Dr. Rosencrans Lazreal

Gnome alienist who, when first met, had recently returned from sabbatical at Hodemont Asylum. He is known for his practicality and professional demeanor. He was engaging in unscrupulous “treatments” on patients using Chaos Hounds and worse: His belief that madness is a manifestation of demons in the body, his “treatments" were created to experiment upon the mad to draw the demon out of them and then banish the demon. The fact that the elixir he was using probably was gestating evil outsiders rather than pulling them out was a theory he dismissed. Such treatments were 100% effective in curing madness – in the sense that one is no longer mad when one had died by having a demon born forcibly out of one’s abdomen and chest cavity. The party defeated him, but before his soul could go to its final “reward,” it was trapped in a cacodaemon soulgem by Ozmund to stop it from being claimed by the Devils. It was brought to the temple or Irori in Aug Autal, where the party questioned him before the priests planned to have him undergo “testing.” However, he proclaimed himself to be contractually seeking citizenship to Aug Autal’s Undercity, and his legal outmaneuvering of the party may prove to see his release once again, now as an undead foe.

The legal wrangling with Lazreal came to a sudden halt because of the party's choice of Thelonious Finch, who as a barrister proved to be able to outmaneuver the spectral alienist gnome. Facing a deposition of the demon / devil Zesessna, lazreal fled back to his manor home in Oldhollow. The party followed, confronting a series of escalating tests in which lazreal placed them through a path of riddles and apparent re-enactments of pivotal moments in his career so that they might also "understand" the threat of demon-possessed madness. Although observed by the Occulant Marakham VI in a plan that Lazreal had to discredit the party with his apparent death, the party was able to defeat both the ghostly Lazreal and his simulacrum. It appears his soul has been claimed by Zesessna. Upon his deathbed, Lazreal left a recording aiding the party's research.