Setebos

Evil-doer
Full Name	Setebos
Alias	The Larger Demon
Origin	The Tempest
Occupation	Sycorax's God
Powers / Skills	Godlike Power. Reality-Warping.
Hobby	Causing and promoting ruin and death.
Goals	Be feared by the population of the Earth. Spread his influence.
Crimes	Dark Magic. Terror.
Type of Villain	Unseen God

Setebos is a demonic god worshipped by Sycorax and Caliban, and one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Sycorax) of the 1611 tragedy comedy play The Tempest by William Shakespeare. 

Description

While Setebos is barely if at all given any description in the play, it's clear that Shakespeare got the name from the Patagonian deity, who was feared by the natives. The demon is in the historic texts described as towering, and it is detailed that it physically manifests at the death of a tribesman, to rejoice in sickening glee. Later texts, sticking a more Lovecraftian nature onto the fiend, report it to be, "many-handed as cuttle-fish".

Since Caliban is repeatedly implied to be a son of both Sycorax and "the devil", and Sycorax worships this daemon all the while proving her magic is more than real, it can be theorized that Caliban is the spawn of this very godhead. 

History

Setebos is mentioned but twice in the entire play. First, when Caliban acknowledges Prospero is so powerful he could make a "vassal" out of the being. This insinuates that Setebos's strength is limited, and indeed surpassed by the benevolent wizard. 

Near the end of the play, when Caliban bemoans that he is to be punished by his master for his treachery, he cries out, "O Setebos!".

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