Kalabrin

Necromancer in possession of a "Subject-22" which seems to be the reanimated and controlled form of Marcellus Tordibearus, Armet's late husband.

The party first caught mention of him in a letter found in the Lampara Estate. It seems Lady Lampara and her late husband were trading research knowledge and advice with the necromancer through unknown means. The letter indicated he was working to produce a powerful undead which would require the use of a captive soul to properly utilize.

The party later found word of him with a marked position on a map found inside the Hill Manor, which later came under the ownership of Vennet Moonbloom.

A month, later Armet's arrangement with Thana to scry for his husband pays off, coinciding with Laurel receiving a (very painful) phrophetic vision from an All-Seeing-Eye Dog (also matching up with some mysterious dreams) to indicate a very specific location north of Vircris City, which Tessen Highcloak recognized the terrain of. Enlisting the rest of their party to aid in searching it out, Tessen took the party on a "supply run" to Koseam, detouring to their destination on the way back. Upon investigating this dwarven ruin the party fights an undead cart and dives through smooth stone tunnels to the heart of the forge. There they find Kalabrin, encountering him face to face for the first time, along with an artificial sphere of annihilation and Subject-22. Kalabrin was attempting to destroy a phoenix egg which had crashed here after he presumably shot it down. Though they defeat him and save the egg, Laurel loses one of his arms, Marcellus is sent away through a portal and Kalabrin destroys his body, taking Armet through a rip in the planes from which he is miraculously returned moments later.

The party has found no trace of him since then, but he had a run in with the adventuring party led by Lexi Zemke. Their quest entailed tracking down the rumor of an undead monster getting involved in some sort of nighttime battles outside a village west of Havelstone. After a few nights of investigating, they determined that a boneclaw, a form of failed lich, had been bound to a member of a criminal gang that had gotten into some sort of turf war with the Blue Glass crime syndicate. Before they could determine who the boneclaw was bound to specifically, Kalabrin arrived and began killing gang members along with many of their loved ones. The team attempted to intercede with the aid of some of the gang members, but the killings were part of a ritual to rebind the boneclaw to himself. Once it was under his control he used it to decimate the gang, and kill Iolanthe Watrous. Kalabrin personally killed Lexi Zemke moments later. Holbrook Hartjen and Agony Blood managed to escape, but were unable to retrieve the bodies or signal for help from the Sleeping Guard until they arrived back in Vircris.

## Kalabrin's Inventory & Journal

The quest **Hollow Man's Hunt** ended with the party taking all of Kalabrin's possessions that were held on him, including a Journal of notes on said possessions. They are as follows:

*Wexley suggests that writing about recent events and things of interest might help settle the unquiet mind. Hypatia suggested I write about something that fascinates me. I can't write much about my projects while I'm on vacation here, so focusing on my collection is probably the next best thing.*