Slug Count

Slug Count's History

Roughly seven years before the fifth Eclipse, the human who would become the Count served as ruler of a hold, during a period in which his land was overrun by pagans. After a lengthy pagan-hunting campaign, he returned to his castle, only to find his beloved wife willingly participating in a heretical orgy. In a fit of blind rage, the man killed all of the heretical participants until only his wife was left, whom he could not bring himself to kill. He was driven to despair upon seeing his wife's knowing, triumphant smile, and almost ended his own life before his beherit responded to his despair. Granted an audience with the God Hand, the man sacrificed his wife in order to transcend his humanity and end his suffering; reborn as an apostle, he devoured his branded wife.[5]

Soon after his reincarnation, the Count began spreading a lie that his wife was taken hostage by a group of heretics and killed during a sacrificial ritual. He later placed his daughter, Theresia, under house arrest.[1] From then on, the Count hunted heretics with unnatural enthusiasm; these inquisitions served only as a false pretense for the Count to acquire more bodies, which he vivisected, further mutilated, and devoured. When his physician Vargas discovered his secret and attempted to run away, the Count captured the man, mutilated him, and forced him to watch as his wife and two sons were eaten alive. Nevertheless, Vargas eventually managed to escape with the Count's beherit.[