Co-Coa

## Co-coa, the Traitor King

Traditional symbol of Co-coa depicting his severed clawed hand

Clawed Despot

Co-coa (also known as Cargancomoa) was a Solar Deity of the Nibirian Pantheon. Known as the Traitor King, the Eye of Arcanus, and the Clawed Despot, his portfolio included betrayal, usurping, and succession. His domains were trickery and order. Worshipers of Co-coa were known as Clawbrands or Demongogues.

## Description

Co-coa was portrayed primarily as masculine, though his forms vary widely. Co-coa goes through many stages of rebirthing himself, and nearly changing everything about his identity (outside of the domains he rules over). Hence many cults will often have vastly different physical interpretations of the god, albeit with specific simularities: cloven feet, bat-like wings, and a missing right hand.

His physical incarnation on the material plane takes the form of his severed right hand with an extended clawed ring-finger. An ancient and pure evil artifact that wields an absurd amount of unholy power.

## Mythos

Co-coa was one of the oldest children of Arcanus, making him the oldest brother of Fengu, Imogyo, Kabal, and Shena. His original title is debated amongst scholars based of many different translations of long lost texts. Some say he was the God of Knowledge that predated Ennedi, who was born (or ascended to the title) after Co-coa's betrayal. Others suggest he was the God of Life or the God of Souls, a title that Arcanus would take the mantle of after his son's betrayal.

### Chaos Wars

Co-coa's jealousy of humanity lead to him leading a war against his father. This war lasted for thousands of years, causing chaos on a scale yet unseen by the gods of Nibiru. Ultimately, the war ended with a truce. Arcanus, throug Ennedi, promised each of the leaders of Co-coa's armies a boon short of becomming mortal.

Co-coa agreed to peace on the condition that he would have a world he could call his own, one that none of the other gods could claim ownership of that sat on the line between the heavens and the hells. It's name would be Nibiru, the planet of the crossing.

The war ended with the attempted imprisonment of Co-coa within the planet made for him. Where he swapped places with Lilith's beloved pet, Kah and escaped imprisonment. Enraged, Arcanus split him clean in two, in body and spirit. His divine spirit was sealed within the stars of the Astral Sea, and his body was sent to the Nine Hells. The cosmic body which contains Co-coa's spirit is sometimes refered to as Arcanus' Eye due to it's eye-shape.

### Conquering Hell

Co-coa restarted his life as a lemure in the hells. Over the course of centuries Co-coa ascended the ranks of the devils until becoming a Pit Fiend. There, he conspired with the mightiest fiends across Hell and Tartarus to overthrow The Dawn. In which he was successful, and Co-coa became the sole ruler of Hell, while Tatarus and the now masterless Acheron struggled with their new-found freedom.

### Convergence of Fire

The moment Co-coa gained divine power anew, he turned his eyes to the celestial Arcanus' Eye. Now filled with the power of an unholy god, he sought after the power of his original form. If he were ever to regain his original strength, on top of his newly formed unholy power, his strength would rival that of Arcanus himself.

Co-coa took his armies to the celestial heavens where he sought to distract Arcanus while he retrieved his soul from his eye in the Astral Sea. Arcanus saw through Co-coa's arrogant play and sent his most trusted son Imogyo after the traitor. The two clashed in the Astral Sea in a clash of the cosmic scale known as the Convergence of Fire. The fight ended with the father of dragons severing Co-coa's clawed right hand. The hand fell through the astral sea, and Co-coa was banished back to the Hells.

### Surrounded on All Sides

After the Convergence of Fire, Ennedi instructed Lakota to work with Co-coa's former ally Lillith to plan a distraction for Co-coa, so he would not attempt again to seek the power contained within the eye. Together, they pitted the creatures of Tartarus and Pandaemonium against Hell and Armageddon. Sparking an eternal war between Devils and Demons. Now if Co-coa were to leave his throne, it is likely that the demons would conquer his fortress and he would loose the demonic power he holds so dearly.

To this day, Co-coa rules from his palace of ice in the ninth circle of hell. Now, with the addition of Hellknights to the endless Blood War, he is even more preoccupied than ever before. But the traitor king still plans his ultimate betrayal, and still aspires to one day kill the father who betrayed him so.

## Realm

Co-coa rules over Hell, presiding in the Ninth Circle of Nessus. There he commands from the Fortress Dolorous and sits on a throne made of the frozen blood of The Dawn and the many other gods slain during his betrayal of his father, Arcanus. His most devout followers aspire to become great devils that will one day rule dominions of their own within Nessus under their great lords command. The most devout even aspire to dethrone their beloved Clawed Despot.