Kurtsson

Kurtsson was a Vaasan wizard who lived in Innarlith on the Lake of Steam in the mid–14 century DR. He was a henchman of the Red Wizard Marek Rymüt.

Description
Kurtsson was fair-skinned with blond hair.

Personality
He was intelligent and stoic. He found the weather around the Lake of Steam to be warm by his standards even on days when it was cold and rainy.

Abilities
He was proficient with an axe. Among the spells he could cast were silence and animate dead, as well as various illusions, and he could create magical portals, including those large enough to move ships.

Relationships
He became a henchman of Marek Rymüt sometime in the early 1360s DR. The latter sought to monopolize and control all trade of magical items or services within Innarlith and Kurtsson agreed to join with Rymüt for this purpose.

History
He was present in Innarlith at least as early as 1362 DR where he served Senator Meykhati as a mage. The latter had great interest in exotic things and thus had an interest in Meykhati as a mage from such a faraway place.

By 1364 DR, he had become a henchman of Marek Rymüt. Marek used him to kill one of his rivals in Innarlith on Alturiak 4 in that year. Marek went to the home of his rival Thadat and Thadat refused Marek's wish for him to join Marek's monopoly on magical items and services. Thadat kept sharp watch on Marek's hands to make sure that he wouldn't cast any spells in his presence. Marek obliged, but while the two were sitting there, a spell of silence fell over all of them and Kurtsson teleported into the room from behind Thadat and murdered him with an axe. He then disguised himself with an illusion to make himself look like a Chondathan thug and walked out after Marek had left.

When Ransar Salatis replaced Ivar Devorast with Marek's ally Willem Korvan as the head of the project to construct a canal between the Lake of Steam and the Nagaflow, Kurtsson assisted Marek in supplying magic for the project, including the raising of dead workers as undead servants to serve as laborers.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * Whisper of Waves • Lies of Light