Jefan ir'Gannik

The first manifest spellshaper was Jefan ir’Gannik, a respected member of the Arcane Congress whose explorations of the planes and their movements earned him a well-deserved reputation as one of the Congress’s top scholars in the years before the Last War. However, as Jefan learned further planar secrets, he decided that what he had learned was too important or too dangerous to remain within the Arcane Congress. Taking his disciples with him, he fled the Floating Towers. The remaining spellshapers tell various stories about the exact reasons for his departure. Some say that he learned of a plot on his life. Others claim that he uncovered a plot to assassinate King Jarot and plunge the world into war, and a few whisper that his psychic explorations of Dal Quor left him utterly mad. Whatever the cause, Jefan’s break with the Arcane Congress was complete and irrevocable. Over the next two decades, as the disciples of Jefan scattered across Khorvaire, the agents of the Arcane Congress hunted down every one, killing or imprisoning them all. Jefan ir’Gannik was never caught. If he is still alive, he is a very ancient human, for he was already old when he left the Floating Towers. Yet legends told among the remaining manifest spellshapers—all of whom are students of the original cabal members, or of their students—claim that he remains alive, thanks to some deep mastery of the secrets of Thelanis.