Emirikol

Emirikol the Chaotic was an infamous human sorcerer and wizard that had traveled across many worlds in the multiverse.

Description
Emirikol dressed in simple, yet elegant clothes and sported a dark, well-trimmed beard.

Personality
Emirikol was an incredibly passionate individual who was prone to rapid shifts in his mood. He had a heroic core, a desire to do good, but he often he wrestled with between this and desire to gain magical power.

Abilities
Emirikol was a powerful wielder of arcane magic, a wild mage and a skilled practitioner of shadow magic, capable of summoning a steed made of of shadows. He was also said to have perfected the use of disintegrate, having used it to destroy countless foes and underlings that had displeased him, and had a contingency on him to cast disintegrate if he was attacked physically. He could also cast power word, kill.

After experimenting with a number of potion combinations later in his life, Emirikol became permanently under the effect of a potion of flying.

Possessions
Emirikol possessed an amulet of the planes, an earring of protection +5, a ring of joining, a ring of wizardry, a rod of beguiling, a wand of wonder, a talisman of the spheres, and a throne of power.

Emirikol also owned a wand that could cast prismatic sphere, prismatic spray, and prismatic wall. And a robe that acted as both a robe of the archmagi and a robe of scintillating colors, but whose effects were only accessible by wild mages.

Activities
Emirikol spent most of his time dealing with matters pertaining to other worlds and planes across the multiverse.

Relationships
Emirikol was an associate of Mordenkainen. He's also earned the respect of many Abyssal lords.

History
Emirikol had a widely varied history that was hard to pin down, with many treating his name as mere legend.

While living on the world of Nerath, Emirikol was educated in the art of shadow magic within a tower that existed simultaneously in the Prime Material plane and the Shadowfell. After his tutelage he left, only to return years later and kill his former mentor in a public duel. He then rode off on a summoned steed of shadow, killing any who opposed him with rays of fire and shadow. Emirikol went on to spend many years studying the mysterious elemental energies that well up within the Elemental Chaos.

At some point he engaged in a six day long battle with a the storm titan named Volturnus. He used every spell he knew during this battle, even summoning demons to rend his opponent's flesh. On the sixth day he climbed atop a storm-swept rocky spur and put an end to the battle by shouting power word, kill.

When Mordenkainen proposed his theory that elemental magic was potentially the root of all other forms of magic, Emirikol called him out as delusional and put forth his own theory. Believing that most systems of magic had no meaning outside their users, depending upon them to have context, he proposed that elemental power existed apart from them &mdash; the Elemental Chaos being proof of his ideas. He realized that people unknowingly accessed the energy of that plane, observing that many spells, disciplines, evocations, and prayers either created or manipulated elemental energy &mdash; rather than being driven by that power as Mordenkainen proposed.

Eventually, after years of studying the energies of the Elemental Chaos, Emirikol came to the conclusion that harnessing elemental power in its purest form required becoming an elemental savant. Though craving the power that entailed, he understood the risks of such a transformation and was unwilling to sacrifice his mortality for it.

While on Oerth he teamed up with a group of powerful adventurers to steal a powerful artifact from Asmodeus called the vallis crystal. Afterwards they went their separate ways, but of the group only he and a paladin named Klysandral would be remembered.

He later engaged another powerful wizard, named Tinnestron, in a battle upon the tip of a narrow peninsula called Point Harrow. The magical power they unleashed there resulted in a continuous storm of strange magical destruction, which had many subtle portals to other planes. This destroyed Point Harrow and many assumed both of the wizards too. But Emirikol survived and went on to construct within the eye of that storm a fortress of pure iron with a crystal spire resting atop it, the latter of which measured from top to base. At the base of the spire was constructed a small wooden pier.

Some time after this, he engaged in a dark pact with Demogorgon in which he was traded ownership of the legendary ship Demonwing. This included giving him demonglass, a magical item that gave its possessor the right to control and claim ownership over Demonwing, which he proceeded to hide somewhere on the ship itself.

A Paladin In Hell
In the late-15 century DR, Klysandral passed away. Some sources claimed this occurred, on the world of Toril, while others said it was on Oerth. In the Torilian version of events, he had a funeral held for him in the small village of Torm's Hand.

Emirikol was very saddened when he heard that Klysandral had passed away. The Torilian version of events claimed he attended the funeral himself, while the Oerthian version claimed he was too busy to attend the paladin's funeral himself, so he sent a trusted companion to pay respects for him and report on what happened at the funeral through use of a ring of joining.

Through the work of Asmodeus cultists, a hellcyst was opened and dragged the fortress where the funeral was held at into Avernus.

Rumors & Legends
Throughout various points of his life rumors circulated that Emirikol had in his possession one of the orbs of dragonkind, the Codex of the Infinite Planes, and the Machine of Lum the Mad''. By the late-15 century DR, Emirikol was rumored to possess the eye of Vecna and an orb of dragonkind.

Appearances

 * Organized Play & Licensed Adventures
 * Hellfire Requiem