The First Fallen

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.

Ukobach

Lesser Daemon.
Lord of the Marches.
Inventor of fireworks and fried foods.

Origin: Originally a wicked Khazar fire deity of low status. When her
worshipers all of a sudden converted en masse to Judaism, Ukobach was rescued from obscurity by Beelzebub and has remained very loyal to him ever since.

Career: Since she entered Hell, Ukobach has been hard at work carving out a niche for herself as the Meanest Daemon. Fond of coming up with innovative methods of torture, Ukobach allegedly discovered the art of frying meat during a particularly gruesome torture session. These achievements aside, Ukobach’s career has been a long stretch of outrages, taking place mainly in Hell. But she is also known to have held court in Haiti during the rebellions of the early 1800's, where
some people claim she invented Voodoo.

Character: Despite the fact that she prefers to appear as a huge female cook, and is cheerful, noisy and fond of burlesque jokes, Ukobach is evil in the meanest sort of way. Besides a casual interest in spicy cooking, she mainly enjoys inflicting excruciating pain and causing misery.

Symbols and attributes: Anything bloated and fat.

Prufflas

Grand Prince and Grand Duke.
Former Ruler of Babylon.
Commander of Twenty-Two Legions.

Origin: Once an owl-headed Babylonian deity worshiped by various royal
families.

Career: After he had been the driving force behind the military might of the Assyrian empires, Prufflas went into retirement. He most likely did so since he was convinced he had caused man to do its destructive worst, a conclusion that soon turned out to be premature. Since then Prufflas has been through the very same cycle time and time again, each time with more sophisticated means creating more significant destruction. Prufflas was last seen on the Gumrak airfield outside Stalingrad in early 1943.

Character: Mounted on an enormous horse, Prufflas looks very much like the eternal intellectual officer, despite his square Babylonian beard. He has an obsessive passion for warfare and cares about very little else.

Symbols and attributes: Various martial badges.

Andras

God of Quarrels.
Grand Marquis of Hell.
Commander of Thirty Legions.

Origin: A lesser angel. Claims to have provoked Lucifer into starting the Revolt in Heaven.

Career: Andras has always been very active and has meddled in things both large and small since the dawn of time. Since his favourite pastime is getting friends to kill each other, he is quite unpopular in most circles. Being shunned in Hell he therefore spends a lot of time on Earth causing calamities and discord. Among the many wicked things he enjoys is impersonating religious leaders and saying horrible
things in the name of this or that belief. As this is being written, he is known to be at large in the Philippines.

Character: Andras is a deplorable character, even as Daemons go. He usually appears as a quite heavy-set man with an owl’s head.

Symbols and attributes: A black wolf.

Gomory


Duchess.
Temptress of Temple Maids.

Origin: Gomory was reputedly conceived when Lilith tried to seduce Eve,
something that is denied by all parties involved. Her name may somehow be related to Gomorrah, and according to some stories she was a goddess of that town.

Career: Forsaking her talent for telling the future and fi nding lost treasures, Gomory has spent most of her career corrupting young women. Since she is very good at this and enjoys it immensely, no one, including Gomory herself, can think of any reason why she should bother with anything else. Other than Beelzebub, she is one of the Daemons most frequently involved in cases of possession. She has been frequently seen in California over the last few decades, indulging in her newly acquired taste for young actresses.

Character: Skinny and slightly neurotic, Gomory enjoys her niche of depravity and is also known to own a priceless collection of Roman pornography. It amuses her a lot to appear dressed as a nun.

Symbols and attributes: A white lily.

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 fl atulence 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.

Xaphan

Baroness.
Keeper of the Furnaces of Hell.
Daemon of Arsonists.

Origin: An angel. During the revolt in Heaven, Xaphan managed to shock all involved when she argued that the Morningstar ought to set fire to the Heavens and get it all over with.

Career: In the early days of Hell, Xaphan tried to fire its furnaces using lava from the depths of the Earth. The experiment left her terribly disfigured, and some say she decided to appear as female during the millennia it took her to rebuild at least part of her once angelic looks. Responsible for the daily maintenance of Hell, she seldom leaves her laboratories. No one knows as much as she does about the
Inferno’s mazes and corridors. She is known to have invented the humidor, but her long running project to connect Hell directly to Earth using long tunnels has so far led only to spectacular disasters. She is known to have shown a keen interest in the work of Marie Curie and claims that she often visited the great scientist.

Character: Imaginative and innovative, Xaphan considers herself something of a scientist and delights in solving problems in unexpected and violent ways. Consequently she is fond of fellow female scientists as well as anyone that can challenge her to solve a truly complex problem. She is very testy about her rather patched looks.

Symbols and attributes: A pair of crossed bellows.

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 briefl y 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.