Baali Millennium

By Larry Bernard (karasoth@gate.net)

Prolog

Martin DeAngelus has started somewhat of a pop revolution in television, movies, and books. He has started what a lot of theologians decry as making the devil a very, "fragile" creation. But to me, He has been a personal literary hero.... I started writing myself because of his first Book. 'I Luciel Morningstar' inspired me to what the power of a writer could do. Unfortunately, I was not as successful so I had to take a job freelance reporting here and there to make ends meet. Which is why I am here; 'Tragic Goth magazine' paid me to do this job . . . a lot, Seems that I was requested to do this.... Maybe he remembers me from the night lecture he gave me at college all those years ago There he is, strangely not aging a day in the scant decade since I first met him; his skin is very pale and his hair that night black that makes him the poster boy for the Goth movement. He even filed his teeth into fangs, before it was considered hip. He is wearing a black silk shirt, black leather pants and is walking barefoot on the nice carpet. "Black decor: its something I just have to have. I mean after all what would my fans think?" We made a lot of small talk, as I watched his eyes I saw something else as if he was picking my brain for something. Then he looked and smiled a bit "So, Raphael Angelo? That's a very old Italian name . . . you know that?" I nodded. He pulled out a cup of fake blood looking into it and his voiceacquired an Italian accent. "In your case, the family name comes from a small village outside of Ravenna. A young woman, a daughter of a noble lord of the city a Michel Andolenni awoke to a vision of a dark haired angel who came into her room at night and ravaged her. A child was born form that union, he was named Angelo. Angelo de Angelo." I was very confused but I realized I was unable to move; his voice returned to normal. "Raphael, when I saw you some ten years ago. I knew, the seed I laid in that village in Italy all those years ago had finally born fruit. Your kindly to a fault; you like to heal souls with your words even though you enjoy the darkness in life. You're the very paradox I have sought for so long. You complete the actions I have done. I have found my warrior, my power, my death, the razor of the night, the divine grace, and my builder.... But my healer I have been missing . . . until now." I was terrified but he continued "You shall be my Raphael, however . . . I cannot make you an angel alone. I have not earned the ability to redeem my blood yet . . . but soon. We have much to do."

Chapter I: The Deal with the Devil

"We open at the close of what the schools teach was the Dark Ages. The Baali were divided. Many others and I Embraced the new darkness, but many still embraced the old. I was made a vampire millennia previous to that day by a man called Moloch. Well he was no more a man than I or you will soon be. Moloch was the leader of the old guard in this war. The new guard was lead by a damned soul named Azaneal. Although, to be honest he was no more a devil worshiper then I am now, but in another sense he was. We were set to war and all die in a bloody sacrifice or labor of ages nothing till he came." My undead captor looked at me I felt a strange sensation in his voice. "The description I wrote of Luciel Morningstar was very true. He came down to the very battlefield where we stood and I became thrice damned that day for I helped him. He made us a deal, one old guard and new couldn't resist. We stood upon the ash of where Ashur was. Dying where we were started so long ago. Really Luciel's deal couldn't have been more potent. Call them what you will, the sleepers, the nameless horrors. They were our charges. Luciel would take them and heal them and return them to us when the wheel of the universe was to turn again, 2000 years from the birth of Christ. Or keep them asleep -- it was our choice. We would simply have to serve him and help him as need be. Our pact was multifold; we would spread the will of the Satan on earth; we would commit acts of mindboggling horror and corruption. And make sacrifice of souls to him, souls that would never go to the light, who had to be certain before we did it. We would have to feed noble souls to our sleepers. The Children. He created a council to represent his archdemons and I was on it. I was its Belial, its warrior lord. Satan placed Moloch in slumber, and our council was given power to guide the clan.

"The Renaissance: We kept quiet during this age. The church was strong when it began, and many horrors were to be committed. We alone were not responsible for any of them and that's the truly damning part. We never really knew what we did, killing a person here or there. A subtle push here or there and so much changed.

"The Occult fluorished as did reason; ancient Greek philosophy came as well. The church declared what was logic heresy and the burnings were slowly but surely being considered acts of hatred and bigotry not of religion. The de Medicis, the borgieas, the Bathorys, Vlad Tepes: so much blood so much darkening. But it was merely the foundation.

"Revolution: It was 1789. Paris; the French revolution was about to begin true debauchery but unlike my brothers I became distant and here is where my story begins. I got to meet God and I saw the man behind the curtain. My brothers considered me a fool, secretly weak all those years. I was expelled from my coven, declared a heretic, a betrayer of the lord Satan and the children both. So I ran. I will tell you more of what I saw for you will have to hide; our work depends on it.

"The Century of Darkness: Look at the 20th century and you see the mark of darkness. Assassinations, politics so terrible a new term Balkanization came of it: a war that ate at the souls of men. The Holocaust. The dark lord's plans were coming to a head: Pol pot, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler. So much bloodshed and soon it comes to the turning of the wheel of ages.

"And the Wheel turns: If my gambit wins the devil and the god will both fall. The sleepers will stay asleep and we as a line will be redeemed. But it's not promising, I won't lie. Aeons of prophecy stand against it. But I have my healer now, so it is a sign that the real work will begin."

The fangs go deep into my neck and I become the dark angel

Chapter II: Web of Darkness

The Baali came to be organized after the pact in a council of seven, the mother coven. Though, the true insidiousness of it is that Baali covens are decentralized as well.

Mother Coven Has the following Offices:

• Beelzebub
• Belial
• The Dragon
• Azazal
• Asmodeus
• Mephisto

These ancient and powerful Baali each hold a role in the administration of the Line in general:

Beelzebub, lord of the council: He runs the coven, but he is also (usually) connected to the Swarm in some fashion and commands horrible powers and plagues.

Belial The Bull of the Council: Belial's Job is that of Warrior of the Council. The current Belial is the weakest of the council and to keep up with the others he has had to make many pacts with several demons. The First Belial left and formed the DeAngelus Heresy. His successor has to spearheaded the dark inquisition of DeAngelians in the line. These two do the only assigned jobs and are the most stable councilors. Further more no one has sense the other five confirmably... leading to claims they have evolved beyond vampire, or this could just be something mother coven gives out to cause dissension among the ranks and keep them in line

The Old Guard Orders are covered in Clan Book Baali very well. Here are the new guard orders:
• The Order of The Nephilim: the warriors of Belial.
• The Dark Inquisition: The scourger of heresy.
• The Void Order: worshipers of the black angels.
• The Horror Children: Those who know the horror of the children and like it.

The final orders are the two heresies of the Baali:
• The DeAngelus Heresy: DeAngelus, the first Belial, grew dissatisfied with the lot of the Baali in the 1700s. He and one of his childer sought to do what no Baali had ever done: go see Lucifer. They each became a different kind of Heretic that night. DeAngelus met with Lucifer, but the Lightbringer's words seemed hollow. So he called a marker on Lucifer, one he gave him when he brought the assembled Baali to him. DeAngelus talked to Metronon and became more disheartened as he was in the realm divine under Satan's protection he realized that God was not infinite, the creation was. There were angels outside of God and that Lucifer worked for him, and so the Baali worked for God. He wanted what the Baali were doing. The apothis revolted him so he vowed to himself he would make his own angels and destroy the god and the servant of the god who sought to do this to the souls entrusted to them.
• The St. Croix heresy: His childer, Christian St. Croix however, was a different issue. He was filled with a vision of Cain and all the vampires being Angels and so the father and the son split. One was hunted because of his political credibility and another for the antithesis of his message to the Baali as a whole.