Episode 093: Amahl Farouk (feat. Khaldoun Khelil)
CEREBRO
Connor Goldsmith
4.8 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 205 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 93 of CEREBRO, Connor and TTRPG writer/MENA scholar Khaldoun Khelil ascend to the astral plane with Amahl Farouk, the Shadow King! Introduced as the ultimate evil telepath, the Shadow King was steadily developed into the grand antagonist of the franchise until Chris Claremont's abrupt departure in 1991. After a few decades of haphazard publication, the character recently found unexpected new life in Vita Ayala and Rod Reis's run on New Mutants.
The CEREBRO character file on the Shadow King begins at 37:38.
(Content Advisory: Amahl's story includes racism, brainwashing, slavery, attempted suicide, and lots of other unpleasant things!)
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| 0:00.0 | To go back a sec, first, shit's been getting fucking weird on your island over the last, like, 20 issues. |
| 0:08.3 | X-Men, X-Men. |
| 0:11.4 | In the 21st century, people mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world. |
| 0:20.3 | The only hope is X-Men. |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends did deep into the history of Homo Superior. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, and with me today is Caldyn Khalil, RPG developer, tabletop, game |
| 0:39.5 | writer. You may have seen his work for various big companies. Pretty recently, he did a lot of work |
| 0:45.9 | on the Sabbath book for the fifth edition of Vampire the Masquerade. You were on the Dune RPG, |
| 0:52.3 | is my recollection, the newer one. |
| 0:54.4 | Yes, that's correct. Caldyn, how are you today? He told me you could just say Caldun, but I was trying. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm trying to make the sound. Yeah, okay, yes. I mean, you know, I'm doing great. Yeah, my, |
| 1:04.8 | I can, you know, my parents do the, the whole Arabic thing of Chaldun Chil and all that. But just, you know, |
| 1:12.4 | just between us here in America, I do Caldun. I'm sure. Yeah. I just, I had a Palestinian R.A. in |
| 1:19.0 | college who taught me how to like actually say her name because her name was Adria, but it was |
| 1:23.7 | Chadria. There's like a little that we don't even you don't write it in english but i was like |
| 1:28.5 | okay i'll figure it out i like to get people's names correctly but we'll go with caldune for now |
| 1:33.3 | because listen my laryngitis from last week is much better but i wouldn't say that i'm in a place |
| 1:41.2 | of very easily at the moment still. |
| 1:46.2 | Yeah, we don't want to relapse. |
| 1:46.8 | I don't want to get, |
| 1:49.2 | I don't want the cerebral followers to come for me. |
| 1:49.9 | Yeah. |
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