Alkali'ir

## Alkali'ir Mushadi

Alkali'ir the Purple Mystic

Legacy of A'li'ra

Scourge of Alderia

Death Incarnate

Desert Mage

Legend of the Southern Sands

**Alkali'ir Mushadi** was the thirteenth student of Shvatra and the Royal Mystic of the Kings of A'li'ra for nearly seventy years, serving from 244 1E 3A until his death in 312 1E 3A.

Alkali'ir was a master of illusion magic and was known far and wide as the Purple Mystic, a name that often struck fear in those who heard it. He worked at the royal adviser and assassin for multiple kings in A'li'ra, assassinating the rivals of the Kingdom of A'li'ra and pushing their nation further and further away from the center of political influence in Esharam.

Alkali'ir was born to a Liendi merchant who fell in love with a Tarkadan princess while doing business in Tarkada. Her royal family would not accept him as legitimate and had the father hanged. Alkali'ir, which means *one born out of wedlock*, was cast out into the deserts to die at the age of twelve, being raised in secret by a kind caretaker of the palace in Tarkada. Once the caretaker was found out, she was also hanged and Alkali'ir, subsequently cast out into the desert.

While in the desert, nearing death, he came across Shvatra, who was travelling to Ra'jahad to influence the political powers at be. Having recently lost a student to disease, she took Alkali'ir under her wing, training him in the arts of magic, developing rapidly into the finest mage she had ever taught.

Alkali'ir was considered the greatest mage of his time, but rarely ever put his powers to the test in open combat. He was believed to have been the greatest wind mage of all time, even a finer warrior that his spiritual successor, Azhri the Dragon Whisperer. He was believed to have been able to move every last grain of sand in A'li'ra to his will and was the dictator of all weather on Askia while he was alive.

After serving for many decades as the Royal Mystic to multiple kings, he was challenged in open combat by Ramorius Thrax, the legendary Cyrean god-king, who was said to have founded the ancient city of Bremt, and had seen his actions in A'li'ra as threatening to the peace of all of Alderia. Their legendary battle was considered the greatest battle of the entire First Era of the Third Age until the battle with Shuul'dor at the Valley of Kings involving the Second Order of the Dragon.

After narrowly being defeated by the greatest non-mage warrior possibly in the history of Alderia, Alkali'ir was slain, sending A'li'ra into a stint of resentment and darkness from the rest of the world. However, his legacy remained strong in A'li'ra, viewed as a symbol for the early dynasties in the region. It wouldn't be until Gahír Laiman's time that Ra'jahad would be united in the same way again.

Alkali'ir's legacy was so potent that even Azhri, who took to studying his legacy and emulating him to an extreme, feared his return. A force as powerful as Alkali'ir would need a great force to be summoned, but if that force was found, his power would be virtually unstoppable. Azhri knew he, and many in L'har, were strong enough to resurrect the ancient mystic, but he kept all focus on himself, claiming to be his second coming: the Prophet from the East.

Shvatra, refusing to summon any of her own students back from beyond the grave, never resurrected Alkali'ir, for fear of him becoming a rival. Deep into the Fourth Era of the Third Age, the legendary Saul trains by Shvatra's teachings, but goes rogue in his decision to summon her strongest student.

Brought back into the world of the living, using Ahike's corpse as a vessel,