Meldrath: The Marvelous  

 

After his seperation with his evil conjoined twin, the good Meldrath ascended into the planes. What deity is responsible for his ascension is unknown, but most attribute the act to Bristlebane Fizzlethorpe, the deity that provided Meldrath's mother with the means to seperate her sons.
A demi-plane came into existence as the good Meldrath ascended to the realms of the gods. This young demi-plane, the Plane of Innovation, was ideally suited for the purest and brightest of any gnome to ever walk the face of Norrath, and its ruler was to be Meldrath the Marvelous.

Meldrath matured from his childhood in his new home surrounded by clockwork companions of his own design and an endless stockpile of supplies for which to tinker marvels never before imagined by mortal or god. For decades Meldrath the Marvelous tirelessly planned and constructed his mechanical marvels while his brother, Meldrath the Malignant, honed his magical abilities on Norrath and sought the whereabouts of his lost "perfect" sibling.

Eventually through his intensive study and mastery of spells dealing with teleportation, translocation, and the planes, Meldrath the Malignant discovered what had become of his lost brother. The rage and hatred that festered in Meldrath the Malignant's black heart overcame him and he was driven mad with jealousy and a desire to best his "perfect" brother that had been gifted as a child with immortality.

While his brother was gifted with an amazing mind for logic, reason, and invention, Meldrath the Malignant was gifted, or some would say cursed, with passion, a thirst for power, and a talent for the magical arts. It was not long before he found a way to penetrate the barrier between worlds and enter the Plane of Innovation to seek his revenge. Meldrath the Malignant quietly performed a ritual in the confines of his study at the Library Mechanamagica and unbeknownst to the Eldritch Collective or his own pupils, transported himself to the Plane of Innovation.

Cloaked in magical darkness and silence, Meldrath the Malignant slipped past the clockwork guards and alarm systems with ease, not realizing the he surely would have been detected if not for his resemblance to his goodly brother, the clockworks did not recognize the look of hatred in the evil Meldraths eyes or see deep enough to notice his sickly black heart. Thus Meldrath the Malignant moved unhindered through the Plane of Innovation, sabotaging the creations of Meldrath the Marvelous and stealing many of his diagrams and plans for mechanical constructs.

When his work was done, Meldrath the Malignant hastily retreated from the Plane of Innovation but by some mishap of his teleportation spell, ended up in a place called New Tanaan. The planar city baffled the already mad gnome so he stuck to the shadows cloaked again in magical darkness and silence. Huddled quietly out of sight, Meldrath the Malignant observed magic the likes of which he had never seen, and thus immediately desired to possess it.

Stealing a magical tome and the reagents necessary for his teleportation spell from a Teir'Dal inhabitant of New Tanaan, Meldrath once again performed his ritual to return home and this time suceeded in arriving at his study in Ak'Anon.

In order to prevent his fellow sorcerers of the Eldritch Collective from discovering his pilfered clockwork diagrams and Teir'Dal tome, Meldrath the Malignant gathered his most prized possessions from his study and snuck deep into the mines beneath Ak'Anon to study the tome that would bring the secrets of the dark arts of Necromancy to the Gnomes of Ak'Anon.

After his brother's retreat from the Plane of Innovation, it quickly became apparent to Meldrath the Marvelous that something was amiss. Meldrath hastily attempted to undo the damage that had been wrought but was overcome by the sabotaged machinations and imprisoned by his own creations. It is in this prison within the plane of his own design where Meldrath the Marvelous remains in captivity