Solomon Volkan

A powerful conjurer and veilweaver, Solomon Volkan made contributions to many seminal volumes of arcane lore, several common spells were developed in part or full by him; and he was known as an effective if ruthless member of the Arcadian Magocracy's Council. This is how most of the world remembers Solomon Volkan. However, those more educated in the arcane are privy to the fact that in the later half of his life, Volkan's studies took a dark turn. Somehow, Volkan became the first recorded mortal to purposefully look beyond the Dimensional Barrier, peering into the Farworlds. From that point on, Volkan became obsessed, retiring from the Magocracy Council—and from the world almost entirely, feverishly pouring himself into replicating and expanding this new magical frontier, penning a number of esoteric and dangerous texts as to the nature of the Beyond. The next anyone heard of him, Volkan was establishing a secret society, the Esoteric Order of Volkan, an organization that exists in the shadows into modern times, dedicated to the study of the Farworlds, and especially into methods of exploiting it. Volkan's dark turn casts a shameful shadow over his more mainstream contributions to arcana, and he is thus a cautionary footnote in the education of most magi.
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