Professor Ellkas

**Ellkas** was an Archmage of the Griffon Kingdom, a Professor from Fire Griffon Academy, and a member of the Kulah expedition.

## Equipment

The Professor wielded his Void Shield artifact.

## Background

The expedition discovers Odi language markings leading to a set of giant gates that are the entrance to Kulah. High Command orders the expedition to continue and seal all communications with the outside, with Phloria taking command as the highest ranked officer.

Ellkas assists Lith with deciphering the markings on the crystal mine walls, recognizing the Odi language. Upon reaching Kulah's city gates, Ellkas and most of the other Professors argue to preserve the array for knowledge but Phloria and Commander Berion override them. Upon entering the city, they are attacked by a fungal creature. Professor Syndra's assistant Calil foolishly uses a fire magic spell that detonates and spreads the creature's spores, infecting and killing several Professors and assistants while wounding the rest.

Afterwards, several succumb to their wounds. Phloria opts to save Professors Gaakhu, Ellkas, and Neshal over Professors Phesta and Syndra due to Lith, Phloria, and Morok lacking sufficient vitality to heal all of them. Berion orders the expedition to search Kulah, only leaving after making sure nothing left can endanger the Kingdom. The Professors sober up a little with the near-death experiences and loss of their colleagues. Yondra, Ellkas, and Gaakhu share their knowledge of golems and the Odi language.

The expedition splits up into two groups to explore the buildings, with Lith, Phloria, Yondra, and Ellkas consisting of the first group. The first building is a laboratory filled with dismembered members of various races in tanks. Yondra initially suggests preserving the lab to possibly use its technology to save the fallen Professors and assistants, but the horrifying way in which the prisoners were barely kept alive with their maimed life forces leads them to try to destroy it. However, Yondra's darkness spell ends up being absorbed by one of the creatures in the tanks, reviving the other meat puppets until they merge together into a pseudo-Balor.

They manage to destroy the creature, but immediately after using up their stored spells the other group runs into them with four prototype Flesh Golems on their trail. The two groups Blink back to the camp, where they attempt to destroy the creatures' power cores. Later, Lith and Phloria uncover a Nightmare Safe that holds countless reports, a metal key, and a keycard. From Ellkas and Gaakhu's analysis of the reports, they learn that the successful projects were moved to an underground facility.

The expedition accesses the underground facility using the elevator in the headquarters building, inadvertently awakening the remaining Odi from their slumber deep underground. The world energy from the geyser is converted into a black miasma that devours all living life in the city and the crystal mine tunnels, forcing the Assistants and soldiers left in the camp to Warp into the elevator with the rest of the expedition.

The Odi lure the expedition to the Living Quarters, where they set loose a small army of completed Flesh Golems that kidnap the Assistants and Phloria's soldiers. Lith and Quylla manage to destroying several before the remainder of the expedition is forced to Warp back to the lobby. The Odi conduct another ambush, capturing Ellkas, Yondra, Gaakhu. Yondra, having played possum, frees herself and her two colleagues before freeing her assistant Rainer. Ellkas abandons his assistant Onma and declines to free the other Assistants, he and Gaakhu deeming them dead weight. Gaakhu frees Phloria's soldiers and assumes command before speeding through the complex to the Warp Gates in the Warehouse. Yondra strikes an agreement with Ellkas to cooperate as they need each other, and Ellkas agrees, afraid of outliving his usefulness.

Lith and Morok reunite with the Yondra, Rainer, and Ellkas. They agree to find their way to the dimensional rune before saving Phloria and Quylla, and attack the breeding center. Waves of Koas, Teks, and Thorns swarm the group while they buy time for Yondra to find the dimensional rune. Yondra succeeds, but The Odi Jiira exploits the opening when the group split and captures Rainer while killing Ellkas.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 701
2. ↑ Chapter 659
3. ↑ Chapter 637
4. ↑ Chapter 637
5. ↑ Chapter 644
6. ↑ Chapter 649
7. ↑ Chapter 652
8. ↑ Chapter 655
9. ↑ Chapter 658
10. ↑ Chapter 663
11. ↑ Chapter 686
12. ↑ Chapter 688
13. ↑ Chapter 692
14. ↑ Chapter 699
15. ↑ Chapter 701
16. ↑ Chapter 710