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Test Chamber

The **Test Chamber** (Danish: *Prøverummet*) is a magical space owned in which the owner can conjure up any kind of environment and scenario with extreme realism. It is a form of dark magic. The Test Chamber was created by Lucifer to be used to test and train a potential apprentice and heir to the throne of Hell in case he had to abdicate or was dying.

The Test Chamber has only been use twice, once when the devil king was poisoned and was forced to train the human boy Philip Engel, with the apprenticeship ending when Lucifer was cured by Philip, and the second time when Philip decided he wanted to be made into a devil once more so that he could be with Satina Dargue, although he failed this time as it was not in his nature any longer.

## Appearances

### *The Great Devil War*

* *The Devil's Apprentice*
* *The Fallen Devil*

## References

1. ↑ 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. ↑ Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Fallen Devil*. (Publication House) Month #, 2020. (Original Danish version published September 16, 2016 by Høst & Søn)
Fall of man

The **fall of man**, also simply referred to as **the fall**, refers to the moment when Adam and Eve, the first two humans, sans Lilith, succumbed to the temptation of Lucifer in the form of a snake and ate the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, thus bringing God's wrath upon them, who punished them by banishing them from the Garden of Eden and stripping them of their immortality.

Though not named in the Bible, the doctrine of the fall comes from a Christian interpretation of the Book of Genesis chapter 3.

## Background

"Fall of man" is a term and concept used Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience.

According to the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, Adam and Eve first lived in the Garden of Eden with God, but they were tempted by the serpent to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil that God had forbidden. After doing so, they became ashamed by their nakedness and God expelled them from the Garden to prevent them from eating from the Tree of Life and becoming immortal. Another interpretation is that Adam and Eve had previously been immortal, but eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, as punishment, Adam and Eve were condemned to mortality and death. This is supported by the fact that human longevity, according to the Genesis narrative, approached a millennium during the antediluvian age, such as the case of Adam who lived 930 years. Thus, to "die" has been interpreted as becoming mortal. However, the grammar does not support this reading, nor does the narrative: Adam and Eve are expelled from the garden so that they do not eat of the second tree, the Tree of Life, and gain immortality. (Genesis 3:22.) Christian exegetes of Genesis 2:17 ("for in the day that you eat of it you shall die") have applied to the day-year principle to explain how Adam died within a day. Psalms 90:4, 2 Peter 3:8 and Jubilees 4:29-31 explained, to God, one day is equivalent to a thousand years and this Adam died within the same "day". The Greek Septuagint, on the other hand, has "day" translated into the Greek word for a twenty-four-hour period (ἡμέρα, hēméra).

Judaism has no concept of "the fall" or "original sin," and the Eden narrative has different interpretations. Islam also does not have a concept of the fall or original sin in its doctrine. Lapsarianism, the logical order of the decrees of God in relation to the fall, is the distinction made by some Calvinists, as being supralapsarian (antelapsarian, pre-lapsarian or prelapsarian, before the fall) or infralapsarian (sublapsarian, postlapsarian, after the fall).
A Hell of a Life

***A Hell of a Life*** (Danish: *Et Helvedes liv*) is the title of Lucifer's autobiography, which is revised and re-released every single year, as new events transpire, including those involving Philip Engel. Every year all devils are forced by Lucifer to buy the new edition of the book, which has also resulted in it constantly being number 1 on every bestseller list.

## Contents

The book contains memoirs of events from all of Lucifer's life.

## References

1. ↑ 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. ↑ 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)
The Bible – as the Devil reads it

***The Bible – as the Devil reads it*** (Danish: *Bibelen – som Fanden læser den*) is a version of the Bible interpreted by Lucifer. It contains additions to already existing biblical tales, such as the story of Adam and Eve's banishing from the Garden of Eden.

## Appearances

### *The Great Devil War*

* *The Devil's Apprentice*
* *The Angel of Evil*
* *The Fallen Angel*

## References

1. ↑ 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)

## Trivia

* The title of the book is a reference to the saying or proverb "read something as the Devil reading/quoting scripture," which means "to read something with poor comprehension; claim something for one's own benefit without evidence for it." The phrase originates from the conversation between Jesus and the Devil found in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke, in which the Devil twice quotes the Old Testament to Jesus, trying to persuade Jesus to accept the his suggestions, yet he misses the point of the passages, which Jesus points out to him when he rejects him both times.
Horse of fire

The term "Horse of fire" has not been confirmed by official sources and is merely conjecture or a fan invention.

