Baal

Baal is a Molek demon and King of Mashchit, one of the nine kingdoms of Shadowfell. He is the most powerful of the nine kings, and commands 66 legions of demons. He speaks in a raucous, well-formed voice. He wields the power of invisibility and can control the weather.

Baal is the embodiment of wanton strife and reckless calamity. Some say he is the most cunning and resourceful of the kings, others that he is merely a bestial brute and a single-minded warmonger.

History
In ancient Mesopotamia, Baal was worshiped as Enlil (sometimes referred to as Nunamnir), a god associated with air, earth, wind, and storms. He was the chief diety of the Sumerian pantheon, and later was worshiped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hurrians. His primary center of worship was the Ekur temple in the city of Nippur, which was believed to have been built by Enlil himself and was regarded as the "mooring rope" of heaven and earth.

Enlil rose to prominence during the twenty-fourth century BC with the rise of Nippur. His cult fell into decline after Nippur was sacked by the Elamites in 1230 BC and he was eventually supplanted as the chief god of the Mesopotamian pantheon by the Babylonian national god Marduk.

Baal was also worshiped as Bel as the chief god of Palmyra in pre-Hellenistic times. He was originally known as Bol, after the Northwestern Semitic word Ba'al, until the cult of Bel-Marduk spread to Palmyra. By 213 BC, Bol was renamed to Bel. The temple of Bel was dedicated to him.

Additionally, Baal was worshiped as Hadad, the storm and rain god, in the Northwest Semitic and ancient Mesopotamian religions.

In ancient Greece and Rome, Baal was worshiped as Zeus and Jupiter. The Hurrians worshiped him as the storm-god Teshub, and the Egyptians as Amun.

Etymology
The word "ba'al" literally means "lord" or "ruler".