When Dragonblight gripped Canos, Cobalt Fairfax was one of the first lines of defense in setting up the quarantine. In doing so he was struck by one of the plague monsters, and believed himself to have become infected. In a last-hope effort to stall the plague’s onset through his skin, he underwent a complete transmutation to replace his outer flesh for stone. Though this has led to many complications since, he believes if he were to somehow reverse the process, he would surely perish. He now teaches Transmutation at the University of Canos, and is a walking example of the most extreme examples of the school of magic.
