![[AldricVornPathfinder-v2.webp]] # Aldric Vorn _Human Chronurgist | [[Gilded Gallows]] | [[Svardborg]]_ ## Summary The [[Gilded Gallows]] wizard who broke [[Viro]]. A 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. %% ## Now _Deceased — killed by [[Decima Iscitarn]] (SKT 87), who hunted him down to close a loose end and took some of his memories._ [[Viro]] now inhabits his body. ## Appearance Early forties, lean, silver-streaked dark hair, sharp gray eyes that never stop calculating. A starburst scar at his temple from the botched ritual; sometimes his pupils go vertical, sometimes frost rims his fingertips. ## Personality Brilliant and obsessed, he views people as tools or obstacles. The alternate lives he lived feel more real to him than this one, and he holds an absolute, cold certainty that this power is owed to him. He 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."_ ## Connections **[[Virovirens]]** — betrayed and broke him; [[Viro]] now inhabits the body he left behind. **[[Decima Iscitarn]]** — his rogue subordinate; she hunted him down and killed him. **[[Storvald]]** — captor turned ally who valued his knowledge of the [[Ring of Winter]]. **[[Garth]]** — held at [[Svardborg]]; Aldric whispered to him during the party's scry, before Garth was freed. **[[Chronolus Tyme]]** — master he murdered when the obsession was noticed. **[[Isarr Kronenstrom]]** — ally; they hold [[Svardborg]] together. ## Background **The Experiment:** A chronurgist at [[Candlekeep]] under Chronolus Tyme, he ran a ritual that fragmented his consciousness across timelines. He lived alternate lives — [[Force Grey]] commander, [[Gilded Gallows]] mastermind, dragon, wielder of the [[Ring of Winter]] — and came back remembering all of it. **The Murder:** When Chronolus saw the obsession and threatened to report him, Aldric killed his master, staged it as an accident, and fled with stolen dimensional-magic tomes. **The Betrayal:** He resurfaced in [[Waterdeep]] with forged credentials, joined [[Force Grey]] while secretly working with the [[Gilded Gallows]], and posed as mentor to [[Virovirens]]. He drugged Viro, trapped him in a ritual circle, and 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. He was captured at [[Port Llast]] by [[Storvald]]'s forces and talked his way into the alliance. ## Stats [[Archmage]] - Modified Archmage, CR 13; HP 120. - Chronal Shift (recharge 5–6): reaction when hit — the attack misses instead. - Fractured Consciousness: at the start of his turn, roll a d6; on a 6 an alternate personality surfaces. - Temporal Echo (1/day): at 0 HP, rewind to the start of his 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. ![[Archmage]] %%