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Summons Wardens while testing parts of his thesis. With no thesis, after having produced nothing of value to the Magh Mell, Eckdar is seen as a failure. Chronomancy doesn’t work. He’s ridiculed from the city and leaves for the outskirts.

These outskirts are where the dead are laid to rest.

Being ostracized to the outskirts because his best friend stole his thesis, Eckdar becomes paranoid. He even begins to doubt whether he’s seen the Wardens at all. In isolation, his genius mixes with his paranoia and self-doubt and he becomes a beholder with an interest in necromancy. It’s a strange mix of necro and chronomancy he’s trying to achieve to bring back dead loved ones.

He has carved out a vast network of tunnels throughout the land to release a magic gas that will immunize the people from death. It’s horribly flawed, because Eckdar really cannot do anything right. He is as useless as he feared.