Keynauth

Keynauth is the oldest living wizard, and he is likely the most powerful wizard ever to have lived. He is kind of heart and very wise.

He was present when Mesk tried to resurrect magic in Yushen a thousand years before. He was one of many who had banished Mesk from the land, and his wife received the full brunt of the spell that Mesk cast before he died. Due to the spell, Keynauth's wife gave birth to the first child to carry the Seed of magic in over one thousand years. His wife died on the table. Keynauth, hoping to save his son from a life of torment and persecution, took his son's life. In so doing, all of the knowledge of magically immediately flooded him. He told everyone that his child would not be the only one born with the Seed of magic. He further explained that anyone that took their child's life would inherit the Seed of magic.

As a personal penance for having killed his own son--even though he believed it an act of mercy--Keynauth left Yushen and traveled north. He instructed the elders to bring him all the children born of the Seed and he would raise them until he died. He had no idea that he would become their eternal overseer at the time.

His original name was Dirgo.