Malfeshnekor

Once the head of a Runelord's sentinel statue that stood upon the ridge of land called the Rasp before the nation of Bakrakhan became the Varisian Gulf, Thistletop is now a curiously round island.
The statue has long since crumbled and become overgrown by the Nettlewood, but the head escaped such obscurement by landing in the surf.

The magical nature of the statue's construction drastically slowed the process of erosion on the head's features, and when the sun hits the western cliff of the isle just right, one can just make out the ancient features of the statue's face.
The statue once contained a small complex, but today only a few of the original rooms within the head itself remain accessible.
One of these rooms contains an imprisoned Barghest named Malfeshnekor.

An ancient agent of a rival Runelord, the monster was captured and imprisoned here for interrogation.
Yet, the end came too quickly, and when the statue's head tumbled into the sea, Malfeshnekor found himself one of the few surviving creatures.
And yet, the outsider remained trapped.
For the next several thousand years he waited.
For a time, a group of Lamashtu cultists settled in the rooms above.
Himself a loyal minion of Lamashtu, Malfeshnekor quickly discovered he was able to communicate empathically with any priest who stood before the altar.
In so doing, he was able to lead the cultists to discover the small complex in which he waited, but the cultists were slaughered by a Hellcat guardian before they reached him..

Well over a century later, Malfeshnekor sensed new creatures settling nearby, Goblins.
As with the Lamashtan cultists, the Barghest had a crude empathic link with these goblins. Malfeshnekor couldn't quite communicate with them as he had with the clerics, but the goblins could sense him.
They felt drawn to Thistletop for reasons they didn't quite comprehend, and it quickly became the most coveted tribal land among their kind.
Traditionally, the Thistletop goblins were led by clerics who sensed the Barghest's empathic urgings during their rituals.
These urgings encouraged the goblins to explore the lower levels of their lair, yet Goblins are fragile and stupid creatures.
None ever found the secret door that led to Malfeshnekor's level, and now that the current leader of Thistletop is himself too unwise to receive his empathic sendings, it had begun to despair..



And then, with Nualia's arrival and the reconsecration of the temple, Malfeshnekor realized his time of freedom was close.
Nualia is his salvation, and he her path to becoming a true Demon..