Scrix

Scrix was a Demon Lord known as the Scornful Eye. Coveting knowledge of magic above all else, Scrix developed a harsh rivalry with Abraxas. With the assistance of his Cult, Scrix planned to attain godhood by supplanting the magic gods.

Description
Scrix existed as a consciousness and had no true physical form. When he did assume a corporeal shape, however, he usually chose a single, unblinking eye, not unlike his symbol. Believing magical strengh to be an expression of purity and excellence, Scrix often tested his followers, assessing their skill with the arcane through a series of advanced mentally straining rituals, blessing those who succeeded with even greater magical strength, and driving insane those unfortunate enough to fail.

History
Other than his feuds with Abraxas, Scrix was hardly an active power in the Abyss, although the Citadel of the Eye was always bustling with the Demon Lord's agents, delivering magical trinkets from across the multiverse.

In the early 1440s, an archmage named Torlor Dathrak, sought out Scrix seeking the Demon Lord's eldritch blessing. The Demon Lord granted Dathrak unsurpassed arcane power in exchange for becoming his agent on the material plane. Soon after, Dathrak founded the Cult of Scrix, which attracted droves of failed mages and power-hungry individuals. Dathrak, who took perverse joy in corrupting good individuals, especially paladins, soon enlisted Blackthorne and Elena Longwater to the cult, the former being placed in charge of retrieving the orb, which was essential to Scrix's master plan to ascend to godhood. Blackthorne succeeded in stealing the orb from a group of students from the Royal Green Dragon Academy, but as he sought to transfer the magical power within it to Scrix, Xendon, Grub, Agnes, and James arrived and defeated him and Scrix's essence was instead trapped within the orb.

After this defeat, Dathrak tasked Escrula with re-creating the orb, so that Scrix's plan could still be put into action.