Galvan Alizeh

Galvan was born to a minor noble house in Eltabbar, capital of Thay, where ambition outweighed oxygen. Enrolled as an apprentice of necromancy at a young age, he excelled in magical theory but repeatedly clashed with his superiors, particularly with Archmage Varnazek of the Bone Spire, whose corpse Galvan is rumored to have animated in mockery.

After publicly denouncing the Zulkirs as "regressive and inefficient," he was stripped of his rank and exiled under sentence of death. But exile only emboldened him. He wandered westward, gathering occult knowledge, growing ever more obsessed with power—not for its own sake, but for what it represented.

He joined the Cult of the Dragon after overhearing a revised prophecy in a Baldur’s Gate tavern, allegedly laughing aloud and saying:

“Yes. That’s the better draft.”

Severin saw in Galvan not just magical potential, but clarity of purpose. He granted him the Blue Mask of Pride early in the reformation and gave him command over the Eastern Front, including:

• Skyreach Castle, the floating fortress powered by ancient draconic magic
• The Thayan cell, consisting of Red Wizard defectors and Galvan loyalists
• Cult propaganda networks, disseminating false visions of the Five Guys' deeds

Galvan believed the Cult needed less devotion and more efficiency. He personally penned several of the Cult’s “new doctrines,” notably the Fivefold Accord, which outlined how dragons would rule under Tiamat’s shadow.

To his subordinates, Galvan was the voice of confidence. To his peers, a coiled viper. To Tiamat, it’s said, he was a useful distraction.

The Five Guys, desperate to undermine the Cult’s unity, sought to turn Galvan. At the suggestion of Enna Baenre, a meeting was arranged in Thay, wherein the adventurers, Enna, and Galvan shared one of the most tense and enigmatic moments of the war.

Galvan listened, smiled, and refused.

“You mistake me for Severin’s creature. I am my own god, and she rides behind me.”

Despite rebuffing the offer, Galvan’s pride was pricked by the meeting. He escalated the war effort, pouring his personal forces into the Skyreach initiative and leading several coordinated counter-intelligence strikes against the Harper network.

Galvan’s presence at the Well of Dragons was not ceremonial. He personally commanded a legion of undead and arcane elites during the final battle, his mask blazing with divine energy. There, he faced his counterpart: Smoke in the Wind, the Silver Wyrmspeaker.

Their battle was as much verbal as magical—Smoke’s irreverent mockery clashing with Galvan’s poisonous certainty. As the dragons above battled and the sky tore open with divine energy, Galvan was pierced by a spectral blade, his soul briefly visible as it refused to submit even in death.

His body was incinerated by blue lightning. His mask, cracked in half, turned to glass.

Galvan Alizeh remains the most studied of the Wyrmspeakers by arcane scholars. His reworked doctrines are still whispered in forbidden halls, and some believe his contingency plans may still be in motion—particularly in the necromantic tomb-cities of Thaymount.

No body was recovered. No phylactery confirmed. Only a smirk, burned into the minds of those who saw him die.

“Galvan mistook clarity for righteousness. His sin was not that he sought power—but that he could not imagine being wrong. Of all the Wyrmspeakers, he may have been the most ‘mortal.’ That is what made him dangerous. And why, in death, he still might win.”