Editing Darklord (section)

==Azalin Rex==
Darklord of Darkon. A powerful mage who inherited the rule of the city-state of Knurl, his draconian rule culminated in the execution of his son when he was caught freeing political prisoners. Soon afterward, Azalin became a [[lich]] and devoted himself to searching for a spell that could resurrect the dead; he believed that his son's sense of compassion was due to a mistake in his upbringing and assumed that if he could be revived that mistake could be fixed.

As soon as he was taken into Ravenloft he lost the ability to learn any new magic at all- a terrible thing for any magic user, and even worse for a lich like him who became undead for the sole purpose of gaining more knowledge. This power over memory affects anyone else who enters Darkon as well; staying there for more than three months at a time causes a visitor's memories to be erased and replaced with false ones of spending one's whole life in Darkon. Originally an ally of Strahd when he first entered the mists, their relationship soured quickly after a failed attempt at escaping the Demi-plane of Dread temporarily split the former into two separate beings and they've remained enemies ever since. Another ill-fated attempt at breaking free in which he planned to become a demilich backfired even more spectacularly. Instead of allowing his essence to be freed from Ravenloft, it dispersed his essence across Darkon and destroyed the domain's capital. It took five years for him to reassume a corporeal form and take control of his realm again.
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===5e===
In 5th edition, Azalin has mysteriously gone missing.  Did he finally outsmart the Dark Powers and escape?  The only clue about where he went is that when he vanished a strange golden star or starlike thing called The King's Tear appeared in the sky and hasn't moved since and the sun and moon pass ''behind'' it instead of in front of it every day.  While he is missing his domain is slowly disappearing and has become split into four islands which are ruled by three new not-quite-darklords.  It is up to the DM to decide why he disappeared and why the domain is disappearing but several different possibilities are suggested.
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