NPC
Mordas
A senior Zhentarim operator who used the Circle's thefts to finance an excavation and a written, repeatable attempt to manufacture a fourteenth Demonshield beneath Ulcaster.
General description
A senior Zhentarim operator who used the Circle's thefts to finance an excavation and a written, repeatable attempt to manufacture a fourteenth Demonshield beneath Ulcaster.
Key facts
- Mordas may be captured, escape, or die in Adventure 007; no later continuity requires his survival.
- His master experiment ledger records failed trials, construction tolerances, lens calibrations, anchor geometry, and every successful correction.
- A substantial surviving copy can let a future scholar or Zhentarim successor rekindle the Demonshield experiments without Mordas.
- If Mordas buys ten uninterrupted minutes from the party, he completes the ritual and creates an active fourteenth Demonshield.
Roleplaying profile
- Personality
- Careful, remote, patient, suspicious, and willing to discard any operative who makes the network visible.
- Motivation
- Prove that fiend-binding can be reproduced, package the result as a Zhentarim weapons program, and preserve the research even if every subordinate and the shield itself must be abandoned.
- Quirks
- Prices every risk aloud, calls people and monsters 'inventory,' gives each subordinate only the next hand in the chain, and never raises his voice when a lower bid will do.
Adventure appearances
Adventure 006
The distant Zhentarim handler behind the Circle, now redirecting exposed assets and stolen wealth toward Ulcaster and the Demonshield search.
- Zhentarim
- Target
Adventure 007
Mordas operates from Ulcaster's buried foundations, where he combines a Netherese spell-lens, a newly fabricated diamond shield, and a written experiment ledger that can outlive him.
- Senior Zhentarim operator
- May die without ending the research thread
- Accepted bargain always creates the active fourteenth shield
- Bargains before he fights and sacrifices staff before research
Also known as
- False Student