Fierna

In name, Lady Fierna ruled Phlegethos, commanding the fiery layer from her palace of rock and magma. In truth, her father, Belial, was the power behind the throne.

Description
Fierna appeared to be an incredibly attractive young woman, a lithe, statuesque, seductress of stunning physique. Tall, dark and sensual, her garments were as royally fine as they was scantily clingy, furthering her image as a being of perversion and indecency.

Giving away her infernal heritage were the small pair of horns that emerged under her hairline, and even then the fiendish features somehow managed to enhance her enchanting appearance. Her red eyes shined and smoldered like fires were dancing within them and implicit promises of pleasure could be gleaned from her gaze.

Personality
Befitting an archdevil of fire, Fierna was well-known for her short-fuse and volatile personality, her temperamental temper striking fear in almost any devil. Her rage escalated quickly, frustration leading to fury, which erupted, quite literally since she angrily moved about on fire when enraged, into bloodthirsty vengeance, often times with little warning. Disregarding her anger-management, she was self-absorbed, sadistic and just generally mercurial, flitting about like a lit flame between her various obsessions and displaying a "party girl" attitude.

However, assuming Fierna was just a bratty beauty was a grave mistake, for both political schemers and would-be courtiers. Fierna was prodigiously brilliant in the art of emotional manipulation with charisma to match that of Asmodeus himself, lighting fires in the hearts of mortals and immortals alike that she could control like any other. Her explosive outbursts seemed chaotic and random, but she was a being of law and the opposite was likely true, with her simply following a pattern that perhaps only she understood.

Though she saw being viewed as incompetent a useful ploy, she was no less adept at politics than other archdevils, but had no interest in taking part in the overcomplicated, governmental web. The black-hearted archdevil had more hedonistic goals, desiring to use her position to indulge in luxurious comforts and lecherous pleasures while allowing others to actually administrate. At least, this was her stance at one point, but later on she became more professionally-minded, still toying with lesser beings, but making efforts not to immediately discard them upon growing bored and attempting to enter the "grownup" world of diabolical conspiracies and power plays.

Powers
Fierna had unmitigated mastery over fire, able to create it and cast a vast array of fire-based spells as well as control all fire within Phlegethos. Rather than rely on weapons, she fought with a blade of pure fire that she summoned to her hand, twice as powerful as ordinary flame blades. She rained burning death upon her enemies, first conjuring a fire shield before destroying her foes with a meteor swarm and flurries of fireballs.

Though she eagerly partook in slaughter, particularly enjoying the feeling of hot blood splashing against her, she only entered melee if victory was certain and was smart enough to know when to retreat, often with teleportation. Instead, she engulfed her foes with flames from afar, quickly summoning reinforcements in the forms of spinagons, barbazus, hamatulas or a cornugon.

Strangely, magical or otherwise, the cold did little to stymie Fierna's flames and similarly water could not extinguish them, ironically only earning her fiery ire and getting the presumptuous assailant scorched.

Cult
Being a newer archdevil in the Nine Hells, the cults that arose to venerate her struggled to settle on a specific agenda or method of operating. Their temples were often improvised whatever they could find.

Relationships
Fierna is best friends with her fellow archdevil Glasya and would often spend time at her fortress in Malbolge. In imitation of her friend, Fierna eventually started to refer to herself as an "archduchess." She was also encouraged by Glasya to start building a network of devils and cultists separate from that of her father's forces, much to his chagrin.

Out of the several dukes that serve the domain of Phlegethos, Bathym and Zapan have pledged their loyalty to Fierna over her father.

Fierna once tried to court a mighty archfey, hoping to seduce them into relinquishing their soul. Her efforts ultimately went nowhere, but a group of the lord's satyrs became infatuated with her. Desiring some form of gain from her time spent on the lord, Fierna decided to corrupt the satyr with her infernal powers and transformed them into the creatures known as forlarren.