Adarien’s Laboratory Assistant is a monstrous little fellow. Whether his face and spine were twisted by some horror inflicted upon him, or whether he was born that way, not even he knows. He lives in constant pain, his body an agonizing prison that has driven him insane. He does take pride in his job, though, which is to assist Adarien, the Heartless Man, in his unholy experiments on the living and the dead. The Assistant’s “work” includes dismembering and categorizing the bodies of Adarien’s experiments, running the machinery, and looking after the laboratory during his master’s long absences. The sadistic hunchback has long since gone mad from years serving as Einham’s executioner; he can no longer even recall his own name. The little monster falsely believes that if he serves his master well enough, Adarien will give him a new body free of tortuous pain.