Prince of Beasts, the Horned King
Description. Civilization is weakness and savagery is strength in the credo of Baphomet, the Horned King and the Prince of Beasts. He rules over minotaurs and others with savage hearts. 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. Baphomet takes great delight in creating new species of beast and demon hybrids. He is the Prince of Beasts, an embodiment of savagery tempered with the keen mind of a scientist, an insidious force that wormed its way into the heart of his followers to deceive them into embracing brutality. He is the patron entity to many man-beast creatures that worship the Abyssal powers.
Baphomet himself 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. 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.
Dogma
His priests speculate that what others call the "soul" is merely the dream of those who wish they had some indefinable essence that separated them from beasts. In truth, all are no more than beasts, and souls and conscience are lies told by the gods to enslave their servants. Only by embracing the beast within is true freedom possible.
"We are all beasts, and only delusion prevents you from seeing the truth." -Oostarix, Eater of Men and cultist of Baphomet