Gail

**Gail** was an adventurer from the Age of the Gods. He conspired with Ghaspar, one of the Three Wise Ones, to bring back a Voidstar. To this end, he hired mercenaries to aid him in achieving this without divulging his intentions. He was played by Dave5005.

## Description

### Appearance

Gail's appearance is that of a bearded human male with short hair.

### Personality

Gail's personal mission was to attain power over others. His difficult life warped him into a cruel and heartless individual, unaffected by whatever carnage he had to inflict upon the people of Qethos. He put on the facade of a friendly businessman, seeking to endear himself to those he would treat as tools later. He possessed no loyalty to anyone, seeking to backstab his hired allies as well as his boss Ghaspar to achieve his goal.

## History

### Background

Not much is known of Gail, but his life was supposedly marked by suffering. This drove him to seek a means to seize inhuman power for himself, to stand above all others. It is unknown if he sought out Ghaspar or vice versa, but the two became co-conspirators. Ghaspar, as one of the Wise Ones, sought to balance the ascending Radiance of Div by bringing back a fragment of her counterpart Void. The Voidstar would tip the scales as he so desired. Gail agreed, but secretly wished to take the power of the Voidstar for his own. However, at some point, Gail had unknowningly become the vessel of the selfsame Voidstar, which was hiding inside him until the time was right.

### Ruination of Gullwater

Gail went to Gullwater at Ghaspar's behest. His objective was to cause the Void energies in the area to overrun it, turning it into a Void site, which they would use as part of the ritual. Gail learned a local priest was acting as the failsafe for the area, keeping it from falling to Void. He hired a group of adventurers under the premise that he was looking for an ancient artefact; an amulet possessing Void properties. He told them it was located in Gullwater and he would reward them if they found it for his client. He also stated they would get additional work if this mission succeeded. The group eventually cornered the priest in his church. The priest attempted to warn them of the dangers but Gail shouted him down. He misled his hirelings to believe the amulet, which was just a trinket of no magical power, was corrupting the priest and they needed to take it from him. The priest, in desparation, transformed himself into a creature using the latent Void energy around the town, and attacked. Gail assisted in killing the monster, and took the amulet from the priest's body. The death of the priest gave Gail exactly what he needed; the town and its people destroyed and the Void now coursing through the area. Unfazed by the destruction, Gail blamed the priest for this turn of events and told his party to leave the town behind.

### A New Set of Tools

Gail had the group set up camp and then told them he had to leave to report to his client. He promised them he would return soon and they would be likely hunting more treasure, all they had to do was wait for him. Gail instead doubled back towards the ruins of Gullwater. There, he saw Varri'mathes, his boss' sworn enemy, doing dealings with another group of adventurers. The deal appeared to go poorly and Varri'mathes fled, leaving a Void creature behind to keep them busy. Seeing an oppurtunity, Gail chose this moment to reveal himself and aided the group in dispatching the creature. Introducing himself under a false name, he informed them that the person they had met was called Varri'mathes. After the party told him why they had been hired and of the statute they delivered to him, Gail decieved them into thinking Varri'mathes was a villan and that he sought to bring back a Voidstar to conquer Qethos in the name of Void. He then told them to seek his master and get futher information from him as to how to defeat Varri'mathes. With this, Gail had successful acquired new pawns to aid in both the defeat of Varri'mathes and the Voidstar ritual.

### Betrayal at the Hallowed Tower

Gail then travelled north to the Hallowed Tower, Varri'mathes abode. He waited at the base of the tower until his original mercenaries arrived. Rather than answer their questions, Gail hurried them up the tower, claiming that they needed to stop Varri'mathes as soon as possible. The group fought their way up the tower, where they were privy to visions of the Void Lord's origins. Once they got to the top of the tower, they found Varri'mathes using a stone to conduct a ritual. Gail convinced them that they needed to get the stone away from Varri'mathes. While the party sought to subdue Varri'mathes rather than kill him, Gail knew that taking the stone from Varri'mathes, which he was using to accumulate power and stabilize his form, would result in his death. The death of Varri'mathes would subsequently cause the surrounding area to become a Void site. Varri'mathes was forced to create an orb of invulnerability to protect himself during the fight. Seeing his chance, Gail grabbed the stone while everyone's attention was diverted. He took a brief moment to gloat on his sucess, causing the mercenaries to realized he had tricked them. He then teleported away to the ruins of Alabaster, content that Varri'mathes would perish and the conditions for the ritual would be met.

### The Voidstar Awakens

Gail met with Ghaspar at the ruins of Alabaster and reported his sucess. The two then began the ritual to revive the Voidstar, using the intersection of leylines from the three Void site they and their unwitting pawns had created. The ruined city gradually became seeped with Void energy, which Ghaspar and Gail began to syphon. With the ritual almost complete, they were interrupted by both parties, who had formed an alliance against them. Ghaspar revealed his intentions to the group and his grand plan to bring balance. Gail, with Ghaspar distracted, then took the moment to backstab Ghaspar and steal the power of the Voidstar for himself. Ghaspar, however, was ready for such a betrayal, and revealed his ace in the hole; Gail was the host of the Voidstar, and now that the ritual was all but complete, it had no more need for a host. Gail was unable to supress the power within himself and the Voidstar burst out of him, instantly killing him and blowing his body into pieces of gore and viscera.

### Legacy

All Gail's effort were for naught, as the Voidstar he worked so hard to summon was slain by the very groups he involved in his quest for power. Though his death was for naught, his actions set in motion the events that would lead to the death of the gods, and the beginning of the Age of Mortality. The two groups that he unwittingly brought together would become the godslayers known as the Fallen Heroes and they would influence Io for centuries to come.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Voidstar Host**: Gail was at some point the host to the powerful entity known as the Voidstar. It is unknown what power this granted him.
* **Teleportation**: Gail could teleport, as seen after his betrayal at the Hallowed Tower. It is unknown if he could freely do this or was granted the power by Ghaspar.
* **Skilled Manipulator**: Gail was a skilled schemer and deciever, able to think on his feet to turn situations to his advantage. He used the actions of the priest in Gullwater and Varri'mathes to convince both groups of warriors to fight for him and they did not suspect any ill intent from him until he was too late. However, he was not able to decieve everyone, as Ghaspar was repared for his inevitable betrayal.