Salious is a misguided villain who is actually the uncle of Prince Amaranth. Under an informal agreement with the Stone Emperor, he intended to overthrow Amaranth and to claim his kingdom, so that the Emperor would be unopposed in his goals. He employs a retainer named Kozul, who is an Ogre and seems completely obedient to Salious, until he encounters Dhiar. Salious is determined to avenge the perceived insult to his dignity when Dhiar knocked him out and blackened his eye with a single punch, and so he attacks him later...only to be defeated again.