Grum'nar

Grum'nar is the demon prince of wrath. He was a unique creature that was a fusion of demon, dragon, and minotaur that was made by Marydian Fleshwarpers. He lived during the Third Era and, through machinations political and arcane, performed a coup d'etat on the ruling body of the Marydian Republic and on the Thrones of Sin themselves.
==Description==
Grum'nar is a massive hulking brute of a demon with a crown and wings of strange writing hands each with an eyeball in its palm. A mote of red and orange fiery with the Icon of the Hateful rests overtop the creature. Its left arm is a swollen purple in color, bulging in its flesh. In Grum'nar's right hand is his axe, one of the two blades of the greataxe head broken off leaving a jagged edge. He has a massive tail with a bladed barb at its end, similar to a black dragon's tail. He can form wings made up of hands on his back and can launch arms and hands from his back and crown at enemies. 
===Worshippers===
Grum'nar forms pacts with the vengeful, the spiteful, the hateful, and the wrathful. His cults are filled with those who would take up arms in a simple desire to hack and hew their foes to pieces and this violence is what pleases Grum'nar more than all else.
====Grum'nar's Pact====
Grum'nar's pact is simple: take up a blade and bring forth blood and hands as offerings to him and you will be rewarded with the power to bring more blood and hands before him.
==History==
===Early Life===
Grum'nar was a creation of Marydian Fleshwarpers that combined the traits of a black dragon, a minotaur, and blood from the deepest depths of the Flesh Pit of Vaticus to birth an unholy killing machine into the world. During his earliest days, the whispers of the demon prince of deception Vyz'des Teshnan filled his mind and his soul was twisted to prove as a servant of the Deceiver. The House of Balcard kept him as their own and eventually he was gifted to Dhuron Balcard as protector, allowing Vyz a direct link to the up-and-coming politician and a means of injecting his own aims into the politics of Marydia. 
===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. Dhuron Balcard, along with Grum'nar as well as Tefington 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, Grum'nar 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 fight with the Prince of Envy, leading to Maerleth being consumed and seen as a gift from Dhuron to Sod Daerlethoth. 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 serves as his soul's protective casing. 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.
=== Breach in the Gate ===
In the Fifth Era, a tear in the Material Plane was brought forth by a cult of Grum'nar that allowed them access to the plane of Jehonim. It was a one way matter, allowing the peoples of the Material Plane to walk into the Purgatory, but not vice versa. Demons swarmed the hole like gnats to a flame and struggled to try and breach it, though no such efforts succeeded. Grum'nar remained distant from the breach, knowing full well that others such as gods or the Grey Order would come to fix it. An island formed near the breach and was named Balro. It formed around a piece of ancient dark wood that had the names of its former wielders that used it as a club to murder their foes. Now, it served as the beacon for all the demons that wished to fight for the right to take it up as their own. With the tear, a group of heroes instructed by Donovan Sloan split into two parties and took up two distinct efforts to seal away the creature that created the rift and to imprison him in an ancient divine fey prison. With this, the piece of dark wood that was at the island of Balro's center was knocked into the Material Plane and the island broke apart.
=== Apostle of Indignation ===
A creature from the depths of the Abyss called the Apostle of Indignation was shunted onto a broken rock that was once a part of the island known as Balro. This entry of a power into Grum'nar's domain got his immediate attention. He fought the creature, tearing a small goblin from it. He then looked to the hulk of divine flesh left behind, a mass that was once part of Igaion, one of the Nine Bastards. Grum'nar fused himself with the flesh, having learned to warp his own flesh as those who originally created him once did. His form became even more terrifying and the power of the fallen god filled his body with renewed hatred and malice.
==Trivia==
Grum'nar started as a Player Character created by Jeff S 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.