<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/8/8e/Swamp_Mage.jpg)</div>Duriene Peracain (also known as the Sword Mage) is the wizard who controls the magical sources of the Shadowmere Swamp.<br/><br/>Once the court wizard of Duke Gerold Moergen, Lord of Tantras, Duriene was a skilled illusionist who used his powers to great effect when Gerold's most trusted lieutenant, Jaison Raenech, deposed the Duke in a palace coup.  Duriene created an illusory image of himself to protest Jaison's actions during the coup and when Jaison attacked the illusion, Duriene staged his own death by providing a convincing death, including his body's rapid corruption into dust, then blown away by an arcane breeze. Jaison remains convinced he killed Duriene. Duriene's old rival at court, Archwizard Jourdain Leonidan, suspected otherwise.<br/><br/>Duriene was court wizard to the Duke, but Jourdain was the Swamp Mage, an independent wizard who also worked with the Duke as necessary for Jourdain's own interests. When Jaison Raenech deposed Gerold Moergen, Duriene supported Gerold's son, William Moergen, while Jourdain supported the usurper. Rivals before, they became mortal enemies.<br/><br/>Most recently, William Moergen was captured by means of a betrayal and was subsequently executed in the People's Square in Tantras.  Duriene escaped by the narrowest of margins and knowing that the rebellion against Jaison Raenech had failed, fled south.  After travelling for several months, Duriene found himself standing before Duke Darien Avan<br/>