Bakori

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Bakori's Offer by Lukas Ketner

Bakori, full name unknown and not easily pronounceable, is a demon that lives in the labyrinth under Skyhold. Bakori wished to form a warlock contract with Hugh and manipulated his feeling to try and get Hugh to sign the contract. Bakori had manipulated an origami golem to take Hugh to a book with a warlock contract specific to demons in it as a way of ensuring that Hugh would be able to form the pact. Luckily for Hugh, he never made a contract with Bakori because Bakori would likely have used Hugh as either a servant or as a mana battery (see warlocks).

## Appearance

Bakori is 15 feet tall and similar to imps. He has sharp fangs and can control his expression very well but does show flashes of irritation.

> "It had a batlike face, hairy protrusions all over its body, and arms that were disproportionately long, ending in razor sharp claws. In addition, however, it also had a long, hairless, prehensile tail ending in a stinger. Some sort of black ichor dripped out of the tip of it, sizzling when it hit the ground. The demon’s most notable feature, however, was its gut. It protruded outward grotesquely, with transparent skin showing its intestines. They resembled nothing so much as a squirming mass of tadpoles."
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## Personality

Bakori is significantly more sadistic, vindictive and spiteful than many demons. He spent an entire year amplifying Hugh's negative emotions and haunting his dreams and then caused Rhodes to attack Hugh, just to offer Hugh a warlock contract. Bakori was also perfectly fine with preventing Hugh leaving Skyhold just so the spells he had used would not break. He becomes irritated when Hugh refuses his offer and acts hurt when accused of being willing to eat the group. Bakori also believes that the truth can be far more effective than lies but is not against using lies.

## Abilities

Bakori, being a demon from an aether critical world, has magic that is alien to Anastis.

### **Spellform Wrecking Field**

He breaks down spellforms that mage pictures in their mind's eye somehow and can choose who his anti-spellform field effects. This ability grows progressively more damaging over time. The longer a spellform is used around him, the worse it decays until it can no longer be used. This means that a spell can only be used a few times in his presence before being unavailable. This anti-spellform ability does not extend to glyphs and enchantments but does work on cantrips. This means that his field does not work on physical references used to invoke magic implying that Bakori only targets the mind. This anti-magic does not seem to work on formless casting either. This ability is highly strange for a being from another world so Bakori either developed this ability unintentionally when escaping into Anastis or his home world, before being destroyed through going aether critical also used mental pictures for magic. With spells that have been completely wiped away due to Bakori experiencing them before, they collapse instantly but the mana is still drained. Bakori could also feel the failed spells and knew what they were.

> So when Hugh saw Bakori again, his instinctive response was to reach for his only full mana reservoir— his stellar affinity. He dropped his already decaying spellform pushing against the magma, and constructed the starbolt spellform in his mind’s eye. The spellform collapsed instantly, but his stellar mana reservoir still drained as though he’d cast the spell. Bakori chuckled, even as one of Dyne’s lightning bolts hammered into him. It tore open his arm, exposing and burning bone and muscle, and boiling the ichor in the demon’s veins. “I felt that, Hugh. I’ve battled your master before, and she used more than her share of starbolts on me. That trick’s never going to work on me again.”
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### **Mental Manipulation**

Bakori can manipulates minds and dreams. He can push people down specific routes and amplify feelings but can not create them himself.

### **Regeneration**

Bakori can absorb his imps to heal himself. He can regenerate immense damage in moments and regrew from near nothing. Having his entire body destroyed is a minor inconvenience that stalls him for mere seconds. It took several hours for Ilinia Kaen Das, a great power on Kanderon's level, to kill Bakori as his regeneration was so strong. The energy drained from imps is vomit coloured and when Bakori died there was a vomit coloured explosion.

### **Imp Spawning**

Bakori can generates hundreds or thousands of imps in a moment and and can use them as mouthpieces. He can also modify them and improve them by giving them spikes, venom etc. This gives him an army he can manifest in moments.

### **Physical Capabilities**

Bakori is absurdly strong, even for something of his size. Alustin believed he could tear through a dragon with his bare hands. His claws can also cut through most stone and metal easily. The venom his tail stinger produces is toxic enough to kill most creatures smaller than him in minutes, and it is a threat to creatures Kanderon’s size.