![[aserai 1.png]] # Beni Zilal ## "the Sons of the Shadows" ### Tier 4 - Outlaws / Mafia The origins of the Beni Zilal, the 'Sons of the Shadows', are shrouded in legend. Many of the stories tell of a messianic preacher who ruled from a citadel deep in the desert, entrancing his followers with the help of hallucinogenic herbs and terrorizing the [[Aserai-Sultanate]] nobility with the threat of assassination. Regardless of how much truth these stories contain, this brotherhood is now a powerful institution in the deep reaches of the Nahasa, collecting protection money from caravans passing through its territory and cutting deals with local potentates while it awaits the day when it may reveal its hand more openly. This clan is from the [[Aserai-Sultanate]] Sultanate. According to [[Asaios]], the Beni Zilal are said to haunt the hills around Mussum village. (See page [[2]]) > According to the caravan guards, these could be none other than the [[Beni-Zilal]], 'the Sons of the Shadows', a criminal brotherhood that haunts these hills, sometimes at peace with the [[Aserai-Sultanate]] sultan but currently at war. # Game Files / Developer Diaries | Source | Text | | ---- | ---- | | comment_strings.XML | string id="str_comment_special_clan_intro_beni_zilal.default" text="{=caKCwoPM}The Beni Zilal are the keepers of the secret. We watch from the shadows. Make foes of us at your peril."> |