# The Sure Death

The Sure Death is a mercenary company of Humakti assassins. They worship the Death Aspects of Humakt above the Honour Aspects and follow the teachings of Harrman, a follower of Arkat the Sword. Members of The Sure Death act as swords for hire, but their speciality is assassination. They believe that there is a need for a clean method of assassination, so that they can be hired to ensure a fair and quick assassination, rather than relying on Black Fang, Krarsht or any of the other assassin cults.

Harrman was a follower of Arkat the Sword and joined his cult when he was brought back on the Lightbringers' Quest. He was pleased when Arkat renounced the teachings of the Hrestoli and took up the ways of Humakt, but became more and more disturbed when he saw Arkat doing things that other Humakti could not do. He asked Arkat about his abilities to ignore the restrictions of Humakt, but Arkat did not emlighten him. Finally, Harrman thought about the things that Arkat had done and performed a HeroQuest to reach Humakt in the Sword Halls and ask him personally. After many trials, Harrman returned with his revelation and started to teach his beliefs to a small subcult of Humakt. When Arkat became a troll, Harrman ceased to follow him and instead remembered Arkat the Sword as his mentor. Harrman was slain during the Gbaji Wars, but his subcult retained his worship and his teachings have survived to this very day.

Harrman saw that Humakt gave his Geases to individual worshippers to strengthen them and them alone. If Humakt had intended that no worshipper could use poison, then he would have made this a cult-wide geas, not an individual geas. So, members of Harrman's subcult find that they use those tactics that are specifically prescribed as Humakti geases. This often makes them unpopular with other Humakti because they seem to have no respect for Humakt's teachings, but each time they duel to defend there ways the Harrmani win. Humakt has never excommunicated a Harrmani for his dubious practices, for Harrman proved to Humakt that these practices were acceptable.

Harrmani are only restricted by their own personal geases or those geases that are common to the cult of Humakt or the subcults to which the individual Harrmani belong. So, since some Humakti receive the geases "Do not participate in an ambush", "Never use Poison" and "Use no non-cult weapons", the Harrmani think nothing of using poison-tipped arbalest quarrels from cover in order to assassinate an enemy, because if it was supposed to apply to them personally, they would have been given the appropriate geas. This gives the Harrmani the edge in combat over many Humakti, for they would be able to perform acts that other Humakti might see as being dishonourable. Opponents would not expect Humakti to use poison, to refuse a challenge to combat, to attack from behind, to use Invisibility magic or to tell a lie.

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