Zhermong Balorfist

"'I am a man of my word, after all.'"Zhermong Balorfist was a tiefling con artist turned adventurer active in the Sword Coast region of Faerûn, and a member of the infamous adventuring party known as the Order of the Candelstick. A man of many mantles, he was known by several titles during his long life on Toril; Hero of Scornubel, Grandmaster of the Rose's Thorn, Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate, and God of Trickery, Lies, Deceit, and Emptiness.

Formerly a con-man peddling faulty wares or schemes, Zhermong took to adventuring to raise money to fund his search for his adoptive father and mentor, Luxidor Balorfist, who had been sold into slavery. Zhermong's search brought him to Scornubel, known as the 'Caravan City', where he soon found himself in the company of several fellow adventurers; Rugnar Twig-Beard, Lufir Free-Elf, Coryn Dench, Darvin Greycastle, Degra, and Fanshir Ortonyelle.

The newly formed party was vital in the defeat of the mad necromancer Lord of Scornubel, earning Zhermong his initial renown and fame in the Sword Coast region. During Baldur’s Gate‘s later call for adventurers, he became embroiled in a plot perpetrated by his adopted sibling Ixion to steal the divine essence of the dead god of murder, Bhaal. This led to Zhermong's descent into villainy, his rise to the seat of Grand Duke of Baldur’s Gate, and the First Fall of Elturel.

The actions of the new grand dukes spurred the creation of the Calishite Inquisition, which marched on Baldur’s Gate in an attempt to slay the would-be conquerors of the Western Heartlands. During this struggle, Zhermong traveled with his companions to the interplanar city of Sigil and acquired the divine blade Godsbane; with this sword, the trio of adventurers stormed the Supreme Throne of Pandemonium and slew Cyric, the God of Lies. Zhermong claimed the dead god’s power for his own, and rose to the celestial plane as a deity in his own right.

Godhood wore on Zhermong's psyche after a hundred years, however. Following the Second Fall of Elturel, he became aware of the existence of Melchor "Walker" Shadewalker, an amnesiac human rogue and the reincarnation of Zhermong's mortal essence following his ascension. In exchange for aiding the Hell Raisers in their task of releasing Elturel from the plane of Avernus, Zhermong passed off his godhood to Walker and returned to a the Prime Material Plane with a newfound appreciation for his own mortal condition. Zhermong took to the road once again to search for new meaning, and Walker would eventually allow for the Hand of Vecna to take over his godly form as a shell, thereby providing Vecna a backdoor to greater divinity.

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