D’Hoffryn

Played by Andy Umberger

INFORMATION

The lord and master of the vengeance demons and the demon dimension Arashmahar, D’Hoffryn has been responsible for some of the most vicious creatures to walk the earth. In 880 A.D., he was responsible for the transformation of the Swedish woman Aud into the demon Anyanka, long feared across the moral globe. At some point before the Crimean War, he also created the demon Halfrek, Anyanka’s companion and one of his favourite aides. In 1998, Anyanka lost her powers and was trapped in the form of Anya Jenkins. D’Hoffryn refused to restore her powers, claiming that if she were worthy she wouldn’t have lost them. A year later, he offered Willow Rosenberg the opportunity to become a vengeance demon, but she turned him down. Regardless of their history, both D’Hoffryn and Halfrek attended Anya’s wedding to Xander and it was Xander’s jilting of her that persuaded D’Hoffryn to offer Anya her powers back. However, he ultimately grew unsatisfied and enraged that Anyanka wanted to undo her latest wish, D’Hoffryn punished her by executing Halfrek and removing her powers. He initially sent demons to kill Anya following the confrontation, but eventually left her with a chilling warning: her death would come… for from Beneath You It Devours.

APPEARANCES: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON THREE