Lucifer

The following information is based on events in *The Fallen Angel* and contain spoilers.

— Lucifer to the devils of Hell at Grumblebeard's funeral in *The Angel of Evil*

— Lucifer after being cast down to Hell in *The Angel of Evil*

**Lucifer**, (pron. [ˈluːsɪfə]) also known as **Satan** (pron. [ˈseɪtən]), **the Devil**, **the fallen angel**, the **Lord of Darkness** and many more names and titles, is the reigning king of Hell and founder of the kingdom itself. He is immortal and remained so following his making the devils of Hell mortal and allowing death to enter Hell. Furthermore, Lucifer's status as the Devil, something that distinguishes him from a common devil, causes him not to age the same way as other devils. He was once one of God's highest-ranked archangels, but when he rebelled against the Creator when he demanded that the angels serve his newest creation, the human, he and his followers were cast down to Hell following a great war in Heaven. Lucifer is the son of two angels who chose to take God's side in the war. His great-grandfather, Samuel and his great-grandmother however followed him and were cast down into Hell along with him and his army. Following the founding of Hell, Lucifer took revenge upon God by tempting Adam and Eve to partake of the Tree of Knowledge, leading to their banishment from the Garden of Eden and stripping them of their immortality. With time, the old conflicts were forgotten and Lucifer and God became friends once more, but they were never as close as they once were. They forged an alliance, the Great Alliance between God and Hell, which became the start of many cooperations, such as the creation of the Great Flood and ten plagues of Egypt. Lucifer attempted to tempt Jesus for 40 days and nights in the desert of Judea. The Devil tried three times, but Jesus rejected him each time, leaving Satan. Lucifer sees the incident as his greatest defeat.

Some devils eventually began to think that Lucifer was a too passive ruler, as humanity eventually stopped believing that Hell existed.   A of these devils were Aziel Stofeles. He tried for a year to assassinate Lucifer and take over the throne. He poisoned him with a hare foot, which broke his immortality and made him mortally ill. Due to the disease, Lucifer selected an heir, among the humans as a devil was at risk of becoming too evil. He found the malicious boy Sam, but by mistake he ended up with the kind boy Philip Engel when Sam pushed him out in front of a car. Lucifer managed with difficulty to make Philip a devil by making him believe that the devil girl Satina Dargue, with whom Philip was in love, was still dating Aziel and just playing with his heart. Philip discovered Aziel's conspiracy against Lucifer and helped him recover, after which Lucifer banished Aziel, and his accomplice mother, to Outer Reach. Lucifer sent Philip, who had become human again, back to earth.

Philip returned to Hell a second time, retrieved by Mortimer when his dice had been stolen, for without it mankind would become immortal. With pressure from the thieves, ancient devils from the Restless Retirement Home, wished to die, Lucifer decided to make Hell's devils mortal. Many devils believed that Lucifer had betrayed them and Most of the devils left Hell to form an army with the accursed led by Aziel Stofeles so they could overthrow the Devil's King. At first Lucifer let the devils go, but when he heard the rumors about the army, he closed the gate to all but the new condemned. Meanwhile, Philip returned for the third time when Sam came to swallow one of the two exhortation pills Satina had given Philip the last time he was in Hell. Philip had followed. With the help of Lucifer and God, they found out that Sam had ended up in Hades. Lucifer began to prepare the kingdom for a coming war between them and Aziel. He sought God for help. When one of Lucifer's old castle servants, Grum, who actually worked for Aziel, showed up and murdered Grumeblebeard, Hell's gatekeeper, and a silencer he had brought with him abducted Satina, Lucifer got the devil arrested and chained in the torture chamber under his castle and tried to get him to reveal where Aziel lived in Outer Reach. It was only when Philip sought out Grum that the devil spoke, as Philip became a devil for the second time and tortured the answers out of an elderly devil. The Great Devil War was fought between Aziel's army and Hell's remaining devils and the condemned. During the battle of Hell, Aziel's army was close to winning the war, but then God and his angel army came to the rescue of Lucifer's army and turned the outcome of the war in an instant. After Aziel was killed by Philip Engel Lucifer had his corpse impaled in Spike Woods. Lucifer brought Philip back to Hell a fourth time at God's command, but had no idea why God had asked for him. It turned out later that Aziel's right hand man, Droel, had led Lilith to abduct Jesus and his son, Joseph, and brought them to a forgotten underworld, where Droel had forced Jesus to to revive Aziel.

