Bareris Anskuld Bareris Anskuld was a human bard . . As a bard he worshipped Oghma and Milil . During the war of Thay he was transformed into an undead being . Appearance . Though Bareris was truly Thay an , he stopped shaving the wheat blonde hair from his head . He could move with a duelist ' s catlike grace . During the war of Thay , Bareris began to neglect himself and his personal hygiene and wore a gaunt face and a cold stare . The Dream Vestige ' s Aftermath . During the encounter with Szass Tam ' s dream vestige Bareris absorbed some of the energies of undeath that bound the entity . He now has most abilities of an undead sentient being . His skin and hair turned chalky white and his eyes turned midnight - black . Possessions . Bareris ' s weapon of choice is the sword which he wears at his hip in a worn leather scabbard . He also possesses a silver - stringed yarting slung across his back . and carries a small dagger . Bareris later gives his yarting to a band of gnoll s as fee for their help in his pursuit of Tammith ' s captors . Bardly Magic . By singing a quick phrase and sketching an arcane figure in the air with a free hand , Bareris can call forth a plume of noxious vapor to cloud an opponent . He can also sing a floating orb of light into being to light his way . Bareris had mastered a variety of bardic songs or spells , such as : During the war of the zulkirs , Bareris finds out that his music could reanimate dead bodies . Personality . Bareris was gentle and compassionate , which are very un - Thayan traits . This showed in his desperate journey to find and rescue his love , Tammith Iltazyarra . His effort to help a child in the streets of Bezantur almost got him killed by the undead child - thing and his partner warrior . After the transformation and loss of Tammith , Bareris achieved an obsessive nature revealed in his cold stare , gaunt face , somber dress , and indifference to personal hygiene , charms of healing and solace not coming as naturally as they once had . . Background . Bareris is of Mulan descent . He spent six years abroad , working as a mercenary , fighting dragon worshipers , hobgoblin s and reavers of every stripe . During his wanderings Bareris evolved his knack for bardic magic into a genuinely formidable talent . He became a powerful bard and a strong swordsman , his reflexes honed from countless battles and skirmishes . Bareris loved Tammith Iltazyarra since his childhood . History . Return . After his traveling years , Bareris returned to Bezantur only to find his love Tammith had sold herself into slavery . He found Tammith in the captivity of the Red Wizard s Muthoth and So - Kehur , moving towards Delhumide . His first attempt at freeing Tammith failed . When he tried to flee from the Red Wizards , gnoll s found and hid him . Bareris convinced the gnolls to help him get into Delhumide where he hoped to find and rescue Tammith . They found a portal in one of the buildings through which Bareris reached an underground fortress . The bard located Tammith in a chamber , already transformed into a vampire by the undead creature Xingax , and almost got bitten by her . Xingax caught the two and forced Tammith to drink from her former lover . Bareris escaped by injuring Tammith and her master , fleeing into the mountains . He encountered a ghost named Mirror and the gravecrawler Quickstrike who helped him hide from his pursuers . Mirror became his guide through the mountains . At the Pass of Kazahr they encountered the warmage Aoth Fezim and followed him to the camp of the armies of Nymia Focar and Milsantos Daramos , whom Bareris told of his findings at Xingax ' s fortress . He uncovered that the order of necromancy was behind the undead invasion . When it came to a fight between the southerner ' s armies and the undead horde at the Keep of Thazar , Bareris met Tammith again , obviously recovered from her injuries . The vampire attacked and tried to bite him again but Bareris incapacitated her , this time hacking her to pieces in an attempt to release her from her undead nature . Bareris felt responsible for Tammith ' s demise and turned into a bitter man , swearing vengeance upon Xingax . Ten Years Later . The war of Thay had been taking toll on the land and it ' s inhabitants . The people were split into those supporting Szass Tam and his necromancer s and another faction opposing them with all their might . Among them the legions accompanied by Aoth and Bareris . After years of war , Aoth