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Killer Black

Killer Black was imposingly tall and unnaturally thin. His short cropped hair greyed early, and he had a tiny patch of a beard on the tip of his chin which he thought made him look "more serious".

Known later in life as Baltor the Upright, Killer Black was an Elemenstor skilled in the art of Witherance, an ability typically associated with Dark Elemenstors. Baltor walked the line between light and darkness, and in this twilight land exacted justice from those who felt that they were above the law.

After a career of vigilante justice from the shadows, Baltor burned out and gave up Elemenstation. He moved to a rural village in The Kingdom of Parsonya where he settled down to the simple life of a cheese maker (Soft Belpaisly, a regional delicacy), and eventually was elected to town magistrate.

He briefly emmerged from retirement, in Book 10, to slay the erstwhile Furniliar Barven Valori. Found within Valori's drawers was a love note written by Persephalous. The shame drove Persephalous into hiding, as told in The Scolding of Persephalous.

He died shortly after in the Hierarch Wars, his head battered in during the Battle of the Moonlit Banners.