## History

Several thousands if not billions of years ago, before God created mankind, Lucifer was born of two angels. At this time he had a different name, which is unknown. At some point Lucifer was assigned the high-ranking positioning of archangel and was one of God’s closest confidants.

### Fall of man

When God had created the humans Adam and Eve, he decided that the angels should celebrate and serve them. This was met with great protest from Lucifer, who regarded the human as inferior, as the angels had been created before them.

These selfish thoughts only grew stronger, and it lead to his attempt to tempt Adam and Eve in order to create division between them and their master. God had told the two humans that the Garden of Eden belonged to them, that they could eat any of the fruit, except the fruit from one specific tree, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, for then they shall die. The future devil king, disguised as a snake, visited Eve and tempted her to eat of the apple, by telling her that God had lied to them and, by eating the fruit, they would be able to tell good from evil and be like God himself.. When Adam saw what Eve had done, she made him do the same. Suddenly the discovered that they were naked, and were ashmed of it, which was a new feeling to them.

God discovered their crime immediately, and even though Eve claimed that they had been tempted by the snake in the Garden, God was forced to banish the two humans to Earth. They were no longer immortal, and therefore it had become their destiny to die. This was the first and greatest of the Devil's triumphs.

### Rebellion in Heaven

In Heaven the fallen angel continued to tempt and manipulate and with time he had gathered a significant amount of followers, who shared his opinion about God, about humanity and the wish to overthrow God. It all culminated in a full-fledged war between the rebellious fallen angels and the angels of God. Hubristically, Lucifer believed that he and his warriors would win, but the outcome was the opposite. In the end, Lucifer and his followers was chased out of Heaven and thrown down into Hell. On the way down, Lucifer burned so hot out of anger that he shined as a bright star on the sky. This is where the nickname "Lucifer" comes from, which is Latin for "Light-bringer." Lucifer's great-grandparents followed Lucifer during the war and down into Hell. His great-grandfather was called Samuel.

After the fall of Lucifer and his army, the appearance of all the fallen angels, including Lucifer, was changed drastically due to the fact that they had let their darker sides take over. In the place of their swan wings, there had grown bat wings. They had gotten long tails, and horns had grown out of their foreheads. Their eyes and their blood had become black as coal.

In the time following Lucifer established a kingdom in Hell with himself as the absolute ruler. And even though Hell was a place of evil, pain and torture, the devils managed to create a working, healthy societyy.

### Lucifer's greatest defeat

Lucifer attempted one more time to hurt God, by attempting to tempt God's only Son, Jesus Christ. Lucifer travelled to Earth and paid Jesus a visit in the desert of Israel. Jesus, starved and clinging to a walking stick, shuffled through the scorching desert. He looked as though he could faint any moment.

Within the shadow of a boulder Lucifer had appeared out of nothing, wearing loose, black clothes. He noted that Jesus was tired and asked him what he was doing to himself.

Jesus stopped and turned to face Lucifer. He raised his walking stick and pointed at Lucifer, saying that he knew who he was. Lucifer scooped up a fist-sized stone from the ground with his tail, and noted that Jesus had been walking through the desert in forty long days without food or water. He asked the Son of God if he was hungry or thirsty. For a moment Satan and Jesus stood looking at each others' eyes. Then Lucifer gave Jesus the stone and gave him a test: if he was really the Son of God, then he would be able to turn the stone into bread. Jesus' eyes fell on the stone, and his stomach rumbled loudly. The Devil smiled satisfiedly, but Jesus refused and said that he was full, and that humaity did not survive on bread alone, but also on the word of God. Jesus turned. Lucifer yelled for him to wait and sat after him, spreading out his enormous bat wings and following after the Son of God.

