“A shadow has been hung over Allacasta: an omen that heralded the end of meteoric rise of the Second Empire of Orrium. The demonic countenance of The Fixer, who was once the man Ernesto Barrato, burst upon the Imperial Palace. Those who faced him at the time, and lived long enough to tell the tale, were filled with an awful and complete awareness of him. Flowing from his very body was the desire to kill; truly this was something not of this world. Although the monster died upon the stone flags of the palace floors, there are still tales that The Fixer never died and still haunts those halls.”

— From An Orrin Retelling of the Breached Years, by Marlo Ultus.