Flamsterd (wizard)

Flamsterd is a human wizard, originally from Waterdeep. He currently lives in the sea just off of the isle of Flamsterd, practicing magic in his stone tower surrounded by a large air bubble.

Centuries ago, Flamsterd migrated to the Moonshae Isles, where he claimed the unpopulated island to the southwest and named it after himself. He sought, and had found, a place to practice the arcane arts peacefully. He built a tower on the long southern peninsula of the island and began recruiting magical students from the Moonshaes as well as the mainland. Flamsterd and his apprentices developed a thriving, if modest, civilization on their island home, peacefully isolated from the rest of the archipelago. Over time, the students grew stronger, and their power led to internal unrest. Conflict arose among the young mages, killing many of them and producing monsters that continue to roam the island. Flamsterd grew frustrated with his apprentices and in 1291 DR faked a sudden, catastrophic explosion of the peninsula. He turned many of his apprentices into toads and salamanders while others fled in fear. Though it seemed, and continues to appear to most, that Flamsterd had died in the unexplained explosion, he had in fact moved a portion of the island underwater. With the help of a few powerful druids, Flamsterd moved the land (including his tower) to the sea floor, surrounded by a huge bubble of air. There he continues to work in peace, assisted by a few servants.

Flamsterd was friends with the legendary Elminster, the two having known each other for decades in Waterdeep. When Elminster visited the Moonshaes in 1336, he mourned Flamsterd's apparent death, describing him as a "master of his craft" and "a pioneer in the development of the arcane arts."