Ikavi Garkim

Ikavi Garkim was the chancellor of Doegan and right-hand of Emperor Aetheric III in the late 14 century DR.

Description
Ikavi, like most Mar, was small statured, brown-skinned, and with a flatter nose than the Ffolk of the Utter East. He was over thirty years old.

Personality
As the agent of Aetheric III, he proved himself to be both loyal and patriotic, but also driven and ruthless. He was well educated and articulate.

Abilities
Ikavi had some psionic powers—he could read minds but only do so easily with people of weak mind.

Relationships
Garkim was aide to the mage-king and a member of Chamber of Councilors. However, nobody in his family and the quarter of the city where he grew up would tolerated him, owing to his powers.

History
Ikari Garkim born to a poor family among the tarok, the lowest of the Mar social classes. His father had hoped he would work as a carpenter like him and Garkim helped his father in his work. But during his childhood it became clear the young Garkim had psionic powers—he even learned carpentry by reading his father's mind—and in time his family and neighbors came to dislike him and his powers. One day, a drunken Ffolk soldier wandered into the family home and ended up trying to kill the young Garkim and his mother, but instead Garkim killed the man. More soldiers arrived and wanted to avenge their comrade by killing Garkim, when suddenly a voice from nowhere said to take the boy to the royal palace. The soldiers, knowing the voice was of the mage-king, complied and Ikavi Garkim entered his service.

At the palace Ikavi was trained as official. Military officers and priests teached him all they knew. Ikavi gained political and military powers, which were gradually increased and sharpened. In time he become the personal agent of Aetheric III, gained a place among the lords of the Chamber of Councilors as the Councilor of Internal Investigations.

Sometime in the, Ikavi Garkim found a lair of cultist of the Fallen Temple in his childhood quarter that had abducted and killed Captain Taergen, he entered alone killing all of them minus one seaching a hint about their leader but without success. After made report to the others lords when Aetheric III's voice instructed Garkim to went to greet people just arriving from the gate in the Sargauth Level of Undermountain. So the chancellor went to greeted Miltiades, Kern Desanea, Jacob, Trandon, and Kastonoph Nesher.

Ikavi guided the paladins though the trap-ridden halls of the Stone Arch vault offering his best hospitality. The paladins agreed to being escorted to the palace to request help (or find the culprit) in retrieving the missing Eidola of Neverwinter. On their elephant ride to the palace, Garkim gave the guests a short, albeit unreliable, version of the region's history, culture, colonization and the Bloodforge Wars. Bloodforge was the reason the paladins come to the East, as the forge's basal golems were the creatures that kidnapped Eidola. According to their guide, all of the Five Nations of the Utter East had one of the bloodforges of their own, and possibly, the mysterious faction called the Fallen Temple, one of the five churches that came to Doegan from the Moonshae Isles during the colonization.

During a welcoming meal, the paladins and Garkim were invited to an audience with the emperor Aetheric III, that was a telepathic monstrosity in a giant water tank of the black poisonous liquid. The emperor shared with the paladins that the cost of use of the bloodforges was not just draining of the land and its people of life, but also altering their shapes. Aetheric III was altered the most due to his heavy bloodforge use, he resembled a giant aquatic creature with scaled tentacles, beautiful face, huge jet black eyes and rashed, damaged, rotting flesh. The emperor also told them that the bloodforges were created by the Mar's ancestors to seal otherworldly forces and influences on the region away and use of the artifacts weakened the barriers. The fish-creature revealed that Eidola was tased by the Fallen Temple, the temple that used to be that of Tyr, now also known as the Temple of the Broken Hammer. Aetheric III asked Miltiades, the group's leader for help against the common enemy and after a communion with his deity he agreed to destroy the enemies of Doegan.

After the paladins departed, the emperor explained to Garkim that among the enemies of Tyr were the Fallen Temple, the bloodforges but also the emperor himself. Garkim was tasked to be ready to assassinate the newcomers if they move against the emperor.

After the paladins fought against a team of mercenaries led by Artemis Entreri in front of Eldrinpar's Fountain of the Kraken, Ikavi Garkim and his guards, the few not suffering from the Gray Malaise arrived to covered the mess and recover informations about the event but Aetheric III informed him via mind comunication that he all saw all.

Soon after the Emperor summoned Garkim to exlpain that he was the adbucer of Eidola, hoping with this system to attract more armies from Faerûn in Utter East to help them, and worked: arrived the group of the paladins and the group of the mercenaries but Aetheric III need more greater armies for his plan of eradication of the fiends.

Later Enteri and his mercenaries managed to sunk into the palace and found King Aetheric the Third's's chambers and his poison-filled impregnable water tank. Entreri using a are magical item to create a small silver portal in the tank's wall injured the emperor flooding the castle with the tank water and his grotesque tentacled carcass.

As that happened, the magical barriers around Eldrinpar failed, flooding the city with fiendish monsters, hordelings, and tanar'ri. So the mercenaries decided to re-enter the dungeons of the imperial palace, Entreri and Sharessa Stagwood both insisting on recovering the bloodforge, before the fiends could seize it.

After the bloodforge was steal from cultists from the Fallen Temple Ikavi Garkim decided he need to follow mercenaries Entreri, Sharessa Stagwood and Ingrar Welven together with paladins Trandon, Kern Desanea. However Ingrar sensed the mar chancellor of Doegan following them with his guards and they stop to speak with him.

Offering an temporary alliance in order to save his city from the fiends Garkim joined the assembled group of mercenaries and paladins. Using a secret way built from the Mar knowing to Garkim they managed to exit the palace without fight and told to the others that the cultists had installed the bloodforge inside the Temple of Umberlee. So they entered into the Fallen Temple's hideout to stop the devious plot of the cultists to summoned their deity Ysdar and Entreri and Sharessa attempted to claim the bloodforge as their own but were stopped by now-monstrous Aetheric III. In the process, the deity Tyr revealed himself through his new Chosen – Ingrar Welven. The deity manifested himself through ominous red skies and collapsed part of the temple's dome. Disgusted by the cult that claimed to be his worshipers, Tyr incinerated many, and forcing the survivors to flee. After also the mad Mage-Emperor was defeated, Garkim and Ingrar took control of the forge in order to defeat the fiends and save the city. Garkim explaining he gained the knowledge to how use the bloodforge from the mind of the dead emperor.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * Errand of Mercy
 * Conspiracy
 * Uneasy Alliances