Bael

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Bael was an archdevil duke of the Nine Hells who served the Lord of the Third, Mammon. He was one of Hell's greatest tacticians, named the Bronze General for the hue of his skin and various military accomplishments, but he was impeded in his ascendance to the rank of archduke by his lack of political prowess.

Description
Bael was sometimes depicted as either a toad, cat, male human, or some combination of the three, but none of these reflected his actual appearance.

In reality, Bael resembled a muscular, golden-skinned humanoid somewhere over in height. He had a generally bovine appearance, with a long head, a long, broad nose, and two small, forward-curling bull horns. Above his horns were two large, round, watery eyes, which matched his skin in hue, and a pair of large, pointed ears that protruded from an impressive mane of red hair. Unlike an ordinary bull, however, the archdevil's wide mouth concealed a series of pointed teeth.

Personality
Bael's passion laid squarely in the art of war, and he was apathetic to matters outside of that sphere. He had a lust for battle, and his primary interest had always been leading legions, but he was more than a mindless marauder. The Bronze General was battle savvy and exceptionally intelligent, with the powerful force of personality to command mighty fiendish hosts and the superior strategies to routinely obtain victory.

However, Bael still had his ambitions, and was frustrated by his inability to ascend further up Hell's hierarchy. While they would never do so directly, critics of Bael called him naïve, and he was easily outmaneuvered in the political space. More clever and governmentally adept rivals constantly constrained his attempts to rise in rank.

Possessions
Bael's personal weapon was an enchanted morningstar with a long, bronze handle. The infernal weapon could magically extend in length, going from whenever the wielder so desired, as well as burn and wither its victims. If Bael actually had to use his morningstar, he likely considered things to have gone horribly wrong, but he would nonetheless charge into battle and hammer any enemy in his great reach.

Bael considers it a disaster if he has to fight with his morningstar, but that doesn’t stop him from using Powerful Charge to hammer into his opponents and splatter any enemy within reach.

Bael also wore a suit of bronze, full-plate armor made in an ancient style and enchanted to better fortify the wearer.

Also among Bael's possessions was a ring of telekinesis and a rod of negation.

Realm
Like Mammon's other vassal dukes, Bael ruled stretches of land far from the King of Greed's central domicile. His domain in the disgusting marsh of Minauros consisted of acres of volcanic ridges and lifeless, ashen woodlands somewhere between the layer's uplands and the swamplands where the prisoners were held.

Worshipers
Bael was glad to spare those he bested, although this was because he preferred to make servants out of enemies. Those who pledged their allegiance (and souls) to him would be bound to serve him, an offer of corruption over death that he presented to almost all beings with the notable, primary exception of demons. The Bronze General also welcomed mortals who could give him a political edge, recruiting such individuals and relying on their representation on his behalf in Mammon's court while he pursued his own interests.

Despite, or possibly because of, his disinterest in all but warfare, Bael had a small cultist following. His worshipers called him, rather than Asmodeus, the King of Hell, and the most deluded diabolists went so far as to believe that he was the master of all devils and infernal powers. Some occultists and supernatural texts (the Book of Fire for example) claimed that he had given the invisibility spell to mortals, although magic scholars and arcane practitioners hotly and universally denied this accusation of diabolical origin.