Balthazar (necromancer)

Balthazar was a necromancer who worked in service to General Ketheric Thorm, the chosen of Myrkul, during the Absolute crisis of the late 15 century DR.

Description
He was an overweight man with gray, ashen skin and gold-colored eyes. He had open cuts on his face of three inverted triangles, akin to that found on the holy symbol of Myrkul.

Abilities
He was known to utilize the spells bone chill, ray of sickness and cloudkill. He had the supernatural power to raise once-destroyed undead beings and employed that tactic in combat.

Possessions
He wore on his brow the Circle of Bones, which granted him the ability to summon forth undead once per day.

Balthazar knew the arcane recipe to create moonlanterns which allowed for relative save travel through the Shadowlands.

Relationships
Balthazar was served by a massive flesh golem, whom he referred to as his brother, named Flesh.

History
Some time during or before the late 14 century, Balthazar created a soul prison within the Gauntlet of Shar, which was used by Ketheric Thorm to imprison the Nightsong for over a century. The imprisonment bound the celestial being to Ketheric, allowing him to cheat death time and time again

In the, Balthazar was tasked with recovering a gith relic that could thwart the grand plot of the cult of the Absolute and its leaders.