Fiend

Formerly the wizard, Shal, the Fiend is an evil human whose mind has been completely consumed by raw Chaos. He makes his home in the caves surrounding Serpent's Fang and is utterly insane.

Description
The Ring of Reagents was created by the wizard Shal with the aid of the Serpent of Chaos, however at the cost of Shal ‘losing himself’ to pure chaos and becoming the evil creature known as the Fiend. Too bad for the Fiend that Shal had known that this would happen to himself and in time instructed an animated armour to take away the ring and hide it, so that his insane self could not misuse it. After his change, the fiend murdered followers of Chaos living with him after they saw he had become a fanatic whose twisted behaviour did not fit at all with the teachings of Chaos. Since then, the Fiend was fanatically after regaining the ring, paying little mind to anything else, apart from following his cannibalistic desires, much to the horror of the nearby Order garrison.

The Avatar encountered the Fiend during the quest for the Silver Seed, as he had within his lair one of the four Orbs required to gain access to the chamber where the Seed was kept. The Fiend actually was quite willing to reveal his history and that he could leave at any time, but first desired the ring, so that he could use its unbound power to slaughter all and everything in his way.

The Avatar has the option to deny returning the ring to the Fiend, which will cause him to attack.

Trivia

 * The Fiend has the highest armour rating and hitpoints of all creatures in the game. Beating him is difficult until one realises that he only attacks the Avatar. Thus the Avatar should only evade him, while the other party members attack him; bows are best.