Glasya

Glasya was a Princess of the Nine Hells and ruler of Malbolge, the sixth layer of Hell. She is the daughter of Asmodeus and is noted as one of the most powerful and influential of the female devils. "Of course I love my father. Without him, whom would I have to strive against?"

- Glasya

Combat
Glasya rarely engaged in direct combat against her foes. Instead preferring to teleport or fly around them, then using her powers to dominate their mind and summon baatezu minions to fight for her.

History
Long before she was appointed Lord of Malbolge, Glasya had established and operated the "coin legion." This was the first known thieve's guild in the Nine Hells and she used her extensive knowledge of its laws to circumvent them.

Her business involved having followers purchase souls in Minauros on her behalf and then quickly sell them at a marked up price. These souls would be purchased with counterfeit coins, made by Glasya through transmuting lead into gold and then having them minted in Minauros, and they would eventually revert to their base metal. Having no legal recourse through which to punish his daughter's behavior, Asmodeus decided to stifle her ambitions by burdening her with the responsibility of ruling Malbolge. Though this is not public knowledge in the Hells.

Souls
After being given dominion over Malbolge, Glasya's father decided to punish her further by decreeing that she would only be able to draw souls to the Nine Hells by means of contracts, bargains, and legalities. As a result, the mortals who call upon her assistance are those who prefer to acquire power, money, or love through means that are "technically" legal.

A significant portion of the mortals that Glasya deals with tend to those who want out of a contract they made with another archdevil. In payment for their soul, her minions meticulously overlook the relevant document for any possible loophole through which the mortal can be free of reimbursing the associated archdevil.

Cult
The cults of Glasya typically operated brothels as a cover for their temples. They were most often found congregating in areas with political unrest or strict traditional gender roles. In such areas they would focus on converting the mothers, daughters, and consorts of powerful men and then instruct them on how to go about usurping their power.

The clerics who worshiped her often did so through the domains of Evil, Trickery, and Diabolic. Though she was also known to be a patron of Corruption, Growth, Agony, thieves and criminals in general. When faced with combat clerics typically wielded a scourge and eluded their foes by stepping into the shadows.

Criminal gangs of kenku and goblins seeking to rise up against subjugation have both been known to turn towards worship of Glasya.

Relationships
Since becoming Lord of the Sixth, Glasya developed a strong friendship with her fellow archdevil Fierna and encouraged her to develop a network of devils and cultists separate from that of her father Belial's forces. He in turn begun plotting a way to remove Glasya's influence over her daughter, though did so with the utmost caution as to avoid incurring Asmodeus's wrath.

Glasya harbored a special hatred for the archdevil Levistus for murdering her mother. Once arising to power as an archdevil she began using her intelligence network of paeliryons and fledgling cults to gather information on her nemesis, hoping to gather obtain due evidence that her father will grant her his approval to destroy the Lord of the Fifth for good.

Information
The current Lord of the Sixth is Glasya, daughter of Asmodeus and former consort of Mammon. Glasya ascended to her lordship in the dramatic displacement of its former ruler, the Hag Countess. The move has many of the other lords scrambling. Glasya appears as a supremely beautiful humanoid with copper skin, wings, a forked tail, and small horns.

The archdevil Baalzebul once ruled this layer through his Grand Viceroy Moloch. Moloch was cast down when he defied Asmodeus during the Reckoning—the general rebellion that ripped through the Nine Hells ages ago. Most authorities acknowledge that it was the Hag, one of Moloch's most trusted advisors, who counseled Moloch to rebel. The Hag was then set in his place as Lord of the Sixth, and Moloch fled and went into hiding.

Until Glasya's promotion Malbolge was the hardest layer of Baator to traverse, being a never-ending slope bouncing with eternally rolling boulders. The Hag Countess, its former ruler, was not actually a devil but a supremely powerful Night hag from the plane of Hades. The Hag Countess resided in a stronghold that was the core of a mountain-sized boulder which perpetually rolled down the slopes of Malbolge. None of her nobles knew exactly where it was or on what path it rolled. When she occasionally visited them in their copper fortresses, the nobles hosted her, though they rarely knew that it was her due to her expert disguises.

Then one morning, the Hag Countess was wracked by terrible spasms, collapsing down the eternal slopes, which soon after began convulsing with earthquakes, turning itself inside out. The Hag Countess was seized by the soil of the layer, then held fast as she underwent a massive transformation, her body growing to titanic but inconstant proportions. Her skull ballooned to the size of a vast fortress as her ribs distended and bent into massive, arching mounted ranges that circled the whole layer. Her innards were buried, becoming subterranean passageways and her organs burst, forming lakes of bile and viscera. Her fingers became ten white towers, strands of her hair turning into greasy white trees, her teeth sinking into the earth to become a source of ivory for mining. As the surviving inhabitants of Malbolge crawled out of the ground where they were buried, a golden litter descended, bearing the new ruler, Archduchess Glasya.

Some times Glasya would torment her favorite victims as they wold run around her castle as it changed and shifted being hunted by her and sometimes her minions in a sick and twisted game of hide and seek.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * Brimstone Angels
 * Brimstone Angels: Lesser Evils