Vayne 16th-level mage

AC -3 (bracers of defense AC3, cloak of displacement, ring of protection +3 MV 12+ special; hp 40; THACO 15; #AT 1; Dmg ld6+3 (quarterstaff+3 Str 10, Dex 15, Con 15, Int 18, Wis 12, Cha 7; AL CE. Spells (wizard): 5 each of 1st-through 5th-levels, 3 6th-level, 2 7th-level, 1 8th-level (but see below).

Vayne's 6' 2" height tends to stoop now, his blackhaired head cast down, brown eyes looking to the ground. Vayne is a nervous, twitchy man, with hugely oversized hands bearing elongated, knobby fingers and unsightly thick black hair sprouting from his knuckles.

Wherever Vayne was during the wars, things tended to go poorly or indifferently at best. The final straw was his inept role in the Badlands debacle, where thousands of orcs were slain by Belvor's troops and Ghisellinn of Furyondy nearly toasted him with a meteor swarm. Vayne has been demoted and he knows it. Null, the wretched, characterless, insipid Null, has taken his place. Vayne is disillusioned and angry. He makes as few direct decisions as he can, not interfering with the priests of Iuz in the Shield Lands unless they are getting things hopelessly wrong in a way which might reflect poorly on Vayne himself in Iuz's eyes.

Vayne keeps to himself in Admundfort. There is little for him to do since the Shield Lands are thoroughly subjugated and the navies of Furyondy and Urnst dominate the Nyr Dyv without offering any threat. Vayne's bitterness festers and he wonders about betraying his master. For a big enough reward, he'd do it, but the magical protection and payoff would have to be tremendous, possibly something only the Circle of Five, Philidor the Blue Wizard, or equally mighty mages could guarantee. To hide his thoughts, Vayne has a mind blank spell running perpetually, re-casting it when it runs out. He has a pearl of power which allows him to recall this spell once it has been memorized and cast.

Vayne owns a bonewand (62 charges), and is known by some as the Wandmage because of his outstanding collection of these items. The most important to him are his wands of conjuration (39 charges), enemy detection (44), frost (42), and polymorphing (65). Vayne has a collection of past opponents polymorphed into frogs and toads which he keeps in bell jars. From time to time, he idly draws one forth to pull off its legs or drive pins into its body. He has enough of them now to enjoy polymorphing new victims into crickets and feeding them to the frogs, all of which he names individually, usually with obscene puns of their real names, if he knows them. In addition, Vayne wears a ring of elemental command (water), which is very useful in Admundfort, and he has an amulet which allows him to dimension door up to 6 times per day. Lastly, Vayne wears a unique Bakluni belt, richly decorated with gold filigree, which confers on its wearer the properties of immunity to nonmagical edged weapons and normal missiles.