Editing Darklord (section)

==Hazlik==
Darklord of Hazlan. A gay [[Forgotten Realms|Red Wizard of Thay]] who was publicly humiliated and stripped of his status by his female rival and her boyfriend, the latter of which he lusted after. As revenge, he murdered the guy, made his girlfriend eat his corpse, then tortured her to death as well, at which time he was then swept up by the mists. His curse is to suffer from nightmares of his now-inaccessible rivals defeating him with impunity and generally humiliating him every night, which has made him even more fixated on getting revenge against the Red Wizards. So he's crafting plans to cast a spell that will genocide all members of his race, the Mulan, throughout the multiverse. To escape being killed by said genocide spell himself, he's prepared to bodysnatch his female Rashemani apprentice when he's ready to use it.
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===5e===
The 5e version retcons him quite a bit. Once an ambitious Red Wizard with a habit of horribly scarring his rivals, Hazlik came to believe that his lover/rival, a man named Indreficus, was planning to betray him. In retribution, he captured Indreficus and subjected him to a nightmarish experiment that left him permanently transformed into a pain-wracked living portal. Hazlik presented what had become of his former lover as to the zulkirs with hopes to impress them, only to be told Indreficus did not betray him and he had merely been manipulated by the zulkirs into thinking so as a way to halt the ambitious pair's ascent. They then declared Hazlik’s transformation of Indreficus an abomination, and that as punishment, every rival Hazlik had defeated could exact a penance of their choosing upon him. In desperation, Hazlik fled through the twisted portal that had been Indreficus and found himself in the demiplane of dread, where he eventually found his way to a realm that knew nothing of magic.

As well as his old nightmares (which are now of Indreficus taunting him for his failures), he also has a new curse borrowed from the now-absent Azalin Rex, making him unable to learn any new magic. On top of no longer being able to advance the magical research that used to drive his life, he's also absolutely terrified that anyone will learn of his limitations.

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