Later, Lucifer and Jesus found thesemvles high up on the roof of a temple in the city of Jerusalem. They stood close to the edge. Lucifer told Jesus that he had no wings like his, because mankind was inferior, but that for Jesus Christ it should not have any effect. He gave him one more test: prove that he was the Son of God by throwing himself out over the city and letting the angels of God catch him. Jesus looked for one moment at Lucifer and shaked his head, and said that the Devil was the tempter, not him, and that he would never tempt his God. Jesus turned and walked away from the edge of the roof. Lucifer stared at him. His jaw muscles quivered with irritation, and his tail whipped back and forth like an angry cat’s. He flew after Jesus.

At last Lucifer and Jesus stood on top of a high mountain peak, above thme there was nothing but blue sky, and even the birds and the clouds would not come in these dizzying heights, with a view of entire kingdoms, deep oceans, roaring rivers, wild forests, boundless deserts, snowcapped mountains, animals, and people no larger than the tiniest insects. Like an old friend, Lucifer had one arm around Jesus' shoulder and made a sweeping gesture at the landscape, whispering to Jesus that the whole world could be his if he would only drop on his knees and worship him. This third time Jesus' answer came faster, with the famous words "Get thee hence, Satan!" Jesus shaked Lucifer's arm off of him and said that the Devil had wasted enough of his precious time, and that he served God and God alone. Jesus turned and walked away, while Lucifer collapsed, as if he had become ill. Sweat trickled down his face, and he gulped for air. Lucifer groaned and cursed and fell on his knees, tired and defeated.

### Lucifer and God as friends

In spite of Lucier and the devils' hatred against the angels and their thirst for revenge, the old conflicts were forgotten by most people with time, and even though Lucifer and God still have their disagreements, they were no longer immortl enemies. It would take more than that to rin an old friendship, and God found it easier to forgive once he became a father.

## Physical apperance

Lucifer has pale white skin and black, short, shiny hair that goes down in a point in the forehead between the horns, and resembles black silk against his bone-white skin. His skin is smooth like snakeskin, and his teeth pearly white. Lucifer's fingers are long and supple, and his mails are long, sharp and curved. Lucifer's eyes are inky black - so black that even the deepest grave in the darkest winter night is like a well-lit ballroom in comparison, and they glow with such force that it is hard to look into them. they are like two black suns, that twinkles like the darkness between the stars in the sky. He has enormous, dark black bat wings, which has grown out of his shoulder blades, and has a long tail with a switch at the end, growing out of his rear end. He has two dark black, smooth, pointy goat horns growing in a handsome arc from his forehead just beneath the hairline. His hair is often brushed back. Lucifer often wears black suits and a black cape that hangs from his shoulders. On his chin is he has a bristling, well-groomed goatee, which is long enough to be twisted. His blood is also black, as that of other devils.

Thousands of years ago, Lucifer was an archangel. Then his face and skin was vibrant and glowing, his black hair was half-long, he had no horns, no tail and in place of the bat wings were enormous white swan wings growing from the shoulder blades. His blood was also red then. At this time he wore a white robe which only showed the points of his two swan wings, which grew from his back. His eyes was also a fierce dark blue. During the war in Heaven he wore an armor, his face was partially hidden by a helmet of silver, on his left arm he bore a black shield and from his belt hung a rolled-up whip and a sword. At the end of the Great War, which ended with the defeat of Lucifer and his followers, Lucifer's swan wings were cut off by the archangel Michael. At this point his blood had begun to turn darker due to his darker emotions and morality, so that it was dark red. He had also been given a deep wound in his right side by Michael's blade. After Lucifer's army's defeat on the battlefield of Hell, and after he and his conspirators were cast down from Heaven to Hell by Michael and his angel army, he and his followers changed appearance drastically. When he rose from his fall in Hell, his appearance had changed to the demonic character me he is known for today - horns, tail and bat wings that had grown in place of the severed swan wings.

