Ramkheret

King of the Eternal Sand, thirty-first lord to rule from the throne that has been lost to history. He took as his bound consort a woman of no noble house known only as She Who Speaks to Empty Places — the hag the desert would later come to know as Auntie Dirtha Bonebender, whose true name was Imetka. She brought to his marriage nothing but her voice and whatever answered when she used it.

Ramkheret waited three hundred years for her to return to him after their wedding, bound by a marriage contract written in two languages — one the language of mortal courts, the other the language of the Fey. The last entry in his tomb-journal was written by her: "He waited for me for three hundred years before I finally released him from the binding. He was still furious. Men. Even dead ones. Breaking free was cathartic… maybe not as much for him."

The Clay King: Even released from his marriage binding, Ramkheret had not been allowed to rest. Dirtha had sealed his voice — and the third piece of her true name — within a great clay golem seated in state at the heart of the pyramid, watched over by twin anubis statues. Aldric's divine sense confirmed a faint celestial echo still tethered to the figure: the soul of the king himself, held in service to the woman who had wronged him.

Laid to Rest: The party shattered the clay heart and freed him. Aldric, with a paladin's care, gathered up Ramkheret's body and returned it to its sarcophagus. With the hag undone and his brother Karumon released, the king at last rests easy.

His Brother: Karumon the Bound, his grand vizier in life, served beside him to the end and beyond.