Role

Chapter 7

Origins, part 2: Khark Hazyn
Matthen's fellow gang members were shrewd businessmen, despite their
youth. They were always dealing in everything from the mundane to the
arcane. So naturally, they crossed path with many interesting people.
There are a few who they wish they hadn't met. Khark Hazyn they wished
never existed.

Khark Hazyn was the name the mage gave them He was cloaked entirely in
black, but they could hear his armor clink beneath it. He bought from
them several ptions. When they named a priec he didn't like, he beat
them until they named a more suitable price. Despite this abuse, Khark
Hazyn was very profitable for the gang. But he sought for himself
a different kind of profit.

After several dealings with the gang, Khark Hazyn offered them one
final deal. They would become his eyes, ears, knives, and toys in
Hamsah Mu'Tazz. In exchange, he would pay them, all of them, in food
and monies. They accepted, and Matthen's first Hell began.

The first thing they knew as pain. The second was the tattoos on their a
arms. The third was the Night, in all its overwhelming power, all its
ominous precepts. Theyt knew exactly what would happen when the Eternal
Night came. They served the Night, they served Khark Hazyn. If they
strayed from this, they were rewarded with pain. Tey did what Khark
Hazyn told them to. Any other time they were free to do as they wished.
But pain was their teacher if they did otherwise.

Eventaully Khark Hazyn faded away. Perhaps he forgot about his toys, or
tossed them iaside in favor of a new project, or a bettertoy. But the
gang never forgot him. They never forgot the horrors Khark Hazyn had
brought with him.