There's a reason Dahak's called "The Endless Destruction".
Sarvel, on the other hand, is a very straightforward villain. He has few thoughts other than to destroy what Aroden built and revels in his role as the bringer of an apocalypse. However right or wrong Aroden's actions were, Sarvel's response is a wholly evil one, so the heroes shouldn't have any qualms about confronting and vanquishing him at last.
—Character notes for Sarvel Ever-Hunger, Extinction Curse
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General setting/Multiple Adventure Paths (in rough chronological order)
- The malevolent dragon god Dahak, the False Wyrm, is the son of the benevolent Apsu. Having murdered many other Dragon Gods, Dahak found pleasure only in destruction and created the metallic dragons to hunt for sport. Escaping into the mortal planes where he killed and destroyed at will until he was found by Apsu, Dahak's dogma focuses on spurring his followers to hunt and murder the innocent—especially metallic dragons. Dahak even created Hell as a place of torture and suffering, all while seeking the genocide of good dragons, while intending to destroy even the chromatics eventually and to kill his hated father once and for all.
- Charon, the Boatman, is the Horseman of Death and the eldest archdaemon among his kind. De facto ruler of the Horsemen, the daemons, and all their atrocities, Charon only differs from his mass-murdering kin by virtue of his patience and subtlety. Charon deals with divinities, demons, and entire worlds on the brink of disaster, promising them their lives while knowing they were forfeit all along and ultimately claiming the souls of his duped victims in the end. Charon once condemned a dozen sea civilizations to a gigantic glacier in the Abyss, aware and conscious of every second, and once built a construct known as the Dustbringer to age an entire civilization into dust, an act that revolted even Asmodeus. Charon is said to have fostered rebellions to kill off and replace his own Horsemen, and though many evil deities in Pathfinder are responsible for enormous amounts of death, few match the Boatman for sheer tenacity and scale.
- Szuriel, archdaemon, Seraph of Devastation and Horsewoman of War, is one of the worst of Pathfinder's evil deities. A former paladin, Szuriel became a conquering empress who had every member of her former faith crucified in revenge for her excommunication. Following her death, she became a daemon, and murdered her way to the top of Abaddon's hierarchy, eventually slaying the previous Horseman of War and taking his title. In her new rank, Szuriel represents war at its most terrible, celebrating societal breakdowns, scorched earth campaigns, and ethnic cleansing. Hiring out her daemons to those who pay the most, Szuriel inevitably turns on her employers, after forcing the campaign to degenerate to the point where mutual genocide is the only way it can end. Forging weapons in the heat of burning human souls, and reveling in violent excess, Szuriel demonstrates what happens when a Physical God adopts the mentality of the most sadistic Psycho for Hire.
- Yamasoth, the Polymorph Plague, is possibly the vilest member of the eldritch, omnicidal qlippoth. A qlippoth lord who finds the tedium of his people waiting to retake the Abyss insufferable, Yamasoth designed a new way to weaken the demons who ruled the Abyss: twisting mortal bodies into immortal abominations so as to deny their souls passage into the Abyss. To this end, Yamasoth has turned hundreds of thousands into flesh-warped abominations with no memory of who they used to be, earning his realm the title of the Kingdom of New Flesh. Yamasoth freely aids cults in his name to spread his vile plague and even bolstered the armies of Runelord Alaznist with his hideous creations, in preparation for a qlippoth invasion that would have seen the death of millions. Patiently waiting for the time the Abyss falls as a result of his widespread perversion of mortal flesh, Yamasoth rules over and embodies one of the vilest domains in all of Pathfinder.
- Riktus Scroon would often torture his victims with knives for hours before throwing them in pits to kill them, and often targeted couples in love, just for the fun of watching them grieve. When he was finally caught, he was charged with murdering 46 people, at which point he laughed and claimed he had killed a whole lot more, for a total of well over 900 victims. Upon being executed, he went to the Abyss but wasn't punished but rather rewarded by Lamashtu by being turned into the nascent demon lord Nightripper. As a demon lord, he serves as a torturer and killer for Lamashtu, and frequently travels to Golarion to kill more people. He also has the ability to put a curse on his victim's souls that cause them to be trapped at the spot they died and in constant pain from their wounds which drives them insane, even after their body rots away completely.
