Fan Casting Zanril in Dungeons & Dragons: The Hand of Chaos

A bald, black-robed warlock with a greedy smile, Zanril is the arcane muscle of the doomed expedition to the Temple of Orcus. He uses his glowing, purple-luminescent eyes to locate the hidden treasure, his avarice palpable as the stone slab is uncovered. He warns the party about the cursed eye with the detached, academic tone of a man who has read about danger but has never truly felt it. His defining moment is his last: as a five-story demon idol awakens, he stands defiantly before it and declares, "Demon, I fear thee not!!" The idol's response is to squash him unceremoniously beneath its stone hand, a brutal, darkly comic end to a life of misplaced arcane arrogance. He is a perfect miniature portrait of hubris meeting divine punishment.