Igon Minoblendy

Igon Minoblendy (March 876 – Mid-late 897 – approx. 925 – every four years – Late 1026 – present) is one of the most powerful spellcasters in Avbaroy.

Childhood and adolescence
Igon was born March 26th 876 AC to Michael Minoblendy, a priest of Boccob, and Haizea Minoblendy, at the time a lecturer of arcanophysics at Wehrnault Academy.

Igon attended Marisol Elementary, where he first met Rain, until he was 4 years old. After leaving Arcanon College, he attended Wehrnault Academy with Rain, where he would encounter both Oscar and Steph in the course of his education. Oscar he found passed out infront of a nearby tavern, Steph he met at Ari’s Buffet, which became a popular eating place for the group.

In 896, Igon first met Lex Vietmaghn. His kindness and generosity endeared him to Igon and the rest of the group as a good friend.

Fall of Arcania
It was Igon that was most angered by Lex’s betrayal during the Fall of Arcania, swearing that the next time they met he would disembowel him whilst wearing the same clothes Lex had used to destroy the city’s shield generator. Along with Rain and Oscar, Igon was one of a few people to survive the battle, by blasting through the compromised Namel Wall and teleporting to safety some hundred miles inland near the Elwind Mountains.

Fall of Elwind
Igon participated on the dwarves' side during the invasion of Karazi, although he did not personally fight in the battle.

Exersus Resistance
In 896 AC, Igon founded the Exersus Resistance with the help of Rain Morgan, and lead a failed assault on the Royal Palace of Fudgeland, dying in combat against Queen Sildyu herself. He was later involved in the Battle of the Palace of 1025, who ended in a victory for the resistance.

Voyage to Baator
In 897 AC Igon died for what may very well have been the first time, and ended up in Baator for (in the convoluted reasoning of the Devils) recklessly seeking to destroy the Moon Elf Empire and kill Lex Vietmaghn, betraying the Resistance in the process, ultimately arriving in Stygia as an unclaimed (self-damned) soul.

Shortly prior he survived a significant period of time on a shriver in Phlegethos, from which he gained (among other traits) his regeneration. During this time he was visited by an apparition of Michael Arcanon.

Family life
With his childhood friend Rain Morgan, he has adopted two daughters, Maeter and Tala. Although he lost them both in 920 AC, he still manages to make occasional contact with them.

Later life
In 1526, he supplied the Citadel of Bis Anu to all parties for transport, defended them from another Sovice incursion, and in his Dr. Lazarus guise was responsible for healing a good number of them. He was critical in vanquishing the Arnathi Shades, demons possessing Threeshades. He seemed to have a lot invested in the present state of affairs in Avbaroy.

Avbaroy Liberation Front
After 1526, Igon Minoblendy lead another resistance movement, called the Avbaroy Liberation Front, against the Sovices and the United Nations of Avbaroy. At first, he was quite successful and the conflict seemed to escalate to a full-scale war, but in 1533, he was poisoned by his enemies, rendering him all but useless while his allies search for a cure. The ALF later fractured, with no centralised figure to unite them, into two factions: the idealists, who believed that they could win through diplomacy, and the cynists, who believed they could win through blowing stuff up.

Abilities
Challenging him to combat with magic may be your last statement. Igon is a resolute generalist spellcaster with access to spells from various different magic paths, including spontaneous and prepared arcane casting as well as from both divine and arcane sources. He is known as one of the few people in existence able to use one of the most devastating spell combinations ever created: Explosive Apocalypse from the Sky, though he has only used it successfully once in the history of ABR so far.

He is a tactical spell caster, using multiple spells to produce a significant advantage, such as using evasory and mentally damaging effects against an opponent in order to make them more vulnerable to mind-affecting effects. He is known to have a significant aversion to the use of teleportation effects, he places much of the blame for this aversion on Terprat’s Causality Principle, one of the few arcanophysics principles he has difficulty mastering.

Trivia

 * Igon’s favourite colour is red, and his lucky number is eight (8).
 * Igon’s favourite food is Schizotecian goulash soup.
 * He has been known to add poison-ivy to some dishes, often in bar bets against foolish challengers, as he is not allergic to urushiol. Oscar is the only contestant to this challenge to win despite the poison-ivy, though he also ran headlong into a wall attempting to find the nearest temple not 10 minutes after accepting his victory.
 * Igon fluently speaks a number of dead languages, including Erenatl, Helinan Runic, and Ancient Anu. He also speaks Dwarven, Elven, and Draconic.