Valmous

Valmous was the last surviving member of the College of Shaping Magics in Volkumburgh Vale in the 12 century DR.

Description
Valmous was handsome and possessed a heroic physique, but his face was marred by a permanent frown. By the time he awoke centuries later his beard and hair were both long and white.

Personality
Valmous considered himself to be a servant of good-aligned deities.

Unless he considered them to be evil, Valmous would never try to kill someone he was facing in combat.

Abilities
Valmous was innately capable of casting the druid spells animal friendship and pass without trace. And could cast a number of rune magic rituals, such as the ritual of warding with runesticks, ritual of healing, and ritual of dimension portal.

He also possessed a spellbook that allowed him to cast the following magic-user spells:
 * anti-magic shell, banishment, charm monster, charm person, cloudkill, detect evil, detect invisible, detect magic, disintegrate, dismissal, dispel magic, dolor, enchant an item, ensnarement, ESP, fly, invisibility, lightning bolt, limited wish, locate object, magic missile, minor globe of invulnerability, permanency, polymorph other, protection from normal missiles, read magic, and stoneskin.

Possessions
Valmous possessed a set of chainmail, +3/+5 vs. evil creatures golden sword, a pouch of accessibility, a scarab versus golems, an enchanted carving knife, and a bag of one hundred gemstones that were each worth 100 gold pieces. In the 14 century DR his clothing was ragged and falling apart.

History
Sometime in the mid-12, Valmous was hired by King Proster Obarskyr to design a new variant of stone golems to help expedite his ambitious building projects. Such things as bridges, castles, harbors, hospitals, and schools. He carved it out from a cliff-face near the College of Shaping Magics using an enchanted carving knife.

While in the final stages of constructing the first one, known as Awtawmatawn, a spell backfired. This caused a horned devil known as Rotbite to be summoned on to the Prime Material plane, who quickly went and possessed his inert golem. It then proceeded to slaughter all the residents of his College, who were unprepared for such an attack. Only Valmous himself survived, managing to escape while in a gravely injured state to the nearby College of Rune Magics.

Using his intimate knowledge of the golem, Valmous helped the residents of the College of Rune Magics defend against his creation. They managed to destroy the golem, but ultimately the college was left in ruin and only a few survived. In the aftermath of that battle, Valmous and the remaining rune magic practitioners scattered its pieces. Entrusting one of its hands with Lord Volkumburgh. Sensing the aura of the horned devil still within the fragments of the golem, they knew that it could wreak havoc one day if it were to ever be re-assembled. Thus they chose to use a combination of their rune magic and his magic items, placing the gravely injured Valmous into a healing stasis. Allowing him to arise in the future if anyone attempted to reconstruct his creation.

They placed him atop a stone bier, with one of the golem's eyes clutched in his arms, in a cave behind the College of Rune Magics. Then the surviving rune magic practitioners, using magic to prolong their lives, would watch over Valmous as he slept. In the 14 century DR, a group of adventurers hired by Amelior Amanitas to recover the scattered fragments of the Awtawmatawn entered the College of Rune Magics and obtained its hidden piece of the golem, awakening Valmous from his centuries long stasis. Initially he pretend to still be slumbering, but he soon confronted the adventurers and tried to convince them to abandon their quest, though it was to no avail.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * The Shattered Statue