Otiluke
| Otiluke | |
|---|---|
 Otiluke as depicted in From the Ashes, Reference Card #13 | |
| General info | |
| Home: | Free City of Greyhawk |
| Alignment: | Neutral |
| Gender: | Male |
| Species: | Human |
| Class: | Wizard |
| Dates | |
| Age: | 41 (in Harvester 584) |
| Birthdate: | 542 CY |
| Death: | 584 CY |
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. Small and weak, he's one of the few humans who could wear a magical item called gauntlets of kobold power and have it actually benefit him tremendously. It was probably intended as one of those cursed items you cannot take off, but Otiluke loved his.
Otiluke was not a wise man, either. With a wisdom of 8 he was, of all the Circle, the least endowed with common sense. Mentally, he was brilliant, the match for Tenser and Bigby in sheer intellectual prowess, but some of his ideas were a few tankards short of a keg.
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.[2] Sometime around mid-573, he purchased a home in the City of Greyhawk—a two-story townhouse in the Foreign Quarter on Summoner Court.[3] In 576 CY, he joined the Circle of Eight.
When Rary the Traitor set magical traps at the signing of the Treaty of Greyhawk on the Day of Great Signing in 584 CY, Otiluke was one of the Circle of Eight members who caught him. In the great magical battle which followed, Otiluke was slain. He died at the age of 41, just a month before his 42nd birthday.[2]
Works
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 many 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 Excruciating 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 authored the following works:
- Gazette on the Norse Climates
- Otiluke's Practical Gardening
- Spherogenesis of the Multiverses
Abominations
Otiluke was responsible for the creation of a monster called a "howler wasp." Unnatural abominations, the product of magical meddling in genetics, these quickly-reproducing monsters are crossbreeds of giant wasps and carnivorous monkeys. Otiluke made them to defend his home against a cabal of slaadi, but he was of course unable to control them, and they escaped into the wild.[4]
Publication history
Otiluke is one of the famous mages of the Greyhawk setting whose spells were included in the 1988 Greyhawk Adventures hardbound.[5]
References
Notes
Citations
- ↑ Wooten, Ben. Re: Who's that wizard?. deviantArt. "I believe it is Otiluke on the receiving end here."
- ↑ a b Moore, Roger. "The House on Sumone Court". Oerth Journal #7, p19. June 1998.
- ↑ Moore, Roger (Aug 1998). "The House on Summoner Court". Shadis. No. 50. Alderac Entertainment Group. pp. 24, 43.
- ↑ Kestral, Gwendolyn. Monster Manual IV. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2006
- ↑ Schick, Lawrence (1991) Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games, Prometheus Books, p. 101 ISBN: 0-87975-653-5.
Bibliography
- Cook, David. "History of the Greyhawk Wars." Wars (TSR, 1991). Available Online: [1]
- -----Cook, David. Vecna Lives! (TSR, 1990).
- 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 (August 2000). Available online:[2]
- Moore, Roger (Aug 1998). "The House on Summoner Court". Shadis. No. 50. Alderac Entertainment Group. pp. 24, 43.
- ———. "The House on Summoner Court." Oerth Journal #7 (Council of Greyhawk, 1998). Available online:[3]
- Moore, Roger E. The Adventure Begins (TSR, 1998).
- ———. Return of the Eight (TSR, 1998).
- Pryor, Anthony. Patriots of Ulek (TSR, 1992).
- ———. Rary the Traitor (TSR, 1992).
- Sargent, Carl. The City of Greyhawk (TSR, 1989).
- ———. 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).