Collectors Of Confidential

“Come to me… Blood Lord…”

Keepers of Secrets are the avatars of the Dark Prince; the Lord of Excess. Obsession and desire are their trade, and they revel in the exquisite pleasure and pain they wreak upon their foes. Their all-consuming indulgence is something many heroes of the mortal plain have struggled with; being unable to resist their own primal urges as they are toyed with, and consequently slain. They see the darkest innermost desires of their chosen victims, tempting them towards a damnation unlike any other.

No two Keepers of Secrets are exactly alike, each embodying a facet of the Prince’s ever-indulgent whim. From exultation in the hunt, to graceful perfectionism, to lust beyond reason. Each is unique in the extreme sin it exploits and feeds upon. They are disproportionately tall, their legs digitigrade and cloven. Each bares four limbs, two of which end in massive chitinous pincers. Their bodies are no less strange, bearing the sexual characteristics of both male and female. Their eyes are black and soulless, and their visages range from the androgynous to the alien.

In battle, their fluid, graceful motions almost appear like a dance to the casual observer, a trait seen in many of the Dark Prince’s servants. Their speed is nearly unmatched. At a full sprint, they can easily catch a trained warhorse, easily slaying it with one graceful strike. Their talents for the arcane arts are no less impressive. They turn friend to foe with their whispers of temptation. They cast illusions that cloud and confuse the mind with one’s worst fears or greatest wants. They manifest spells of unending agony; of every sensation that exists or has existed.

Over the millennia, it is said that many Bloodthirsters have been banished at the hands of a Keeper of Secrets, and this endless rivalry is both mutual, and returned in kind. There is no foe a Keeper of Secrets desires to fight more than those avatars of the Blood God. This simultaneous respect and hatred for the foe is fundamental to their patron gods, for the Blood God hates the Dark Prince with a fury unseen even with his contempt for the Disciples of Change.