In the swirling flames of the abyss you are nothing until you are summoned to the material plane. Such was the case for the newly summoned imp, invited by the Father Abbot of the Albian Church to possess the local king’s bastard son, Eric. The imp had no trouble taking over the child’s terrified psyche, all but erasing the young innocent mind with his own will. Its mission was to get close enough to the king to assassinate him, thus throwing the land into chaos only the Father Abbot would be able to control.

The plan worked well but the body of the child had to be disposed of as it could no longer contain the chaotic nature of the demon within it. And so the imp was allowed to possess a man from the southern regions of Nyrondria. And that man was known as Shakur. The demon liked the name so much it took it as his own. And so Shakur travelled the land, exacting the Father Abbot’s will together with Soran and Dymir. When not on a mission he was allowed to spread his own chaos in the land.

And so the demon Shakur gained more power and once again, outgrew his body’s usefulness. So he was forced to take over a new body – this one used to be called Darlos, a dark man with a darker past. Shakur liked his old name and kept it. He possessed Darlos’ body the longest and he grew into it, in more ways than one. He continued to occupy that body long after the group stopped serving the Father Abbot.

On one dark day, Shakur performed a dark ritual, allowing him to became an adult. He no longer needed a host – he could retain a humanoid shape for as long as he wanted. He shed what remained of Darlos, and became a demon lord. His true form was that of a giant cat-like humanoid creature with great wings, horns, bright green cat-like eyes and blood red fur, brightest around his chest and stomach (or so all of his church’s paintings depict him).

Shakur grew to trust his new friends – a concept that was very alien to him. Yet it provided him with stability this creature of chaos was unaccustomed to. Together with Soran and Dymir, Shakur was responsible for many great and noble deeds as well as great feats of courage. But he also exacted terrible acts of brutality, such as the massacre of Voria together with his son Haris and the annihilation of the University of Magic and all its occupants in Cimia. His last known act on this world was one of nobility and selflessness, when he flew over Soran as The Blind Prophet stood on the mountaintop praying to Dalanos, and protected the holy man from evil together with Dymir. For his great accomplishment he was granted a seat among the gods. His church claims that he didn’t want so many people to die because that would make the world less entertaining for him, with fewer people to torment. Scholars think it may have been a rare act of friendship and mercy performed by a demon. Only one god truly knows what happened there on the mountaintop…