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Nakam Alkat was the human wizard who eventually became the "Dark Mage".

He was born in I:2590 and entered the Gûlaraî order at age 36. Five years later, his natural talent with magic upstaged and embarrassed Psalor, the Ainagûl. Over a few weeks, Psalor's embarrassment transformed into an unbridled rage, leading the mage to conspire to banish Nakam from the order.

This abuse of power not only led to the downfall of Psalor, but also sent Nakam to a descent into evil – where he made a pact with Hades to become an undead after his death.

For more information, see the "Dark Mage" entry.

During his brief reemergence at the end of the third age, the Dark Mage was split into two halves when Lord Ozzie dumped a jar of distilled Deva essence onto him. The living human half of this split adopted the name “Nakam Alkat” – though he was in many ways only a simulacrum of the original wizard.

When the new Nakam began to lose his sanity and feared he would slip back to his evil self, he set an elaborate trap for himself, using the heroes to carry out his own suicide. Prior to his death, however, he wrote a touching treatise known as "A New Mortality".