Lucifer

**Lucifer**, also known as **Satan** or **The Devil**, is the sworn adversary of God and Jesus Christ, & the leader of the Devil Pantheon, who seeks to tempt humanity away from the path of God. He was once an angel, who alongside 1/3 of all angels in Heaven rebelled against God, and were cast down into Hell, where they built Pandemonium.

## Classics Summarized

### Building Pandemonium

Unlike the archetypal depiction of Satan, Red portrays Satan as a misunderstood "bad boy" to which she comically addresses as "Sexy Satan". Regardless, his story in Paradise Lost remains the same. Satan was cast out of Heaven by Michael and God alongside his rebel angels for instigating a war against the Almighty. But despite being banished to Hell, Satan rallied up his fallen cohorts and suggested that this time their next plan of attack will require stealth rather than outright brute force.

The fallen angels then create a large golden palace named Pandemonium and start debating on how to attack God. Satan states that God is creating a new world populated by new creations called humans of whom he favors above the angels. This was one of the reasons why Satan rebelled as well, seeing himself as above such lowly creatures and was enraged that God favors them over him. And so he decides to tempt the humans into sin and fall from grace.

### Journey to Eden

Satam embarks on his journey by himself and encounters his daughter Sin and grandson/son Death by the gates of Hell. Sin informs him that she cannot allow him to pass through the gates but Satan tells her that God is not her real father and thus not her true master to which Sin agrees and allows him to pass through. Satan continues on, flying through chaos, until he emerges through the solar system. It is from there that he encounters Uriel, the archangel of light, positioned on the sun.

Satan transforms himself into a cherub and tricks Uriel into telling him which planet that God has been making Eden on. Uriel gives him the directions, not knowing the cherub is Satan, and the Devil flies off towards Paradise. Upon landing in Eden, Satan abruptly lapses into brooding self-pity and in Red's words, "pondering how the true Hell is the misery he brings with him." Though he breaks out of his thoughts and sneaks into the Garden of Eden by climbing the walls and spots his targets; Adam and Eve.

### Conflicts in Paradise

He hears that that while Adam and Eve can do anything in the garden they are prohibited from eating the fruit that grows on the Tree of Knowledge. Knowing this, Satan will tempt the two into eating the fruit for them to be cast out but before he could do this he is discovered by the forces of Heaven lead by the archangel Gabriel. Satan and Gabriel have a stand-off for a few moments until God loses his patience and tells Satan to leave to which he does. At some point in the story, Raphael explains to Adam and Eve that Satan, once known as Lucifer, was the brightest and most favored of all of the angels in Heaven by God until Jesus was introduced. Lucifer saw that his position of being the most cherished son was threatened and decided to resolve this by waging war on God, declaring that if he will not be his favorite he will be his greatest enemy.

### Fall of Man

Later on, Satan sneaks back into the Garden of Eden and possesses a snake. He waits for one of them to pass by the Tree of Knowledge and out of the two of them, only Eve appears. Satan is momentarily entranced by her ethereal beauty but quickly focuses on the task at hand. When Eve notices the snake she is amazed at the fact that it could speak with Satan, through the snake, telling her that he has the power of speech among many other miracles from eating one of the fruits of the Tree of Knowledge. Eve is hesitant at first until Satan continues with his temptation by assuring that nothing will happen to her if she eats the fruit and a prime example was him as he ate the fruit and was still a resident of the Garden. Moreover, he states God will admire her initiative in doing the one thing he told her not to do. Convinced, Eve gives into the temptation and eats from the fruit along with Adam in tow.

Satan returns to Hell triumphant over his victory of tempting the humans into sin. However, the cheers of his fallen angels turn into cursing hisses and soon finds not only his cohorts but also himself transform into serpents by God as punishment for his work in tempting Adam and Eve into sin although this was short-lived. Satan's actions resulted in Adam and Eve being kicked out of the Garden of Eden, Sin and Death wreaking havoc in Heaven and Earth, and God needing to rearrange the solar system. Despite the enormity of the situation, Michael tells Adam that by the end of it all, Satan and Death will engage Jesus at the End of Days only to be defeated and sealed away in Hell for all eternity.