Mawn Pretagorus

Mawn Pretagorus was a necromancer who dwelled in Divil's Lane in Blackhaven in Gallantaria, shortly after the end of the War of the Four Kingdoms.

Despite his profession, he gave little indication of being a genuinely Evil Man, but more one who has sacrificed much to pursue interests typically seen as supremely dangerous and worrying. The street Pretagorous dwelled in, Divil's Lane, was located "beneath a permanent veil of mist." His home, much like himself, was incredibly eerie. Pretagorus' house appeared fashioned out of constantly shifting angles, had a central room shrouded in near-total darkness, and possessed a portal (called the Door Beyond) directly to the hellish dimension called the Necrotic Wilderness of Q'yann.

Professor Van Heldenghast knew of Pretagorus, and advised those seeking magical assistance to seek out the necromancer. Pretagorus was of great assistance to a bounty hunter seeking Karam Gruul, by utilising the occult energies he was familiar with to release the true power of a Hand of Glory - originally just the wooden hand of a convicted criminal - and make it into a true Ward of Notura. This allowed the bounty hunter to avoid Gruul's attempt to transform him into a mindless beast by means of a hypnotic implant powered by the dark art of Notura.

Rough Guide to the Pit states that as of 284 AC, Pretagorus' "abode and sanctum lie in ruins beneath the Blackhaven slums." Pretagorus' ultimate fate is unknown.

Further Notes

• Recent, rumours have spread across the northern Old World that an occultist "has finally discovered some of Mawn Pretoragus's research and is planning to open a portal to Q'Yann again."