Eternal Flame Klanak Famouth was the high priest at the Burning House of Kossuth in Tyraturos, the most influential temple of Kossuth in Thay—if not all of Faerûn—until the mid-to-late 14th century DR.[1][2]
Personality[]
Klanak Famouth was a man consumed by rage and an acute awareness of his own mortality, especially in his advanced age.[1]
Abilities[]
He was a powerful divine spellcaster[1] who was capable of incantations that could completely negate the damaging properties of fire.[3]
Relationships[]
Klanak was the chief mentor of Mythalanir, who would go on to become the Eternal Flame of the Flaming Brazier in Bezantur.[1][4] However, this relationship evolved into that of an archrivalry[1] and eventually into murderous hostility.[3]
He was an ally of convenience with Mythrell'aa, the Red Wizard Zulkir of Illusion.[3]
History[]
Prior to his appointment as Eternal Flame over the Burning House, Klanak was already an old man who had been the priest in charge of overseeing the temple's slaves.[4] He served as the leader and high priest of the Burning House for decades,[1] and as of 1357 DR, he was the highest-ranking Kossuthan priest in Thay[2] and arguably the most important in all of the Realms. However, his temple burned down sometime shortly before 1370 DR,[1] leading his former subordinate and protégé, Mythalanir, to usurp his role as the most prominent member of the Kossuthan faith.[1][4]
Klanak suspected that Mythalanir had orchestrated the destruction of the Burning House, and so swore revenge.[1] To achieve this, he abandoned the rebuilding of his temple to his junior subordinates and allied himself with Mythrell'aa, an enemy of Mythalanir's ally, Aznar Thrul. The pair hatched a plot to manipulate adventurers into bypassing the many defenses of the FLaming Brazier and slaying Mythalanir.[3][1]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Eric L. Boyd (September 1997). Powers & Pantheons. Edited by Julia Martin. (TSR, Inc.), p. 153. ISBN 978-0786906574.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Steve Perrin (1988). Dreams of the Red Wizards. (TSR, Inc), p. 50. ISBN 0-88038-615-0.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eric L. Boyd (September 1997). Powers & Pantheons. Edited by Julia Martin. (TSR, Inc.), p. 154. ISBN 978-0786906574.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eric L. Boyd (September 1997). Powers & Pantheons. Edited by Julia Martin. (TSR, Inc.), p. 148. ISBN 978-0786906574.