A- who the derp is this guy? He one-shots me every time I go in there.
B-What's his purpose apart from refusing shelter from dragon attacks?
He lives in this hut on one of the mountains by Whiterun and he's like a Dunmer mage.
Information on the little krot would be welcome.

He pwned me several times too. Eventually I said f*** it and left him alone. I haven't tried in about 30 levels though. I should go back and have a beer with him.

Drelas?

I kicked his ass on my thief without getting the jump on him. Had to use enough potions to put a mammoth under, though.

The guy is a tank. When playing round my friend's house I'm quite a low level and was getting pwned at a dragon attack so I saw the hut sprinted for it and thought oh I'll hide in here.
Blew my ass to kingdom come. I returned with full health and he still pretty much made an ash pile of me.

i kill him very easily on my level 31 wood elf rogue. I did not even sneak attack him either.

Drelas isn't important to anything so you can kill him safely, but he is pretty tough, caught me off guard when I wandered in after killing a dragon, almost crushed me but I took him out, he has a nice amount of alch ingredients if you want any.

I killed him in 1/2 a shot. He never had a chance.

I just found him with my level 55 mage. Tried to go the "honorable duel" route with him, using greater ward and thunderbolt, but he gets me every time with his chain lightning staff. So eventually I just used paralyze spell on him and covered him in wall of storms and wall of frost, and stood next to him with a frost cloak on and he died before becoming unparalyzed.

I love his house though. Definitely taking it over as a country vacation cottage. Would be rather pleasant if it weren't for the dragons, lol.

prey tell me, where can i find this dude

Is there a story behind this dude? I haven't done much mountaintop exploring yet.

You can see Drelas' Hut on the map from GameBanshee.

Found Drelas while wandering, made the mistake of going into his hut. One shot, one shot, one shot... The next time I hid behind the pole/post in his house and kept it between me and him and somehow managed to kill him.