Naros

Naros is the master of the Kalel assassins in the capital, White City, in the campaign Raphael Efsanesi ("The Legend of Raphael"). Picolo believed the new master to be the tiefling Naros, whose byname is the Emperor Slayer, and counted him as very dangerous.¹

Taking the city

Naros announced that he had taken over the city's affairs after Dimes. At his first meeting with Raphael he cut the throat of the elf who had been acting for Kalel, declaring that assassins who kill one another will be punished, and then raised the dead man's body by magic to threaten Raphael. He offered Raphael a choice between his own death and the death of Picolo, and held Raphael's friends Omar and Karas as leverage.^{2 3}

The ring and the ultimatum

Naros made Raphael put on a ring that would let Kalel find him wherever he hid; its inner teeth bit into his right thumb as it closed. In return the two friends would be released and Raphael would live. Unless the head of one of two targets was brought within twenty-four hours, Omar would die, and Karas after forty-eight. Naros refused to release Karas to help, and warned that if Raphael ran, a Kalel man named Leon would come after him.^{4 5 6}

When Raphael asked for the North Wind inn, later the Night Wolf, as the price of also killing Zulu, Naros would not give it. He offered instead a partnership and future favours if Zulu died and his gang entered Kalel's service. He then cut off Raphael's left ring finger, put it in his collection, and had him knocked out and left with his weapons across from the North Wind. He spoke of his own plans: to visit two museums, then to kill a high judge and collect money from the market.^{7 8 9}

The raid

Raphael answered with a raid on Kalel, backed by mercenaries of the Followers of Zolan. As he crept in invisible, the ring bit him and broke the spell; the doors slammed shut, purple flames filled the room, and Naros, himself invisible at the table, was revealed. He fought Raphael and Fazon with short leaps through space, a dagger and fire, and wounded Fazon badly.^{10 11}

Spoiler: The end of NarosGösterAçık ettiği: Raphael Efsanesi #2; Raphael Efsanesi #3 · Ne okuduğunuzu söyleyin

Raphael cut off Naros's arm and struck a last blow as the master teleported away. Naros vanished as a dead body, leaving the arm behind, and where the body went is not known. Raphael cut a finger from the severed arm and took his short sword, Gece.^{12 13}

Raphael feared that so important a member of Kalel would be raised from the dead, and asked his drow spy to warn him at once if Naros were ever seen.¹⁴

Later, while visiting Picolo, Raphael had a vision in which the room and Karas disappeared and the dead Naros sat at the table with an apple, threatening him for reaching for great things. Karas slapped him awake, and Picolo showed him a fresh burn on his chest in the shape of an octopus head, his shirt burnt through. The mark was the sign of a mind flayer, though Raphael did not know it then.^{15 16 17}