Kahl of the Broken Note

Race: Elf (or Warped Elf)
Class/Level: Wizard (Level 20)
Background: Sage
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Affiliations:

  • Cult of the Final Frequency (Inner Resonant)

  • Archivist Ascendancy (Fourth Spiral Rank)

Appearance

Kahl wears a long, torn symphonic cloak laced with silver thread that pulses like a tuning fork when spells are cast. His face is unnervingly smooth — surgically perfect — except for a crack running from ear to chin that seems to hum softly. His eyes are pitch black with shimmering lines like music staves etched across them.

Personality

Kahl is a bastard in every sense — smug, calculating, and insufferably convinced of his superiority. He talks in musical metaphors, corrects even divine entities mid-sentence, and has no patience for "discordant minds" (i.e., anyone who questions him).
His favorite insult: “Your thoughts resonate at the frequency of mildew.”

Goals

  • Ascend beyond the mortal coil through perfect harmonic convergence.

  • Unleash the Tone Beyond Silence — a forbidden note said to unmake false realities.

  • Silence the "deaf-minded" by destroying competing magical schools and philosophies.

Stat Highlights (D&D 5e)

  • AC: 20 (Mage Armor + Shield)

  • HP: 192 (20d6 + 100)

  • Speed: 30 ft.

  • Saving Throws: INT +11, WIS +9

  • Skills: Arcana +17, History +14, Insight +9, Deception +10

  • Languages: Common, Elvish, Deep Speech, Musicum (a tonal dialect only taught within the Cult)

Notable Abilities

  • Signature Spell (Custom):
    Resonant Unraveling (9th Level) – Targets up to 3 creatures. Each must succeed a CON save or take 12d12 force damage and be stunned for 1 round. On a failed save, the victim hears the “true sound” of their soul unraveling.

  • Arcane Epic Feats:

    • Echo of the Mind: Can recast a spell he’s just seen someone else cast without expending a slot (once per long rest).

    • Frequencies Remembered: Can learn spells permanently from magical music, bardic performances, or ancient relics.

    • Final Note Preparation: May cast one 9th-level spell at will for 1 hour per long rest, but must sacrifice a memory to do so.

  • Lair Action (if encountered in his sound-temple):
    Every round on initiative 20, the temple emits a warped tone:

    • Creatures must make a DC 18 Wisdom save or suffer disadvantage on attack rolls and spellcasting for one round due to auditory distortion.

Magic Items

  • Tuning Fork of the End Key: A rod that can dispel any musical magic or bardic effect in a 60ft radius once per day. Functions as an arcane focus.

  • Robe of Harmonic Control: +2 to spell save DCs. Once per day, absorb a single spell and cast it next turn without using a spell slot.

  • Conductor's Baton of Reality: Staff that allows him to bend time slightly — may alter initiative or cause a spell to echo one round later.

Roleplay Hooks

  • Kahl appears when PCs interfere with a “Harmonic Convergence Site” — ancient ruins being activated for a ritual involving sound-based reality alteration.

  • He might offer knowledge or a pact to a PC, only to gaslight them later by insisting they misremembered the terms.

  • He is detested even within the Cult for his arrogance, but his results are too valuable to discard.

Quotes

  • "I hear your thoughts, and they offend my ears."

  • "Did you think sound was simply for music? No, child. Sound is power. Power is structure. And you are profoundly out of tune."

  • "You will remember this as the moment your identity was rewritten — not by fire or blade, but by the inevitable rhythm of truth."

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