Balthus Dire

Balthus Dire is a powerful dark wizard and warlord who serves as the primary antagonist and final enemy in the second gamebook of the Fighting Fantasy series, The Citadel of Chaos. He is not only an highly skilled sorcerer he is also an accomplished fighter, well versed in strategy, and probably the most complete "final boss" of a Fighting Fantasy gamebook, as there is many possibilities when fighting him. He was once a sorcerer apprentice alongside of Oldoran Zagor and Zharradan Marr, and he fought against the latter in the infamous Trolltooth War.