Shanzezim was a marid clockmaker who inhabited the abandoned Waterclock Guild's Crypts in Neverwinter in the late 15th century DR.[2]
History[]
Prior to the Waterclock Guild's destruction, Shanzezim, alongside several other water elementals, were conjured and bound to the guild's crypts. When the members of the guild abandoned the premises, all of the bound creatures and several of the guild's clockwork mechanisms were left behind.[2]
Shanzezim was certain of the guild's destruction, but he was reluctant to test the strength of the magical binding to make an escape. He spent almost all his time in this sort of captivity trying to re-build one of the Waterclock Guild's most complex clocks. By the late 1490s DR,[note 1] he believed that finishing assembling the clock shouldn't take him more than a few years.[2]
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- ↑ Canon material provides conflicting information for the date of the events described in Vecna: Eve of Ruin and its prequel adventure, Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye. Both adventures use the eruption of Mount Hotenow (in 1451 DR) as a reference: Eve of Ruin states that the eruption "nearly destroyed the city forty years ago" (p. 17), placing it circa 1491 DR, while Nest of the Eldritch Eye states the eruption to have happened "fifty years ago", placing it circa 1501 DR despite being the prequel. Unless a canon source provides clarity, this wiki will use "1490s DR" to refer to the dates of these adventures.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins (2014-09-30). Monster Manual 5th edition. Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Gray. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 146. ISBN 978-0786965614.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Amanda Hamon et al. (May 2024). Vecna: Eve of Ruin. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 1. ISBN 978-0-7869-6947-0.