Lord Industrous

### Nicknames

Copycat, fellow enigma, Your majesty (by Alastor)Prude (by the 3 V's, Blizo, other overlords of the pride ring)

Boy (by Lucifer)

The Dark lord, The Iron Crown of Imp City, Deaths Right Hand (by varoious citizens of Hell)

Thunderous war incarnate (by himself)

### Likes

SmokingReading

Writing

Forging

Watching other demons interacting

Plotting

Building his army

Sparring

Conquering other lords

Other's suffering

### Dislikes

The hierarchy of HellOther overlords (mostly)

Being put in the spotlight

Large social gatherings

Cowards

Hypocrites

Being cold

Heaven's judgement

Being compared to others

Being talked down to

Being touched suddenly and without permission

Threats to himself

Other demons not suffering (being high, buzzed, having sex, etc...)

Redemption

Sexism

## Characteristics

### Abilities

Power over smoke and metalPower over "the fires of industry"

Shapeshifting into smoke and back

Hovering/flying on a smoke cloud

Summoning objects out of the smoke around him

Projecting visions into other's minds through eye contact

"True sight" using his right eye

Communicating with his ravens

Tactical prowess

Vast knowledge

Expert pianist

Experienced organ player

Shifting into his full demon form and back

Near-immortality

Realm travel

Banishment of who he wishes to the realm of suffering, Helheim

Nigh-omnipotence (if he ever retrieves Gungnir and Mjolnir)

Regularly breaks the 4th wall

## Professional status

### Occupation

OverlordBenefactor of the Happy Hotel

King of Scotland and Ireland (when he was alive)

## Relationships

### Enemies

The 3 V'sCharlie (by extension Vaggie)

Most other overlords

Lucifer and the princes

God and the angels

### Other

Alastor (fellow benefactor)Angel, Husker, Niffty (acquaintances)

Huginn and Muninn (pets/scouts)

Cerberus (pet)

*Please do not edit without Lord Industrous' (my) permission, thank you.*

**Lord Industrous** is an up-in-coming overlord whose motivation is shrouded in mystery. He is barely seen in public and when he does venture out of his manor on the coast he is cloaked from his head to his shoes, meaning no one has ever seen his face. But as the months pass, he offers his protection and help to the princess of Hell regarding her pet project, an act that shocks many including the princess herself. What they all do not know is that he descends from an ancient and powerful bloodline of angels that were cast out of Heaven along with Lucifer, the bloodline known as the Aesir of Asgard. He has made very poor choices regarding falling in love, turning him dark and cruel in his death.

## Appearance

Lord Industrous is mid-height demon, taller than Charlie but shorter than Alastor and Angel. He almost always wears a black cloak in public that has a clasp of black cord and sapphire, the cloak itself slowly fades into smoke the closer to his feet you get. The only parts visible of his person are his thin legs and feet, which are covered in black slacks and dress shoes, his hands that are covered in pale and gold scales with long golden claws. If he chooses to, he can have his eyes visible to others along with other parts of his face like his grim smile sporting two white fangs. His eyes are mismatched, his left is a deep blue with a black slitted pupil, whilst the right is a paler blue with an almost invisible circular, white pupil. When reading he will occasionally slip a gold monocle over his left eye to aid in his eyesight. He always walks with a black iron cane adorned with a large sapphire gem at the top and gold supports around the gem and shaft. His metal tobacco pipe can usually be found hanging from the darkness of his hood, it is embossed with gold and bejeweled with a sapphire mouthpiece along with smaller gems around the bowl.

Without his cloak he is covered with pale and golden scales that match his hands, the golden scales running down his arms and back in decorative swirls and branches. His Face is rounded like other snake demons but he usually retracts his fangs. There is a jagged white scar running from the top of his right eyebrow almost down to the corner of his lips, a lasting reminder of what caused his right eye to go blind. He has a snakes tail the size of his torso that he usually hides under his cloak, it matches his scales color but the rattles are golden, they make the sound of hammers on bells if he shakes his tail to and fro. His party attire is a 3-piece completely black suit, bowtie, and top hat that has a gold band and sapphire gem on the crown. His belt buckle is golden and sporting the symbol of the valknut embossed on it. His face is still usually shrouded in shadow as well.

