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Bakasura

Bakasura

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Bakasura is a horrendous demon with an insatiable appetite for flesh who exists as a living nightmare. This relentless predator is defined by a bottomless hunger that drives him to commit brutal atrocities and consume any mortal, or immortal, he encounters. (More Smite Characters in Profile)

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Title: The Great Devourer Pantheon: Hindu Attack Type: Melee Power Type: Physical Class: Assassin Specialty: High Single Target Damage

A horrendous demon with a bottomless appetite for human flesh, Bakasura is a nightmare come to life.

After committing countless atrocities, Bakasura has demonstrated no end to his depravity, no limits to his brutality, no sating his desire to slurp human meat, crunch bone, and guzzle hot blood. So many are his vile victories over mankind that they cannot be relayed here, yet it his defeat at the hands of a man that is worth the telling.

According to the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, the famous Pandava brothers were traveling in exile with their mother, Kunti, when they came to the village Ekachakra. Disguised as brahmins, they sought alms from the villagers in order to sustain themselves. They soon learned that a demon, Bakasura, was living outside the village, devouring the people as they passed through the woods. The chief went to the demon and begged that the feasting stop. In return, a cart of food would be sent to Bakasura each day. Bakasura consumed not only the provisions, but the person that brought the cart as well.

After hearing this tale from a weeping woman whose son would bear the cart on the morrow, Kunti declared that her son Bhima, who possessed impossible strength and had slain demons before, would take the cart instead, as repayment to the kindness the villagers had shown their family.

Once in the forest, Bhima nonchalantly ate the food intended for Bakasura. Furious, Bakasura threatened to eat Bhima, which he just laughed off, goading the demon to attack him. All day they battled until Bhima finally slew the demon, tied him to the cart and dragged the body back to the village, where the people celebrated the victory in bewilderment.

Hunger, however, is a demon that cannot be defeated and, inevitably, Bakasura's disgusting rumble will rise again, now more ravenous than ever and ready to feed.

Appearance: Bakasura has blue skin with a rough, scaled texture on his arms and chest. His face is concealed by a tattered orange hood, revealing only glowing white eyes and a massive, gaping mouth filled with long, sharp white teeth. Large, curved bone spikes protrude from his shoulders and elbows. He wears a metallic chest piece with bronze scrollwork that frames his torso. The center of his chest is exposed, revealing a second, massive set of rib-like teeth that form a closed maw over his torso, with dark, striated muscle visible between the bony structures. A bronze armband with a spike encircles his left bicep. A thick belt with bronze circular designs and spikes sits at his waist. He wears a tattered orange loincloth that hangs down over his thighs, secured by dark straps. His legs are covered in white, scale-like armor plating. He holds two massive, curved bone blades in his hands.

Personality: Bakasura is a horrendous demon defined by a bottomless and insatiable appetite for human flesh. He is described as a nightmare come to life who possesses no limits to his brutality and no end to his depravity. His existence centers entirely on his visceral desire to crunch bone, slurp meat, and guzzle hot blood. This hunger is so core to his being that it cannot truly be defeated and will inevitably rise again, now more ravenous than ever and ready to feed.

His personality is marked by extreme selfishness and a total lack of restraint. He previously forced an entire village to provide him with daily carts of food, yet he maliciously chose to consume the messengers along with the provisions anyway. He is prone to intense fury when his meals are tampered with or when he feels his dominance is challenged. Despite his monstrous strength, he can be goaded by laughter or mockery of his appetite. Ultimately, he remains a vile predator who views humanity solely as a source of sustenance and whose ravenous presence is a constant threat to the innocent.

Passive – Insatiable Hunger Bakasura’s Insatiable Hunger is a manifestation of his predatory momentum, where every life he extinguishes grants him a temporary surge in speed and ferocity. For every enemy the demon slays, he gains a ten second window of increased movement and attack speed, stacking up to three times for a maximum of fifteen percent and twenty one percent respectively. This bloodlust ensures that the more he feeds, the faster he moves to secure his next victim.

Take Down With Take Down, the Great Devourer hurls his massive, horrendous form through the air to crush those in his path. The impact of his leap deals physical damage to all caught in the radius and leaves them shattered, increasing the damage they take from all sources by ten percent. For three seconds, their ability to mend their wounds is also stunted by forty percent, making them easy prey for the demon’s following strikes.

Eat Minion The most visceral of his cruelties is the ability to Eat Minion, where Bakasura simply reaches out and swallows a lesser being whole to sustain his twisted hide. This act of consumption restores his health and mana while instantly reducing the readiness of his other hunting tools by one and a half seconds. By devouring his prey, he gains up to thirty additional protections for ten seconds and can store up to six victims within his bottomless belly for later use.

Butcher Blade Bakasura’s Butcher Blades reflect his innate mastery of lethality, granting him a passive increase in physical power as he grows stronger. When he actively manifests this power, his blades glow with a terrifying energy that ignores all armor and defenses for six seconds. This allows him to deal up to seventy true damage with every swing, ensuring that even the most heavily armored foes are sliced through as easily as parchment.

Ultimate - Regurgitate Finally, his Regurgitate ability represents the full horror of his bottomless stomach, as he vomits up the half-digested remains of his previous meals. The resulting pile of filth slows and cripples enemy players, while Bakasura himself becomes a juggernaut of crowd control immunity for a short time. During this six second window, his basic attacks swipe in wide cones to shred multiple targets, and his swallowed minions rise with four hundred health each to tear at those caught in the vile puddle.

Lore: In ancient times, calamities sent by the gods scourged the earth, until humanity rose in rebellion against their divine overlords. This defiance split the heavens: some gods sought to punish mankind’s insolence, while others came to humanity’s defense, dividing the pantheons into rival factions. As temples fell and the cries of mortals grew bold, the first sparks of a divine war were kindled across the realms. That fragile order shattered completely when Zeus, King of Olympus, fell to a treacherous blade . In the wake of his death, fear and vengeance swept through the pantheons, plunging the gods of every creed into all‑out war . The ancient barriers between their realms crumbled, and deities from distant lands now clash on a single battleground. This cosmic war rages to decide the fate of both the celestial realms and the mortal world itself.

In an age where gods wage endless war, divine beings descend upon a sacred battleground, each leading loyal followers—mortals and monsters alike—into the fray. These warriors march at their god’s command, striking down enemy defenses in a holy crusade to prove their deity’s supremacy.

Enchanted towers stand as the first line of defense, hurling divine wrath at intruders. Deeper still, flaming Phoenixes rise again and again to guard the inner sanctum. Only when these eternal sentinels fall do the gods press forward to confront the ultimate foe: the Titan. Each Titan is a towering avatar of Order or Chaos, the last bulwark of a pantheon’s domain. Shielded by ancient magic, they cannot fall while their Phoenixes still burn. But when defenses crumble, gods and followers unleash their full might. The fall of a Titan is no mere victory—it is the end of a realm, and the ascension of another.

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