Karn is one of the Inheritors (a bloodline of totem vampires that want to eat the Spider people) but is against his family's ideals. While his family believes in destruction, he believes in creation. He was blamed for his mother's death by his father and his punished by being condemned for eternity to wear a mask all his life. A war has come and he's looking at candidates for an army.

I am open to literally any interpretation of this character.