Niswath Dorlian was an elf of Falgorn Island in Yamato, and the high cleric of Hephaestus. He forged the magic blades Dawn and Dusk by using magical metal gathered from the area surrounding Mardük's Prison, and sent his apprentice Schuldich Cedheros abroad to deliver the blades to their intended wielders to combat the darkness of Mardük and Nergal. Niswath and the rest of the clerics faced the Chaos Dwarves sent by Distreyd Thanadar XII to buy Schuldich enough time to escape, and they perished in the raid which decimated all of their order.