Lord of Pain
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| Species | Human |
| Job | Assassin |
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| Birthplace | Duskmourn |
| Lifetime | Omenpath Era |
The Lord of Pain is a human assassin from Duskmourn. He is the de facto leader of the razorkin.[1]
Description
Though razorkin don't function as a cohesive group, most of them will listen to the directives of the Lord of Pain, the first-ever razorkin, devoted to the discovery of new sensations of pain.[1][2] He exists only in the screens throughout the House. Most of the time he's content to watch the other razorkin as they do their work. Occasionally he intervenes or issues directives that inevitably lead to House-wide carnage sprees. He frequently moves through screens throughout the House, whispering and coaxing vulnerable survivors to join the path of the razorkin.
History
Countless years ago, in his quest for ever-increasing pain, the Lord of Pain managed to catch a cellarspawn and extract its essence to inject into himself, hoping that infusing himself with pure fear would inflict an agony upon him that no one had ever felt before.[2] Instead, he found that it wrenched his mind from his body and flung it into the screens of the House. One of the screens overlooked a survivor's painful death, and as the Lord of Pain watched, he realized that he could feel every moment of pain and agony as if he were experiencing it for the first time. From that moment on, he gleefully abandoned his mortal body to live exclusively within the House's screens, watching and savoring every moment of torture he could find. Somewhere within the razor mazes is a room where his body is stashed. Many survivors believe that if they can find it and destroy it, that will be the end of him, a rumor that the Lord of Pain actively encourages because it means more survivors will willingly enter the razor mazes — where hordes of razorkin eagerly lie in wait.
Trivia
- The cards depicting the Lord of Pain are all references to John Kramer aka "Jigsaw" of the Saw series. A sickly but gifted engineer, he regularly used recorded messages - such as on screens - for his "tests", rather than personally chasing his targets. However, his motivations for corrupting through the sensations of pain are closer to Pinhead of Hellraiser.
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References
- ↑ a b Emily Teng (August 31, 2024). "Planeswalker's Guide to Duskmourn". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Emily Teng (September 19, 2024). "The Legends of Duskmourn: House of Horror". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
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