Uzhul
The Destroyer
Hail, Destroyer, Leader of the Fiends in Battle, Daemon Prince of the Hungry Dark, Lord of Destruction, Iron Throned, Heart-Cutter, God Killer, Carrion King!
In every battle, wherever blades are drawn and blood is spilled, the Destroyer's carrion birds take flight. Every warrior who hears the call of slaughter in his beating heart, every warlord who can seize victory by committing atrocities, is heeding the call of The Lord of Destruction. When nations set sail to destroy their neighbors, still their tongues, ban their languages and wipe out their cultures, they give offerings to Uzhul, the Infernal Warlord.
Divine Domains
Destruction, War, Tactics, Victory-At-Any-Cost, Brutal Cunning
Divine Symbols & Sigils
A black iron blade, a carrion crow, crow feathers tattooed on a warrior's arm, an iron throne
Tenets of Faith
- Only the strong survive
- Weakness is impurity
- Might is Right
- Those who give in to bloodlust are weapons, those who scheme and plot and use strategy are warriors
Divine Goals & Aspirations
As the Warlord of the Infernals, Uzhul holds that mastery and domination through war is the only virtue. He covets the primal light of Anacra. Given the chance, he would destroy Ramius, seize dominion over the Underworld, and eventually shatter the Firmament of the Four Kingdoms. With Anacra returned to its original, malleable shape, he would consume its light and remake the world in his own image.
Until that day comes, Uzhul seeks to divide the weak from the strong. He encourages warriors to give into their blood frenzy, turning them into vessels of his violence. Those who resist this frenzy become his true disciples, learning iron discipline and merciless tactics that will grant them dominion over their fellow mortals.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
The Outer Dark Incursion
Like all the High Infernals, Uzhul does not hail from Anacra. Whether he had conquered the world he hailed from and craved more, or was driven out and exiled from his origin point, he joined the Infernals massing in the Hungry Dark and took his place at the head of their legions. Together, they crossed the void and descended upon Anacra, hungry for the beautiful light of its Dawn, eager to dominate and control it. Anacra's inhabitants were unprepared for violence on this scale, but their will shaped the world around them. As Uzhul's armies spread, Anacra become more cruel, more harsh, the world itself seized in the iron grasp of the Infernals' will. The greatest obstacle to the Infernal Legions was Luminias, The City of Light. When the Infernals came crashing down on its towers of gemstone and gardens of living song, they met the fury of Barash and Loetne, two sidhe whose love for each other made them stronger than all of Uzhul's armies combined. Again and again the Infernal Legions closed in around Luminias, and again and again they were hurled back by the strong arm and defiant songs of the two lovers. For all his tactics and cruel cunning, the Leader of the Fiends in Battle had met his match. The other Infernals sensed weakness. Xethius, the Dark Prophet, hissed in the ears of the dark legions. Anachronous turned his eschaton clock, measuring the odds of a successful coup. Tillibec abandoned the front, swarming through the rest of Anacra to spread havoc at his own whim. Sensing his reputation crumbling and fearful of treacherous allies, Uzhul turned to an Infernal even the other fiends feared and shunned--Nefastus, the Hateful Scorpion. Nefastus hated the joy of Barash and Loetne, and wove a plan to separate them, poison them against each other, and break their hope. The Scorpion underestimated the fury of Barash, and though his scheme darkened a great light of beauty and turned the lovers to sorrow, it was dragged down into the rivers of Hatred and undone. The damage, however, was enough. With Barash and Loetne gone, Uzhul seized power once more, threatening the wayward Infernals with a terrible show of force. United again, they shattered the defenses of Luminias, razed the city, and consumed its light. Now Uzhul could reshape the Dawn into his own image. Strength would rule forever. Anything soft or gentle would be punished, tortured, broken into a thrall to those willing to use violence. With each passing day the Dawn resembled his iron domain. Not even the Elemental Sovereigns could prevail against Uzhul's will, triumphant and destructive. But salvation came, unlooked for, from the World Before. The Nameless God opened the Seven Gates of the Silent City, and from the last door the Dragons returned to the world. Their nature was absolute, their power uncontested, their elemental essence irresistible. In wrath, and fire, and fury they poured forth, annihilating Uzhul's legions with primal magic and force. Fiends perished by the millions. The twisted dawn was reduced to its essence, unraveled and blasted back. This was the great defeat that broke Uzhul's mastery over the Infernal legions. The terrible dragon Chaun found him, faced him, and defeated him. Uzhul fled, his black-iron armor burning him alive, his terrible blades shattered and lost in a desperate rout.The Firmament
