Ba'el - Behind The Scenes (The Seven Realms)

So, you have finally met the infamous Ba'el! (Ex) Ruler of Pythonium and one of Lucius' best friends. I know many people won't like him because he can be a little shit, but I love him. He is funny to write - how he keeps trying to antagonise people and seems to not take anything seriously.

However, don't be fooled by his apparent goofiness. As the first of his kind, Ba'el is extremely smart and powerful. He has constantly outsmarted the people he had contracts with and broke them. Not because he didn't want to or couldn't fulfil his part of the deal. But for the fun of it. Or he would add a small clause that would fuck them over.

You would think that Ba'el has no redeeming qualities, right? Well, that's false!

He is known to be a faithful ally to Terran, Mon'Agrax and Noren'Hal. When you're a friend of Ba'el, he won't play his usual mind games with you regarding important matters. That's why nobody understood why he had remained silent when Lucius lost his mind. Everybody expected Ba'el to come and help Terran. Or at least show the other Realms that Pythonium was standing with Terran no matter what, but he did not care.

Another good point regarding Ba'el is that he is, surprisingly, a great father to all his children. Some people tried to use them against him and severely regretted it.

He is the true master of Pythonium and the source of many myths, legends, etc. Hades and Baal are two examples of ones based on him.

Character Model:

I didn't change his base model too much because I just loved it as it was. However, I didn't want Ba'el to be in every VN, so I modified him slightly. I wanted him to have the same bracelet as Lucius because it's something that all the members of their little best friends group have lol.

The image used for this post will be available as a 4K Wallpaper (without the text) for January's Second Realm Supporters and higher tiers.