Quentzoth

Quenthzoth, the Façade is a demon birthed from the black pool. Upon discovering the outside world in its sorry state after the Arklight's destruction, and the false gods that the mortals had been worshipping: Quentzoth set out to **make a mockery of the mortal's faith. Posing as a god, they begin to further incite the Anrushan civil war for his own amusement.**

## Lore

### Backstory

Quentzoth was one of the demons birthed from the black pool after when the Arklight was destroyed, with the chaotic outburst of energy sending the pool into overdrive. Much like most of his kind, the dark dank cavernous walls of their birthplace provided little interest and as such, Quentzoth left the nest in order to explore the lands beyond and sow further chaos into the now fractured world.

As Quentzoth traversed the now bleeding world, he noticed that many mortals had fallen back on their faiths in these hard times. Praying to many of their gods from the second age, people looked to the divine for salvation. However, this didn't sit well with the demon. Being born from a Blessed Child, their heritage made them more of an actual god than these beings who had simply been using the title of god, and so: Quentzoth was displeased. These false gods were tarnishing the term that their progenitor had held so commandingly, with their power level paling in comparison to those of ages past. Yet despite all this, they were still being showered with the same admiration and adornment. Perhaps more.

Thus, the demon decided to make a mockery of the mortal's ways. Unlike most other demons however, Quentzoth wasn’t content hiding in the shadows and using their progenitor’s gifts to cause pandemonium. Instead of that: Quentzoth, the ever-devious sadist that they were, decided a more direct approach would be more appropriate. Travelling far and wide, Quentzoth observed the tattered fragments of societies clinging for power in the third age and hatched a plan. Disguising himself as the harpy god of retribution, rumours spread amongst the harpies of a new god, able to grant them powers that would allow them to fight back in the Anrusha civil war. With this incitement, he began amassing a cult of dedicated followers, slowly tainting their minds with his demonic influence, and further breeding the growing conflict. All this fed his insatiable ego seeing the mortal folk of Anrusha come to him for help and then go fight their battles. Much like a child would play with their toy soldiers and knights, for the wicked demon: this was nothing more than an entertaining game, a game where he would get to thousands spill their blood for. And unlike the dull cave from which he came, this was exciting.

### Recent Events

As the Anrushan civic war develops, the forces of the harpies grow more and more desperate. Phynara, a harpy general, then submits herself further into Quentzoth's control by taking in demonic corruption in order to gain more power to fight off the Settlers.

## Personality

A cruel and selfish being by nature, Quentzoth often doesn't quite care what will happen to someone else, as long as it feeds into their own self interests. Actively choosing to harm the harpies and Settlers in many instances, Quentzoth places extremely little value on mortal kind, treating them with the same cruel carelessness as a child might with their toys. They also have an extremely large ego, as can be seen by his attitude towards his subjects and their beliefs.

However, despite this ultra powerful façade they've put on, Quentzoth is actually quite the coward. While they are definitely no slouch when it comes to their own power level, were an adequately strong foe show up: this posturing by them would deteriorate and collapse. As they don't take any of the harpy or the settlers as a threat, they are content to throw their weight around and continue playing the big bully. But if their own life is threatened, they would turn tail and run, showing their simple nature as a cruel child at heart doing as they pleased when out of danger, but then become fearful when the consequences of their actions finally caught up with them.

## Trivia

* Quentzoth enjoys the taste of the Scaled Heart Fruit and often demands them from his followers as an offering.
* Tricked Phynara into taking a binding contract in exchange for power.

## Development Notes

* Quentzoth's title was changed halfway through development to "The Deceitful" until it was reverted back to "The Facade".
* The early concept of Quentzoth involved an anglerfish motif, with a false mask distracting harpies away from the long mouth that made up the neck. This was scrapped rather early on.