Mazrek

**Mazrek**, also known as **The Lord of Destruction**, **The Devourer**, **The Tormentor**, **The First Fury**, **The Envoy of The End**, **The Boundless Ruin, Prince of Demons**, **The Boundless Chaos** and **The Imprisoned One** is an incredibly powerful demon, is the **Lord of the Abyss**. Some also refer to him as The Crimson Boar.

## Prophecy

As a mortal, **Mazrek** was bitten into by Chronos, when he confused him as the prophesized Marked Warrior. Chronos was so obsessed with the idea that one day he would be killed by his own child, just as he killed his own father, that he continuously consumed his own divine born children, by consuming them.

This obsession did not fade, as such he sought the truth of his fate from Dhivtai and the Icosahedron of Prophecy. When heard her prophecy that a demigod mortal son of his, a marked warrior would be the one to rise up and defeat him, he personally descended upon the world of Vari in the hopes of capturing **Mazrek**, a boy suspected of being the marked warrior because of his strange birthmarks. Rather than swallow him whole, he bit into **Mazrek** and cast him into the abyss in anger. Mazrek survived, but his pain echoed through the planes, twisted and changed by the abyss, he became the first demon, or Fury. Many more furies were spawned from the blood of **Mazrek's** wound, the first of which was The Writhing Agony, Chronos himself had unintentionally created demons.

Recognising his error, **Chronos, He Who Spawned the Furies** pursued **Mazrek** into the Abyss to kill him to prevent him from rising up against him. The hostile environment of the Abyss was too much for **Chronos**, who retreated to formulate a new plot. Meanwhile, Mazrek amassed a mighty horde of demons within the abyss. In his angry and chaotic state, he began to devourer many of his own spawn, just as Chronos did. Later, he was defeated by his own brother The Marked Warrior.

## Escape

He had been imprisoned within a soulstone, by his brother The Marked Warrior, since The Forgotten Age, until the 7th century. The **Soulstone** was uncovered and regarded as a relic of the past, before its religious significance was understood and it was seized by Paragon and Western, and stored in the **Paragon Vault** within the city of Whitestar.

Although his imprisonment was meant to be eternal, once it had fallen into the hands of mortals, **Mazrek** worked tirelessly to corrupt his soulstone eventually overpowering his prison. He received help from the thoroughly corrupt Archbishop Lang of Paragon and Western, who had been turned into his loyal servant. Lang and his foolish underlings performed a ritual that included the blood sacrifice of *one hundred children* an event so sickeningly horrific that it stained the very fabric of reality in the place it occurred. Today it is called Mazrek's Bloodbath. To fuel the ritual and free Mazrek, Lang used the power of the Whitestar. In his blind devotion he assumed that Mazrek would reward him for his service, however, in order for him to actually manifest himself in the mortal realm he needed mortal vessel to house his spirit and as such Lang became the host to the terrifying Mazrek,

**Mazrek**, in the body and guise of Archbishop Lang, ignited his prison and burned down the entire **Paragon Ward**, thus killing many more people in his wake. He then reportedly left he city of Whitestar and has not been seen since.

## Bloodbath Conclave

Appointed members of The Consortium, The Verdant Sphere, The Felstriders, The Order of Vindication and The Sanguine Syndicate joined forces, known as The Bloodbath Conclave to search for **Mazrek** and/or Lang and have been searching since the days after **Mazrek's Bloodbath**. This Conclave is a group of elite hunters, druids, clerics, magi, paladins and other warriors chosen with the strict dedicated goal of finding and eliminating **The Lord of Destruction**.

Some believe **Mazrek** has remained upon the material plane and is waiting for a chance to somehow use this to turn the tide of the Blood War.

**Suggested Class:** Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Sorcerer, Warlock,