The One Without a Name

The One Without a Name is a drow wizard from Sshanntynlan in the house Jhalael who became the 6th Time Lord. He is the creator of Hemomancy, one of the pillars of drow magic. He left the Time Lords and returned to Sshanntynlan, using Time Dragons to mask his presence from Avlon and other chronomancers. His loyalty to protecting the drow people became his temporal touchstone, saving him from the madness of the Time Lords and allowing him circumvent the magic preventing Time Lords from having children, leading to the birth of his son Alveus.

He was eventually betrayed by the matron of Sshanntynlan, who wiped his memory and his name, then exiled him from the city. Without an understanding of the hemomancy he still wielded, he inadvertently became a bloodchanger. After wandering the underdark for many years, he was eventually captured by the deep gnomes of Stumfenstone and put in Menace Manor. He promptly escaped to Fungroot, which he established as his new home.

## Mastering Blood and Time

The One Without a Name was born in Sshanntynlan in house Jhalael. He became one of the most skilled wizards city had ever seen, eventually creating one of the pillars of drow magic: Hemomancy.

His magical prowess and establishment arcanic law caught the attention of Avlon, who invited him to join her ranks as a Time Lord. Though the drow matron urged him not to, he couldn’t resist the chance to forge another budding magic system, and he became the 6th Time Lord. He left Sshanntynlan and made a quick study of chronomancy, becoming a master of time and blood. Some of the other time lords were disgusted by his blood magic and thought Avlon made a mistake picking him as a Time Lord. This didn’t bother him, he just kept to himself and worked alone.

The One Without a Name saw magic as something that needed to be created with balance - Hemomancy is built around incredibly powerful spells balanced with a cost. He wanted magic to be something a caster had to think about and apply themselves when using, he thought that magic should be for those who understand the risks and consequences and consider them before using it. While learning about chronomancy, he grew more and more frustrated by the seemly endless bounds Avlon had established. This magic seemed to hold power that could be wielded with no consequences to the caster - it could be used without a second thought. Then, when a chronomancy artifact was used by Bloodless Centurions in the Bucklebattle, The One Without a Name became so disgusted with chronomancy, the Time Lords, and what they had come to represent that he chose to pull back from Avlon and her ranks.

## Escaping Avlon

In the aftermath of the Bucklebattle he discovered he was not alone: other Time Lords also wanted to escape Avlon. Among them was An’Callister, Furrante, Bridget, Tarphorius, Sophie, and Dain. A shaky alliance was formed to keep from being discovered by Avlon. Together, they learned of a way to stave off the madness of the Time Lords through a bond called a Temporal Touchstone. A Temporal Touchstone can be a deep passion, love, or connection that keeps you mentally grounded and magically bound to sanity. The One Without a Name reflected on why he chose to learn time magic in the first place, and he decided to return to Sshanntynlan where he pledged himself to the matron and vowed to protect the city and its people. Still feeling betrayed by Avlon and the life he had chosen with her, he found comfort returning to the familiarity of drow culture. His renewed loyalty to the drow people and the city of Sshanntynlan became his touchstone, granting him in sanity.

After the Bucklebattle had scattered the Time Lords through time, Avlon had been obsessively tracking them down and doing whatever it took to restore her order. The One Without a Name knew he had to find a way to hide the city from Avlon or she would destroy it without a second thought should she find him.

During his adventures as a time lord, he had come across Time Magic that did not originate from Avlon - that of the Time Dragons. He knew if anything was going to be able to counter Avlon’s power, it was theirs. Time Dragons create hordes of creatures - sometimes willingly, sometimes not. Occasionally they will form a symbiotic relationship with a city, which becomes their horde.

The One Without a Name sought out time dragons, eventually finding and convincing some to work together and curate a horde of unimaginable wealth: one of the grandest drow cities in the underdark. Together they found a way to create a barrier from Avlon’s time magic, successfully safeguarding the city. The barrier proved to be so effective it blocked all Time Magic within the city, leaving The One Without a Name unable to use chronomancy within its bounds. Adamant in his duties, he stayed within the city and oversaw its defenses and the care for the dragons.

