None have actually tried anything against him, mind, not just because doing so would mean whoever usurped him would have to take the menial and grueling task of overseeing all the souls entering Hell, but because it’s awfully, awfully hard to sneak anything past him. Whatever he is and whatever he wants, Asmodeus trusts him, though this isn’t to say his peers do. Whether he’s some alien god of nature’s most deplorable aspects, a forgotten breed of fiend, a Qlippoth Lord shedding the grasp of the Abyss entirely (this one’s my bet, and a safe one at that), or even a Great Old One is not known, and his goals beyond his guarding of Avernus, the first layer of Hell, may not exist. and in fact completely lacks the Devil subtype! This mysterious doorman merely showed up to Hell’s gates one day with a whole planet’s worth of souls and asked Asmodeus for a job, a job he’s held in the millennia since with–if the Complete Book of the Damned is to be believed–absolutely no oversight aside from whatever curious spying the other nobles of Hell may do.
Lord of the First: Barbatos, the Bearded Lord CR 26īeginning End of the World Month IV: The Tyrants of the Nine is my favorite of all the Archdevils, not only known as the Bearded Lord, but such whimsical titles as the Iron Hierophant, the Mistletoe Monk, the Wiseman of the Wilds, and many more! … though, if one recalls, Barbatos is not a Devil at all.
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