confided in Bareris his thoughts of abandoning the cause and leaving Thay altogether , but Bareris , in his strife for vengeance , realized Aoth ' s important role as captain of the Griffon Legion and used his bardic magic to persuade his friend to stay and fight . . When Aoth was affected by the Spellplague , he saw an illusionary image of Bareris dangling a marionette , twitching its strings to make it dance - a marionette resembling Aoth himself . The mage realized the meaning of that illusion and confronted Bareris with the truth about his decision of not leaving Thay . Aoth was so disappointed and hurt that from now on he shunned his former friend . During a meeting of the zulkirs after the Spellplague hit , Aoth rejoined with Bareris , the two tentatively refreshing their friendship from then on . The council of zulkirs decided on using the magic - crippling aftermath of the spell - plague and attack Xingax ' s fortress in the Thaymount , with Bareris ' s griffon riders and the Burning Braziers at the front . But Szass used the powers bestowed upon him by Bane and through summoning a dream vestige turned the chances into his favors , chasing the zulkirs and their legions all the way to Bezantur until the zulkirs only chance to survive was to flee onboard vessels . Szass did not give up the chase though , summoning all kinds of undead aquatic creatures to defeat the zulkirs . When that proved quite hard , he finally summoned the dream vestige again . Tammith ' s nemesis Tsagoth also joined in the marine fight seeking out and finally facing up with the vampire again , determined to kill her . After a short fight the fiend had her heavily injured and incapacitated . Then Bareris , Mirror , and Bareris ' s griffon Winddancer joined the fight to defend Tammith , turning the chances in their favor by almost killing Tsagoth . In a desperate move , Tsagoth grabbed Tammith and together they broke through the reling of the ship and plummeted into the sea . Due to her vampire nature , the water immobilized Tammith completely slowly dissolving her body like acid . Bareris and Winddancer followed them into the water resuming their attack on Tsagoth until the find was forced to translate himself through space into safety . Though Bareris hurried to get his love out of the water , he didn ' t make it in time and Tammith perished , dissolved into nothingness by the water of the sea . After Tammith ' s death Bareris no longer cared about his own well - being . When Aoth told him of his findings about the nature of the dream vestige Bareris set out in a dinghy to confront the entity . He began to sing of his love for Tamith and the pain of osing her over and over again . The dream vestige grabbed him with one of it ' s tentacle - like arms and engulfed the singing bard . Bareris song had an effect though , inflaming the dream vestige ' s wrath and self - hatred until it was strong enough to burst any constraining force and dissolve the fog - like entity . Aoth later found him swimming in the sea face down . He rescued his friend believing him drowned . It turned out Bareris survived the encounter with the dream vestige . The toll he had to pay was his life - being transformed by the energies of undeath that bound the dream vestige . After that battle was won , the zulkirs and their forces feld into exile at the Wizard ' s Reach . Bareris and Mirror decided to return to Thay and resume opposing Szass Tam ' s regency . The Griffon Legion of Thay . By wish of Bareris , Aoth assigned him to the Griffon Legion , providing him a riderless griffon to make his familiar . Over the course of the war , Bareris was the master of Vengeance , who died in 1385 DR fighting an undead skeletal serpent . His second steed , Murder , died in a fight with one of Xingax ' s undead creatures . His current steed is Winddancer . When Aoth was hit by the Spellplague rendering him blind , he proclaimed Bareris captain of the Griffon Legion for the duration of his blindness . Aoth resumed his position as captain after his eyes were healed by Mirror . Confrontation with Szass Tam and death . In 1478 DR , a temporary alliance of Bareris , Mirror , Aoth ( with his familiar Jet ) , the remaining zulkirs of the Wizard ' s Reach ( Nevron , Samas Kul , Lallara , Lauzoril ) , and Szass Tam defeated Thayan zulkir Malark Springhill , who was intent on unmaking all existence . Minutes afterward , Bareris was destroyed when the temporary alliance had a final confrontation with Szass Tam .