The **horse of fire**, or possibly **God's horse**, was the horse that Jehovah ride on when he and his army of angels to the rescue of Lucifer's army during the Great Devil War in Hell and drove Aziel Stofeles away. The horse, which can ride on mid-air, is made out of fire. The horse of fire is presumably created by God.

## Background

In the Bible horse chariots and horses are mentioned often, but specifically in chapter 2 of the Second Book of Kings of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible, Elijah is taken to Heaven in a chariot of fire dragged by horses of fire.

> As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!”«
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Later in chapter 6 of 2 Book of Kings, verse 17, it reads:

> Then the Lord (org. Yahweh/Jehovah) opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
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## Referencer

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Angel of Evil*. (Publication House) October 20, 2019. (Original Danish version published April 29, 2010 by Høst & Søn)
2. ↑ The Hebrew Bible, 2 Book of Kings, 2:11-2:12
3. ↑ The Hebrew Bible, 2 Book of Kings, 2:17
Death's domain

**Death's domain**, **Death's kingdom**, the **realm of Death**, (Danish: *Dødens rige*, lit. *Death's realm* or *Death's kingdom*) is the world belonging to and inhabited by Mortimer, or Death, and his snake Tempus, or Time, and can be reached via a door located in the complex system of stairwells connecting all worlds of the afterlife. The door is located in the darkness of the space between the stairwell leading to Hell and the one leading to Paradise, in a wall that looks as if it is made up of shadows. The door to Death's domain is rarely used, and as a result the wood it is made of has become rotten and its metal doorknob almost corroded by rust.

## Geography

Most of Death's domain is dominated by a dead, fall-like forest, filled with stunted, leafless trees that stretch upwards under a dark sky filled with heavy clouds drifting slowly across. The forest floor is covered by a thick carpet of dead, fallen leaves.

In Death's domain it is never morning or daytime, but only evening and night. The sun only rises to set a couple hours after, and therefore it is almost always constantly dark or twilight, and the shadows of the world are mostly long and grey or black. There are almost no colors in the domain, which is dark, dull and gloomy, and freezing cold due to an icy wind that makes the trees writhe and turns the fallen leaves with dry, crackling noises.

When one has passsed through the door to Death's domain, the forest continues as far as the eye can see. The naked treetops has woven into each other like one gigantic spiderweb under the sky. From the doorway a narrow gravel path runs across the ground, parting the carpet of fallen leaves and vanishing in between the trees, and at some point along it trees start to thin out and the path leads down into a small open valley flanked by hills covered by yellow, withered grass. The twilight transforms the valley into one big shadow. The path ends in front of the door to Death's house, which lies in the valley.

## Appearances

### *The Great Devil War*

* *The Die of Death*
* *The Wrongful Death* (flashback)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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)
Devil's trident

The term "Devil's trident" has not been confirmed by official sources and is merely conjecture or a fan invention.

The **Devil's trident** is a royal remix belonging to the Devil King Lucifer, the absolute monarch of Hell and the devils. It is apparently used ceremonially, as it is passed over at the crowning of every devil king. However this has never happened, as Lucifer, the first and only devil king, still sits on Hell's throne..

## References

1. ↑ 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)
Empyrean

— Lucifer about and **Empyrean** and Paradise, *The Wrongful Death*

God

**Empyrean** (Danish: *Empyreum*) is a city made of light which is located within Heaven, and is where the angels reside.

## Background

*Empyrean*, from medieval Latin *empyreus*, from Ancient Greek ἔμπυρος *empyrus* "on fire" (*pyr*), sometimes referred to as "*the heavens of fire*", is a place in the highest of the heavenly spheres, where the beliefs and cosmologies of the classical antiquity postulated that the pure form of the classical element of fire existed (or the aether in the philosophy of Aristotelian physics).

Some people also believed Empyrean was the place where the stars of the night sky was placed, fixed to a surface or dome above.

### Role in literature

Empyrean have been used as the name for the firnament, and in Christian literature, especially within Dante Aliegheri's *The Divine Comedy*, the dwelling-place of God and the blessed celestial beings, who are so divine they are made out of light, and the source of all life and creation. The word is used both as a proper noun and an adjective, however *empyreal* is an alternative adjective. The scientific words *empyreuma* and *empyreumatic* have the same Greek origins, and both refer to the burning of vegetable and animal matter.

## References

1. ↑ 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)
Episode 1: Underrated Comic Book Movies

In the pilot episode of The Weekly Planet, Mr Sunday and Mason look at terrible comic book movies and any redeeming features they may have.

## Topics

* 0:00 Theme Song (Remy Zero - Save Me)
* 0:40 Alternate Titles
* 1:40 Intro
* 3:25 X-Men: The Last Stand
* 8:05 Daredevil
* 13:45 Superman Returns
* 21:30 Iron Man 2 & 3
* 27:40 Constantine
* 34:00 The Punisher
* 41:05 Spider-Man 3
* 48:55 Dark Knight Trilogy
* 55:45 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
* 58:00 Ang Lee's Hulk
* 1:04:30 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance/Ending

## First Appearance Of

* Shia LaBeouf
* Mason not having seen Chronicle
* Iron Man 3 being a good buddy cop movie but not a good Iron Man movie
* Best Movie Ever (In reference to "Richie Rich")(The exact phrase is "best film ever")
* The Hollywood Whiteboard
* Mason saying "I'm back on board!"
* Mason's hatred of the Spider-Man trilogy
* Vinny Jones weird rubber muscle suit

## Trivia

* The Pilot episode of "The Weekly Planet"
* The only episode with an explicit tag on it
* This week's theme song in Maso's redition of Remy Zero's "Save Me" from Smallville.
* Alternate Podcast titles include "Fortress of Lolitude", "Infinity Jauntlets", and "Podcast full of Kryptonite"
Elvis Presley

**Elvis Aaron Presley** (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known simply as **Elvis**, was a human American singer and actor, regarded as one of the most significant icons of the 20th century and often referred to as the "**King of Rock and Roll**" or simply "**The King**". He was one of the world's great pioneers of the genre of rock and roll music, almost all of his songs are considered classics, he has a series of successful television appearances and chart-topping records under his belt, and during his life and after his death he has played cameos as himself, been referenced in television shows and in feature films, parodied and more.

When Elvis died, he spent the first years of his afterlife in Hell as a condemned, with his biggest sing having been gluttony. However Lucifer was forced to send him up into Paradise as his singing, which the Devil describes as "the voice of an angel", made the rest of the condemned hum along instead of screaming, and according to the Devil this was "horrible." The Devil considers the Elvis song "(You're the) Devil in Disguise" to be a "wonderful tune". To this day, Elvis dwells in Paradise as a saved soul.

## Trivia

* Elvis is thought to have died of overdosis of polypharmaceutical drugs, though other theories have been suggested, including cardiac arrest or brain damage from a fall that were the result of overdosis.
* Elvis Presley's song (You're the) Devil in Disguise is a "wonderful tune" according to Lucifer and listens to the song inside of his fireplace lounge in *The Die of Death* while welcoming Philip Engel back into Hell, and has Satina Dargue as a guest as well. This is also when he tells Philip that Presley spent his first years of his afterlife in Hell.

## Appearances

### *The Great Devil War*

* *The Die of Death* (only mentioned, though not by name but by lyrics)

## References

1. ↑ Elvis Presley must have been 81 when *The Fallen Devil* was released in Danish on September 16, 2016
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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)

## Other literature

1. ↑ Elvis Presley, Cause of death on Wikipedia.
Grabclaw

The following information is based on events in *The Devil's Apprentice*, *The Die of Death* and *The Wrongful Death* and contain spoilers.

**Grabclaw** (Danish: *Gnavklo*) is a gragorn who took over the position as gatekeeper while Grumblebeard was on the Purgatory mountain. Following Lucifer's decision to make the devils mortal, taking away their immortality, Grabclaw left Hell along with thousands of other devils in protest, taking up residence in Outer Reach.

## Physical appearance

Grabclaw is a gragorn, and as such has a humanoid, scaly, lizard-like body. He is not as big as Grumblebeard, but his spiraling horns are longer than his, and one more horn has begin to grow in the middle of his forehead. Grabclaw's eyes are cold and hard like steel.

## Appearances

### *The Great Devil War*

* *The Devil's Apprentice* (mentioned)
* *The Die of Death*
* *The Wrongful Death*

## Trivia

* When Grabclaw is described in *The Wrongful Death*, "hans snoede horn" (his spiraling horns), which is to be understood as being in plural in the original Danish edition, is mistranslanted in the English edition of the book as "his spiraling horn", as if he only has one, singular horn. The error might be a product of the fact that the Danish word "horn" is written the same in both singular and plural.

## References

1. ↑ 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)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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)
Kenneth B. Andersen

**Kenneth Bøgh Andersen** (born November 29 1976 in Henne, Denmark) is a Danish author, mostly known for writing middle grade and young adult novels and short stories. He grew up in Henne, Lynge, Snekkeraten and Ringsted. Today he resides in Valby. He is best known for his fantasy book series *The Great Devil War*, the series of children's books *Antboy*, the novel *Himmelherren* (*The Lord of the Sky*) and the novel *De Hvide Mænd* (*The White Men*).

