Vrack

Vrack was an enemy defeated by the Party on their way to Karathor.

Appearance
Vrack enjoyed terrorizing lone travelers or small caravans on the road between Albridge and the Earth Spine Mountains. While doing so, he normally took on the guise of a young boy, around the age of five or six years old, with shaggy brown hair and black, lidless eyes that contained no iris.

In his normal form, Vrack is a charcoal-skinned, humanoid-looking demon, standing eight feet tall with long, leathery wings folded behind his back, and jet-black horns that arch another foot above his head. He wore a necklace made of skulls, and had one wing banded with a magical bracelet that provided additional defense.

Personality
Vrack was a maniacal trickster, and enjoyed toying with those he preyed upon. He was sadistic and cruel to no end, and it is said that he enjoyed torturing children the most.

Background
Vrack was summoned to this plane almost a century ago. Exactly who summoned him is a mystery - all that is known is that he slaughtered Duke Redford and his family, before scattering the castle's inhabitants to the winds. Legends tell that he keeps the Duke's body in his lair, using it as a puppet in the sick games he plays with those he tortures, before killing them and feasting upon their flesh and souls. It is also said that he kept the youngest son of the duke, twisting his mind unto insanity, leaving him as nothing more than a broken remain of what he once was, to do the bidding of the demon.

Abilities
Vrack held the power of illusory magic, and delighted in using it upon those he preyed upon, toying with their minds before killing and devouring them. He often masqueraded as a small child, or put his victims inside a sphere of shadow, where no light or sound could enter or escape - driving them mad with confinement that seemed unending.

He also had power over lesser creatures, and set a Minotaur to guard the entrance to his domain. It is said that he kept Humboldt, the youngest son of the duke, as a pet, using him to lead people to their doom.