Damophet, The Demon Lord of Hell
Damophet was the first devil, created when the leader of the rebellious angels was cloven in two and cast out of Heaven. Since he was the first of his infernal kind, Damophet is sometimes simply referred to as the Devil.
• Damophet’s avatar appears as either a loathsome goat-headed demon or a beautiful horned man with golden hair.
• Above all else, Damophet craves power over mortals; he expects obedience from both his demonic and mortal servants.
• The one commonality in cults devoted to Damophet is that they all aspire to empower themselves through worship of their dark master and currying his infernal favor.
• Ironically, the worship of Damophet is itself a metaphorical set of iron shackles; Damophet ensures that he always holds dominance over those who serve his ends.
Hekala, Queen of the Winter Court
Hekala is a powerful fey queen who rules the Winter Court; she is as cold and cruel as the eternal ice that rimes her realm.
• Hekala’s avatar is a tall, alabaster woman with viciously pointed teeth, a gown made of ice, and a crown fashioned from human bones.
• Hekala only extends her favor to worshipers who prove their strength and ability to endure; among her worshipers are people who resorted to cannibalism to survive, those who persevere against the elements, and other folk willing to go to extremes in order to thrive.
• The snow elves of Eisengraz are the most numerous cultists devoted to Hekala.
• Boons from Hekala often take the form of magical weapons, such as runeswords and other tools of prodigious violence.
Ilkhan, Demon Lord of Blood
Ilkhan is an especially warlike demon lord who is pleased by the violence promised by conflict and strife.
• Ilkhan’s avatar appears as a man or woman, flayed of skin, wearing the bloodied clothes of a military leader.
• The Demon Lord of Blood inspires discord because it is the kindling from which the conflagration of slaughter blooms.
• Ilkhan is mostly venerated by soldiers, mercenaries, knights, and other members of military organizations.
• Cultists who serve Ilkhan placate and honor their lord through mass bloodshed; singular sacrifices mean nothing to Ilkhan—it thrives on carnage.
Doubtless Ilkhan only cares that the Blood flows, not from whence it flows.
ReplyDeleteOn a less mischevious note, might I suggest showing Ilkhan’s avatar manifest wearing a suit of armour, rather than a mere uniform? (This allows you to build up to a grand reveal of that fleshless face via blood leaking from the joints - though not, conspicuously, from the mouth of the helm* - to steal over glittering plate and befoul it’s glamorous forms with very pointed symbolism even before the visitor rises to reveal the still greater Horror of War underneath).
Heck, a suit of armour might well make an excellent idol for rituals venerating the Lord of Bad War (and filling one with the blood of victims a possible focus for summoning rituals).
Note: not black plate or blood-red, but the shiniest vision of the Glory of War that worshipers can lay their hands on: it makes the blood running over it all the more potent a visual.
*One suspects that Ilkhan and vampires (Including vampire devotees, if any) would have a rather … tense difference of opinion when it comes to the proper destination of all that bloodshed.
Well, you can suggest it, but in my games they show up in a military uniform, trailed by a could of flies.
DeleteFair enough - I admit that ‘military uniform’ is a bit too ‘Modern’ for my taste in Gothic Horror demons (Especially when they’re likely to be very, very old ones), especially since a cloth uniform lacks the inherent intimidation factor of a good full plate harness in motion.
DeleteOut of curiosity, when you say ‘uniform’ do you mean more of a gunpowder-era outfit or more of a pike-and-shit ensemble?
Aaargh, AutoCorrect, stop ‘helping’ abd start being HELPFUL.
DeleteThat should be ‘pike and shot’, obviously and I can only apologise for not catching that accidentally profanity before posting.😫
I publish a game called PLANET MOTHERFUCKER, you don't gotta apologize for profanity here lol
DeleteI may not have to, but since I’m not keen on the use of it in print (Especially by accident!) one prefers to do so.
DeleteI do thank you most kindly for your patience with my accident and with my very bourgeois tendencies also.🙂
Also, it occurs to me to wonder if giving Damophet human eyes in their goat face would be a suitably-creepy equivalent to sticking a pair of goat-horns on a human head.
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One other question: would ‘The Covent’ make a suitable title for the Witch-cult bestriding the Frozen North? (It might be a little on the nose, but I like the allusion to ‘coven’ and to ‘covenant’ - also, the vague resemblance to ‘convent’ - though one must admit to borrowing the name from Covent Garden, London).
I don't see why not--on both counts.
DeleteThank You most kindly for your patience with my besetting curiosity.🙂
DeleteI had to admit that whilst one likes Krevborna proper I’m more drawn to other quarters of the local world (Whether Terra or ‘Pterra’ or Gothos) simply because Big K is so very much your own home turf.