Nightfather Reza'lihk

Nightfather Reza'lihk, once known simply as the mortal *Rezo* is a Daemon Prince of the Shal'dari and primary lover of Greatmother Lucaerna. Exalted among the Shal'dari, the Nightfather is the sire of countless children among the cult birthed by whoever was in his presence as his whims took him. A fierce and steadfast creature, the Nightfather is a mercurial being, prone in one instance to take what he wants, and just as easily dole out kindness and mercy; annihilating percieved threats or cooing over his most recent breeding pet.

## History

In a mortal life best left forgotten, Reza'lihk was said to have belonged to the Zandalari tribe of Trolls. A low figure in the empire, born to poor parents, he was abandoned and given up to the Loa Priesthood for training. Gaining some respect for his aptitude, upon the completion of his training he passed through the various temples of the gods. Finding no lasting tether beyond his devotion, it was determined by the priesthood he should find other posts and other stations.

During the Cataclysm, when the Zandalari Empire reached out to ally with the other Great Troll Nations, Reza'lihk went with them, becoming an ambassador to the Horde and later joining the Darkspear as the Zandalari's intentions were realized. He rose and fell through various positions over the years, gaining access to new knowledge and research which would send him drifting down a darker path.

It was the study of the darker arts of voodoo which interested him, and through that, the study of Shadow and Void magics. Entropy and chaos. Though he hid it well, he gradually gave up his duties to the Loa, finding his chance to go his own way the day he encountered a group of Sunreaver researchers, members of the Kirin Tor interested in hunting down leaders to a dangerous cult taking prisoners, spreading Fel Magics, and dealing in the dark magical underground. Learning of them himself, he sought out this cult, nominally to beseech them to stop taking people, he told himself, but in truth, he sought out the cult's mysterious leader, Lucaerna.

## Joining the Shal'dari

Finding the cult dwelling in the emptied Cathedral of Eternal Night, he who would become the Nightfather would engage in trial after trial, making himself nearly indispensable, and providing crucial outsider knowledge that did not exist within the annals of the Cult of the Great Mother at this time. And in his presence, came to worship at the altar of the Greatmother, giving unto the members of the cult their greatest form of prayer; children. In this moment of worship, he cast aside the Loa for a new and more fecund god.

His baptism and rebirth into the cult and integration with The Presence came soon after, and his attendance to the Greatmother right after where he took the titanic demon for himself, filling her with his young, the first time of many. Soul magics and manipulation were impressed upon the Sorcerers of the cult, shadow magics and void powers became known to them for control. New converts were created, and in time, the first births of his children would occur, seeing him as their father and leader.

As he repeatedly bred the Greatmother, he proved his worth over and over, and the number of his offspring produced from the womb of the cult Godhead continued to swell. Nominally placed within the Cult as 'consort', he commanded growing respect and power; in part due to his proximity to the Greatmother and his holding of her attention. As his fel power grew, he gained Gifts and blessings, becoming mighty and strong. When him dominance was assured, he was taken unto the ritual sites, where in one last moment of devotion, he was elevated to the exalted status of Daemon Prince, surrendering his true freedom and will for immortality with his greatest love.

## Time Since

Since his ascension, Reza'lihk has served as a vital guardian and agent of the Greatmother's will, repelling invaders, and carrying out his own independent experiments for the creation and conversion of yet more demons, the fruits of those experiments resulting increasing the Greatmother's endless fertility yet further and further. His greatest achievement being his methods to actively create and shape the essence of unborn demons into species and forms of his liking within the wombs of the Shal'dari; something only the Greatmother could do within her own womb beforehand. Since the Greatmother's departure to the planet of Mahz'arahk, the Nightfather sits at the apex of the Cathedral of Eternal Night within the Sacristy, maintaining the rule of the Greatmother with his Broodmothers Boltaa and Irinrya; two daughters of the Greatmother born to other suitors, claimed for his own.