Adramelech

### Aliases

Baal Adramelch, Adrammelech, Andramelech, Adramale, Demon Lord of the Sun, Supervisor of the Devil's Wardrobe, Knight of Lucifer, Sparrow who Became a Bat

### Affiliation

Stygian Council, Pandemonium, Hell, Sepharvaim

## Physical description

### Gender

Male

**Adramelech** is a Fallen Angel turned president of the senate of demons while also being a chancellor of Hell and supervising Satan's wardrobe. Due to his various positions in the hierarchy of Hell, he is considered a useful asset to many and is mildly respected.

## Overview

Ever since his fall from Heaven by the hands of his former brethren, Adramelech had always desired to feel as though he was in the light of the Almighty once more. It was from this desire that he attempted to gain worship as a sun god in Sepharvaim alongside his brother Anamelech. Both feared for his power and mocked for his clothing tastes out of step with those of the other superior demons, he is of a rather capricious and vain character, but becomes very small in the presence of Satan.

After his fall from Heaven, Adramelech worked his hardest in order to gain some level of importance within the inferno. He managed to become the president of the senate of demons, the Grand Chancellor of Hell, and the one who decides what Satan and Lucifer wear before they make public appearances.

## Appearance

When manifesting into reality the form Adramelech takes most often is a creature with the head of a donkey, the chest and stomach of a man, and the waist and legs of a peacock with a large peacock tail. He has a thin crown on top of his head with three feathers sticking out of it and a string necklace with a single ring attached to it.

## Personality

Adramelech's most defining character trait would be his love of being seen. It doesn't matter by who or in what light, Adramelech adores attention in any shape or form. He doesn't even care if he has to share it, especially if it's his brother Anamelech. This is why he chose the status of sun god when he gained worship in Sepharvaim, it's a bright role for him to play.

Adramelech has more ambition, guile, and even perversity than Satan himself. It took Satan centuries to even be considered a second in command of Hell, while it only took a consideration from Adramelech for him to embed himself within the politics of Hell.

## Powers and Abilities

Even as an archdemon, Adramelech is especially powerful among his kind, able to contend wit the Uriel and Raphael though only for a little while, which only the Seven Princes can do to. He can levitate, shoot ice lightnings, project light rays with his peacock tail, and even teleport himself in clouds of smoke.

* **Demonic Nova Manipulation**: Adramelech is able to create dark suns that he can throw from his hands like fire which can annihilate entire planets.
* **Hellfire Manipulation**: As one of main users of hellfire, Adramelech has learnt to manipulate it in various ways and forms, many only known by him.
	+ **Hell-Fire Blast**: Adramelech is able to release a blast of hellfire on his target which on contact would release an explosion that caused massive bursts of hellfire.
	+ **Hellfire Beam**: Adramelech is able to generate a hellfire beam from the eyes of the peacock tail that incinerates almost everything it comes in contact with. It is so powerful that it was able to eliminate the soul of its target.
	+ **Hellfire Barrage**: Adramelech can create condensed hellfire to strike his target with greater power. He can choose the direction of this attack which can either can go straight through or simply incinerate his target.
	+ **Hellflame Arrow**: Adramelech can create multiple smaller peacock-tailed arrows that does massive damage to his targets, either greatly injuring or flat out instantly incinerating them. If he desires to use something greater, he can create a gigantic arrow that will destroy the soul of its target will large amounts of hellfire.
	+ **Hellfire Ignition**: A demonic spell made by Adramelech that uses to ignite all capable material in hellfire, incinerating anyone near it.
* **Light Manipulation**: Adramelech can fire energy blasts of pure light from the eyes of the peacock tail.
* **Ice Lightnings**: While not his main element, Adramelech is still able to shoot lightning bolts from the eyes of the peacock tail which can kill an opponent by turning them into an ice statue.

## History

### Creation & Early life

Adramelech was created near the beginning of time by God alongside the rest of his angelic brethren. During his time in Heaven he befriended the angel Anamelech, considering him more of a brother than the rest of the angels, and acted as a servant under Gabriel. It was also during this time that he became incredibly envious of the light of God. This light was beautiful to him, a light that's brighter than anything he's ever seen, and he wanted it for himself.

