King of Shadows

The King of Shadows is the main villian in the NWN official campaign. He is not a pre-existing Forgotten Realms character but one created specifically for NWN2.

Prelude
''From a dark chapter in Neverwinter's history, a war was ended before it ever truly began. Only a handful of annals exist on the rise and fall of the man they call the King of Shadows. Trembling hands recorded the reign of terror caused by his infernal cohorts -- nefarious enizens of the Lower Planes with a perpetual thirst for pain and blood.

''To combat this threat, Neverwinter hastily assembled an army on a grim mission to defeat the King of Shadows' legions. The battle was fought in the swamp known as the Mere of Dead Men, crushing the village of West Harbor beneath the weight of the two armies. When the battle was all-but-lost, an unknown force decimated both sides and sundered the blood-soaked ground of the village.

''Though the King of Shadows was defeated, not a single soldier survived to tell the tale. But the Habormen carry the memory, ever-reminded by the dark scar that mars their village green.

''The march of years has passed, and the King of Shadows is rising again...and this time, there may be no one who can stop him...

(From PC Gamer magazine December 2005.)