Odovacar Alcimus Libo

An influential public personality, he—perhaps more than any other living Magic-User—has brought more new hopefuls into the discipline than any wizard before or since. Long past his dungeon crawling days, his public presentations are a calculated and thrilling combination of violently spectacular spellcasting and thrown steel. We’ll never know how many Magic-Users began collecting discarded daggers in a sack and learning the art of throwing after having watched Odovacar pierce strawmen with deadly accuracy, before burning them to the ground with a flick of a pinky finger. You’re imagining it right now, aren’t you? Far from a hack showman, he’s reticent to calculate (and would just as soon forget) the number of living monsters that died horribly as he honed his skills in combat. On his personal time, he memorizes a different set of spells—ones useful in protecting himself from obsessed fans, and enemies. In the event he is threatened and outnumbered, he typically kills the strongest attacker he sees in gruesome fashion, then animates the body to turn on its former party members. This is quite effective with the intense psychological terror it induces. Upon ceasing control, he’ll then leave the body as a warning to would-be criminals of the dire consequences of tangling with a wizard. Definitely not a charlatan. Whatever the crowd, whatever the circumstances, he knows exactly how to create the desired effect in his audience.