Red Fang

Bestial and brutal, the Red Fang is the patron of slaughter, savagery, and blood-lust. Most were-creatures and other shape-shifters pay at least token homage to the Fang, as do spree-killers and berserkers who glory in blood. Its cult is most active among the less civilized tribes (especially orcs). It urges its followers to rend, kill and devour. Its plots are direct and usually extremely violent.

The Red Fang is the youngest of the demon Princes, dating back only to the very beginning of the Third Age. Born an orc named Gromach, twin to Serak, he was chosen as a daemonhost by the hag that ruled his tribe. This ritual would implant a jotnar in the body of the sacrificial victim, creating an unstoppable weapon of destruction and rage at the cost of the victim's soul. But Gromach was strong. Instead of being devoured by the jotnar, he dominated that spirit of entropy and chained it to his own will. Channeling the power of this fel entity, he and his sister (a capable shaman) rose to lead a unified host of orcs, goblins, humans and elves (along with others) in a vicious war of conquest that spiraled out over much of Noefra. His power and his sister's cunning and magic led them to victory after victory, and his armies swelled.

It wasn't until the First Heroes enacted the Third Wish and gained divine power from the new-born Old Gods that they were able to infiltrate his citadel and kill Serak while Gromach was away; they left her mutilated, desecrated corpse as a message. This was the straw that shattered Gromach's control. Giving fully into the rage, he demonified and caught the First Heroes unaware. It was all that Aerlan Godspeaker, the only survivor of the ambush could do to banish him to the Abyss, where he remains to this day.

Physical Appearance

Bestial, the Red Fang generally appears as a lycanthrope in hybrid form, except gigantic in size. Blood drips from his maw and fires burn in his eye sockets. He is death and bloodlust--his presence drives people mad and causes them to tear at each other.

Personality

Utterly mad with rage, the Red Fang has only animal cunning left. He does not speak and generally rampages around his demense. It is his followers and lieutenants who maintain his cult. His desires are for destruction and bloodshed, and it doesn't matter whose blood falls to the ground.

His cult was part of the attempted abyssal takeover of North Ithemba, which was foiled as a result of the Demon's End (Campaign). His cult was also involved with Godsfall before that city's liberation.