Fiend

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

Description
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 Ring of Reagents was created by Shal with the aid of the Serpent of Chaos at the cost of Shal ‘losing himself’ to pure chaos and becoming the creature known as the Fiend. Too bad for the Fiend, that Shal had in time instructed an animated armour to take away the ring, fearing this. Since then, the Fiend was fanatically after regaining the ring, paying little mind to anything else.

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.