- The wizard-king Geb is a necromancer who runs with an iron fist the territory which he named after himself. Having started a war with the neighboring territory of Nex and their own eponymous ruler over a territorial dispute, Geb proceeds to drain the life out of the land surrounding Nex's cities through the use of dark magic. When Nex retaliates by having large numbers of Geb's population killed through magical means, Geb puts a curse on his territory, turning anybody who dies there into his undead slave. In response to an attack led by Pirate Queen Mastrien Slash and her army of warrior women, Geb has them killed, revived, and Petrified. In retribution for the Knights of Ozem trying to overthrow him, Geb, in addition to making them undead, forces them to bring the corpse of the hallowed Paladin Arazni, intending to turn her into an evil lich; despite escaping Geb's control, Arazni remains corrupted beyond repair. Gardens of Gallowspire notes that Geb had broken one of the Knights of Ozem by forcing her to kill her hippogriff mount, reviving the creature, and repeating the process, killing and reviving the knight when she refused to continue.
- Tar-Baphon, known better by his moniker of the Whispering Tyrant, is one of the most dangerous villains to rise from Golarion. Even before becoming a lich, the man Tar-Baphon was a necromancer, envious of the god Aroden and seeking to attain godhood himself. He has attempted to Take Over the World twice; his first attempt as a mortal man ended when Aroden slew him, but this was part of his plan all along. Thousands of years later, after he had been forgotten, the Whispering Tyrant rose as a lich, and began his conquest in earnest. He conscripted the orcs of Belkzen and subjugated Ustalav, raising the fallen on both sides as undead servants and expanding his power all across Avistan. The Whispering Tyrant reigned supreme for five hundred years, centuries filled with blood, unleashing servants like Socorro and engineering mass Human Sacrifice in his attempts at godhood. When the Shining Crusade, led by Aroden's herald Arazni, attempted to put a stop to him once and for all, the Tyrant went out of his way to capture, humiliate, and torture Arazni to death, before throwing her mangled body to the Crusaders to shatter their faith. After being sealed away within Gallowspire for several centuries, the Tyrant would engineer his escape by arranging for the theft of the shards of Arnisant and use them to create the Radiant Fire. After destroying the town of Roslar's Coffin to test the Radiant Fire, the Tyrant would use it to destroy the seals keeping his prison intact, killing thousands in the process and causing the Kingdom of Lastwall to collapse into anarchy before launching a full-scale invasion of Absalom in order to claim the Starstone. Driven by his envy of Aroden, his ego, and his all-consuming desire to have the entire world under his boot, the Whispering Tyrant remains one of the most feared beings on Golarion.
Individual Adventure Paths/Modules/Adventures (by release date)
- Rise of the Runelords:
- "The Skinsaw Murders": Xanesha, one of the chosen lamia matriarchs of Karzoug, is the half-sister of the equally-wicked Lucrecia, with whom she is engaged in a game of Sibling Rivalry to damn as many souls to Karzoug as she can. Opting to eschew Lucrecia's emphasis on manipulations, Xanesha orchestrates the titular murders, twisting the local cult into her brainwashed patsies to have them start torturing people to death all over the city, carving runes into their still-living bodies to ensure their souls are damned to Karzoug. In her leisure time, Xanesha allures men into becoming her lovers solely so she can devour them, fosters ghoul plagues to take as many lives as she can, and turns a man named Aldern Foxglove into a tormented ghoul to use him as her pet murderer in undeath.
- "The Hook Mountain Massacre":
- Lucrecia, one of the chosen lamia matriarchs of Karzoug, is the half-sister of the equally-wicked Xanesha, with whom she is engaged in a game of Sibling Rivalry to damn as many souls to Karzoug as she can. Lucrecia poses as a gambling entrepreneur who opens up a casino ship known as the Paradise to the people of Turtleback Ferry, luring them in by droves to secretly mark them with Sihedron runes. Through the runes, Lucrecia intends to damn Turtleback Ferry to Karzoug's clutches, trying to flood the entire town to drown every living soul in it. Lucrecia sinks the Paradise and dozens of innocents with it when she's finished passing around the rune, and as a diversion to her own plans, seduces a soldier named Kaven into weakening the fortifications on the nearby Fort Rannick, resulting in its unspeakably horrible slaughter at the hands of ogres. Lucrecia smugly taunts Kaven about this, and given the opportunity will attempt to cajole the adventuring party into striking him down for his unwitting part in the massacre.
