Adam Carthalion

Adam Carthalion was of the influential Carthalion lineage; once a young shipping magnate and consultant to the leaders of Arathoxia, but then as Lord of Castle Melmereth of House Scarlet in Ephren on Corondor he held the houses of Arathoxia together.

Adam once traveled in the Domains to find a Dwarven Hold, which contained mana that would get him closer to his goal of becoming a planeswalker. He dueled against the planeswalker Marduk Blackwater, and as he shifted away, the planeswalker cleared his mind. Adam ended up in the Hurloon Mountains with no memory of his past and was befriended by the minotaur Eusomone; when they came across Marduk in the mountains, Adam regained his memory and, using the mana from the Dwarven Hold in the mountains, drove the planeswalker away. He gave his sword, Foecleaver, to Eusomone as a gift of friendship; Eusomone then granted Adam permission to summon him as needed.

Adam left the Hurloon mountains to return home, eventually finding the Black Lotus on his journey. After portrents had foretold that a dark force would endanger all of Dominaria, Adam went on a quest to become a planeswalker in order to fight that thread. Ravidel even got him to sacrifices his own wife Gwendolyn Mor to Ravidel in exchange for power. Unbeknownst to Adam Ravidel himself was the foretold danger, and was currently trying to get people who might stand in his way. Adam and Gwendolyn being the first on his list.

When Adam was about to sacrifice his infant son Jared to Ravidel, he backed out at the last moment. He instead entrusted his spellsquire Ezer with Jared and confronted Ravidel head-on in the Battle of Aster Fall; Adam then cast a mighty conflagration, intending to kill Ravidel. Though Adam sacrificed himself to fulfill the spell, Ravidel was only wounded, instead of killed.