Descent into Avernus

(Nancy Kaufman) #1

FEONOR


Feonor is a willowy, neutral evil a r chmage with milky-


white eyes and a parasol made of bones and human


flesh. Her rivals know her as a powerful necromancer.


They suspect that she fled the Material Plane to escape


some horrible fate, but the truth is she was invited to


Avernus by Mahadi, the rakshasa master of the Wan-


dering Emporium (see page 126). During a visit to


Feonor's world, Mahadi fell head-over-heels in love with


her zombie-like indifference. Not long after arriving in


Avernus, Feonor grew bored of Mahadi's attempts to im-


press her. Without so much as a farewell, she took to the


Avernian wastes on one of the rakshasa's infernal war


machines and never looked back. Years later, Mahacli


still refers to her as "the one the got away."


The scowl on Feonor's face hints at her constant an-


noyance with the multiverse around her. She prefers not


to speak, and when s he does. it's typicaUy only in whis-


pers, her s hort sentences interspersed and punctuated


with frustrated sighs.


GOLDEN DOOM

Feonor rides around in a Demon Grinder called Golden


Doom, so named because Mahadi fitted it with gilded


death armor (see page 222). The vehicle is driven by


a ghast, and its other stations are operated by ghouls.


She also commands a force of ten crawling claws. A


pair of Tormentors crewed by mezzoloths provide es-


cort. See appendix B for the vehicles' stat blocks.


PRINCEPS KOVIK


This particularly cruel chain devil commanded the


Nine Hells' 8th Infantry Legion, "Terror Incarnate,"


which was crushed on the banks of the River Styx by


the demon lord Kostchtchie. Blaming its superiors for


the defeat, Princeps Kovik gathered the surviving mem-


bers of its legion and formed the Eighth Remnant, a ma-


rauding gang of devils no longer beholden to the infernal


hierarchy.


The devils that serve under Kovik do so willingly


because the chain devil has earned their trust. Newly


disenfranchised devils regularly flock to Kovik's banner.


The chain devil's emblem is the numeral 8 made out


of iron chain on a crimson field. Kovik aims to gather


enough strength and infernal war machines to do what


no archdevil has been able to do: drive the demons back


to the Abyss for good.


THE EIGHTH REMNANT


The Eighth Remnant chases down any potentiaJ source


of soul coins. Targets who give up their soul coins freely


are allowed to continue on their way without further


harassment, provided there are no demons lurking


among them.


Kovik has a Devil's Ride and travels with two bearded


devils on similar vehicles. The rest of the gang consists


of four barbed devils on a Tormentor and eight bearded


d evils on a Demon Grinder (see appendix B for vehicle


stat blocks). Members of the Eighth Remnant never use


demon ichor in their vehicles.


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