Andersen wrote his first novel, *Nidhugs Slaver* (*The Slaves of Nidhogg*), while in tenth grade of the Danish *folkeskole*. The publisher that he sent it to rejected it though.

Andersen is a trained school teacher, but since 2007 he has worked as a full time author.

Andersen debuted in 2000 with his fantasy trilogy *Slaget i Caïssa* (*The Battle of Caïssa*) and has subsequently had published a variety of books for children and young adults in the genres of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He has published over thirty works and is currently the fifteenth best selling author in Danish bookstores. His books have won numerous awards and has so far been published in several languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, German, Icelandic, Spanish and English.
Great Devil War (disambiguation)

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The term **Great Devil War** could refer to:

* The war that was fought between Lucifer's army of condemned and devils of Hell and Aziel Stofeles' army of devils and accursed.
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Statue of Philip Engel

The following information is based on events in *The Die of Death* and contain spoilers.

A **statue of Philip Engel** (Danish: *Filip Engells statue*) that sands in the center of the market square in the devil city, constructed on Lucifer's order in honor of Philip Engel, after he exposed Aziel Stofeles and his mother during his first journey to Hell. The statue, made out of copper, stands about 7 feet in height (over 2 meters), and are cast wearing a cape over its shoulders and stands with one hand on his hip and the other raised to his forehead, rubbing two bumps in his forehead, remnants of the horns Philip once had. The copper face have a grim expression, its mouth is a thin line, its eyes are black and glowering and the bumps are considerably bigger than Philip's actual bumps. A small bronze plaque is fixed to the statue with an inscription etched into it that reads:

PHILIP ENGEL
The Bane of the Great Conspiracy
A Hell of a Boy
The statue had been vandalized.

## Trivia

* In the original Danish version of *The Die of Death* (*Dødens terning*) the inscription on the statue *A Hell of a Boy* was *En Satans knægt*, which literally means "A Satan's boy".

1. ↑ 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)
Poseidon

**Poseidon** (/pəˈsaɪdən, pɒ-, poʊ-/;[1] Greek: Ποσειδῶν, pronounced [poseːdɔ́ːn]) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, and god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses. In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes. His Roman equivalent is Neptune.

Poseidon was one of the sons of Chronus and Rhea, and the brother of Zeus and Hades, as well as Demeter, Hestia, Hera, and Chiron. He was believed to be the protector of seafarers, and of many Hellenic cities and colonies. In Homer's *Iliad*, Poseidon supports the Greeks against the Trojans during the Trojan War and in the *Odyssey*, during the sea-voyage from Troy back home to Ithaca, the Greek hero Odysseus provokes Poseidon's fury by blinding his son, the Cyclops Polyphemus, resulting in Poseidon punishing him with storms, the complete loss of his ship and companions, and a ten-year delay. Poseidon is also the subject of a Homeric hymn.

Poseidon is said to live in a palace on the ocean floor made of corals and gemstones. Theoi goes further to explain that it is located in the Aegean Sea, near the island of Euboea. However, in Plato's *Timaeus* and *Critias*, the island of Atlantis said to be his domain. He is married to Amphitrite, the goddess of the sea.

## History

### Drawing of the lots

After the war between the giants and the gods of Mount Olympus, of which Poseidon is one, Poseidon and his two brothers, Zeus and Hades, drew lots to find out which areas they would be gods of. Poseidon picked the sea, Zeus picked the Earth and the highest status among the gods, and Hades the underworld.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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)
The Devil's Apprentice

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Hornache pill

**Hornache pills** (Danish: *Hornimagnyler*) are small pills which relieve pain in one's horns and which resembles migraine pills. The etiquette on the jar simply reads: "Hornache pills. Relieves horn pain." They are often used while one's horns are growing.

## Histor y

### *The Devil's Apprentice*

Philip Engel finds a glass jar with hornache pills on the writing desk of his castle chambers on his first night in Hell, which Lucifer had left foe him.

## Trivia

* The original Danish name of the pills, *hornimagnyl*, is a word play on *Kodimagnyl*, a real life weak pain-relieving combination drug. Likewise, the English translation, "hornache pill", is a play on "headache pill".

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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)
Telekinesis

The term "Telekinesis" has not been confirmed by official sources and is merely conjecture or a fan invention.

**Telekinesis** or **psychokinesis** is the supernatural ability to move objects only with the power of the mind. If a human not only believes but knows that God exists, there is the possibly that they may developt this extraordinary ability, such as when Philip Engel did it. However, it seems to only work ok Earth.

