A.O. Mega, short for Aldous Oxley Megaftnic, has been a long time scholar of both the light and dark arts. He spent years studying in an underground cistern, where for years chaotic magical energies seemed to emanate from the ruins below his Dwarven city, kept in check only by the watchful efforts of the few magically gifted dwarves such as himself. It was thus he learned to balance his own energies, the light and the dark, playing against one another, somehow producing stasis. At one point in his life, however, A. O. found himself enrapt with the darker energies. Other mages recorded a spike in the chaotic energies over several months, and a number of pupils and adepts were overcome with melancholy and random bouts of fury. Eventually, the balance was put right once more, but for A. O., the experience went deeper. He felt communion with a dark energy, whose temptations at first were innocent and seemed to help A. O. and the other adepts band together in revelry, but in exchange for their boons, the adepts realized that some part of them had been sacrificed to this entity. At last several of the adepts joined together to banish the entity, and it went, but not without siphoning off several of the weaker members and marking the rest. Several of them still bear the mark, which would almost seem a cross were it not twisted and set askew. Nevertheless, A. O. persisted on and became one of the leading lesser adepts in the city. Dwarven Invoker/Warlock, specializing in pretty reliable multi-blasting, pretty reliable area control, and being awesome to everybody except baddies who don't follow his rules.
