The Chimère (Chimera) are the elite hatchet men of Obed Narcisse, the de facto ruler of Vieux Carré. Unlike the larger gang that Obed inherited from his own Boss during the events surrounding The Boss Exodus, the Chimère are loyal to Obed alone, whom they revere as their spiritual leader. Most of them began their lives as orphaned street hoodlums, taken in by Obed in his capacity as Houngan. He weaned them on a steady stream of mind-altering substances, ritual worship of Ogoun (a Voodoo god of, among other things, warriors), and Pavlovian programming. The lot of them are grouped into pairs, with one member taking the role of Zombi and the other as the Salt Carrier. The Zombi enters trance-like state of religious ecstasy, further fueled with a cocktail of drugs, which turns him into a fearl