#gort burns the bhaal temple down in my canon. i think i’ll have them end in that. not sure yet.

[archduke-enver-gortash]

solution for eke just being way too feral and uncharismatic (5 cha. lol) to be high primate. body double!!! enaza/“the dark urge”, he/they & a socradin. i had this image of zeke being way too dangerous and unpredictable to expose to the masses of the cult, so he’s treated as a sort of novelty secret only the most devout members get to know about. so, 95% of the cult only knows this public face. very soon after sceleritas found zeke after murdering his ‘adoptive’ parents, they realised that zeke was extremely unfit for the role and raised them for it instead—a half-drow child about 5 years older than zeke. they were denied their birthname, but got a new one from gortash (enaza means ‘spear’ in alzhedo. at first you think oh how clever they’re a spear user. but it’s really a play on them being a spear in gortash’s hand to further reach & hurt zeke) as they are the one who started working with gortash & eventually ketheric on the absolute plan a few years after gortash & zeke met, and gortash refuses to call them ‘the dark urge’, because that’s a title only reserved for his archnemesis and not some inferior imposter (obviously doesn’t say that to their face tho lol). their actual character is still a bit mushy in my brain, but i know that they also harbour deep resentment towards zeke, so they super duper don’t care about zeke’s uhm. worsening physical & mental state. he’s in because of gort when they see him every other year or something lmao. there’s a lot of shit happening in my brain that i need to sort, and i’m not even sure if i’ll keep this idea exactly like this so. idk lol brainstorming time i suppose