Cherubael
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In the Warhammer 40,000 universe Cherubael, or the Cherub of Bael, is a daemonhost of immense power from the Eisenhorn trilogy by Dan Abnett. Cherubael was formerly in the service of Inquisitor Quixos, a renegade Inquisitor killed by Gregor Eisenhorn. Although Eisenhorn despises Cherubael at first, he begins to find need for the daemonhost's extraordinary power leading to Eisenhorn's slide into radicalism.
[edit] Origins
Cherubael was once a daemon-prince on the feral world Clanar II, where he dominated the primitive locals who came to worship him as a god. Quixos defeated Cherubael and enslaved him in the body of one of the warriors of Clanar II. Cherubael served Quixos until his death at the hands of Eisenhorn.
[edit] Dealings with Eisenhorn
Cherubael was able to discern the future from the Warp, and saw that Eisenhorn, if allowed, would destroy his physical body and so set Cherubael free. For over a century, Cherubael manipulated and protected Eisenhorn so that Eisenhorn would start down the path of radicalism and so set in motion the events that would free Cherubael. Eisenhorn, aided by a Runestaff crafted by Magos Geard Bure of the Adeptus Mechanicus, finally destroyed Cherubael's host body on Farness Beta and banished him to the Immaterium. He also annihilated Cherubael's companion, another deamonhost known as Prophanti.
Following this Eisenhorn re-summoned Cherubael and imprisoned him in a host body, sealing him within a void-vault that he might suffer eternally, caged in flesh and trapped, for using him.
However, during his conflicts with the heretic Fayde Thuring and his Corrupted Titan, The Cruor Vult , Eisenhorn found himself sorely pressed and summoned Cherubael, whom he had bound into a new host after defeating and banishing it.
Eisenhorn came to rely heavily on Cherubael in the coming years, much to the dismay and anger of his staff and fellow Inquisitors. Notably he utilised the Daemonhost to defeat the Heretic Pontius Glaw, who utilised a daemonhost of his own, and against the daemonhosts of the Divine Fratery, who Cherubael seemed to take pleasure in destroying. By this point, the relationship between master and slave has grown so close as for Eisenhorn to refer to Cherubael as "he" rather than "it"
No further information has emerged of Eisenhorn or Cherubael since "Thorn Wishes Talon" and the brief mention of Eisenhorn's supposed demise in "Ravenor Returned"
[edit] References
- Abnett, Dan (2001a). Xenos. Nottingham: Black Library. ISBN 0-7434-1169-2.
- Abnett, Dan (2001b). Malleus. Nottingham: Black Library. ISBN 1-84154-204-0.
- Abnett, Dan (2002). Hereticus. Nottingham: Black Library. ISBN 1-84154-236-9.
- Thorpe, Gavin. Inquisitor Rulebook (PDF). Games Workshop. Retrieved on August 15, 2006.
