Sabnock

Lore

Sabnock is recorded in demonological sources under the variants Sabnake, Salmac, Savnok, Sab Nac, Sabnac, Sabnach, and Sabnack. Within the infernal hierarchy he bears the title of Grand Marquis of Hell. His informal epithets include “The Rotting Warrior” and “The Architect of Decay.”

In appearance, Sabnock is a ferocious, armed soldier with a lion’s head, riding a pale, decomposing horse. He looks like a muscular humanoid with a lush, fiery-orange mane and contrasting black fur, crowned by asymmetrical crimson horns. The demon’s torso is usually bare, displaying smooth yet desecrated musculature covered in deep maroon markings, scars, and magical tattoos that pulse with a sinister light in rhythm with his heartbeat. Sabnock’s anatomy features clawed feet, vaguely human yet reinforced to bear his massive weight. In battle he dons heavy, dark, massively forged armor. His primary weapons are a one-handed sword or mace adorned with occult runes. The pale horse is an undead creature, a harbinger of inescapable doom that poisons the ground beneath it, and at times fuses with its rider into a lion-headed centaur.

Before his fall from the Celestial Halls, Sabnock was a mighty and renowned angel. Ancient sorcerers place him within the angelic choir of the Powers, whose chief duty was to uphold cosmic order and defend the heavenly frontiers from the forces of primordial chaos.

After the Great Fall, Sabnock did not lose his skills; he merely perverted them. Demonological lore claims he became one of the chief divine architects to whom Mammon, the prince of greed, entrusted the construction of Pandemonium—the grand, overwhelming capital of Hell. His genius turned the Pit from a formless abyss into a structured, fortified empire.