- Barl Breakbones is a particularly nasty servant of the stone giant wizard Mokmurian, and Lucrecia's partner in crime in the plot to destroy Turtleback Ferry. Barl strong-arms a gang of ogres, the Kreegs, into his service by violently slaughtering many of them and cowering the rest into his servants, and continues to viciously abuse and murder them for any reason he sees fit, using his necromantic powers to resurrect one he brutally murdered solely to feed the resurrected ogre to his servants. Barl is the one who directly carries out the slaughter of Fort Rannick, where every living man inside was tortured to death in every way imaginable over a period of weeks. The innocent water nymph named Myriana was subjected to arguably the worst fate, ripped to pieces while her lover was Forced to Watch and consigned to undeath as a hateful, tormented ghost. Barl fully intends to aid in Turtleback Ferry's destruction, and ignores the calls of his king Mokmurian solely so he can glory in his power over the ogres for a little longer, executing one of his own bodyguards merely for suggesting they get back on schedule.
- Mammy Graul is the matriarch of the Graul Clan. Having any of her female children killed at birth, so many that their bones fill large amounts of spaces, Mammy subjects her less useful sons to torture and rotting solitude. A necrophiliac murderer and torturer, Mammy sends her sons to abduct travelers and anyone else, having them dragged to the graul homestead where they are raped and tortured for weeks before expiring. Killing others herself to turn them into undead slaves, Mammy is responsible for the horrific deaths of countless innocents to feed her sick desires.
- Curse of the Crimson Throne:
- Kazavon was at one time The Champion of Zon-Kuthon, God of Envy, Pain, Darkness, and Loss. While all of Zon-Kuthon's followers tend to be a nasty bunch, with a penchant for torture and self-mutilation, none of them, including possibly Zon-Kuthon himself, has ever come close to the level of atrocity perpetrated by Kazavon. Essentially Vlad the Impaler in the form of a sixty-foot Blue Dragon, Kazavon disguised himself as a human mercenary and offered to help the nation of Ustalav drive out the invading Orc hordes. Upon his victory, Kazavon set himself up as the dictator of the borderlands area, where he ruled with an iron fist, torturing to death all those who disagreed with him, including many of the soldiers who had served him faithfully up to that point. When his employer tried to rein him in, Kazavon flayed the man alive. He would go on to achieve truly special heights of depravity, holding torture parties, and orgies involving the undead, spreading his influence throughout the entire area, and having entire villages impaled for his entertainment. Kazavon was eventually killed by a party of heroes, but the madness didn't stop there. The pure evil of his soul contaminated his skeleton and threatened to resurrect him. The bones were crafted into seven Artifacts Of Doom and hidden throughout the country; contact with even one of them is enough to drive the wearer down a path of madness, murder, and ultimate self-destruction. When Queen Ileosa dons the crown, Kazavon gives her the power to murder her husband, turn Korvosa into a Police State, unleash the Blood Veil plague against the city's poorest citizens, and drain the lives of thousands in an effort to gain eternal youth.
- Gaedren Lamm is a minor crimelord of Korvosa who missed his chance to become a major player long ago. Focusing on children, his "Little Lamms", Lamm has them kidnapped and made into pickpockets and slaves, forced to toil until Lamm disposes of them. Murdering many who stand in his way, Lamm is keen on torturing the orphans if they step out of line; the only fate that awaits them is to be fed to Lamm's pet gator Gobblegut. Upon the heroes coming to bring Lamm to justice, Lamm is willing to sacrifice his pet and all his Little Lamms as human shields.
