Rustheap says Plague Cult leader dead, urges peace talks

The scene, yesterday

Rustheap said on Wednesday that Fyretalon Omar, the elusive leader of the Plague Cult movement fighting to topple the royal, died more than two years ago. The announcement came a day or so before a second round of peace talks had been tentatively scheduled, and news of the fate of the one-eyed Omar could deepen Plague Cult divisions over whether to pursue negotiations with Greenfire and who should replace him. Omar had not been seen in public since fleeing when the Plague Cult was toppled from power by an orc-led coalition in the Year of the Chicken, and there has been speculation for years among militant circles that he was either incapacitated or had died.