Yog-Thul Returns? (dead fiend of the outer dark)
Use common name of rhyl cultural experience
Cleric of Ikribu – took crystal ball from family chapel
Fighter whelm follower
Fighter balthazaar follower
Bard of Boreal Tradition
Wizard from halas blaze
The PCs meet a man who claims to remember a hundred thousand years (jumbled memories of all the dead sorcerers from Asheroon – but he was made living again and is going insane). Obsession. He calls himself a secret king with ancestral bloodlines. Persecuted in his vision of the past. He made his own runic symbols and quasi language wandering by himself. The black sun is his symbol. Does this relate to old Kingdoms of Rhyl and the grants? Remembers a time of witches. He is a sorcerer that has broken free from the sunken lands where he had been imprisoned for thousands of years. Mentions the blade by name, says he is seeking for it.
A scar across multiple layers of reality.
Handle the blade as it it were a sleeping serpent
The blade purred
https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/sorcerer 5th only? But 10 sorcery points!