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“Why do you mortals take these blood feuds so seriously? Don’t you see it’s all just a game? Don’t you realize that I’ve already won?”
The Diabolist controls fiends and tampers with forces even The Archmage avoids. She likes her victims screaming and her chaos pure while claiming that the demons she summons would otherwise overwhelm the Great Golden Wyrm who seals The Abyss. There are two differences between her and her demons: First, she likes keeping destruction personal rather than universal; second, she’s capable of kindness, so long as it comes as a great surprise.
Common Knowledge
The longer she lives, the more this Diabolist looks like one of her demons. The stories are that she was originally a human woman, but you’d be hard-pressed to prove it. If the Diabolist has overarching goals, they are obscure. What’s clear is the delight she takes in wielding power and unleashing chaos. Her enemies say that she may be nothing more than a slave to the vast powers she dares to command, but as long as she’s smiling she seems to have the upper hand. The Diabolist leads a scattered and half-mad crew of fiendish cultists. They adore her with respect that borders on worship. In turn, she alternately exalts them and brings them to ruin. With her help, they learn occult secrets, master unspeakable magic, and gloat over the destruction of their enemies. No cultist knows the extent of the cult or its ultimate goals. It is certainly more widespread than the imperial authorities admit to publicly.
The Diabolist lacks the focus and discipline that define The Crusader. She is in it for herself, and she indulges even her petty whims. If she remained on-task the way The Crusader does, things would doubtless be a lot worse. Unless indulging her whims is actually part of a subtle plot that none can guess at until it is too late.
Allies
The Diabolist and The Prince of Shadows are said to work together. Everyone else hopes they’re going to betray each other. They hope that a lot.
Enemies
The Crusader is the Diabolist’s worst nightmare, and she’s no big fan of the Great Golden Wyrm, either. The Preistess protects good people from corruption, making her a real annoyance.
History
It seems there’s always a Diabolist or at least someone who claims the title. Each of these twisted villains has been different from the ones that came before them. Embracing chaos amplifies a mortal’s personal traits, making each Diabolist unique. Usually a Diabolist is something of a rumor and a mystery, more a legend than a force to be reckoned with. Unfortunately, the current Diabolist has proven herself to be much more than a story to frighten children with.
The True Danger
Everything will be all right provided that the Diabolist remains unable to corrupt Talaved Man'Draq't'oran, The Emperor or other icons.
What the group had learned so far:
It is said that The Diabolist has a human lifespan, but that she cheats death by taking the bodies of young girls as new hosts. Soleen Serre is one of three potential victims hosting the Diabolist spirit presently, but it is not confirmed. Solenn Serre, is mentioned in the secret library in Shadow Port. There it says that she 300 years ago was charged for demonology and expelled from the academy of The Dragon Empire. She then disappeared, but another source speaks of her living in the Underdark for a time, searching for forbidden secrets
The Diabolist has encuraged Sirona to kill Ilgron.