Editing Mengil Manhide's Manflayers (section)

====Career Change====
For a time, the Citadel of Spite controlled the entrance to the Tilean Sea, preying on merchants, smugglers, and pirates, as well as routinely slaughtering villages around Remas and Sartosa. However, during one such raid, the Black Ark was attacked by High Elf warships and forced to retreat back to deeper water, leaving many of its warriors, including Mengil, trapped ashore. The Black Ark's captain, who'd seen three of his predecessors murdered in a mad rage by Mengil, made the somewhat-understandable decision to not return for the vicious warrior, claiming instead that he was dead.

Stranded in Tilea, Mengil and his men made their way inland under the cover of darkness, moving through the forests and then into the southern Apuccini Mountains. After a season of preying indiscriminately on passing merchants and their hired guards, Mengil was approached by a wealthy warrior-merchant from Verezzo. The pair struck a deal, and thus began the Dark Elf's new career as a paid killer.

Throughout the lands of the Old World, Mengil plied his trade, and he and the band of Dark Elf warriors who follow him, known as the Manflayers, are rightly feared. They are employed as assassins and murderers, often used to eliminate rivals. He is particularly used by those who wish to make an example of the target, for Mengil takes savage pleasure in skinning his foes, often leaving the skinless bodies of his victims hanging from the trees or impaled on spikes in the ground. Mengil even returned to Naggaroth several times, where Dark Elf lords readily employed him to eliminate their rivals. On one such occasion, Mengil repaid the Citadel of Spite's captain for abandoning him, his gruesome fate becoming a cautionary tale against double-crossing the Manflayer. On occasion, Mengil's Manflayers will take to the battlefield, employed to infiltrate deep into enemy territory to spread terror and confusion.

The Manflayers go into battle armed with greatswords, repeater crossbows and festooned with an array of knives and various other blades. They prefer to maim and cripple rather than kill outright, for they will often stop in the heat of battle to acquire new trophies, flaying the dead and the dying they leave in their wake. They march to war under the Banner of Kalad, named for the Dark Elf whose skin the banner is made from; Kalad was one of Mengil's brothers who Mengil killed for practicing sorcery in defiance of the Witch King's decree forbidding any but his appointed Sorceresses from doing so. The banner is enchanted, creating a nimbus of shadow around Mengil and his warriors, making them even more difficult to spot and able to approach their prey even more closely before they strike.

Like the previous version, Mengil met a Dark Elf champion named Ean Hawkbane who became his right-hand man. Unlike the previous version, this arrangement ended after several years when Mengil [[Grimdark|gutted, skinned and ate him after a disagreement]].

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