Hallorek the Black

Hallorek the Black is a Cyran sorcerer and retired military officer now living in New Cyre in Breland . He is the last of Cyre's Sorcerer-Generals, but is believed to be dying. [1]

Description

Hallorek is now 92 years old. [1]

Relationships

He has a number of cousins, including Chenni Nilsanza . [1]

History

…no damn good in a siege, unless it lasts long enough that you have to eat the horses.
— Hallorek the Black on the use of cavalry [1]

Hallorek was seen as an expert in siege warfare during the Last War , both in laying a siege and in defending against one. He used his own great magic to augment the siege engines under his command when Cyran forces were making incursions into Karrnath in the 960s YK. He refused to ride a mount like other officers, preferring to simply fly under his own power. [1]

On the Day of Mourning in 994 YK , Hallorek was stationed just a few miles outside the edge of the Mourning , and hence was an eyewitness to the destruction of his homeland. Shortly after, he resigned his commission, in letter that also powerfully described the firestorms. This was later reprinted as a handbill and distributed in Cyran refugee camps across Khorvaire . [1]

… my countrymen, bound forever by memory and tears.
— Hallorek on his fellow displaced Cyrans [1]

Thereafter, Hallorek helped out in many of those camps, by using his magic to erect shelters for refugees and alleviate their suffering in any other way he could. He settled in the greatest of these camps, New Cyre. [1]

Finally, having survived the Last War and the Mourning, it is a mundane horse-riding accident in 998 YK that threatens to see off the great Sorcerer-General, having left him mortally injured. Although healers were summoned from the closest temple to the Sovereign Host , their healing magic has been ineffective because of his advanced years. Family members, fearing "the end is near", now come to say farewells, and Chenni was interviewed on the matter in the Nymm 8 th Sharn Inquisitive . Though Hallorek sleeps much of the time, when awake he is quite lucid and in good humor. After regaining consciousness following his fall, he remarked on the irony of during in an equestrian accident and said he was surprised to find he was still alive. [1]

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