Athux

Athux, a resolute Aasimar paladin with six fingers on each hand. Five decades ago,Athux embarked on a quest to redeem Adimarchus’s soul. The aasimar cut a swath across the tumorous plains of Occipitus and confronted the demon prince in his own throne room. Adimarchus and Athux fought until, exhausted, the demon prince sundered the aasimar’s sword with his own dark blade. Clutching Athux by the throat, Adimarchus saw something in the aasimar’s eyes that sparked his compassion.Athux, a resolute Aasimar paladin with six fingers on each hand. Five decades ago,Athux embarked on a quest to redeem Adimarchus’s soul. The aasimar cut a swath across the tumorous plains of Occipitus and confronted the demon prince in his own throne room. Adimarchus and Athux fought until, exhausted, the demon prince sundered the aasimar’s sword with his own dark blade. Clutching Athux by the throat, Adimarchus saw something in the aasimar’s eyes that sparked his compassion. He could not kill Athux, nor could he subject the paladin to the torments of Occipitus. He tried to lure Athux over to the side of evil, but his attempts were halfhearted at best. Athux remained a prisoner on Occipitus and stood by Adimarchus’s side as the demon prince plotted against Graz’zt, all the while fuelling Adimarchus’s rage against demonkind. A strange friendship bloomed, puzzling Adimarchus’s minions and spurring some to betray him. Graz’zt learned of the planned assault against him and the alliance of Adimarchus and Athux and, in true demonic fashion, he conspired with Adimarchus’s treacherous minions to overthrow his rival.

During the epic battle between Adimarchus’s army and Graz’zt’s hordes, demons swayed by Graz’zt captured Athux with surprising ease,imprisoning him on Carceri in an asylum called Skullrot. Adimarchus could not bear the loss of Athux, and the treachery of fiends rekindled the fallen angel’s burning hatred. Adimarchus abandoned his hordes, his Realm, and his evil ways and fled to Carceri to rescue Athux and find redemption. Alas, the tale of Adimarchus and Athux would not end well. As Graz’zt’s army crushed Adimarchus’s abandoned demon horde, Adimarchus arrived at Skullrot to find Athux overcome with dementia, the prisoner of one of Graz’zt’s most powerful allies a powerful undead priest named Dark Myrakul. Unable to wrest the aasimar from Dark Myrakul’s clutches, Adimarchus traded his own freedom for the paladin’s restored mind and safe return to Celestia. Dark Myrakul readily agreed. The imprisoned Adimarchus watched as Athux shook off his “lunacy,” only to transform into a black-skinned fiend with six fingers on each hand. Athux had misled Adimarchus from the start. He was, in fact, Graz’zt’s devoted son.