The first time Philip Engel journeyed to the afterlife, the Devil had been terminally ill and this was evident in his appearance at the time. More on that in the subsection about his disease further below.

Lucifer's gaze can at times become harsh and darker, and his eyes seem to be able to grow larger and darker when he attempts to tempt others. Lucifer can appear furious, and his gaze may also become so cold that it actually sheds cold, so noticeable that one can see their own breath in their presence.

At times, his eyes can have a satanic glint, and at times, he has also displayed a crooked smile. When he is nervous a small tic plays under his right eye. Lucifer does not look like one who tolerates objections.

When Lucifer tried to tempt Jesus Christ in the desert, he was dressed in loose, black clothes, with an accompanying black cloak that covered his large bat wings, and he looked young and strong, with eyes that sparkled darkly.

When Lucifer tempted Eve to eat of the Tree of Knowledge, he was disguised as a snake, and the snakeskin he wore is on display at the Hell museum. Lucifer is able to transform his tongue into a narrow, split snake's tongue whenever he wants.

When Satina Dargue had been abducted by one of Aziel Stofeles' hushers, Lucifer had become paler than usual, his pupils tiny and his eyes bloodshot, and he almost looked ill again.Cite error: Closing `</ref>` missing for `<ref>` tag His face was pale and haggard, marked so by poor sleep due to the coming war with Aziel Stofeles, and he loooked sad and angry. He wore a black suit. Later that night, when Mortimer had told Lucifer that he could not make the Devil's army immortal without also doing the same for Aziel's devils, Lucifer's hair, which had been combed back during the ceremony, was disheveled, and he had dark circles under his eyes.

During the battle of Hell, Lucifer wore a helmet, wielded a shield and his old sword which he had fought in the war in Heaven with. During the battle, as he was felled by a group of five gragorns, he had been given a deep wound in his side and blood streamed from it. He also bled from his nose, his face, which was pale, was awash with sweat and his eyes were blurry with exhaustion.

At times, Lucifer wears a robe, and when in bed has both a black pajamas and a night robe to choose between. He also has a black nightcap with holes for the horns in his forehead, which he waers when sleeping.

### Disease

When Lucifer was poisoned with a hare foot and became terminally ill, his appearance changed drastically over a short period of time. Only two nights after the hare foot had been placed under Lucifer's bed, the signs of illness had appeared, and in just four weeks he had gone from being immortal to dying, frail and old, but Philip Engell managed to save him at the last second and make him well again, after which his mind and body healed completely, as if he had never been ill, and his horns grew back again. During the course of the illness, the Devil had tried in vain to hide signs of illness with water-slicked hair and fresh-pressed clothes.

The first visible sign of illness was a rash on Lucifer's wings. Just three weeks later, his back had become crooked, fine chinks had formed and in several spots, tiny flakes had fallen like chips of old paint, his dark eyes had become dull and bloodshot, his nails were yellow and sweat glinted on his upper lip. His skin had also turned bone white. At times he had had drooping horns and dark circles under his eyes. He had bloody, spluttering, choking coughing fits that made his tight face take on a flaming red hue. Lucifer at times had a nervous tic playing under his right eye. His tic got worse when he found out he had gotten the wrong boy in Philip Engell: he had suddenly appeared to be in a very poor state and looked very small in his suit, he staggered as he walked, emitting some guttural noises as if on the verge of throwing up.

When he discovered that Philip was a "number one" he had had a grimace and the little tic under his right eye had returned. He exhaled loudly and his slicked-back hair stuck out in every direction.

When Philip failed all his first tasks in the Test Chamber, Lucifer had been fatigued and breathing heavily, the little tic under his right eye was back, his black hair was rumpled and a blue vein was pulsating in the middle of his forehead. Shortly after, he had a vomiting fit that made his face turn sickly green and his bloodshot eyes bulge. After vomiting, Lucifer looked like a corpse, with ashen skin and horns that had become lusterless and angled to each side like withered flowers. When Lucifer managed to convince Philip that evil was necessary, some of the color had returned to his pale face.

