Faolan the Black

A mysterious wizard who had taken up residence in a secret hall beneath Castle Averill, Faolan was revealed to be an ancient wizard who had been feuding with Piri Niven over centuries. In a bid to become royal sorcerer, Piri Niven stole the Key which powers the arcane conjuration device which controls his Ambulatory Tower and claimed it as his own work. Faolan, betrayed, has sought revenge on him ever since, and their feud escalated over some two-hundred years. When Faolan organized the destruction of Hambor and the capture of the itinerant conjurer, the necromancer nearly found his revenge, but instead the Three-Tusk orcs he manipulated tore him to bits until there was only dust left, which they cast into a warm spring breeze.

Taliesin's attempt at reanimating Palarogoth as a dracolich backfired when the dark scroll scoured from Faolan's lair beneath Castle Averill interfered with the ritual, instead reanimating Faolan as an impossibly powerful lich. Faolan returned as the new ruler of the Sable Order, having usurped the late wizard Audamar. The dark wizard slew Piri Niven and resurrected the wizard along with his allies to serve as part of the Ritual of Three Blessings, a dark rite of ascension that would turn Faolan the Black to Faolan the Sable. With Piri Niven's heart transmuted to Faolan's phylactery, the wizard would be forced to battle the new arch-lich forever. Ultimately, Faolan was destroyed when Piri finally made the decision to sacrifice himself, plane shifting together with the lich into the Positive Energy Plane.