Abadon

Abadon is a powerful cambion bard who lives on the Plane of Dreams. He is a subordinate of Keisara and serves as one of her generals.

### Biography

In his youth, Keisara tried expanding her influence into the Plane of Dreams. His family was split on what to do: Abadon urged caution and cooperation with Keisara, whilst his elder brother called for war against her. Abadon refused to have his forces take part in his brother's war, leading to his brother being vastly outnumbered. In part due to his brother's relatively poor oneiromancy powers, he was unable to bridge the gap between them, and his forces were wiped out, with Keisara dealing the finishing blow to him. With his brother's death, Abadon was able to make an alliance with Keisara, with his Kingdom of Abadon becoming a vassal state of the Kolshet Empire in the process.

It was soon after this that Abadon discovered his passion for the arts and started learning music. He was soon able to incorporate it into his oneiromancy, and his oneiromancy into his music, enhancing both and increasing his power tenfold.

He became one of Keisara's generals and started specialising in psychological warfare. He made his kingdom into a paradise, with it serving as propaganda for the Kolshet Empire that would be the backdrop of people's dreams. He also created a number of demiplanes at Keisara's behest, one for each of her generals.

### Meeting the Party

Runfinn was driven insane and started hallucinating, seeing and hearing Abadon. This soon caught the attention of the real Abadon, who manifested in his dreams to properly introduce himself. The party had also been experimenting with oneiromantic potions at the time, and soon Keeper, Guthash, and Neriah climbed Mount Vulcan to try more. Instead of the potion working as they expected, they instead ended up inside Abadon's prison tower. He became irritated by Guthash, so he imprisoned him almost immediately. Neriah tried bargaining for their release, and offered to provide entertainment to Abadon, singing a song while Keeper made some special effects. Abadon was impressed by this as the work of amateurs, and then decided to show them how it's done through a song and dance routine with oneiromancy supplying the special effects. This caused Neriah to ask him if he can teach her music some time. Neriah and Keeper were then put in small rooms until their potions wore off, while Abadon kept Guthash for a few days, attempting to torture him with violin music. Unfortunately Abadon is incapable of playing badly, so his symphonies instead gained Guthash's admiration.

### Marriage

Abadon later brought Neriah back to his realm to keep his promise of teaching her music. What was a single night on The Plateau was instead an entire year in Abadon's realm. By the time she awoke the next morning, she'd gotten married and given birth to Apollyon in the dream world. After their marriage, Abadon started giving Neriah advice to increase her odds of surviving, which she only really started listening to after her skin and blood got replaced with those of the Chelom-Der. It was also at this time that Abadon subdued the goblin rat tribe living on the plateau.

Abadon's role in the plateau was to deal with the keep the archaeologists had holed themselves up inside, so each day he would enter it from the plane of dreams and abduct some people, taking them to the Plane of Dreams where he'd made their desires manifest. Such people would eventually lose their sense of self, becoming dream spirits capable of only fulfilling the role Abadon gave them in their fantasies. On one such trip to abduct people, he made it into a family outing, bringing Neriah, Apollyon, and the dreamwracks formed from Neriah's dreams.

Once Kleightus' plans fell through, Keisara had Abadon dismantle The Plateau until Kleightus had earned it back. He told Neriah he'd see her again when he'd finished this job. When he spoke to her, he asked Neriah if he could take her to live with him permanently in his realm so he could keep her safe and they could make more music. Neriah accepted, and Abadon drew her into the Plane of Dreams.

Abadon and Neriah later were both present at the crusaders' conference in Aongorm's keep.

## Powers and Abilities

Abadon's power in the Plane of Dreams rivals that of weaker deities. Within that realm, he is virtually invulnerable and capable of doing anything. He is capable of manifesting echoes of himself on the material and even within the Plane of Dreams itself. These echoes are substantially weaker than he himself is, but they cost him little to create. The only member of the party to have seen his true form is his wife, Neriah.

Abadon is an accomplished bard, and if he wished he could likely become a hero-deity with very little effort. He is physically incapable of making bad music. It is assumed that he has access to many bardic spells, as well as some innate cambion ones. His oni lineage grants him more oneiromancy powers.

He is capable of creating large-scale demiplanes using oneiromancy and parts of the material plane, such as The Plateau.