Xenvelen 13th 14th-level priest

AC -9 (unique magical armor, see below; cloak of protection +2, ring of protection +3, shield not used MV 12; hp 56 (58 THACO 12; #Att 1; Dmg 1d8+3 (+9) or better (rod of smiting +3, blackstaff +3, gauntlets of ogre power Str 12 (18/00 Dex 16, Con 15, Int 16, Wis 18, Cha 16; AL CE. Spells (priest): 8 1st-level, 8 2nd-level, 7 3rd-level, 5 4th-level, 2 5th-level, 2 6th-level (note: because of his ioun stone, Xenvelen gains an additional 4th- and 5th-level spell).

Cool, graceful, charming and brilliant, Xenvelen is a young and fast-rising star. Only 30 years of age, the red-haired, hazel-eyed man with a perpetual smile had a fine war record on the Furyondian front and his assault on Crockport was one of the great triumphs of the war. Iuz has rewarded him with rulership of that city and command of the southern Vesve front. Xenvelen is in the hot seat, since the Furyondian borderlands are where the action is and he faces the great armies in Chendl, Redoubt, and the Barony of Kalinstren across the Flare Line. Xenvelen relishes the challenge.

Xenvelen's current strategy is to continue amassing might in Crockport, maintaining stiff patrol strengths in the lands close by the border, and extending the Razing Line, which his junior priests and mages revel in doing. However, this is partly a feint. Xenvelen tests the Vesve defenses around Castle Ehlenestra and south of the Badlands, and that is where he will make a massive strike when the time comes. Xenvelen is noted for the carefulness of his preparations and the swiftness and devastating force of his strike. Some Furyondians have nicknamed him The Cobra, tensed and coiled for a long while, then striking with devastating speed and effect.

Xenvelen has an extra edge. When he took Crockport, he found volumes of arcane lore on the baatezu in the libraries of a mage slain there. Using a gate spell to summon the appropriate intermediaries, he exchanged the tome with a great Balor Prince, who wasn't an Abyssal Lord, but is very close to that, in a pact which has guaranteed Xenvelen overwhelming fiendish aid for one battle when he requests it. Xenvelen, one can be sure, will cash in on that favor when the time is right, but it will take a goal as tempting as the sundering of Chendl to make him whet his lips and mutter the fateful words of summoning.

Xenvelen is skilled, flattering Althea and Halga, well mannered and pseudo-deferential to Panshazek, while expressing his true enthusiasm for the fray to his malign Lord in Dorakaa, who appears to think well of him. Xenvelen may well be the most dangerous priest in Iuz's massed ranks.

Xenvelen owns a priceless pale green prismatic ioun stone, which raises his experience by one level, and owns a fully-charged bonewand and blackstaff. He has a ghastrobe, though he rarely wears it. Xenvelen has a magical horn, akin to a horn of fog, which can create a death fog 1/day to a range of 60 yards. He has a ring of free action, a wand of negation (19 charges) and a magical amulet which radiates a permanent double-strength protection from good 15' radius. He owns a libram of ineffable damnation, which he plans to trade with Maskaleyne in return for a suitable magical item or two. Xenvelen also owns a pair of rugs of smothering, which augment the many undead guards and traps around his personal quarters in Crockport.