Aciel

The Demonic Godslayer (Art from Wellcome Images)

### Aliases

Alciel, Arsiel, God Hunter, Elector of Hell, The Ensnarer, Planetary Demon of Saturn, Ishaam (Formerly)

### Affiliation

Hell, Lucifer (Master), Congregation of Mag, Raphael (Ally?)

## Physical Description

### Spirit of

Despair, Hatred, Rage, Destruction, Emptiness, Saturn

## Relatives

### Parents

Tinshemet (Adopted Mother)
Unnamed Human Parents (Deceased)

### Offspring

Unnamed deceased children

**Aciel**, formerly known as **Ishaam**, is a former human turned Archdemon and Elector of Hell, known to the Chaldeans as an ensnarer. His hatred of the gods is his most infamous aspect, being the reason he is known to them at all. For unknown reasons, he is watched over by Raphael.

## Overview

What once was an average man became a demon of Hell upon death, and among those who turned demonic Aciel is one of the most tragic. It's a tragedy that came from his relationship with the gods, turning him from a pious man to a God Slayer who has killed many gods from many universes.

Aciel dwells within the bowels of the earth, and can be summoned by average humans. To summon him, a magical circle must be prepared for him before his name is muttered three times. His movement is as fast as human thought so he would be quick to act. If asked, he would willingly give riches to those who summoned him due to his love of humans.

Under his master Lucifer, Aciel conquered the planet Saturn, making it his domain as well as Lucifer's.

## Appearance

Due to his contemporary status as a multi-dimensional demon, Aciel doesn't have a fixed state of phyisicality. Though when manifesting into reality he usually takes a humanoid form, fitting as he used to be human. His main form highly resembles that of a satyr, with the bottom half of a goat and upper half of a man and two horns on his head. His body looks emaciated, as if he hadn't eaten in weeks.

When appearing in Hell, he appears as a tall muscular figure with reddish skin, four horns on each side of his head, and an uncounted number of yellow eyes. He has sasquatch-like legs sans the amount of hair, he has leathery skin and a short tail. Four bony protrusions come from his back. Another one of his demonic forms resembles a tan emaciated bull with black hooves, a red tipped tail, and fire protruding from his orifices.

A final demonic form he is known to take is a colossal sized brawny creature with thick black armor/scales, many horns covering his head, massive tower sized hands, and tails that can cause shock waves. This form is indescribable beyond those words and and indiscernible compared to the others, being almost Lovecraftian in nature.

When he was a human child, he was a short little boy with blond hair and dirty torn up clothing, typically whatever he and his family could find. When he grew older, he became much more muscular, his body garnered a few scars from his years of hardship, and his blonde hair turned a more dirty blonde. Every so often he would use this form once more, though it would appear three feet tall, possibly signifying that he thought lesser of his past self, showing his change from what he was into the monster he is now.

## Personality

Ambition, impatience, cruelty, and anger, four words that could describe Aciel quite well. In his youth however, Aciel was considered kind and compassionate by his neighbors, though as he aged these characteristics grew lesser and lesser over years of constant maltreatment.

After his death, he placed all of his built up hatred upon every single deity that exists within all of creation. According to him, all gods are either irredeemable monsters or uselessly apathetic and should be removed from existence. He holds nothing against the mortals who worship them, though he does think they're foolish for depending on gods. His ideology has been criticized and praised by many, the former say that his misguided quest to kill every god would make existence worse since his ideology doesn't account for the gods who are very active in the lives of mortals, and the latter say that many gods in high positions of power often misuse their power (such as Zeus and Set) so giving them a threat would be a good thing. He also feels as though that those who suffer in Hell or varying other punishing region of the Underworld wouldn't be there if it weren't for the gods, as they could have helped them rather then judging them on their high throne. He especially hates the non-fallen angels as they willingly act as servants to the God who he feels has done the most wrong. Even if the deity is overall benevolent, it matters not to Aciel, for they are all advantaged uncaring despicable creatures in his eyes.

Aciel's opinions on Demons is the complete opposite, as he believes that they're superior to any other being. He especially respects demons like Tinshemet and Lucifer, as they had been hurt by the true God of Heaven, whose hatred on said subject has already been written. Despite this, he obviously has mixed feelings on demons who pretend to be gods to be worshiped, such as Adramelech and Mammon. He feels as though that so long as it doesn't actively harm humans that demon worship should be fine. This doesn't cover Moloch, due to his demands for human and animal sacrifice, who has gained an especially bad spot in Aciel's mind. When he was human, Aciel used to have nightmares about Moloch, however being able to see him as a demon gave him the clairvoyance to understand that Moloch wasn't a nightmare, he was a pathetic fool from the start.

