Ormander

> *'I said she'd have power equal to mine own, Ruberto. Though... I never said she'd be able to handle it.'*
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*-Ormander to Ruberto Calinezzi after Maria di'Sforza wished to Ormander for 'the power of a devil'.* (He immediately granted her an internal body temperature of 5,000°C).

**Ormander**, or to use his full name, **Devil Prince Ormander, He of the Eleven Wings, Lord of That which Dwells Beneath the Earth, He Who was Exiled from the Skies, Prince of the Profane, Master of Cruelties, Archon of the Mirror, Granter of Boons and Bounty,** was a cruel **god-fiend** who enjoyed observing mortals, unleashing comical suffering, and using technicalities to torture the innocent. He was the fiendish equivalent of a child with a magnifying glass tormenting ants. He was drawn to **greed**.

## In a Nutshell

Ormander's morality is best understood as the feeling of being bored in the Sims, having all the power in the world, and just seeing how you can fuck with the innocent people who are unaware of your existence.

## Tidbits of Info

Devil King Ormander was neither devil nor king; he was a demon who fell from angelhood, but he kept this hush-hush.

Ormander often historically signed many a 'Devil's Contract' with a mortal into handing over their soul, firstborn, wealth, etc., then sometimes failed to deliver on his end of the bargain on a technicality he wasn't a devil, but rather a demon. He did also delight in tricking mortals through technicalities and loopholes to fuck them over, when he felt like playing by the rules. He was ambitious and eager to kill other divine beings so he could take over their divine domains, assets, cults, religions and followers.

His main forms were 'the Prince' - a suave charming man with silver hair and fine clothing and a cane with a silver devil's head who enjoyed chess - or 'The Devil', a cruel-looking insectlike beastly reddish demon with a black rocky carapace.

One of his pastimes was killing minor village gods, taking over their churches, and using magic to force their followers to do humiliating and self-destructive things - historically these included covering themselves in feathers and throwing themselves off cliffs pretending to be birds, painting themselves gold and burying themselves in caves, or gluing fish scales to their naked bodies and then drowning themselveS. He relented in this humorous, twisted suffering, like a child playing with ants and a magnifying glass.

In addition, Ormander was quite a curious and interested demon, because he found mortals the weirdest beings ever. He would often observe them whilst in his human form, just to see how weird they were.

## The Old One of Trickery

Ormander delighted in tricks and sadistic evil pranks. His followers and devotees often bore horns, red burnt flesh, porcupine quills on their skin, ink lines and blemishes (like when you've smudged pen on your hand), or tiny writing-shaped scars/birthmarks. His scar/burned/written symbol was **ሥ** . His special number was 99. Here it is, larger:

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## Deals Made

 —Malacharin, speaking of how Ormander approached him in the afterlife.

Vezrath Startouched made a deal with Ormander in 1490 to become a lich, in return for power. On this rare occasion, Ormander held up his end of the bargain and gave Vezrath a sword, **Zaahnwir**, to allow Vezrath to kill the god Tyr and wound the goddess Lliira. Ormander hoped he could swoop in and take over their divine dominions, but

Likewise, Karrus Weyloran made a deal with Ormander in the 1550s to gain powers of '*foresight beyond logic, and death where I step*', Karrus was given this but also given rapidly degrading sanity until he threw himself into a pit of ice and was flash-frozen.

The nobleman Ruberto Calinezzi and Maria Disforza made a deal with him for power in the 1200s. The granting of the power to Maria caused her to instantly burst into flames and die.

In the 250s C, Ormander planted a Deck of Many Things on an adventurer who later died, and Selim found it, then sold it to Rhydia of the Wildecards. Ormander also had a set of skinned barbed devil armour which Kragar of the Wildecards bought. These long games paid off - in 252 C they made a deal with Copper of the Wildegards such that Coper could become King of Halcyon. Ormander gave Queen Volterra a heart attack. The turmoil experienced in Halcyon led to The Winter Revolution, and great amounts of suffering and death for him to leech off.

Around this time too, Ormander rose the brigand Malak Coldblood of Order of the Crimson Shroud from his eight-year service in the afterlife, and tasked him with continuing his mission.