Kaldakos Greysails

Kaldakos Greysails, sometimes called Kaldakos the Grey or the Grey One, was born a minor baron of Estwald. In his youth, he was recruited into a cult dedicated to Yan-C-Bin, the Prince of Evil Elemental Air. It was a bit of a lark for a disaffected young noble and his friends – something terribly rebellious to do to make his parents displeased. But as the rituals continued, Kaldakos began to feel something more meaningful beyond what he was doing. He began to peel away the layers of the rituals, like skins on an onion, until he found himself up against the walls of reality themselves. Something lay outside, and he had to know what it was.

Whispered rumors of the Elder Elemental Eye drew him into the exploration of forbidden things. He read books of knowledge that were suppressed, some thought long destroyed. He even perused a copy of the Book of Vile Darkness, and there he found the truth behind the Eye. It was all a ruse – a front for Tharizdun.

Kaldakos became the first Cleric of Tharizdun in centuries, and he began to manipulate different cults of Elemental Evil into actions that would help weaken the walls of his master’s prison. At the same time, he cleaned up and became respectable, just in time to inherit his late father’s title as Baron Greysails. He is a charming and humorous man whose kind and gentle demeanor belies his severe appearance. He may never be thought of as handsome, but he is striking.

Kaldakos founded the Five Who Call, and, through them, Those Who Answer. He has broken the will of Elswara Wellheart, who believed that Tharizdun is the Mourned God whom she called the Patient One. Kaldakos claimed to have raised Sir Tarkoth Broadblade as a deathknight to serve his purposes (although it turned out to be the ancient hero Shadarak Mithranak, fallen from grace. Kaldakos died unleashing the Tarrasque, but only as part of a ritual that will dedicate all the death and destruction to the Nameless, now revealed to be the Chained God, Tharizdun, giving it enough power at last to break free of its prison and return to Tol. He was raised by his allies, and he fought the Fire Wasps at the Battle of Worldbreaker's Howe . When the Tarrasque was defeated, he used magic to flee the field. A month later, he found, a broken man, in southern Summerlund. He was taken captive by the Fire Wasps and Lord Steward Harbryn Thonwyr.