Yarlzedd
Yarlzedd is a lich necromancer and leader of the Order of the Necromantia. Yarlzedd was a powerful mage living during the time of the first great Fultonian Empire. Yarlzedd's arrival started the horrors of The Rise of the Undead, which lasted for decades after the lich necromancer disappeared. Yarlzedd has now returned leading the Order of the Necromantia.
Yarlzedd sought to further his own power at any cost, and originally exerted great influence in the politics of the time and being a trusted advisor some of the most manic and irrational Emperors. Eventually, he was bored with the affairs of the living except where those affairs interfere with his quest for magical knowledge and power. Scheming and insane, he hungered for long-forgotten knowledge and the most terrible secrets. It is unclear when he became an undead master, but eventually he turned completely evil. Because the shadow of death does not hang over him, he can conceive plans that take years, decades, or centuries to come to fruition.
Yarlzedd successfully escaped time and death, stealing death's spirit from fate and the gods. Yarlzedd eventually lost connection to mortal concerns, its soul moving beyond the reach of beauty, feeling, or devotion. Instead, instead he devoted himself to knowledge, the mastery of magic, and a paranoid pursuit of ever greater power. His mastery and control over the Order of Necromantia is not an object in of itself, but is a tool to ward off the forces of the mortal world while he searches for ever greater necromantic magic and more perfect undeath.
During and following the Guar conquest, evil dragons seized upon the chaos to descend upon Fultar. The Dragon Calastryx and Yarlzedd choose the Barony of Bortlan and Reaches to inflict their unique horrors upon.
In Year of Iron (YR) 4, and two years after arriving in Fultar, the Dragon and Necromancer fought a great battle that caused the destruction of Rubyfill and shattered the surrounding lands. No survivors were ever found. Rubyfill was a great stone mound mined by humans and dwarves. Rubyfill was rebounded by dwarves and is now Hammerholme Tower.
In 5 YR, Calastryx and Yarlzedd laid waste to Thunderdelve, which was referred to as the Halls of Paradise by its early dwarven keepers. Thunderdelve once housed five dwarven clans. The forges of Thunderdelve fashioned metal weapons and wonders the likes the world has not seen since, and it was a great link between the lands of the sun and the Underdark. The Dragon Calastryx and his Necromancer master Yarlzedd ravaged the dwarven fortress, laid waste to entire levels, and drove the dwarves away. After the sleep of Calastryx, Thurnderdelve fell into the hands of humanoids and other forces of evil.
For the next year, Calastryx was the scourge of the entire Dawnforge Mountains, but the wizard Starris confronted Calastryx and Yarlzedd and they waged an epic battle that spilled across the mountain range over a year. The struggle ended when Starris placed a curse on Calastryx, forcing the dragon to slumber and slowly grow weaker. Although Starris could not defeat the dragon, his spell has meant the dragon’s doom. Yarlzedd disappeared, never to return.
Or so everyone thought. The Dragon Calastryx and his Necromancer master Yarlzedd have returned.
Over the past century Yarlzedd has been planning his return, and has elected to do at time in which Fultar has disbanded much of its Imperial troops and has little appetite for war in the eastern lands.
There is a legend that either the Ilios brother or sister will be responsible for the final death of Calastryx and Yarlzedd.
Kostchtchie, a Demon Lord, and Fraz-Urb’lulu are in service to Orcus. Kostchtchie is often served by frost giants, rides a white dragon, and has been on the Prime Material Plan working with Calastryx and Yarlzedd.
The great wizard Starris fathered a lone line of mages that had trained to front and defeat the Dragon and Necormancer if they ever returned. Delfena Ondabarl who lives at Eastpoint Castle is the last surviving heir, but she is too old to provide assistance when they return. However, she provided the The Company of the Furies: Eumenides treasure that can help defeat the evil duo.
