Kristoffe Rhodes

The younger brother of Baldridge's beloved enchanter, Kristoffe Rhodes was a prominent and successful practitioner of magic in a variety of its forms. Fully devoted to the intersection of the material and the spiritual, Kristoffe also had a leaning towards alchemy and how it corresponded to magic and life.

A prominent instructor at the Mage's Tower in Colchester, he eventually became the Head of the Arcane University due to his talent as an instructor and skill as an academic.

Eventually, Kristoffe's quest for knowledge took him too far. Stumbling upon the out-of-the-way Cromwell household, Kristoffe found subjects to test his experiments on the material of the soul and ended up binding his fate to Aster's sister. Catching the alchemist mid-ritual, Aster took matters into his own hands as well as the lives of both his sister and Kristoffe.

Burying his family and their murderer, Aster set out away from the estate and set his sights toward Mournstead. However, he was not the last person to visit the ransacked Cromwell household. The drow witch, Lorelei Brynen, somehow resurrected the mad alchemist and drove him to assemble a group of poachers and bandits known as the Ravagers. Using the animals, magic creatures, and druids that were captured, Kristoffe began vivisecting them into abominations known as morphs and set them loose into the wild.

Eventually having his hillside lair found out by the party, Kristoffe once again faced off with Aster Cromwell but this time with the added help of his prototype morph: Aster's sister. After an arduous battle, Kristoffe's soul was discovered to be tethered to the young Cromwell girl and could only be severed by magic, killing them both. The party took the magic daggers being wielded by the girl and put an end to Kristoffe's machinations and soul with one fell stroke.