A powerful demon lord responsible for the working of transmutation and illusion magic on
Halloran.
Physical Description
Hoen has proven able to radically transmute objects and people with little more than a touch. He was able to slowly de-age an old warrior back to her prime with nothing more than a tap on the shoulder and he is known to have turned opponents into ducks during battle.
The demon lord was able to casually release multiple individuals from soul-trapping gems and return them to life without damaging the gems. Three of these individuals were previously summoned creatures, but Hoen's workings made Athard, Reda, and Gery into permanent animate muppet pirates.
Mental characteristics
A demon lord who (presumably) came to Halloran amidst the mess of interplanar invasions that defined that world's recent history. However he arrived there, he became one of the great beings maintaining the foundations of magic on that world. He was personally responsible for the functioning of illusion magic and at least a portion of transmutation magic.
Sometime after taking on this role, Hoen began to prepare a plan to take over the world. He was stopped by an adventuring group (with the aid of a necromancer who later attempted to take over the world himself) and was imprisoned in a pocket dimension that could only be accessed via a portal in the basement of what would become
Auntie Edna's farmhouse.
For a time, Hoen's life consisted of fighting off adventurers sent into the dimension to destroy him or slowly reforming after a party of adventurers inevitably succeeded. Sometime around 22 ARL he was usurped in his own dimension by an "efreet king" who trapped Hoen in stone and took the dungeon for his own, planning to launch his own effort to take over Halloran with the aid of an ogre army.
In December of 23 ARL, a visiting party of adventurers from
Renedge resurrected Hoen's lover, Zella, engaged the efreet king in battle, and freed Hoen from his stone imprisonment. After removing the usurper from the equation (and from life), Hoen gave his binding word that he wouldn't do evil to the people of Halloran and that he was over his own plan to take over the world. The party chose to release Hoen from his pocket dimension so he could bring balance to the world's magic once more.
Was defeated and imprisoned after hatching a plan to take over the world.
Was usurped by a supposed subordinate who took him by surprise.
Personality Characteristics
Hoen is fond of undead minions and enjoys the associated aesthetic.
Social
History
Zella was an adventurer who was involved in the sealing away of the demon lord Hoen, though whether she was part of the group that sealed him away or met him at some other time is unclear. Zella feel deeply in love with him after they met, and given how faithful she's remained ever since, it's likely he reciprocated her feelings.
Zella died of unspecified causes some time after they formed a relationship. She was resurrected by visiting adventurers at the end of 23 ARL, with those adventurers also freeing Hoen from his double imprisonment and reuniting the two lovers.
Relationship Reasoning
Zella enjoys Hoen's sense of humor and seems to appreciate his aesthetic taste (though whether the latter is born of familiarity is unclear).
Shared Acquaintances
Auntie Edna is a former adventuring coworker of Zella's and also served as Hoen's jailer for many years.
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