Isin Dule

Character Summary

Isin Dule

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Before he left, his scream of betrayal was heard by the triumphant humans. “Dule! Base traitor! I sense your art in this artifact assembled by the last Yalain. Thee and thine are banished from Our sight for all time, and ye shall be hunted until the stars fall from their course! Marked are thee!” ^[1]

Third Sending of Darkness

During the occupation of the Dericost town of Daralet by Yalaini soldiers, Isin Dule accompanied Ilservian Palacost when he was banned from the village. ^[1]
Isin Dule is described as "a failed seminary and friend of Ilservian since childhood". ^[1]
Bael'Zharon's forces assault the Empire's holdings in the Haebrous continent, and, after laying waste to a large part of the continent, was captured by the Council of Five and imprisoned in the Soul Crystals
Three of the companions of Ilservian Palacost, Isin Dule, Ferah and Ler Rhan survive the Third Sending of Darkness, two Omadin and Elithra of Daralet are slain.

The Fourth Sending of Darkness

Ilservian's surviving friends became corporeal once more and raised the Thorns, using them to alter the patterns of magic in the world. But Isin Dule had misgivings. He remembered the final days of the last war, his friend's blank expression when the planar energy was felt, and the compulsion that had come upon him. “It is likely a trap, brother,” he told Ilservian, and still they had gone. ^[2]
Isin Dule's faction of shadows seemed alarmed by the Hopeslayer's blind rage, and appeared to be working to keep him imprisoned.^[3]
Isin Dule turns upon his childhood friend, and, brooding in the wastes, steered a fateful course. He took his portion of the Shadows into his confidence, telling them that the pieces of the council's trap must be protected. If his friend should be released, he feared it would be the end of all. Ilservian was not fully in control of his own mind. What would happen after his vengeance was slaked? The price that the darkness of the wasteland would demand of them was not yet known. But Dule's first attempt to stave off disaster failed. The humans of Ispar gained access to the Nexus Facility, and a second piece of Ilservian's prison was destroyed. ^[2]
Dule's Shadows, following the forces of the Empyreans who defended Fenmalain Vestibule and Shendolain Vestibule, moved to defend the third vault, named the Caulnalain Vestibule Crystal ^[4] ^[2]^[5]
The destruction of the 6th and last Crystal, the Shard of the Herald, took place with help of the generals Black Ferah and Ler Rhan and their Isparian allies.
Dule declares opposition to Palacost. During the parlay between Empyreans, Virindi and the Shadow Faction of Isin Dule, he points out one of the weaknesses of Bael'Zharon and explains the whereabouts of the Heart of Shadow which is guarded by forces of Ferah of Daralet.^[6]
Bael'Zharon is weakened and his physical form destroyed, however, Ferah and Ler Rhan] are not.^[1] When Bael’Zharon was defeated, he exiled Dule and his forces from the ranks of the “true” Shadows.^[7]Isin Dule retreats to "somewhere in the lonely wastes".^[1]

After the Fourth Sending

After the second time the Hopeslayer is defeated, the Shadows retreat^[8]
They become active again during the The War of Blood and Shadow Story Arc. The three generals, Ler Rhan and Black Ferah on one side, Isin Dule on the other, concentrate their activities on Caul, where Isin Dule keeps a close eye on the whereabouts of the other two ^[8]^[9]^[10]
To that goal, Isin Dule raises a Shadow Spire on Caul.^[8]

Joining the Ranks of the Isparians

Isin Dule finds a way to remove the "taint" from those following him by studying the work of Aerbax. Asheron sends him one of his Lifestones, and the Shadow faction of Isin Dule joins the Isparian people. ^[11]