Sammael

Prince of Demons.
Tempter of Eve.
Lover of Lilith.
Angel of Death.

Origin: Sammael is known from Hebrew folklore. He is sometimes mistaken for Lucifer and has consequently been blamed for starting The Revolt. This is giving him more credit than he deserves.

Career: In the beginning Sammael was the highest-ranking Throne Angel, and was therefore given the prestigious job of tempting Eve in Paradise. After playing a prominent role in the events that led to The Fall, Sammael had an affair with Eve's predecessor, Lilith, and fathered a lot of the creatures now inhabiting Hell. Later on, he most likely killed Moses before settling down to a life of excess and the occasional appearance as Judge or Harbinger of Death. He was last seen in
London in the late 1890's.

Character: Known be very handsome, Sammael has six pairs of wings. He is devious, charming, totally devoid of morals, and has a weak spot for writers and young, dead men.

Symbols and attributes: A large sword, dripping of gall.

Asmodeus

Goddess of Lust.
Sister of Kain.
Mistress of Succubi and Incubi.
Mistress of Lies.
Madam of Hell's Gambling Halls.
Inventor of French Fashion.
Commander of Seventy-Two Legions.

Origin: Asmodeus’ background is shrouded in contradictions. Most likely
she was one of the Seraphim, originally male, and known in Hebrew mythology as Ashmedai, "the destroyer."

Career: Early in her career, Asmodeus was tasked with slaying men who
entered marriage only out of lust. She had a tendency to get carried away, and on one occasion she killed seven men who lusted after a righteous young girl. She later took the role as the prime advocate of lust, inspiring men to betray their wives and brothers to fight to the death over sinful women. She is still active and was last seen in New York in 1981.

Character: Beautiful and charming, and possessing a strange sense of
humour, Asmodeus likes the Fine Arts. She revels in all acts motivated by desire for pleasure.

Symbols and attributes: Known to use both dragons and swords as her
attributes, but has recently taken to use various brands of clothing and perfumes as her "trademarks."

Beelzebub

Lord of Flies.
Chief of false gods.
Sovereign Ruler of the Infernal Empire.
Grand Master of the Order of the Fly.
Commander of Fifty-Nine Legions.

Origin: Beelzebub is one of the few Daemons to be frequently featured in the Bible, and was originally the God of the Philistine town of Ekron. His role in The Fall is unclear.

Career: Beelzebub has always been around and was recognised very early as one of Lucifer's most prominent and energetic Lieutenants. Despite this, Beelzebub has always followed his own rather erratic agenda, being powerful enough to do as he pleases as long as he doesn’t get directly in the way of the First Fallen. (The True Hell cult of 1890's Lapland which envisioned a newer and better Hell under
Beelzebub's aegis was not of his creation.) He was very active in Europe during the Middle Ages and has often been involved in spectacular possessions, the best known being the case of the nuns of Loudun. He is still hard at work and was last seen in 1998 harassing clergy in Bern.

Character: Described as bloated and horrible, and from time to time attributed with bat wings, flaming nostrils and almost any other inhuman feature imaginable. He is quite tasteless and enjoys all things destructive. He is overbearing, brutish and just plain mean.

Symbols and attributes: Any monstrous attribute will do. Beelzebub is not
that fussy.

Ashtaroth

Goddess of Lust and Sloth.
Princess of Accusers and Inquisitors.
Treasurer of Hell.
Commander of Forty Legions.
Knight of the Order of the Fly.

Origin: Ashtaroth (Astagoth) is Inanna, the Sumerian Goddess of love and war, later known as Astarte. Corrupted beyond recognition, some misogynistic medieval scholars even made her male.

Career: Ashtaroth is the sister of Ereshkigal and bride of Thamuz. She was very early made a Duchess of Hell and given the title Princess of Thrones. She was intimately involved in the court of the Roman Empire and later enjoyed making monks bury themselves alive to avoid temptation. Being a slothful creature, she has never been particularly active, unless some very interesting summoner has called
her. For instance, Madame de Montespan, Louis XVI's mistress, reputedly made human sacrifices to Ashtaroth to obtain influence over the king.

Character: Described as being half black, half white and quite beautiful,
Ashtaroth is most fond of doing nothing.

Symbols and attributes: An eight-pointed star. Venus.

Baal

Grand Duke of Hell.
Daemon of Thunderstorms and Hail.
High General of the Infernal Armies.
Supreme Dominator.
Commander of Sixty-Six Legions.
Knight of the Order of the Fly.

Origin: Baal appears time and time again in the Bible. But since the name means "Lord" in a very general sense, Baal is most likely a conglomeration of several gods turned into one seriously hostile entity.

Career: Early on Baal realised that being a Daemon suited him, and his fondness for human sacrifices has made him a scourge throughout history. He has never abandoned his native Middle East and is still active there, especially during times of war. In the 1980's he held court in Beirut for a while, and he is still worshiped in remote parts of Syria and Anatolia.

Character: Baal is regal, sophisticated and egoistic, and enjoys war and
magicians. He is known to be bloated and obese, while having thin, spidery legs. He teaches his disciples stratagems and instructs them on how to become invisible.

