Perhaps the most polarizing figure in all of history, Baron Vincent Lambrecht of Nied is known as both a hero, and a villain; a brilliant artificer, and a horrible necromancer; a celebrated rebel leader, and a genocidal tyrant maniac. He was first known as a promising student of both the sciences and arcana at the College of Magi. He was eventually driven from the College for unknown reasons, usually assumed to be the kingdom's anti-mage policies. Fleeing to the South with his teacher, Archmage Mobius; he and his traveling companions won the hearts and minds of the Maraivolk, striking many a blow against Nied's control over the area—a control which some argue was oppressive in the extreme. It also in the Swamp that he and his teacher effectively invented the practice of arcane necromancy,