About Zathiel
Come, child, and I will tell you the tale of Zathiel, the Preserver.
He was a trusted servant of the gods, tasked with preserving the knowledge of the ages. It is said that, by the intervention of Zathiel, the Grand Library stood proud and alone after the fall of Korrikos. All written word was sacred to him, and those who sought to destroy it would be punished as blasphemers.
But Zathiel was proud, and refused to allow others to assist him in his duty. Even when the barbarous hordes conquered the city of scholars, it was his stubborn belief that he alone could save the wisdom held therein. Yet, all too soon, he was proven wrong.
Every man, woman and child in the city fell that day. It is said, that, in the carnage, Zathiel became lost, twisted, perhaps even wicked. He consumed every written record he could find, believing that no knowledge would be safe again unless it was contained within his mind, and nowhere else. Even the name of that once-great city was lost to us, kept only within the winding halls of Zathiel's vast memory.
However, before he could continue his rampage, and take every store of knowledge in the world for himself, the gods intervened, and Zathiel was cast down. He was stripped of his title, and deemed Zathiel the Fallen.
