Nurizak¶
Contested
Named in the open question Nurizak's machines. The newest notes (S339) and the campaign threads (S329) name four machines; Drazannak's account (S340, repeated in S341) says three. This page follows the four.
Nurizak was a dwarven engineer of the Order of Valyr who built the great essence-harvesting machines of the Demonlands, living structures of flesh that "feed off the rift." Two of them became demons of the first rank: Daennelgin, who rebelled and killed him, and Drazannak, whom Daennelgin buried. He is dead, and his notes are the most wanted papers in the Demonlands.
Work¶
He "created the four machines in order": Urzaennel, the prototype; Daennelgin; Drazannak; and Vorlannem. He is called "Master of Daennelgin & Drazzanak", and to Drazannak he is "his master", for whom the machine was "collecting essence for 'the project'." The machines are described with the constructs. His notes record the method, and Demonite, "Mithis-metal", is named beside them; Daennelgin says of the designs, "You know who made these designs? The Valyr."
Laboratory¶
His secret laboratory was an abandoned dwarven garrison on the Dwarven Roads, beneath the Demonlands, described on the Demonlands page. It holds a teleportation circle, Warden equipment and circles, and "living tissue … an active essence containment matrix of some kind", old but stable. A sealed inner room holds "desk, papers and an old desiccated corpse", "dead a decade at least, maybe more", with "no demonic corruption present." The door "was once held by magic, but is no longer potent (as Sareth Kain is dead)."
Death¶
"Daennelgin rebelled, killing him and destroying Vorlannem while yet unfinished." Daennelgin now wants Nurizak's notes "badly", and the covenant he offered the player demons of the Demonlands Mini Campaign bound them to hand over "any and all discoveries" of Nurizak's work on Drazannak or Daennelgin and to make no copies.
Gap
No source says when Nurizak worked or died, what "the project" was for, or whether the corpse in his sealed room is his own.
Sareth Kain¶
A Warden-Marshal of the Order of Valyr, a wizard, and Nurizak's partner. The magic that held the laboratory door and "several dead demonic wards" failed with his death. How he died is not said.
Urzaennel¶
The first of Nurizak's machines, "the prototype." Nothing is said of its fate; Drazannak "is not certain what became of" the machines before him.
Vorlannem¶
The last of Nurizak's machines, destroyed by Daennelgin "while yet unfinished" when he rebelled. Drazannak believes Daennelgin destroyed it "in the mistaken belief there were only 2."