Ilmnamyr Zaundar

Second Born Son

Ilmnamyr was born as the second son of House Zaundar, a minor house within the religious caste of Nocturnus. The secret city of the Vae'Nocturnus underneath the Glittergloom Mountains saw little value in the life of male children. The paths for a second born son amongst even the minor noble houses were extraordinarily limited. They would either be sacrificed to summon a creature from the Umbral Sea, married to another house in the attempt to forge an alliance or they became a Name Maker.

Ilmnamyr's mother, Zartana Zaundar, wanted a Name Maker. She had ambitions to rise their house to higher echelons of society and was not afraid of what she needed to do to make that happen. During some eldritch ritual when Ilmnamyr was a newborn, she bound a horror to his very being. As such, the child gained preternatural senses and speed, excelling in his studies and at swordplay. He became a soldier as he came of age and quickly rose through the field ranks with the aid of his family.

Ilmnamyr, General of House Zaundar//The Reaper in the Dark

Ilmnamyr's mother and sisters possessed powerful gifts from the Dark Sister. They used one such artefact to summon a disease that withered away at Deep Gnome and Dwarven settlements that encroached on land the Vae'Nocturnus considered their own, and used the dead to raise an army. Ilmnamyr became the general of this army, hunting survivors in the darkness in his nightmarish form, gifted by the ritual his mother performed when he was a child.