## Powers and Abilities

Due to his gained status as a God Slayer, he has the capacity to kill weaker deities with his raw power alone. Alongside his strength, Aciel can summon any object from any location no matter the distance. This has allowed him to be able to affect economies as well as cause earthquakes, though it's unknown how the latter relates to the former.

* **Speed**: Aciel can move just as quickly as humans can think, making him incredibly fast. He has shown the ability to travel planets within seconds.
* **Economy**: He has the ability to affect any human economy, giving and removing currency from anyone he wishes.
* **Earthquakes**: With just a wave of his hand, Aciel can cause the planet he's on to tremble.
* **Constructs of Darkness**: Can create swords, halberd, spears, daggers and tendrils made of pure darkness if a deity were to survive and have cuts inflicted by these blades he can be poisoned by it.
* **Hellfire manipulation**: like all demons he can fire explosions of hellfire and infuse them into the swords he creates and the killer god.
* **Absolute Destruction**: it can destroy everything, from concepts, borders and causality to even irrational "concepts" such as the fabric of nothingness or even the totality itself.

## History

### Origins

Ishaam was born to two unnamed parents who were forced to live location to location in search of a place to finally settle. They were already struggling financially, a child just gave them another mouth to feed. Every kingdom they traveled to seemed to have their own set of gods, and every day he would pray to that kingdom's gods in the hopes that they could help his family, but his prayers were never answered. While Ishaam was still young, his mother and father died, leaving Ishaam to fend for himself in the harsh streets or the unforgiving wilderness.

Despite the odds being against him, Ishaam managed to live to adulthood, get married, and even father some children. Unfortunately however, most of his children would go on to die from famine and pestilence. To make matters worse, Ishaam and his wife would live long enough to witness the War of the Gods, which destroyed everything they owned. This event gave him a newfound hatred of the gods, he originally thought that they didn't exist, but the realization that they existed and did nothing made him resentful of their power. Ishaam's son was starving and on the brink of death, and Ishaam sought to not allow his son to die. They traveled to a forest where they believed they would never go hungry again, however this was ultimately a fruitless effort, as his son eventually gave in and died in Ishaam's arms.

Ishaam had decided that he had enough of the life he lived and decided to kill himself. In his dying breath, he used his final words to curse out the gods, for even in death the only thing that he felt deserved his energy was his hatred for them.

### Demonic Ascension

After death, Ishaam ended up in the seventh circle of hell, having been transformed into an ordinary demon bound by vines and shrubs. His immense ambition to destroy anything remotely divine as well as his resistance against his punishment quickly contributed to his infamy in Hell. Pretty much every demon eventually came to know of the demon's hatred for deities.

This eventually got the attention of a particular creature, and he was greeted by Tinshemet; the Screech Owl. Ishaam wondered why someone of her nobility would visit him of all demons, though she didn't answer his questions. Tinshemet snapped her fingers, and the plants that once trapped him suddenly went away. She then led him to Pandemonium, the capital city of Hell, where he was greeted by the Seven Princes of Hell lead by Satan and none other than Lucifer himself. Aciel wove these demons the tale of how his hatred to the gods arose, and those he lost in the process.

Tinshemet demanded that Ishaam be given a high position due to his ambition alone impressing her despite her unwillingness to work with the demonic. The other princes of hell, both impressed by his dedication and sympathetic to his origin due to their shared distaste of God, the princes relented and gave Ishaam a portion of their power to him, electing him as one of the Electors of Hell.

With this new found power at his finger tips, Ishaam quickly became one of the most feared demons among both divine and mortal kind. He received the name Aciel from Tinshemet, and pledged a loyalty to both Tinshemet and Lucifer to wipe all gods off the face of the Earth for his former families sake. It's from his loyalty for the former that he joined the Congregation of MAG, and in the name of the latter he conquered the planet Saturn.

## Myths and Legends

Aciel is a figure from Chaldean demonology. The idea that he was a human who despised the gods came from Ogobuga101 on *the Demonic Paradise*.

## Gallery

(Art from Doktor Johannes Faust’s Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis)