was a middling wizard, who many of his fellow students considered a novice. When he became a lich, he was described to be an emaciated, skeletal creature, covered in withered skin. He wore tattered black robes and had a rotted brown lipless face.

History
The novice wizard came across a Zhengyian relic, a magical tome of creation. He eagerly read it, and the book consumed him, taking his life force. The book bound him to a tower, a construct of Zhengyi.

The lich inhabited the construct, and was appointed as its caretaker. Jarlaxle and Artemis Entreri infiltrated the tower, and confronted the lich. Herminicle engaged the two sellswords in battle, shooting green bolts of energy from his bony fingers at them.

The lich's life was dependent on a conduit, a skull-shaped artifact inside the original tome that bound his life force to the Zhengyian construct. On Jarlaxle's command, Entreri grabbed the skull gem with his magical bracer. Grimacing and fighting on with all his willpower, the tower began to rock side to side, and eventually collapsed. As a result, Herminicle was defeated.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * Promise of the Witch-King