Beelzebub

Biography

The gluttony imprint

Beelzebub first enters the Magus World through the aftermath of a dead clone and the gluttony imprint it leaves behind. The remains become a rune capable of spreading across records and hosts. To a Warlock it appears to improve strength and bloodline purity; at the same time it awakens appetite, alters judgment, and makes consumption feel like advancement. Robin, Noah, and other hosts pursue the benefit while becoming increasingly suited to Beelzebub's return. (Chapters 481–483 and 516–518)

The imprint is not merely corruptive energy. It contains fragments of consciousness and establishes a host as a potential projected clone. A Magus who advances with it may discover the danger and isolate himself, yet contaminated notebooks or descendants can continue carrying fragments. The distributed method allows Beelzebub to survive individual failures and approach worlds that resist his main body. (Chapters 516–518)

Its temptation rests on a real effect: gluttony can devour power and push a host beyond ordinary limits. That truth makes the trap effective. The cost is identity, because the appetite and embedded consciousness increasingly answer to the Sovereign King rather than the person who accepted the rune. (Chapters 481–483 and 516–518)

Clones against Leylin

Leylin attacks the imprint as both enemy and research material. In a tomb, Beelzebub takes a prepared body and manifests a projected clone with law-level devouring ability. It can swallow Leylin's flames and grow from them, but the host lacks a Morning Star point mass and therefore has a finite capacity. Leylin overwhelms that limit with sustained output, destroys the consciousness, and retains the imprint for study. (Chapters 516–518)

Later he summons and suppresses another fragment, carefully separating usable law and memories from Beelzebub's will. Each defeat reduces a route through which the Sovereign can act while teaching Leylin how gluttony functions. The encounters also show why clones are weaker than the whole: a projected consciousness is restricted by the vessel, available energy, and the amount of truesoul committed. (Chapters 516–518 and 694–695)

The invasion of Purgatory

Beelzebub commits a major split truesoul and a vast share of his power to invading Purgatory World. His gluttonous beasts consume the land and food supply, while destroyed clones are replaceable pressure against the Snake Dowager's holy city. He eventually forms a monstrous body from a mixed-blood snakeman, bringing enough Rank 8 power to meet the Dowager directly. (Chapters 745–755)

The invasion is also the opening Leylin wanted. Beelzebub's committed truesoul is separated from the safety of the main body, operating in a world whose will Leylin awakens against foreign sovereigns. Gluttony and the Dowager's shadows devastate each other while the Purgatory Will immobilizes their forces and applies world-level hostility. (Chapters 755–757)

Leylin devours the incarnation, tears away the Wings of Gluttony, and takes laws and memories from it. Because the split truesoul is a genuine division rather than a disposable image, the loss severely wounds the original Beelzebub. His distributed survival keeps him alive, but the same willingness to commit meaningful soul fragments allows an enemy to damage the whole by consuming one. (Chapters 757–758)

The fall of the Lord of Dis

In the World of Gods, Beelzebub is the archdevil ruler of Dis. The Purgatory loss leaves the main body unable to maintain ordinary sovereignty, so he hides in a secret dimension and contracts to an infant-like state while trying to recover. Concealment preserves his existence but also leaves Dis's cults and political position vulnerable to replacement. (Chapters 1039–1041)

Leylin finds the refuge using accumulated memories and connections. Beelzebub can no longer match the enemy who has consumed his incarnation and learned his law. Leylin extracts the remaining memories, kills him, and takes gluttony divinity, infernal authority, and the position associated with Dis. (Chapters 1039–1041)

The death completes the reversal built through every encounter. Beelzebub spreads himself to make identity difficult to eradicate and consumes hosts to advance; Leylin systematically isolates those fragments, consumes their information, and uses them to reach the main body. The Sovereign King's law survives as part of Original Sin, but Beelzebub does not survive as its owner. (Chapters 1039–1041)

Appearance and personality

Beelzebub's manifestations vary with vessel and invested power. The Purgatory incarnation combines a python-like lower body, demonic wings, muscular talons, compound eyes, a barbed tongue, and a mouth suited to consumption. His final hidden main body is diminished to an infant-like form after the split truesoul's destruction. (Chapters 755 and 1039–1041)

