The Fake Wizard of Portal Orendil

The (fake) wizard at portal Orendil is very convincing in his act. He is not really a wizard, but can make you believe so. He has some items, he has some quirks. Most of all, he has a very wizard-y name. He might be a rogue trying to threaten you, or he might be someone that truly believes he is a wizard. Or he might be both. The portal might also not be a portal, but only an old archway going into a cavern. Create as you please, here are some ideas:

Wizard names:

1. Stell the Searcher

2. Milo Raindancer

3. Ler the Green

4. Horodes the Dying

5. Djanom from the North

6. Zelida the Burning

7. Fjellair the Mad

8. Zeritex Dragon-Brother

9. Velor the Changer

10. Lamito the Tracker

11. Mordetzar the Young

12. Teride ‘the Hag’

Items:

The fake wizard always has the following:

A wizard robe in the colors of his school and a materials pouch made out of cheap leather.

Furthermore, he has (roll 1d8 and add everything til the # you roll). Add advantage of his deception roll if he has more than 5 of these items.

1. A book with unknown runes and glyphs.

2. A pair of dusty glasses.

3. A staff, gnarled and battered.

4. A depleted wand of mahogany with a golden top.

5. A history book about the life of Archmages.

6. A scroll case, empty but pretty.

7. A ‘transmutation’ stone

8. A skull with a candle within.

Quirk:

The wizard acts weird, sometimes a bit too much. Roll 1d6 and see what his quirk is.

1. ‘Forgetfulness’, he closes his eyes to try and remember things.

2. ‘Show-off’. He wants to trick you in believing him with his amazing manipulation skills.

3. ‘Weird’. He actually believes he is a wizard.

4. ‘Neutral’. He has done this for years, your presence doesn’t matter.

5. ‘Shy’. He wants to get away from you as fast as he can.

6. ‘Show-off’. He wants to show off his knowledge about wizards to you.

Tricks:

The wizard has some tricks up his sleeves, quite literally:

1. Nothing, he used to have some tricks, but he spent them all.

2. He can cast mage hand 1/encounter.

3. He has an hypnotic talisman that he can use to lure people into sleep.

4. He can sneak attack suddenly with 2 daggers out of his sleeves.

5. Dream dust blows in your eyes, you are ‘enchanted to see nothing’

6. He has some fireworks that he can light. 4/encounter

Portal

The portal is actually:

1. An actual magical portal

2. An elven gate into an old tree stump.

3. The gateway of a ruined city

4. A cave entrance of a Dwarven mine.