Zdislav

Once a member of the Quicksilver Conclave in Cantica, Zdislav was a very skilled artificer who, in his mid-twenties, began to have deep-seated phobias about the guild and the Cantican government. Rather than seek help or turn to legal recourse, he began to secretly outline destructive, anarchic plans to overturn the country. His behaviour became increasingly erratic and violent as his mental health declined and when others tried to intervene, he quit the guild and became a recluse. He forsook his birth name and began to call himself 'Zidislav', convinced that he was going to become the supreme ruler of Cantica. As he started replacing parts of his body with machines and engaging in increasingly illegal acts against the government and law enforcement, warrants were put out for his arrest. Fleeing from police, he eventually made his way to the Echo Woods while following old records that suggested a powerful arcane resource was hidden there.
Zdislav, with his powers as a mage, quickly took over the first few floors of the Emerald Spire's ruined cellars, browbeating the previous residents into serving him as sentinels and paying him tribute. Using the long-abandoned machinery he found on the sixth floor, he managed to begin crafting powerful golems using crystals mined from the Spire with the intent of building an army that would let him accomplish his paranoid aims.
Not long after Zdislav arrived, he came across Ismail and his undead traveling companion who had only been passing through. Using compulsive magics, Zdislav forced the two friends to fight to the death; when Ismail was victorious, Zdislav further compelled him to stay on the Spire's spider-infested second floor to act as a slave and watchman. After being freed by Kormon and Marin, Ismail sought vengeance against Zdislav and indeed was the one to take off the mad artificer's head as justice for his slain companion.
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