Nergal

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

Blue Lion, Demon That Tamed Death, Prince, God of Disease, God of Plague, God of Violence, Lord of Cuthath, Lord of Kur, Lord of Peace, Master of the Ravens, Slayer of the Annunaki (Titles)

### Relatives

Rosacarnis and Manungal (Daughters)
Namtar and Ninazu (Stepsons)
Stercorax (Adopted Bother)
Sin and Ninurta (Adopted Brothers, Deceased)
Adam Constantine, Saul Constantine, and Wally Johnson (Grandsons)
Namaah and Maria Constantine (Granddaughters)

### Affiliation

Houses of Hell (Member)
Raven Legion (Member)

## Biographical Information

### Marital Status

Separated (Death, Wife)
Widowed (Mami, Wife, Deceased)

### Residence

Ikala Palace
Kur Province, Hell

## Physical Description

### Nergal: Long, Long Ago...

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Nergal was born in a time where there was no Hell. There was only the scattered tribes of the Infernal Expanse. Here he met Stercorax, another demon who would become Nergal's first "brother." The two had grand plans but ultimately never did much other than cause mischief amongst other demonic tribes and talk about how great it would be if they could rule as chieftains of their own tribe.

When Heaven cast out its rebels, condemning them to the harsh glow of the Inferno, Nergal was not interested in hearing what Heaven's fallen son or his minions had in mind for renovating the harsh landscape and unifying the tribes. He even suspected Lucifer was the vanguard of Heaven's colonization efforts. Stercorax disagreed and became interested in helping the fallen angel build his kingdom. This difference in opinion convinced Nergal that he had not amounted to anything as Stercorax lacked true vision and had been holding him back.

### Nergal: 9,000 BCE - 500 BCE

Distancing himself from Stercorax and Lucifer, Nergal went to Earth. He walked aimlessly for some time before he found Mesopotamia where he had his first real interaction with an angel. Nergal soon had another encounter, and then another. Realizing this area was of interest to the Heavenly Host, Nergal decided he would begin his plan in this region, eager to thwart Heaven and prove that demons were the superior race of ephemeral beings.

Shortly after he began to dwell in the region, Nergal met the primordials Sin and Ninurta. The two ephemeral beings were daimons, but not native to the Void. The two had been born of the Earth's own essence during its shaping. The two had begun to experiment with the mortals of the planet, creating a cult of worship to gain more power. Mistaking Nergal for one of their own kind and finding his company pleasant enough, Sin and Ninurta invited Nergal to join their pantheon.

Nergal initially decided to enforce his worship through fear. He became a god of disease, plague, and violence. He took a number of less powerful goddesses as his concubines and married a goddess of fate, Mammi. However, when his anger was tested, he would dismiss or kill these lovers — including Mammi.

For slaying these goddesses, Nergal was chastised by the god Namtar at the court of Anu. Nergal chose to openly attack Namtar, nearly killing him before he was restrained by Sin and Ninurta. For this assault, Nergal was sent to Kur — the seat of the pantheon's presence in the Void — to formally apologize to Namtar's mother, the goddess of death, Ereshkigal. Upon his arrival in Kur, Ereshkigal recognized that Nergal was not a daimon but a demon. When she threatened to expose him, Nergal deduced if she recognized he was not a daimon than she herself was also likely not a daimon and so he threatened to expose her. Over this mutual desire to keep their secrets for the time being, the two agreed to consolidate their power and marry. Their union would produce two daughters and upon their separation, each took one daughter with them. Nergal took the oldest, Rosacarnis.

### Nergal: 500 BCE - Present

As part of the separation, Nergal kept their palace, Ikalla. He would later swear fealty to Hell when threatened with war, but managed to negotiate a deal that not only allowed him to keep Kur intact, but he also was given the title of Prince and command of the Raven Legion — Hell's Secret Police. After this merger, Nergal was quick to impress the First of the Fallen at court and the two became close allies. The First of the Fallen and Nergal's ambitions were often stalled by the Annunaki — the independent body of arbiters of Hell, which included Ninurta. Nergal recruited his nephew Shamash to help him kill the Annunaki. Though Nergal was punished for it, Satan was able to convince Lucifer to avoid harsher punishment by claiming that Nergal had deliberately not slain Lucifer's own annunaki son.

Nergal continues to work with Satan but has been sidelined a number of times by the English exorcist John Constantine, Nergal's actual first truly *mortal* enemy. The feud between the two has even cost Nergal the devotion of his daughter.

### The Origin of Nergal and John Constantine's Epic Rivalry

*(Submitted by Four-Eyes)*

A twelve-year-old John Constantine meets Nergal. Sensing the boy's magical potential, Nergal decided to groom the kid to become his witch. He offered John his first cigarette. John declined but then pickpocketed the whole pack from the demon, along with Nergal's ornate lighter.