After Philip failed more tasks, Lucifer had had a sick expression on his face and his eyes were red and so runny that tears rolled down his cheeks. When Lucifer saw a chance to tempt Philip with false friendships, his gaze had shown compassion and it was as if the red in them had vanished, and like they were clear and dark as the night sky once more. After the taste, Lucifer's eyes shone with such force that it almost hurt to look into them, and his eyes seemed to grow larger. But when Philip rejected him, Lucifer had looked like someone who'd been slapped, his face was all wrong and his eyes more bloodshot and glazed than ever.

When he managed to reach Philip's dark side through his jealousy of Satina Dargue and Aziel Stofeles, Lucifer had had a strange smile and a twinkle in his eye that Philip had never seen before, and some color ahd returned to his cheeks. After Philip completed his first task, Lucifer had shone like the sun above them within the Test Chamber. The next night, Lucifer had come to break one of his horns, so that it broke off. His fingers had quivered as he picked it up, his lips had begun to tremble and he had looked sicker than ever. That night, Lucifer's condition worsened to such an extent that Philip had to do self-study.

Two nights later, he was hard to recognize. His skin hung loosely around his face like tattered clothes, he was pale as a winter moon, his eyes had sunk so deeply in their sockets that they were hardly visible, and his black hair had shrunk into pathetic tufts. His broken horn had been put back on with duct tape, but sat sloppy and crooked. His lips were chapped, his fingers claw-like and he seemed sleepy. One night later, he was entirely unrecognizable. Then he was dried up and shrunken like an old mummy, his fingers were bony and he was so weak he could not smile. Both horns were broken, one was completely missing, the other hung and dangled in front of the forehead in a piece of dirty tape. His one wing protruded strangely to the side and hung against the floor as if it were broken. His face was so pale-white that it seemed to glow in the dark like a misshapen moon. At that time, he also walked with a cane. In one turn, he came to break the tape so the horn hit on the floor and crumbled like ashes, leaving him completely hornless.

Later that night, Lucifer lay dying: just bones clothed in limp skin, his chest sunken, his cheeks swollen and his mouth slightly open, stiffened in the last breath, but he was still breathing with a faint, hissing sound. After Philip removed the hare foot from under his bed, the Devil immediately began to recover. His breathing grew clearer and stronger and a slight blush grew on his cheeks, branching out and unfolding gently so that his cold face was colored by a little warmth. Though his bloodshot gaze was tired and blurred, it shone with a force Philip had never seen. The next night he was clearly recovering: the color had returned in his cheeks back his breathing was easy and effortless, but he was still missing his hair and horns.

During the closing banquet of the Festival of Tricks, Lucifer had cheated to make himself look healthier, as his mind had healed faster than his body: he had used make-up, had glued horns to his forehead, and had put on a wig of shiny black hair. However, one would have been able to notice that one horn was cockeyed down at the scalp, if one had looked very closely. The fake horns looked healthy and pointed. His eyes, however, were still a little bloodshot and his cheekbones still somewhat marked, but otherwise the signs of the disease seemed to have disappeared altogether.

When Philip Engel returned half a year later from the Earth to Hell, where only two months had passed, all of Lucifer's signs of disease had vanished, his hair had grown out once more and his skin had become smooth like snakeskin once more.

## Abilities

Lucifer is a master manipulator and may have similar powers to those of the tempters, though it is unknown if his extraordinary tempting ability is supernatural or not. He appears to have some dark powers however, having created the "Test Chamber", a room accessible through his study in which he is able to conjure up any scenario. Lucifer refers once to it as "a little dark magic." With his enormous bat wings, Lucifer is also able to fly.

