Black Judge Baphomet

Baphomet is described as an anthropomorphic entity with a human body, goat's legs, and black bird wings. . She is presented with a female body, with black fur from her neck and covering her boob. She has a human head with a set of black horns coming out of her blonde hair, in the center of which a red pentagram is drawn onto a bang coming on her forehead, nested between two large horns, from which an erect, lit torch emerges.

Black Judge Baphomet is an archdemon who serves as the leader of the Black Trial, a group that seeks out sinners with blacken souls and executes them. In truth, she is in fact Shub-Niggurath, an Outer One and mother of Mary Sue. She is introduced in "The Black Goat of the Woods a Thousand Young" DLC for Black Souls I and serves as the final boss of Ending D.

As Outer God, she sought a way to her "daughter's" domain and take it over, as is the war and fate between all Outer Ones. However, a way was open to her, when a witch named Glynda summoned her in an attempt to impress the other Witches of the Forest of Sabbath. Afterwards, she attacked and stole the role of "archdemon" from Leonard, a powerful monster summoned by the Sabbath Witches to fight against Dorothy. After reducing Leonard to a "Nameless Demon", she set out to create the Black Trial and gain a foothold in Mary Sue's Garden.

The Black Goat of the Woods With a Thousand Young Should Grimm and company overcome the Satyr of Lust, they will eventually meet with Baphomet, who gives him the option to join. Grimm can either agree, or try to kill her. Should Grimm agree to join, then she has Grimm hunt down a variety of monsters and sinners, such as Pinocchio, then the Clock Croc, and then a "Nameless Demon" rampaging out in the Forest of Sabbath, where her "origins" are hinted at. For Grimm's final task, she asks him to find and kill Prayer Master. After this deed is done, Baphomet will reward Grimm with a covenant between them, before asking Grimm if she could move to the Holy Forest, where Prayer Master was hiding, to be safer.

This is a lie.

Once Grimm returns to the Holy Forest, a massacre is beheld, with only a single staircase leading to a pitch black room awaits, with Leaf inside. Baphomet reappears and speaks to "Leaf" in cryptic context, not wanting to play the role of "archdemon", but so she could make her open the gate for "her beloved". Leaf begs Grimm for help by pretending not to know anything, and Baphomet sheds her name to reveal her true form, Shub-Niggurath. However, Grimm and the party prevails, and now back to Baphomet, the Outer One begs to be spared so she can be reunited with her beloved, as she is Leaf's mother. However, Leaf denies her before turning her into a bloody stain.

While she failed in her own goals, this conflict, and her dying wish, allowed for the gate to open, allowing for "beloved" to swoop in afterwards on Mary Sue's Garden; "Alice".

The leader of the Black Trial, the tribunal that exists solely to punish sin. She resides way beyond the Tainted Bog, out of the way and out of sight.

Her true nature is much more devious than that, however. Baphomet is none other than Shub-Niggurath, The Black Goat of the Woods, an Outer One who has invaded the realm. It turns out that before the events of the game, she was brought into the Garden of Elysium in a ritual performed by one of the Sabbath Witches in attempt to impress her contemporaries. She is Mary Sue's mother and came into her Garden uninvited, with it all culminating in her confronting her daughter and ruining her world.

Deal with the Devil: Forms one with Grimm in return for sexual gratification, seemingly. It does NOT end well! Evil Matriarch: To her also equally eldritch daughter Mary Sue. This is one of the most defining things about her, as it is her motivation to see the ruin of her daughter Mary Sue and seemingly why she gets involved besides just a knack for mass genocide. Expy: Of Mephistopheles of Demon's Souls, being high-ranking members of organizations hired to kill people, and like her, will attempt to kill you once you have done all her deeds. Final Boss: Of End D in I, and chronologically, of the game as a whole. God's Hands Are Tied: Though an Outer One of great power and the mother of Mary Sue, she is unable to intervene within her Garden, until Grimm forms a Pact with her and directly allows her entry into the Holy Forest, at which point, she destroys everything. God of Evil: Well... She's quite distinctively this. She is brought into the world with immediate intentions to destroy it. She rejoices on it, much to the dismay of absolutely everyone. Magically Inept Fighter: The ring that she gives you upon finishing her request, Baphomet's Favor, forces you to become this, since it greatly increases all parameters at cost of setting your MP to 0, making skills that cost HP the only ones you can use, which are mostly physical... unless you happen to have the Sorcerer's Staff+10 that reduces MP cost to 0, in which case you are free to use magic to your heart's content while still gaining the benefits from it.

Matricide: After being shut down by Grimm during the final confrontation in End D of I, she is offed by her own daughter Mary Sue. Mother of a Thousand Young: Quite literally, she's directly referred to as the Shub-Niggurath, The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, and throughout the game is prophesized in multiple places as the cause end of the world where the skies would be dyed red, and she would emerge from it. This can actually be witnessed much earlier than if you pursue the proper path for her Ending (that being End D) through Catherine's Bad Ending where she is summoned in an evil ritualistic sacrifice and presumably destroys the world. She ends up fulfilling her prophecy in her Ending. She is also Mary Sue's mother, which further ties her to this role and name. Omnicidal Maniac: She seems to write off most people as sinners and will promptly kill them, which already goes to show how trigger-happy she is, but what really qualifies her for this is her apparent dilapidation of the entirety of the Garden by the last stretch of End D, including the Holy Forest which housed innocent animals and fairies and then presumably all of the rest of the land, which little to no care about it. Optional Boss: She can be fought outside of her Ending, in which case she actually has unique forms and attacks and drops different loot. Killing her, of course, locks you out of End D.

Satanic Archetype: A winged God of Evil, Eldritch Abomination that makes pacts, that is explicitly themed after a horned goat humanoid, and has wings as well. While every other Outer One makes at least an attempt at looking normal, she is easily the most demonic looking of all. Summoning Ritual: Baphomet was brought into the Garden of Elysium by the witch Glynda of the Sabbath Witches, purely to impress her associates. Needless to say this backfired horrendously. Unholy Matrimony: It is revealed towards the end of II by Mary Sue that Baphomet, at some point in the past, apparently presented The Crawling One, to Mary Sue as her "husband". We are talking about a creature so unbelievably vile and incomprehensible it left even Mary Sue in shock and disgust.