Balthazar (necromancer)

Balthazar was a necromancer who worked in service to General Ketheric Thorm, the chosen of Myrkul, during the Absolute crisis of the late 15 century DR.
==Description==
He was an overweight man with gray, ashen skin and gold-colored eyes. He had open cuts on his face of three inverted triangles, akin to that found on the holy symbol of Myrkul.
==Abilities==
He was known to utilize the spells bone chill, ray of sickness and cloudkill. He had the supernatural power to raise once-destroyed undead beings and employed that tactic in combat.
==Possessions==
He wore on his brow the Circle of Bones, which granted him the ability to summon forth undead once per day.
Balthazar knew the arcane recipe to create moonlanterns which allowed for relative safe travel through the Shadowlands.
==Relationships==
Balthazar was served by a massive flesh golem, whom he referred to as his brother, named Flesh.
==History==
Some time during or before the late 14 century, Balthazar created a soul prison within the Gauntlet of Shar, which was used by Ketheric Thorm to imprison the Nightsong for over a century. The imprisonment bound the aasimar to Ketheric, granting the general immortality.
With the establishment of the Cult of the Absolute, Balthazar started to experiment on and modify the enchanted tadpoles produced by a dominated illithid elder brain with other Myrkulyte servants in the mind flayer colony beneath the Moonrise Towers. 
In the , Balthazar was tasked by Ketheric with recovering the Nightsong, because Ketheric had betrayed the goddess Shar, choosing instead to become the Chosen of Myrkul, but still fed on the immortality of the Nightsong.
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Category:Necromancers
Category:Wizards
Category:Wizards (5e)
Category:Humans
Category:Undead
Category:Members of the Cult of the Absolute
Category:Worshipers of Myrkul
Category:Inhabitants of the Gauntlet of Shar
Category:Inhabitants of the Underdark
Category:Inhabitants of the Sword Coast
Category:Inhabitants of the Western Heartlands
Category:Inhabitants of West Faerûn
Category:Inhabitants of Faerûn
Category:Inhabitants of Toril