Hell has had many rulers. They have all been ruthless... terrifying... powerful. Yet, they have all been enslaved or died as newer demons have ripped them bloodily from the throne. The Malebolgia is but one in a long line of these demons. However, he is different. He is more cunning than all those previous. More vicious. More cruel. And he, above all, can see into the long term. He has made his own army to protect him, even as he trains them to attack Heaven someday.

Born, or rather, forged in the fires of Hell's eighth plane, the Malebolgia had his first conscious thought seventy millennia ago. His creator, Leviathan, a Grand-Mal Demon and total ruler of Hell, sculpted his pet, infusing him with rivers of necroplasm and charging him with energy from the most loathsome and hideous acts any being can perform. True to his nature, shortly after reaching complete sentience, the Malebolgia turned on his master and slew him before his startled court during a three-year blood feast.