Tahm Kench

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Legends and stories

This story is told through legends, uncertain origins or recurring encounters. Read these as different parts of the story, rather than a confirmed life history.

1. 01
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   A desire met by an inviting stranger

   Tahm Kench approaches people through charm, appetite and the promise that a desire can be satisfied. The familiar manners of a traveller conceal a demon interested in what follows the bargain.

   Bilgewater
2. 02
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   Pleasure becomes dependence and suffering

   Pleasure becomes dependence, and dependence creates suffering on which he can feed. The trap often works because a victim thinks the next concession will finally deliver what the previous one did not.

   Bilgewater
3. 03
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   The next bargain makes escape less likely

   Tahm Kench's promises work by connecting desire to another concession. The victim supplies reasons to continue even as the bargain becomes ruinous. His stories describe that predatory pattern across encounters, rather than establishing a single mortal origin or a permanent place at one river crossing.

   Bilgewater

Story guide by VRC.LOL, based on the linked Riot stories. Older biographies and newer stories can differ; no exact date or current whereabouts is implied unless stated.