Poena the Crazed

Poena Juvala, known later as Poena the Crazed, was a cleric from Iodunnum. At the age of 50, 550 years after the Immortal Wars, she volunteered to help the victorious Critines write the tome which would banish all magic from the world. It would prevent the claiming of souls for immortal arcane magic. She was a selfless decision, since it was known the repercussions on whoever recited the invocation to enact it. She had been a leader among the Critine clergy. She wrote the Codex Against Desecration, which prevents the aquisition of all magic. However, before she could finish writing, banning all magica, she is corrupted by it. The Codex was the only barrier which saved the souls from the world; whoever is its guardian delves into insanity, feeling the immense weight of the burden.The magika imbued in it is the result of the most self-inflicting kind, causing great harm to whoever says the incantiaion aloud, and causes protection from mortal death (except violence), and leads to meglomania. As a result, Poena goes insane. She is corrupted by it's power.

Determined to be it's soul owner, Poena steals the tome. Stealing a small boat, she sails into the Sea of Glass. She ends up on the island of Leune . Avoiding the local nord population and killing those who got in her way, she made her way to the volcano Magna. She resided there for 550 years. Her complexion becomes a withered husk of what it had been. She now has dirty, soot-stained grayed hair and wears ragged cloth clothes. Her hazel eyes have gone red.

During this time, guided by her meglomania, she creates a second, more powerful copy of her tome, the Fragments on Divination. This would limit the magical power to just the wielder, giving complete immortality, and this tome was indestuctible. She remained through the Critine colonization of the island for 50 years. Rumors of her existence leak to Comodus . She is hunted down by Modgud Ashborne. Once Commodus destroys the Codex, Poena begins to wither away. Modgud kills Poena before her life is ended naturally.

Poena's Fragments on Divination were not discovered by Commodus, but instead by Hilmar . They are the key to stopping Commodus. Commodus tries to track down Hilmar to destroy the fragments, while Hilmar must find the mage from Poena's journals and ramblings.