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Hamtayarsk, Herald of XM78, Emanator of Awareness
Domains: Fate, Trickery

Hamtayarsk, born and raised in the Free City of Alloy, is fairly certain that he was made herald of XM78 simply because he was the first person to set foot upon it. Even today, the devil does not know which supergenius, civilization, or deity might have built Oxyrhynchus Mark 78, let alone what could have happened to Marks 1 through 77.

He has always been both an avid explorer of the timescape and an incorrigible con artist. Fuel, ship repairs, and ship upgrades are expensive; what better way to pay for them than by scamming the hell out of people he will never see again? Hamtayarsk runs a crypto rug pull or whatever on the manifold's internet, buys what he needs to buy, and then blasts off before attracting heat. Sure, UNISOL usually sends some bobbies in hot pursuit, but the devil is fantastic at losing them.

Well, he has a higher calling now, for good or for ill. So there are all these parallel realities, and they are all simulations, right? And they call for a bunch of heroes to go fight some bad guys? And all of this is in service to a narrative, or something like that? Sounds pretty darned trite, if you ask Hamtayarsk, but it is what it is.

It seems productive to try to make these stories actually happen, then. Heroes need to be put into proximity with villains. So the devil does what he does best: rove around the timescape, identify marks, and maneuver them into position, such that they come into contact and conflict with one another.

That backwater Orden planet sure looks like it has lots of heroic sorts. It would be funny if they were to get beamed up into the upper worlds to fight proteans or whatever.