Abaddon

**Abaddon** is a minor character in the *Divine Comedy*.

Donny, as he is commonly called, is the warden of Tartarus and oversees the daily unspeakable torture inflicted on Hell's most fiendish and traitorous demons with no hope of pardon. Known as the Angel of the Pit and Lord of Destruction, Abaddon is Hell's Grand Torturer as well as the one who concocted all the tortures of the Inferno.

## History

### Background

Abaddon is the twin brother of Apollyon and like his sister was an angel that resided in Heaven. Like his siblings, he took part in the Genesis Jam and shaped the universe into what it is with music. Abaddon spent most of his time with his sister instead of the other angels but did find common ground with Raziel. Polly states that Abaddon was nominated to be an arbiter like she was but he declined as he was "not big on politics".

Unlike Apollyon who would go on to join Lucifer in the war against God, Abaddon did not want to partake in this war even if he's fighting along his sister as it could mean in disastrous consequences no matter the choice he made. Abaddon attempted to avoid the war as best he could but was forced to defend himself against both sides. It was not until he was confronted by Apollyon that things took a turn for the worst. Apollyon clearly did not want to fight her brother and vice versa but Abaddon felt hurt by this and believed what his sister did was selfish. He proceeded to angrily say some awful words to her, such as saying that even though she does not want to fight him she still has no problem fighting and killing her other siblings for Lucifer's sake. The two would get into an argument until suddenly an angel blew off half of Apollyon's face. Shocked and enraged, Abaddon would then viciously fight back against the Heavenly Host in the Sixth Sphere.

### Warden of Tartarus

After their loss, Abaddon was punished by being cast out into Hell alongside his siblings. During the creation of the Nine Circles, the sparks generated by their fiery verses ignited a fire within a place far below the Nine. Abaddon was captivated by it and decided to move there despite Apollyon's protests. Abaddon and Apollyon argued back and forth over the circumstances surrounding them from the war in Heaven, which resulted in the twins going their separate ways an Abaddon wanting nothing to do with Lucifer's "makeshift castle posse" and prefer isolation in Tartarus. To this day, Abaddon harbored a strong resentment towards Lucifer for putting him and his sister in this dilemma, especially blaming him for Polly's wounds.

This new realm that he moved to would be called Tartarus and became the deepest and darkest prison beneath Hell reserved for those who opposed the ruling of the divine and demonic. Abaddon would spend the rest of his existence down in Tartarus torturing enemies of the royal family or those who broke one of Hell's ancient laws. All the while, Abaddon gained a reputation for his cruelty and sadism, making him feared even by other demons with them even going so far as to prefer death by the Exterminators than to be tortured by Abaddon in Tartarus for all eternity. At some point in time he also fathered the Furies with Nyx, the primordial goddess of the night, with the former becoming his top enforcers.

## Trivia

* Abaddon shares his name with a term that appears in the Bible as both a place of destruction and an angel of the abyss.
* One of Abaddon's favorite pastimes is reading about the tortures that occurred during the Spanish Inquisition.
* It is implied by Abaddon himself that he was one of the plagues brought down upon Egypt by Moses which in his case would be the locusts.