Bartolomi Kereveld is a wizard of the Celestial Order.[1a]
He owns a large brass-bound compass that he keeps in his pocket.[1a]
History[]
Despite having a weak constitution for sea travel, Bartolomi was brought on an expedition to Lustria, aiding the mercenary flotilla by navigation, and even the slaying of a seabeast with a meteor shower - though he claims anyone of the Celestial Order could cast such a spell. Along with a great mass of equipment, the Celestial Wizard brought with him a manservant named Theobold.[1a]
Kereveld's reason for joining the expedition can be traced to an old logbook. The sole survivor of an earlier expedition had sold it to a merchant in Swamp Town, who sold it to a captain, who in turn sold it to the Celestial College in Altdorf. Said-book even contained a map tracing the path by which the original expedition had taken, making it a genuine find, or at least according to Kereveld. It does not, however, detail what had happened to the men that had gone before.[1a]
In Lustria he has witnessed the presence of Obscuria, a planet (which some scholars believe does not exist) in the solar system that is also home to the Known World. He has reported its surface as pale, interrupted only by a few gray spots and black dots. Bartolomi wanted to rename it Bartolomia Primus after he had proven its existence in the temple city of Ytzel Cho.[1c]
During a pivotal battle against the Lizardmen, Kereveld and Colonel van Delft would disintegrate when the second comet he summoned was redirected by the Slann Xinthua Tzeqal.[1b]