Nergal continues to approach John in the following months, with Nergal teaching John some simple magic. The next year, John accidentally curses his school's headmaster and Nergal kills the man in a house fire. The following year after that Nergal helps John with a ritual to bury his childhood innocence and bind John's abusive father's lifeforce with that of a dead cat — nearly killing the man. This frightens John and he runs away from home. John's life on the streets hones his magic. He begins to use magic to escape the unsavory life and tries to help others.

Four years since his last encounter with Nergal, John summons him to help him kill the demon Norfulthing, accidentally summoned by an innocent girl. Nergal does so, but then demands John become his servant as payment. John dismisses Nergal's request, but neglects to name and bind Nergal in so doing. Nergal decides to grab the girl and drags her back to Hell with him. This is devastating for John. Almost a decade later John has returned to exorcism. He makes a special effort to interfere with Nergal's plan's whenever he has the chance. Frustrated with the exorcist and still hopes to convert him to his witch, Nergal sends Rosacarnis to seduce John but she uses this as a chance to help her escape her father's influence, birthing three of John's children which helps anchor her to Earth.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Infernal Physiology:** Nergal is an ancient and truly powerful demon.
	+ ***Astral Convention:*** Nergal can shred his physical form entirely, transforming into spiritual energy. This allows him to travel the astral plane or possess others.
	+ ***Enhanced Physicality:*** Nergal is stronger and faster than he appears.
	+ ***Enhanced Supernatural Senses:*** Nergal has heightened senses. He can smell blood at a great distance, taste pheromones in the air, and see and hear ghosts.
	+ ***Immortality:*** Nergal does not suffer the rigors of age or disease. He also heals at a considerable rate and is able to fully regenerate lost limbs or organs. He is not easily killed by violence — fitting for a god of violence.
	+ ***Infernal Sorcery:*** Nergal is an accomplished sorcerer of the dark arts. He is skilled in essomancy, thus able to make demonic pacts with mortals in exchange for their souls. He is also skilled in magic surroundings his former purviews of disease, pestilence, plague, and violence. He is also skilled in shapeshifting.
	+ ***Telekinesis:*** Nergal can throw objects with his mind, pin mortals to walls with a glare, summon a fallen sword from the battlefield to his hand, and much more.
	+ ***Telepathy (Limited):*** Nergal has insights into the dark and violent impulses of the human mind. He can sense hate, anger, and violent ideations. With great effort, he can also ferment these foul passions, making them more potent.
	+ ***Teleportation:*** Nergal can relocate himself to any familiar location.
	+ ***Winged Flight:*** Nergal has infernal wings he can use to defy gravity or fly between dimensional barriers. He can easily conceal these wings.
* **Divine Skills:** Nergal is a legendary warrior. Though he usually does not rely on his skill to win his battles, often using underhanded tactics and dirty tricks to assure his victory.

### Weaknesses

* **Vice — Pride:** Nergal's ego is something truly frightening
* **Vice — Wrath:** ...but nothing is worse than his violent temper.
* **Vulnerability — Unforged Iron:** Nergal is susceptible to such weapons.
* **Vulnerability — Supernal Energy:** Supernal energy affects Nergal negatively.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Occult:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Weaponry:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Expertise:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Ranged:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Strategy:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
	+ **TOTAL:** 120
	+ **RANKING:** High Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Belphegor is possibly his ally.
* He married Death of the Endless during his time in Babylon. He did it to gather worshipers.
* He made a deal with Azazel. The deal was sealed with an intimate ritual between Nergal's daughter and the Prince of Hell. After her birth, Naamah was given to her father as part of the deal.
* After his death, Nick Necro was brought by Nergal to Satan. Through demonic pacts Nick was resotred to life to an unknown end.
* In 2016, he tried to kidnap Tefé Holland after detecting that she's Constantine's daughter. Tefé beat him and his two demonic minions so hard Nergal run away rather than risk being killed in his own realm and thus unable to resurrect.
* He enacted a fear-mongering campaign that saw the murder of the seven Anunnaki judges and his own prompt rise of their murderer to the Demonic Triumvirate. Those seven Anunnaki were Utu, Enzu, Tashmetu, Kathu, Achylon, Nippur, and Ninurta.

### Notes

* His aliases are various figures from mythology:
	+ Erra is an Akkadian plague god known from an 'epos'.
	+ Lugal-irra and Meslamta-ea are a set of twin gods who were worshipped in northern Babylonia.
	+ Lagamar is an underworld deity first recorded in the Ur III period.
	+ Nirgal is a different spelling of Nergal.
	+ Resheph is a deity associated with plague, either war or strong protection, and sometimes thunder in ancient Canaanite religion.
	+ Simut is an ancient Egyptian priest who held the position of Second Prophet of Amun towards the end of the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

## Network Files

Network Files Nergal.jpgNetwork Files: Nergal

## Links and References

* Appearances of Nergal

1. ↑ Network Files: Nergal
2. ↑ Network Files: Belphegor 1
3. ↑ Network Files: Rosacarnis
4. ↑ Network Files: Naamah
5. ↑ Network Files: Nick Necro
6. ↑ Network Files: Tefé Holland 2
7. ↑ (E27) The Infernal Houses