Garlik. Art by Rafael Arrais.

 

"The Man-Demon"; "The Red One"; "The Man without a Soul"... Garlik, the polemic former governor of Sur, has various different names, but none of them have any relation with his political work.

Some rumours spread along Torann tells that this man is in reality the son of a demon! As you may guess, I became very curious about Garlik`s life since I heard these reports... They say that his father, Homik, had two children with her mother, Jillay, but one of these were in fact generated by a relation of Jillay with a interesting, seducing demon.

At this point I really tought that the rumours were false, because I never ever heard about a charismatic baldread, but then I studied the history of Sur and discovered more curious facts: Both Garlik`s parents died by some weird and unknow disease that caused a great pain to their bodies. The priests analized the corpses and discovered a strange pink fluid mixed with their blood. Homik died two years later, but he suffered the same injuries of Jillay...

Also, his older brother Cirlay died by falling out his horse while hunting foxes... With Garlik! Nobody can assegure that Cirlay died just by falling. Garlik may have hit his head with a staff till his death... And then Garlik became the only one who could rule Sur, since his father were the governor and had no living brothers. If that is true, the rumours about his demoniac blood may be very, very real.

But its nothing compared with what Garlik is "famous about"... While governing Sur, Garlik decided to travel with a small number of soldairs to the distant and evil isles of Dordread! Only evil priests and powerfull wizards were known to have been there, but what a governor could want from a trip like that?

The fact is that Garlik passed about three years in the lands of Dordread, and he returned alive, tough a great part of his soldairs didn`t had the same luck. The Man-Demon wrote a book, a book that describes some unbelieveble aspects of these distant lands... He called his work as "The Tome of the Tenth Hell".

Nobody can say if the words inscribed at these tome are real or not, but many demonologists seen to be very interested on this work since the demon surge. Some of them even made copies that can be seen at the great libraries of Talantha... Well, but the point is that these journey had a big cost for Garlik and his city, Sur. Without a governor, the cities economy falled apart during these three years, and then Garlik was forced to open his gates to uncivilized races. As you can bet, the other governors got real mad about this decision, and "forced" Garlik to cancel it. But the Man-Demon decided to give, yes, to give Sur to a barren orc leader of many orkish caverns at the Barren Mountains, a orc named Zurtak. The only thing Garlik got in exchange was an antique sword that Zurtak and his followers found at the deep underground of the Barren Mountains.

A city for a sword? What sword is that? KaranBlade? No, no, don`t be a dreamer, if Garlik had the sword of eternal fire he would be ruling all Torann right now... But, if that`s not KaranBlade, it may be a vestige of its location. What is Garlik thinking of doing right now? Nobody can say, not even me. I understand alot of demons, but nothing of men.

Ecklaus , Demonologist of Talantha

 

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