feel it crawl
through your belly
feel it devour
as it fades
your stomach lining
Run while you can

The Nepharite Sandolphin


Before his transformation into a Nepharite, Sandolphin was Binah’s chief Seraphim, and angel dedicated to the preservation of the religion against science, and led in the forefront of crusades against technology as a symbol to inspire. Binah’s Lictors supported her decision only in part, for they secretly loathed the doting and ignorant angel. Binah praised Sandolphin more than the bloated Lictors, and for that they hid their hate.

Around the 16th Century the Demiurge lost control of the Illusion and the Binah turned her attention to the Demiurge and other Archons, losing interest in Sandolphin. Binah’s Lictors took over control of Binah’s interest and battled science as it strove to destroy religion and myth. Sandolphin was used in that battle, made to wander the Illusion defending and inspiring mankind against technology, but it was a crumbling war they fought. Sandolphin travelled to the schools arguing only to find his faith attacked everywhere, humiliated. This constant barrage disheartened Sandolphin, but he kept his faith constant and never wavered, striving his best.

Then the first World War came, a war about people, not wholly do to with religion in this age of science - a war that encompassed many lands. Technology had grown war into a world problem, rather than centralised around one country or ideal. The Lictors under Binah increased their pressure and slowly changed to Communism, instructing those in the service of Binah to do so as well.

Sandolphin was sent to Germany, purposefully (with spite from he Lictors), and told to encourage Germany’s efforts so that Communism would have something to fight against. Not questioning this, Sandolphin went. The war passed, and then Hitler arrived. Sandolphin, still wandering the Illusion, was swept up in the politics and religion was swept under the rug more. Blindly he followed the Lictor’s decrees and under their behest commanded a concentration camp. There he slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Jews. The Lictors found Sandolphin’s metaphoric slaughter of religion ironic, but the angel found it unbearable. He continued with his task, although Chagidiel played heavy influence on his camp, the atrocities Sandolphin witnessed… Sandolphin slowly forgot what he was and whom he served. Then the war ended.

Captured by the Russians, he silently went to the POW camps, not knowing who he was. No war crimes were called against him, though officers under him were dragged screaming from cells never to be seen again.

Then one morning one of Binah’s Lictors approached the Seraphim and reminded him of the glory he once held under Binah, how he could regain it by a monument to her, to remind her that religion was just as powerful as Communism, but he would have to build a Communist monument to garner her attention.

Illuminated, Sandolphin agreed. With other POWs Sandolphin built, under the guard of the Red Army, the first monument of Communism within Moskov - the Kotelnicheska Apartments for the party elite under Stalin. Sandolphin carried out this task with a new passion, a new-found faith.

But the Lictor was only using the seraphim. He had been instructed by Binah to erect seven massive towers, known to the public as apartments for Stalin. These were no ordinary apartments, however, but repositories of Binah’s power. When religion fell, Binah’s power crumbled, but with Communism it soared, and by investing power within these huge towers she could better enforce that power. Binah told the Lictor to accomplish this at any means. Binah knew nothing of Sandolphin, she forgot him long ago.

Sandolphin knew nothing of the power Binah was placing within the building, but he became aware during the finishing stages of the tower; the other POW’s were beginning to show signs of Awakening. Intrinsic to his nature he buried these men within the walls of the tower and looked deeper into the building he was erecting and found Binah’s imitation seal (like that of the Demiurge Binah was mimicking him with the number 7, seven Communist towers with seven shards of her power).

Sandolphin was outraged. Binah was breaking the Illusion to enforce it, and more he saw that she did not know he existed any more. His anger grew as he stood within the massive Communist tower, Binah’s new religion. Everything he had battled for in her name had been discarded for power.

He fled the tower into the streets of the district, Taganka, and mourned… for the lost effort, and the betrayal. And as the mourning passed, he saw that something needed to be done. Communism disallowed religion and soulless children were growing up with politics as a new god. Sandolphin shouldered from street to street seeing the communist portraits of the children holding the red flag, with the party… the people and only the people. He pitied them.

Then he came across two children in the gutter, living under the ‘glory’ of Communism. In mercy he slew them, to cease their experience to a spiritless existence and betrayal. And so he continued, mercifully murdering children. The Kotelnicheska apartments were completed without him. As the murders continued he began to see that simple murder was not enough, that before death their experience of Communism and the betrayal must be removed, tortured out of them. And so he continued, mercifully torturing children before their eventual release.

Absent from the tower a group of the POWs had begun to awaken and they noticed the deaths of those POWs who had undergone the most significant awakening, buried in the walls. Investigation led them to uncover Sandolphin torturing and slaughtering children in the suburb of Taganka. They descended into the streets, captured the Seraphim and hauled him to the last floor of the Kotelnicheska apartments and hurled him off, his wings, bloody and torn, unable to slow his descent. As he fell Sandolphin cursed Binah.

Impressed with Sanpdolphin’s torture and mutilation of children Chagidiel took him into Inferno and transformed the now-vengeful angel into a Nepharite. Chagidiel’s optimism slowly diminished as Sandolphin, now a Nepharite sought only those who murdered him. He hunted the tower and found the POWs and dragged them to special purgatories, though many escaped into the suburb below and with their powers hid from the Infernal angel who roamed the Kotelnicheska apartments, preventing the POWs access back to Binah’s power, knowing full well they wanted to return.

For the next thirty or so years Sandolphin hunted only the POWs, and the children that learnt from the near-awakened war criminals who served Binah, finding one on average every ten years, a poor record for a Nepharite. Although a large group of one POW’s followers he caught in one swoop, and created special purgatories for; vast Cabbalistic churches which have the dogma of Communist Government, both in extremes, where they are dragged through the horrors of both ideals.

Sandolphin’s rage, and his madness was so great that Chagidiel’s other Nepharites steered clear of him. That with the factor Sandolphin still held powers as a Seraphim. Chagidiel looked the other way.

Then Communism fell. Sandolphin was relieved, though his faith had long past he was in rapture that Binah had lost hers. In horror he watched the western ideals barrelling into the democratic Russia and the children, the children growing lustful for the West. Sandolphin felt the stirring’s of old hate and he descended in a black cloud into Moskov.

Chagidiel watched, impressed with this sudden turn around, as Sandolphin’s purgatories grew at an immense rate.

Sandolphin uses the feelings of need, want and desire of the Russian youth to create endless prisons of material wealth, positions, and popularity from the child’s mind, elating them to the closest point from success, and destroys it in one fell suite, using all his powers of ridicule, peer pressure, to drag them down to hell, never allowing them to retain their pride, constantly reminded of their failure.

Those children who live with those POWs who want to return Binah’s power, Sandolphin erects purgatories out of Binah’s ideals of religion and communism, but places the child in the position of persecuted; running in fear from dark agents, or being stripped to the core along 32 paths of pain and torture.

Sandolphin knows that the POWs train children in Cabbalist methods to enter the Kotelnicheska apartments and get to Binah’s seal to restore her influence by erecting a sanctuary, something never fully completed (one of the reasons why Communism failed). Sandolphin waits, taking any who try to get close.

Sandolphin is naked except for carapace-like steel armour, spikes puncturing outward, which also pierce his flesh. A huge elongated helmet melted against his bone covers his head, serpentine eyes glare from within. Distended and black claws end in wickedly long nails. Bloody stumps of flesh on his back are all that remain of his seraphic legacy.