## The Time Lord’s Child

While Avlon had created the rules of magic, she did not account for people's need to deal with the burdens of chronomancy madness. She never foresaw magic being borne from the symptoms of her system, especially when she didn't see those symptoms as anything to worry about in the first place. With the discovery of the Temporal Touchstones, exceptions to the written rules of time magic formed without her knowledge. She had established that Time Lords could not have children - but while under the influence of a touchstone, her rule did not apply.

The One Without a Name was satisfied that he had successfully hidden the city from Avlon and the other Time Lords, and began to relax and return to living a normal life within the city. He eventually married and had a child: Alveus. Alveus grew up inside Sshanntynlan where his powers were dampened by the time dragon’s protection. He spent his time helping his father with the time dragons and always felt drawn to them. Without fully realizing it he formed a special bond with them, leading to his discovery of the divining time magic within himself.

## Betrayal of the Matron

After years had passed in safety, the drow matron got overconfident and bold within the safety of her city, and she viewed The One Without a Name as the last possible threat to her city and her house. While he was loyal to the city, he was from a different house: one that posed a threat to her rule should he decide to turn on her. Additionally, there always loomed the threat of Avlon or another Time Lord stumbling across a way to track him down to the city. When Teri - another child of a Time Lord - found the city, the matron knew she had to make a move. Despite all the matron’s worries about the safety of the city from chronomancers, Teri managed to talk her way out of the city and leave safely, bringing with her an understanding of time dragon magic.

The matron knew The One Without a Name had taken safeguards against death and that she couldn’t possibly kill him, so she gathered the most powerful drow in the city and called on the power of Lolth to cast a memory spell powerful enough that he couldn’t even remember his own name. As they cast the spell, he tried to access his time magic to escape it. Instead, it channeled the memory spell through time, erasing the memory of his name from his entire life - establishing him as The One Without a Name. Satisfied he wouldn’t be able to find his way back, the drow exiled him from the city and set him loose in the underdark.

## Underdark Exile

His memories were gone, including his loyalty to the drow - which had acted as his temporal touchstone keeping him sane from madness brought on by time magic. However, the spell failed to erase his chronomancy or hemomancy powers. When he was forced to defend himself, his aggressors were rapidly dispatched. While the magic he wielded had immense power, he did not understand it. With hemomancy, ignorance is dangerous. He pushed too far too fast and turned into a bloodchanger: a withered undead with the ability to take the form and mind of any creature it kills.

This began his years as the terror of the tunnels, wandering through the underdark at random. He would to absorb the minds of creatures that were unfortunate enough to come across him. After he killed them, they would fall into the void where his memories and mind used to be. With no mind of his own to ground himself, the others all flooded in at once, driving him to madness.

One fateful day, a mad deep gnome named Mad Tim wandered off while on a mining journey and was discovered by The One Without a Name. Taking him for a threat, The One Without a Name destroyed Mad Tim, absorbing his form, mind, and madness. What The One Without a Name found in Tim’s head was an odd calm he hadn’t been able to achieve since he’d become a bloodchanger. Mad Tim had learned to accept and embrace his madness, and even to understand it to a certain degree. Now that The One Without a Name had absorbed his mind, he too began to understand his own madness.

He wandered his way into the empty echoes in an attempt to find Stumfenstone. He was discovered by the Svirfneblin of Stumfenstone, who recognized him as no normal drow, so they took him in put him in Menace Manor. He promptly escaped and hid inside Fungroot, where he was befriended by Tarjaxis.

He established Fungroot as his home. While cautious, he tends to be friendly - and even helpful to those who mean no harm to the forest. However, he does not take kindly to those who mistreat him or his home. He often slips in and out of the memories of those he has absorbed.