Jaihim Karedim — First Prophet of Decay

According to ancient chronicles, Jaihim Karedim was a beastfolk from the southern caravan lands — a scholar, healer, and chronicler who studied the strange Flur-related diseases after the Great Catastrophe. He traveled through abandoned settlements, gathered testimonies, recorded the last words of the dying, and tried to understand why the new world had been born not from mercy, but from unimaginable pain.

At first, Jaihim did not worship Decay. He hoped to understand Flur, purify it, and harness it for healing. But the deeper he ventured into the mountains, the more often he encountered distorted boundaries between life and death: beasts lived far too long, trees did not rot, dead tissue continued to grow, and some creatures seemed to exist beyond the natural end, neither aging nor dying.

It was there, in the caves beneath Dragon's Ridge, that Jaihim heard what he would later call the Voice of Decay.

He did not see a radiant god. He received no clear vision.

He heard a whisper that rang through his mind like a warning bell. The voice told him that a world deprived of an end becomes a place of torment. Eternal life without purification becomes a prison. Immortality without meaning is worse than death.

After this, Jaihim burned his former works and wrote a new book — “Treatise on the Nature of Otherbeing.” It was from this treatise that the entire Order of the Servants of Decay would emerge.

From that time onward, Jaihim Karedim became more than simply the founder of the Order. He became living proof that Decay could be heard without being consumed by it. His age, the condition of his body, and the nature of his longevity are shrouded in mystery. Some believe that Jaihim died long ago and that only a vessel of his will now sits deep within the citadel. Others whisper that he exists somewhere between life and death because Decay itself refuses to release the first being who heard its voice, so that he may continue to carry its teachings and its will.