Crowley

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

**Date of Death:** 1475 CE

**Place of Death:** Scotland

### Background: 78 - 77 BCE

The ancient witch Rowena had infiltrated Roman society, but had yet to establish herself among its patricians. Enter Quintus Marcius Rufus, an officer from a wealthy and proud plebian family Rowena seduced, taking steps to ensure pregnancy. Rowena then coaxed the officer into marriage.

### Florentius Marcius Rex: 77 BCE - 59 BCE

Florentius Marcius Rex was born following the marriage of his parents. From an early age, Rex was taught by his mother to manipulate, lie, cheat and steal — all to prepare him for becoming a witch, like his mother. When he was five years old, Rex's father left to fight in the Third Servile War. Quintus Marcius Rufus would return two years later, using his status as a war hero to broker more opportunities and luxuries for his wife and son.

Rex idolized his father and struggled with the act of keeping his and his mother's secrets from his father. He revealed the truth to his father but Rowena, predicting her son would do this, summoned a demon to make this potential problem go away.

Though Rufus' disappearance did not cause too many questions at first, it did put the mother and son at odds. Rex did not approve of his mother's handling of the situation. Rex's distaste for his mother was so potent that he refused to engage in the political schemes she had raised him to handle. Rowena's own attempts made Rufus' friends suspicious of her. When Rufus' closest military comrades, Marcus Licinus Crassus and Gaius Julius Caesar, had ascended to the peak of the Roman Republic's political elite, Rex and Rowena fled Rome, going north to Rowena's old homelands.

### Florentius Marcius Rex: 59 BCE - 1475 BCE

Young Rex would go on to join the Grand Coven, first serving as a Bachelor in the ranks, before becoming a Shadow and eventually being elected to serve as the Coven's Chief — a position he would hold for three hundred years. In this position, Rex constantly contested his own mother and the two's arguments nearly tore the Coven apart. After arguing with his mother for a millennium and a half, Rex orchestrated a revolt against the Grand Crone and her supporters. The division was split mostly along the gender lines of the coven and its affiliated allied covens.

Ultimately, Rex would be defeated. His mother and two of her closest allies, the Thessalian and the Iberian, each had far more power and experience than the average coven. While most of the male witches were marked as *waerloga* (oathbreakers or "warlocks"), Rex was executed.

### Crowley: 1475 - Present

After his death, Rex became a demon and adopted the new identity of Crowley. He ascended to power quickly following an intimate relationship with Carabosse and being taken in by Aradia Morningstar. Crowley soon joined the Guild of the Crossroads and became an influential soul broker, favored by Belphegor himself who would name Crowley as his right hand.

When Belphegor became a true Prince of Hell, Crowley was appointed the new Prince of the Crossroads. He hit the ground running and quickly became known as the 'King of the Crossroads'. A title given unofficially, but one that Crowley's ambitions seem poised to make official one day.

