Hidden in plain sight, Ghor re-emerged as an arms dealer and artifact broker during the post–Cold War black markets of South Asia. He hunted museum archives and temple ruins, seeking fragments of the Scrolls of Light. Corporate tycoons feared him; scholars claimed he could “audit time.”Operating in the chaos of modern India, Ghor became an urban legend—an assassin who scaled towers and vanished into smoke. Those who saw him claimed his cloak moved like machinery, powered by whispers of the dead. His tally mark, carved on concrete, meant debts unpaid since Somnath.
