Piri Niven

Piri Niven is a mysterious, wandering wizard known for serving various courts throughout history as their court mage, travelling across the planes and even beyond them, and seldom taking apprentices. His magical Ambulatory Tower was last seen overlooking the small fishing village of Hambor, a fishing village now lost to the plague. In truth, he was tricked and captured by Faolan the Gray, his ancient nemesis; fortunately the timely arrival of one of his apprentices, Edmund Trencavel, with a group of adventurers in tow, managed to prevent Faolan from completing his revenge. After Faolan was slain, Piri quickly disembarked, leaving his apprentice, and his apprentice's companions, to sift through the ashes of Hambor. When Volkarr was seemingly slain and his body taken by a dark horseman, Lemuel sent a sending to Piri Niven, whereupon the archwizard revealed that he was on his way back to Agrawel already after meeting with the Talons of Justice. After aiding the party time and time again throughout his stay in Agrawel, the archwizard was inevitably drawn towards Faolan, especially when the Dawn's Herald began its entanglements with the Yellow Rose. When the Sable Order attacked the party directly, Piri Niven felt he had no choice but to face Faolan alone to prevent his friends from falling to the same fate. There, he fell, and was resurrected as part of Faolan's plan to ascend from Faolan the Black to Faolan the Sable. Edmund returned to Agrawel to attempt to stop Faolan, and, realizing what had to be done, prepared to destroy Piri and Faolan both, as the dark wizard had transmuted the light wizard's heart into a new phylactery. Edmund could not bring himself to commit the act, and Piri said his farewells before plane shifting himself and his old archenemy into the Positive Energy Plane.