Wick (Chibiloft)

First introduced in Quoth the Raven Issue 28 as a character in the Chibiloft comics. Wick is a human Wizard and Wizard of High Sorcery from Krynn. For several reasons, he has no desire to return to the Prime Material Plane.

Krynn

Wick was born on the continent of Ansalon on the world of Krynn in the year 337 AC. The son of a married couple of mercenaries, he spent his early childhood travelling with his parents from one job to another, and learning swordplay from his parents. More than anything else, he wanted to become a swordsman like his mother and father, so they could all live and work together.

Wick's childhood dream was shattered when the little family met a Wizard on the road. The old man tested Wick, seemingly on a whim, and declared that he might be able to become a Wizard of High Sorcery if he received the required education and applied himself. From this point on, Wick's parents (who wished a better future for him than endless travel from one fight to another) saved every coin they made to sponsor their beloved son's education. Though Wick was reluctant, he kept his doubts to himself and studied hard, so as to honour his beloved parents' wishes and effort.

After thirteen years of study and effort, Wick was allowed to take the Test of High Sorcery at the Tower of Wayreth. He managed to pass his Test without being permanently crippled, was inducted into the Order of the Red Robes, and received the magical silver dagger Silverwolf as a graduation gift. Because the dagger was presented to him with the remark that it would 'replace the sword he must now give up forever', Wick was less than fond of the weapon and largely ignored it instead of familiarize himself with its full power. He dearly wished to go see his parents to share his success with them, but his elders in the Order bid him stay at the Tower; Wick had a rare knack for Conjuration, and they wished for him to conduct high-level research and develop new spells. Again, to honour his parents' hopes for him, Wick acquiesced.

Eight years later, Wick met a member of the Order of the Black Robes at the Tower. The Evil Wizard was openly wearing a necklace Wick recognized as belonging to his father. When he questioned the Black Robe, the man gleefully admitted to killing 'two broken-down old mercenaries' and looting their corpses, after they had stood in his way while doing the work of Takhisis.

The laws of High Sorcery forbade violence between members of the Orders while at the Towers, which were common ground. In his grief and rage, Wick deliberately broke those laws as he drew Silverwolf and stabbed the Black Robe to death before the man could cast a single spell. Rather than face the judgment of his brothers and sisters in the Order, Wick cast one of the Conjuration spells they had him ordered him to create, and fled to a different world: Toril.

Toril

At first, Wick was delighted by Toril. He appreciated how this new world had no taboo about wizards carrying and wielding swords. Again ignoring the potency of Silverwolf, Wick reacquainted himself with the use of a longsword while he travelled and studied. Toril also had many exciting forms of arcane magic for Wick to study, and he happily partook of what seemed to him almost a paradise after the unhappiness and loss he had suffered on Krynn.

Twenty-nine years passed, and Wick had grown quite powerful. He had made cautious overtures to Lunitari over the years, seeking her forgiveness for breaking the rules of High Sorcery, but he came to appreciate and eventually worship Mystra during his stay on Toril. When he found himself in Aglarond and received an invitation from one of Mystra's Chosen, the (in)famous Sorceress known as the Simbul, he went without hesitation. First to Wick's confusion and then to his horror, the Simbul offered Wick a position as one of the Chosen of Mystra, 'so he might embody and promote magic above all other things forever'. Seeing the offer as nothing but another attempt to steal his agency from him and deny him the freedom he wanted, Wick loudly cursed both Lunitari and Mystra and frantically cast the same spell that had brought him to Toril.

Perhaps due to Wick's act of blasphemy just before he cast the spell, the magic delivered him to a place where neither goddess could directly touch him: the Demiplane of Dread...