Ghostly archmage. Mythic. Really, really mythic. Former kismesis of Nex, who ruled the country next door.

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We shall peck out and discuss and dissect, and evert and extrude to our mind,
The flaccid tissues of long-dead issues offensive to God and mankind –
(Precisely like vultures over an ox that the army left behind).
- Old Men, Rudyard Kipling