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Demon Lord Alvarez

The images in this post were created by me using artificial intelligence to depict a modern version of this demon lord. The images are not copyrighted. Please ask permission to use.

Trigger Warning❗️

This post contains violent content. If you do not like reading this please do not read.

Hello, I will be making a post that goes through the information given in 1E, 2E, 3E, 4E, and 5E. This includes all four hundred dragon magazines, all two hundred dungeon magazines, web supplements, and other official released content. There are many demon lords that have been depicted or lost in the vast amounts of DND content. I only wish to bring them to your attention and create new art that features these demon lords.

Titles

The Purging Duke

Inquisitor

Layer

Tortuous Truth 57th Layer

Tanar'ri call him "The Purging Duke," but not when he might hear. Alvarez is most famous for the cruelty and brutality he shows his troops. Even the fiends fear the inventive tortures of those under the Duke's command. Slaadi do not, of course. Chant is the Duke was recently a mortal who proved so cleverly hateful that he won over the nalfeshnee who judged him. Xanxost has heard he served only as a chasme and later a glabrezu (and for only three millennia) before ascending to his current form.

Background

On the left it depicts what Alvarez looked like when he was mortal. On the right depicts his transformation into a demon humanoid.

(This part was added by me since he had no background.)

On a prime material plane there was a warrior who indulged in various forms of torture. He would often lie to his people saying there was a traitor amongst them just to drag the innocent into his chambers and hear their screams. He would get the “truth” from them, but the truth was most likely just the tortured victim telling him what he wanted to hear. His tortures were so legendary that none would question him out of fear even if he was wrong. He would find new ways to torture people even going so far as to combine torture and magic.

When his mortal life came to an end by the hands of adventurers who liberated the kingdom that was in his control. His soul was sent to the elemental chaos where it found it’s way to the abyss. His chaotic nature summoned his soul to the nalfeshnee where he would be judged. His actions in life were so horrific that the judges were amazed at the various forms of torture he created. They had seen nothing like it on the abyss. He was promoted to a powerful form and it only took him three millennia to ascend to a demon lord.

Relationships

(This was added by me as a rivalry he might have.)

The Duke suspects the rumors and legends about Graz’zt to be true. That he is a devil that came to the abyss and took power. The Duke seeks evidence and he will find it. There is no room for lawful evil in the chaotic evil abyss.

Appearance

Alvarez takes the shape of an ordinary human male with oily, blue-black hair and immaculately pressed clothing. But look closer. See the light of insanity that burns in his eyes.

First Appearance

The demon lord Alvarez was mentioned in a 2E Planescape book with a description.

The Duke rules Torturous Truth, the 57th layer of the Abyss, and he calls himself the inquisitor of the tanar'ri.

Personality

Does a cambion show signs of having dealt with the baatezu - like maybe he starts to act too orderly? Oho! He will be "questioned" by Alvarez and his intensely loyal team. It is easy for them to be loyal when they are afraid they might be next. Alvarez has reminded the tanar'ri of the meaning of pain. All fiends in the Abyss fear the coming of his soldiers.

The Duke occasionally uses mortals and slaadi to send messages to his next victims or spy on suspected traitors.

Anyone who does a bad job for the Duke does not live long enough to wonder if they should worry about not having done it right.

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Demon Lord Lady Lynkhab

This art was created by me using artificial intelligence to depict a modern version of this demon lord. The art is not copyrighted ask permission to use please.

Trigger warning❗️

This post depicts a suicidal character if you are not comfortable with this topic being discussed please do not read.

Original depiction of Lady Lynkhab

First Appearance

She was referenced in a 2E planescape book with a description.

This post gives an example of her story. Her full story and description will be found in my new post.

The Abyss

Before you read. You should know that the abyss and the lords in it influence every world within DND and some deities on certain planets only have influence in that world the abyss and its demon lords influence the entire multiverse while gods take control of certain aspects of their planet it’s the demon lords who have much more influence and the fact they are limited in power is a mystery, but Lady Lynkhab is a example of how much influence the abyss has on existence.

Character Description

Lady Lynkhab is a puzzle. She is deep depression and intense desire, both at the same time. A big book of names - the Mors Mysterium Nominum - says she is depressed because she did her job too well. What Xanxost means to say: Lynkhab expressed the idea of desire so perfectly that she became a disembodied force. Desire became permanent part of existence it existed in all things. But she reformed herself so she could continue her expression. Instead of being an energy she wanted to have a physical form and rule from her layer of the abyss. Now she wishes she never took her body, back. Oho! Too late.

She became desire, but decided to manifest into a physical form. Why she did this is a mystery. Perhaps her demon and chaotic nature pulled her back to the abyss so she could protect her layer from invasion or being taken from her by another demon lord.

Lynkhab has become a creature of pure will, too cohesive to move on to a new existence. She tries and tries, and she fails and fails. She can force herself out of her own memory and thus out of being for a time, but she is desire!

Desire exists in all things and cannot be destroyed she is desire itself and can not destroy herself.

And she is so strong that she always reappears after a day or two. That is why she is depression, too. She wants to become a true deity, but she is stuck right where she is. Her physical form prevents her from ascending within the universe and becoming an all powerful deity. She is now stuck in the abyss in her physical body as desire itself unable to access the power throughout creation she made. She still is desire and desire cannot be destroyed, but she is limited by her physical form and trapped within it.

Just a poor little abyssal lord.

'Course, Lynkhab is stuck in a physical form, but it does not always have to be the same form. She reads the desires in the hearts of others and feeds off their lusts.

Wizards like to see what kind of slaadi she would make! Lately, Lynkhab takes the shape of a flame-haired, voluptuous elf with eyes of burning ice. The tanar'ri say she owns the 297th layer (the Sighing Cliffs), but she also wanders the Abyss because no one - not even other lords - can hurt her. Sometimes she seeks out mortal adventurers in the Abyss and says, "Hello, please try to kill me!" If they fail, she puts them in the dead-book. So far, everyone has failed.

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