Baphomet (BAF-u-met)

Demonlord of Savagery

Civilization is weakness and savagery is strength in the credo of Baphomet, the Horned King and the Prince of Beasts. He rules over those with savage hearts.

Characteristics

Physical features

Baphomet appears as a great, black-furred minotaur, 20 feet tall with six iron horns. An infernal light burns in his red eyes. Although filled with bestial bloodlust, there lies within a cruel and cunning intellect devoted to subverting all of civilization.

Abilities

Baphomet wields a great glaive called Heartcleaver. He sometimes casts this deadly weapon aside so that he can charge his enemies and gore them with his horns, trampling them into the earth and rending them with his teeth like a beast.

Worship

Worshiper

He is worshiped by those who want to break the confines of civility and unleash their bestial natures, for Baphomet envisions a world without restraint, where creatures live out their most savage desires.

History

Corrupting Gul'dan

Gul'dan was a lost orc, banished from his village and with nothing left. contacting the elemental spirits, they rejected him because of the darkness and fury within his heart. However, in the absence of the spirits, Baphomet began to whisper to him. The demon lord offered Gul'dan power in return for becoming the harbinger of his fury.
Baphomet needed a public figure to unite the orcs against the other mortal, but Gul'dan could not inspire or lead his people by example. The Demon lord ordered him to ally with someone who could, but first he would need to eliminate everyone who knew of his past. Gul'dan returned to his village, draped in tattered robes. When the chieftain furiously reminded Gul'dan that he was never allowed to return to his people, Gul'dan roared that he had no people and obliterated the chieftain with his newfound power. Gul'dan then went on a rampage, killing all of his former brethren.

Rise of the Horde

Careful to hide his demonic powers, Gul'dan approached the Shadowmoon clan, whose shaman commanded respect from all orcs, perfect for Baphonmet's plan. He told them that his village had been destroyed by ogres and he was the only survivor. Orcs accepting newcomers into clans was uncommon, but the Shadowmoon took pity on Gul'dan and did just that.
Gul'dan carefully observed the clan's shaman for one that would work, and eventually settled on the chieftain Ner'zhul. He was dedicated, forthright, and persistent, but also held turmoil and sorrow because of the death of his mate Rulkan and the recent trouble with elemental spirits. Gul'dan preyed on Ner'zhul's inner darkness. He told the chieftain of his own troubles, of the family and friends he had lost at his village, and in Time befriended him, and convinced him to take him on as an, unbeknownst to him, pretend shaman apprentice. Through Gul'dan, Baphomet now had access to a public figure. As the Demon began to manipulate Ner'zhul, he tasked Gul'dan with making the orcs see the humans and elves as enemies.
As Ner'zhul rallied the orcs for a war against the humans and elves at the behest of a powerful ancestor referred to as "The Beautiful One" (in truth, Baphomet in disguise), Gul'dan supported Ner'zhul fully. However, when Ner'zhul began to notice that they could no longer call upon the power of the elements or the ancestors, the shaman began to sense something was amiss. He discovered that he had been duped by Baphomet and attempted to back out. To Ner'zhul's horror, he discovered that Gul'dan had seen everything and told Baphomet of it all before Ner'zhul returned.
As a necessity of his bid for power, Gul'dan trained a number of like-minded and powerful orcs, whom he named the Shadow Council. The Council was soon using its power and influence to direct almost every aspect of orc society, so as to distract those few who opposed his dark ideals from their true masters, Gul'dan and Baphomet.
Gul'dan opened schools of demonology and Necromancy to teach shamans new power to replace their lost connections to the elements. To seal the bargain between him and Baphomet, Gul'dan and the Shadow Council offered the clan chieftains the Blood of Baphomet. The first chieftain to accept his gift was Grommash Redfang, with majority of the remaining following suit right after. The resulting Horde was bloodthirsty, barbaric, and evil, an extension of the demons whom they now worshiped.
With this new horde, Gul'dan and the shadow Council guided the orcs into battle, facing the elves and humans, murdering every single one they could find on their path of destruction. This started the Orc War, and was the begining of Baphomet plan, to bring chaos and destruction to Toriel, in order for the demons to rise back into the Material plane.
Ultimately, Gul'dan's thirst for vengeance against the elves of the Kingdom of Lórien who helped the humans of the Orrin empire proved to be the Horde's undoing. Gul'dan set out to Lireesa Windrunner, queen of the elves and kill her. With nearly half of his standing forces suddenly gone to ambush the queen, the orcs were defeated by the empire. This reprieve would ultimately give the Human and elf time to regroup and retaliate.

Bapomet

(Demonlord of Savagery)

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Titles
Horned king
Prince of Beasts
Race
Minotaur
Sex
Male
Alignment
Chaotic Evil