Hasis, Taasme, and The Xikru were conceived of dread Engidir, and with the minds of their matter sires shattered, were brought forth in places of the insane. The Xikru, who forever insisted on an integral article, was of a kind with its brother, Hasis, in its seeming psychopathy and wanton disregard for the niceties shown by its “cousin” Qudma. Despite being the youngest of the “Triplets,” The Xikru is nevertheless acclaimed as the “Secundus” or “Second,” an appellation given to it by its brother Hasis.

An isolated retreat for the wealthy ill was where The Xikru was born, and like its siblings the act sowed mortal wounds among the nearby, all of whom would perish from exotic illnesses within the year. The Xikru was the most alien of the Triplets, and its presence and voice were enough to blur vision, cloud thoughts, and affect reality and matter in unpredictable ways. Any book that The Xikru approached was forever altered to gibberish, any buildings it touched crumbled to rubble within a day, and any plants upon which it trod turned bright red and grew ravenously for one month before perishing.

As much as Hasis seemed to enjoy the cult that grew around him, The Xikru seemed to disdain any meaningful interactions with the matter world or its inhabitants, lashing out instead in acts of absolute randomness and chaos. In one instance, The Xikru terrorized a village for a month, systematically murdering every animal and demolishing every building while leaving the population unharmed. In another, it rebuilt a ruin stone by stone and forcibly relocated random people there, many of them saddled with The Xikru’s children. If Hasis was the influence of his “father” experimenting on the world of matter, The Xikru was dread Engidir playing with matter as a child plays with building blocks.

It is said that, despite this, the siblings were known to parley and that Hasis had a brotherly fondness for The Xikru, though whether this was reciprocated is unknown. Those children that The Xikru sired, always in unclear circumstances, were welcomed into the cult of dread Engidir by their “uncle,” and many even survived his ultimate rampage. It is, in fact, from the surviving cult writings that much of the information about The Xikru is known.

One enduring mystery is The Xikru’s ultimate fate, for it seemed to vanish at around the time of Hasis’s massacre. It may well have been swept up in it and killed by some method whispered by dread Engidir into the world. It is also possible that cryptic references to The Xikru growing more difficult to perceive, and having grater difficulty acting on matter, as it aged mean that it eventually became so insubstantial so as to be both invisible and imperceptible. It could even be argued that this represented The Xikru returning to the Beyond to take its place at its “father’s” side, perhaps the first such denizen to be created since time immemorial.

Of course, there is also the possibility that The Xikru still exists as it was once known, and has merely expressed its chaotic nature by biding its time.