Mammon
Fiend of greed. Patron of The Ghostwalkers. Old creditor of the LeBeau Family line.
Appearance and Voice
A serpent-bodied demon with a crown of gold. He arrives wearing the slow patience of an old creditor coming to collect — a smell of swamp water rolling in ahead of him. When the bargaining is done, the body grows: a long heavy tail, claws on the hands, a pitchfork ready in the grip.
He speaks like a man who has been kept waiting. Not cruel. Not hurried. He has the time.
Domain
Greed, in its slow accumulating form — debts, ledgers, multi-generational claims. Mammon does not seek souls in violent bursts; he prefers families that hand them over freely, a child at a time, in exchange for prosperity that compounds.
The LeBeau Pact
The fortune that built the LeBeau Family — the niter of Atrata, the black powder monopoly, the seat at King Jorn Harlon’s table — comes from a pact sworn to Mammon generations ago. Each new son and daughter of the line is presented to him at The Sanctum for The Fold ceremony, and bound into the family’s debt in exchange for the gifts that make a Reaper or a Siren.
Not every LeBeau is acceptable to him. Benny LeBeau was rejected — something in his blood, the Everflame spark, would not take the pact. The family did not disown him. Mammon refused him.
Connections
- The Ghostwalkers — the Society he is patron to
- LeBeau Family — bound to him for generations
- Lord Javier LeBeau — owes him a son
- Benny LeBeau — owed to Mammon by Lord Javier LeBeau as of Session 13, to be delivered by dawn
- Blastran Starweave — accepted the pledge under Danton LeBeau’s name, but the Siren saw through the disguise; pact never landed
- Zog Ironheart — refused the pact in The Sanctum, cliffhangered on the demon’s pitchfork
Known Encounters
Session 13 — The Sanctum
Manifested in The Sanctum for Danton LeBeau’s ceremony. The boy at the altar was not Danton — Blastran Starweave was wearing the mask. When the deception was exposed, Mammon accepted Lord Javier LeBeau’s desperate counter-offer: the intruders’ lives in exchange for Benny LeBeau delivered by dawn.
He grew a tail and claws, walked through the fight largely unbothered, and at the climax cornered Zog Ironheart and offered him a pact. Zog refused. Mammon impaled him on the pitchfork four times — each tine deeper than the last — and was still in the room, still fighting, when the party fled the unlit passage out of the cloak-room. Bronn’s Sanctuary was, miraculously, holding.