Knights of Hell

The **Knights of Hell** are a unique breed of demons trained by Cain, the original knight. The Knights are thought to be among the oldest and most powerful of their kind, their exact rank in the hierarchy of Hell is not stated; however, they appear to be figures of awe among most demons and refuse to obey demons they consider inferior to themselves. The Knights are led by different Demons with Leader bearing the Mark of Cain

In 1863, Cain retired from his position, inciting backlash from the Knights, who tried to tempt him back into his old ways by kidnapping his human wife, Colette Mullen. In revenge, Cain slaughtered all of the order. Only his former lover and subordinate Abaddon managed to escape. Until she appeared in the year 1958 and again in 2013, it was believed that all the Knights had been exterminated by archangels. While Abaddon was ultimately killed in 2014, her killer, Dean Winchester, was transformed into yet another Knight by the Mark of Cain, unofficially continuing the Knights' bloody legacy. However, this was brief as his brother, Sam Winchester cured him, leaving Cain the only Knight until his own death, making the Knights of Hell extinct.

## Powers

### Normal Knights Powers

**Unique Demon Physiology:** A Knight of Hell is a particularly strong type of demon, coming second only to the Princes of Hell; in fact, Crowley indicated that a single Knight of Hell is more dangerous than a group of ordinary demons and true enough, one was able to slaughter the entire Men-of-Letters American branch that left it all but extinct. A Knight of Hell has powers that are rare and even unheard of among other demons and demonstrates fewer weaknesses than most other demons do.

* **Possession:** Knights of Hell possess human bodies and take control of them, using them as their vessels on Earth. Notably, they can be inside two humans at once by inserting a portion of their essences into a second human while the majority of the Knights' essences remain in control of the first. However, each time this happened, it only took place for several moments before the Knight in question exited the second human and returned to her original host, leaving it unclear if Knights of Hell can possess two humans at once over a long period of time or if they can only perform split possessions temporarily.
	+ **Telepathy:** By blowing a portion of her essence into a human, Abaddon has the ability to access that human's memories to see and hear what that human had seen and heard. The Knight appears to be able to instantly identify and access specific memories she wants to see, rather than having to shift through all of a human's memories.
* **Biokinesis:** Abaddon was capable of making humans bleed profusely from their eyes, resulting in permanent blindness. Cain was able to silence Crowley for a while with a shush gesture.
* **Immunity:** Unlike most demons, Knights of Hell are immune to exorcism rites, churches, and the worst effects of the demon-killing knife. They are also more resilient to holy fire than lesser demons, as they retain the ability to move their hosts' bodies when it is burning with holy fire, unlike other demons. Cain displayed partial immunity to a devil's trap: he was trapped by it though he stated it couldn't hold him long and still possessed his incredible strength and telekinesis.
* **Super Strength:** Knights of Hell have inhuman physical strength. Abaddon killed two men with her bare hands; one by slashing his throat open with one stroke of her fingernails, and the other by quickly and brutally thrusting a hand into his abdomen to fatally damage his vital organs, wounding him enough to kill him soon after. Dean was able to casually knock Crowley, the King of Hell about to toy with him. Cain had an incredible level of strength, able to casually overpower other demons. He retained his strength in a devil's trap to the point that he was able to casually block Dean Winchester's blows.
* **Telekinesis:** Knights of Hell can move objects and people with their minds. They can use this power to throw human adults through only a hand gesture. Due to his level of sheer power, Cain retained telekinesis even in a devil's trap, throwing Dean around once and calling the First Blade to his hand.
* **Invulnerability:** Knights of Hell are little affected by damage dealt to their hosts, even injuries as severe as being stabbed, gunshot wounds, decapitation, and dismemberment. They may not be as tuned in to physical sensations as humans are, as Abaddon did not even notice that her hands were missing until Dean pointed it out to her. Contrarily, Cain felt such pain that losing a single hand defeated him. They can be killed by the First Blade and at least Cain was unaffected by an angel's white light.
* **Immortality:** Knights of Hell will not die of age or disease and have the potential to live forever if not stabbed by someone who has the mark and the first blade.
* **Weather Manipulation:** A Knight of Hell is capable of causing weather phenomena. For example, an infuriated Abaddon caused thunder and lightning by screaming, and Cain's arrival caused gusts of wind.
* **Super Stamina:** Knights of Hell do not require food, water, oxygen or sleep to maintain themselves.
* **Terrakinesis:** Knight of Hells can cause ground tremors. Abaddon used this power to split the ground of a church before she had even physically arrived there. Cain's mere arrival caused local tremors.
* **Flight:** When outside of their hosts, Knights of Hell can fly or hover above the ground.
* **Tactile Exorcism:** Abaddon could expel another demon from her host and send her back to Hell simply by grabbing the demon's host by the neck.
* **Teleportation:** Cain and Abaddon could disappear from one location and reappear in another instantaneously.
	+ **Apporting:** Cain was able to transport people to different locations by touch.

