Shining Mount Codex of Powerful Persons:

ALATAR OF THE BASTION

Age:

Unknown

Alignment:

Chaotic Neutral

Association:

The Rod and Rabbit Adventuring Company

Known Magicks:

No direct observation of his spellcasting exists, though records of Rod and Rabbit business dealings imply he can traverse great distances in short order and parley with even the most mindless of horrors and beasts.

Lore:

It is said that Alatar was of humble, even mundane beginnings. Some even go so far to say that he had no spark of magic, was barely literate, dug trenches for a living and smelled of dung. Fewer and fewer say this, though, as those that do end up in ditches, smelling of death.

Alatar is the Grandmaster of the Rod and Rabbit Adventuring Company. This elite troop offers the public little insight into their customs and methods, however it is widely known that they are devastatingly effective at untangling complex arcane capers. Some whisper they are efficacious unravelers simply because they mastermind these misfortunes in the first place. It is not wise to whisper this.

If Alatar ever leads the Rod and Rabbit through your locale, glance at him only with the periphery of your vision. Those who look him in the eye rarely tell of what they see, but here I will tell you, for I was just a boy when Alatar passed through my village with a caravan of caged abominations: there are tunnels in his eyes, rabbit holes with many scurrying, hurrying, digging rabbits. The rabbits in his eyes caught me staring, and they stared back, smiling, their teeth bigger than the entire world.

Through all my training, I have never forgotten the terror and curiosity I felt that day. My magic is practical, focused and sacred. The magic in Alatar’s eyes is simply immense: a universe of tunnels with something lurking at their core.

Are those rabbits still waiting to guide me deeper?

-Sorcerer Amir of the Mount [5137]

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