His full demon form has never been seen without his cloak on, he sprouts four large rebar "legs" from his back and uses them to walk around and in battle, also while in this form his tail sprouts metal spikes below the rattles. When he is angry his eyes turn from normal to the shape of tongues of fire. His voice is deep and raspy and he slightly overenunciates his S's, but he rarely talks regardless.

When he was alive, Gregory was 5'8 with blonde hair and blue eyes along with glasses. His suit, cane, and pipe were the same in life as they are in death, except his top hat did not have a sapphire on it.

## Personality

> *“You'll have to do better than that, insect.”*-Industrous to Valentino
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Industrous is a man who keeps to himself most of the time, usually either shutting himself away in his home or sitting in a dark corner reading and observing. This does not mean that he is one to be walked over though, quite the opposite. Industrous believes that he is always the smartest one in the room (even in subjects that he is less acquainted with), given his lineage and his current power he thinks himself above all other sinners and hellborns. This fact is true regarding a lowly imp or Lucifer himself, Industrous believes to be of a higher order and authority than all of them, and so takes it very personally when he is insulted by anyone. But instead of just killing whoever pisses him off, he usually bides his time and gathers his power for the opportune moment, he plans to eventually escape hell and return with the most powerful army ever seen when the time is right. His wrath is freezing cold and controlled, which makes him such a dangerous force seeing as most sinners of wrath are volatile and feral, but Industrous harnesses his deep-seated wrath and focuses it into his strengths. He has been known to let his rage flare from time to time, he is weak when this happens for his brilliance and his tactical genius are his greatest strengths. During a battle with the 3 V's such an instance happens and he is shot with an angel bullet, and he is briefly sent to the realm of nonexistence, but he returns shortly after with his rage back under control, making him more terrifying than the Grim Reaper himself.

Despite this he is actually a very nervous and unsure individual, who constantly second-guesses himself and his actions. This causes him to overcorrect and try to put on the most intimidating front he can, often scaring the residents of the hotel (much to Charlie's exasperation) to try and prove to himself that he is strong and powerful whilst covering up the gaping doubt inside him.

When he is in the company of his generals (Negotium and FIrben), and Charlie, he is mannerly and actually kind. He cares deeply for those he calls friends, naturally protective, empathetic, and downright caring when it comes down to it. While Industrous may try to see himself as more than everyone else around him, deep down he doesn't believe it, he actually thinks of himself very poorly when he is alone, so poorly that he actually drives himself to panic attacks and fainting from crying all night.

## History and lineage

To start at the beginning of the dark lord's line, you would have to journey many millennia back, to the fall of Lucifer and the betrayal of one third of heaven's forces. When Lucifer challenged the authority of his creator, many others stood with him, the house of Ars Goetia and the other six generals of God's army being the most notable, but they were not alone in their questioning of God. Many more angels rebelled but all failed as they were outnumbered and outmatched, so they all were cast out down to earth and hell, but they did not stay together. The Ars Goetia joined Lucifer in hell, along with the soon to be kings of the seven rings, being Mammon, Satan, Beelzebub, Belphegor, Leviathan, Asmodeus, but the majority did not join the self-proclaimed king of hell. These struck out to earth and were given dominion of certain powers in the world as it is written in the Bible, a few came into the lands of China and India, becoming gods with many arms and symbols, bringing with them great beasts humans called dragons, some came to the land of Egypt and the humans became obsessed with their animal traits. A smaller few came to the early Americas becoming gods of land and of tradition, but most congregated in the place humans now call Europe, setting themselves on mountains and in green fields. They all claimed to be the true masters of their powers even though many shared their strengths with their brothers and sisters, but the most important fact is that they would come down to earth and bear half breeds with mankind, what are called the Nephilim and soon the blood got less and less pure as time went on.

