Abaddon (Darksiders)

Abaddon was the former leader of the Hellguard before he planned to break the seals and prematurely trigger the apocalypse; After falling in battle he was turned into The Destroyer by Lilith and commanded Hell's forces on Earth intending to conquer both Heaven and Hell.

He is later revealed as the main antagonist of Darksiders and is the twenty-first and final boss of the game. He was eventually fought by War when the Horseman defeated his Chosen reassembled the armageddon blade and infiltrated his tower, which ended Abaddon and his reign once and for all.

The leader of the Hellguard, Abaddon bravely fought in the name of Heaven for many millenia. His hatred for Demonkind was fierce and he was less than content with the treaties of the Charred Council, a view that put him out of favor with the majority of the Angels. He is described as being the greatest warrior Heaven has ever produced.

Abaddon, together with his second in command Astarte was the leader of the angelic garrison on Eden ever since the Nephilim tried to take the realm. One day however Lucifer released the Grinner onto the realm, a mass of Corruption given form who corrupted many of Absalom's men including Astarte. Driven mad the one time angel was further twisted when she made a deal with Lucifer in a attempt to escape the realm and many of her subordinates followed in her footsteps.

Then while under siege by his own men Abaddon discovered the Horsemen Strife and War had entered Eden hoping to collect artifacts of power from it. Abaddon formed a temporary truce with the duo to eliminate his twisted and broken men and the monster that had broken them, and later on helped to track down the Storm Caller so that the Demon who meant to take Eden, Dagon, could be put down.

Abaddon was present when the Charred Council forged the pact of the Seven Seals, acting as a representative of the First Kingdom.

The Abomination Vault

When Belisatra's construct army attacked Eden in an attempt to recover Grand Abominations from the Nephilim's last battle, it was Abaddon that led the reinforcements for the Angel garrison there. During the battle, a construct using the long thought lost Nephilim sword Affliction attacked Abaddon and took his eye.

Death encountered Abaddon when he arrived at the angel encampment at Eden, where angelic healers were trying and failing to save Abaddon's sight. Were it not for his own innate power and the healer's efforts, the blade's poisoning effects would have claimed far more than his eye. Abaddon and Azraelnegotiated with Death to share their knowledge regarding the incident, but Death left as soon as he saw Affliction, correctly guessing the Constructs' purpose in attacking Eden.

The Archangel later encountered Death and his brother War in the White City when the two fought an Angelic assassin on their way to research the MakerBelisatra in the Argent Spire. The Archangel confronted them with his guards, a young Uriel among them, and nearly attacked them out of fury for War's recent raid on a facility of his. But Death managed to blitz Abaddon and held him at blade-point, threatening him with both certain death and a declaration of war from the Charred Council. Though incensed, Abaddon relented and allowed them to proceed with their mission.

Death's Door

Several centuries prior to the Apocalypse, Abaddon asked Death to track a rogue demon on Earth that had killed several of his best warriors. Unbeknownst to him, the "Demon" was an Angel taken by Corruption.

When the Angel was dead and the Horseman confronted Abbadon, the Archangel told him that he had assumed the perpetrator was a Demon.

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Sometime before the apocalypse, Abaddon stood before a great crowd of Angels in the White City and attempted to convince them of the dangers posed by Demonkind. He was mocked, since the other Angels were unwilling to violate the truce in a preemptive strike. The Archangel gave voice to his frustrations in private with Uriel and she assured him that her allegiance would always lie with him.

However, Abaddon soon sent her away so that he could meet confidentially with his fellow conspirators, Ulthane and Azrael. The two angels and Maker conversed, Abaddon proposed that they break six out of the Seven Seals using the Armageddon Blade in order to call the leadership of Hell to Earth, then quickly assassinate them. Ulthane will repair the seals immediately and it will be made to look like the demons invaded unprovoked and only the Angel's intervention stopped the disaster.

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As part of his plan Abaddon led the Hellguard to Earth to fight against the Demons, and found to his shock that the Demons were far more prepared than he had anticipated. He was distracted upon seeing War on the field. Shocked at the appearance of the Horseman, which was exactly what he had been trying to prevent by not breaking the seventh seal, Abaddon was taken by surprise and killed by Straga.

After his apparent death, Abaddon found himself in a dark, unknown location, alone except for a shadowy female presence, Lilith, who revealed herself to be responsible for some form of sabotage to Abaddon's plan. As Abaddon broke down in despair, Lilith then presented him with a choice: to "Serve in Heaven or rule in Hell," reminding him that if he chose the former, he would likely be tried and executed by the Charred Council for his defiance.

