08-07-2025, 08:16 PM
This was Rast.
He was a human wizard with divination specialty. In my head he was previously a Red wizard of Thay who went searching for immortality. He encountered a witch or hag who cursed him with weakness of body and old age, which is why he's wrinkled with white hair and had a strength of like 8.
![[Image: 61312504-b277-4385-80da-cfc606135647.jpeg]](https://thefirstage.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/61312504-b277-4385-80da-cfc606135647.jpeg)
![[Image: fca5393e-b722-44cd-9ed5-35127e4ad11e-scaled.jpeg]](https://thefirstage.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/fca5393e-b722-44cd-9ed5-35127e4ad11e-scaled.jpeg)
In the end, he was power hungry. He aligned with everyone to get what he wanted then betrayed them all in the end to become the Absolute. He never romanced everyone because who needs love when power is so much better. He did manipulate Shadowheart into killing the Nightsong as well as helped Astarion Ascend. He told Gale he'd give him the Crown but lied in the end. He happily knife'd the emperor and said in the moment: "Bet you didn't know I was gonna do that, did yah, bitch."
After the game progressed and he entered Act 3, using the astral tadpole, he got a darker makeover as his body was slowly failing. Hence his desperation for more power.
![[Image: Rast-dark.png]](https://thefirstage.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Rast-dark.png)
In the end, he became the Absolute but was unable to resist ceremorphosis and ended up a mind flayer anyway. He's not mad about it.
He was a human wizard with divination specialty. In my head he was previously a Red wizard of Thay who went searching for immortality. He encountered a witch or hag who cursed him with weakness of body and old age, which is why he's wrinkled with white hair and had a strength of like 8.
In the end, he was power hungry. He aligned with everyone to get what he wanted then betrayed them all in the end to become the Absolute. He never romanced everyone because who needs love when power is so much better. He did manipulate Shadowheart into killing the Nightsong as well as helped Astarion Ascend. He told Gale he'd give him the Crown but lied in the end. He happily knife'd the emperor and said in the moment: "Bet you didn't know I was gonna do that, did yah, bitch."
After the game progressed and he entered Act 3, using the astral tadpole, he got a darker makeover as his body was slowly failing. Hence his desperation for more power.
In the end, he became the Absolute but was unable to resist ceremorphosis and ended up a mind flayer anyway. He's not mad about it.