Khati Sha the Twisted

The king’s explorer

Ages ago a mighty kerran beastlord named Khati Sha faithfully served his king, Vah Kerrath. When Shar Vahl was carried to the moon of Luclin, he set out at once to explore the new world, serving with honor and widening his people’s knowledge of the moon and its strange inhabitants.

Sources: Library of Erudin: Khati Sha

Into the Grey

He heard stories of a place on Luclin’s light side where the evil snake-folk, the Shissar, held sway. Afraid of the threat they might pose, and perhaps a little too curious, he went into the blazing eternal day to find the region called the Grey. He never came back. The Vah Shir mourned their greatest beastlord, and the Shar Vahl beastlord guild still bears his name. Most believe he died; some think he lives on, watching over his people from the wilds.

Sources: Library of Erudin: Khati Sha

What the Shissar made

The truth is worse. The Shissar captured him in the Grey and took him to their temple, where he suffered unbelievable torment. Curious about the moon’s newest inhabitants, they twisted his body and mind into something cruel and terribly powerful, infected with their xenophobia and lust for power.

Sources: Library of Erudin: Khati Sha · Allakhazam: Shissar

Tashakhi

What had been Khati Sha escaped the Grey, wandered the moon, and finally came back to the Mushroom Forest, where his people worked the Acrylia Mines. Deep in the mines he found a primitive race he named grimlings, and he shaped them as cruelly as the Shissar had shaped him, into a sadistic people bent on spreading death, above all among the Vah Shir.

By the thousands the grimlings burst from the mines, killed countless Vah Shir and drove them from the forest, which became the Grimling Forest. The grimlings worship him as a god under a twisted form of his old name: Tashakhi. Few have noticed, though some say newer grimling buildings mirror Vah Shir design.

Sources: Library of Erudin: Khati Sha