Gumbril

Gumbril was a bumbling academic from the city of Waterdeep, active circa 1372 DR.

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- Vetrixia Nightmaiden

Description
Gumbril was a learned man with groomed white mustache and a long beard. He wore simple grey gown of a scholar and carried his papers, journals, and valuable possessions in a leather satchel.

History
In the, Gumbril accidentally unearth a crypt in the Crab's Claw Coast cliffs that he though to be an ancient shrine. Despite evidence to otherwise, Gumbril convinced himself that the tomb was a shine to a lost ancient Netherese. In reality, the crypt was a prison of an ageless undead, a powerful Netherese lich, Umgatlik. The creature ran a cult and was worshiped as a wanna-be deity. Gumbril's desire to become a famous scholar was depending on the excavation's successes.

Secretly, Savant Gumbril's excavation tem was infiltrated by Vetrixia Nightmaiden of Velsharoon, a cultist follower of the lich. She strove to opening a gate to Umgatlik's planar prison in exchange for power and godly reward. To unleash the creature, Vetrixia received aid from the Hero of Daggerford, misleading the adventurer of her true intentions.

Within the crypt, Vetrixia Nightmaiden's true agenda was revealed. Even if the Hero refused to get involved, the cleric would've attempted to manipulate Savant Gumbril into doing her bidding through promises of ancient wisdom and academic successes. However, a cleric of Kelemvor, Jared Deathstalker, was part of the expedition and was tried and prevent the creature from escaping the prison.

Some said that the gate to the ancient prison was unsealed by performing a ritual but Umgatlik was unable to step through the gate. And through magical enthrallment, the lich ordered Gumbril to join the ancient creature within the prison, knowing that the goodly heroes were to selflessly follow, attempting to rescue the Savant.

Gumbril's final fate remain undocumented, however, if he were to had survived the experience he would've been annoyed at the Hero and Jared Deathstalker fro ruining his research into the "god" by either slaying the creature, or sealing the prison.

Appearances

 * Video Games
 * Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford