Tefington

Tefington, formerly Tefington Devanton or Tef, is the demon prince of vanity. He was a Marydian human that lived during the Third Era and, through machinations political and arcane, was a member of a coup d'etat on the ruling body of the Marydian Republic and on the Thrones of Sin themselves.
==Description==
Tefington appears as a robed, headless figure that holds a masquerade mask with a porcelain visage up where their head would be. Behind the mask and above the open neck portion of the armor's chest plate is a floating green mote of energy that cackles with black wispy tendrils. Their lower half appears to be a mass of sand and earth that is connected to the place that they manifest. Tefington can change their shape in a number of ways. They can fall apart into a large pile of sand and move about in this form. They can shift the face of the masquerade mask to appear however they wish it to appear. These changes sometimes will happen when Tefington experiences emotions and the changes may represent their current mood. Finally, Tefington's armor can change into any metal shape they so desire, shifting from solid state to solid state with a liquid metal transition. 
===Worshippers===
Worshippers of Tefington come in two varieties: either the cult has formed to worship the beauty and splendor of Tefington themself and act as admirers to them or the cult forms around extremely vain individuals who have created a strong bond with the demon prince to allow for his own vanity to shine through them. 
====Tefington's Pact====
When a mortal being takes on a pact with Tefington, they are given a small chain with the Icon of the Vainglorious connected to one end of it. This chain can be manipulated by the demon prince themself and will be used to attempt to kill the pact-sworn creature if they ever move against the prince.
==History==
===Early Life===
As a youth, Tefington was found to be gifted with the Blessing of Alu'nsu-Ro, meaning the Dark Winds flowed through him naturally and he had an innate control of the sorcerous powers. Their parents pushed the lessons of magic upon them, believing the ywould excel in the craft. Ultimately, Tefington would develop an unhealthy addiction to the drug sannish that would remain with them throughout their life. As they failed in their efforts in magic despite still having a powerful innate magical nature, they shifted from studies and into public service, becoming an attendant of an up-and-coming politician named Dhuron Balcard. 
===Coup in the Gates===
The High Senator during this time was a demilich named Tak. Everyone in Marydia hated this interloper that seized power some decades ago, but no one was willing to stand in opposition to him due to his vast knowledge of the arcane. Tefington, along with Dhuron, Grum'nar, and Maerleth began to use the resources they were accumulating in the cities and towns of the nation of Ikashad to empower themselves and bolster them for the plan to come. With the aid and advisement of the demon prince of deception, Dhuron and his company were able to storm Ashtar's Gates of Corruption, Wrath, Vanity, and Envy in their Purgatories and usurp the demon princes to acquire their thrones. Maerleth was not granted Sod Daerlethoth's seat, the throne of envy. Instead, Dhuron had tricked Maerleth into a losing the fight with the demon prince of envy, leading to Maerleth being consumed and seen as a gift from Dhuron to Sod Daerlethoth. Tefington took the throne of vanity. The Coup in the Gates is seen as a strange event in history, as many times Demon Princes have fallen from their place of rulership and had their seats taken, even by mortals, but never had so many Thrones changed hands in such a short span of time.
===Death of a Demilich===
With infernal powers at their backs, the band regrouped on Urz and directly assaulted the Senate of Marydia. In the end, Grum'nar's axe shattered the demilich's form and contingencies used by Tak were dispelled so that his soul was sealed away in his hourglass that served as his soul's protective casing, unable to form a new effigy. They demanded that only those who were willing could be granted the gift of undeath, as it was not seen as a curse like others believed but as the greatest gift. And with Marydia brought to an understanding of the importance of the new princes of the Shedim, worship of these princes surged in popularity in Marydia and other nearby countries.
=== Shadows Over Stormloft ===
A small cult of ten Tefington worshippers worked together and formed a pact among themselves to usurp the lord of the town of Hilton because they believed he was allowing too many refugees from outside of the town in. After they publicly assassinated Lord Haverhill, they were all defeated by the heroes of Hilton. Later, Stennon, one of those heroes, died and in his death was brought to Ulfren to stand before Tefington in judgement. This led to Tefington severing his soul and using the part he kept to create a duplicate of Stennon that would serve him in the mortal realm. The other part of the soul was summoned back to the Material Plane by resurrection magics. The Shadow of Stennon was given a blue dragon as his mount and was the leader in charge of a raid on Hilton that led to its destruction and the peoples of the town hiding on the Dwarf Road near an old dwarvish city called Dighgrum. The Shadow of Stennon would later be gifted by Tefington to the demon prince of greed Ashmadia as a peace offering to halt conflicts between their Gates.
==Trivia==
Tefington Devanton started as a Player Character created by Robert P for use in the Dark Wind Blows story arc, which had the premise of allowing players the ability to build Evil characters using material presented in the Book of Vile Darkness supplement released for the Third Edition of Dungeons & Dragons.