Nazorath

Nazorath, parents unknown, was a very gifted and dark magician during the Fourth Age. His father is known to have been a wealthy, upper-class gentleman from Capital City, who also dabbled in magic. His mother, however, was the polar opposite, part of the incredibly poor. Nazorath is distantly related to the Jack Family through his mother's side. Hoping to fulfill the Prophecy of Jack and give birth to the reincarnation of Jack Rincewind, many of Nazorath's ancestors dabbled in inbreeding to keep the Jack bloodline pure. This lead to Nazorath being both magically gifted from his father, and an instability from his mother, often going into psychotic fits.

As was said earlier, Nazorath was born from a psychotic mother, and an educated businessman who fell in love with her (lack of) charms. The result of this marriage was Nazorath, a being of considerable magical power and little sanity. He was much more gifted than his father in the field of magic, and later went on to found the School of Unorthodox Magick, roughly eighty-one years before the start of the Fifth Age. Although many powerful and unusual wizards were attracted to this institute and accepted, the main reason behind this was to attract young, inadept magicians-to-be who wished to gain an apprenticeship there. Nazorath would often take these youths, incapacitate them, and use them in his demented experiments.

Although generally seen as a dark person, it wasn't until these experiments were found after many years that people realised the true problem that Nazorath presented. Those in the School of Unorthodox Magick gathered together and exiled their once leader, getting rid of his experiments and chasing Nazorath up to the Midpoint Mountains. Knowing he would never be accepted back into the School of his own creation, and that a warrant would now be on his head in the human nations for his heinous crimes against his fellow man, Nazorath fled into The West.

Though no one kept track on Nazorath's movements there, it is believed that Nazorath spent some time in The North, causing chaos there, or perhaps gaining tutelage from the darker powers that be in those lands. Eventually, it is known, that he ended up going to Eldritch, and hasn't been sighted since. Whether or not he died there is unknown, though if he survived, he most likely contributed to the abominations to be found in that dreaded location.

Nazorath had a single child, Lazarus, who replaced his father as Head of the School of Unorthodox Magick.