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=== Background === | === Background === | ||
Risen from the grave a hundred years after the events that lead to his downfall, Thorm serves as the main antagonist of Act 2 of the game, being introduced during Act 1 through dialogue and in-game notes first. As the party searches for ways to cure their tadpole situation, many clues point towards Moonrise Towers and Ketheric himself and the party is ultimately tasked with bringing Ketheric down in order to rid the Shadowlands from its curse. | Risen from the grave a hundred years after the events that lead to his downfall, Kethric Thorm serves as the main antagonist of Act 2 of the game, being introduced during Act 1 through dialogue and in-game notes first. As the party searches for ways to cure their tadpole situation, many clues point towards Moonrise Towers and Ketheric himself and the party is ultimately tasked with bringing Ketheric down in order to rid the Shadowlands from its curse. | ||
By exploring Moonrise Towers, through subsequent battle with him, and later exploring the [[Mind Flayer Colony|Illithid colony]] under the stronghold, the party discovers there is an elaborate conspiracy behind the tadpoles in their heads. Ketheric's alliance with {{CharLink|Enver Gortash}} and {{CharLink|Orin|Orin the Red}} is also exposed, along with his plans to secure [[Gortash's Netherstone|all]] [[Orin's Netherstone|three]] [[Ketheric's Netherstone|Netherstones]] for himself {{ref|{{SmRarityItem|Elder Brain Domination}} found underneath the floorboards by the bed in Kethric Thorm's quarters.}} . Also in the process of the fight against him, it's revealed it was {{CharLink|Myrkul}} that brought Ketheric back from the dead. With Thorm dead, the party now have one of the Netherstones that power the trio, and the clues to their next destination: Baldur's Gate. | By exploring Moonrise Towers, through subsequent battle with him, and later exploring the [[Mind Flayer Colony|Illithid colony]] under the stronghold, the party discovers there is an elaborate conspiracy behind the tadpoles in their heads. Ketheric's alliance with {{CharLink|Enver Gortash}} and {{CharLink|Orin|Orin the Red}} is also exposed, along with his plans to secure [[Gortash's Netherstone|all]] [[Orin's Netherstone|three]] [[Ketheric's Netherstone|Netherstones]] for himself {{ref|{{SmRarityItem|Elder Brain Domination}} found underneath the floorboards by the bed in Kethric Thorm's quarters.}} . Also in the process of the fight against him, it's revealed it was {{CharLink|Myrkul}} that brought Ketheric back from the dead. With Thorm dead, the party now have one of the Netherstones that power the trio, and the clues to their next destination: Baldur's Gate. | ||
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=== Personality === | === Personality === | ||
Though best described as a man utterly broken and transformed by grief, Isobel speaks of a loving, doting father while she was growing up, one who had the admiration of his subjects for being just and fair, full of love for his wife who he adored more than anyone else. Tragedy, however, would turn him into a bitter, wrathful man, willing to cleanse Reithwin from any Selûnites just to spite the Moonmaiden for abandoning him. | Though best described as a man utterly broken and transformed by grief, his daughter Isobel speaks of a loving, doting father while she was growing up, one who had the admiration of his subjects for being just and fair, full of love for his wife who he adored more than anyone else. Tragedy, however, would turn him into a bitter, wrathful man, willing to cleanse Reithwin from any Selûnites just to spite the Moonmaiden for abandoning him. | ||
Whatever the man he once was, the Ketheric the party encounters is a callous one, evident by his dismissal of {{CharLink|Minthara}} and the goblins, ordering their torture and execution for failing him. Though courteous when needed, he will quickly condemn the party to death should they defy his orders. Above all, however, he is ruthless and relentless {{ref|{{SmRarityItem|Suelto's Ethics of War}} on the floor near a makeshift shrine to Myrkul in Kethric Thorm's quarters.}} in his pursuits, willing to burn the entire world just to be reunited with his daughter.{{ref|{{SmRarityItem|Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 3}}}} | Whatever the man he once was, the Ketheric the party encounters is a callous one, evident by his dismissal of {{CharLink|Minthara}} and the goblins, ordering their torture and execution for failing him. Though courteous when needed, he will quickly condemn the party to death should they defy his orders. Above all, however, he is ruthless and relentless {{ref|{{SmRarityItem|Suelto's Ethics of War}} on the floor near a makeshift shrine to Myrkul in Kethric Thorm's quarters.}} in his pursuits, willing to burn the entire world just to be reunited with his daughter.{{ref|{{SmRarityItem|Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 3}}}} | ||