Nadim el Cajaan

Ynamalik Nadim yn Rahimat el Cajaan was a sorcerer-prince of the Cajaan Dynasty of the Third Age of Calimshan, who survived his family's fall.

History
In the Third Age of Calimshan, there was steady trade in rubies between the Netherese city of Tzindylspar and Calimshan, by means of a portal. However, Calimshan fell to the beholders of the Alimir Hive in, with the death of Nadim's relative Syl-Pasha Violir IX.

Power-hungry Nadim sought a means of overthrowing the beholders who now enslaved his people, and he devised a plan. He strongly suspected that the ruby vein of Tzindylspar surrounded an earth node with a link to the Elemental Plane of Earth. The next year, hoping to use the node as a means to summon an army of elementals, he and a several other survivors from his family first gathered a small army of monsters and traveled through the portal. They caught the Netherese off-guard and conquered Tzindylspar in less than a tenday.

Nadim and his followers transformed the earth node into a dao shrine, but he died of heartstop before he could perform the magic to open a portal to the Plane of Earth. Because Nadim had sealed the portal back to Calimshan, he followers—none of whom possessed his magical talent—could return home.