Akarot

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**Akarot** is a lich and the lord of the Nine Hells. He possesses the ability to see through the eyes of his minions and to control various "hollow bodies." Akarot strives to impress his father. He wears solid black armor and a small blackened iron crown. His face is covered in dark wraps but unlike his hollow bodies, his eyes are devoid of any humanity and consumed by fire.

## Role in The Story

### **The Cutthroat Chronicles**

Akarot first appears by means of his hollow bodies as The Band of Boobs escape Smuggler's Bounty on the SS Stormborn. Akarot and three of his Death Knights chase after The Stormborn on Nightmare Stallions. The body Akarot was using plummets toward the water below after Moonshine Cybin polymorphs his Nightmare Stallion into a dolphin.

### **The Frostwind Chapter**

Akarot's hollow bodies come after the Band of Boobs once again as they descend into the crypts beneath the Frostwind graveyard. He takes the form of one when meeting with Beverly Toegold and tries to convince him to break his oath to Pelor, and join him in the ranks of those faithful to Ilsed as an anti-paladin. He attempts to cast *Zone of Truth* on Beverly, but Beverly resists it, impressing him. He also gives Bev the Coin of Akarot.

When the group is together again, Akarot then demands that they give him the gem containing Ulfgar, offering to give them information about Gemma's killer in exchange, but The Boobs decline. He then offers to bring Gemma back to life if one of them pledges themselves to The Nine Hells. Hardwon admits that he wants her back, but needs to avenge her first. Akarot informs him that the man who did it is in the next room, and opens the door to allow Hardwon to walk in. Upon entering, Hardwon slowly approaches a dwarf tied to a chair, who is just a hollow body who stabs Hardwon in the ribs, leading to an all-out fight. The Boobs fight the two hollow bodies, and destroy both with relative ease. They carve up the two hollow bodies, and he does not return.

He appears again in his prime form at the top of Mount Forge alongside the Adult White Dragon and The Pale Prince, both of whom have become his minions. During the fight, he tries to banish Hardwon to a demi-planar prison, but fails. He also tries to steal the Coin of Akarot back from Bev and tries to offer it to Rust, but cannot get his hands on it. After knocking Bev's amulet into the snow and rocks, he disappears into mist.

### A Faerie Tale

After reuniting with Beverly's father, Bev IV along with a grown-up Cran and Derlin in the Feywild, the Boobs are tasked with the mission of defeating the monarch of the Winter Court, Queen Ezra the Unkind, in order to save the Spring and Summer Courts amidst a hellish invasion of devils, demons, and Chosen Angels alike. While fighting Queen Ezra, she reveals painful truths about all the Boobs, and relishes the opportunity to tell Beverly that his father is a traitor who made a deal with Akarot in which he enlisted the help of Hell to drive back the Chosen invasion in the Fey. Beverly is heartbroken, and his father tells him to tell his mother that he "died in the Feywild."

### Mage Madness

Akarot spends much of the Gladeholm Wizard Tournament incognito as one of the members of a team with a necromancer champion. However, during the final trial with only four teams remaining, Akarot reveals his identity to Moonshine as they battle for possession of the Thinking Cap, but Moonshine manages to win possession. Akarot almost manages to kill Beverly, but Moonshine is able to spirit him away to a secure, hidden dungeon with *Stone Shape*, where the Boobs, along with Mavrus and Ren, recover and plot, since Akarot is preventing them from officially finishing the task that will allow them to win the tournament.

When the Boobs descend on Akarot where he waits for them in the Great Hall, he throws more crudely made hollow bodies at them, and attacks from his own prime form. Just when it seems that Akarot is cornered, he’s able to knock Mavrus unconscious and threatens to kill him if the rest of the group don't agree to give up the Thinking Cap. When they don’t hand it over, Akarot keeps his word and drives his blade through Mavrus’s chest, killing him. Beverly charges in to help, but is banished by Akarot. Moonshine manages to break Akarot's concentration on Banishment, nearly killing him, and Beverly returns to land (what he assumes) is the finishing blow.

