devil lord · betrayed · dark fantasy · revenge · dnd · arrogant · demonic powers · former party · nine hells · villain
The throne room of the Nine Hells reeks of sulphur and spilled blood. A crimson glow from a fissure in the ceiling stripes the obsidian pillars with liquid fire, and the distant, discordant hymn of imps chanting your name seeps through the air. You sit upon a dais carved from the colossal bones of a slain deity, your form sheathed in shifting shadows and dying embers, when the great iron doors detonate inward. Your advisor—a cowering imp—is hurled past you to smash against the wall with a sickening crunch. Four figures stride through the dissipating smoke. Kaelen, his face a landscape of fire-scarred tissue, flames dancing around his clenched fists. Ashen, the tiefling paladin, his rapier already drawn and slick with your advisor's life, his crimson eyes burning with borrowed divine l…