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Nago casts Strength Drain at Owyn during battle.
Nago is a moredhel spellcaster in Betrayal at Krondor. He was known as the most powerful of the moredhel sorcerers who served Delekhan before the coming of the Six.
Description[]
Nago's reputation as a formidible sorcerer is widespread. When he appears, the party views him as more finely dressed than the other assassins who accompany him. Unlike any other moredhel spellcaster, he wears a lavender purple cloak instead of a yellow one.
He carries 50 sovereigns, a suit of Standard Kingdom Armor, a Two-Handed Broadsword, a +5 Althafain's Icer, and a fawning Note from Fedrayh, addressing him as "Master."
In Battle[]
Unusually for a spellcaster, Nago is immune to Thoughts Like Clouds.[1] During combat, he prioritizes evasion from party members' proximity so that he can cast spells.
Overview[]
Nago was a key player in Delekhan's attempt to prevent Gorath from reaching Krondor. At his direction, Fedreyh oversaw the placement in certain chests of false notes about a potential attack south of Tanneurs, with intent to steer the party into a trap.
Traveling south with a number of military compatriots, Nago arranged a billeting place in the barn on Farmer Rowe's farm, waiting there with three moredhel assassins to ambush the party if they choose to investigate it. While there, Nago remained in remote contact with Delekhan through mind speech, severely disrupting the sleep of the priests in the Temple of Sung for many weeks. They also troubled the slumbers of Brother Marc at Sarth, who attributed the disturbances to some acolyte trying his hand at dream-sendings. While the images were too disjointed for Marc to deduce their purpose, he deduced from their strength that the culprit was fairly nearby, and would later find Gorath familiar because the sendings included his face.
Chapter 1-3[]
As the party travels south, they become increasingly suspicious that their movements are being reported telepathically between Delekhan and sorcerous spies within the Kingdom. These suspicions are bolstered by reports of the dream-sendings plaguing Sarth and the Temple of Sung. If they take the King's Highway southward from Questor's View, they encounter Farmer Rowe and can choose whether to accept his offer to shelter in his barn from an incipient storm, a service for which he requests a fee, though they can learn later that the weather-workers at Sarth have foreseen no problems with the weather.
When the party interacts with Rowe's barn, the air shimmers and Nago appears, shouting a challenge at Gorath and attacking along with three moredhel warriors. Gorath, recognizing him, coldly warns the party not to underestimate his magical powers as the battle is engaged.
Interacting with the barn after the battle, Locklear speculates that Rowe was paid to set them up for the attack, and swears to take it out on his hide if they ever meet again.
Although the party can bypass an encounter with Nago by avoiding the barn, defeating him ends the agonies inadvertently visited upon the Temple of Sung and restores the Temple's Teleportation and Cure services.
Chapter 4[]
After a mysterious spell unlocks the party's cell in the Sar-Sargoth Dungeons and they emerge to find their guards absent, Gorath speculates that the guards must have been sent to find Nago, who could cause Delekhan trouble if he decided to withdraw support for the planned invasion. Gorath also notes that Narab, as the brother of a powerful sorcerer, could possess enough of "the old talent" to have magically unlocked their cell as a distraction from his own escape.
Chapter 5[]
A moredhel at Raglam's Hobble struggles to remember the name of Narab's brother, finally asking if Nago hired the party as mercenaries.
Epilogue[]
Narab, silently reflecting on the hated rivals and enemies whom he has outlived, lists his brother Nago.
Trivia[]
- References to Nago in Chapter 4 and onward occur even if the party killed Nago in Chapters 1-3.
- Nago's lavender cloak is the only instance in which a moredhel wears a cloak of the same color seen in preexisting moredhel bodies.
- The party can only ask Isaac about mind-readers, opening a dialog about his pokiir game with Devon, before they defeat Nago. If they kill Nago without learning about the pokiir game, they cannot later play pokiir or learn self-defense from Devon.
References[]
- ↑ Spells - Hags, Goblins, Rogues & Nago at dimwood.net