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* WalkingSpoiler: Raciel's role in ''The Abomination Vault's'' backstory is immensely important to both the identity of the main villain and his motivations.

A once well-respected member of the Makers, until he took Lilith as a lover. However, Lilith was using him to learn his secrets about creating life (which she succeeded in doing), and after he had finished sharing all he knew, Gulbannan became worried of what Lilith might do with those secrets. Before he could do anything about it, his former apprentice, Belisatra, killed him out of interest in what Lilith would create. It's heavily implied that Lilith used her newfound abilities to create the Nephilim and, subsequently, the Four Horsemen.

* AxCrazy: Each and every Abomination is an OmnicidalManiac that hates all of Creation with vehement passion. The narrator notes that if their thoughts were could be sensed, they would sound like a tortured, insane madman's babbling.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Implied. While he's perfectly polite and even friendly toward Death during their meetings, the Horseman suspects it to be a ruse.

* AlasPoorVillain: During his narration of Hadrimon and Raciel's story, Azrael openly admits that he wonders if Raciel had actually been the ''strongest'' of the angels, rather than the weakest, given that she knowingly risked everything to defy Heaven's laws and be with the one she loves. He even states that, though he understands why it was done, her punishment was irrational.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:After Black Mercy forces Hadrimon to kill Raciel, Azrael uses illusion magic to disguise himself as Raciel in her former angelic form. As her, Azrael tells Hadrimon that "she" forgives him, something the former admits to being a kindness.]]

* Walkingspoiler: Raciel's role in ''The Abomination Vault's'' backstory is immensely important to both the identity of the main villain and his motivations.

* HumanResources: [[spoiler:As Death reveals halfway through the novel, they were crafted from the remains of an extinct race known as the Ravaiim, the very first victims of the Nephilim's genocidal rampage across Creation.]]

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The Grand Abominations aren't magical weapons like Affliction or Harvester. They're living things created from the Ravaiim's remains through a process so vile that it corrupted the Ravaiim homeworld into a [[EvilIsVisceral hellhole covered in fleshy growths]], were used by the Nephilim to butcher whole worlds, and hate all of Creation with utter vehemence due to their horrific fate. Death was the one who came up with the idea of making them and personally supervised the creation of several. And while the majority are sealed in an extradimensional vault, [[OhCrap several are still out there]] due to being thought lost or destroyed on battlefields.]]

* SacrificialRevivalSpell: [[spoiler:After the Ravaiim blood is cast into Oblivion by Death, Hadrimon and Belisatra take Earth Reaver apart and break it down to its base components, sacrificing it in order to awaken Black Mercy once more.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: According to Death, the Grand Abominations are locked away in an extradimensional vault. Despite the Charred Council trying to torture him into divulging the location, he steadfastly refuses to speak a word of where it is. [[spoiler:It turns out it's on the dead world where he built his home, hence why that world never drifted off into the Abyss.]]

* Walkingspoiler: It's difficult to discuss anything about their true nature without spoiling about half the book.
* WeaponWieldsYou: [[spoiler:As Hadrimon's VillainousBreakdown begins in earnest, Black Mercy essentially seizes control of his body and starts acting on its own. Death specifically notes that it should ''not'' be able to do this, and speculates that it may be due to the Abominations [[ThePowerOfHate having centuries to nurse their grudges while in the Vault.]]]]

* WhereDoesSheGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: It's implied she used her former master and Lilith's backing and resources to make her constructs, but Death himself honestly has to wonder that it probably took her ''centuries'' to build the numbers that show up in the book (easily in the hundreds, perhaps even in the thousands total).

* AmbiguousSituation: It's not entirely clear whether Raciel really does intend to work with Hadrimon to take revenge on Heaven, or whether she intends to dispose of him once he [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlives his usefulness and gives her the Abominations]].

* TheGhost: Several Abominations are mentioned but never seen.

