Daedalius, Horned King and the Prince of Beasts

Patron to the Minotaurs and known for his labyrinthian lair within the abyssal plane, Daedalius is chaotic evil. Faerun equivalent is Baphomet. Symbol is horns above a labyrinth.   In the Age of Mysterium, Daedalius found a way to push through the Abyss and have his minions enter into the famed city of Dianmallo and literally raise hell. He was stopped by a band of powerful heroes who dared to enter through the portal to the labyrinth and face him in his own lair. He was defeated and the portal was closed, but his secret cultists believe that Daedalius reformed in the abyss, claiming that "Even the Faithless carry divine potential and cannot be slain so easily."   Civilization is weakness and brutality is strength in the credo of Daedalius, the Horned King and the Prince of Beasts. He is worshiped by those who want to break the confines of civility and unleash their bestial natures, for Daedalius envisions a world without restraint, where creatures live out their most bloodthirsty desires.   Cults devoted to Daedalius use mazes and complex knots as their emblems. They create secret places to indulge themselves, including labyrinths of the sort their master favors. Bloodstained crowns and weapons of iron and brass decorate their profane altars.   Over time, a cultist of Daedalius becomes tainted by his influence, gaining bloodshot eyes and coarse, thickening hair. Small horns eventually sprout from the cultist’s forehead. In time, a devoted cultist might transform entirely into a minotaur, which is considered the greatest gift of the Prince of Beasts.   Daedalius appears as a fearsome, 20-foot-tall minotaur with six iron horns. A fiendish light burns in his red eyes. Although he is filled with bestial blood lust, there lies within him a cruel and cunning intellect devoted to subverting all civilization.   Daedalius wields a great glaive called Heartcleaver. He also charges his enemies and gores them with his horns, trampling his foes into the earth and rending them with his teeth like a beast.