Adramelech

The Grand Chancellor of Hell

## Names and Epithets

### Aliases

Adrael (Former Name), Baal Adramelch, Adrammelech, Andramelech, Adramalek, Adramale, Rainchild

### Titles

Supervisor of the Devil's Wardrobe, Knight of Lucifer, Demon Lord of the Sun, King of Fire, Sparrow who Became a Bat, Sparrow Knight of the Holy Heavens (Formerly), Bombastic Infernal Chancellor

## Profile

### Race

Demon (Archdemon), Fallen Angel (Formerly)

### Occupation

Chancellor of the Stygian Council, President of the Senate of Demons, Chancellor and Operative of the Order of the Fly, Supervisor for Satan and Lucifer, Manager of Satan's and Lucifer's Wardrobes, Prince of Hell

### Affiliations

Stygian Council, Pandemonium, Hell, Sepharvaim, Order of the Fly, Castlevania, Dracula's Army

## Relationships

### Other Relationships

Uriel & Raphael (Enemies), Lucifer & Satan (Masters), Lucifuge Rofocale (Rival), Samael (Superior), Dracula Vlad Ţepeş (Temporary Master), Carmilla (Temporary Master)

## Other

### Status

Alive

**Adramelech**, formerly known as **Adrael**, is a powerful demon that holds the role of Grand Chancellor of Hell and President of the Senate of Demons as well as being the supervisor of Lucifer's and Satan's wardrobes. Due to his various positions in the hierarchy of Hell, he is considered a useful asset to many and is greatly respected.

## Overview

Adramelech is a fallen angel-turned-demon of Judeo-Christian lore that was once vanquished by the True Archangels Uriel and Raphael during the War in Heaven. 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 falsely gain worship as a sun god in Sepharvaim alongside his brother Anamelech who was worshipped as a moon god. The center of their worship was the town of Sepharvaim and was brought by the Sepharvite colonists into Samaria.

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 within the Stygian Council of Pandemonium, and the one who decides what Satan and Lucifer wear before they make public appearances, acting as supervisor of their wardrobe. He is also the eighth of the ten evil Sephiroth. He is also the chancellor of the Order of the Fly, founded by Beelzebub and the president of the high council of devils.

As apart of Dracula's Army, Adramelech appears as a gigantic demon embedded on the wall of the highest chamber of the Chapel Tower. Only his head and hands are visible, and due to their position it could be assumed the rest of his body to be anthropomorphic as well.

## Appearance

When manifesting into reality, 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. He often appeared in animal forms such as that of a peacock, mule, horse, or lion.

In Castlevania and similar locations, he appears as a large, green and thick-furred creature featuring the head of a ram and humanoid clawed hands. His eyes and other parts of his body are covered by what appear to be black leather stripes with buckles, items usually associated with sadomasochism.

## 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 and Lilith can do to. He can levitate, shoot ice lightnings, project light rays with his peacock tail, and even teleport himself in clouds of smoke.

While residing in Castlevania or similar places, Adramelech fought by making the area beneath him dangerous by constantly spawning purple bubbles which are harmful to the touch. These can be burst by a single hit from any attack. Adramelech can conjure about eight blue fireballs around his head that will then be launched one by one at his opponent's current position. He can also conjure floating skulls which will swoop down from one side of the room to the other. These can be avoided by crouching under the hand that conjures them.

* **Solar Manipulation**: As demon of the Sun, Adramelech can shape, and manipulate all aspects of the sun (or any other similar star), starting from its immense heat, luminosity, mass/gravitational field, magnetic field, raw nuclear energy, reaction, any anything else. These include solar winds/flares, geomagnetic storms, sunspot reaction causation and UV emissions.
	+ **Demonic Nova Manipulation**: Adramelech is able to create which he calls 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. He once used it to completely incinerated an army of one hundred Jinn and other spirits.
	+ **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 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 and Early Life

Adrael was created near the beginning of time by God alongside the rest of his angelic brethren. Given his later role as the supervisor for the Devil's wardrobe, it is likely that he had a similar job description within Hell where he tailored and designed the outfits for the angels. During his time in Heaven he befriended the angel Anamelech, considering him more of a brother than the rest of the angels. 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 Adrael to give him a light that was somehow he brighter than God's, and Adrael became ecstatic at this pledge. Adrael agreed, and became a major part of Helel's army.

### War in Heaven and Fall

Adrael 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. Adrael realized his situation and started planning almost immediately, but not before he abandoned the name his Creator gave him and took up the name Adramelech.

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 main rulers of Hell, Lucifer and Satan. Adramelech was also appointed as the chancellor of the Order of the Fly, founded by Beelzebub and president of the high council of devils.

### 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.

### Circle of the Moon

When defeated by Nathan Graves, his head fell off and reveal a purple-like liquid coming out from his neck. When reentering the room, his entire body will have disappeared, leaving no signs of it ever having been there. A pressure plate can be found in the next room, which once stepped upon will destroy all the previously impassable green iron maidens scattered throughout Carmilla's castle.

## Myths and Legends

He's considered the Grand Chancellor of the infernal empire of Hell. According to the Dictionnaire Infernal, he became the President of Devils' general council (the Senate of the Demons), as well as the eighth of the ten evil demons of the Sefirot of the Tree of Life. He works under the command of Samael.

A poet's description of Adramelech can be found in Robert Silverberg's short story "Basileus." Adramelech is described as *"The enemy of God, greater in ambition, guile and mischief than Satan. A fiend more curst — a deeper hypocrite."*

Like other pagan gods, Adramelech is considered a demon in Judeo-Christian tradition. Adramelech has been linked to the Jinn Asmadai, mentioned in Milton's Paradise Lost as one of the potent thrones. Milton also referred to Adramelech as an Assyrian idol and as a jinni defeated by Uriel and Raphael. In addition, he appears in The History of Magic, pictured as a horse, and has been equated with the Babylonian god Anu, and with the Ammonite Moloch.

The name appears in Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews (book 16, chapter 8) as Andromachos and in Greek sources as Adramelos and Ardumuzan. The name is also used for a son of Sennacherib in 2 Kings (19:37), who with Sharezer, his brother, murdered his father in the temple of the god Nisroch after they learned their father planned to sacrifice them to the god.

### Infernal Lords

Marquis Adramelech is a Higher Demon and an important figure in the Court of Pandemonium. He was formerly the Second-in-Command of Thrones under Duke Astaroth's leadership, and followed his Chief during the Great Heavenly War against God, hoping to overpower him in the process, although unsuccessfully. After the Fall, he retained his powers as a former Astral Angel, becoming the Demon of the Sun: not only does he have power over the Secondary Element Light, but also on the astrological influence of his Planet. He shares these traits with his opposite yet complementary twin sister, Marquise Anamelech, the Demon of the Moon.

Having kept his former plot a secret, he's still rather close to the oblivious Duke Astaroth, but his friendship with Duke Beelzebub is more notable, as he's also part of the latter's Order of the Great Fly. Another good comrade is Marquise Decarabia, who can boost her powers thanks to Marquis Adramelech's. He also enjoys the company of Demons of the Arts, most notably that of Theatre, Count Kobal. Ambitious and arrogant, yet cultured and sophisticated, he aimed to the First Level as the Satan of Pride, but was overcome by the more cunning Duke ?????? in the struggle for the position. Nevertheless, thanks to his mighty powers and his relation with the two aforementioned Satans, he made it to the Second Level anyways, being part of Emperor Lucifer's entourage as the supervisor of his wardrobe. He's also the Great Chancellor of the Court and it's a spell of his that keeps Hell illuminated.

He has a slight dislike for Marquis Andrealphus, mainly because the latter can overpower his astrological influence, although he covers this as overprotectiveness for his sister, and has an ever greater dislike for the sombre Count Mammon and the ostracised Viscount Legion than other Courtiers do. The reason he is most rumoured about at Court, though, is his being notably at odds with Duke ??????, as they both like being in the spotlight, with Marquis Adramelech being envious of his title of Demon of Pride and Duke ?????? taking advantage of his higher rank to constantly tease him.

### Historical Origins

Adrammelech was an ancient Semitic god mentioned briefly by name in the Book of Kings, where he is described as a god of "Sepharvaim". Sepharvaim is commonly, but not certainly, identified with the twin cities of Sippar Yahrurum and Sippar Amnanum on the banks of the Euphrates, north of Babylon, where children was burned as a sacrificial offering to him. The name probably translates to "Magnificent king."

An unrelated person with the name of Adrammelech is described in Hebrew writings as a son and murderer of Sennacherib, king of Assyria. He was known in the Akkadian language as Arda-Mulissu, and was the rebellious son of Sennacherib.

## Quotes

* *"I am Adramelech, loyal servant and sworn knight of the Demon Lord Lucifer."* - Adramelech.

* *"You know, when I heard that, I thought there was a clown nearby. Turn out I was wrong. You're the whole circus instead."* - 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!!!"* - Lucifuge Rofocale about Adramelech.

* *"The enemy of God, greater in malice, ambition, and mischief than Satan, a fiend more curst, a deeper hypocrite."* - The Messiah, written by the German poet Klopstock.

* *"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 with 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..."* - 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."* - The Dictionary of Demons, written by Michelle Belanger.

## Gallery

*An Illustration of Adramelech**Rainchild**Fabolous Peacock**King of Fire**Adramelech in Castlevania*
## Trivia

* Like Moloch, Adramelech is a demon in the form of a sun god.
* The "melech" from his name means "King" in Hebrew.
	+ The meaning of Adramelech is possibly "Magnificent King", likewise Anamelech possibly means "Anu is King."

## Image Sources

* (William-scarratt-adramelech-4.jpg) Adramelech by William Scarratt
* (Adramelech.jpg/Adramelech Occult.jpg) Adramelech from Dictionnaire Infernal
* (Adramelech Smilingdemon.jpg) Adramelech by smilingdemon/Sylvain Dousset
* (Adramelech for freyad dryden by genrechowderstudios d8uee8j-fullview.jpg) Adramelech for Freyad-Dryden by GenreChowderStudios
* (Fabulous p e a c o c k by rosiana d1pxl2q-fullview.jpg) .:+Fabulous P E A C O C K +:. by Rosiana
* (Demon of fire by b1gqu1nnbfg d5qch1x-fullview.jpg) Demon of Fire by B1gQu1nnBFG
* (Adramelech by GothicNarcissus.jpg) Adramelech by GothicNarcissus
* (Adramelech SMTIVF.png) Adramelech from Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse
* (Adramelech concept SMT4A.jpg) Adramelech concept art from Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse
* (Adramelech Castlevania.gif) Adramelech from Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
* (Adramelech Castlevania1.gif) Adramelech from Castlevania: Circle of the Moon