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Keothi Diram

## ✦ Keothi Diram, the Shardbinder.

» Credited with the creation of a new breed of golems for use in the war. The technology behind them is said to have been lost, but others claim it was stolen and refined by the first creators of Warforged.
» Credited with the creation of what would become the basis for most Summon X spells.

Keothi is said to have died of natural causes nearing the end of the Draconic Wars.

#alex: Curious how the timeline sort of overlaps with Bluetrench's founding. Diram disappeared in the 87th year, Bluetrench was founded in the 84th.

With that baller history check, Riga knows that each member of the Council of Threadbearers was known for mastery over two schools of magic

Keothi's masteries were over Conjuration and Necromancy

#alex 10/7/25: Confirmed via Owner Visage to have crafted Azzrukhan's core. See Planar Binding Fiend Core

[History 32 - Critical Success]

Regarding Keothi Diram, Riga digs through a series of books for answers and information on the wizard. She jumps from diaries of supposed apprentices, to recovered biographical annotation, observations from enemy generals, takedown attempts by fellow wizards, to even records of the wars.

Keothi is said to be a second-generation Material-born Genasi, his grandparents having migrated in the past century. Born approximately 25 years before the Draconic Wars to a growing small clan of Genasi in the borders of Jurdea's north. He earned the name Shardbound upon discovering a crystal on a river's shore, which he later recounts as being a particularly refined piece of Filocite He grew paler after that point, whether due to the crystal or his biology manifesting.

By age twenty, Keothi had bounced between several apprenticeships, until finally landing under the care of a wizard particularly interested in planar energies. It was under him that he first experimenting with binding elemental essences into stone and metal. His first breakthrough, which got him closer to those who would later lead the Wizards into the beginnings of the Draconic Wars, was a prototype animated golem that could be controlled in accordance to which pre-programmed crystal was slotted into its back.

Halfway through the Draconic Wars, during the Conflict of the Twenty Isles, Keothi unveiled his first truly War-Ready Constructs. Wrought in crystal, rock, earth, and metal, they laid waste to the Triton resistance, ensuring the Wizards' dominance over that sector of Jurdea's Northeastern border.

While some suggest his methods were stolen to be later refined into Warforged, Riga curiously finds that Keothi never patented or described his methods in any official manner.

Keothi's magic drew on the life-binding aspects of Necromancy, utilizing his Conjuration to bring forth energies that he would later bind to prepared physical objects, some of which he was known to keep in personal demi planes similarly to Bags of Holding.

He is the author of the book series "On the Unmixed Realms and their Fickle Gateways: The Material's Unrefined Ore", a very well regarded book on Elemental summoning and general delve into the four main Elemental Planes and their intermixing borders.

It is said Keothi developed a spell to summon even Elemental Titans, or a creature that fused the Four main elements, but such spells are lost to history.

In the 87th year of the Draconic Wars, Diram vanished from his Academy, leaving no true heir but more than one appointment to his chair as the Dean. Some say he transcended the Material, never to interact with it again. Others whisper he tried to meddle with the Far Realm and paid the price.

Riga finds a magical image depicting his final lecture, and just by looking at it, Riga can tell the man enjoyed his theatrics in spite of the stalwart image.

One thing catches Riga, throughout all of this research. Fiends. The Lower Planes were not known until the end of the Draconic Wars, when the Princes and Lords revealed themselves to the Gods alongside Celestials. How did Keothi bind fiends to elemental statues? If he summoned something that none knew existed, was he in part responsible for their nature? Did he force their hand, create a feud?