YMMV / The Braided Path

• Complete Monster: Lord Weaver Kakre is a sinister member of the magic-using Weavers who, after Weaving, is drawn to immediately skin a hapless victim. Unlike many Weavers, Kakre glories in his mania and prides himself on how quick he can skin a living victim alive. Kakre manipulates the Emperor with visions and terrible dreams to drive him mad and trick him into thinking his wife is unfaithful so she is beaten into a miscarriage, provoking a war between her family and the throne. When Kakre and the Emperor come to blows, Kakre kills him painfully and unleashes a swarm of monsters on the city to exacerbate the situation. It is revealed that Kakre's ultimate goal with the Weavers is to annihilate everything that lives in in the world to make it a grim reflection of the god he and the Weavers unwittingly serve.