Allister

Allister is a giant African land snail created by Outsider Entertainment, and a secondary antagonist in Knock on Wood.

Name Origin
Allister means "defender of man".

Personality
He claims that he is the greatest Alchemist in the land, but in reality, he's a screw up. He has shown several instances of Greed.

Abilities
Due to his physical size and structure, he's not capable of many things. However, thanks to him being an alchemist, he can preform various spells, most notably raising the dead, to the point where he can raise the Treant Elites. He uses his slime to draw Alchemy circles.

Biography
Allister is a very mysterious alchemist, and unlike General Ryvok and Sir Chalmers Watersworth, he isn't outright evil. He is neutral, but will do anything that the highest bidder wants him to. Ryvok pays him 10,000 Caterpillars to raise the five deceased Treant Elites. He initially rejects the offer, but Ryvok threatens him, and he agrees to raise them, and heads to the Inner Sanctum of the Treant Temple.

Halfway through the game, You meet him at his homeworld of the Mystic Woodlands, where he apologizes for bringing them back, stating that Ryvok would've killed him if he didn't. In the next world, after you defeat the Ryvok-ness monster, it is revealed that it was Allister controlling it, but he is hypnotized by Watersworth, and Woodrow can't snap him out of it. He is encountered one more time, in Forest in Flames. He is still brainwashed, and reanimate's the