Cliffton Willgoat

Originally the sole Darklord of Conquista, as his sins caused it to take form in the Demiplane of Dread. To his immense chagrin, he is now only one of four Darklord candidates, and he must win the Dread Election to be able to wield his full power.

Background

Born in Prime Material Conquista, Cliffton chafed at his mundane life as a gas station attendant, yet refused to make the effort to better his life. As the only thing he took pride in was his young and beautiful wife, Cliffton erupted in rage when a Hombre Valiente tried to seduce her and assaulted the man, landing himself in a jail cell and facing stiff punishment. When his wife secured his release by sleeping with the Hombre Valiente in question and suggested she might now finally conceive, Cliffton took this as an insult of his manhood. He beat his wife unconscious and left town to find a new life elsewhere.

Cliffton found only humiliation and pain; a Witch offered him an opportunity to sire her children as a substitute for her husband, only to magically restrain and rape him when he tried to attack her; a group of Hombres Valientes abducted and tortured him for fun, then abandoned him in the desert to die, a goatmask stapled to his face to mark him as an outcast.

Determined to survive, Cliffton crawled through the desert until he chanced upon the Evil intelligent dagger Ixion, which promised to save him if he would bond with it. Cliffton hesitated only until the blade offered him revenge, at which point he seized it by the hilt, despite being able to guess the weapon's full malice.