Zaraliel

## Description:

Commonly referred to as The First Fanged One, The One Who Prevails, The Sanguine Sailor, The First Demon, The Red Wave, The God-Bleeder, The First Rage, ZRLL/Zarell, and many more, Zaraliel, henceforth referred to solely as [REDACTED], is the Divine/Demonic deity of Vampires and bloodlust spawned by God as a result of his many Creations and destructions of said Creations; [REDACTED] was sealed by God in the Sanguine Sea just prior to Satan's Fall and the creation of Hell, and is the entity responsible for creating Vampires as a way of spiting God.

[REDACTED] has been known to take on many forms, able to change his appearance and body at will in all of its aspects. His true form, believed by Vampire scholars to have originally been Angelic in nature, was intensely corrupted beyond all recognition shortly after his creation; as the Gospel of Cain states, only Cain has seen [REDACTED]'s true form and remained alive and sane, believed to stem from Cain's previous in-person encounters with God and Angels that steeled Cain's mind to the insanity-inducing, ever-changing appearance of the First Demon. [REDACTED]'s true form is entirely unknown, although it is confirmed that those Vampires who die and are accepted into the Sanguine Sea are granted the privilege of observing their god in his real appearance.

[REDACTED]'s immense age has granted him intelligence far beyond the scope of mortal beings, and even beyond the capacities of some deities. [REDACTED]'s unimaginable thirst for slaughter and blood dampens this intellect, however, and prevents him from expressing anything other than sadism and bloodlust. [REDACTED]'s schemes and plots are millennia in the making, a manipulative trait passed on to his Vampires, and are beyond the understanding of mortals and Vampiric servants alike; it is known that [REDACTED] still resides in the Sanguine Sea where he was sealed, but it is unknown if he acts to free himself or not.

[REDACTED]'s level of wisdom changes depending on the individual one questions; according to most mortal scholars and the JPCU, [REDACTED] is a near-mindless Demon of transcendent power with an unquenchable thirst for killing, death, and destruction that lacks the foresight to understand the consequences of unmitigated destruction without someone else to construct something new in its place. In the eyes of Vampires, however, [REDACTED] is the most wise Demon in existence, responsible for granting Vampires their mortal-hating philosophy and providing them with immortality in undeath with the goal to spite God and destroy that which he has created. Vampires revere [REDACTED] as a god, and therefore view him as the source of all noble wisdom.

Being a deity, [REDACTED] possesses unimaginable magical power and complete control over his domain, the Sanguine Sea; additionally, [REDACTED] is known to manipulate his servants on the Material Realm despite being sealed away by God near the beginning of Creation, his power strong enough to overcome his own prison that now lacks God's Will reinforcing it. The Cult of Sanguinity believes that, should [REDACTED] leave the Sanguine Sea, the world will be ended by a tidal wave of blood that will arrive at [REDACTED]'s back, as denoted in the Book of Two Fangs.

[REDACTED]'s creation came as an unintended consequence of God's repeated creation and destruction of untold quintillions of mortal beings; God's bloodthirst spawned [REDACTED] in Heaven, where he sat next to God and advised him on matters of massacre, goading God into killing more and more mortals. According to the Gospel of Cain, the Material Realm was initially created by God as just another creation doomed to failure, designed by God in such a way that Adam and Eve were guaranteed to sin and therefore be deserving of God's sadistic retribution. Due to the strange circumstances of his creation, [REDACTED] has no family besides God, and, while originally associated with an Angelic appearance, is and was never actually an Angel.

### Personality:

[REDACTED] has two (2) simple goals: Spite God, and kill mortals; the slaughter of mortal beings feeds into his battle against God. Even after God's death just prior to the Razing of Heaven, [REDACTED] maintains his other goal of destroying mortal life in the Material Realm and replacing God's chosen people with Vampires. [REDACTED] is single-minded in these endeavors and dedicates his entire being into accomplishing them.

According to the Gospel of Cain and the Book of Two Fangs, [REDACTED] is seen as harsh but fair towards his Vampiric children and outright hostile towards all other beings. [REDACTED] is regarded, even among his followers, as being particularly temperamental and quick to violent anger, willing to slay even his most prized cultist or strongest prophet for a single infraction. Additionally, any mortal or Vampire who says [REDACTED]'s name aloud will likely go insane or perish on the spot from the sheer violence and fury that [REDACTED]'s existence perpetuates. [REDACTED]'s ego is infamous, with [REDACTED] having always considered himself above the Angels and an equal to God himself.

