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The Usta Zalim is an ancient, androgynous entity of immense power and mystery, regarded in scattered records as The Master or The Demon Master. Neither male nor female but both and neither simultaneously, the Usta Zalim embodies the paradox of existence itself — a being beyond mortal or divine classification. Their nature is one of constant change: the fusion of opposites, the annihilation of boundaries, and the perfection of contradiction.

Long erased from recorded history by the Üstün, the Usta Zalim once walked among mortals as an Umissian Kräl Şah, a sovereign said to have delved too deeply into forbidden rites. Their heresy — an attempt to unite the mortal and the divine within one body — led to their execution by the hero Yilmazok Akar. Yet death did not bind them. Through ritual, dream, and flesh, the Usta Zalim endured, transcending mortality and returning as a presence that inhabits minds, bodies, and desires.

Accounts of the Usta Zalim vary. Witnesses and cult inscriptions describe them as impossibly beautiful and terrible, appearing alternately male, female, or as a seamless blend of both. Their form shifts to reflect the innermost thoughts of those who perceive them — sometimes angelic, sometimes monstrous. Common features include black horns, pale or obsidian skin, and eyes burning with teal-blue light, though even these are inconsistent.