Seth

**Seth** is a major antagonist in the *Divine Comedy*.

He is the overarching antagonist of volume four and the main antagonist of volume five in the series.

Originally believed to be the third son of Adam and Eve, Seth is in fact revealed to be the bastard son of Adam and Naamah as well as being the first vampire in history. He was the one who freed Azazel from his prison in Dudael thus setting off the events of volume four where Azazel and the Watchers war with Heaven.

## History

### Background

Seth was born after Naamah seduced Adam as a way to get back at him for his mistreatment of both Eve and herself. Not only was he actually the son of Adam and Naamah but he was born as the first and oldest vampire in history. Most of his life afterwards is shrouded in mystery though it can be presumed that he was raised by mother for a time only to be transferred to his father as well as being uncertain of his true heritage much like Cain.

While living on Earth, Seth had a rather skewed view of Heaven, especially in regards to their treatment towards humanity. Seth himself states that he got his first taste of that when he and Adam were heading towards the gates of Eden to borrow oil from the Tree of Life only to be denied and treated as "disgusting scoundrels". In addition, Seth believed that Heaven's disdainful attitude was mainly focused on him likely due to the fact that they knew he wasn't human though Seth was unaware of it. He only came to realize it when he discovered that he was rapidly growing and upon reaching adulthood, he just "stopped". In addition, he could no longer feel pain or pleasure, or even the temperature of wherever he stood.

Seth marched his way back to where Eden's gates were to demand answers only to be attacked by a wild beast which he easily slaughtered. The blood of the beast enticed Seth enough to drain it of its blood and devour its flesh. When he snapped back to his senses, he looked up to see Naamah herself, revealing to him that she was his mother and that he is now beyond human. He was created with the intention of becoming a plague on Adam's descendants with Seth's lineage taking over in their stead. Seth, instead of being grateful, desperately demanded his mother to remove this curse from him only for his demands and pleas be denied as it's already been done before saying that once he sees how things really work around he will thank her for it. An outraged Seth was consumed with hatred for his mother and initially attempted to kill her. With the faintest amount of love for his mother still left, he let her live, citing that he never wanted to see her again.

### Flood Age

After abandoning his mother and extended family, Seth lived in the shadows, observing from a distance. He saw his step-siblings make entire communities of their own while he would survive on scraps and wildlife. His hatred for his mother and Heaven grew as he witnessed the angels carry Adam back to Heaven after his death all while he himself could not be taken by death and would also be denied entry into Heaven despite being a son of Adam. Over the millennia, not only would Seth remain hidden in the shadows and observe the growing advancement of humanity but his bloodlust drove him to sire monstrous vampiric beasts or primeval vampires which later evolved to be more humanoid.

During the Flood Age, Seth lived alongside the Antediluvian generation of humans which included Enoch and his descendants like Noah. When the Watchers broke their oath of *Watch Don't Tell*, Seth was among those who would be enticed by their teachings. He was mainly mentored by Kokabiel, the angel of the stars, who taught Seth astronomy. From Kokabiel, Seth invented the teaching of the heavenly bodies which not only exposed the unexplored regions of space outside Earth but the divine function they serve. Putting the pieces together along with learning about other forbidden forms of knowledge from the Watchers, Seth discovered that there is a "shortcut" he can take to Heaven known as the Axis Mundi which he can find through the direction and position of the celestial bodies. Seth would later start to carve these discoveries into an obsidian prism.

### In the Shadows

However, years of living in a world that would slowly be consumed by evil as a result of forces once conceived by Heaven then later mercilessly punished by Heaven including their ilk took its toll on Seth's mentality towards everything. He came to deeply resent his mother for having cursed him with witnessing all this madness and chaos while unable to find peace with himself, developing a burning hatred towards God and Heaven for the merciless slaughter towards certain Nephilim children who had not done anything to warrant such brutal killing which included humans that did not partake in the evils their own kind were committing. He came to realize that everything was a mess and that no matter which realm was under rule or is ruling there would always be a disaster that correlates to any of them.

As a result, Seth declared that he would start to make his own version of a "perfect world" so to speak, no longer having any desire to ascend to Heaven or be condemned to Hell, but instead start fresh by instigating a set of events that would lead to Heaven's destruction and the Earth to be redecorated. Seth would bide his time after the flood waters receded and would knock the dominoes down by freeing Azazel from his prison knowing that the Watcher was the biggest victim of Heaven's retaliation and that he would seek unspeakable retribution against them. In modern days, Seth would grow to be a powerful and influential figure in the human world, eventually becoming the mysterious benefactor and client of the Men in Black as he mainly uses their resources to find the missing prism and use it to advance his plots against Heaven, Hell, and humanity itself.

## Trivia

* Seth, in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mandaeism, and Sethianism, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, their only other child mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible.
	+ According to Genesis 4:25, Seth was born after Abel's murder by Cain, and Eve believed that God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel.
* It is implied that Seth was in fact the first to discover God's plans regarding His "final chapter" in the story which pertains to the Apocalypse itself. The second would be some guy named John who would write down these events in a book.