==== Nakam Alkat ====

Nakam Alkat was the human wizard who eventually became the [["Dark Mage"]].

He was born in I:2590 and entered the [[gûlaraî|Gûlaraî order]] at age 36. Five 
years later, his natural talent with magic upstaged and embarrassed [[Psalor]], 
the [[Ainagûl]]. Over a few weeks, Psalor's embarrassment transformed into an 
unbridled rage, leading the mage to conspire to banish Nakam from the order.

This abuse of power not only led to the downfall of [[Psalor]], but also sent 
Nakam to a descent into evil -- where he made a pact with [[Hades]] to become an 
undead after his death.

For more information, see the [["Dark Mage"]] entry.

During his brief reemergence at the end of the third age, the [[Dark Mage]] was 
split into two halves when [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]] dumped a jar of distilled Deva 
essence onto him.  The living human half of this split adopted the name "Nakam 
Alkat" -- though he was in many ways only a simulacrum of the original wizard.

When the new Nakam began to lose his sanity and feared he would slip back to his 
evil self, he [[anniversary_1986|set an elaborate trap for himself, using the 
heroes to carry out his own suicide]].  Prior to his death, however, he wrote
a touching treatise known as [["A New Mortality"]].