Kezlaf

Ennar--

I am indebted to you for all the time and effort you put into your investigations. This has been an immeasurably helpful contribution toward my accreditation project.

Elan

Kezlaf was Uniter of the Islands from 2014 Vol to the dissolution of the Unity in 2040 Vol.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Walemin tapped Kezlaf as her personal protégé at the age of sixteen. His family believed it to be a singular honor, but it must have infuriated him to realize that her chief interest in him was in using his watersense, which she herself did not possess. He came to the conclusion that if water manipulation was so critical to the Unity's success, then he was much more necessary than she was.
After Walemin died, Kezlaf claimed the title of Uniter for himself. A little over a year later he went to the Eddy, presumably to propose a ruling class of Water Seekers. It didn't appeal to them the way he expected it to--only one returned from that trip with him. A few months later, the Eddy was destroyed by the eruption of a previously dormant underwater volcano.
This pattern repeated over the next several years. Publicly, Kezlaf called on Seekers and Sages who had left the Eddy to come to Mraydor to make up for the loss of the Eddy, betraying the same misunderstanding held by most people who aren't drawn to the Eddy. When his call went ignored, he went on trips that coincided with the known locations of retired Seekers. It's safe to guess that he was presenting his objective to each one. Few joined him; the rest died within a year but always long enough after Kezlaf left to keep suspicions from rising. It seems he preferred to kill anyone he deemed powerful enough to be a threat to him.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Kezlaf felt that a person's value should depend on their ability to sense and manipulate water.  He blamed the old Eddy's Water Seekers for causing the scarcity of watersense in the ocean's human population by shutting themselves off from civilization, and especially by failing to procreate.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

As a strong tuner, he developed the ability to manipulate water on a cellular level. This enabled him to change others' auras by controlling the water in their bodies, rather than having to use external methods.

Likes & Dislikes

Kezlaf's favorite sensation was vicarious pain. He indulged this predilection everywhere he traveled. Many of his trips were taken for innocuous enough reasons, but he somehow always managed to identify a Dissolver or other troublemaker. He and his Wringers carried lightning wheels that he modified to deliver powerful shocks, and the One Guard were armed with spray darts that he designed to inflict severe pain on their targets.
The worst of his tools was the Eruptor, capable of destabilizing a magma chamber and causing a volcano to explode. The destruction of the Eddy was almost certainly an early use of the device. There were other suspicious eruptions that were also blamed on Kezlaf immediately after he took credit for the double eruption that wiped out Zaiyev's major cities in mudslides.
Strangely, he was repulsed by the sight of physical deformities. He recorded visiting a village where he was met with a guide he described as having a repellent aura and "horrifying hands". He completed his search in an unusual hurry and made no attempts to harm anyone.

Social

Family Ties

Kezlaf had practical reasons for having as many children as he did. With little support from existing Water Seekers, the most straightforward way of creating his ruling class was to raise it himself. But as difficult as it is to believe, he loved every one of his children. The ones who remember him say he was encouraging, firm with rules, gentle with discipline.
But no parent, however perfect, can impose harmony on so many siblings. Kezlaf favored those who shared his skill for tuning, and the others noticed. Many of the younger ones envied Istlourn and Ardez, who without fail traveled everywhere with Kezlaf. All felt some degree of dissatisfaction with how little information Kezlaf shared with them about how they were helping achieve the Unity's perfection.
However mixed his children's feelings were toward each other and toward him, they loved him back and didn't really want to hurt him. That's why it was such a shock when their confrontation with him, complicated by the Dissolvers' attack on Mraydor, ended in Kezlaf's death. After the angry accusations settled down, the siblings eventually accepted that the blame lay more in the circumstances than in any one of them.

Life

1993 Vol 2040 Vol 47 years old

Circumstances of Death

Kezlaf died in a confrontation with his own personal guard.

Gender

male