Marduk

Race: unknown

Gender: man?

Age: unknown

Description: unknown

Friend or foe: Frei is convinced he's the driving force behind the incident that led to her exile. Since we're slowly befriending Frei, it stands to reason Marduk is our foe.

Associated quest:

• prove Frei's innocence in order to undo her exile, thus implicating Marduk in the hellish attack on Kohshar
• stop his further plans, if need be : we learnt that Saatia hired Simeon for an assassination in Kohshar. Since we don't like either Saatia or Simeon, we'll probably enjoy foiling that plan!

Notes: Kohshar, one of the bigger communities in the Sand Sea, was originally organised around an oasis. Their social structure is built around the merchant-kings (senior generation) and merchant-princes (junior generation). Each of these has a particular area of influence. Frei was able to tell us about:

• Gnossair, the owner of the original oasis and the man who controls all water in Kohshar, making him the richest man in town, and perhaps also the most powerful
• Jahari, who started the city guard and now organises security, making him Frei's ultimate boss when she was still a city guard

Marduk is one of the lackeys vying for the merchant-kings' favour.

In the correspondence we found in Ghorann's hideout after his death during session 3, Marduk was looking to buy 2 hellhounds for purposes unknown. Ghorann refused. This appears to vindicate Frei as innocent of planning the attack: her exile seems to be part cover-up and part convenient racism.

In a PS, Marduk appears to mention the transportation circle where Ghorann found is: is Marduk also aware of Eluviel's plan for us?