* InstantDeathRadius: When fully awakened, [[spoiler:Black Mercy's signature OneHitKill evolves into this]] -- ''any'' still-bleeding wound within a certain radius of the Abomination instantly becomes fatal, no matter how small or severe. According to Death, this area also [[IncreasinglyLethalEnemy grows larger based on how many things it's killed since awakening]].

* LovecraftianSuperpower: [[spoiler:The Ravaiim were noted to have the power to sculpt their own flesh and bone into any tool they desired. It was this property that made them the target of the Nephilim's first attack, and the dark arts the Nephilim used to forge the Grand Abominations brought out the full potential of this ability.]]

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Named Abominations include Black Mercy, White Anguish, Anathema, Lamentation, Gravesire, Bleak Tranquillity and Earth Reaver. Suffice to say, they're fittingly named.

* ThePowerOfHate: According to Death, the Grand Abominations hate all of Creation with enough rancour to make demons look positively cuddly in comparison, which is one of the things making them so dangerous. [[spoiler:Black Mercy, in particular, can act independently of its user and even puppeteer their body due to how much power its hatred grants it, something Death notes the Abominations should ''not'' be able to do.]]

* PsychicLink: [[spoiler:The Abominations have a form of mental connection between them, letting them transmit memories, images, etc. from one Abomination to another. This sets up the majority of the conflict for the story's second act, as Mortis feeds Hadrimon Death's plans and Death later exploits it as part of a double bluff to ensure the Ravaiim blood's permanent destruction.]]

* CallForward: [[spoiler: He's the one to suggest giving the Watchers power over the Horsemen to ensure their obedience to the Charred Council, as will happen in ''Darksiders''.]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: It's heavily implied that Panoptos engineered the events of the novel by feeding information to Raciel and her mercenaries so they could find the Horsemen whenever they came close to the Abominations, intending to have them wipe each other out then lay claim to the Grand Abominations himself, arm his "children" with them, and use them to break away from the Council.]].

* TheMole: [[spoiler: It's heavily implied that it was Panoptos who told Raciel and her band of mercenaries about the existence of the Abomination Vault in the first place. At the very end of the book, Death confronts him about it, masking his accusations behind the veneer of a theory, but making it fairly clear that he believes Panoptos wanted the Grand Abominations to break from the chains of slavery using his "children" as his army.]]

* OhCrap: He's absolutely ''horrified'' when Death reveals that he's [[spoiler: destroyed the Ravaiim blood that the Council sent Panoptos to take from Death]].
* SmugSnake: He's conceited and arrogant enough that Death is repeatedly tempted to slit his throat out of sheer annoyance, and he acts vile to almost everyone he meets. [[spoiler: He's also quite the schemer, considering the implications throughout the novel detailed above.]]

* ButtMonkey: [[spoiler: After Raciel's exile,]] Hadrimon made so many futile half-planned efforts to restart the war between Heaven and Hell or to 'rescue' [[spoiler: Raciel]] that he became something of a running joke in the White City, with Azrael even comparing his half-baked plans to those of a child. [[spoiler:...Until the Abomination Crisis began. Then he became a proper threat to ''everyone''.]]

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: When Death cuts him down, Hadrimon is smiling in relief at being freed from Black Mercy's influence and Raciel seemingly forgiving him.]]
* HeroicWillpower: A rare villainous example -- [[spoiler: while slowly succumbing to Black Mercy's influence, he manages to keep himself in check by remembering his love of Raciel. At the very end of the novel, the sight of her redeemed soul gives him ''just'' enough strength to hold Black Mercy in place long enough for Death to put him down.]]
* InelegantBlubbering: [[spoiler: The sight of the [[FallenAngel now-corrupted Raciel]] leaves him in tears, howling like a child.]]
* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler: On the receiving end of a purely pragmatic example. Azrael creates an illusion of Raciel's redeemed soul forgiving him for causing her exile and corruption, which lets Hadrimon briefly resist Black Mercy's influence long enough to commit SuicideByCop.]]

* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Even before he went crazy due to [[EvilWeapon Black Mercy's]] influence, he went completely renegade and was actively attacking his former comrades as part of his revenge on Heaven and Hell.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction after [[spoiler: turning Raciel in, which got her exiled to Hell. He was utterly horrified by what he'd done, having not anticipated that the punishment would be that terrible, and it was this guilt that sent him down the path of villainy.]]

* StarCrossedLovers: Used to be this with [[spoiler: Raciel]], due to Heaven's strict courtship laws forbidding romance between higher and lower military ranks. [[spoiler:Subverted since he was the one that betrayed her and indirectly got her sentenced to being exiled to Hell.]]
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: Because Black Mercy won't let him shoot himself, Hadrimon forces himself to remain still long enough for Death to cut him down.]]
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Until [[spoiler: Lilith reveals his name to Death]], he went under the alias of "Semyaza" [[note]]The leader of the Grigori, who descended to Earth and took human women as wives[[/note]], [[spoiler: who turned out to be a second lieutenant at an outpost in an area called the Empty Sea]].

* YankTheDogsChain: For a brief moment, it looks like [[spoiler: Raciel has forgiven him and is asking for his aid. Then [[EvilWeapon Black Mercy]] acts on its own, targeting Raciel and shooting her with its OneHitKill bullet, utterly breaking Hadrimon.]]

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler: Surrenders after Hadrimon's death and the destruction of her last few constructs, recognising that the battle is lost.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Lilith describes her as having a burning intellectual curiosity without much in the way of emotion to cloud it. This translates to being willing to cross ''any'' line if it means satisfying her quest for knowledge, even if she has to kill, torture, or [[spoiler: unleash world-murdering {{Evil Weapon}}s on all Creation]] to do it.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Visibly panics when Death off-handedly remarks that the Council will want to introduce her to "the Keeper" (i.e.: The Keeper of Oblivion).]]

* TheExecutioner: The Keeper's job is essentially this -- if the Council decides someone is too dangerous to the Balance to be simply killed and allowed a shot at reincarnation, they have him throw them into Oblivion, [[CessationOfExistence utterly and totally erasing them from Creation]].

* LoopholeAbuse: As Death points out to gain his aid, The Keeper can't banish ''living'' things to Oblivion without the Council's permission -- but he ''can'' banish non-living things of his own accord, [[spoiler: which technically includes the Ravaiim blood]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Despite his earlier AffablyEvil demeanour when speaking to Death, he becomes far blunter and strained after [[spoiler: helping him destroy the Ravaiim blood against the Council's orders]].

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Despite his obvious misgivings and initial reluctance, he [[spoiler: goes through with destroying the Ravaiim blood as Death requested. It's also implied that he assisted Death in the destruction of the remaining Grand Abominations after the events of ''The Abomination Vault''.]]

* StarCrossedLovers: Used to be this with Hadrimon, given that they were widely different ranks in Heaven's military, which, according to the angels' very strict laws, was considered illegal. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] because she now hates him due to his role in her exile, though whether or not she would have killed him once they had their hands on the Grand Abominations with which to take revenge on Heaven is ambiguous.

* WalkingSpoiler: Raciel's role in ''The Abomination Vault's'' backstory is immensely important to both the identity of the main villain and his motivations.

* AndIMustScream: It's heavily implied that [[spoiler: the Ravaiim used to make the Grand Abominations are still aware on some level, with many characters noting that the weapons quite literally radiate a sense of agony and hatred, with Belisatra even referring to Black Mercy as "screaming on some primal level."]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Earth Reaver is essentially a multi-storey mass of tentacles formed from handless, interconnected arms tipped with gangrenous teeth and gums fused to a set of crablike legs and a huge obsidian mirror, while Black Mercy is stated to have tendons winding through its mechanisms and blood pumping through the steel, among other horrific things. Whatever the hell the Nephilim did to the Ravaiim to create the Grand Abominations, it was ''not'' pretty.]]
* EmotionBomb: Prolonged exposure to the Abominations and their hatred [[SanitySlippage gradually degrades the user's mind]], eventually reducing them to an EmptyShell or an OmnicidalManiac. Death and other sufficiently disciplined users can block out this influence, though. [[spoiler: Exploited at the very end of the novel by Death, who blasts the seals off the Vault, causing Hadrimon to be temporarily paralysed by the sheer emotional overload of countless Grand Abominations' hatreds being projected into his weakened mind at once.]]
* EmpathicWeapon: The Grand Abominations are aware of their state, and they hate all of Creation as a consequence. [[spoiler: Black Mercy in particular is capable of actively controlling its wielder's body and firing on its own.]]

