“… likely to result in adverse effects such as confusion, nausea, blindness, temporary or permanent insanity, and death.”
Eudaemon is a naga from Spiral, the only son of an engineer and a healer, who showed a certain aptitude for the Night realm but never really found his focus as a young man. In his late teens and early twenties he travelled around Urizen and the rest of the Empire as part of his education, dabbling in various magical methods, until a chance meeting in 372 YE led him to join the staff of Halcyon.
He spent the years since then improving his study of magical effects on the mind, using Night and Day magic to heal those driven insane by ritual backlash and other trauma. The Arbiter at the time, Heron of Halcyon, planned to bring the spire up to date by engaging more with the other scholars of the Empire, but was unexpectedly obliged to retire in the Autumn of 377.
Eudaemon was elected Chair in his place and went to Anvil at the Winter Solstice that year. It made a favourable impression on him, and he has now resolved to bring other members of the Spire to the quarterly summits, starting with his merrow colleague Kyra.
At the Winter Solstice of 378, he contested the position of Dean and won it from ‘Evil Wizard’ Simargl in a hard-fought election. The glory was however short-lived, and when Simargl reclaimed the Lyceum, Eudaemon turned more and more to the Eternals Rhianos, Ylenrith, and especially Janon.
His end came when he subverted a ritual in an attempt to curse Sarvos with a season of chaos and madness. He was cast out by everyone he had loved, cursed into insanity, and taken away to the Black Ocean Ward from whence he will never return.
As others saw him…
“A more than valuable asset” - Elyssiathain Endsmeet
“Smouldering” - Leonora van Holberg
“A good singing voice and a good whispering voice” - Adelina Barossa
“Beautifully poised most of the time” - Nicassia Phoenix Reach
“A one-man nagapile” - Felice Barossa
“Naturally inclined to misdirection and euphemism” - Eleri Bronwen’s Rest
“Shameless” - Iulian Shatterspire
“Very twitchy” - Abigail Felix’s Watch
“Not entirely sane” - Breannain Farstrider