The Sovereign

In an entire multiverse created by belief and made of thought, there will be places formed by the darkest impulses far beyond all mortal beings. These places are the Lower Planes. Among the lowest streches of these planes is the plane of Gehenna, home to the yugoloth.
These beings are the epitome of duplicity and blind ambition. Without exception they want it all, and they don't care how they get it. Among the greatest of these creatures, in both power and greed, is an ultroloth known only as The Sovereign.

Physical Description

Body Features

Like all ultraloths, The Sovereign is extremely tall and slim. He has a long, elongated head and grey skin. His only facial features are his large eyes, which shimmer with terrible, hypnotic color.

Apparel & Accessories

The Sovereign dresses in a fine set of armored robes. They are of a deep, almost unnatural black and a royal blue color. By his side he carries a wicked black rapier with a handguard decorated with a screaming horned skull.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

It's not truly known how the yugoloth are formed. Some sages believe they are created from souls damned to Gehenna. Others say they emerge fully formed from the pure evil of the plane. Still others say they simply breed, as mortal beings do. The truth, whatever it is, is actively suppressed by the fiends themselves. Their names are likewise hidden by grand and descriptive titles, making an individual's history impossible to determine.
The fiend known as The Sovereign was first encountered in the Twin Worlds by the court wizard of the Sun Dragon Court in Jinto, a man named Koto Takasuro. The mage was studying a fiendish artifact called the Tome of Life and Death when the ultroloth overpowered him and took it.
In a dread castle on the summit of the darkest peak of Gehenna, the fiend studied the text to unlock the secrets of its power. In studying it, he found a terrible ritual that would grant him the ultimate power: godhood. To complete this ritual he required one thing: seven mortal souls combined with seven fiendish essences. So he traveled to the Material Plane and seeded seven mortal women with cambion children.
After their birth, The Sovereign collected them with ease... all but one. One young woman, a bard, fled with her son, Mekis. Her flight only kept him away for a short time, however. He discovered her quickly, and had his hands on her throat when, with no explanation, he disappeared.
He quickly found himself in a strange ocean inside a crude summoning circle. One look at the circle told him he was bound to the Material Plane, but he wasn't bound to his summoner's command or bound to remain in the circle.
Furious at having his plans ruined, the fiend turned against his summoner, an inexperienced leshy spellcaster named Poolb. To save his own life, the summoner desperately drew energy from the planes, and drew matter from the chaos plane of Limbo.
This as-yet unformed being slowed him down just enough before being temporarily banished that Poolb was able to escape. In a fit of rage, The Sovereign slaughtered the leshy's village, and swore to do the same to him.
He tracked him all the way from Kirris to Amaun, and sent minions to capture him, but he failed on all attempts. Then, in an unexpected development, a clear image of Poolb's location appeared in his mind.
The vision from the Deck of Many Things showed him that the summoner traveled with Mekis, his last remaining child. With his task too important to fail, he subjected his undead servants to torturous experiments to increase their power, and devised a plan to capture the troublesome adventurers, a group known as the Cake Squad.
He personally tracked them to a nearby dragon graveyard, where they were to meet the merchant princes of Calamand. He drove the adventurers off and slaughtered all the merchant princes but one. The Cake Squad healed their injuries and returned to defeat him in battle.
As with any fiend, destroying him only sent him back to his home plane. Still, he wasn't about to give up on apotheosis that easily. He continued to send his servants to retrieve Mekis and kill Poolb. This forced them to track him down and confront him.
While most of the Cake Squad occupied him by engaging him in battle, Mekis searched through the Book of Keeping to find his true name so that he might be commanded. Once it was found, the bard commanded him to end the fight and slew him once and for all while he knelt defeated.

Alignment

Neutral Evil

Species

Yugoloth (ultroloth)

Circumstances of Death

Murdered

Gender

Male

Eyes

Multi-chromatic

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Gray

Height

7 ft 6 in

Weight

185 lbs