Kul’tka

The Black Pyramid is the seat of Kul'tka's power. He was a god on a distant planet who was malevolent, power hungry, and perverse. His second in command was Bangui, a shifter panther (Tamara) who had been conscripted by him at a young age and learned to survive by seducing him, then becoming indispensable in organizing worshipping for him. But, unbeknownst to him, she managed to often save hapless people and render his cruelty less harmful.

When their world was about to come to an end, Bangui managed to bind herself and Kul'tka to the Black Pyramid and have it transported to end up in Akashat. She was half freed from the binding first and found a way to keep him actually physically bound to and within the building. He is in the obsidian stones, in the air, in the statues, and in the grotesque throne within the Pyramid. He is in every object within the Pyramid, but he can't take living substance, and he can't become a body in motion.

He is the building and the building is his binding, and feeding him in turn seems to keep that which binds him from leaving the building that much stronger. He is fed and satiated by the emotions/feelings brought about by cruelty, pain, fear, perversion - all the darker range of things that can be pulled from people that are offered up for these dark sacrifices within the walls. His depraved joy on feeding from these things is like a drug that seeps from the walls and penetrates those within giving them a rush of elation in reward. Kul'tka also competes with the Dreamweaver to try and suck in the dark dreams and nightmares produced by the population to feed from as well.

Thematically he could be freed if the bindings holding him weaken and roam the city, engulfing the land in darkness and cruelty, but that requires the consent of staff!

Tamara serves him to keep him under control, at a great price for her own emotional sanity and well being as she is ultimately not malevolent herself, but know all to well what life would be like if he were to roam free and uncontrolled. She has long been recognized by the royals and rulers of Akashat to have the ability to foresee doom and danger to the city. And she is ICly well known to try and lend a hand to protect the city, as she knows its continued existence is vital to keeping Kul'tka leashed and controlled.

Recently, Kul’tka took advantage of a series of circumstances to destroy the Throne of Bones of Crimson Cardinal which he perceived as a threat to his harnessing of the darker dreams and urges of the city. Merared stepped in, as Tamara was found to have been ill, and assumed her ‘link’ to the Dark God. He was contained, but the structure of the city was changed slightly from that day forward.