Darna

Darna was a human warlock from the plane of Revio. For many years, Darna was the second in commander to King Roland of Alratha, who tasked him with the creation of an army of the undead. Darna spent years working on this task, until his success lead him to be exiled from the kingdom. Now on his own, he sought to continue his research and use the army to get his revenge.

Background
Over ten years before the events of Riddles of Revio, Darna was the first to understand the inevitable coming of a second Great Calamity. When he informed Roland, the King of Alratha, of this news, the King declared that Darna would be in charge of determining a way to prevent the Calamity from occurring. Darna's mind turned to his powers of necromancy, and sought to use an army of the undead to protect the city from whatever danger was coming their way. However, in order to have enough bodies to test on, Darna would have to do the unthinkable. At the command of the king, Darna organized the execution of over one hundred criminals and experimented on their corpses in pursuit of a duneborn army.

When this heinous act failed to yield the results the King wanted, Darna was exiled, and Roland denied ever knowing of the warlocks actions. Darna then set up a base in the darklands of Qalam, where he would be able to use the abundance of ruins to fuel his new schemes: His revenge on King Roland.

Riddles of Revio
By the time the second Great Calamity was on the horizon, Darna was ready. He had finished his masterwork of necromancy, The Duneborn host. Fully sapient and bent only on destruction, Darna, the Host, and an army of duneborn marched towards Alratha. However, the prince of the Cieldanans, Dthan, was caught in the crossfire. Having just allied with Reytha, Tara, and Belle to find Sethis, Dthan broke off from the group in order to put a stop to the army and its leaders.

Dthan ultimately was far more merciless than any from Alratha would have been. He used his fighting prowess to quickly end the Host's undeath, and put the dark warlock to death for his crimes. With their masters vanquished, the army of duneborn fell to disarray and made no more progress towards the city.

Magic
Darna's skills as a warlock come from experience having studied at the Maktali library for over a decade. He used his necromancy to raise decayed duneborn from the ground to serve at his command, but his greatest work was in [[The Duneborn Host], a fully sapient and intelligent duneborn that was engineered to think only of destruction.