Zarrok Veilbinder

The creature can take 3 legendary actions per round, choosing from the options below.

Zarrok rose from the catacombs beneath the obsidian shrine-city of Kharaz-Sul, where an apprentice necromancer learned the old ritual to sever self from name. Instead of leaving his body, he learned to fold identity like paper, to wear other faces and keep only the black eyes of the ritual as proof of continuity. His mastery of soul-binding and sympathy magics attracted the attention of a splinter of the Nagashian cult known as the Ledger of Ash; they made him their commander and lent him resources to seek cracks in Nagash's prison. Legends say Zarrok built his first thrall from a traveling illusionist and a dead mason; the thrall wears what the cult calls a Hat of Disguise — a stitched brim of memory that helps Zarrok mask his will. Scholars such as Archivist Ysolde of the Gray Scriptorium and the anti-Nagashian sect the Bone-Tide have both recorded encounters: Ysolde's scrolls warn that Zarrok can manipulate a crowd's sorrow into obedience, while the Bone-Tide recounts a siege where the commander turned an entire garrison against itself by coaxing out their buried regrets. Zarrok's goal is explicit in whispered cult prophecies: to unlock the latch on Nagash's ethereal prison and shepherd his rebirth — not merely out of devotion, but because Nagash's return would remake the rules Zarrok uses to rewrite persons.

Zarrok appears as a tall, angular man in tailored black and bone-gray robes that shift pattern as if woven from smoke. His most constant features are pupils like wells of ink; the sclera around them is an unnaturally deep black that absorbs light. His face is pleated with faint seams where other visages have been grafted: a scar that isn't always there, a small patch of stubbled cheek that can vanish like a whisper. His hands are long and slender, knuckled with thin rings of engraved bone that jingle when he speaks. The Hat of Disguise his thrall wears is a battered, wide-brimmed felt hat cemented with skeleton keys and woven hair; the thrall itself is slightly shorter than a human, jointed with visible sinew and brass, with a fixed, painted smile. Textures: the robes are matte and shadow-absorbent; the black eyes are glossy and mirrorless; the thrall's hat is frayed felt with crude sewn sigils; any flesh Zarrok fashions has a faint seam like a paperfold.