### Normal Knights Powers

**Mark of Cain Capabilities:**

* **Unique Smiting:** An ability unique to bearers of Mark of Cain as the most powerful Knights, these Knights can kill other entities with a demonic smiting ability that is similar to an angel's touch. In Cain's case, however, the color is red rather than bright white, and it doesn't burn out the victim's eyes. He can use this ability to kill humans, demons, and possibly angels, as he said he could "swat Castiel like a fly" and also "end him" when he had no weapon capable of killing an angel.

## Weaknesses

Although they are some of the first-existing, oldest, and most powerful demons, a Knight of Hell is subject to some of the weaknesses that most demons have.

### Harming, Misleading or Trapping

* **Devil's trap:** A Knight of Hell can be stripped of its powers if placed in a devil's trap. The trap has much the same effect if it is placed on or inside of the Knight's host instead, with the additional effect of severely restricting the Knight's ability to move. However, Cain is partially immune to a devil's trap's powers, being bound by one but still retaining his superhuman strength and telekinesis. He also states that a devil's trap can't hold him for long and seems more amused than annoyed to be trapped, indicating that at least for him, devil's traps aren't a big problem.
* **Holy fire:** While holy fire cannot kill Knights of Hell and they are more resistant to it than lesser demons are, they still find it to be extremely painful, to the point that Abaddon abandoned her host and fled when it became engulfed in holy fire.
* **Holy water:** Contact with holy water causes Knights of Hell to react as if burned. It was used to great effect on Abaddon, causing her to stagger backward and cover her face in pain for a short period of time without attacking her targets; Dean was similarly incapacitated despite additionally bearing the powerful Mark of Cain. Cain's vulnerability to holy water is yet untested.
* **Demon-Killing Knife:** Although the knife cannot kill a Knight of Hell, it is able to temporarily incapacitate one not bearing the mark: it caused Abaddon enough pain to bring her to her knees. However, Cain was completely immune to the knife, not even showing the glow of being stabbed like any other demon, a feat not even the Princes of Hell possessed. Dean's susceptibility to the knife was never tested, as while threatened with it, it was never used on him, though his complete lack of fear of it implies that, like Cain, it would be useless against him.
* **Angels:** Though they are no match for Cain, as evidenced by his encounter with Castiel, Abaddon fled rather than face Gadreel suggesting that an angel can defeat or at least do some level of harm to an ordinary knight. Castiel was able to overpower and restrain Dean Winchester, even when he became a Knight. Though Dean himself had been weakened by Sam's purified blood injections at the time, as well as being caught off guard. Despite this, Abaddon believed that she would be able to force the angels to bow to her or kill them if they didn't.
* **Demon Curing Ritual:** A Knight can be turned back into a human using this ritual.
* **Purified blood:** An essential part of the ritual to turn a demon human. It hurts a Knight more than other demons, but they retain demonic mannerisms longer with Mark of Cain than other demons as well despite it turning them more human.

### Banishing and Killing

* **The First Blade:** The First Blade, when powered by the Mark of Cain, is a weapon that can kill a Knight. This was proven when Cain slaughtered the other Knights with it, when Dean killed Abaddon with it and later Cain.