Mad Dune Mage
Names: Mad Dune Magethe mad magethe mageGhazithe Glass Wizard
First appears in Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapter 6 (6)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 7The Mad Dune Mage holds the ground quadrant, and Carl's group knows little about him yet.
- Ch 12Crixus calls the mad mage the most dangerous foe, seeking to understand and replicate the gate; he holds only a third of it.
- Ch 16Ghazi's letter demands Kane stop bombing the temple, claiming he holds the winding box and can throw the world into the void.
- Ch 20Ghazi, the Mad Dune Mage, turned himself into a sand elemental while searching for the Gate of the Feral Gods and holds the winding box.
- Ch 21Ghazi is a level 43 human Glass Mage from Larracos who claimed to seek the Gate of the Feral Gods for teleportation research.
- Ch 21Ghazi really sought the Gate to reach the Nothing and ask Yarilo, banished god of Lust, to make Lika fall in love with him.
- Ch 21The entity Ghazi summoned was not Yarilo, and he is now trapped in his transformed castle.
- Ch 21The council ordered Ghazi to use the winding box to banish himself and the necropolis into the Nothing, and struck him from the Tome of Scholars.
- Ch 21Ghazi unknowingly married and consummated with the sand ooze, which now loves him, takes Lika's form outside storms, and eats him daily.
- Ch 21Ghazi is human only during sandstorms, turning to sand otherwise, and passes the time watching shows on a magical panel.
- Ch 23Ghazi's note to Tish explains that the gate's two watches and winding box can open a one-way portal to a dialed location.
- Ch 23Ghazi believed the ooze had split loyalties, loving him and jealous of Lika, and hoped to use that against Psamathe.
- Ch 23Ghazi's note says Psamathe tricked him and now supposedly occupies Quetzalcoatlus; its page describing his plan is missing.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 9Ghazi, the dead Mad Dune Mage, held the last piece of the Gate of the Feral Gods and was tricked by Psamathe.
Connections
- related toThe Gate of the Feral Godsholds a third of it
- enemy ofCommandant Kane
- inSandcastle of the Mad Dune Mage
- member ofLarracos College of Magecraft
- partner ofSand oozemarried to the ooze
- related toTishberates him in a note; implied former partner
- enemy ofPsamathetricked him by posing as Yarilo
- partner ofMrs. Ghazi, the Sand Oozethe ooze loves him
- enemy ofKatia Grim
- related toPsamathemanipulated him into opening the Nothing
- partner ofTishex-girlfriend
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 16Kane found dead
Inside the flying house Carl finds Commandant Kane killed by Denise and loots a Mysterious Watch and a letter from the Glass Wizard Ghazi.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Snatching the winding box
The sand ooze attacks through the door; Carl's shell blasts it back, then he takes the winding box from Ghazi and the party flees upstairs with the mage.
- Book 4 · Ch 21The council's letter
Ghazi's satchel holds a letter revealing he summoned Psamathe, who now possesses Quetzalcoatlus, and orders him to banish the necropolis into the Nothing.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Interrogating Ghazi
Carl questions the revived Ghazi, learning the sand ooze is his 'wife' and the Lika statue was a companion doll, then demands how to kill the ooze.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Buried in the sandcastle
The castle collapses as the boss dies, trapping Carl and Donut in the basement under three stories of sand while Katia escapes with Ghazi.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Death of Ghazi
Outside the castle, Katia kills Ghazi in a short fight and loots a note about the winding box.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Ghazi's notes on the gate
Back in the personal space, Carl reads Ghazi's letter to Tish explaining how the watches and winding box open portals and the danger of feral gods escaping.