Makkaneth

When the spark screamed itself into existence, the abyss lashed out and shattered reality. The concepts of pain and fear came into being at the beginning of everything, and have persisted to this day. These energies coagulated into two different primordials. Shayd became the embodiment of fear, and Makkaneth the embodiment of pain.    Makkaneth has the ability to turn pain into power. Throughout much of the first iteration of the universe, most entities had no "physical" bodies capable of feeling pain as mortals know it. Pain comes in many shapes and forms. The pain of loss. The pain of failure. The pain of embarrassment, even the pain of boredom are all things Makkaneth can amplify and feast upon.    As a being who actively went out of their way to be hostile to the Pantheon, Makkaneth was banished from Zambaleth using bizarre magics. After traveling the cosmos for some time, Makkaneth learned that other entities of his caliber have built entire Paradises for themselves.    He envisioned a utopia of wretchedity and suffering, and began collecting the vast amounts of energy that would be required to spawn a realm. He dedicated his entire being to this goal, but still lacked the ability to create machinisms of pain. If he were to create a realm, it would be devoid of anything of actual use. Makkaneth continues the pursuit of their goals, but the solutions evaded him until he came into contact with the patron of fear, Shayd.    The two realized they empowered each other simply by remaining in each other's presence. During the exploration of this phenomenon they discovered they had the exact same origin. The fact that they were not only friends but even siblings eternally united them in their goals. Pain causes fear. And fear is a type of pain. Together they create a realm of sheer suffering and populate it with entities capable and driven to have hope. They gain power from the pain and fear generated by crushing those hopes. Over and over in an endless feast.   Entities that are affected by these deities go insane rapidly unless they were designed to live in the realm. The denizens are durable enough to withstand said feasts, but most other entities from outside the realm fall victim to immense and debilitating hallucinations and emotional outbursts. Eventually the entity will become a husk of itself and repurposed to be a denizen of the realm. Whatever residual sentience remains of the original entity suffers worse than the being it has become.    Makkaneth, Shayd, and the realm of suffering are considered the epitome of evil by almost all entities.