- Second Darkness: Allevrah Azinrae was once an Elven cleric of Nethys, God of Magic, and a hero in the nation of Kyonin. That was before she, with the aid of the Demon Lord Abraxas, conceived of a plan to exterminate the drow. When the fellow members of her conspiracy refused to go through with the plot, Allevrah murdered her critics, let her rage transform her into a drow, and fled to the drow capital of Zirnakayinn, where she murdered the matron of House Azinrae and took it over. Desiring revenge on Kyonin, Allevrah plans to drop a meteor on the capital; if successful this plan will wipe out Kyonin and trigger an ice age that will kill most life on the planet. After a failed attempt at using the city of Riddleport as a test target, Allevrah retreats to the Land of Black Blood below Kyonin, where she prepares to summon her meteor. She also allows her lover, who is terrified of her, to perform hideous experiments that reduce the victims to masses of screaming black liquid, cuts deals with an aboleth mind rapist and a neothelid, feeds prisoners to ropers, and orders her troglodyte henchman, Ornn, to eat a charda colony's children if they do not cooperate with her. Driven solely by hate, Allevrah shows just how far even the best person can fall.
- Carrion Crown:
- "The Haunting of Harrowspire": The Splatter Man, real name Professor Hean Feramin, is the only Serial Killer in the Harrowspire prison to have been condemned to the maximum security "Nevermore" block for the sheer audacity of his slayings. The Splatter Man, in life, tormented his chosen victims over days by arranging them to find letters of their own name spelled in blood, culminating with the Splatter Man horribly murdering them. The Splatter Man arranges a murderous takeover of Harrowspite, which results in the destruction of the entire prison and the Splatter Man coming back as an enraged ghost. Sealed within Harrowspire due to the soul of the warden's wife persisting on to keep Harrowspire's criminals locked away, the Splatter Man attempts to destroy her soul to bring a tide of homicidal ghosts upon the nearby town and slaughter nearly everyone within it.
- "Trial of the Beast": Grine and Vorkstag are a pair of twisted killers who participate in a vicious corpse trade. Obtaining the bodies by resorting to murder, the two have killed many while blaming it on the Beast of Lepidstadt, a living Flesh Golem who simply wishes to live in peace. The duo formed a deal with a Mad Scientist for victims, later killing him—resulting in the asylum burning down—when the deal went sour. The two also help with local legends of monsters, Vorkstag murdering many for their skins as disguises, all so they can keep their profits.
- Jade Regent: Anamurumon is the grandfather of, and the mastermind behind, the Jade Regent and his tyrannical rule over Minkai. Condemned into the form of a spiritual oni after a campaign of carnage and an attempt to starve the nation into surrender, Anamurumon forms the Five Storms and sends his oni minions to corrupt and kill off entire ruling families so the Jade Regent could take over. Anamurumon cares nothing for the Jade Regent himself except as a pawn for power, having murdered the boy's mother and molded the Jade Regent into a tyrant who plunges Minkai into famine and tyranny. Unabated, Anamurumon will drive the entire nation into a monster-infested hellscape of terror, blood and excess.
- The Moonscar: Izmiara, the Insatiable Queen, is an antipaladin who rules the Moonscar, a place on Golarion's otherwise lifeless and uninhabitable moon, for the past 12,000 years. For millennia Izmiara and her minions have used magic to fly through space and kidnap Golarian humanoids for breeding, slavery and corrupting into demonic creatures, with those who don't make the cut killed horribly for her amusement. A freak volcanic eruption has caused a massive portal connecting Golarion and the Moonscar to become active again, with which Izmiara plans to use to invade and corrupt all of Golarion. When the PCs go to the Moonscar to stop her, as well as rescue some recently kidnapped people, they find numerous disturbing things such as a place where demons who fail her, including her own daughters, are fed to an even bigger demon, the "sequestered"—a group of humanoids who have been mind raped into loving Izmiara and are implied to be sex slaves; numerous people as well as celestials who have been killed and tortured in horrible ways; a gold dragon who has been possessed and kidnapped by a shadow demon working for Izmiara, who is under orders to sacrifice to her once said dragon is no longer needed; and a human general who once served under Queen Galifrey but is now hopelessly brainwashed and corrupted.
