Victus

"I'm looking forward to when this is all done, so I can slowly flay you alive."

Victus is a spiteful, arrogant banker with a penchant for solving problems with violence.

Soul Bank
Victus emerged into the Fey Realm in his early 20s with a number of demonic, eldrich, and fey pacts that were being honored on the side of those he had made the pacts with, but those who he had made the pacts with were not seeing any effort on his side, and for some unknown reason, they were unable to exact revenge. Using this handful of pacts, he was able to buy and sell more pacts, eventually owning a large number of sentient souls that he began to buy and sell with, soon forming a bank, and ultimately, a stock market for souls, utilized by all manner of otherworldly horrors. Staffed by mindwiped accountants and drider guards, he grew more and more rich, until a group of adventurers discovered him.

Little did he know, one of the adventurers, a mage who had lost his memory, was a former colleague of his- they had been part of a group of warlocks attempting to make a deal with the god of forgetfulness whose name I can't recall. Victus, who before then had not gone by any name, recognized the former colleague, and in a moment, the colleague had his memory restored, including his own name and the true name of the evil banker- Victus.

His true name being stated caused every demon who had a unenforcable pact with him to suddenly have claim over Victus, and the soul bank was instantly destroyed in a flurry of fire, vines, and cosmic horror. Days later, Victus emerged from the ruins, having been reduced to a drider for his crimes.

Merchant Guild
Victus took a spot working for the Merchant's Guild, and was regularly causing various problems due to his high status and sociopathic nature. He did help the party defeat the Ur, under orders of the Merchant's Guild, but after they were defeated, promised that he would kill them. The process of destroying the Ur left Victus without the various powers he had accumulated in his search, and he was left hissing at the party, with just a knife. The party decided to spare his life, and Victus fled.

Afterwards, Victus was responsible for various attempts to start a war with the Thieves' Guild, destroy a peaceful town, and poison innocent townsfolk, although recently his past has caught up with him and he was eventually taken in by the royal guard and handed over to the Merchant's Guild, who have placed him under house arrest in their headquarters, in some back room doing low level accounting work.