Siff Duthar

Siff Duthar was a necromancer who lived during the Age of Arcanum. He experimented with binding undead souls to the physical remains of bodies, eventually performing the process on himself when he became an allip.

Description
In his allip form, Stiff Durthar was semi-corporeal with the lower half of his body tapered off into nothingness, as the mass of his head and body were centralized in a horrible whipping swirl of localized wind, shadow energy, and tendrils of cloth from the four to five layers of shredded robes and the tattered cloak he wore. The physical touch of his form felt almost like touching heavy, cold cloth.

Hidden in the center of this swirl was a dull cold blue heartbeat-like glowing source of energy. His ghastly visage was of dark grey flesh stretched against the skull that shifted along with its spectral shadowy form. His eyes were vacant sockets that slowly billowed out smoke.

Entries from the Notebook
Siff attempted to destroy all of his works, but some of his writings were salvaged when one of his notebooks fell out its brazier and landed underneath one of the tables. Written in Draconic, this book contained the disjointed scribbling of his thoughts, experiments, and fears.

The ramblings within the book spoke of a war fast approaching, with fools following their gods to their doom and armies from Ghor Dranas ravaging the land. Other writings described the need to transcend the mortal form, and the experiments Siff conducted on refugees in an attempt to bind his soul to a different form. Siff also wrote obsessively about The Crawling King, whom he feared would find him, and how he defeated a bounty hunter who had followed him into the sanctum and taken his legs. The hunter's greatsword was taken as a trophy and mounted above the back bookcase of the research chamber.

The writing became more manic as the journal went on, describing how the Betrayer Gods' arrival shook the earth and darkened the sky. He wrote about how the arcane magics of mortals need to endure, showing the gods that they are not better than their creations.

In the final notes of this book, before becoming too burnt to read, Siff grew paranoid that the secrets of his research would be discovered and so destroyed his work to prevent Ghor Dranas from making use of it.

Interaction with the Mighty Nein
Having bound his soul within a large urn located behind the back bookcase, Siff was able to return after death and appeared to the Mighty Nein as an allip when they investigated his research chamber. After being first defeated by the party, he returned again but was destroyed when Molly broke his urn, thus banishing him from the Material Plane.

Appearances and mentions

 * Campaign 2

Quotations

 * "Now secrets are yours"
 * "A secret for trade"
 * "I've already given you a piece. More?"