### Supplemental Reports

* (*Submitted by Four-Eyes*) Unlike most demons, Crowley does not suffer from any hatred of devils. This fact helped him rise quickly through the ranks of the Crossroads Guild where such beliefs are seen as a hindrance. Though, a chauvinist in life, Crowley also seems to have guided himself away from this belief. I believe Aradia had much to do with Crowley's progressive belief system.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Cursed Demonic Physiology:** Though born a human, Crowley's soul had so much infernal corruption that he was able to quickly transition from departed soul into a truly demonic entity — partly due to his own occult understanding but also aided by the guidance of his adopted infernal mother — Princess Aradia.
	+ ***Apportation:*** Crowley maintains a private dimension he uses as an office and vault. He is able to summon anything from this dimension to his person or local proximity with mere gesture.
	+ ***Astral Travel:*** Rather than manifesting, Crowley can explore physical planes as an astral being — unseen and unheard by most mortals.
	+ ***Enhanced Physicality:*** Crowley is endowed with incredible superhuman strength and healing. He can lift and press two tons. His body also recovers from damage much faster than a human.
	+ ***Essomantic Sorcery:*** As the leader of the Crossroads Demons, Crowley is skilled in the art of using sorcery to alter the makeup of souls. With a soul to act as fuel, Crowley can perform potent feats of magic.
	+ ***Immortality:*** As a demon, Crowley enjoys an infinite lifespan. He is not subject to disease or the rigors of age.
	+ ***Immunity:*** Crowley appears to be immune to certain weaknesses common to demons. It is possible this is a trait common to Cursed Demons or it may indicate that Crowley is simply more resourceful than other demons.
	+ ***Invulnerability:*** Crowley cannot be killed by most weaponry.
	+ ***Life-Force Absorption*** As a soul broker, Crowley is a skilled incubus and able to drain others of energy in intimate acts.
	+ ***Manifestation:*** Crowley is considered an archdemon as he has the power to manifest a physical form, usually appearing as the human warlock he did prior to his demise. In this form, Crowley can go long periods of time without rest, nutrition, or hydration. However, he does still require those things to maintain the health of his manifested body.
	+ ***Pact Sanctification:*** Though intimate acts, Crowley can seal pacts.
	+ ***Possession:*** In lieu of manifesting, Crowley can possess a human host. His targets for possession must be weak-willed or have their will compromised through trauma, grief, fear, or other stressors. Crowley can also possess animals or the remains of corpses.
	+ ***Pyrokinesis:*** Crowley can create and manipulate fire.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** Crowley can witness astral phenomena.
	+ ***Telekinesis:*** Crowley can move objects by willpower alone.
	+ ***Teleportation:*** By conjuring his demonic wings, Crowley can teleport himself and others over great distances with ease. As a Crossroads demon, he is able to teleport between Earth and Hell with no difficulty.
* **Legendary Strategist:** Crowley is considered a legendary strategist.

### Weaknesses

* **Vulnerability — Exorcism, Cold Iron, Supernal, and Eldritch Energy:** While immune to some common demon weaknesses, Crowley can be trapped by powerful wards, exorcized by ritual, or injured by cold iron or supernal energy. High levels of eldritch energy also can harm him.
* **Tell — Human:** As he was once human, his remains (if found) might be used against him.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Occult:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Weaponry:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Expertise:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Range:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Strategy:** 7 — Legendary
	+ **TOTAL:** 150
	+ **RANKING:** Severe Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Under the name Vortimer he drove off his mother and the Akkadian (under the name Vortigern) from Brittain.
* He found a Fae sorceress Carabosse, who was sent to Hell to be punished, and took pity on her. After taking her in they became intimate during the recovery. He confessed his love for her, but Carabosse's curse did not allow the feeling to be mutual. Upset by her own apathy, Carabosse left him and their son, becoming all the more foul-tempered than before for it.
* Aradia Morningstar has a maternal relationship with him which has given Crowley a meteoric rise in the Guilds of Hell unheard of for a cursed demon. Aradia allows Crowley to run the Guild of the Crossroads with autonomy, but she calls of favors often.
* He helped Aradia with gathering souls after the Manhattaning.
* Matthew Patel is his conspirator.

### Notes

* Crowley is character from the *Supernatural* TV Series.
* His appearance is based on the actor Mark Sheppard, who portrayed him on the show.
* In the show he was Scottish and Fergus MacLeod was his original name. He never knew his father and Rowena abandoned him when he was 8.
* In the comics, Charaxes is a moth-like creature Drury Walker was transformed into when he sold his soul to the demon Neron and asked him to make him feared.
* Vortimer is a figure from British tradition.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Crowley

1. ↑ Network Files: Crowley
2. ↑ NFX: Felix Faust
3. ↑ Network Files: Carabosse
4. ↑ Network Files: Aradia Morningstar 2
5. ↑ Network Files: Matthew Patel