N'astirh
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N'astirh is a fictional character created by Marvel Comics as a demonic inhabitant of Limbo. He first appeared in X-Factor #32 and was created by Louise Simonson and Jon Bogdanove.
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N'Astirh was a demon with great magical skills, but rebelled against his master Belasco when he chose a human, Illyana Rasputin as his apprentice. N'Astirh formed an alliance with S'ym, the strongest of Belasco's demons. When Illyana rose against Belasco, N'Astirh stole Belasco's spellbook and fled from Limbo into Earth's past. When Illyana left Limbo, S'ym summoned N'Astirh again and they plotted against her. Due to the Magus invasion of Limbo, S'ym was turned into a techno-organic being. As a techno-organic being, S'ym became more powerful and took over Limbo.
N'Astirh made pacts with various villains in the Marvel Universe, such as Cameron Hodge, Hobgoblin (Macendale), and Madelyne Pryor. The latter used this alliance to get revenge against her creator Mister Sinister and her ex-husband Cyclops. N'astirh had previously led Madelyne to Sinister's genetic lab, to rescue her baby, and to confront Mr. Sinister. Madelyne then learned that she was merely a clone of Jean Grey, whom her husband had actually loved, and left her upon learning that she was still alive. With the help of N'astirh and his fellow demon S'ym, Madelyne's psionic powers (far stronger than her progenitor's) were triggered, transforming her into the Goblin Queen.
The three then plotted a demonic invasion, starting with Manhattan, known as the Inferno Crisis. During the invasion N'astirh also coerced Illyana Rasputin and Meggan towards their darker sides--Magik having a tie to the demonic realm Limbo (transforming her into Darkchylde) and Meggan being an empathic shapeshifter who was swayed by the dark emotions around her (transforming her into the Goblin Princess). However N'astirh's invasion was thwarted by the X-teams, and he was destroyed by an overload of lightning driven into him by Storm.
N'astirh was known for his weirdly twisted sense of humor. When Jason Phillip Macendale, then the Hobgoblin, offered to make a Faustian bargain to trade his soul for the power of a demon, N'astirh laughed and scoffed at the offer, thinking Macendale's soul to be too pitiful to be of any worth. In return for amusing him, however, N'astirh granted Macendale's request by fusing the hapless human with a demon, which would eventually break away to become the Demogoblin.
