Glacius

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Apprentice to Arkadius Secondsight in Armakania. A major influence in the Clash of the Cabals. Glacius became the leader of the cabal Cold Comfort and was part of the original Archmages' Council. He was a powerful wizard and used Talia as well as Arcania in his casting.

## Appearance

Glacius (Sometimes called Glacial) was of medium height and liked to wear white and grey. He had a sharp jawline and narrow expressive eyebrows. When he used magic he was recorded as having his eyes shine completely white.

## Reputation

As an apprentice Glacius carried a reputation of someone careful but confident. Once Arkadius died and the cplit happened he stayed with Olquam rather than begin his own cabal. Yet as his experiments with using natural magic flourished and he became an elemental master. The clash hardened him and he became more a more deadly and less and less forgiving.

## History

384BE: Glacius joined Arkadius' apprentices.

371BE: Upon the death of Arkadius the apprentices all tried to seize his power. Glacius and Olquam saved four other apprentices. The six then started working together and created a cooperative. This allowed them increased safety in the disputed era but it also caused escalation as other apprentices grouped together as well. This was the beginning of the Clash of the Cabals.

Olquam tried to use the larger group of mages to try to take Arkadius' position but another ambitious apprentice Ebsix had the same idea and had also gathered a considerable following. Glacius joined Olquam's cabal which he named Cold Comfort. The battles fought between them and Ebsix's Circle of Friends significantly damaged both cabals and led to several mages breaking away either singly or to make smaller cabals of their own.

Glacius was certain that if they could just all get behind one leader they could preserve what had been prior to the Archmage's death. Eventually a gathering was called in hopes of settling the dispute and to agree a new leader. The talks were ruined however when one of the delegates used magic to try and slay the other. It quickly became an all out spell battle of tremendous proportions. Glacius alone killed over 10 other mages.

Named the 'Conflagration' this battle resulted in the surviving apprentices fleeing with their followers. Many left the city of Armakania and set up in surrounding towers, villages and forests. Others took to bases inside the city and engaged in spell skirmishes and recruitment. Each of the pretenders attempted to seduce, bride, coerce and induct as many spell weavers as possible. The civilian population lived in constant fear beholden to one cabal or another.

Near the end of 371BE Glacius went as part of the cabal and assaulted the supposedly secret base of Ebsix's Circle. Ebsix herself was captured but not by Glacius though he performed well in the fighting. Yet this victory was not enough to destroy the rival cabal and Cold Comfort also lost many of their most potent wizards in the assault including some of Glacius' closest friends.

370BE: Glacius was for imprisonment and not death. He still wanted a return to a united city of mages under a single leader. His desire was mainly to get back to his research into elemental magic. Yet when Ebsix was not broken it was decided by Olquam that she must be executed.

Three times her cabal attempt to rescue her. The first was an ill fated teleporting attempt. This resulted in several members of the cabal killing themselves teleporting inaccurately.

The second was turned back specifically by **Glacius**. Glacius used frozen water elementals and ice-golems as part of his defense and his some time companion the bard Sybilant recorded some of his exploits in this era.

The third attempt was on the day of execution. The strike team were initially successful in releasing Ebsix and getting her a staff with stored magical energy so she could use her powers. Yet Olquam's forces were present in large numbers and the team were surrounded and cut off from retreat. However Ebsix refused to back down and they attacked the guards ferociously. Though in the end this proved to be in vain with each of them dying in the conflict that resulted. Ebsix and her team still managed to kill Olquam and several of his cabal in the process. Glacius then took control of the cabal in a brief internal power struggle and he withdrew Cold Comfort from the dispute claiming the deaths of the two rival leaders to have ended the conflict and making it clear that he was content to rule the cabal and not make a bid to control the country.

With GLacius and Cold Comfort leaving and thier rivals shattered the cabal Hollow Truth installed themselves as rulers of Armakania.

368BE: Hollow Truth ripped itself apart in this year and the conflict drove the 'normal' people of Armakanaia to abandon the city for outlying towns and the protection of other cabals such as Cold Comfort. Glacius was in support of this as he wanted a return to the way things had been before the clash.

366PE: As the Eye of the Tower cabal didn't not leave Armakania, Volkalis used magical brands to control the wizards of the city. Glacius hated this use of magic and utterly condemed it. Even though they had not been actively fighting another cabal for years he began to prepare his cabal to defeat and even kill Volkalis.

370-365BE: Several cabals attempted to set up strongholds and refound magic run civilisations but many failed. The destruction of these cabals and loss of irreplaceable wizards drove the wizards to seek Armakania again. Also the magic Volkalis had used disturbed many (especially Glacius). His cabal were enslaved and he ruled as a tyrant and dictator. He also has begun to wreck havoc on surrounding settlements including Tor Honarik and the area known as the Golden Lake where there were elven and dwarvern settlements.

365BE: Glacius and Scepteral called for a meeting of cabals at the Golden Lake in response to these events. Not only did this include six complete cabals such as Crystal Scepter and Cold Comfort, it also formed a natural lodestone for the remnants of the shattered cabals Dragon's Eye and Hollow Truth.

At this convocation two points brough consensus, one was they needed to reclaim Armakania. Second, Glacius in particular was adamant that dictatorial leaders using magical power to compel subservience was not what Arkadius had ever had in mind.

They therefore agreed at the covocation that they needed to retake Armakania together. The idea of using magical oaths to compel trust was officially rejected at Glacius' insistance. He considered it vital that they trust each other so that they did not become Volkalis themselves.

364BE: The united cabals turned on Armakania and fought against the Eye of the Tower and Volkanis. Glacius was one of their main leaders. The battles seem hopeless as the enemy had access to powers none of the human mages currently comprehend such as the Ark-Tower. Yet thanks to the intervention of a small group of heroes the ritual used to control the magical eye brands was broken.

This then allowed Volkalis' own erstwhile allies and apprentices to turn on him. He was thrown him out of the Ark-Tower and left to fend for himself. It was claimed that it was Glacius who hunted him down personally but another story most often repeated was that he attempted to use one of the magical weapons he had taken from the Ark-Tower in a desperate bid for ultimate victory and it destroyed him in the process. Possibly both were true.

364BE The Archmages' Council was founded by Glacius and Scepterial. This ended cabals and the position of Armakania as an expansionist battle power and instead formed them as a united elitist educational society. The council was run by those of magical superiority but living in the city and under the rule of the council was optional. If people wanted access to tehir learning they had to join with the common consent and accept the leadership of the council. Glacius was part of this eight archmage council. Glacius was content for progress to be slower to ensure that there would be no repeat of the clash of the cabals.