Ioulaum

Archmage Ioulaum (a.k.a. Father of Netheril)

Ioulaum was a great archwizard of Netheril, a beloved champion of his people and the inventor of both the mythallar and the flying enclaves of his empire. When Ioulaum abandoned Netheril to escape the life drain dweomers of the phaerimm in −339 DR, panic spread at the news of his disappearance, leading to Karsus casting his spell Karsus's avatar.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Born in Seventon in −3315 DR, Ioulaum soon rose to prominence when in −3145 DR he led a major battle known as the Excursion into Extinction, bringing thousands of Netherese spellcasters and warriors to mount an attack against the largest concentration of orcs in Netheril's land at the time.
Ioulaum was most famous for his invention of the mythallar in −3014 DR. The mythallar dug deep into the raw, unfiltered magic of the weave. The arcanists of Netheril used it to create quasi-magical items - items that were permanent as long as they were within the one-mile range of a mythallar.
With the establishment of the mythallar, Ioulaum created the first mythallar-powered item in −3011 DR and the first floating city in −2954 DR.
Between −2758 DR and −2208 DR, Ioulaum trained thousands of arcanists to become archwizards in their own right. He also managed to greatly augment and strengthen his mythallar using precious metals. At the height of the empire's growth between −2207 DR and −1206 DR, Ioulaum frequently journeyed across Netheril helping to establish new floating enclaves or investigating strange magic. However, from −696 DR the stability of Netheril became steadily undermined by both the Phaerimm and numerous disasters. This caused Ioulaum to become increasingly reclusive as he attempted to research ways of countering the threat of the Phaerimm, to the extent that he handed the day-to-day running of Xinlenal to a number of archwizards.
Since the waning years of Netheril, Ioulaum had survived by magic, but in −371 DR he underwent a transformation into a Lich and created a lair in the Northdark. By -339 DR Ioulaum fully disappeared, causing great panic in Netheril. Rumours said he either perished or vanished into the Northdark, but none could find his supposed lair so his fate remains unknown.

Species

Human

Conditions

• Lichdom

Ethnicity

Netherese

Year of Birth

3315 BDR 4807 Years old

Birthplace

Seventon

Pronouns

He/Him

Aligned Organization

Netheril