Daltim Flamefist Daltim Flamefist was a male Halruaan human wizard and psionicist from the realm of Halruaa in south Faerûn . He was well known as a powerful noble of Halruaa ; as the commander of the Destroyers , a mercenary company of mages and psionicists ; and for his groundbreaking research into fire magic , psionics , and the creation and reproduction of magical and psionic items . Description . Daltim Flamefist ' s personal sigil was a stylized dragon . Personality . He was a proudly patriotic Halruaan , and aspired to be an Elder . Abilities . Daltim Flamefist was a powerful wizard who specialized in the domain of elemental fire , known as a fire mage or pyromancer , rather than in any one school of magic . He also possessed a wild talent for psionics , learning several powers . These he cultivated , becoming a psion focused on the discipline of metacreativity , known as a shaper . He pursued both these avenues simultaneously , mastering magic and psionics , following the path of the cerebremancer . He was of course also a noted scholar in psionics , pyromancy , and in the creation and reproduction of magical and psionic items ( though he lacked the ability to create psionic items himself ) . He was credited with the invention of several spells and magical items . Activities . In addition to commanding the Destroyers company of mercenary mages , Daltim Flamefist conducted research into pyromancy , psionics , and magical and psionic items . These psionically empowered items included semi - intelligent items . He even planned to look into the use of psionic items as familiar s . Daltim Flamefist also visited the multiverse ' s hub city of Sigil and was knowledgeable about the planar factions . Relationships . Alongside an oligarchic council , Daltim commanded the Destroyers , a mercenary company specializing in magical and mundane artillery assaults in support of more conventional forces . They consisted of some fifty troops : fifteen mages , fifteen psionicists , and twenty warriors , equipped with catapults and ballistae . The Destroyers had a special enmity for the Red Wizards of Thay . History . Daltim Flamefist hailed from the wizard - ruled realm of Halruaa . Noble - born , he was the son of an Elder of that nation , and had ambitions to become an Elder himself . However , he first had to gain experience , and to this end , he became the commander of the Destroyers , a mercenary corps of battle - mages , often leading them into battle . The Destroyers became involved in the civil war in Tethyr in the 1360s DR . While there , Daltim ' s " Tome of Fire " went missing , presumed stolen , as he was unlikely to forgotten or lost it . Daltim fortunately had other copies of the spells , but wished to recover for the book for the many notes he ' d made in it . He later gave a lecture on his research into psionically empowered items at a symposium of mages in Halruaa . He still hadn ' t located his " Tome of Fire " by the mid - 1370s DR , and was offering a hefty 10 , 000 - gp reward for its return , with 1000 gp for credible information as to its whereabouts . Works . Among his works , he wrote " Daltim ' s Tome of Fire " , a valuable but lost spellbook containing several rare and even unique spells , details of various magical items , and treatises on the topics of fire magic , psionics , and psionic items . He was credited with the creation of several magical spells : He also somehow acquired the spell " flameproof " from the mages of Zakhara , introducing it to Faerûn , and provided details of a " detect psionics " spell to his peers in Halruaa . He also invented the " magic tinderbox " in the 1360s DR , discovered the " one - way lantern " , and reverse - engineered the " magic match " from Kara - Tur .