Sammael

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Sammael was among the original and most powerful member of Greater Demons, particularly a fallen angel of the highest order, along with Lucifer and Azazel. He is credited as a responsible party for the beginning of the Incursion. 
== History ==
Sammael was believed to have been created when the world began. He was once an angel, cast away from Heaven and became a Greater Demon, a general of Hell's army. He met Lilith, who eventually became his companion. He was believed to have taken the form of a great Serpent and tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
According to the legend, he and Lilith roamed freely, creating other, lesser demons. They mated with humans and created warlocks, and they were believed to have mated with angels to create faeries. Together, at around AD 1000, the pair performed a very powerful demonic ritual that could be performed only once and never again. The ritual affected Pandemonium and massively strengthened all of demonkind's resistance to the toxicity of the world of humans to them, as well as drastically weakened and thinned parts of the wards protecting the world from the Void, highlighting worn spots and creating holes in them. This allowed large numbers of demons to pour in from tears in the veil all over the world, attempting to devour the life around them. This event became known as the Incursion, the beginning of the period of a large-scale invasion of the world by demons.
This event prompted the eventual creation of the Nephilim. Because of this act, he was hunted down and slain by the archangel Michael with his sword, Glorious. He has not been seen either on Earth or in the Void for nearly a thousand years since, and is widely believed to be dead, or at least destroyed temporarily, only taking centuries to reform in the Void.
Category:Greater Demon