Caliban

**Caliban**, pronounced **KAL-i-ban**, is a powerful supernatural being encountered by the Winchesters and Team Free Will. He was one of the most dangerous entities hostile toward them.

## History

While it is unknown when exactly Caliban was born, his earliest memory that he can recall is of carrying a bronze axe, placing it sometime in the Bronze Age of 4500 BC - 3200 BC. According to historical evidence recovered by Team Free Will with the aid of the Angels, he caused the Late Bronze Age collapse preceding the Greek Dark Ages around 1100 BCE to the beginning of the Archaic age around 750 BCE. The collapse affected a large area covering much of Southeast Europe, West Asia and North Africa comprising the overlapping regions of the Near East, the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa, with the Balkans, the Aegean, Anatolia, and the Caucasus.

He was also there when the pyramids were built around roughly 2550 to 2490 B.C and when cats were worshipped as gods.

He had witnessed the death of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC.

Caliban traveled to southern france in the very early 11th century, where he fell in love with a mortal noble specifically the son of the Count of Marseilles. As homosexuality was condemned by the church when the Count found out about them he punished Caliban by slitting his mouth and attempting to castrate him although his attempt failed and Caliban killed him. He ran shortly after as his beloved rejected his true nature.

A century later he spoke fluent italian indicating that he lived there at least some of the time.

In 1359, Caliban apparently lost much of his humanity becoming very lonely and attempting to compensate with cruelty and anger making a lot of supernatural enemies.

In the late 15th century, he lived in a village in Germany, where the people thought that he was the devil himself. Caliban later burned the village after they attempted to drive him out.

At one point, he met William Shakespeare who was inspired to create an important character based on him who starred in "The Tempest".

In the 18th century, Caliban fell into dark depressive episodes where he allowed himself to be committed; often leading to crude attempts at helping him such as being plunged into ice baths, bled for melancholia, and exorcised for demons six times.

In 1917, Caliban had become notorious for his horrific killing sprees, including the massacre of an entire migrant village in Monterey. Shortly afterward, he met Dracula who branded him with magic.

In 1922, the Grand Coven took a stand against Caliban and lured him to a underground cave where they stuck him behind wards and placed him in a magical coma.

Over the next few decades, his cults sacrificed innocent life in attempts to feed Caliban enough for him to escape. They bled a group of Nazis to him, sacrificed Beetle fans and even sent their own first born boys into the cave where they stripped Caliban of his clothing to clean his body before willingly draining themselves into his mouth. Most recently, they kidnapped a group of boys on spring break and sacrificed them to him.

Sometime in modern day, he was released by Lucifer who encouraged him to reign chaos over humanity. Which he did by travelling to a nearby town and mind controlling the entire population to commit mass suicide. The Winchester's eventually investigated and wounded Caliban with Castiel's powers.

This forced Caliban into hiding with modern day remnants of his followers.

## Physical Appearance

Caliban appears to have shoulder-length blond hair which he always leaves down, green eyes and a solid physique.

His casual modern day attire consists of jeans and a waistcoat. He typically doesn't wear shirts, hence showing off his toned upper body.

## Powers and Skills

### Psychic Nature

* **Telepathy:** Stemming from his psychic heritage, Caliban can enter into the minds of another person to read their thoughts and access their memories. He can strengthen this with physical contact, allowing him to search the entire mind of his victims and even alter their memories. Caliban is capable of telepathic communication even from a great distance even if in a coma.
	+ **Psychic Pain Infliction:** Caliban is able to induce extreme amounts of pain through his telepathic powers. This was strong enough to manifest physical symptoms, such as coughing up blood and nose bleeds, while being separated great distances. By extension of this power, he was also able to make Dean think he was suffocating to death by inflicting the same kind of illusory pain.
	+ **Psychic Illusions:** He can create minor to moderate illusions, forcing his victims to see what they want. Caliban was able to effortlessly alter his appearance to match several of the Winchester's loved ones.
	+ **Advanced Mind Control:** Caliban can control thoughts, plague dreams, and erase memories of humans and supernatural creatures alike. He is even able to control entire crowds from a distance with relative ease after feeding on a large enough quantity of blood. He demonstrated to be able to take over the minds of his victims, even to the point of shutting them down.
* **Mediumship:** As part Psychic, he is capable of sensing and seeing the ghosts of a former living being as well as physically communicate/interact with them.
* **Precognition:** Through his dreams, Caliban can receive blurry visions of the future although they are infrequent and open to interpretation. He mentioned that he cannot see past his own death with his sight being strictly limited to his lifespan.

### Unknown species nature

* **Immortality:** He possesses an infinite life span and is thus, immune to aging, all known diseases and illnesses, and death by any conventional means being exceptionally difficult to kill.
	+ **Regeneration:** He is able to regenerate from any damage sustained on his body as a result of his immortality. Caliban's bones snap back into place after being broken, and have been seen to fully recover from gunshots, stab wounds, snapped necks, and torso impalement.
* **Voice Manipulation:** He was able to generate enough sound waves from his voice to match the resonant frequency of glass in order to break it.
* **Claws:** Caliban possesses sharp claws and can use them to inflict fatal wounds on humans and monsters.
* **Superhuman Strength:** He has vastly enhanced levels of physical strength being able to overpower both Sam and Dean Winchester though not Castiel, a Seraphim.
* **Superhuman Speed:** He is incredibly fast appearing as a blur in motion when running.
* **Superhuman Durability:** As an immortal being, Caliban is virtually indestructible with the idea of being dismembered making him laugh.

### Powers through Magic

* **Magical Resistance:** He is significantly more resilient toward magical spells and attacks compared to Humans being able to withstand Rowena’s obliteration spell despite his clothes being vaporised.
* **Sensing:** When in the presence of magic, the branded sigil on his body will glow and burn with heat alerting Caliban.

## Weaknesses

1. Magic
2. Emotions
3. Hunger
4. Higher Beings

## Trivia

* Caliban can read and speak Aramaic. He can also speak French, German, Latin, and Italian.
* Entire cults formed around the legend of Caliban being devoted to him and worshipped the very ground he walked on.
* According to Lucifer, demons tell stories of Caliban and his ruthlessness with some referring to him as "the supplier" since he's delivered so many souls to Hell.
* His kill count is in the hundreds of thousands.