The Fiend King

The Fiend King's holy symbol

The Fiend King is a godly being that rules over the hellish godly planes and is the creator of the fiends.

## History

The Fiend King, also known by his true name Hasâtan, began life as an angel created by the primordial god Sabur. He was one of the few solar angels that were created, some of the most powerful mortal beings in existence. Angels and the other celestials were created to protect Sabur’s other creations, the humans. Celestials were created genderless, but many of them took on gender roles to fit in with the humans. Hasâtan performed his duties as protector of humans loyally and tirelessly. But no matter how hard he worked, he always believed that Sabur favored Hasâtan’s brother Almikael over him.

#### Rival Brothers

Hasâtan and Almikael constantly competed for Sabur’s favor, despite the fact that Sabur favored all of their creations equally. This rivalry eventually turned into bitter jealousy on the part of Hasâtan. This jealousy tarnished his soul, turning his eyes red, his skin pale, his hair black, and his wings black and tattered. Hasâtan corrupted and recruited other angels in order to launch an attack on Almikael while they were on Kukul’s plane of Sama. A planetar angel named Rasiel and a deva angel named Amriel were turned into the first fiends and renamed Balor and Pit. Almikael and the other celestials put up a fight, but the ambush was too much. Hasâtan killed his brother, shedding his blood as the final step in a corrupted spell that would open a portal to Infernus. Hasâtan threw Almikael’s body down to Infernus, and he and his fiendish disciples followed, spreading across the hellish planes.

#### King of Hell

On the plane of Infernus, Hasâtan introduced himself to Asmodeus and gave Pit to him as gift. Through a connection between the evil planes, Hasâtan travelled to the Abyss, where he gave Balor to Orcus as a gift. By then, Hasâtan was technically a god, as he had enough power to experience cosmic dissonance when trying to enter the Mortal Plane. He was even more powerful than Asmodeus and Orcus. Now calling himself the Fiend King, he would settle into Hades where he would rule the hellish planes and all fiendish creatures. Pit would become the progenitor of the devils and Balor would become the progenitor of the demons. The Fiend King would go on to create many more fiends, including the third major group of fiends, the yugoloths.

The Fiend King wouldn’t settle for just rebelling against Sabur and Almikael. He used his creations to not only wage war on humans and any good beings that aided them, but to invade the heavenly planes of Sama, Araboth, and the Empyrean to fight the celestials. These conflicts continue to the present day.

#### The Apprentice

In 135 E.L., the Fiend King recruited a tiefling warlock named Xarfras who had recently parted ways with Lilra. Initially, Xarfras did the Fiend King's bidding, but the pull to be good eventually won Xarfras's soul. He rejected the Fiend King and, with the help of a planetar angel named Pathiel, purged himself of infernal blood and cut ties to the King. Enraged by this betrayal, the Fiend King swore revenge on Xarfras (now known as Xarfraskil).

During one attempt to kill Xarfraskil and his allies, the Fiend King - as his tiefling avatar - was close to achieving his goal. Joined by Xarfraskil's mother Liliandra, he had the group at his mercy. But he would be foiled by the new god of death, Bane, who had just gained the power of Haron, the former god of death. Before the cosmic dissonance forced him to Decretia, Bane snapped his fingers and destroyed all of the Fiend King's avatars at once. This not only saved Xarfraskil and his allies but also had an unintended consequence of saving Sarro, The Jord, and Rincewynd in Ineuberon who were fighting the Fiend King at the same time.

The Fiend King now bides his time, recruiting followers and preparing for his return to the mortal plane.

## As a God

While the Fiend King is technically a god, most of the other gods refuse to recognize him as a god for his actions that led to his to his ascension. They actively block him from performing actions that other gods do, like performing divine intervention or providing clerics and paladins with divine power. For this reason, he has never been widely known to mortals as a god.

To keep his fiendish creations sharp, the Fiend King keeps the demons and devils constantly at war with each other. The fighting makes them stronger, and the ones that die are reborn into new forms that better suit their abilities. The Fiend King also claims the souls of any evil creatures that die, either giving them to his fiends to use for their purposes or turning them into fiends themselves.

Those who take the Fiend King as a patron god are almost always evil, or at least evil-leaning neutral. In exchange for power, the Fiend King asks for favors to further his agenda of fighting Sabur and the celestials. If you refuse a favor, he will simply take back the power he gave you. He is quick to anger if you turn good, however, and will work tirelessly to smite any followers that turn their backs on him.

#### Known Avatars

* Efreeti
* Tiefling
* Spirit Naga
* Horned Devil
* Red Dragon

## Followers

The Fiend King's followers include fiends, evil clerics of the death, grave, and war domains, evil paladins, anyone evil or neutral in conflict with humans, and evil tieflings that draw their lineage to him.