Halas Lutagran

 is a powerful wizard who has been missing for an unknown period of time, possibly hundreds of years. As an NPC, is played by Matthew Mercer.

Appearance
Inside the library in the Happy Fun Ball was a 12-foot-tall, six-foot-wide portrait of man: thin, with light brown skin, long dark hair tumbling past his shoulders, a very thinly-groomed chin beard falling to a point three or four inches below, wearing a red robe with gold trim and billowing sleeves folded across his lap, and a handful of rings on his hands. His eyes are a piercing amber-yellow color, and his lip curls ever so slightly into a knowing smile. The party assumed that this was a portrait of Halas.

Personality
Yussa Errenis described him as "not a very team player."

Background
Halas created an extra-dimensional manor with about one hundred interconnected rooms. He left magical artifacts around the world to transport people into the manor. He made a deal with a blue dragon to guard parts of the manor in exchange for these objects bringing it food. He brought other dangerous creatures into his manor as well.

Halas disappeared hundreds of years ago, likely during the Age of Arcanum before the creation of the Divine Gate.

Using Comprehend Languages, Caleb Widogast was able to read the name "Halas" from the symbol on a cloak recovered from the a portable hole created by the Happy Fun Ball of Tricks. Beauregard recognized it as an archaic Zemnian name, but could not remember any specific historical figure named Halas.

The Mighty Nein and Twiggy were transported by the Happy Fun Ball of Tricks into Halas's extradimensional manor. They explored three of approximately one hundred chambers: a stone room with four different colored trapped banners, a library with hundreds of locked books, and the blue dragon's hoard. The stained glass panel in the library showing the layout of the planes did not include a representation of the Divine Gate, suggesting that it was designed before the Gate was created just after the Calamity.

Caleb identified one of books taken from Halas's library as a transcript of public debate from the forum of Zeidel regarding the moral implications of arcane experimentation on prisoners of Ghor Dranas and warnings of the war with the gods. Zeidel was one of a number of extremely erudite societies in the Age of Arcanum that had harnessed crystals to make their city hover aloft. There were a handful of these mobile cities that could travel across Exandria, all of them, as far as anyone knows, wiped out during the Calamity.

Yussa Errenis recognized where the Happy Fun Ball of Tricks led, and the mage it had belonged to. Yussa does not know the mage personally, but there are few in his circles that have not heard of his exploits in the past. He has, however, has been missing for quite some time.

Blue Dragon
Even though the blue dragon made a deal with Halas to guard the extradimensional manor in exchange for food and gifts, the dragon wishes to someday grow big enough to eat Halas and take the manor for themselves.

Notable Items

 * Happy Fun Ball of Tricks


 * Twiggy stole the Happy Fun Ball from an unknown location (possibly an auction house) in Port Damali. How it got there is unknown.
 * Set of winter clothes embroidered with his symbol (taken by the Mighty Nein from an extradimensional pocket opened by the Happy Fun Ball of Tricks)
 * Magical hand warmer (taken by the Mighty Nein from an extradimensional pocket opened by the Happy Fun Ball of Tricks)
 * Spellbook with the name burned out (taken from library by Caleb Widogast)
 * Public Debate Records: Forum of Zeidel (taken from library by Caduceus Clay)
 * Book on corrupted plant life (taken from library by Caleb Widogast)
 * Book on the ice fields of Eiselcross (taken from library by Nott)
 * Jar of magical ink (taken from library Nott)
 * This ink can be used to copy 500 gold worth of spells onto any kind of paper.
 * Jar of glass beads (taken from library Twiggy)
 * Caleb Widogast cast Identify on the jar, later revealing to Nott that they were a type of non-perishable food.

Quotations

 * Yussa Errenis: (in response to whether Halas is good or bad) "At a certain level of arcane practitioning, morality becomes a bit ambiguous; but to the common man, I would say probably not a very... team player."

Trivia

 * While nothing has been confirmed, Halas draws some noticeable parallels to Halaster Blackcloak, a powerful wizard who created the megadungeon known as Undermountain in the Forgotten Realms.