## Appearances

### *The Great Devil War*

* *The Devil's Apprentice*
* *The Die of Death*
* *The Wrongful Death*
* *The Angel of Evil*
* *The Fallen Angel*
* *The Fallen Devil*

### *The Battle of Caïssa*

* *The Opening*
* *The Death of the Man of Mist*
* *Checkmate*

## Trivia

* Lucifer is one of the most prominent characters of *The Great Devil War*, and is the most popular character among fans of the books, both for his sharp sarcastic wit, his morbid humor and tendency to give things an evil twist, and still, at the end of the day, his ability to be a rather kind, gentle and warm person, like an uncle or grandfather.
* In the stage musical adaptation of *The Devil's Apprentice* the character of Lucifer is to be played by Danish actor Kasper Leisner.

## Gallery

Kasper Leisner as Lucifer in the stage musical adaptation of *The Devil's Apprentice*. They chose to give Lucifer long hair in the musical while in the books it is short. They also chose to give him bony horns, which instead of being ordinary horns are a kind of crown, and with more than one horn in it. The wings have also been changed from being enormous black bat wings to white angel wings, however darkened below, possibly as an allusion to his origin as an archangel. This photo is from near the beginning of the musical, when Lucifer is terminally ill.Kasper Leisner's Lucifer near the end of the musical adaptation of *The Devil's Apprentice*, when he has recovered from his illness.Kasper Leisner's Lucifer loses one of his horns in the stage musical adaptation of *The Devil's Apprentice*.
## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Devil's Apprentice*. Høst & Søn, October 19, 2018 (English print-on-demand paperback). Høst & Søn, October 11 2018 (English e-book). (Original Danish version published September 30, 2005 by Høst & Søn)
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Angel of Evil*. (Publication House) October 20, 2019. (Original Danish version published April 29, 2010 by Høst & Søn)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Die of Death*. Høst & Søn, October 19, 2018 (English print-on-demand paperback). Høst & Søn, October 11 2018 (English e-book). (Original Danish version published August 31, 2007 by Høst & Søn)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Wrongful Death*. Høst & Søn, October 19, 2018 (English print-on-demand paperback) (Original Danish version published April 30, 2009 by Høst & Søn) Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; name "TWD" defined multiple times with different content
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8. ↑ Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Fallen Devil*. (Publication House) Month #, 2020. (Original Danish version published September 16, 2016 by Høst & Søn)
9. ↑ Spørgsmål og svar på Den Store Djævlekrigs officielle Facebook side: Lucifers familie.
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12. ↑ Kasper Leisner portrays Lucifer in *Devil's Apprentice* musical.

## Notes

1. ↑ In the original Danish edition of *The Wrongful Deatg* (*Den forkerte død*), in chapter 12 *Cause* (*Årsag*), Lucifer's fingers are described as being "lange, smidige", meaning *long, flexible/supplere/lithe", while in the English translation this is changed to "long, soft", which does not mean the same thing at all. For this reason the English version og the Great Devil War has decided to write supple here to provide the accurately canonical description Lucifer's fingers.*
2. ↑ In the original Danish edition of *The Devil's Apprentice* (*Djævelens lærling*), in chapter 7 *The Lord of Darkness* (*Mørkest fyrste*), Lucifer is described as having a chin on which "strittede et veltrimmet fipskæg", which directly translates to ‘’bristled a well-groomed goatee", but can also, as is the case in the English translation, be translated as "growed a well-groomed goatee", as hair bristling or sticking out of skin implies it is growing from it.
3. ↑ In the original Danish edition of *The Devil's Apprentice* (*Djævelens lærling*), in chapter 17 *A Mysterious Find* (*Et mystisk fund*), a selection of Lucifer's night-wear is described, including a black nightcap which is said to have "holes for the horns," however in the English translation this is written as it having "a hole for the horns", as if there were only one hole for both horns. Since the original edition is considered canonical, this description is kept here on the English wiki.
4. ↑ In the original Danish edition of *The Devil's Apprentice* (*Djævelens lærling*), in chapter 46 *The Closing Ceremony* (*Afslutningsmiddagen*), one of Lucifer's glued-on horns are said to "gabte lidt nede ved hovedbunden" meaning "yawned slightly down near the scalp," however in the English translation of the book the fact that the cockeyedness is down near Lucifer's scalp is not included in the text. It is kept here because it is the wiki's policiy that the Danish books are canonical.