## References

1. ↑ Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Fallen Angel*. (Publication House) Month #, 2020. (Original Danish version published September 15, 2015 by Høst & Søn)
Main page

## Welcome to the The Great Devil War Wiki

This is an online encyclopedia dedicated to the Danish author Kenneth B. Andersen's six-part fantasy book series and journey through the afterlife, *The Great Devil War*, that **anyone** can edit. We do have a Manual of Style, however, that any potential editor should go over before starting. Also, please register first.

The first book of the series, *The Devil's Apprentice* is about a very good and 'angelic' boy named Philip Engel who mistakenly dies and ends up in Hell, forced to become the apprentice of Lucifer and to learn the ways of Evil, and eventually succeed him as the Prince of Darkness. Philip discovers an evil-minded plot against the dark throne and what follows is an amazing series of incredible journeys and experiences between several worlds, both in the worlds of the dead and the land of the living, and the condemned and the saved.

The series is inspired by several biblical tales and stories from different faiths and mythologies of the world and history, as well as historical figures and events. There is fascinating worldbuilding with Andersen often filling in the blanks where the myths are not clear, and a new and refreshing vision of Hell. The series deal with heavy themes, with a philosophical view on evil and good, and why both are necessary, and on death and life, immortality and mortality, faith and knowledge and many more topics. There is romance, humorous spins on the afterlife and many memorable characters.

The books in the series are *The Devil's Apprentice*, *The Die of Death*, *The Wrongful Death*, *The Angel of Evil* and *The Fallen Angel*. Book 6, *The Fallen Devil* is to be released in English in Fall 2020.
Styx

The **River Styx** (/ˈstɪks/; Ancient Greek: Στύξ [stýks], "hatred", "disgust" and "horror"), or the **River of Horror**, is a river that runs through the afterlife of Hades, and whose water contain nasty nightmares. It is unknown what will happen, if someone drinks of the water, but one's nightmares can be glimpsed just by looking down into the water. The water of the Styx is black.

## References

1. ↑ 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)
Stretching Rack

The **Stretching Rack** (Danish: *Vridemaskinen*, "the Mangle") is a place of punishment in Hell where the bodies of condemned are bent out of shape.

Although the English translation of the original name for the location implies that it is a rack on which the condemned are stretched out, the original Danish word is most likely a reference to a machine similar to antique mangles for clothes, or "vridemaskine" in Danish - that is, a machine with two close-fitting rotating rollers between which wet clothes pass so that liquid water is squeezed out of the cloth.

## References

1. ↑ Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Fallen Devil*. (Publication House) Month #, 2020. (Original Danish version published September 16, 2016 by Høst & Søn)
Hourglass

In Death's basement stand **hourglasses**, one for every living human, which are both people's life and an indicator of how long they are going to live. In the upper half of the hourglasses one can see the memories which are most important for a certain person's self, while the lower half shows how they are going to die. However one's fate can be altered, though it is extremely dangerous to try. In hourglasses belonging to immortal beings, the sand run both up and down simultaneously, with the sand in the upper half running down and the sand in the lower half running upwards, as if sucked up, meeting in the middle and cancelling each ohter out.

If an hourglass is turned over, the person to which it belongs will have more years to live. If it is laid on its side, the person will be able to travel between the land of the living and that of the dead. When the last grains of sand in a hourglass has run out, the person to which the glass belongs to will not die immediately, but their death is completely inevitable and impending.

The hourglasses exist in many sizes, some small as thimbles, others the size of wardrobes. In some hourglasses the sand is a regular golden color, in others it is red, blue, violet or a colorful blend, and in some the sand is either white or coal-black. The hourglasses glow with a faint sheen, taking on the color of the sand. The color indicate's a person's health, their emotional state and morales. For instance, yellow may indicate sickness while dark or light sand may indicate the level of evil and good in a given person. The glow of the sand is called an aura, and everybody has an aura.

The light inside an hourglass will go out and the sand turn ash-grey once the last sand grain has run out.

## Known hourglasses

### Philip Engel's mother's hourglass

The hourglass of Philip Engel's mother contain royal blue sand. While she was sick, it was yellow.

### Sam

The sand inside Sam's hourglass is nearly coal-black except for a single white stripe. The black sand indicate the imoral part of Sam's self while the single white stripe is the small bit of good remaining within the boy.

## Referencer

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 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)
Adolf Hitler

The following information is based on events in *The Die of Death* and contain spoilers.

