A seventh-circle Lawful-Or-Neutral-Nobody-Is-Sure Evil wizard and general, he serves as Lord Protector of Molthune. He's a snake, but he's Molthune's snake.

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And Guthrum heard the soldiers' tale
And bade the stranger play;
Not harshly, but as one on high,
On a marble pillar in the sky,
Who sees all folk that live and die—
Pigmy and far away.
- G.K. Chesterton, "The Ballad of the White Horse."