Essence ofInfernal Augmentation

By drinking this bottle of infernal darkness, you have been augmented to your fullest infernal potential.

• Your true form is twisted into something monstrous, but it is something that represents your deepest, darkest fears and evils, ranging from a towering tyrant demon that may crush buildings underfoot, a writhing mass of snakes and spiders, or even a false angel with blood-soaked wings and a razor-sharp halo. You have a much nicer human form that has been handcrafted to your desires and ideal, with it radiating an aura of honey-suckle seduction and utter menace. But whenever you have a need to utterly rampage, your Ego is waiting for you to tear the human skin off, but you may put it back on within an instant after you've finished. This form shall grow ever larger and terrifying, with its abilities evolving as you gain in power.

• You can gain such power by making deals, which you are perfectly suited towards, capable of telling what a person desires, fears and dark secrets are with only the mere knowledge of their existence. Such is the power of Accord, but it does more than just give you knowledge, and allows you to grant access to all sorts of delightful boons such as beauty, a destiny to be famous or lots of gold bars which you may exchange for anything that the other person has (even nothing, if you feel like a gift-giving mood or want to groom them for future consumption, though it does take a bit of energy), though obviously the most powerful of these is the soul. The more life lived by a soul, the more things it has accomplished and the more innocent it is, the more powerful you will grow from taking it into your own, though even the average human can let you double your strength for your first deal, though obviously that has diminishing returns.

• Humans don't die when you take their soul or even diminish in any capacity, but when they do die, they will enter a Palais within your soul and become your eternal servant that cannot disobey (without your conscious will, if you want a brat or two). This is a massive pocket dimension that exists within you that you may disappear into at anytime, reflecting your unholy might, and begins initially with only a land the size of the Earth to start with. You have free reign within it, capable of twisting it to your needs and desires, as well as acting as a god within it, though anything created within it will inevitably turn to ash in the real world, including people you make.

• You may get around this limitation by taking actual matter into it and processing it, or you may use soul-stuff to create artifacts through a process called Artifice. These artifacts have infernal properties based on the souls you use to create them, with more powerful souls garnering powerful effects based on their personality and life story. A serial killer that had over a hundred victims would let you craft a knife that could cleave an army in two, and it only goes up from there.

• However, if you wish to create living things, you may engage in Corrompre, allowing you to create demons for every need. Their power naturally depends on their soul, but you may sew together multiple souls like a madman, twisting and distorting them until they become a twisted reflection of what they were. These monsters may infect others in order to multiply or just consume them in order to grow stronger. This grants you an alternative to simple wheeling and dealing, though it does not let you get all of the soul. They all still act as perfectly obedient and loyal pets and servants, however.

• Finally, you may command the obedience and adoration of any and all demons below you in strength while garnering the respect of those above you, through your Autorité. These demons come from a variety of places, as the souls you do not collect, become an ecosystem of demons which is to your taste. Perhaps you desire for the spiritual detritus that humans leave behind after dying to form into monster girls, maybe the collective anger and frustration at the world formed by humanity becomes an underworld of dark desires and respite, or perhaps something else. Regardless, it will be to your tastes and while it won't follow every command unless you make it, you have a very good chance at being the King of Hell.