Asmodeus

The Lord of the Nine

Ruler of Hell and God of devils, contracts, and ruthless justice. Asmodeus was the patron of might and oppression. He was the overlord of the Nine Hells, Lord of the Ninth, and the mightiest devil of all.
Typically, he's a patient schemer who can wait epochs for his plans to resolve, but during the rare times he doesn't use stars forming and dying to time himself, he uses guile rather than force... usually.

Divine Domains

Knowledge, Order, Trickery, Diaboli, Evil, Law, Torment, Tyranny, Fire, Magic, Indulgence

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Their Holy Symbol is Three inverted triangles arranged in a long triangle (similar to triforce logo, but goth). Other symbols include Clawed fist gripping a skull, Ruby-tipped rod, Inverted pentagram.
Each one of Asmodeus' avatars held a Ruby Rod of Asmodeus as a badge of office. It also served as the avatars' main weapon and allowed attacks with elemental forces, force enemies to cower in fear or provide the holder with a field of healing and protection. In fact, when facing combat, an avatar of Asmodeus primarily fought using the powers of his Ruby Rod instead of its innate powers.
He owned one of the original copies of the Pact Primeval. Asmodeus' duty was to prevent people from taking the copy away from Baator no matter the costs as it was the basis on which he and the devils were allowed to damn mortals. For example, to make transportation difficult, Asmodeus actually enclosed the document in a giant heavy, meaning over 20 tons, ruby.
Their favorite weapon is the heavy mace (shaped after his Ruby Rod), and the Ruby Rod itself.

Divine Goals & Aspirations

Asmodeus was a greater deity to whom mortal worship was not worth a lot regarding the maintenance of his powers. He also could not grant spells. He used the fact that the vast majority of creatures did not predate the concept of faith like him, and therefore were too young to remember his godhood, as well as his inability to grant spells to his advantage by posing as a non-divine entity. Under this guise, he conducted his various plans in covert and manipulative manner. He was also willing to pay attention to the fate of individual mortals and not just the grand scheme of things. That said, Asmodeus was effectively freed from the infernal duty of meeting a quota of damned souls. This was because every damned soul was damned under Asmodeus' name and therefore every soul was also beholden to him. His efforts to corrupt other people were concentrated on important people like demigods or the likes with the goal of turning them to unique devils.
He wanted to lure mortals to atheism to receive souls with which to heal his wounds. Asmodeus could not grant spells to his followers and he wanted to turn people to a lack of belief. He maintained working relationships with evil deities, the bargain being infernal aid in the return of supplying his followers with spells in his stead, so said followers could increase their numbers through the display of magical aid. These cults were either dedicated to infernal entities or to completely made-up ones to gain following in a specific group of people. When Asmodeus wanted souls to heal his wounds, he directed his allies to stop granting magic to his followers when the cult's numbers were at its peak. This was done to intentionally cause the decline of said cult. When this happened, the majority turned to other religions, but some extremists lost faith in religion altogether, becoming disbelievers and therefore the necessary food for Asmodeus to heal his wounds. Asmodeus particularly considered it a success when such despairing cults turned into suicide cults.

Physical Description

Identifying Characteristics

Asmodeus' true form was that of hundreds of miles long wingless serpent with scales. His form's sheer size made it impossible to meet and enter conversations with others. Therefore, he created humanoid looking avatars. The location of his body was kept secret from everyone including other devils and everyone who learnt of the truth about his body was killed within a day.
Asmodeus never showed himself except through avatars or project image, both in humanoid forms. Asmodeus' avatars looked like a slim, charismatic, red-skinned humanoid over 13 feet (4 meters) tall, with horns on his head and glowing red eyes. Overall, he provided charismatic and beautiful looks that captivated people. He always had a perfectly trimmed beard and wore very expensive red and black clothing, each of these cloths was valuable enough to cover the annual national spending of any nation, and each of his ten avatars held a Ruby Rod of Asmodeus. Underneath these expensive garments, the body was wracked with bleeding injuries. While he was in pain, he managed to give off the appearance of someone unconcerned with the pain the injuries caused him.

Special abilities

Everyone within 120 ft (36,58 m) of Asmodeus' avatar was under the effect of an awe effect that made it impossible for people to attack him when they were not attacked first by the avatar.
Like any other devil of authority, Asmodeus owned the ability to demote formally subservient devil, meaning any devil in his case, at his whim He was the only devil with the ability to promote a devil to archdevil status.
Infernal contracts' underlying power was Asmodeus'. This was the reason why breaking a contract with the weakest devil still had the power to consign the oathbreaker's soul into the Nine Hells.
Asmodeus' rhetoric and strategic skills were considered a class onto itself.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Asmodeus owned a private army called the Nessian Guard, which was in store for a great battle. This army consisted of devils that were created from Asmodeus' blood and were truly loyal to him. Over the years, their numbers grew and should Asmodeus manage to heal his wounds and get out of Baator, this army of pit fiends and cornugons would follow.
Asmodeus was also the inventor of the Infernal language.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Asmodeus was a lawful creature with the goal of becoming the supreme creature in the multiverse even if it required destroying the current multiverse and creating a new one. While the method he wanted to use to achieve this goal was not publicly known, and the only one who had the necessary knowledge to piece the method together hoped that it was not the one Asmodeus wanted to use, that Asmodeus wanted to take over the multiverse for himself was a known fact. He genuinely believed that a bright future awaited the multiverse, if he was to rule it. As arrogant this claim sounded, Asmodeus had the competence to back it up.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Asmodeus had working relationships with evil deities who supplied his followers with spells for he could not do it by himself in return for his aid in their endeavors.
The lawful deities and Asmodeus had an ancient agreement called the Pact Primeval that, among other things, allowed his devils to corrupt mortals and wring out divine magic from their souls. From time to time, rumors about various lawful deities allying with each other to take over Baator from Asmodeus popped up, but they never amounted to anything. Lawful deities were not really capable of changing the status quo and even if they were, the ability to agree on who was to take over control of the Nine Hells was beyond them. Like the gods, Asmodeus did not want an open war either.

Social Aptitude

When faced directly, he gave off the impression of a confident and eloquent man who was quite reasonable to talk with. In fact, it was quite difficult to see that he was an evil person past his manners that were the best found in Hell. His confidence was real and rooted in his knowledge to be one of the most powerful creatures in existence. However, he was not above pretending to know more than he did. Thus, he pretended to not just know but also foresee the actions of people who genuinely surprised him.

Divine Classification

Greater Deity

Alignment

Lawful Evil

Church/Cult

Secret Society of Asmodeus

Honorary & Occupational Titles

• Supreme Master of the Nine Hells
• Lord of Nessus
• The Lord of the Ninth
• The Cloven
• Old Hoof and Horn
• Lord of Lies
• The Archfiend
• The Raging Fiend
• Prince of Evil