Per'kele

* Battle
* In-game

**Per'kele** is the mysterious servant of the Trickster Moon God, Rher, and an NPC and character from the game *Fear & Hunger 2: Termina*.

*Proceed at your own risk!*

## Lore

> "Per'kele and the group associated with that figure... You might recognize them by the body paint covering their faces and body. They are but leeches. Leeching on the older gods, pursuing their own agenda. Miserable figures." - The New Gods when asked about Per'kele.
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Per'kele is a mysterious servant of the Trickster Moon God, Rher. He serves as his master's voice since the God is seen from far away. Asking the New Gods about the servant in *Fear & Hunger* suggests that Per'kele is simply serving Rher to pursue his own goals and ideas in mind.

It is revealed near the end of Termina that Per'kele does not serve Rher as the Old God was already gone by this point, but another God called the Sulfur God and leads the Cult of Sulfur.

## Interactions with Per'kele

He saves you from the workshop in some sort of nightmarish sequence in the introduction that the player can either skip or go through. Regardless of the player's choices, they would still have the dream of being saved by Per'kele and meeting him and the Moon God Rher, who seems to be awake but cannot talk and can only seemingly stare at the player. Per'kele will then tell the player of the Termina Festival, and how they will play a part in it as one of its contestants, calling it a chance for one of the participants of the Termina festival to have a peek at grandeur and have a chance for 'illustrious reality', and calling it the 'festival to end all festivals'. He will say no more though, saying that his master will answer the player character's questions later on as they progress through the festival. He and his master will talk and meet again with the player under the green hue lit moonlight.

## Strategy

The fight poses a moderate to high threat depending on how prepared the player is. The main challenge comes from the player character being the only human-controlled party member. AI-controlled teammates, while not exactly very useful in their attacks, will make a difference when taking some hits meant for the player. A Blood Golem is highly recommended as it does not require as much attention as a moderately equipped Ghoul and can allow the player character to focus on the damage dealing instead of healing them.

Every turn, Per'kele will use his right hand (your left) to summon a fairly devastating meteor that is guaranteed to hit, and with the other to launch many rapid fire, lower damage attacks. He will sometimes use this arm to activate Wing Guard and cover his torso for protection. While Wing Guard is active all spells will be reflected back at the caster, often killing them in one hit. If using a magic build, the wing should be dealt with quickly without the use of magic. Otherwise, the meteor hand should be considered as it will rapidly chew through the team's health pool, especially if the target is not guarding. It is not advised to destroy both arms, as Per'kele will start casting much stronger spells.

After removing both of his arms, he will start to randomly use either Hurting or Black Orb every turn, so one might want to preserve the revs accumulated from dealing with the second arm.

Another fight will initiate soon as Per'kele is defeated, with no time for preparation, so it's advised to ensure the player character finishes the fight with at least some health (at least 30 might be safe enough) or they might not survive the first turn, even if guarding.

## Trivia

* Possibly a reference to the phenomenon/meme "Did you dream about this man?"
* Per'kele's name comes from the Suomi/Finnish word from the Finnic-Ugric languages, *perkele*, which means *devil* or *evil spirit.* The name is of Indo-European origin, being the name of the Proto-Indo-European god of thunder called *Perkwunos*. Other gods of thunder are derived from this name, such as *Perkūnas* (Lithuanian), *Pērkons* (Latvian), *Perkūns* or*Perkunos* (Baltic Old Prussian), *Parkuns* (Yotvingian), *Percunis* (German Prussian), *Piarun* (Belarusian), *Fairguneis* (Gothic), *Perun* or *Piorun* (Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene), and *Peko* or *Pekolasõ* (Estonian (the language is of the same language family as Finnish)). It is also related to other words in the Balto-Finnic branch of the Finnic-Ugric language family, such as in Estonian, *põrgu,* means hell, and in Karelian, *perkeleh,* means an evil spirit. Because the god of thunder is from a different religion and considered pagan by the Abrahamic religion of Christianity, the name became demonized, which led to the word, *perkele,* and is now used in the modern day as a swear word by the modern day Suomi/Finnish people.
	+ Going by this linguistic root, it is very fitting for him to be a recruiter or leader of the Cult of Sulfur and with the Sulfur God being his master.

* Per'kele wears facepaint of similar colors as seen in the book of Rher. Another character that have similar facepaint is the Janitor.