**Adolf Hitler** (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ]; April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician, demagogue and Pan-German revolutionary. As leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), he rose to power in Germany as Chancellor in 1933 and Führer ("leader") in 1934. As dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 til 1945, he initialized World War 2 in Europe by invading Poland in September 1939, and was a central figure in the perpetration of the Holocaust, the persecution and execution of Jewish people.

In death, Hitler came to Hell as a condemned, where he is eternally punished for his crimes, for example on the Suicide Plains where he is buried alive.

## References

1. ↑ 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)
Satina Dargue

The following information contain spoilers.

**Satina Dargue** (pronounced [ˈsæːtina 'dɑɹg]) (Danish: *Satina Mørch*) is a young female devil and a tempter. She is the daughter of Blackhorn Dargue and Demeona Dargue, and the older sister of the twins Blackhorn Junior and Philip.

## Appearances

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

## Trivia

* The last name "Dargue" is pronounced as "darg" and is a play on the word "dark". The devil family's name in the original Danish editions of the books were likewise, *Mørch*, which is a real Danish last name that is pronounced is pronounced "*Mørk*", meaning "dark".

## References

1. ↑ 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)
2. ↑ 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)
3. ↑ Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Fallen Angel*. (Publication House) Month #, 2020. (Original Danish version published September 15, 2015 by Høst & Søn)
Tarshell

The following information is based on events in *The Devil's Apprentice* and *The Wrongful Death* and contain spoilers.

**Tarshell** (pron. [tɑːʃɛl]) (Danish: *Takskal*) is a he-devil and a painter. Tarshell lives with his monstrous animals out in a house in the Forest of Fear, where he paints pictures that are somehow alive, and in which condemned may be trapped in a never-ending torturing scenario. His paintings are everywhere in Hell, including in Lucifer's castle, and he is famous for his talents, considered the greatest and most famous painter in all of Hell. Among the monsters kept by Tarshell, all of which are part of the accursed of Outer Reach, are some baby basilisks and a chimera named Faitfhul for a pet.

## Physical appearance

Tarshell is an old, squat little demon. Two well-worn horns sticks out from his head over his eyes, he has two raven wings on his back whose feathers are gray, a long rat tail at his rear end, and he has a crown of white, unruly hair.

## Personality

Evidently Tarshell has a fondness for creatures, especially the monsters found among the accursed in Outer Reach. For example, he keeps basilisk babies in a wire mesh cage in his backyard, and he keeps a chimera for a pet which he has named "Faithful".

## Abilities

Tarshell has great skill in painting, with an ability to create large, realistic scenes, but the most peculiar of his skills is the ability that he has to create paintings that are somehow alive, in which the souls of condemned may be trapped. In these paintings, Tarshell often creates a never-ending torturing scenario for the condemned which is sometimes based on the sins or crimes that caused their admittance to Hell.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 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)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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)
Einherjar

In Norse mythology the **einherjar** (singular **einherji**) are humans who have died in battle and been brought to Valhalla by valkyries. There are no more einherjar alive in Valhalla, as they all died at Ragnarok at the plain of Vigrid. When Philip Engel and Satina Dargue visited Asgard, they passed through Vigrid and found the einherjar dead from the recently staged battle of Ragnarok.

## Mythological background

In Valhalla, the einherjar spend every day eating their fill of the flesh of the nightly-ressurecting beast Sæhrimnir (Old Norse *Sæhrímnir*) and were brought mead by valkyries (which came from the udder of the goat Heidrun (Old Norse *Heiðrún*), and prepare daily for the events of Ragnarok (Old Norse , where they will move on to the plain of Vigrid (Old Norse *Vígríðr*).

## Etymology

The Old Norse singular name for the einherjar, *einherji*, literally means "army of one" and is to be understood as "one who fights alone but with the power of an army". The term is derives from Old Norse *einn* (literally “one”) +‎ *herji* (“army”).

## References

1. ↑ Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Fallen Devil*. (Publication House) Month #, 2020. (Original Danish version published September 16, 2016 by Høst & Søn)
Eve

**Eve** was the second human being and the first female human created by God. She was the wife of Adam, the first man. Together with Adam, he and Eve are the first ancestor and ancestress of all humans in the world.

## Physical appearance

Eve has black skin and long, shining grey hair. Eve, along with Adam, is old, and she has a lot of wrinkles. Both of them stil have a long life ahead of them, but they are clearly already far into their afterlife.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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)

1. ↑ In the original Danish edition of *The Wrongful Death*, at Chapter 28 *Syndefaldet* (*The Fall* in the English edition), in a flashback to the Fall of Man, Eve (called Eva in Danish) is described as having: *langt, skinnende hår.* which literally translates to *long, shining hair*. However, this detail is not included in the English translation of the book. Although it is mentioned earlier in the book that she has dark skin, in the Danish version of the flashback, her having dark skin is also mentioned, but in the English translation this detail is also omitted. The reasoning may be that we have already been told earlier, in the present time.
Lucifer's sword

**Lucifer's sword** is the sword that the devil king, Lucifer, wielded in the war in Heaven when he was still an archangel, and which he later wielded in the Great Devil War. When the sword is not used by the Devil, it is kept in a long glass display case at the Hell museum, exhibited in a room next to one of Philip Engel's old caoes.

