Fiendish Origins: Tanar’ling (Orcus) (Patreon)

In Thanatos, the undead infested 113th layer of the abyss. The demon lord Orcus created his first tanar’lings to help control and command his undead forces. Tanar’ling made by him inherit his two most prominent features, his control over the undead and a skeletal horned head.

Tanar’lings are treated violence, insults, mistrust, and fear. Tanar’lings know that this because they creations from a demon lord that infused them with its essence. Most demon lords see tanar’lings as failed creations and usually exile them to the Material Plane. In Orcus’ case his forces didn’t like being commanded be living beings, many Tanar’lings died in Thanatos. Their nature and appearance bare mark of this abyssal infusion that will inherited by their children and their children’s children.

Art by: Kostya-PingWIN on Deviant Art