Bognor of Barth

is considered one of the greatest, , and s of the  who dwelled in the. Bognor and his household were destroyed by one of his experiments, providing the with a teaching parable known as “Bognor’s Folly.”

Background
Bognor had been an and  in his youth prior to his being taken into the  by a wandering  in the 670s. Bognor had a deep knowledge of Fyvrian lore and an almost uncanny knowledge of plants and animals. In his twenties he became one of the youngest mages in to achieve the rank of.

He was known for having a terrible temper and stubborn pride. After a long series of personal conflicts with other mages he stormed from his chancery, vowing never to return, and disappeared for five years. Rumor suggests that Bognor traveled widely during this period, perhaps even to the furthest reaches of eastern. By 690 he returned to, but soon vanished again, this time to the north of.

Bognor settled in the and lived in a small abandoned tower on an isolated tidewater island. There, he was free to conduct research and live free of the disputes that had so marred his career. His servants were few and Bognor, with the aid of powerful enchantments, discouraged visitors from disturbing his peace.

Bognor was a master in all aspects of Fyvrian lore, but he seemed to delight most in enchantments that dealt with plants, and particularly with accelerating their growth to monstrous sizes. Unrestrained by his peers, he begun to dabble in powerful arts far beyond his capacity to understand, much less control.

In 696, one of Bognor’s servants appeared at the gates of castle; he was raving, almost incoherent, and in a deep state of shock. Although he was eventually nursed back to health, if questioned about his master, his eyes would flash with fear, and he would ramble on about “horrific plants”, “putrid doom”, and “wretched death”. Obviously, something momentous had happened to Bognor and his household.

In 702, and again in 705, parties of adventurers set across the marshes in search of Bognor’s famed tower. The first apparently could not find it, while the second disappeared, possibly as a result of bandits and brigands hiding in the bogs during the time of the. To this date, neither Bognor’s fate, nor the exact location of his tower, have been discovered.

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