His spirit broken, Abaddon chose to become the Destroyer. He returned to Azrael, who, not knowing what had transpired, took him to Eden to commune with the Tree of Knowledge. It is not known what gift Abaddon received from the Tree, but it may have driven him mad. He also convinced the Archon Luciento partially open the Well of Souls with the Angel Key, allowing him to tap into the power of the Well and he was reborn as a Demon and became the Destroyer of the Realms.

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Prior to Abaddon's return to Earth a demon named Abraxis sought to position himself as the Abaddon's right hand man and towards this end would commission the building of the Black Throne to serve as the Angel turned Demon's home. Though Fury can kill the demon the Black throne is still completed anyway and still becomes the home of Abaddon. Later on The Charred Council sponsors an attack on Haven by the Destroyer, The Horseman Strife fends his forces off while Fury evacuates the Humans.

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Death visited Earth during the Destroyer's reign, where he found that the Fallen Angel's forces were using pieces of the Rod of Arafel, an Angelic relic, to fuel his army and summon monstrosities from the Abyss to serve him like the Chosen and the Suffering. The Horseman reclaimed the relic and left the Earth for Lostlight. Also based on the state of Shadow's Edge, Samael has also been imprisoned by this point in time.

Also in Lostlight, the Archangel Nathaniel asked Death to uncover the fate of Abaddon's Soul after his fall on Earth during the Apocalypse, giving him a scroll to deliver to the Eternal Throne. He did not tell Death who it was he sought, but intended no deception as the name of the Soul sought was on the scroll, unrecognized by Death. He journeyed to the Kingdom of the Dead to inquire of the Chancellor if the Soul had passed through the City of the Dead.

When he learned that it had not, he returned to Nathaniel, who was overjoyed to learn that Abaddon may have lived but cautious, keeping the information to himself until learning the details of Abaddon's survival. Death later learned from Muria that the individual Nathaniel sought was now called Vovin, which translates to Dragon in the Angel's language. He was also informed that the individual was a traitorous Hellguard member. Nathaniel was greatly distraught upon realizing that Abaddon was the Destroyer, and revealed to Death the identity of the Soul upon Death's inquiry.

As the Destroyer, and empowered by the vast energies of the Well, he took control of Hell's armies on Earth, appointed five powerful creatures of The Abyss as his Chosen and annihilated all of Humanity as well as most of the Hellguard's forces, now led by Uriel. When Samael spoke out against his rule, he split the Blood Prince's power amongst his Chosen and imprisoned Samael in the Scalding Gallow. At some point after tricking the Archon and Azrael into aiding him, he sent Straga, his most powerful minion, to capture Azrael and imprison him in the Black Throne, the seat of Hell's power on Earth. The Destroyer also employed lesser Demon lords such as Belial in his forces. He retained his militant ruthless personality through his transformation, though referred to his previous identity in the third person and became significantly more malicious.

After War returned to Earth, he killed the four Chosen and defeated Straga in relatively short order. Killing Straga destroyed the enormous spire which the Destroyer used to channel energy from the Well of Souls, and immediately thereafter War journeyed with Azrael to Eden. There, he received a vision from the Tree of Knowledge which allowed him to learn of Abaddon's fall and the Charred Council's duplicity in framing him for the premature apocalypse. After receiving his vision, War came to the conclusion that Abaddon had been betrayed by someone who knew of his plans. However, the identity of this traitor is never revealed or even speculated upon by War, Azrael, or the Watcher. At the Tree of Knowledge, War also received the hilt of the Armageddon Blade, and decided that the blade needed to be remade in order to kill the Destroyer. After gathering its pieces, War took the broken blade to Ulthane, who reforged it. War then finally confronted Abaddon with the Hellguard. The Demon tried to persuade War to join him (even using the same words Lilith used on him) but engaged the Horseman in battle in his Dragonic Demon form when he refused and called him a coward. However, War proved too strong for Abaddon and he shifted back into his Angelic form, which had been corrupted and now resembled a Dark Angel. He was ultimately defeated by War and the Horseman tore his wings off. He murmured to Uriel for help, but she only told him to "Reap what he had sown,". Abaddon was then impaled by War with the Armageddon Blade and died for good finally ending his rule of earth.