### The Hellfire Chronicles

After reuniting with Alanis in Hell, the Band of Boobs meet a ghostly Ilsed who reveals his origin story. He was a very unpopular student at Gladeholm University who found a lich. Although at first Ilsed rejecting the Lich's power, he made a deal to have the power to resurrect Erdan's parents in exchange for a favor. The lich brought back Erdan's parents as mindless zombies, and claimed that since he technically fulfilled his end of the bargain he would claim his favor, Ilsed's body. He erases the memories of Erdan and Lucanus, and begins using the All-Caster as his phylactery. The lich reveals himself as Akarot.

The Boobs realize that Akarot's previous persona was tailor made into tricking Beverly into becoming another Ilsed and they go to stop his master plan, to resurrect dead gods and wreaking havoc on all in Bahumia that don't pledge fealty to him. They manage to stop three of the six gods from being resurrected and entering the material plane, as destroy Akarot's prime body. However, due to his factories of phylacteries his consciousness still exists and he begins his attack on Bahumia with the final three Rogue Gods.

The Boobs, along with Mavrus and Apple Scrumper, confront the Tarrasque "Hollow Goddie" in the Frigid North. Bev and Mavrus teleport to Irondeep to help their friends battle the Jubilex body, while Hardwon finishes off the Tarrasque.

Moonshine, Hardwon, Apple and Balnor join Moonshine's parents in the city of Gladeholm, which has been teleported and chained to the city of Asmodea. They confront Akarot's final, and most powerful Hollow Goddie, a gargoyle looking monster, who uses Modify Memory to force Apple to stick her arm into his mysterious box, which contains a Sphere of Annihilation. He tells Moonshine to fight him fairly and take off the Thinking Cap, to which she responds by telling him to take off his vest, which he apparently was wearing the whole time. He is shoved ass first by Balnor into the Sphere.

## Goals

His ultimate goal is to bring chaos to the world, and in doing so, impress his father. He hoped to achieve this by "Thwacking the Gash" but was stopped by the Band of Boobs. After his defeat in Frostwind, he entered Mage Madness in order to steal the Thinking Cap, but was defeated.

### Deals he has made in hopes of bringing in Chaos

* He arranged the murder of Gemma Bronzebeard with Wilhelm Bronzebeard. In exchange for Wilhelm creating the gem that entrapped Ulfgar, Akarot killed Gemma. Akarot struck the killing blow himself by possessing what had been the body of the leader of the Thieves' Guild.
* Trying to turn Beverly Toegold evil by offering him the power to protect all the people he loves, but then settling for Bev's father, Bev IV.
* Offered Heurog Jr. his power, who took it in hopes of helping his people the Hill Giants. Heurog Jr. became a pawn for Akarot and assisted in the plot to kill the Pale Prince and Thwack the Gash.

## Trivia

* He once rode a dolphin for a couple of seconds before falling into the ocean.
* Has impeccable penmanship, comparable to a Calligrapher, that thoroughly impresses Beverly but has also been described as "beautiful, but immediate sense of serial killer, control freak, weird bizarro."
* The character voice is based off of Brian Murphy's impression of Adam Driver.
* In hell, he "lived in the same cul-de-sac" as Marabelle.
* His Prime Body uses the stat block of a Death Knight, found in the Monster Manual, despite him not fitting the flavor of the monster.
* He nicked off part of his ass shitting into the Sphere of Annihilation.

## References

1. ↑ Episode 32: The Getaway (The Cutthroat Chronicles with Siobhan Thompson)
2. ↑ Episode 37: The Man Who Threw the Knife (The Frostwind Chapter)
3. ↑ Episode 45: Kingshammer (The Frostwind Chapter)
4. ↑ Episode 58: Crown of Thorns (A Faerie Tale)
5. ↑ Episode 73: Pandemonium (Mage Madness with Zac Oyama)
6. ↑ Episode 74: Highprince of Hell (Mage Madness with Zac Oyama)
7. ↑ Episode 88: Faithless (The Hellfire Chronicles)