Wielding a red sword

"As Mym stood surveying the starving people, he saw a figure walking among the dying. He strode toward the caped figure. "You!" he called "Identify yourself!" "I am famine," the figure said. "The associate of the Incarnation of War, on a temporary mission for Death.""
"Book Four of Incarnations of Immorality."
"Mym, an Indian prince in a land dominated totally by rajahs, assumes the role of War and, in his new incarnation, sets out to alleviate injustice and undermine the evil power of Satan."@en
"Volume 4."
"Mym, the dutiful son of the Rajah, does battle with Satan in Hell."@en
"Mym was a dutiful son, but rather than agree to his father's choice for his marriage, he took up the Red Sword, symbol of office of the Incarnation of War, in order to ameliorate some of the suffering caused by Earth's constant petty wars. But Mym discovered that Satan was waiting to trap him, and he must now take desperate measures to outwit the evil genius who aimed to destroy the world ... From the Paperback edition."@en