Khalân's Embrace

Indal'pox, cambion double agent

In the Demon Spawn War, an angelic secret agent named Khalân, serving under Clangeddin, fell to the natural charms of a cunning cambion agent. This half-demon was a double agent, one that remained as such for the rest of the war and was responsible for Khalân's downfall. The cambion Indal'pox seduced Khalân and gathered such intelligence that led to the loss of a battle between one of Clangeddin's armies and those under the whip of the demon prince Ahnuthall. When found out, the damning info passed on by Indal'pox, Clangeddin sent his former agent in chains before the judiciary branch of the Quara'tun Covenant. Khalân got off easy, with Moradin urging leniency (probably because she was a Turkûn-Khâl). She was banished from service under the Quara'tun Covenant. Additionally, all those serving the pact could not render service to her unless it was life-saving. With this sentence, Khalân was in a bad state for she was now trapped between battlefields of demons and angels that were sprinkled across vast areas of Bal-Kriav.

Khalân, dejected from being kicked out of the angelic pact, grew vengeful. Out of necessity, mainly survival, she decided to join a mortal mercenary force that was unknowingly serving the demons. This group ended up being rooted out with Khalân again falling into the hands of Clangeddin's forces. This time her sentence was much worse. Khalân was stripped of her material form for the duration of the war. The records of Khalân state were lost when the bastion Dul-Kiz fell to the demons. The place was ravaged and anything not destroyed in the demon rampage was carried off as booty.

In the Horgon Era, an incorporeal Khalân was found by the gnoll shaman Sadî. The self-proclaimed "spirit talker" used her witchery to detect lost spirits and found Khalân. The spell Trap the Soul was then used to bind Khalân's to a receptacle. This receptacle was then used in the creation of a sentient trident. The magical powers of this weapon named Khalân's Embrace are based largely on Time. This is because they were supplied to Sadî by the then planetar Chronos. This was done by Chronos to spread his gospel among the gnolls that revered Sadî and to crush their enemies with the weapon's powers. The first group of followers to come under the sway of Chronos were the gnoll tribes of the Canines. Khalân's Embrace and Sadî headed up the conversion of these godless heathens and were instrumental in Chronos's elevation to godhood.

Khalân's Embrace is a +5 three-tined iron trident. It is inscribed with distorted images of things suffering the effects of time displacement and aging. It radiates a dull gray aura with ghostly trails of smoke endlessly rising from the tines. The air around the weapon is sometimes distorted, which can sometimes result in a displacing effect on the wielder and anyone within 10'.

see weapon properties