Gorgias Nuovo

Gorgias as he appeared when first confronted by Cleo

Gorgias was a man of extreme importance in Old Vassos - a name synonymous with power. Gorgias was called Titan in Old Vassos for his great magic prowess and strength. His power came from a powerful bloodline in his past, a celestial of unknown origin.

Gorgias strived to protect and defend Old Vassos as he was undoubtedly the most skilled caster Old Vassos had ever seen, barring perhaps Ezekiel. Gorgias was kind and good-hearted, and at a young age began studying beasts and monsters alike with vigor - wanting to know every creature's weakness, trying to find each wicked foe's Achilles' heel.

Gorgias lived in small, lone wooden shack at the edge of the deep wilderness which surrounded the lightly forested Old Vassos. Smoke often rose from the chimney, reassuring the people that they were safe. Gorgias kept the embers warm and the fire burning to give his people a feeling of safety, and enemies a sense of unease.

During his time protecting Old Vassos they saw a great lesser number of goblin raids and even less gnoll attacks. Gorgias grew weary and scarred in his days of defendence, but still the power inside him spurned him on. He studied endlessly the creatures of the forest.

It was one cold and dark night, while smoke billowed from the chimney, that an old and wizened man with antlers of an elk knocked sharply on the door. The door opened and the great wise-man Cleo Malachi looked upon this damaged and scarred man, clad in torn robes and skins.

The two men talked for a while, and Gorgias listened to what Cleo had to say. Cleo offered him a spot in The Council of Sages. Gorgias reacted with hesitation over reforming the Sages group. He told Cleo he thought that it was too much like the Silver Age people, to form a group that has superiority over another.

The two debated this matter for several months, but in the end Cleo convinced Gorgias that they were no leaders but instead they were guiders- offering humble guidance to their fellow Vassoans. Gorgias decided that anything he could learn to help him defend the place that he loved he would do, and so he joined Cleo's team. Gorgias was the last to join the Second Sage Council and thus after he accepted the new group of smart and wise sages began their training.

Gorgias had great respect for their teacher, Sithartho, and he vowed that next time Old Vassos came under fire from an enemy he would not let himself be defeated- he would save Old Vassos even if it cost him his life as it had cost Sithartho's. When Sithartho died all the Vassoans gathered, they decorated his body and set it aflame atop an old altar.

Gorgias and the other sages thus had finished their training early, and they moved to live in the sage tower. For the first time in fifty years, the smoke that billowed out from Gorgias' chimney dissipated - leaving the people of Old Vassos with a nasty taste in their mouth and a heavy weight in their stomach. How long now, before the creatures that preyed on them notice that the smoke was gone?

As fire rained down on Old Vassos, and the sages noticed their leader and the one who united them had left them - fled in the night, their hope began to waver. However Gorgias rallied them, and convinced them to stand with him, join him in defending their home. And so, stricken with grief and a sharp and painful feeling of betrayal, the sages did their best to defend Old Vassos - and Gorgias led them in the fight, willing to die for his home.