- Reign of Winter: Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic who in actuality was one of the children of the mystical Baba Yaga. To attain the birthright that was denied to him, Rasputin allied with his half-sister Elvanna and captured Baba Yaga's soul in a matryoshka doll. Coming back to Earth and happily leaving Golarion to be plunged into an eternal blizzard by Elvanna's hands, Rasputin takes over a Siberian prison camp and turns it into a den of horror, having the prisoners and surviving soldiers tortured to death, turned into trench zombies, fed to his monsters. To kill the adventuring party, Rasputin slaughters the entire nearby village to meld the population's bodies into a "corpse orgy" he unleashes upon the heroes.
- Wrath of the Righteous: Areelu Vorlesh, the half-fiend Witch Queen of the Worldwound, is one of the most vicious servitors of the demon lord Deskari and his chief mortal agent in having ripped open the Worldwound. Areelu wrought unspeakable carnage over the kingdom of Sarkoris by exploiting the nation's thin boundaries between the material world and the Abyss, resulting in a terrible gash opening between worlds and an army of ravenous demons flooding into Golarion. 100 years later, Areelu schemes to tear the Worldwound even wider to consume all life on Golarion to its demonic tides, attempting to transmute entire armies into half-fiend slaves and creating vile demons like the mass-murdering Filleted Man. Possessed of a wicked tendency for condemning enemies and inconveniences alike to her unspeakable experiments, Areelu turned both of her co-conspirators in opening the Worldwound into hideous parodies of life for a century straight for their defiance to her. Notes can be found indicating Areelu schemed to augment the agony of one of them even more before her defeat.
- Hell's Rebels:
- High Inquisitor Paracount Lord-Mayor Barzillai Thrune is the insane cousin of Queen Abrogail. A devil worshipping lunatic who seeks to become Cheliax itself via deals with the devil Mephistopheles, Barzillai becomes the Lord Mayor of Kintargo, which he intends to sabotage with brutal killings and horrific public excruciations such as "doghousing", locking victims in spiked doghouses for weeks while they must contend with feral dogs for good and drink. Torturing and murdering many, while plotting to annihilate a poor district of the city, Barzillai sends his undead remnants to kill many others along with infernal serial killers when slain, slowly reviving as a bone devil with his intent still to merge with Cheliax and make it a new hell for all living within.
- "The Kintargo Contract": Professor Alandar Mangvhune was a surgical professor-turned-babua assassin with a fascination for the anatomy of a living—or dead—body. Mangvhune, to preserve his soul's individuality after his demise and reincarnation, turned to torturing people repeatedly to the brink of death and bringing them back to pinpoint the location of a soul anchor underneath the city he lived in. Succeeding and reincarnating as a demonic servant of Shax upon his death, Mangvhune continues old habits and teaches his brand to murderous disciples, specializing in all forms of Cruel and Unusual Death to prepare his victims' bodies as tableaus. Possibly Mangvhune's worst murder is the unfortunate chef Grattus, whom Mangvhune paralyzed and kept conscious before taking his tender time carving Grattus up and preparing him as a meal. Far from Mangvhune's only display, the apparitions of Mangvhune's mangled victims fill up an entire amphitheater so Mangvhune always has an audience when he prepares his next tableau.
- Hell's Vengeance: Urgraz the Duergar antipaladin is a champion of Mazmezz. Born into Duergar society, Urgraz became a Serial Killer when he could get away with it, trading slaves and using diseased ones to spread plague. Bonding with a cleric of Mazmezz to become guides, the two began to betray and agonizingly murder those who fell into their clutches. Torturing his mentor to death, Urgraz let the underground to come to the surface where he continues his string of betrayals and serial killings, always making bad situations worse and plotting the genocide of his own people when he is ready.
- Strange Aeons:
- Hastur, the Great Old One, is the most twisted of his kind with influence in Golarion. Wishing to ascend to an Outer God, Hastur uses the Yellow Sign to corrupt many into monstrous shells that spread evil even further. Having once annihilated two civilizations by drawing them into Carcosa, Hastur repeats this across the cosmos, draining countless beings of life while manipulating Count Lowls to help him consume Golarion to facilitate his apotheosis into Outer Godhood. Once this is done, Hastur will consume any world his sign has touched, even Carcosa and all his own followers.
