The Right Hand of Doom
The Right Hand of Doom is a mysterious object that served as a key to the Outerverse, where most of the Ogdru Jahad were trapped. The key is currently used by the cambion Hellboy, who uses the object as his strong right hand.
Description[]
The Right Hand of Doom consists of a large forearm and hand that seem to be made from red stone. Though now it has become Hellboy's substitute right arm (due to Azazel hacking off his original right hand as a baby and grafting the Hand in its place), the hand is effectively invulnerable and feels no pain, and is much like a sledgehammer when used to punch an enemy.
History[]
Background[]
The Right Hand of Doom is revealed to be a Logos, a key in the more simple terms created by God as means to lock or unlock the path that leads to His great kingdom of Creation itself. This particular Logos was used to lock the Ogdru Jahad into the black starless void that was the Outerverse. After locking the cosmic deities away, the key was given to Pluto, one of the earliest angels and the Ogdru Jahad's warden.
Billions of years later, the key was somehow found among the wealth of Mammon, one of the seven kings of Hell. Mammon, alongside fellow king Belphegor and the Duke of Hell Astaroth, knew the true purpose behind this key and opted to use it as a means to enact their terrible vengeance against Heaven. According to Rasputin, the Right Hand of Doom is also revealed to be the "key that will open the gate", the "gate" itself being none other than Yog-Sothoth whose entire being was used as a means to keep the Ogdru Jahad in suspended animation, a 'living death' so to speak, locked away from what constitutes as linear space and time.
Mammon had Mulciber reshape the key as a large stone-hand, molded around the severed hand of Anum after his death by Atlach-Nacha, which would then be grafted on the future champion of demon-kind, who would prevent their eventual damnation in the Lake of Fire. According to Mammon, the construction of the hand nearly took all of his resources as the Logos was made of material that was far older than what makes up the realm of Hell itself.
Hellboy's Destiny[]
This champion would be Anung Un Rama, the last child of the Grigori Azazel and human-witch Sarah Hughes, who was condemned and gave birth in Hell. Mammon and Astaroth cut off the young cambion's right hand and replaced it with the key, which was now labelled by them as the "Right Hand of Doom".
Hellboy would later on be summoned by Grigori Rasputin, the secret prophet of the Ogdru Jahad, with through Projekt Ragnarok, who sought to unleash the Ogdru Hem to usher in a new paradise. Luckily for all of mankind, the cambion was discovered by B.P.R.D. agent Trevor Bruttenholm, who christened the young creature as "Hellboy" and even adopted him.
To this day the hand remains attached to Hellboy, who has becomes the B.P.R.D.'s best investigator and weapon against the supernatural forces of darkness. All the while, Hellboy would thwart demons, supernatural entities, and genocidal madmen in attempting to harness the hand's power for their own malicious needs. More pressingly, the key is among the main objectives of Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos himself, who seeks to use the key's power as a means to unleash the Ogdru Jahad unto all of Creation by grafting it on the Void Sword. Once the sword merges with the Logos, Nyarlathotep will plunge the blade into the Alpha Earth and unlock the gate that will allow Yog-Sothoth to encompass all reality and time.