It is unknown whether Lucifer's sword is a flaming sword, but as it had a blade that could break, as it did on the battlefield in Heaven, it is likely that it is a simple metal sword, possibly steel.

## History

### War in Heaven

Lucifer had his sword with him at the Great War in Heaven, using it against the angel army of God.

### Exhibited at the Hell museum

Following Lucifer and his followers' banishment to Hell and the eventual founding of the devil city, Lucifer's sword was exhibited in a glass display case at Hell museum.

### Great Devil War

Lucifer's sword remained exhibited at Hell museum until the Great Devil War began to brew. During the battle of Hell, the final bout of the war, Lucifer used his old sword against the army of Aziel Stofeles.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Angel of Evil*. (Publication House) October 20, 2019. (Original Danish version published April 29, 2010 by Høst & Søn)
Possession

**Possession** (Danish: *Besættelse af fremmedlegemer*, literally "possession of foreign bodies") is the ability for a tempter to possess other beings' bodies at will. It works with both humans and several animals, including the smallest animals. In fact, small, simple animals, such as insects, are easier to possess than the larger ones, which is why most tempters are only able to possess those when they have not been trained in possession. Tempters learn to possess other lifeforms in school, but the subject is not a part of the curriculum until the 90th grade due to the ability's level of difficultness. Tempters are the only devils who have been shown to be able to possess, but it is possible that other types of devils are capable of doing it.

## References

1. ↑ 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)
Paradise

Eden
The Earthly Paradise
Heaven (mistakenly)

God's son

**Paradise**, the **earthly Paradise** or the **Garden of Eden**, often mistakenly called **Heaven** by humankind as well as several devils, is an afterlife created by God, which lies between Earth and Heaven. The location, which takes the form of a vast, beautiful, lush garden, but which also include other types of landscapes, is the afterlife for humans who have been good while alive on Earth, the ones called "the saved". Paradise also teems with all animals from history, both extinct and still living specimen, and all of them are tame. God owns a cottage in **Paradise** where he resides while staying in the garden, and several of his angels come to stay or do their tasks in the garden from time to time.

According to Lucifer the the idea of the saved lying in hammocks and resting all day is not accurate, despite it being humankind's view of the good afterlife. Instead, according to him, living in Paradise means hard work, but it is nothing compared to the working conditions in Hell.

## Locations

### Pearly gates

The pearly gates, also called ‘the white gate’, is the entrance to and exit from Paradise and lies by the eastern border of the garden. The gate, which in reality is a common white-painted door, sits in the rock wall of a formidable mountain range whose peaks, which are covered by snow, stretches into the sky. The door hangs a little loose on its hinges, and the paint has started to peel. Its handle is made of gold. The gate is guarded by Saint Peter.

## Appearances

### *The Great Devil War*

* *The Wrongful Death*
* *The Angel of Evil*
* *The Fallen Angel*
* *The Fallen Devil*

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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)
Immortality

**Immortality** is the ability to live forever. It does not, however, keep one from being subjected to aging or disease or injury.

## Nature

Immortal beings cannot die. If mortally wounded, if their heart is even pierced, their heart will still remain beating, keeping one in constant pain. Immortals are not kept from being subjected to aging or disease either, as evidenced by Lucifer's disease induced by the rabbit's foot.

## Notable immortals

* God
* Lucifer
* Mortimer
* Vita
* Tempus
Apple of Life

The term "Apple of Life" has not been confirmed by official sources and is merely conjecture or a fan invention.

The **Apple of Life** is the fruit of the Tree of Life, and has the ability make those who eat of it immortal unless they already are. The Apples of Life are so red that they make the apples of the Tree of Knowledge, which are also red, pale in comparison.

## Appearances

### *The Great Devil War*

* *The Wrongful Death*
* *The Angel of Evil*

## References

1. ↑ 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)
Apple of Knowledge (Adam and Eve)

God (formerly)

Adam (formerly)
Eve (formerly)

Turn an immortal human mortal, as God's order is still in place

On the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the center of the Garden of Eden (formerly)

The **Apple of Knowledge** Eve and Adam ate of and thus disobeyed God's order, leading to the fall of man by which they and all their future descendants were banished from the Garden of Eden, and God deprived them of immortality. This was in spite of Lucifer being the one to initially tempt Eve to eat of the apple, leading to her temptation of Adam in turn. The core of the apple that they ate is exhibited at Hell's museum.

