Book Four: The Children
1. The Children of Lilith and Samael, forged from the ichor of divinity and the marrow of the earth, flourished in the sanctuary of their makers. Born of the first womb to know both mortality and eternity, they were a race unlike any before—a lineage unbound by the rigid edicts of the Merciless Light, free to carve their destiny in the newborn world.
2. As the sanctuary of Lilith and Samael flourished, their children—the Elderrace—came into being, beings of immense power forged from both celestial and terrestrial essence. The first among them were Asmodeus, Belial, Bael, Leviathan, Beelzebub, Belphegor, and Mammon, each embodying aspects of their divine and chaotic heritage.
3. Yet, their existence did not go unnoticed. From beyond the Veil, in the ineffable heights of the Pleroma, the Merciless Light beheld Lilith's defiance and Samael's insolence with cold fury. These children were an abomination—beings formed outside the grand design, beyond the order of the Demiurge's will. They were a testament to Lilith's defiance, a blight upon creation.
4. The Merciless Light's first son, Raziel, the Keeper of the Divine Law, was sent forth as an instrument of judgment. With an army of luminous seraphs, he descended upon the domain of Lilith and Samael, bringing with him the full wrath of the Pleroma. The sanctuary that had once been a haven became a battlefield drenched in divine fire.
5. Samael, the Archon of Life and Death, stood against Raziel and his celestial host. Though mighty, Samael was alone, his power vast yet finite against the inexorable will of the Firstborn of the Light. In a battle that shook the very fabric of the world, Samael fell—his essence torn asunder, his celestial ichor spilled upon the land, his death echoing as a rift in the balance of existence itself.
6. Lilith, bearing witness to the slaughter, screamed her defiance, but her cries were drowned in the decree of the Merciless Light. As punishment for her transgressions, her children—Asmodeus, Belial, Bael, Leviathan, Beelzebub, Belphegor, and Mammon—were cursed before birth. Their divine sparks were snuffed out within her womb, their bodies stillborn, their souls trapped in the liminal void between life and oblivion.
7. Yet, one endured. Asmodeus, the firstborn, the strongest among them, refused to die. His body, though weakened, clung to life, his blood carrying not only the celestial ichor of Samael but something else—the latent Adamic essence inherited from Lilith, the first woman, the mother of all.
8. Lilith, driven by anguish and fury, refused to accept the will of the Light. She would not allow her children to be taken from her, nor would she let Samael's death be in vain. She gathered the body of Asmodeus, his crimson ichor still warm, and in an act of unspeakable sorcery, she fed the stillborn bodies of his siblings with his blood.
9. The Adamic blood within Asmodeus was unlike any before it—a fusion of celestial and mortal, chaos and divinity. As his lifeblood mingled with the corpses of his kin, a great and terrible transformation took place. One by one, the stillborn stirred, their forms revived, their souls called back from the abyss by the forbidden alchemy of their mother.
10. But the price was steep. No longer were they purely celestial, nor bound to the natural order of the living. Their very existence had been an act of defiance against creation, and for this, they were forever changed. They were no longer children of mere light or darkness—they were something else entirely. They became the Daemons, the first of their kind, an Elderrace that would forever exist on the fringes of existence, neither fully alive nor truly dead.
11. With Samael slain and her children reborn in defiance of the Divine Law, Lilith gathered her offspring and cast them into the depths of the earth, into the abyss beyond the reach of the Light. She swore vengeance upon the heavens, vowing that her children, whom creation had sought to erase, would one day return—not as mere outcasts, but as conquerors.
12. And so, the world changed. The Veil of Divinity was drawn, separating the realms of the celestial, the mortal, and the damned. The forces of the Pleroma withdrew, believing Lilith and her abominable children buried in the darkness of the abyss, never to rise again.
13. But deep in the hidden places of the world, beneath the shifting sands and hollowed mountains, in the places forgotten by time, Lilith and her children endured. They waited, biding their time, their hatred festering, their power growing. For in the blood of Asmodeus lay the promise of a reckoning, and in Lilith's wrath, the first embers of rebellion had been lit.