Symbols and attributes: Thunderbolts as well as bull's horns. Some people also claim that he (as well as most other Daemons) has three heads. This, however, is just a medieval stereotype that caught on sometime around the year 950 when triplet heads was fashionable among Daemonkind. The whole fad soon went out of fashion when it was discovered that no creature could stay sane while having
to cope with three separate brains. Once that was finally settled, Daemonkind then applied themselves to the task of staging the Crusades.

Moloch

The Abomination of the Ammonites.
Daemon of Fire.
Devourer of the Canaanite Children.
Bringer of Plagues.
Lord of the Land of Tears.
Devil of Pain and Sadness.
Knight of the Order of the Fly.

Origin: Like Baal, Moloch was one of the Hebrew's archenemies, and is also most likely a conglomerate of several fire, sun and fertility gods turned into one nasty monstrosity. It might even be that the Punic "mlk" is the word for "sacrifice" rather than a specific god.

Career: Unlike Baal, Moloch never quite managed to come to terms with his Daemonhood, something that has made him slightly unstable. He has, for instance, become quite convinced that humans burned in his honour are somehow transformed into angels. When he does not unleash raging fires (for no reason whatsoever), Moloch will on occasion try to redeem himself. These attempts at redemption have all been spectacular failures: among other things, Moloch has been credited for unintentionally bringing about the Black Death and the Russian Revolution. Since the early 1930's he has mostly been brooding.

Character: The "sphinx of cement and aluminium" is known for both his lousy temper, fits of mindless rage, and a rather overactive imagination. He is seldom lucid these days.

Symbols and attributes: Fires of all kinds.

Belphegor

Lord of Discovery and Invention.
God of Licentiousness.

Origin: Originally Baal-Phegor, "The Lord of Mount Phegor," a fertility god
worshipped by the Moabites.

Career: Despite being worshipped in the form of a phallus and often being depicted as a monster sitting on a lavatory, Belphegor prefers to walk the Earth in the form of a rather ordinary looking woman. He does this a lot since she enjoys humankind in an almost philanthropic way. Belphegor supports the thesis that Man's undoing is in his own acts, and he likes to meddle with scientists and inventors. Lately, Belphegor is known to have been the mistress of several of the men involved
in the Manhattan Project.

Character: No matter what form he is seen in, Belphegor has very fine nails and an air of flatulence about her. He is clever and curious and is known to give her conjurers gifts of discovery and ingenious invention.

Symbols and attributes: Any kind of (preferably big) phallic symbol or a pile of steaming excrement.

Orias

Great Marquis.
Daemon of Divination.
Protector of Astrologers.
The brother of Nybbas.

Origin: Of obscure Babylonian origins, Orias knows many things about
the future and some people suspect that he invented astrology. This is of course completely wrong. As we all know, astrology originated in Sumeria and has somehow survived five millennia despite both human and divine efforts to dismiss it as nonsense.

Career: Before The Fall, Orias knew all too well what was about to happen but kept quiet about it, something that brought him down as well. After the Fall, Orias has served the First Fallen as his astrologer and has from time to time made extended journeys among mankind. During these sojourns he is known to have inspired John to write the Revelations and to have taught Robert Johnson how to play guitar. Orias has in later years grown fond of the Montemartre area of Paris.

Character: A tall, dark and foreboding figure with eyes in the palms of
his hands. Aloof and dry-humoured, Orias contemplates the past and the future. Convinced that no one can handle the future that he knows all too well, he still enjoys letting humans see glimpses of it.

Symbols and attributes: Two snakes.

Agares
Grand Duke of the Eastern Regions of Hell.
Commander of Thirty-One Legions.

Origin: Also Aguares. One of the Order of the Virtues, Agares seem to have lost any sense of gender over the ages. This bothers some people, but Agares does not care.

Career: Fond of dancing and war, Agares represents the Eastern parts of the world and has been known to skilfully mingle with both Chinese Emperors and Mongol Khans. Acting subtly behind the scenes, it has through the ages protected many warlords and helped them win great victories. Since Agares is hard to spot, its whereabouts is a bit of a mystery, but it is known to have been involved in such later events as the Boxer Rebellion and last century's wars in Indochina.

Character: Agares is a plain character (some would say it has no character at all). It prefers to be that way since it believes that the artist is less interesting than the art.

Symbols and attributes: Often rides a crocodile. Lizards and hawks are its symbols.

Balban

Demon of Delusion.
Mistress of the Beast.
The Messenger.

Origin: Originally from Persia, Balban (or Balbon) was one of Ahriman's
mistresses and was known to Hebrew scholars as "The Beast's Bitch." The Hindi know her as Shakti, Shiva’s perpetually orgasmic mistress.

Career: It is not clear how Balban was made to join the Infernal pantheon, but she was eventually sent to cause misery among "Tommas' Christians" in Southern India. After she got bored setting off civil wars, Balban moved on and briefly resided in the Indian Court, reputedly fathering the King bearing her name. She has since
moved on, never really settling down anywhere - one of the reasons being that the worshipers she gathers tend to die at an alarming rate. She is known to enjoy asylums and other such places, and was also seen in Lubjianka in the late 1950's.

Character: Jaded and constantly bored, Balban is something of a thrill seeker. She currently likes to appear as a shivaesque dominatrix.

Symbols and attributes: An enormous, unseeing eye. A leach.