Zargon

Zargon the Returner was an elder evil abomination who hungered to drown the world in its slime.

Description
Zargon was vaguely humanoid in that it had a head, two shoulders, and a torso, but the resemblance did not go much farther. A black horn with silver spots jutted from its forehead and oozed a yellow liquid around the base. Below that was a single eye, bulbous and bloodshot. Below the eye was a mouth filled with curved fangs that drooled brown slime that dripped off its chin in smoking blobs, usually landing on its torso. The mouth and skin were reminiscent of a reptile. Instead of arms it had six barb-tipped tentacles that sprouted whip-like from each shoulder. Six much thicker tentacles formed its base and provided movement by flinging out and grabbing or stabbing the terrain and pulling its hulk forward. Its torso was covered in oozing wounds and cankerous tumors. It stood tall from ground to horn tip and left a trail of blood, slime, and undigested body parts when it moved.

Activities
Zargon was known to take on selected warlocks as their patron.

History
One legend states that Zargon was the first ruler of the Nine Hells. When Asmodeus first rose from his fall, he obliterated Zargon and his armies with the help of his devilish children. Zargon was defeated but his horn couldn't be destroyed so Asmodeus cast it into the Prime Material plane where it struck in what later became the Raurin desert and was buried deeply. Zargon reformed from his horn years later and struggled for centuries to reach the surface where he terrorized the inhabitants of the city of Cynidicea in the Imaskar Empire. They eventually came to worship him like a god and sacrificed many to appease his hunger.

Asmodeus, yet again, stepped in and put him in stone. The devil then buried his worshipers alive.

Rumors & Legends
Legends indicate that Zargon may have been the first master of the Nine Hells. Other stories say he was a Demon Prince that was thrown out of the Abyss.