Anton Rein

Anton by G McDermott.

**Anton Rein** is a player character in Sea of Swords: Forsaken, played by Naail Ishaq. He returned in The Wreckage of Myth Drannor and again most recently in The Rift.

## Biography

### Sea of Swords: Forsaken

Anton, after being thrust into the life of an adventurer at a young age, joined the Arcane Brotherhood and rose in the ranks as a prominent wizard. In his exploits, he found that strange visions called him back out of the Brotherhood, and onto the Sea of Swords, where he served aboard the Bluebottle under Cpt Kal Arnold. He was onboard when Prosp'rus and Milk joined the crew at Fireshear, and first laid eyes on the floating Netherese city of Eioleant from the crow's nest when the ship was swept into the peculiar elemental storm that surrounded it.

Working with the crew through adventures on the Purple Rocks and returning to the city, Anton's visions intensified, and he started having feelings of déjà vu, feeling a close connection. He discovered a crystal ball beneath the city, and upon scrying on its owner, saw his own mummified face reflected back at him.

In contact with this figure, Loraen, the crew of the Bluebottle headed to Revel's End - a Lord's Alliance prison in the Icewind Dale - to free them at their urging. Loraen revealed to Anton that they were a past version of him - that they were the apprentice of a master Netherese wizard, Kalwas, and that they had been working together to use Eioleant's mythallar to rewrite time, resulting in clones of Loraen being scattered all over Faerun (and history).

Reeling from these revelations during the crew's encounter with Kalwas, who had since become a demilich, Anton managed to attune to the mythallar - but its immense power overwhelmed him, and in trying to use it, he nearly tore reality apart. Only his fellow crewmate Nait's attempts to also attune to the mythallar held him at bay, until Kal killed him - partially to end the threat, but also to stop Loraen from using Anton's body to resurrect themself, as they had previously done.

With Anton, Loraen and Kalwas dead, the crew fled the city as it flew over Faerun and crashed into the Sword Mountains, and resurrected Anton once the danger had passed.

### The Wreckage of Myth Drannor

Six months later, Anton and Nait are working at the ruins of Eioleant when they are approached by Nesiril, who asks them both to accompany them to the legendary city of Myth Drannor, citing their experiences with the mythallar (as the one from the city of Thultanthar, which crashed onto Myth Drannor, is still there). They join Ildrathne, Ava and Ephemera, and battle their way into the lost city.

Once there, they discover that Nesiril is a shard of Labelas Enoreth, the elven god of death, and wishes to use the magic of the mythallar, as well as elven high magic, to pierce Arvandor and make their case to Corellon Larethian. Anton learns the basics of elven high magic from Nesiril, and continues to be excited about the potential of working with another mythallar. He also struggles with his companion Ava, and orchestrates her being kidnapped by an ancient topaz dragon.

Reaching the central vault of Myth Drannor, Anton attempts elven high magic in combat, and nearly exhausts himself to the point of death. He recovers, working with Nesiril to use the mythallar, and travels to Arvandor alongside the party. During the discussions with various gods, he offers to return Ava's husband, Jeremiah, to life.

When they return to Myth Drannor, they find a marut trying to free Pandorym, an ancient evil - and Anton tries to stop it with the mythallar, becoming overwhelmed by its power once more. Nait manages to trap Pandorym inside Anton and seal him away from the mythallar, stopping the threat - but Anton is trapped. Communicating with Pandorym in his mind, Anton manages to work out how to rewrite the programming code of the artificial creature. With it now under his control, he breaks free to join the others in defeating undead versions of Ava, Ephemera and Jeremiah.

Anton now plans to travel back to Eioleant (where a simulacrum of Nait may have caused a tear in space and time) with Nait, Ildrathne and a clone of his called Holphaer.

## In-game characteristics

Anton is currently a level 12 divination wizard and a level 2 fighter. He is surprisingly tough for a wizard, wielding sword and shield in battle, and often uses his fighter's action surge to cast multiple spells per turn. He favours damage and control spells. He owns a crystal ball, which used to belong to Loraen and allows him to repeatedly cast legend lore, as well as some of his spells subtly, as well as a robe of the archmagi, as well as now being in control of Pandorym.

## Trivia

* Anton has the dubious honour of being one of the few characters to be killed in a Roll Together stream, and the even more dubious honour of being one of the *very* few characters killed by a member of their own party!
* Anton is also one of only two player characters who has attuned to a mythallar, alongside Nait.
* In Talking is a Free Action, Naail reveals that he played Anton in a home game at level 1. Young Anton witnessed the death of his friend Leslie (played by Mike Dopson) at the hands of mercenary bandits while trying to defend a town from them.
* In The Wreckage of Myth Drannor, Anton gave himself a haircut which includes an undercut with Elvish words shaved into the sides. He has been widely ridiculed for this.

## Media

Anton mini from Hero Forge for Sea of Swords: Forsaken.Anton from the poster for The Wreckage of Myth Drannor by G McDermott.Anton mini from Hero Forge for The Wreckage of Myth Drannor..
## External links

* Character sheet for Anton
* Character sheet for Anton (Myth Drannor)
* Character sheet for Anton (The Rift)