Aneiren Zaxien Kilcanoragh

Zax Deumas (true name Aneiren Zaxien) was a really messed up Demon. He was actually a devil of mazes, which translated to traps, puzzles, impenetrability and inescapability. Wards to him were an Art form. He was a son of Killian whose true name was Aneirin. Lilith had wanted him for her own to control but he was too powerful so Sammael killed him and guided him on a mortal rebirth. He named himself Zax after the resulting transient death. Lilith waited until he was twenty two and snatched him up, forcibly siring him as a Sumeri while seducing him, and enslaved him. She found his will tiresome however. Though he could not always resist her, he managed to do so at the most inconvenient of times, and so she decided to just utterly break him. Few could defy Lilith when enslaved to her but whatever else he became, Zax was ever a prime of mazes. She held him and tortured him for several ages that would have continued for an eternity had not Maelmorda stepped in and taken him from her. Zax was locked up tight within himself by this time. Maelmorda just let him wander freely in Acheron and if anyone trespassed on Zax they'd have Mael to contend with. Then when Maelmorda orchestrated the exodus from Earth during its latest Armageddon, he let Zax go topside. Just turned hin loose. He had been no trouble at all to him in Acheron.
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Zax went to then Hawkers Fort and met Nazmin at a tavern she was working towards owning. Nazmin was nothing like Lilith and her Sumeri clan. She like Zax had been forced, but unlike Zax had never been abused. Naz took pity on him .. The way he hated to be touched at all. The way he cringed from loud noises and sudden movement, isolated himself withdrawing from people, particularly crowds, were evidence of terrible abuse. Lilith hated that Zax lived and breathed because he shamed the name Sumeri. Nazmin however came to love and adore him and with patience and support gained his trust and affection, never once using her Sumeri powers of seduction and domination on him to speed things along.

The memories of a past life stolen from him by Sammael started coming back to him. At length he remembered he was very wealthy and owned a vast estate and castle in the Blackhills Kingdom of Arithendor.
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Nazmin was driven out of Hawkers during the immortal purge executed by Halen and his arms. Zax returned with Nazmin to his ancient home at that time and it was still there, still his, STILL warded. He and Nazmin married, Zax taking her name because he had no surname, and the two ended up becoming the most recent King's friend and ally. The Raven King raised them to nobles in his court. Count and countess at first then Duke and Duchess. Carrok Ravenclaw did not care that Zax was a recluse. Zax aided in safeguarding his kingdom as none had done before him. Enemies had to get past Zax, his wards, his forest on the kingdom's furthest western border before they could invade Blackhills.
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The kingdom could not be assaulted from the shore because the entire peninsula was raised up on a high shelf of cliffs all the way to the land of Zax which extended between the Blackhill Mountain range and the Borderland River his castle stood by. The forest in Zaxland was a labyrinth in and of itself, not unlike Killian's maze of trees, vines and undergrowth but static, until he altered it. It did not alter itself as people proceeded through it as Killian's maze did. Zax could have enchanted it to be so but he was about puzzles, that no matter how difficult COULD be solved. He had a sense of fair play.

Did he think it fair to capture innocent children? Well not if they were out traipsing alone on their own, but Cillian had an escort. And they had no intention of misusing him, but making him their own captive Prince! Zax knew it was wrong but saw no other way to have a child.

Lilith had cursed Nazmin that should she fall in love with Zax she'd be unable to give birth to a living or animate child, OR to adopt one. She had been pregnant several times but always lost them which was worse than not being able to have them at all. They had adopted two different children but both had died tragically. Lilith was cruel. Naz wasn't even aware she was cursed. So Zax agreed his wife could bring home a child and left it to her how to go about it. He was taking a hands off approach because it was heartbreaking to let himself hope. Nazmin had decided that perhaps if they kept a child caged it would remain safe. Then hearing about Seth's offspring from her friend Magda, she just HAD to have one of them for her own!! Only as a captive of her wondrous menagerie! And so she did some asking around about mercenaries for hire specializing in live capture and was pointed at length to the outland poachers.