Midenaak

Midenaak was a half-elf wizard who lived in Baldur's Gate between 1315 and 1485. He was a devoted to the god Azuth and spent much time studying Azuth's approach to magic. His particular focus was the school of divination, and he frequently lost himself in visions of the future or the past. Around the year 1370 he began to have disturbing visions of the coming disaster now referred to as the Spellplague. His visions centered specifically around the terrible events that were to befall his patron deity, Azuth. When his visions came true in 1385 and Azuth was cast down into the Nine Hells, he fell into a deep depression and retreated into his oraculum where he desperately searched in ancient tomes and deep visions for a way to restore Azuth to his proper place in the pantheon. From time to time over the next 100 years, Midenaak was able to pierce the darkness surrounding these events and learn something of the fate of his god. In the last half of the 15th century he began to see visions of Azuth being restored to power, but he was too old and sick from years of seclusion to live to see the event come to pass. He died in 1480, just two years before the beginning of the Second Sundering which would lead to Azuth re-ascending. He kept careful notes in a large red book with a golden clasp which remained in his oraculum, guarded by magical wards and locks, until it was found by adventurers in 1491.