Otiluke

Greyhawk Character

Otiluke
General info
Home:	Free City of Greyhawk
Alignment:	Neutral
Gender:	Male
Species:	Human
Class:	Wizard
Dates
Age:	† 584 CY (age 41)

Otiluke was an archmage. He was slain by Rary in Harvester 584 CY, at the close of the Greyhawk Wars.

Description

Otiluke stood just over 5 feet tall, had short black hair, a thin beard, and brown eyes. He was well-dressed, but appeared rather puny.

Relationships

Otiluke was a member of the Circle of Eight, president of Greyhawk City's Society of Magi, and a member of that city's Directing Oligarchy. Imiric von Suss-Varren, a gnomish count of the Principality of Ulek, once served Otiluke as a henchman. He also lived with a young woman named Glorial, who served him as an apprentice and concubine from 580 CY until his death in 584.

History

Otiluke was born in early Patchwall of 542 CY. Some time around mid-573, he purchased a home in the City of Greyhawk, a townhouse in the Foreign Quarter on Summoner Court. In 576, he joined the Circle of Eight.

Spells

Otiluke is responsible for developing such commonly known spells as:

• Otiluke's Freezing Sphere or Otiluke's Icy Sphere
• Otiluke's Resilient Sphere
• Otiluke's Telekinetic Sphere

Otiluke bases a number of his creations on spheres/orbs/bubbles or screens mixed with elemental forces.

Otiluke has also developed the following additional spells:

• Otiluke's Acid Cloud
• Otiluke's Boiling Oil Bath
• Otiluke's Bubbling Buoyancy
• Otiluke's Death Screen
• Otiluke's Diamond Screen
• Otiluke's Dispelling Screen
• Otiluke's Electrical Screen
• Otiluke's Excrutiating Screen
• Otiluke's Fire and Ice
• Otiluke's Force Umbrella
• Otiluke's Greater Dispelling Screen
• Otiluke's Orb of Containment
• Otiluke's Polar Screen
• Otiluke's Radiant Screen
• Otiluke's Siege Sphere
• Otiluke's Smoky Sphere
• Otiluke's Steaming Sphere
• Otiluke's Suppressing Field

Writings

Otiluke is known to have authored the following works:

• Gazette on the Norse Climates
• Otiluke's Practical Gardening
• Spherogenesis of the Multiverses

References

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• Heard, Bruce. "Spells Between the Covers." Dragon #82 (TSR, 1984).

• Holian, Gary, Erik Mona, Sean K Reynolds, and Frederick Weining. Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (Wizards of the Coast, 2000).

• Mona, Erik, and Gary Holian. "Wheels within Wheels: Greyhawk's Circle of Eight." Living Greyhawk Journal #0 (Aug 2000). Available online:[2]

• Moore, Roger E. Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins (TSR, 1998).
  • Moore, Roger E. "The House on Summoner Court." Oerth Journal #7 (Council of Greyhawk, 1998). Available online:[3]
  • Moore, Roger E. Return of the Eight (TSR, 1998).

• Pryor, Anthony. Patriots of Ulek (TSR, 1992).
  • Pryor, Anthony. Rary the Traitor (TSR, 1992).

• Sargent, Carl. The City of Greyhawk (TSR, 1989).
  • Sargent, Carl. From the Ashes (TSR, 1993).

• Ward, James M.Greyhawk Adventures (TSR, 1988).

• Williams, Skip, Penny Williams, Ari Marmell, Kolja Raven Liquette. Complete Mage (Wizards of the Coast, 2006).