The family is under a curse, such that the eldest (youngest, whatever) wastes away rapidly (over a year or two with good care) at a relatively young age. The Humakti has quested and found the wording of the curse. The exact wording implies that if he die at his own hand, but resisting it, the curse will be broken. So if the humakti kills his unwilling brother (twins being mythically one, so dying by his own hand), then the humakti fights the best fighter availabe--the clan champion--and fights back with all he has BUT uses his own magic to augment the champion first, he will also die at his own hand, while resisting. The champions task is made easier by the fact that humakti's body is already starting to waste away on him.
Now, why would the humakti care? He doesn't have any kids and his spirit isn't coming back. Ah, but you see, the "issaries" in the above has children.....and one of them is one of the player characters! (of course Dad had been hiding his weakness up until now). So in short order a humakti shows up, slaughters your father, then dies himself, and afterwards it turns out that he was your uncle, before severing his ties, and was doing it all for you....who he has been watching from afar.
For that matter, if the PCs are as good at fighting as many of them are, they could be the one to kill the strange Humakti, who can die blessing his nephew or niece....
--Bryan
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