Dermos Petri
Dermos Petri, called “True Skin,” is one of the thirteen heirs of the Petri Family of Kepostheon - a celebrated champion and adventurer who has slain many a monster and saved many a village. He earned his name by stabbing an acid-spitting dragon through the mouth and fashioning a cloak from its hide: a black skin light as cloth and very nearly impenetrable, which he wears always. Cruelly, a rare parasite that had lived beneath that hide lay dormant in his liver for years and has now woken - a creeping blackness spreads from his navel, paralyzing all it touches, and has already claimed his hips and belly. Should it reach his brow, he will die. He hunts a cure, but grows weaker by the day. In his search he was brought at last to the village of Closesteed, where he lay convalescing at the Judge’s Inn, tended by his companion Voitheia, a cleric of Hera.