## References

1. ↑ 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)
2. ↑ Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Angel of Evil*. (Publication House) October 20, 2019. (Original Danish version published April 29, 2010 by Høst & Søn)
3. ↑ Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Fallen Angel*. (Publication House) Month #, 2020. (Original Danish version published September 15, 2015 by Høst & Søn)
4. ↑ 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)

## Appearances

### *The Great Devil War*

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

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

The **angel of the Lord** (Hebrew: מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה‎ *malakh YHWH*, "Yahweh/Jehovah's messenger") is an angel who appears several times in the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) in God's (Jehovah's) place.

Among other things, it was this angel that stopped Abraham from killing his son, Isaac, when God had ordered Abraham to sacrifice him to prove his loyalty to him. The angel of the Lord swapped Isaac for Abraham's rams so it was offered instead. According to Moses, God had forgotten everything about Abraham and Isaac. In Paradise the angel of the Lord has helped many of the saved with settling in the mountains, so that they can be as far away as possible from the god whom they had begun to hold a grudge against. Some of these humans are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Moses.

## Physical appearance

The Angel of the Lord is eldery and his body slightly built. His skin is white and the two swan wings on his back are gray.

## Religious background

The angel of the Lord (or an angel of the Lord in certain places) (Hebrew: מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה‎ malakh YHWH "Yahweh's messenger") is a being who apæears several times throughout the Hebrew Bible (what is called the Old Testament in Christianity) in God's (Yahweh's) place, to represent him.

The term malakh YHWH, which appears 65 times in the Hebrew biblical text, can be translated as either "angel of the Lord" or "an angel of the Lord".

Traditionally, the angel who appeared before Abraham and stopped him from offering his son is considered to be the angel of the Lord. In the New Testament, the phrase "the angel of the Lord" (ἄγγελος Κυρίου) appears several times, once (Luke 1:11–19), where he is identified as Gabriel. A closely related term is "God's angel" or "the angel of God") (*mal'akh 'Elohim*), mwntioned 12 times (2 of which is in plural). Another related term, "the Angel of Presence", appears only once. (Esaiah 63:9).

## Trivia

* Selv om Herrens engel ikke bliver kaldt ved navn i *Den faldne engel* er det åbenlyst, at der er tale om denne engel, ud fra det faktum, at Abraham fortæller Filip Engell og Satina Mørch, at det var ham, der standsede ham i at slå Isak ihjel. I Bibelen bliver Herrens engel kun kaldt ved et navn i Lukasevangeliet 1:11-19, hvilket er Gabriel. Gabriel er en af Guds ærkeengle. I Dommerbogen 13:17 spørger kvinden Manoa englen, da han viser sig for hende om hvad hans navn er, og englen svarer, "Hvorfor spørger du om mit navn? Det er uforståeligt." I andre oversættelser, svarer han "Det ligger uden for (jeres) forstand", "Det er underfuldt" eller "Det er vidunderligt." Dette tillægsord er på hebraisk נִפְלָא, *niflá*.

## References

1. ↑ The Hebrew Bible
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Fallen Angel*. (Publication House) Month #, 2020. (Original Danish version published September 15, 2015 by Høst & Søn)
Aziel Stofeles' mother

Hell (formerly)

**Aziel Stofeles' unnamed mother** was a female devil, who planned to overthrow Lucifer from the dark throne with her son. When their crime was discovered by Philip Engel, Lucifer banished Aziel and his mother with eternal exile to Outer Reach. At one point in her life, she was with a male condemned human, and the result was the birth of their son, Aziel. When Aziel found out the circumstances under which he had come to the world, the son murdered his mother during their exile in Outer Reach.

## Physical appearances

Aziel Stofeles' mother was tall, her eyes were black and her hair blond, framed by four coal-black horns. On one hand's index finger she wore three large gold rings, each engraved with the words "Trickster Champion", which had been her prizes for winning the Festival of Tricks three years in a row.

## Appearances

### *The Great Devil War*

* *The Devil's Apprentice*
* *The Die of Death'*

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. ↑ 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)
Murder of Grumblebeard

The following information is based on events in *The Wrongful Death* and contain spoilers.

The **murder of Grumblebeard** was committed on Grumblebeard by Grum.

## References

1. ↑ 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)