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<blockquote data-quote="M.L. Martin" data-source="post: 4831754" data-attributes="member: 4086">There is a definitive statement in Dragons of Spring Dawning that he's a wizard who earned the Black Robes (Book 2, Chapter 2, IIRC), but that's a change from his writeup in the modules, which make him a cleric. W&amp;H have stated that they made the change to avoid making him too much like Verminaard.&nbsp; So, if you go by the original modules, he's a cleric; if you go by Chronicles, he's a wizard. Later material has tended to go with either one or the other; the Emperor of Ansalon novel and the 15th Anniversary supermodule went with cleric, while the stuff by Margaret Weis and MWP went with wizard. (I think the 3.5E supermodules had him as a proto-Thorn Knight to get around the 'wizard with sword' bit.)&nbsp; And while the art has been used for Ariakas, I think it was originally the cover of the Knight of the Sword or Knight of the Rose novel . . .</blockquote>

[QUOTE="M.L. Martin, post: 4831754, member: 4086"] There is a definitive statement in [i]Dragons of Spring Dawning[/i] that he's a wizard who earned the Black Robes (Book 2, Chapter 2, IIRC), but that's a change from his writeup in the modules, which make him a cleric. W&H have stated that they made the change to avoid making him too much like Verminaard. So, if you go by the original modules, he's a cleric; if you go by Chronicles, he's a wizard. Later material has tended to go with either one or the other; the [i]Emperor of Ansalon[/i] novel and the 15th Anniversary supermodule went with cleric, while the stuff by Margaret Weis and MWP went with wizard. (I think the 3.5E supermodules had him as a proto-Thorn Knight to get around the 'wizard with sword' bit.) And while the art has been used for Ariakas, I think it was originally the cover of the [i]Knight of the Sword[/i] or [i]Knight of the Rose[/i] novel . . . [/QUOTE]

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