As the Infernals retreated to lick their wounds, the Elemental Sovereigns moved against them at last. Together they wove the strands of Dawn into separate planes of existence, the Four Kingdoms, and by interlacing them together they formed the Firmament--a seal upon Anacra, locking it away from the Hungry Dark. There would be neither escape nor reinforcements for the Infernals. This was the last stroke. The High Infernals turned on each other, enraged and trapped and desperate. Many of them blamed Uzhul for this defeat--as their leader and general, the failure was his. Uzhul gathered his supporters and fled to the distant corners of Anacra, furious and humiliated. Shortly after the Firmament arose, the Sovereigns made homes for themselves throughout the Four Kingdoms and began teaching and guiding the new species of Mortals. Uzhul watched, and as the centuries wove on, a new plan formed in his mind. The mortals were weak, their forms certain, unlike the brilliant dancing creatures of the Dawn, but the Sovereigns were the foundation of the Firmament. If he could slay them, he could return the world to the Dawn, and make it his own once more.Earth Fall
So Uzhul turned to the children of the Sovereigns--the giants. He spent many years studying them, growing close to them, whispering and lurking and planting agents, until at last he gained the ear of the first daughter of Sin, the eldest Fire Giant. He placed in her heart the fear that enemies would return to Anacra, the likes of which her people could not remember. Under his guidance, she took the life blood of Erecura, the source of all living essence, and distilled from it enough iron to forge two great blades, potent enough to slay any foe. Then Uzhul stole these weapons, and plunged them into the heart of Erecura, Sovereign of the Earth. She was slain, and the kingdoms trembled. For the first time in Anacra's life, a Sovereign's physical form had been destroyed. The firmament was weakened. By this terrible show of strength, Uzhul rallied the cowering Infernals to his banner. It was time to claim Anacra once more.The Demonic Imperium
For four hundred and eighty-eight years, Uzhul led the armies of the fiends once more, this time against the mortal species of Anacra. His shadow stretched across the Mortal World. The fledgling civilizations of humans, halflings, gnomes and elves fell to his legions. They enslaved and burned, and those who were not swept away built terrible altars to the Infernals, who ruled over the land as gods. Only a few bastions of defiance remained--most of the world fell under the dominion of fiends, with Uzhul once again their leader and master.Apotheosis
During all this time, Uzhul grew more confident. He knew that if he amassed enough power, he could slay each Sovereign in turn, and when their physical forms were destroyed, he would undo the firmament and consume the Light of Dawn. But as he chased Sin, Vindur, and Li-Ban across the Four Kingdoms, he neglected the sovereigns' children. Ramius, first son of Erecura and cupbearer of the Divine Blood, spent those centuries studying the firmament. He learned the weavings of the world and found the very manifestation of the new laws of creation--the Emerald Tablets. And when he was ready, he wrote his name upon them, and reshaped the Four Kingdoms once again. At the very height of his power, Uzhul was suddenly dragged from the Mortal World, along with all his fellow infernals, all his legions. They were crushed and strained through the earth, screaming as their souls left their bodies, leaving behind countless bones across the land, until at last they were sealed in the Underworld. When they tried to return to the Mortal Kingdom, they found themselves completely incapable, locked as if by a new firmament. Again, the Infernals turned against their leader, blaming him for defeat. Each of them fled from Ramius, a newborn god of the underworld, and found miserable corners of the Underworld to carve out as their own domains. And so the Leader of the Fiends in Battle started anew, cast down again from his place, left to turn his attention to the only means by which the fiends can escape: Mortals.Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Domination and power through violence. Uzhul loathes when others do as they please instead of serving him, and hates seeing weakness prosper.
Divine Classification
High Infernal
Honorary & Occupational Titles
The Destroyer, Leader of the Fiends in Battle, Daemon Prince of the Outer Dark, Earth-Blood Spiller, Lord of Destruction, Iron-Throned, Carrion King, Heart Cutter, Hated and Exiled, Black Iron Master
Year of Birth
1
7343 Years old
Children
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