Zebulon ben Metatron

11 other brothers

A fallen angel resorting to begging on the streets of the Abyss just to survive each passing day down there. Although he's been reduced to nothing more than a pathetic beggar, the denizens of the Abyss treat him with scorn, particularly Loque as he constantly panhandles from her. However, what neither she or anyone else knows is that Zebulon used to be royalty, and a very powerful ruler in the mortal realm.

## History.

Before he was granted angelhood, Zebulon was a nephilim living in Southern Adonia. Born as one of the powerful angel Metatron's many children from several human mothers, Zebulon (along with his brothers) was groomed from birth to be a leader and was given a province within his father's kingdom to rule over. While Zebulon's province was much smaller than those of his brothers, his father had placed upon him a special duty: that of being the head of all religious affairs within the kingdom. His father had him educated and raised for that specific purpose. Zebulon's early life was spent surrounded by books, holy scriptures, and religious scholars instructing him at his father's command. As head minister of religious affairs, it was his job to bring the word of Heaven and its angels to the people of Ebriel, as well as keeping the spirit and morale of its people up during the constant holy wars that plagued the kingdom. Unfortunately, during a routine inspection of the army in the middle of one of these holy wars, he was assassinated by spies from Hamidia; a rival kingdom to the east.

It wasn't the end for Zebulon yet however, as due to his modesty, his piousness, and humility in life (as well as having Metatron as his father), he was allowed to be resurrected as an angel. Life as an angel wasn't much different than how he used to live as head minister, so he adapted rather quickly.. He'd occasionally be sent down to the mortal realm answering prayers, performing miracles, and passing on his teachings to those who sought them. Though this life of spreading goodwill and sacred wisdom wouldn't last once the Age of Darkness began. As the Abyss opened up and demonkind was unleashed upon the world, Zebulon grew very worried at the destruction and mass death they were causing. All those people he had saved, taught, and blessed were dying by the hundreds and sometimes even thousands each day. Outraged at Heaven's inaction, he repeatedly made demands and pleaded with the rest of his fellow angels to intervene on mankind's behalf and to save the world. Nothing he said or did convinced them. Every time he confronted them, he was turned away by them, and was told it was not their place to do so.

The increasing frustration at their apathy at all the nightmarish horrors destroying the world led him to form a warband consisting of equally-minded angels whom also wanted to fight back. Finally with a war party a hundred strong, Zebulon and his followers descended upon Southern Adonia to purge it of any kind of demonic influence; no matter what it was. Now, he made it clear various times to his followers that he only wanted to eradicate demons from the world. There was no other kingdom, empire, or land he was interested in making into a target unless they were completely overtaken by demons. Except, as the growing curiosity to pay his ancestral homeland a visit grew in his head, he'd find himself making one very *vicious* exception.

To his growing horror, he discovered what became of the mighty land of Ebriel while he was busy performing his angelic duties elsewhere around the world. Throughout the years, the rival kingdom of Hamidia slowly joined forces with other lands around it in opposition to Ebriel; either through conquering them or forcefully absorbing them. Together, they surrounded Ebriel and overran every town and city and every temple until there was nothing left but sand and ashes. Ebriel had been completely destroyed in this attack, and what little remained standing had now been converted for the uses of Hamidia. His people underwent a genocide, his customs he had taught them were now forgotten, and the traditions he helped foster were now extinct. The villages and towns he once frequented were now occupied by Hamidians. The holy temples had their inscriptions, some of which he had written personally, wiped out and replaced with Hamidia's own teachings. As for the capital city of Zionuda, it was almost completely destroyed, and whatever was left had become a new city for the enemy. The grand temple he once preached in was now in ruins slowly sinking into the sand. His home was now converted into a temple for Hamidia's own religion, and his personal belongings having been sent directly to Hamidia's caliph. His father's castle was completely gone, with only the sun bleached bones of his friends, his family, and even his own father scattered around the rubble to serve as any reminder that they ever existed. There was no more Ebriel. It was all part of Hamidia now; they had the final victory in their centuries long rivalry... or at least they thought.

Sometime later after his horrifying discovery, all of a sudden purgatory started having a mass influx of people from Southern Adonia. Too much for it to be natural causes, and too many innocents and non-soldiers for it to be a war. Something or someone was killing *a lot of people* which drew even the interest of the archangels themselves after the countless souls testified an angel was on a rampage. A scouting party was sent to investigate where they ended up finding the perpetrator within the caliph's palace. Zebulon was covered in blood and various body parts, and knee deep in the torn apart bodies of Hamidia's leadership and their servants too. Having been driven bloodthirsty, he immediately attacked but was quickly overpowered and detained. His trial at the hands of Raziel and the other archangels was swift and conclusive, and banishment to the Abyss was his sentence. Two of his followers were also detained with him and were banished to the Abyss also. However, once there, they decided to show Zebulon what they thought about him and his petty rampage which got them all in trouble.

Ravaged, beaten, tortured, and permanently barred from heaven, he now understands why his peers told him an intervention would be a bad idea; especially one from him. He now lives life as a vagrant; begging for food and money with only the clothes he wore during his capture as his only possessions.

## Sin & Sentence.

Zebulon encountered the group as they made their way towards Tehom. While they did provide him with rations and money, he was threatened by Loque to leave them alone or else. Later events would also have him appear to the group as he wanted to thank them for striking down Irin and crippling Thorgran.

## Gallery.

The group's distribution of Thorgran's personal crops has slowly brought strength back into his body.