Sal was the wizard who originally taught Timmorran in the arts of magic.
In Lorimor, Timmorran had become apprenticed to Sal Meringyr, who was a celebrated wizard. The impulsive Sal exercised great power and heroism, but he had an overweening ambition to pursue the possibility of crystallizing arcane energy. After all, were not the Tears of Latariana supposedly crystallized Empyrean energy? While he must be taken to task for planting this dangerous idea in his young apprentice’s head, the fact is that without Sal Meringyr, the tale of Timmorran would have ended here. The assassins of the Q’aro Fenn finally tracked Timmorran down and assailed him, but Sal fought to save his apprentice, killing two of the assassins and sending the third into flight. The wizard paid dearly for his bravery and died of the wounds he received that day.
May years later after the defeat of the First Darkness, Timmorran founded the town of Greyhaven. It was constructed around the Tower of Meringyr, a tall keep he had ordered built in the remote Wizard’s Vale for the purpose of magical research. The keep was, of course, named in tribute to Timmorran’s old tutor, the great Sal Meringyr, whose ambition to tap the Verto Magica had become Timmorran’s own. This ambition would culminate in the creation of the Orb of the Sky.
References
- Realms of Terrinoth