Rary

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Greyhawk Character


caption= Rary (right), depicted on the cover of "Rary the Traitor" (TSR, Inc., 1992)
name=Rary
home=Bright Lands (formerly Ket)
gender=Male
race=Human
class=Wizard
alignment= Neutral Evil
age=
universe="World of Greyhawk"In the "World of Greyhawk" campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" roleplaying game, Rary of Ket is an archmage and political leader.

He is also called Rary the Traitor, a former member of the Circle of Eight. He was responsible for the deaths of Circle members Otiluke and Tenser at the end of the Greyhawk Wars. After his betrayal, Rary fled with his ally Sir Robilar, to the Bright Desert, where he established the Empire of the Bright Lands.

His younger brother, the renowned sage Arkalan Sammal, who resides in the Free City of Greyhawk, has renounced Rary, as have most of his former allies.

However, during the Living Greyhawk campaign, many adventures set in Rary's home region of Ket referred to him as Rary the Patriot, and Ketite NPCs often insisted that he was not evil, merely misunderstood. [cite book | author= Stephen Baker | title= KET6-07 The Empty Post | publisher= Wizards of the Coast | date= November 2006] [ cite book|author= Lisa Liscoumb |title=KETINTRO5-01 Best Man for the Job |publisher= Wizards of the Coast|date=February 2005 ]

Writings

Rary is known to have authored or co-authored the following works:
*"Arcane Puissance of the Memory"
*"The Lost Spellbook of Rary the Traitor"

pells

Rary is responsible for developing such commonly known spells as:
*"Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer"
*"Rary's Telepathic Bond"

Rary seems to specialize in meta-magical/psionic spells, or mental/mind based spell enhancements.

Rary has also developed the following additional spells:
*"Rary's Aptitude Appropriator"
*"Rary's Arcane Conversion"
*"Rary's Empathic Perception"
*"Rary's Interplanar Telepathic Bond"
*"Rary's Memory Alteration"
*"Rary's Mind Scan"
*"Rary's Mind Shield"
*"Rary's Plane Truth"
*"Rary's Protection From Scrying"
*"Rary's Replay of the Past"
*"Rary's Spell Enhancer"
*"Rary's Superior Spell Enhancer"
*"Rary's Urgent Utterance"

References

*Bonny, Ed. "Arcane Lore: The Lost Spellbook of Rary the Traitor." "Dragon" #249 (TSR, 1998).

*Broadhurst, Creighton. "Into the Bright Desert." "Dungeon" #98 (Paizo Publishing, 2003).

*Broadhurst, Creighton, Paul Looby, and Stuart Kerrigan. "Mysterious Places: The Brightlands." Wizards of the Coast, 2004. Available online: [http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=lg/lgmp/20040810a]

*Cook, David. "History of the Greyhawk Wars." "Wars" (TSR, 1991). Available Online: [http://www.nyrond.org/turbine/page/university/greyhawkwars.html]
**Cook, David. "Vecna Lives!" (TSR, 1990).

*Heard, Bruce. "Spells Between the Covers." "Dragon" #82 (TSR, 1984).

*Holian, Gary, Erik Mona, Sean K Reynolds, and Frederick Weining. "Living Greyhawk Gazetteer" (Wizards of the Coast, 2000).

*Mona, Erik, and Gary Holian. "Wheels within Wheels: Greyhawk's Circle of Eight." "Living Greyhawk Journal" #0 (Aug 2000). Available online: [http://www.wizards.com/rpga/downloads/LGJcircleof8pdf.zip]

*Moore, Roger E. "" (TSR, 1998).
**Moore, Roger. "Return of the Eight" (TSR, 1998).

*Niles, Douglas, and Carl Sargent. "The City of Greyhawk" (TSR, 1989).

*Pryor, Anthony. "Rary the Traitor" (TSR, 1992).

*Sargent, Carl. "From the Ashes" (TSR, 1993).

*Ward, James M. "Greyhawk Adventures" (TSR, 1988).

*Williams, Skip, Penny Williams, Ari Marmell, Kolja Raven Liquette. "Complete Mage" (Wizards of the Coast, 2006).