Slarkrethel

Slarkrethel was a huge kraken wizard and Chosen of Umberlee, who also founded the Kraken Society.

History
Slarkrethel's origins are disputed. Some say the kraken was born in the Year of the Kraken, 151 DR. It wasn't until Slarkrethel found the submerged ruins of Ascarle in 244 DR that he began building his undersea empire. There, he was inspired by legends of his ancestors' past, and his studies left him aspiring to godhood and to regain some of his race's former glory. Centuries later, he had extended his tentacles all over the Trackless Sea, and created the web of informants and spies called the Kraken Society.

Others claim that Slarkrethel is ancient beyond reckoning. For tens of thousands of years the kraken has been searching tirelessly for long-lost paths to divine ascendancy, longing to rejoin its creators in the heavens. They say he was old when the giants and dragons waged war forty thousands years before the events of shattering of the giant Ordning. Slarkrethel lured exiles, outcasts, and lost souls to its organization with the promise of a better life. Ancient humans of the Purple Rocks would cast their young into the sea as part of a ritual to appease and worship Slarkrethel. Those offspring would resurface and return as adults with piscine deformities. At the end of their natural life span they would return to their fearsome master.

In the, Slarkrethel battled with Laeral Silverhand at Port Llast and managed to steal the magical throne of Stornanter.

He was adopted by Umberlee as her chosen in the Year of Shadows, 1358 DR.

Late in the, Slarkrethel was credited with the destruction of the The Maiden's Defiance, a galley hired by the Harpers to investigate Ascarle.

Some time after the War of the Silver Marches in the late 15 century DR, the dragon Iymrith contacted agents of the society for aid. Slarkrethel ordered its followers to go along with the dragon's plans, by slaying the storm giant Queen Neri and capturing King Hekaton.

Appearances

 * Adventures:
 * Storm King's Thunder