Himbo

Himbo was a tiefling paladin active on the material plane ~200 years ago. He was part of an adventuring party that included Cu. Himbo made a deal with the ancient demon lord Shashili the Fleshweaver, trading his soul for a number of minor benefits. After his death, he became a succubus who eventually became a hero deity and demon lord.

## Biography

Himbo met Cu fairly early on in their career. They met in the Frontier and decided to travel together. Very quickly, Himbo showed his true colours by setting fire to some of the settlements and indiscriminately killing locals. This needless killing concerned Cu. When the surviving villagers sent some adventurers to deal with Cu and Himbo, Cu made sure to pin everything on Himbo, who managed to negotiate with them to avoid being put to death. He promised to do work for the villagers to pay off his debt. Immediately after making the agreement, the two left and went to one of the other kingdoms of the Frontier. There, they found Shashili at a slave market, and within a day Himbo had made a pact with him. From there, they started sailing across the Bay of Gold when a storm struck. They got lost in the storm and ended up in Vafheim. They made their way inland and went to one of the fey markets nearby. While they were shopping, a Mora cultist summoned a shade of Mora into a construct in a nearby house, which went on a rampage. Himbo decided to attempt to redeem himself by fighting the construct, only to be quickly killed.

Shashili, now in possession of Himbo's soul, turned the soul into a succubus. He then sent Himbo to seduce a noble into his service, who happened to be one of Himbo's brothers. Eventually, the noble became a willing warlock of Shashili. Himbo did a number of jobs for Shashili over the next few years, becoming more and more powerful. Despite Himbo's death, Shashili didn't leave Cu alone, and caused a number of problems for him over that time. While Himbo was on a mission to the Eastern Isles to seduce a daimyo there, Cu killed Shashili's possessed body, his actual body, and then went to Shashili's layer of the Pits, killed all his minions who were there, and then ended Shashili's existence.

Himbo, now freed of Shashili's control, decided to follow her instincts as a succubus, and founded a brothel deep in the pits. With her great power she managed to take over an entire layer of the pits, and in the process managed to ascend to the rank of hero-deity, as well as a demon lord. Many succubi and similar fiends flocked to Himbo and became her subordinates. When Cu found out, he was furious that Himbo was still around, having caused him so much trouble over the years, and started marching through the pits, slowly making his way towards the brothel. When Himbo found out, she started having her subordinates kidnap people from Erah and use them as cannon fodder to slow down his advance. A number of the party were thrown at him.

Himbo works not only as the brothel's owner and manager, but as the brothel's tayu, the highest rank of its highest rank courtesans. Soon after the brothel's opening, Himbo was tricked by one of her clients into drinking a moonfruit cocktail, causing her offspring to become warped. Himbo embraced her ability to give birth to monstrous creatures and stylised herself as the Mother of Monsters. She made a defensive alliance with the Kolshet Empire, sealing it by having a child with Keisara. Said child was Skarlat, who left Himbo's brothel at a fairly young age and made her way to Keisara's court.

Himbo took part in the strategy meeting for the Giant Crusade due to her close ties to the Kolshet Empire but was not going to take part in the actual crusade herself. She was merely there to make sure her security wasn't going to be compromised by the crusade and was ultimately quite bored by the conference. She perked up when the party turned up and found it quite amusing to see Keisara getting so worked up about them.