Rathmana Allin  

[Tue May 31 14:06:23 2022] You say, 'what heretics?'
[Tue May 31 14:06:23 2022] Rathmana Allin says, 'As you can see, I am an Erudite, and I was raised in the great schools of magic in Erud. In my youth, I learned of a forbidden art. That art was necromancy. I secretly studied this art and eventually happened upon others who practiced the art of darkness. These magic users, or rather, necromancers, are called heretics. I learned their ways, but before I completely converted to their dark ways, I attempted to flee their circle. They caught me and through arcane means transported me to this desert. I would have died if it were not for a vision of Solusek Ro. He appeared to me and created a hole in Norrath. It was from this hole I drank and lived. Since then I call the desert of Ro home, and live my humble life in the name of the Burning Prince, Solusek Ro.'

[Tue May 31 14:04:51 2022] You say, 'solusek?'
[Tue May 31 14:04:51 2022] Rathmana Allin says, 'Solusek Ro is the Burning Prince. It is He who watches over this desert and chooses who lives and who dies. It was He who saved Rathmana from the heretics and it was He who saved Ortallius from the sands.'

+1355.12,-279.24,74.78

For those that hate to use /loc he is located in the West area of zone just south a ways of Derv camp 3 in the sand dunes near zone wall. North of the Wizard spires. If coming from swamp just follow zone wall N to find him.

I was able to buy from him with apprehensive faction.

+1359(W) +277(S) is his exact location.

This NPC can now be found at +1353, -280

Took 500-600pp to get from quite a way into scowling back to indifferent. Rathmana will take money at any faction, but Ortallius kept trying to kill me while I was KoS. I'd guess you're getting about ten faction hits upwards for every 3pp.. even got about 80pp back from selling the spells afterwards :).

I ended up just rooting Ortallius out of the way, FD-ing to lose aggro and then using him to tell how my faction was doing: Rathmana never goes below dubious.

This guy is a bit greedy - check out his merchant prices, anyway I went from indeferent to amiable with Solusek Ro after about 10 or so gives. You can give him 30gp or 3pp, it does'nt have to gold. He's lying. Don't make the mistake and give the cutthroat rings to him, Give 3 or 4 to ortallius. Rathmana Allin is also the recipient of another quest, which i'm not sure of. The rooted illegible scrolls he sometimes gives you, are to be taken to High Keep. Good luck

He's also a merchant that sells food and water to good or evil races.

If you give him money (20 or 30 gold... must be gold, though), he will give you an item, usually a pretty worthless scroll... though supposedly he can give you better stuff too. He also asks if you are there [on business], so I assume that you can be sent there on a quest.