Abigale Romanov
The fiancee of Niptu, Abigale was horribly killed but her brain was preserved and her memories altered.
Abigale was a half elf half fire Genasi and as such had incredible magical powers and was unusually smart. Abigale met Niptu at Candlekeep around 1330 and they fell in love. The two of them developed spells that were never heard of before. She had an engineering mind that surpassed the best artificers in all of Toril and Niptu was quickly becoming the greatest wizard ever.
The Spellplauge occured in 1335 DR - 1345DR. Just over 200 years ago.
Niptu and Abigale were working on a new device that could channel necrotic magic when the spellplague hit. The device went off as blue flames shot over their lab. It affected both Niptu and Abigale. Niptu was badly sacarred but it was Abigale's body that was hit with the majority of the powerful necrotic spell that would prove fatal. Niptu knew how to reverse the process of course and immediatly tried, not knowing the Weave had been destroyed. Seeing his love dying before him and unable to heal her he worked with her to transfer her brain into a clockwork contraption that she had invented.
It was not his area of expertiese and even though he could communicate with her, there were certain portions of her mind that she could no longer access. She still had an amazing intellect for invetntions and mechancial devices but she no longer knew who he was or anything about thier relationship or for that matter any of her past history. She had no real emotions, only intellect.
They had yet to marry and Niptu was driven mad by the experience. Everything in his life had come to an end. His love, his passion, his greatness, wiped out in an instance along with his physical good looks. Niptu resolved to find a way to restore magic to the world, but it wasn't for the pruposes that he made everyone think. It was to restore the body of his love.
Eventually Niptu did succeed in the utiliztion of magic during the spellplague. Although few really undesrstood that the process requried the blood of Fey creatures. He couldn't restore the one thing he desired most and it drove him further to madness and darkness. Abigale's mother knew what happend and she never blamed Niptu but seeing what Niptu had become she feared what he would do with Abigale's mind, so she took it. Abigale was never seen again.
As for the necrotic device, Abigales mother learned that Niptu had "improved the device" but as she had wrote in her journal, "the deivce was evil and did unnatural things." She hired a band of thieves to steal the device and hide it in a cavern where it could never be found. For years it was thought to be in the nameless dungeon under Hellgate keep but I belive it's in the Endless Caverns protected by thousands of undead dwarves.
Abigale was a half elf half fire Genasi and as such had incredible magical powers and was unusually smart. Abigale met Niptu at Candlekeep around 1330 and they fell in love. The two of them developed spells that were never heard of before. She had an engineering mind that surpassed the best artificers in all of Toril and Niptu was quickly becoming the greatest wizard ever.
The Spellplauge occured in 1335 DR - 1345DR. Just over 200 years ago.
Niptu and Abigale were working on a new device that could channel necrotic magic when the spellplague hit. The device went off as blue flames shot over their lab. It affected both Niptu and Abigale. Niptu was badly sacarred but it was Abigale's body that was hit with the majority of the powerful necrotic spell that would prove fatal. Niptu knew how to reverse the process of course and immediatly tried, not knowing the Weave had been destroyed. Seeing his love dying before him and unable to heal her he worked with her to transfer her brain into a clockwork contraption that she had invented.
It was not his area of expertiese and even though he could communicate with her, there were certain portions of her mind that she could no longer access. She still had an amazing intellect for invetntions and mechancial devices but she no longer knew who he was or anything about thier relationship or for that matter any of her past history. She had no real emotions, only intellect.
They had yet to marry and Niptu was driven mad by the experience. Everything in his life had come to an end. His love, his passion, his greatness, wiped out in an instance along with his physical good looks. Niptu resolved to find a way to restore magic to the world, but it wasn't for the pruposes that he made everyone think. It was to restore the body of his love.
Eventually Niptu did succeed in the utiliztion of magic during the spellplague. Although few really undesrstood that the process requried the blood of Fey creatures. He couldn't restore the one thing he desired most and it drove him further to madness and darkness. Abigale's mother knew what happend and she never blamed Niptu but seeing what Niptu had become she feared what he would do with Abigale's mind, so she took it. Abigale was never seen again.
As for the necrotic device, Abigales mother learned that Niptu had "improved the device" but as she had wrote in her journal, "the deivce was evil and did unnatural things." She hired a band of thieves to steal the device and hide it in a cavern where it could never be found. For years it was thought to be in the nameless dungeon under Hellgate keep but I belive it's in the Endless Caverns protected by thousands of undead dwarves.
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