[Suzerain of Sheol]

Important NPCs

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Abaddon

The Angel of the Abyss, Lord of the Living Dead. He reins from the broken peaks of Sinai and sends hordes of his undead servants ravening across the deserts. He holds the Key of Hades and means to turn the entire Earth into a Necropolis.

The False Prophet

Formerly endowed by the Dragon to lead mankind astray during the Eschaton. Now, after the Calamity, he has seized power for himself and installed himself as a divine regent in New Jerusalem. He still withholds the power to work false miracles and is a psychic of tremendous potency. He also holds the key to waking the Beast from its slumber. His followers all bear his mark, the Affixion (DCLXVI) upon their hands and foreheads.

The Four Horsemen

The four heralds of the Eschaton. Their purpose was long ago fulfilled, but still they ride the Earth, sowing ruin and anarchy in their wake. They usually travel alone, but they have been known to join together at times, often to the ruin of civilizations. They are:

Nikao: The White Horseman. He carries a bow strung with the hair of angels that fires poisonous arrows. He never commits to battle, merely announces himself with a volley and then rides away, to let the fruits of his plague ripen.

Tpomelos: The Red Horseman. He carries a sword red glad that drives any who look upon it into a murderous frenzy. Against those who can resist its power, he puts the sword to more traditional use. He is a warrior without equal and revels in the berserk chaos he inspires.

Limos: The Black Horseman. He carries a golden scale which sows strife wherever he goes. Crops wither, water turns foul, animals grow sickly, oil becomes sludge, and hordes of insects infest the land. His direct presence often passes unnoticed; only the ruin he leaves in his wake marks his passage.

Thanatos: The Pale Horseman. He carries nothing and rides a dead horse. Where he rides, the dead crawl from their graves and devour the living. To look into his empty eyes is to die. His voice slays all those who hear it.


Jez'ebel

Called by her enemies the Whore of Babylon, and by her followers the Sibyl, she claims to be an oracle and has organized a large cult loyal to her in the ruins of Babylon. She once had many children – both natural and adopted – but they were all killed in the Calamity. She has drank the blood of saints and martyrs, gaining great theurgic power. She is also a psychic of notable ability.

Semyaza

“He Who Saw The Name”. A fallen angel who was exiled from Heaven for siring children with human women. He was banished to Earth and lived in hiding for thousands of years, biding his time, keeping always the secret that he, and he alone of all the angels, knew the Tetragrammadon, the Name of the Almighty. When the Eschaton began, he put this knowledge to use, using the power of the Name to slay the Almighty and interrupt the Eschaton. This event is known as the Calamity. However, in so doing, Semyaza has lost most of his own power and is no longer a force in the world, living in fearful seclusion. Also, his children, the Nephilim, have been released upon the world, further adding to the chaos of the Calamity.


Saint Georgius

The beatified Dragon Slayer, patron saint of warriors, commander-in-chief of the Beatified Legion. He lives officially in the Legion's headquarters in Avignon, but he is often on crusade, coming to the aid of cities besieged by demons or undead.

The Witnesses of Woe

Twin brother and sister, one blind, the other mute, sent by the Almighty to mete out the judgment of Egypt. Forsaken by Heaven, they hide in the ruins of Alexandria, hunted by those whose homes they called the Wrath of the Almighty down upon. They still hold much knowledge of the mysteries of Heaven, but their great powers have fled them, and mere survival is a constant struggle for them.

Creatures

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The Beast

At the advent of the Calamity, this creature crawled from the bowels of the Mediterranean to destroy Rome. It afterward left a trail of carnage stretching all across Europe and down the Middle-Eastern coast, until it finally came upon Jerusalem, where it burrowed deep in the earth beneath the city and sleeps their yet. It has seven heads and ten horns, and upon each horn, it wears a black crown.

Cherubim

Once the Living Beings sitting before the Throne of the Almighty, now exiled to Earth in the wake of the Calamity. They number Four, and rarely venture into human lands. They appear as six-winged lions with four hears: one of an ox, one of an eagle, one of a lion, and one of a man. They wield many powers, but they are most known for their true sight into all things, embodied by the thousands of eyes decorating their wings.


The Dragon

The Divine Enemy, slain by the Arch-Angels. Somewhere, his ruined carcass lies, ever bleeding, though life has long since fled him. In the pools of his blood, the dominions of Hell can be witnessed and, where enough of it has collected, demons may enter the world.

Dybbuk

The dead, released from Sheol by the Key of Hades. They are mad spirits, incapable of reason, possessing corpses and killing indiscriminately. They are powerless without a lifeless body to use as a host.

Emim

Wraiths escaped from Sheol, wholly divorced from the physical world. They are the spirits of psychics long dead whose powers prevented them from losing consciousness in the afterlife. Millennia of imprisonment in the realms of the dead has left them cruel and ruthless, though unlike the Dybbuk, they can be reasoned with. They still command their formidable powers, in addition to emitting a field of supernatural horror. They are completely invisible to normal vision and can only be detected by psychic perceptions.

The Locusts of Abaddon

Horrible creatures the size of horses, covered in armor-like chitinous plates. They have crowns of horns upon their heads and great manes. With their jaws, they can tear a man's head from his body whole. Their tails are barbed and contain deadly toxins. The beat of their wings is enough to cause dust storms.

Nephilim

The Sons of Semyaza, half-human and half-angel and corruptions of both. No two look alike, but all are hideously deformed in some way. The only trait common to them all is the legacy of their celestial father: inhumanly beautiful faces. They are frighteningly powerful and are resistant to most weapons. Many are potent psychics.

Qlippoth

Demons. The denizens of perdition. They come in a multitude of shapes, and with varying abilities and powers. The most powerful are threats to entire cities on their own, being immune to nearly all forms of attack. Regardless, they all possess psychic abilities, and most are extremely physically powerful as well.

Rephaim

The chief servants of Abaddon, called the Murmuring Titans. Long banished to the bleakest pits of Sheol, they were born in rituals of necromancy, compiled from the bones of the greatest warriors to ever live. They constantly whisper in a hideous fiendish tongue, and prolonged exposure to their voices can lead to permanent psychic damage. They are supremely powerful physically, with skin like tempered steel, often wielding swords or axes to match their gigantic stature. Despite their size, they are deceptively fast, this trait enhanced by the hypnotic effect of their voices.


Sariel

The Reaper Angels. Rather than slay themselves in despair or attempt to remain true after the Calamity, they have taken up arms and donned the black robes of judges, to bring retribution to the world for its iniquities. They retain all of their theurgic powers and use them to horrific effect. They carry swords that absorb light in all spectrums, as well as psychic assaults. Being primarily spiritual, they are immune to most weapons, making them among the deadliest creatures walking the world.

The Sons of Megiddo

Warrior servants of the False Prophet, numbering 200,000. They wear blued steel breastplates and have been anointed in the Fires of Perdition. They are heavily armored and difficult to kill, and their breath is a poisonous, hallucinogenic smoke. They ride demonic horses with serpents for tongues and tails, whose poisonous bite deadens nerves and atrophies muscle.