Artificer (Imaskari)

Imaskari artificers were the mages of the Raurin Empire, or Imaskar. They were known to be haughty, arrogant, and overwhelmingly powerful.

In the year, Emperor Umyatin of Imaskar gave himself the title of Lord Artificer; all emperors would use the same title until the destruction of the Empire in.

The Imaskari were known to have an Artificers' Guild. The guild was active in the facility underneath Maskana, where they studied the powers of unusual creatures. The symbol of the Guild consisted of a crescent and a fox.

Imaskari wizards were asiduous users of pacts with extraplanar creatures. Both Umyatin and Omanond were often represented as making compacts with demons or strange fey creatures ; the Elder Evil, Pandorym, was summoned to the Realms near the end of the Imaskar empire, probably under the orders of Lord Yuvaraj.

An ancient arcane Imaskari text, "The Chants of Arcainasyr, as recorded by Macchius the Ebon Flame" held incantations that were worded as hateful littanies of foul destruction, prayers to nameless deities of malevolence. A copy available in the College of Mages of Cimbar circa was also enciphered with a simple substitution cypher. Per Aeron Morieth's judgement after reading the text, the Imaskari sorcerers had probably bound dark spirits in their own bodies for power.

Imaskari wizards were known to extend their lives through sorcery. Lord Artificer Omanond ruled for a minimum of 700 years between and. Emperor Kujawa, another artificer and later Emperor of Anok-Imaskar, ruled between and. Hilather, another wizard, lived from Omanond's reign to the end of the Empire , and then for more than a millenium as Halaster Blackcloak.