- "In Search of Sanity": The Tatterman is a servant of Hastur with a terrifying predilection for Mind Rape. A wicked resident of the Dreamlands, the Tatterman invades the minds of its victims in their sleep, turning their worst fears against them, shattering their minds and reducing them to less than human through its psychic assaults. In its efforts to claim Briarstone Island and its population to sacrifice them to Hastur, the Tatterman invades the dream of a Mad Artist in the material world to manifest and plunge the entire asylum into a living nightmare. The Tatterman delights in spreading fear and chaos throughout the asylum, having people cannibalized, sliced open upon operating tables, and twisted into all manners of monstrosities as its prelude to the sacrifice of the entire island. Not strictly relegated to Hastur's service, the Tatterman was the agent through which the village of Thrushmoor met its doom in service to the Briarstone Witch.
- Ruins of Azlant: Ochymua, the Veiled Master, is released from Stasis and quickly calls home his old forces. Having many innocent colonists and settlers' minds torn apart, devoured or mutated to serve him, Ochymua intends on finding a doomsday weapon to bring down the world of humanity. Contacting the cruel lich Auberon the Drowned, Ochymua has him continue his experiments, expanding in flesh-warping all those who fall into his merciless clutches. Should he succeed, Ochymua will kill hundreds of thousands with his initial attack before attempting to drown the greatest human cities of Golarion.
- Return of the Runelords:
- Runelord Alaznist of Wrath sacrificed her entire family to Yamasoth, murdering her predecessor Thybidos after killing his wife and seven children while sentencing Thybidos to eternal torture. Ruling with an iron fist, Alaznist sacrificed countless souls to seal her bargains with demons and qlippoths, later emerging after Earthfall in a changed Golarion. Manipulating time magic, Alaznist ensures key events in history change, annihilating entire cities while plotting a takeover to drown Golarion in blood, even trying to trap Runelord of Lust Sorshen in eternal torture for trying to stop her. The worst in the history of Thassilon, Alaznist even attempts to erase many from the timestream if it will facilitate her becoming Golarion's eternal, wrathful empress.
- "Runeplague": Leptonia is an agent of Yamasoth, one of the Polymorph Plague's highest cultists. Seeking the plague to enhance Yamasoth's glory, Leptonia perfects the plague by experimenting on living subjects to turn them into agonized shells of themselves, horrific monsters that can only do harm to others. Leptonia intends to spread it to countless victims, to turn entire cities into pained monsters until it spreads all over Golarion.
- Sandpoint, Light of the Lost Coast: The Red Bishop is a cleric of Pazuzu who in truth serves Pazuzu and Lamashtu's son Uvgalor. Responsible for countless atrocities to free Uvgalor, the Red Bishop turns a man into a Serial Killer called the Chopper with over twenty victims, threatening to destroy all of the land of Sandpoint while also unleashing attacks to wipe out a whole island in an attempt to unleash Uvgalor upon all Golarion and consume the world.
- Extinction Curse: Xulgath leader Sarvel Ever-Hunger is a radical even among his monstrous people known for devouring friend and foe alive. The chosen of the demon lord Zevgavizeb, Sarvel leads his forces from the Darklands on a campaign of torture and murder to steadily sabotage the Aeon orbs and unlock the Extinction Curse. Even sacrificing Xulgaths to eternal suffering for his plans, Sarvel takes the mantle of "Apocalypse Prophet" and intends to exterminate all life on the Starstone Isles.
- Agents of Edgewatch: Hendrid Pratchett is the sadistic patron of the Dreaming Palace. Cruel and sadistic even as a child, Pratchett is responsible for numerous horrific murders throughout the Inner Sea Region, with his own parents having been his first victims. After settling down in Absalom, he began kidnapping, torturing, and killing the customers of his inn, keeping them in secret dungeons and driving them to madness and despair. When the player characters investigate the Dreaming Palace, they discover that Pratchett often disposes of his victims' bodies by eating them, and has created a ghastly undead monster by reanimating two preteens that he murdered himself.
