Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

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HUTIJIN


Politics in the Nine
Hells are anything
but predictable
.

Alliances
form all the time,
but most win
d up unraveling

due to
treachery. Neverthe
less, for all their
backbiting

and
betrayal, the devils
do occas ionally
display loyalty,

offering unwavering
service to
their masters. On
e such

example is Hutijin
, a duke of
Cania and loyal servant
of

Mephistopheles.

Across the Hells, Hutijin
's name fills
lesser devils

with
fear and loathing
, for this duke
commands two

companies
of pit fiends
, which make
up Cania's aristoc-

racy. With
such soldiers under
his command,
Hutijin

can easily
crush any rival
who gets in his way
, while

also providing Mephistopheles
with
security against

armies that might
seek to contest
his dominion. Hutijin

has amassed enough
power to challeng
e the lord of

Cania,
but he has never
wavered in his support
for his

master
-suggesting, per
haps, that Mephistopheles
has

some
hold over him.

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Outside
the Nine Hells
, Hutijin is a relativ
ely obscure

figure,
known only to the
most learned inferna
l schol-

ars. He
has no cults of
his own, and his servants
are few

in number.
The reason
is simple: Hutijin
hates mortals.

When summoned
from the Hells,
he repays the instiga-

tor with
a long and agonizing
death.

Mephistopheles
forbids
Hutijin from
making too many

forays
into the Mate rial
Plane, since the
duke's absence

leaves him
vulnerable to his
rivals. Other archdevils

know how
much Hutijin despises
mortals and
have

secretly dis
seminate d the means
to call him
from the

Nine Hells
in the hope of di
stracting the archdevil
long

enough
for them to assail
Mephistopheles.
Hutijin sends

devils into the Mat
erial Plane to eradicate
mention of

his name
and destroy those
who have learn
ed of him,

but the
summonings still occur.
When called
from his

post,
he negotiates as quickly
as he can, usually
closing

a deal
with little cost to
the s ummoner. However
, once

the deal has been
struck, Hutij
in re pays the interruption

with death.

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