Werdna

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Werdna is an arch-wizard in the Wizardry series. He was the archenemy of the character Trebor in the first Wizardry, where at the end Werdna was slain. But the character Werdna was featured in another game of the series, Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna.

Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna, was a significant departure from the first three Wizardry games. In it, the player controlled Werdna, the evil wizard slain in the first game, and summoned groups of monsters to aid him as he fought his way up from the bottom of his prison. Rather than monsters, the player faced typical adventuring parties, some of which were pulled from actual user disks sent to Sir-Tech for recovery. Further, the player had only a limited number of keystrokes to use to complete the game. It is generally considered one of the most challenging computer role-playing games of all time.

Werdna ("Andrew" spelled backwards) was named after Wizardry's co-author, Andrew C. Greenberg.