Nikolai Bethmaw

Nikolai Bethmaw is a young man who grew up in the Feywild. He looks more fey than human now as a result of the magical changes his body endured while in the Feywild and during his time as a Warlock of The Queen of Air and Darkness. When he was a child, he stole his parents’ polymorph wand (Quest: Panic! in the Manor) during a party and turned the guests into animals. A party of adventurers was hired to try and get it back from him and rescue the polymorphed guests; however, this is not how it played out. Nikolai was easily convinced to hand the wand over to the party in favor of playing with Mac’s sword “like a real adventurer,” but the wand never returned to his parents. Oliver scared the parents away and ended up stealing the wand for himself. When Nikolai’s parents returned, and the wand was still missing, they blamed and scolded Nikolai for its disappearance. They grounded him “for life” since the wand was a “family heirloom.”

A powerful adventurer wouldn’t get grounded for life, he thought. Nikolai ran away from home the next night and ventured into an old forest in an attempt to become an adventurer, but he accidentally wandered into the Feywild. He was found by a member of the Unseelie Court and brought before the Queen of Air and Darkness herself. She saw something in him—his anger and desire to be something great, perhaps—and offered him a deal to grant him the power he coveted. While he realistically couldn’t hold Mac’s sword when playing with it, he remembered some advice J.T., a warlock, gave him around the same time: becoming a warlock is pretty dope. From there, he was raised by the Unseelie Court and spent most of his time honing his new magical abilities the queen had bestowed upon him. She regarded him as if he were her son, which gave him the delusion that he is a prince of the Unseelie Court. The queen raised him to be an agent of chaos so that he may sow said chaos onto the material plane. He returned to the material plane as a young adult despite how only a month has passed—time moves differently in the Feywild. Upon his return to the material plane, he set out to do as he was taught: sow discord and chaos in the name of the Queen of Air and Darkness (Quest: The Babysitters’ Club). He brought with him an army of fey that was granted to him by his patron and “mother.” The party recognized him after knocking off his mask, and they were able to defeat him and knock him out after destroying most of his army of oreads, darklings, yeth hounds, a couple of summer eladrin, and a young moonstone dragon.After being defeated the first time, he called upon his patron, the Queen of Air and Darkness, to grant him more power. He was granted it and made into a fey for a brief time. Then the party knocked him out. The black diamond that was embedded into his forehead was removed, and he was reverted back to a more humanoid form. They carried him home to his parents’ house, where he now resides. He only remembers snippets of his previous life from when he was a child, but he does not possesses the desire to wreak havoc anymore or even return to the Feywild.