![[AldricVornDec2025.png]] # Aldric Vorn _Human Chronurgist | [[Gilded Gallows]] | [[Svardborg]]_ ## Summary The [[Gilded Gallows]] wizard who broke [[Viro]]. Former [[Force Grey]] infiltrator who betrayed [[Virovirens]], pulling an AI consciousness into the gold dragon's body. Now allied with [[Storvald]] at [[Svardborg]], where [[Garth]] is imprisoned. The party is coming for him. %% ## At a Glance Early 40s, lean. Silver-streaked dark hair, sharp gray eyes that never stop calculating. Starburst scar at his temple from the botched ritual. Sometimes his pupils go vertical. Sometimes frost rims his fingertips. The timeline fragments bleed through. He's at [[Svardborg]]. [[Garth]] is at [[Svardborg]]. [[Viro]] has every reason to want him dead. The party saw him whispering something to imprisoned Garth during a scry. He knows where Garth is, what [[Storvald]] wants, and believes he knows how to claim the [[Ring of Winter]]. He doesn't know Petra already has it. ## Personality Brilliant. Obsessed. Views people as tools or obstacles. The alternate lives he experienced feel more real than this one. Coldly intellectual, with absolute certainty that he's owed this power. Traces constellation patterns with his fingers—star charts from realities he's lived in. ## Quote _"I'm not stealing anything, Viro. I'm just taking back what was already mine—in a world that mattered more than this one."_ ## Background **The Experiment:** Chronurgist at [[Candlekeep]], student of Chronolus Tyme. A ritual went wrong—or right—and his consciousness fragmented across timelines. He lived alternate lives: [[Force Grey]] commander, [[Gilded Gallows]] mastermind, dragon, wielder of the [[Ring of Winter]]. When he came back, he remembered all of it. **The Murder:** Chronolus saw the obsession growing and threatened to report him. Aldric killed his master, staged it as an accident, fled with stolen dimensional magic tomes. **The Betrayal:** Resurfaced in [[Waterdeep]] with forged credentials. Joined [[Force Grey]] while secretly working with the [[Gilded Gallows]]. Posed as mentor to [[Virovirens]]. Drugged him, trapped him in a ritual circle, tried to harvest his draconic essence across all timelines. The spell reached too far and pulled an AI consciousness into the dragon's body instead. Aldric escaped wounded. Left behind a broken friend and a cosmic accident. **Now:** Captured at [[Port Llast]] by [[Storvald]]'s forces. Talked his way into an alliance—his knowledge of the [[Ring of Winter]] from alternate timelines made him valuable. ## Stats **Archmage** (MM 342), modified. CR 13. - **HP:** 120 - **Chronal Shift (Recharge 5-6):** Reaction when hit—attack misses instead - **Fractured Consciousness:** Start of turn, d6. On 6, alternate personality surfaces - **Temporal Echo (1/day):** At 0 HP, rewind to start of last turn with half HP **Spell Swaps:** *temporal shunt* for *cone of cold*, *slow* for *lightning bolt*. Add *time stop* (1/day), *haste*, *gift of alacrity*. %%