Kulat

Kulat was an old man and former goat herder who lived in the same small hamlet in Seven Cities as Barathol Mekhar.The Bonehunters, Prologue, US SFBC p.34 He had butchered his last animal seven years ago, trading the meat to a passing caravan for a bottle of liquor, and done nothing since. His eyesight remained keen even as the rest of his health declined.The Bonehunters, Prologue, US SFBC p.34-35 
He habitually sucked on three or more black, polished stones the size of knuckle bones that audibly clicked as he spoke.The Bonehunters, Prologue, US SFBC p.34-35The Bonehunters, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.505 
==In The Bonehunters==
Word came to Barathol Mekhar that five armed figures stood on the road just outside the hamlet. The blacksmith donned his armour and axe and set out to investigate. He was soon joined by Kulat, who could more clearly make out the strangers' unusual bone helmets and fur dress.The Bonehunters, Prologue, US SFBC p.33-35 The strangers never entered the town and soon disappeared. Kulat himself, shortly thereafter, developed a form of madness and wandered off, leaving his stash of Falari rum behind.The Bonehunters, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.494/500
 
Months later, Kulat was living far to the west in an ancient abandoned city called Hanar Ara.The Bonehunters, Chapter 12, UK MMPB p.606The Bonehunters, Chapter 22, UK MMPB p.984 He was now a bent figure wearing little more than rags. His forearms and the backs of his hands were covered in suppurating sores and his teeth were worn and chipped.The Bonehunters, Chapter 12, UK MMPB p.611-612 There, Felisin Younger was delivered to him by The Unbound, servants of the Crippled God and the same strangers he had spotted on the road months before. He called himself her seneschal and said he had spent months readying the city for her arrival. He told Felisin he was but the first to be called upon to serve her in her role as the true Sha'ik Reborn, Chosen Hand of the Apocalypse. Poliel had bowed before the Crippled God and spread plague across Seven Cities. Soon many of the survivors twisted by the disease would be drawn to the City of the Fallen by the Whispers to serve Sha'ik and spread her cult across the world.The Bonehunters, Chapter 12, UK MMPB p.611-613 
Kulat's words proved true. Hundreds of survivors came to dig out and reclaim the city. He took the boy, Carrier, under his wing to instruct him in the ways of pilgrimage so that the asymptomatic boy might secretly spread the plague.The Bonehunters, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.590-592
Once Felisin Younger resigned herself to her fate, Kulat regulated and influenced much of her behaviour. He was a voyeur and encouraged her in excesses of the flesh as well as others, claiming her indolence was a symbol of the paradise that waited her followers after death.The Bonehunters, Chapter 21, UK MMPB p.982/983 When Mathok and T'morol came to Hanar Ara to deliver the Book of Dryjhna and their army of tribal warriors to Felisin Paran's successor, Kulat stood at her side as she refused them. Felisin Younger instructed him to find a place for the Holy Book and prepare a new Book of Salvation in which he would record her own words. Mathok threw down the Holy Book and left, leaving Kulat to shriek that the broken book had been ruined.The Bonehunters, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.807-808
Mathok later surrendered himself to the army of Ganoes Paran and recommended they slaughter all who lived at the City of the Fallen. Although Paran recognised that leaving the cult unchecked was a danger, he could not bring himself to do it.The Bonehunters, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.808-810
==Notes and references==
Category:Males
Category:Seven Cities natives