[REDACTED], being an entity who wishes only to hate God and go against his every order, is known for his hedonistic tendencies, although his imprisonment in the Sanguine Sea has prevented his indulgence in some luxurious found on the Material Realm. [REDACTED] encourages hedonistic behavior in his Vampiric subjects.
[REDACTED]'s paranoia is intense but honed and properly targeted; he recognizes that few mortals know of his existence, and is rumored to remain in the Sanguine Sea only to avoid drawing the ire of the few remaining loyal Angels or the Catholic Church. [REDACTED]'s paranoia is reflected in his Vampiric children, who truly trust no one, not even other Vampires.

## History:

Zaraliel, the First Demon, the God-Bleeder, was not created nor designed; he was spawned. Spawned from God's then-insatiable sadism and lust for the constant, never-ending creation and obliteration of mortals within his Creation, Zaralial found himself placed at God's right side at all times. Advising God as an equal in their unending work of torture and death, Zaraliel's intellect and understanding grew to unimaginably heights as he and God devised schemes and plots of manipulation and torture so complex that entire Realms were created to play a part in their great cosmic game. To the two (2) of them, mortal lives were less than meaningless, worth not even a single thought in their minds as they went about creating and destroying eternally for their own pleasure.

However, all good things must, at some point, come to an end. When God began work on his final Creation, with the establishment of the Garden of Eden and the creation of Adam, Lilith, and eventually Eve, God also spawned Jesus, his "true" son; as the jealous, mortal-killing personification of ego and megalomania, Zaraliel was unfathomably jealous of Jesus and the attention that God gave him. When Zaraliel and God worked together to create the Garden of Eden in such a way that Adam and Eve were destined to cause Original Sin, it was Lucifer Morningstar who stepped in to hold a meeting in opposition of their cosmic game.

Lucifer, jealous of Zaraliel and Jesus and mortal man, explained that the omni-benevolent and all-forgiving God never existed, that God had allowed Zaraliel to corrupt His mind and essence and twist his divine powers into a force for the greatest of evils. God, wisened by Lucifer's words and the words of other Angels that stepped up in protest, struck Zaraliel down.

Tossed into the Sanguine Sea, a Realm of blood created from the collected blood of all the mortals the duo had slain over untold millions of collected years, Zaraliel was imprisoned. God placed a legion of one thousand (1,000) Angels at the gate to the Sea, under orders to never let Zaraliel escape with his life.

At first, the Sanguine Sea was on its own, adrift in the cosmic chaos of the Realms by itself, disconnected from the other Realms as a further layer of torture for Zaraliel. Fortunately for The First-Fanged, Lucifer Morningstar, the prettiest and most-favored of all the Angels, would speak against God's Plan once again, and this time God was not so receptive.

Struck from Heaven as a traitor alongside one-third (1/3) of all of Heaven's Angels, Lucifer, now known as Satan, was cast into the newly-created Hell. With Hell's creation, the Sanguine Sea found itself connected to another Realm for the first time, although Satan's legion of one million (1,000,000) Demons standing watch at the gate prevented Zaraliel from leaving the Sea in that direction as well. And with Hell connected to the Material Realm, the Sanguine Sea also grew connected to it as well, the Material Realm lacking an army of guardians.

And so it was that Zaraliel's influence spread into Limbo through the Material Realm (to which all Realms connect) and found Cain, who made the First Deal with Zaraliel. Cain eventually found himself in the Material Realm, and, with his Second Deal, was able to spread his cursed Mark of Cain onto other mortals, blessing them with Vampirism as well. In this way was Zaraliel freed from his prison, the infinite ocean of blood dedicated to his greatest failure now the Afterlife for Vampires across the world.

As Cain spread Zaraliel's corruption across the Material Realm, eventually founding the City of Enoch alongside his army of mortals and Vampires, God fell into old habits. Infuriated by Zaraliel's actions of corruption against mankind and enraged by Satan's infernal influence on humanity, God sent the Great Flood and warned only Noah and his family, erasing all life from Earth once again. Zaraliel, from his self-imposed prison, smiled proudly at God's collapse under the pressure of temptation, and knew that he was winning, for Zaraliel had been partners with God for billions of years and knew God's mind as well as his own; Zaraliel ordered Cain and the Vampires into Limbo once again, where Cain and his followers founded the City of Zaral, named after Zaraliel himself. In this way, Cain and his followers escaped God's attempt at cleansing reality of Zaraliel's taint and was able to send out his children and allies (Enoch, Irad, Lilith, etc.) into the Material Realm from which they spread their corruption once again, eventually creating several of the most ancient Vampire Houses, including House Cain, House Lilu, House Set, etc.

Continuing to lead his children and their mortal servants and cultists from the safety of the Sanguine Sea, Zaraliel marches ever-closer to his ultimate goal...