Igor
“In the prison of Velvet
Lives a creature of law. A
Warden, in fact, to the Wheel.
His chains rattle, echoing
Throughout the Planes
Causing those from afar to quake in fear.
Four faces, all sides of the same
Die, tumbling and rolling in its opulent box.
Prison, Temple, Palace, and Court,
The Warden grasps the foundation
Of society itself, unknown to even
The most powerful of gods.”
Igor was the Warden of The Velvet Room from the mid-100s through CY 1680 when he was defeated by The Killjoys. He had multiple identities that were likewise defeated, including Yaldabaoth, Samael, and Saklas.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
The following is the most concise summary of Igor's pre-Killjoys history, spoken through the lens of Leo (a member of the Zodiac Court of Zisnera) in a conversation with Loki.
“So, Yaldabaoth? Not only is he in Enaldir's pocket, but he controls the place you’re probably gonna end up if you lose the trial. I have no reason to tell you this other than some bizarre compulsion after my buddy (your pop-pop) got obliterated by those mortals – but here’s what I know.
He was born to Achlýs – you know her, right? – in the late 100’s under the name of Saklas in the Abyss. This was around the time all of the lesser deities and demigods were being born: him, myself and my siblings, the four children of Ciden, Platonius’ twins... you get the gist.
Well, he was the lesser deity of manipulation. What kind of person is easier to manipulate than mortals, especially the ones with the mush-brains from being recreated by the Creator’s cognition? So, he descended to the Secondary Material Plane of Uthilith to gain power and establish his own little cults across the countryside.
Here's where it gets fun: it was at this point where he began to wear different faces and spread his essence across the Multiverse. While Saklas stayed in his little flesh town, his consciousness spread to create Samael, Igor, and you guessed it... Yaldabaoth. Samael became an archon in direct service to Enaldir, travelling between Acheron and Mechanus to do his bidding. In turn, it was Samael who first suggested the idea of a prison so impenetrable that it would put fiendish strongholds in the Nine Hells to shame – and he recommended the celestial named Igor to serve as its warden.
Enaldir accepted this proposal, as he had yet to find a suitable place in the Multiverse to store criminals heinous enough to be tried by the Extraplanar Supreme Court. The Igor identity took its place in the Velvet Room, but he realized just how arduously slow the intake process was for new criminals. Thus, Yaldabaoth was born.
Prosecution rates became significantly higher once Yaldabaoth began his tenure in the Extraplanar Supreme Court. He took on pretty much any plaintiff who wasn’t accusing the defendant of breaching the wheel from an unrecognized plane of existence (such as the Far Realms) – and he almost always won. In the mid-700’s, Saklas grew cocky. In leading his little cult that supposedly was dedicated to his mother (with the help of inmate Belladonna Maleficum), he began to exploit the mortals within for personal gain and to attempt to ascend beyond ‘lesser deity’ status, with Maleficum gaining immortality herself.
Briris and Sibyll, two of the pantheon’s four omniscient deities, took notice of this. Sibyll in particular was (rightfully) pissed off by this, as the exchange for immortality has to be of a willing soul – not whatever was happening to those poor mortals. I think that Maleficum was attempting Lichdom too? It’s been a while.
The two of them got off scot-free for exploiting the body of a chthonic titan (one of my nephews, actually – Capricorn gave birth to the first Uthilithian giants) but were convicted on the other two charges I mentioned. Maleficum’s soul got stuck in a mummy in a church basement in their little flesh town, and Saklas got stuck in a high security unit in the Velvet Room.
Fortunately for him, ‘cause Igor’s the one overseeing maximum security cells, he doesn’t say shit about why there’s not a creature stuck in its little personal hell.
This cycle has gone on for years – Samael discovers criminals to arrest, Yaldabaoth prosecutes them, and Igor drinks in their very spirit as he ceaselessly watches them from the Velvet Room’s Panopticon. It’s possible that the plaintiff in your case might’ve even been tipped off by Samael... mortals have the tendency to listen to angelic figures that visit them in the dead of the night, huh?
Somehow, Enaldir has been blind to all of this. Mother always spoke to me about his refusal to bend beyond his own perception of the truth – it’ll take a truly calamitous event to alter his mindset.
Good luck. You’ll need it.”
He was born to Achlýs – you know her, right? – in the late 100’s under the name of Saklas in the Abyss. This was around the time all of the lesser deities and demigods were being born: him, myself and my siblings, the four children of Ciden, Platonius’ twins... you get the gist.
Well, he was the lesser deity of manipulation. What kind of person is easier to manipulate than mortals, especially the ones with the mush-brains from being recreated by the Creator’s cognition? So, he descended to the Secondary Material Plane of Uthilith to gain power and establish his own little cults across the countryside.
Here's where it gets fun: it was at this point where he began to wear different faces and spread his essence across the Multiverse. While Saklas stayed in his little flesh town, his consciousness spread to create Samael, Igor, and you guessed it... Yaldabaoth. Samael became an archon in direct service to Enaldir, travelling between Acheron and Mechanus to do his bidding. In turn, it was Samael who first suggested the idea of a prison so impenetrable that it would put fiendish strongholds in the Nine Hells to shame – and he recommended the celestial named Igor to serve as its warden.
Enaldir accepted this proposal, as he had yet to find a suitable place in the Multiverse to store criminals heinous enough to be tried by the Extraplanar Supreme Court. The Igor identity took its place in the Velvet Room, but he realized just how arduously slow the intake process was for new criminals. Thus, Yaldabaoth was born.
Prosecution rates became significantly higher once Yaldabaoth began his tenure in the Extraplanar Supreme Court. He took on pretty much any plaintiff who wasn’t accusing the defendant of breaching the wheel from an unrecognized plane of existence (such as the Far Realms) – and he almost always won. In the mid-700’s, Saklas grew cocky. In leading his little cult that supposedly was dedicated to his mother (with the help of inmate Belladonna Maleficum), he began to exploit the mortals within for personal gain and to attempt to ascend beyond ‘lesser deity’ status, with Maleficum gaining immortality herself.
Briris and Sibyll, two of the pantheon’s four omniscient deities, took notice of this. Sibyll in particular was (rightfully) pissed off by this, as the exchange for immortality has to be of a willing soul – not whatever was happening to those poor mortals. I think that Maleficum was attempting Lichdom too? It’s been a while.
The two of them got off scot-free for exploiting the body of a chthonic titan (one of my nephews, actually – Capricorn gave birth to the first Uthilithian giants) but were convicted on the other two charges I mentioned. Maleficum’s soul got stuck in a mummy in a church basement in their little flesh town, and Saklas got stuck in a high security unit in the Velvet Room.
Fortunately for him, ‘cause Igor’s the one overseeing maximum security cells, he doesn’t say shit about why there’s not a creature stuck in its little personal hell.
This cycle has gone on for years – Samael discovers criminals to arrest, Yaldabaoth prosecutes them, and Igor drinks in their very spirit as he ceaselessly watches them from the Velvet Room’s Panopticon. It’s possible that the plaintiff in your case might’ve even been tipped off by Samael... mortals have the tendency to listen to angelic figures that visit them in the dead of the night, huh?
Somehow, Enaldir has been blind to all of this. Mother always spoke to me about his refusal to bend beyond his own perception of the truth – it’ll take a truly calamitous event to alter his mindset.
Good luck. You’ll need it.”
Current Location
Species
Age
Unknown
Date of Death
Guardian Moon 1
Year of Death
1680 CY
Place of Death
Children
Gender
Male
Eyes
Bloodshot, no iris, beady
Hair
A ring of white hair
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Pale
Aligned Organization
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Ruled Locations
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