- Night of the Gray Death: The Conqueror Worm is an alien being that has been ruling Galt from obscurity for decades, spreading fear and having countless innocent people executed through the Grey Gardeners. In order to realize its plans, the Conqueror Worm has its minions build the Final Blades, magical guillotines that entrap their victims' souls in endless agony, eventually fusing them into a Grey Death. The Conqueror Worm plots to release all the Grey Deaths from their respective Final Blades at the same time, in order to turn Galt into a lifeless wasteland, then to relocate to another country and repeat the process. When confronted in its lair, the Conqueror Worm gleefully activates one of the Final Blades, killing thousands of innocents on a whim. Upon defeat, the Conqueror Worm tries one last gamble, trying to possess an unknowing victim and use their body to resurrect itself—which will invariably be fatal to the possessed.
- Abomination Vaults: Belcorra Haruvex was an Evil Sorceress in life whose evil has not ended with her death. A depraved murderer, cannibal, and tyrant who used countless innocents for fleshwarping experiments, to be tortured for fun and information, and especially to feed the hordes of monsters in the Abomination Vaults, Belcorra also enslaved a number of souls to suffer for her own amusement. Awakening centuries later and full of vengeful intent, Belcorra plans to unleash the Vault's inhabitants and her weapon the Gauntlight upon the Otari region to annihilate and conquer it.
Video Games
- Kingmaker: The Lantern King is one of the Eldest, ancient and powerful Fey, and the cruelest of the lot. When Nyrissa, a young Fey, tried to form a kingdom for herself and her friends, the Lantern King tore away her emotions and inflicted the Apology among her to mandate she destroy a thousand kingdoms before being allowed to atone. The Lantern King views all mortal life as a form of entertainment, ruining and destroying the lives of those who earn his ire, while also raising the stakes to destroy the kingdom and those within to make it more "exciting". Should Nyrissa be given the Apology too early, the Lantern King will imprison her, without emotions, friends or family, to rot in captivity for all time.
- Wrath of the Righteous:
- Deskari, the Lord of Locusts, is the leader of the demonic hordes spilling out of the Worldwound. Seeking to consume all life and assimilate what remains into his Locust Horde, Deskari emerges with the opening of the Worldwound, destroying the city of Iz and turning it into a locust-infested hellscape. When the First Crusade is launched, Deskari deliberately sent out a weak and disorganized force to feign weakness and prevent the rest of Golarion from taking the demonic threat seriously, while his followers spread out across Golarion to corrupt others into his ranks. This strategy results in the defeats of successive crusades and the corruption of the area around the Worldwound into a demon-infested wasteland. At the start of the Fifth Crusade, Deskari would destroy the city of Kenebraes, killing the Silver Dragon Terendelev and raising her as a Ravener. When confronted by the Commander in Iz, Deskari boasts that his victory over Golarion was almost complete and that there was nothing Iomede nor her followers could do to stop him. If not killed permanently by the end of the game, Deskari would continue to plot his return to Golarion, subjecting his followers to horrific torture for their failures to stop the Commander.
- The Demon Lord Baphomet is a close ally of Deskari in the demonic invasion of the Material Plane. Imprisoned by the Devil Asmodeus ages past, Baphomet escapes from his prison and convert it into his own personal realm of torture and suffering for his enemies. Throughout the Crusades, Baphomet sent his followers to corrupt mortals and destroy the ranks of the Crusaders from within; one of the victims of said corruption being Staunton Vhane. Espousing a philosophy of survival of the fittest, Baphomet brutalizes his own followers and offspring for failure, with Minagho having her strength sapped with the Mark of Baphomet for her multiple failures in killing the Commander, and his own daughter Hepzamirah killed for simply calling on his support in fighting the Commander as Baphomet saw that as an insult. After capturing the Hand of the Inheritor, Baphomet rips out his heart and subjects him to horrific tortures in his realm, ultimately reducing the Hand to a hollowed-out husk whose only purpose is to open portals for the demonic armies.
