Legion

The Devil That Is Many (Art by Maia Fischer Walter)

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**Mehiel**, also known as the **Legion**, is one of the main antagonists of the Warriors of Eden story. Legion is a powerful demon created by Lucifer after her rebellion to serve her will. He was originally an insignificant and very weak demon, but began to devour his demon brothers and sisters, merging with them until he became one of the most powerful demons in Hell, being a totally evil demon with an unrelenting desire for the death of humans.

## Appearance

Legion is a spiritual being, having no physical form or anything related. However, it is usually perceived as a large dark cloud filled with dragon hands protruding from within. When manifesting on Earth during the 21st century, Legion appeared as a huge, insect-like being, with multiple arms, eyes and a mouth full of sharp teeth. He has a red skin and a demon tail.

## Personality

Mehiel is a chaotic and evil entity, with some demons describing it as having no feelings whatsoever, acting in an animalistic way, following only its insatiable killing instinct. Legion by possessing the Gadarene man, he made the man try to cut himself with sharp stones to try to make him kill himself, a fact that was proved when he entered the pigs and immediately made them commit suicide. Legion, when possessing a human body, begins to torture the psychological person, making him have depressive and negative thoughts to erase any desire of live from its host. Their attitude of possessing human bodies is seen as an abhorrent act to most angels, as it deprives humans of their only weapon, free will. Raphael mentions that Legion is "evil for fun" and his sport is torturing the children of God.

Despite this, he showed himself to be a coward and with a great fear of supernatural beings above him, as when he saw Jesus Christ with his disciples and his immediate reaction was to bow to the Messiah for fear of being sent back to Hell. He also does not risk entering people who are protected by the Holy Spirit. Legion proclaims himself to be the personification of the most evil, abominable, terrible and atrocious in the world, having no sense of bravery, kindness or justice. He also turned out to be a great devotee of the Archangel of Darkness, Lucifer, even going after her after she mysteriously disappeared. However, upon learning that Lucifer was in a human body and was now less malignant and more benevolent, Legion abandoned all his devotion to the Morning Star, even attacking her and trying to kill her, taking advantage of the fact that she was weaker, since Legion considered that a "good Lucifer" was not necessary for them demons.

Legion also proved to be a treacherous and perverse being, as when he attacked Lucifer's human family because he believed it was the human family that was connecting him to the earthly world, which resulted in his ruin, as this only made Lucifer want to kill Legion outright.

## History

After Lucifer, the Morning Star, rebelled against the Creator and became a Fallen Angel, she needed new allies to help her build her new realm on Sheol (known as Hell among humans). For this, she began to use her powers of darkness to give life to various chaotic and evil entities, the demons. Lucifer created myriads of demons of all types, among them was Mehiel, one of Lucifer's weakest demons. Mehiel was a demon who only served the wills of his siblings who were more powerful than he was, often serving as a joke to them.

Mehiel being a demon, returned the humiliation by attacking his younger siblings, devouring them completely to alleviate their anger and hatred. However, as he fed, the stronger he got, this was due to the fact that his brothers and sisters eventually merged with him, making his power grow more and more.

When getting a very great power, he began to devour his siblings who were previously stronger than him, thus acquiring an extraordinary level of power. However, due to being fused with thousands of demons, Mehiel ended up becoming a confused entity, and as the demons had been created to hate God's main creation, humanity, Mehiel was an absurdly evil demon, since he possessed the hatred of thousands of demons in a single entity, hating human beings with all strength, with perhaps their sole purpose in life is to kill and torture and make them suffer.

Since then, he has come to be known as the Legion, He Who Is Many. Legion possessed the bodies of human beings and tortured them psychologically and physically, whether by trauma, phobia or fear, he uses everything at his disposal, to torture his victim until it simply gave up on living.

During AD 30, he possessed a Gadarene man, and made him try to take his life several times, cutting himself with stones and injuring himself with pieces of wood, in addition to making the man a violent person, which made the man's family leave him for fear of him. However, Legion ended up meeting Jesus Christ, the Anointed One, where, afraid of being cast back to Hell, he begged the Messiah to let him enter the pigs that were beside him so that he would leave the man's body, never to return. Yeshua consented and Legion left the man and entered the pigs that immediately took their own lives throwing themselves in the water, confirming that this was what Legion wanted to do with the Gadarene man.

More than a thousand years later, in the 21st century, Legion went looking for his master, Lucifer, who had been missing for years, and found him, but to his surprise, Lucifer (now Helena Smith) was no longer the same, as she was less malignant and her aura was less sinister, in other words, Lucifer was becoming an angel of light again, much to the disappointment of Legion and the other demons. Legion rebelled against Lucifer, attacking her human family to try to make Lucifer feel hate and contempt for everything again, but failed miserably, only making the Morning Star want to kill Mehiel. After several confrontations, Lucifer managed to access an infinitesimal fraction of her original power, managed to kill Legion, never to hurt anyone again.

## Quotes

* *"Don't worry, my son Legion. I will finish what Jesus Christ started. He may have had mercy on your life, but I didn't."* - Helena Smith before killing Legion.

* *"And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshipped him; and crying out with a loud voice, he saith, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, torment me not. For he said unto him, Come forth, thou unclean spirit, out of the man. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he saith unto him, My name is Legion; for we are many. And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. Now there was there on the mountain side a great herd of swine feeding. And they besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. And he gave them leave. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the sea, in number about two thousand; and they were choked in the sea."* - Mark 5:6-13.