He is voracious, cunning, and willing to distribute consciousness across clones, records, and living hosts. That strategy makes him difficult to erase, but appetite repeatedly outruns caution. Beelzebub treats other worlds and people as nourishment, commits a vulnerable portion of his truesoul to a major invasion, and gives Leylin repeated samples from which to reconstruct his law and locate him. (Chapters 481–518, 694–758, and 1039–1041)

Magic, bloodline, and abilities

Rank 8 law of gluttony

Beelzebub embodies gluttony at Rank 8, turning consumption into law-level authority. He can swallow elemental and magical attacks, digest their power, consume living beings, and create forces whose defining behavior is endless appetite. At full scale this supports armies of gluttonous beasts and direct conflict with another Rank 8 sovereign. (Chapters 516–518 and 745–758)

Devouring is not limitless storage. A clone housed in a body without a Morning Star point mass reaches saturation and must refuse further energy or be destroyed. Even a major incarnation can be opposed by a peer law, world will, and an enemy capable of consuming its law in turn. Gluttony converts what Beelzebub can successfully contain; it does not make every source of power harmless. (Chapter 517 and Chapters 755–758)

Imprints, appetite, and host conversion

A gluttony imprint carries law power and a seed of consciousness. It increases appetite, encourages predatory behavior, and can appear to purify or strengthen a Warlock bloodline through what it consumes. As dependence grows, the host becomes a vessel through which Beelzebub can manifest. Records and objects can retain fragments, allowing corruption to continue after one carrier isolates himself. (Chapters 481–483 and 516–518)

The method is covert but vulnerable to analysis. A host may detect the foreign influence, and Leylin can separate, seal, and study an imprint after destroying its active consciousness. Benefits gained through the rune therefore do not imply that the host has mastered gluttony's law independently. (Chapters 516–518 and 694–695)

Truesoul division and projections

Beelzebub divides his truesoul to act across worlds and through multiple vessels. Small projections preserve reach at limited cost; a large split truesoul carries enough identity and law to form a Rank 8 incarnation. This distributed architecture lets the main body survive the destruction of lesser manifestations. (Chapters 481–518 and 745–755)

The cost scales with what is sent. A weak projection is restricted by its host, while the destruction and consumption of a major split truesoul inflicts a crippling wound on the original. Separation also limits coordination and allows enemies to isolate fragments from reinforcements. (Chapters 517, 694–695, and 755–758)

Wings of Gluttony and monstrous incarnation

The Wings of Gluttony are a concentrated expression of Beelzebub's law and mobility within his major incarnation. Leylin tears them away as a discrete source of law and later incorporates their principles. Their loss accompanies the destruction of the Purgatory split soul, so their demonstrated state is item-like law manifestation rather than an indestructible innate organ that automatically returns. (Chapters 755–758)

Beelzebub can reshape a consumed or possessed body into a monstrous form suited to the local world, combining snakeman material with gluttonous wings, talons, compound eyes, and law power. The resulting body can meet the Snake Dowager as an equal for a time, but remains exposed to the Purgatory Will and Leylin's prepared devouring. (Chapters 755–758)

Archdevil authority in Dis

As Lord of Dis, Beelzebub possesses infernal territory, divinity associated with gluttony, worshippers, and the authority of an archdevil within Baator. This foundation is distinct from the Magus-style Rank 8 split soul invading Purgatory, though both express the same identity and law. (Chapters 1039–1041)

After the Purgatory wound, he cannot exercise that authority at former strength. Leylin kills the hidden main body and takes the divinity and position, proving that infernal office does not persist for Beelzebub once law, memories, and true identity are seized by a stronger claimant. (Chapters 1039–1041)

Power progression

Relationships

• Leylin Farlier: Hunter, rival, and eventual killer who consumes Beelzebub's incarnations before taking Dis.
• Snake Dowager: Rank 8 opponent during the Purgatory invasion.
• Robin: One of the Warlocks damaged by a gluttony imprint derived from Beelzebub.

Items

• Manderhawke Plate: A fate-defying treasure stolen and used by Beelzebub before it passes into Leylin's hands.