This lasted for centuries right up until Helel started gathering a third of the angels to help him fight a war against God. Helel promised to Adramelech to give him a light that was somehow he brighter than God's, and Adramelech became ecstatic at this pledge. Adramelech agreed, and became a major part of Helel's army.

### War in Heaven and Fall

Adramelech was an incredibly useful asset in the War in Heaven due to his cunning nature. He was able to take out many angels all on his own by entrapping his opponents rather than facing them head on. Despite this, he was eventually taken out by the join effort of the angels Uriel and Raphael. After he fell, he was waken up by Anamelech in the fiery pits of Hell, Adramelech realized his situation and started planning almost immediately.

Adramelech started making his way up the social latter by giving offers to other demons that are of higher power than him, and later using the influence he gained from that demon to climb higher. One of these offers was when he taught Balam the ability to shoot ice lightning from his hands. All this hard work eventually paid off, he became a president, a chancellor, and a supervisor to the wardrobe of the two major kings of Hell, Lucifer and Satan.

### Pagan world

While Adramelech had managed to gain political power in Hell he still didn't feel as if Lucifer's promise was left unfulfilled. He decided that he would attempt to gain worship among humans. Anamelech tagged along, and the two became the twin gods of the Sepharvites, with Anamelech being their moon god while Adramelech became their god of the sun. This was a role Adramelech was happy to play, this was the closest he ever got to gaining the light of God.

Unfortunately, this worship was eventually put to an end during the Christian colonization efforts of Mesopotamia, and that included Sepharvaim. Adramelech's feelings on this matter have been unrecorded, though it's likely that he didn't take to this positively.

## Myths and Legends

Adramelech is a figure mentioned in the *Book of Kings* as a god worshiped by the people of "Sepharvaim", which may have been the cities Sippar Yahrurum and Sippar Amnanum. While it's mentioned in the *Bible* and the *Tanakh*, there's seemingly no evidence that he was actually a worshiped figure. Like many other pagan gods mentioned in the aforementioned books, they have been interpreted as a demon in Judeo-Christian traditions.

## Quotes

> You know, when I heard that, I thought there was a clown nearby. Turn out I was wrong. You're the whole circus instead.
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> Lucifuge Rofocale to Adramelech.

> Damn Adramelech! Damn that bastard to Oblivion! How dare that feather-stuffed bastard dare to touch His Excellency with his filthy hand! He shouldn't be standing there! That place belonged to ME! I should be the one over there! I should be the one holding the prize! It's not fair! It's not fair! It's not fair! Lucifer's side belongs to me, DAMMIT!!!
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> Lucifuge Rofocale.

> Adramelech is formerly one of Gabriel's servants, alongside his supposed-twin, Melek Taus - the Peacock of Paradise. Then, the war in heaven happened, and everything and anything was splitting into sides and factions, each with their own schemes. Adramelech sided with Lucifer, mainly because of his obsessive admiration of Lucifer - not surprising, considering that nearly 80% of why they even pledged loyalty to him in the first place - but because of something happened between him and Melek Taus. No one sure what it is, though in the grapevine, it is said that it has something to do with the Meshafa Rash...
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> Matt Wright.

> One of many demons named in Collin de Plancy's extensive Dictionnaire Infernal, published and republished throughout the nineteenth century. The name of this demon is actually the name of a Samaritan sun god whose name was also sometimes rendered Adramelech. As such, he is one of the many foreign deities mentioned in the Old Testament that have been demonized with the passage of time. The early- nineteenth-century French writer, Charles Berbiguier, describes Adramelek as the Lord High Chancellor of Hell. In his book Les Farfadets, Berbiguier further asserts that Adramelek has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Fly, a supposedly demonic knightly order founded by Beelzebub. A. E. Waite, writing in his classic Book of Black Magic, repeats Berbiguier's attributions, although he incorrectly links them to the sixteenth-century scholar Johannes Wierus. Agrippa identifies him as an ancient king demonized over time.
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> The Dictionary of Demons, written by Michelle Belanger.