Alaznist
Runelord of Wrath and Queen of Bakrakhan
Runelord of Wrath (a.k.a. Queen of Bakrakhan)
Alaznist (pronounced a-LAZ-nist) was the last Thassilonian Runelord of Wrath, who ruled for many years over her realm of Bakrakhan.
Physical Description
Special abilities
Evoker 20 / Archmage 4
Specialized Equipment
Weapon of Rule: Charred adamantine ranseur impaled with the skull of the first Runelord of Wrath
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Alaznist grew up among the nobility of Xin-Bakrakhan, the capital of Thassilonian Realm of Wrath, and was apprenticed at a young age to her father, a powerful wizard of wrath magic himself. When she outpaced even his extensive knowledge, she turned for guidance to the qlippoth lord Yamasoth. Her father warned her that a pact with such an entity was foolish and dangerous, but greedy for arcane power, she sacrificed him and the rest of her family to Yamasoth. With the knowledge of fleshwarping granted by Yamasoth, Alaznist created the reefclaws and sinspawn.
In -5779 AR, during her quest to become the new runelord of wrath, Alaznist travelled to the Ivory Labyrinth to consult Alderpash, the first runelord of wrath, now a lich and Baphomet's prisoner. Alderpash attacked her, but Alaznist emerged victorious and claimed his skull, a wound which he only survived due to his status as a lich. Later that year, Alaznist challenged and defeated the incumbent runelord of wrath Thybidos. She killed his wife and seven children, and transformed Thybidos into an undead creature: he remains conscious and capable of feeling pain, but any damage to his body automatically repairs itself. She chained him within the depths of Hollow Mountain and tasked two ivory sentinels with constantly stabbing him with two ranseurs, while preventing him from the release of true death until he could apologise to Xiren, the predecessor whom he killed and replaced as runelord of wrath: something Alaznist thought he could never do.
She ruled from her capital of Xin-Bakrakhan, the City of Wrath, which is believed to have been located on what is now the island of Hollow Mountain in the Varisian Gulf.
The Runelord of Wrath seems to have directed most of her anger toward her fellow runelord, Karzoug. The two were in a state of perpetual warfare, constantly battling at the border their two realms shared. She constructed the hellstorm flumes along this border in order to scorch harassing armies from miles away. She is also known to have used runeslave giants as living siege weapons. Alaznist was said to have been on the verge of defeating her rival and conquering Shalast, when her entire realm sank beneath the ocean during Earthfall in -5293 AR.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Former Runelords of Wrath
- Alderpash
- Angothane
- Xiren
- Thybidos
Religious Views
Alaznist is said to have been a worshiper of many kinds of demons, who shared her enthusiasm for violence and destruction. Most important to her, however, was the pure veneration of anger and wrath. In order to encourage these traits in her subjects, she built many runewells which could absorb the souls of wrathful mortals in order to further her power and create sinspawn.
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