Vespin Chloras

 was an archmage during the Age of Arcanum who freed the Betrayer Gods from their prisons. As an NPC in Exandria Unlimited: Calamity, he is played by Brennan Lee Mulligan.

Age of Arcanum
In ancient Vasselheim, Vespin was a famously masterful, wealthy, and vicious archmage. Inspired by the ascension of the Raven Queen, he attempted to repeat her ascension ritual. Rather than trying to replace a Prime Deity as the Raven Queen did with the previous god of death, he instead planned to replace one of the Betrayer Gods, Asmodeus, believing that in doing so he could remove or reform the Lord of the Hells' divine portfolio. However during his ritual, he released the Betrayer Gods from their planar prisons, and Asmodeus bound Vespin as a thrall, turning him into a k'nauth. The released Betrayers were caught in the spell cast by the Tree of Names, and imprisoned within its branches, but not before they were able to set a plan in motion to have the Tree destroyed.

Vespin Chloras's disappearance from Vasselheim was called to the attention of the Eyes of Avalir as he was thought to have possibly stowed away on to Avalir. Cerrit Agrupnin used psychometry to investigate the room from which Vespin vanished and found a disenchanted bow of a solar, which he took as evidence. Patia Por'co was also notified of this investigation. The people of Avalir who were aware of this disappearance suspected Vespin of having died in an attempt to recreate the Ritual of Seeding, but Purvan Suul warned them that his mistress believed Vespin was trying something else.

While investigating a hodmedod that had behaved strangely, Cerrit noticed an invisible assassin and killed them. Upon doing so, he saw Vespin appear in a mirror and tell him that he would not reach "the Wildmother's embrace", after which the mirror cracked.

Cerrit and Loquatius found two recordings of Vespin from about eight years prior. The first showed that Vespin had frequently stated that he believed that it was only a matter of time before someone recreated the Raven Queen's rites of ascension, and that furthermore, the next person would not need to dethrone a Prime Deity but rather "remove something more nefarious from existence". In the second, Vespin appeared in the background, speaking with Lacrytia Hollow and Loras of the Weaver's Mask, and mentioned that Avalir was home to the Tree of Names, seemingly in connection to the rites of ascension.

Vespin was mentioned in the memories Nydas received from the mage as being someone who would take care of an unknown eventuality in their plans. After Laerryn cast Blight on the Tree of Names and it was sundered, Vespin Chloras, his face skinned, crawled out.

Vespin appeared as a thrall of Asmodeus, but Zerxus Ilerez was briefly able to restore him to his prior self. Vespin cast Time Stop and expressed despair and regret over what he had done. He told Zerxus that while he knew his legacy would forever be one of the greatest villains in history, he hoped history would forget the Ring of Brass, for their sakes. He also rewrote Zerxus's contract with Asmodeus to delay it from taking effect until sunrise, then reverted to being a thrall. Later, he and four corrupted taxmen tried to prevent Laerryn from banishing the primordials, but he was killed by Cerrit while attempting to cast Power Word Kill on her.

Legacy
Following his death, Vespin is believed to have become a devil serving at the left hand of Asmodeus, Lord of the Hells. Vespin's role in starting the Calamity, and the belief that he alone released the Betrayer Gods for ill intent, earned him renown as one of the greatest villains in Exandrian history. In 843 PD, Evon Hytroga displayed a fake journal of Vespin Chloras, apparently written by Evon himself, at the Twilight Mirror Museum.

Abilities

 * Legendary Resistance (3/Day)
 * Magic Resistance
 * Legendary Actions (3/Round)
 * Cast a cantrip
 * Fiery Burst: Creatures within 20 feet of Vespin make a Dexterity save, taking fire damage on a failure, half as much on a success.

Behind the scenes
Vespin's miniature in Exandria Unlimited: Calamity is a 3D printed Dead God miniature by Rocket Pig Games and was painted by Iron Tusk Painting.

Appearances and mentions

 * Campaign 3: Bells Hells
 * Exandria Unlimited: Calamity
 * Exandria Unlimited: Calamity
 * Exandria Unlimited: Calamity

Trivia

 * Vespin describes himself as a malconvoker, or an infernalist. This is a prestige class, a type of multiclass option, in Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition defined in Complete Scoundrel. It required a non-evil alignment and is focused on summoning and tricking fiends to fight evil to supplement the forces of good. However, the Vital Pact, the treatise written in Celestial comprising the core of malconvoker philosophy, is feared by some to be itself a trick aiming to tempt and corrupt good-aligned spellcasters. This class is one of many references to 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons gameplay in Exandria Unlimited: Calamity being used to illustrate the Age of Arcanum as a much older age.