Ven Khihalis

* Embers of Autumn
* Champion of Cathossis - First Form
* Champion of Cathossis - Second Form

* 3. Impaled himself with his own horns to sever Cathossis' control over him, and to destroy Cathossis for good.

### Death Episode

* 1. Embers of Autumn: Whispers of the Moon (Episode 36)
* 2. Embers of Autumn: Dust Among the Thunder (Episode 59)
* 3. Embers of Autumn: Hope Amidst Despair (Episode 98)

## Appearances

### First Seen

Embers of Autumn: Harvest's Cull (Episode 01)

### Number of Episodes

66

**Ven Khihalis**, is a tiefling wizard. He was played by Sam as a player character and by Justin as an NPC. He was one of the core characters in the campaign, Embers of Autumn.

## **Background**

### "Dust Among the Thunder" (Episode 59)

While searching the catacombs beneath the Halls of Eternal Life in Anundiel City, the Faust and the Furious alerted a half-dragon mage who was working with Archpriest Barnir to free Tiamat from the Nine Hells. During the ensuing battle with the mage, Ven was disintegrated and perished.

### "Renewed Spirit" (Episode 60)

After defeating this mage and restoring the Platinum Dragon's essence, he offered the party a favour in freeing him from his prison. They asked to bring Ven back to life, but Ven refused believing he had work to do in the afterlife and instead put forward Dax's mother to be restored to life after she had previously been erased from existence to pay for a cursed wish.

### "Titan of Infamy" (Episode 94)

As the Faust and the Furious returned to their Wish Manor after being saved from a reality-wide purge that killed all of existence, Kena attempted to contact Ven with a Sending spell in the hopes they could reach him in the afterlife for some guidance, however the spell failed.

A few moments later Ven himself reached out, confirming he was indeed alive, and was in the centre of the apocalyptic tempest that the party had seen only moments before from the Weaver's visions. He invited Kena and the rest along as he wouldn't want to witness what is to come with anyone else.

### "The Silence at the End" (Episode 95)

Before arriving at the Panopticon of the Prime, he first assaulted the Soulspyre Academy with numerous members of the Cacophony of Eyes. There, he murdered the current headmaster, Ebner Pate as well as most of the students and staff. He stole two powerful relics; the Loom and some unknown artifact. After he was done at the academy he made way for the Panopticon of the Prime, opened the ancient seals and triggered a trap that killed the whole of reality, aside from himself, the Cacophony of Eyes and the Faust and the Furious..

The Faust and the Furious arrived at the Panopticon of the Prime to find that Ven had been leading a cult of hundreds of faithful worshippers of Cathossis calling themselves the Cacophony of Eyes. Ven was also now serving Cathossis as his champion and the Faust and the Furious were reunited with their old friend as he stood over the dying form of Armathnan.

He offered the Faust and the Furious a place beside him in the new reality that they would create. His old adventuring party refused, so he summoned an aberration from beyond the universe and went deeper into the Panopticon to enact his plans.

### "Chasing the Champion" (Episode 96)

Ven was chased all throughout the lower levels of the Panopticon, and eventually into the city of Sigil. It was here in the nexus of the planes that Ven severed their reality from the influence of Sigil and the Lady of Pain so he could complete the Reunion ritual without her interference.

The Faust and the Furious escaped Sigil, and prepared to fight their old friend within a chamber once dedicated to Cathossis within the Panopticon.

### "Facing a Fallen Friend" (Episode 97)

It was revealed during the course of his fight with the Faust and the Furious that Ven had been gifted a variety of new abilities for serving as Cathossis' champion. He had grown a massive sword of bone and flesh out of his right arm that was capable of producing Beholder-like eye rays, and his left arm transformed into a large whip of tendon and flesh.

His final form appeared to be that of some sort of monstrous, flesh spider covered in eyes and he also appeared to be tethered to Cathossis by a strange, ethereal chain of sorts.