None of these previously mentioned factions have much importance with Industrous, however, his line comes from the house Aesir, who planted the great tree in the northernmost part of humanity (later to be called Yggdrasil). This family set themselves a great hall of 500 doors upon the boughs of the fully grown ash tree, but the lord of the hall (Borr, father of Odin) sought to do what his brother Lucifer could not... wrench control of the afterlife from their father. And so, he created along with the great hall of Valholl (hall of the slain) the dark realm of Helheim, a realm of torment and suffering, far worse than the excuse of a prison hell is, a realm of cold and darkness with no rest and no reprieve. The souls of the dead would either fall into the dark realm of hell (the Aesir called it Muspelheim) or be taken up into the realm of light and peace (called Alfheim by Borr) and if a soul somehow escaped hell (through second death or banishment) they would land in a large lake known as "Nonexistence", but the first king of Asgard would change that. He made a great riverbed at the southernmost end of the lake and set his hall next to said river, but he also dug a great hole as the gate to the frigid realm of Helheim to which the river would eventually flow. He then assigned many female angels to the role of Valkeries, using their wings they would pluck certain "worthy" souls from the river and take them to his hall of the slain, these souls must have died in battle to be eligible of the reward, but they also must have been honorable in their lives. Afterwards he waited, biding his time on his high throne until the first souls would come down the river, and when they did, he began his mission of hijacking the order of the afterlife, and for a long time, him and his son Odin took control from God himself.

But it was not to last, God (whom they named Ymir) swore to end the great hall by sending his most powerful armies and beasts against the Aesir, also the betrayal of the angel Loki guaranteed the fall of the great tree. Odin try as he might, could not prepare himself for the onslaught of Heaven itself, even God's personal guard dog Fenrir was destined to swallow him whole. Eventually the invasion came (dubbed Ragnarök by the Aesir), and the angels were felled, never to oppose God's order again, the river was dammed and the gate to Helheim was sealed, presumably forever. The Aesir had many powerful artifacts and weapons made with secretes stolen from God's own forge, all of which were either destroyed or taken back to Heaven to be locked away in its deepest vaults. The most notable artifacts were the warhammer Mjolnir wielded by the prince of Asgard and lord of the skies Thor, and the spear of Odin himself Gungnir, both of which are now guarded fiercely by the angels. And so, after the other sects of mythologies were destroyed, God returned to Heaven and shut himself away in the inner sanctum, his own creations having betrayed him having taken its toll. The armies of heaven hung up their weapons (except for the exterminators, they still had their yearly task), and the Aesir and the gods of Olympus and of China and of Egypt were forgotten to the history books, oh what fools they were.

The lines of the gods of all mythologies still held true, and even though they were muddled and weakened, the blood of angels still ran through them, making for many great humans such as, Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, Washington, Lincoln, Genghis Kahn, even Gandhi, and finally Gregory McDermott.

## Trivia

* Industrous is American and therefore speaks without much of an accent most of the time, he did spend his last years alive in Scotland, however, so he sometimes speaks in a Scottish accent.
* Industrous is fluent in English and Scottish Gaelic, this includes writing, reading, speaking, even singing.
* His favorite movies are: The Godfather, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Star Wars.
* His favorite books are: Lord of the Rings, The Poetic Edda, and Beowulf.
* He always prefers to use handwritten letters against phones and such.
* His knowledge concerning mythology (especially Norse) has few equals.
* Industrous can read, write, and speak Old Norse even despite the language having been dead for many centuries.
* Industrous can understand and read Latin but cannot write or speak it well.
* He can play the piano on an expert level and can play pipe organ decently well.
* Learning to play new instruments is one of his favorite pass times, these including: hurdy gurdy, guitar, drums, and concertina.
* He drives a recreation of a 1965 Cadilac El Dorado convertible when he isn't walking or flying.
* He has an excellent vocal range, able to go from low to high pitch with relative ease but refuses to sing in public regardless.
* His character design was mostly inspired from the "Nazgul" from Lord of the Rings, specifically the Witch-king of Angmar.
* His personality was inspired from the likes of: Davy Jones, Emperor Palpatine, Sauron, and the creator's own.
* His powers took most inspiration from Magneto, Valentino, Thor, and the Death Eaters from Harry Potter.
* The creator is currently looking for artists and song writers to further expand the character.