* KilledOffscreen: For a given value of "killed". [[spoiler: Death implies that he threw all the remaining Grand Abominations into Oblivion after the novel's end, though he kept the mostly-dead Mortis for his own use due to it being too crippled to pose much of a threat.]]
* LivingWeapon: The Grand Abominations are alive on some level -- they share a form of psychic link with one another, possess the ability to feel emotions (particularly hatred), and [[spoiler: can even react and act on their own if sufficiently empowered.]]

* MagmaMan: [[spoiler: Earth Reaver]] can channel magma from faults and fissures into a massive volcanic eruption, capable of wiping out whole armies at a stroke. However, it can only do this once for a specific region; all the magma in the area is used up in that one shot, so it has to move on to a new one before it can fire again.
* MindRape: [[spoiler: Mortis inflicts this on Death when it catches him off-guard, raiding his mind for the secret of awakening the Grand Abominations then passing this to the others.]]

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Mortis is deeply weakened and almost dead by the time Death finds it, but it's ''just'' alive enough to MindRape him and leak the location of the Ravaiim homeworld to Hadrimon.]]
* OneHitKill: Black Mercy's signature power is to kill in one hit, regardless of how small the wound it inflicts is. [[spoiler: When fully awakened, ''any'' wound that bleeds in its presence becomes instantly fatal and it gains an InstantDeathRadius which expands with every kill it makes.]]

* ThePowerOfBlood: [[spoiler: They need Ravaiim blood to awaken their full power, as part of a failsafe built in by the Firstborn Nephilim to prevent the Abominations being used against them and to maintain their control over them.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: According to Death, the Grand Abominations hate all of Creation with enough rancour to make demons look positively cuddly in comparison, which is one of the things making them so dangerous. [[spoiler: Black Mercy, in particular, can act independently of its user and even puppeteer their body due to how much power its hatred grants it, something Death notes the Abominations should ''not'' be able to do.]]
* PsychicLink: [[spoiler: The Abominations have a form of mental connection between them, letting them transmit memories, images, etc. from one Abomination to another. This sets up the majority of the conflict for the story's second act, as Mortis feeds Hadrimon Death's plans and Death later exploits it as part of a double bluff to ensure the Ravaiim blood's permanent destruction.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The Grand Abominations aren't magical weapons like Affliction or Harvester. They're living things created from the Ravaiim's remains through a process so vile that it corrupted the Ravaiim homeworld into a [[EvilIsVisceral hellhole covered in fleshy growths]], were used by the Nephilim to butcher whole worlds, and hate all of Creation with utter vehemence due to their horrific fate. Death was the one who came up with the idea of making them and personally supervised the creation of several. And while the majority are sealed in an extradimensional vault, [[OhCrap several are still out there]] due to being thought lost or destroyed on battlefields.]]

* SacrificialRevivalSpell: [[spoiler: After the Ravaiim blood is cast into Oblivion by Death, Hadrimon and Belisatra take Earth Reaver apart and break it down to its base components, sacrificing it in order to awaken Black Mercy once more.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: According to Death, the Grand Abominations are locked away in an extradimensional vault. Despite the Charred Council trying to torture him into divulging the location, he steadfastly refuses to speak a word of where it is. [[spoiler: It turns out it's on the dead world where he built his home, hence why that world never drifted off into the Abyss.]]
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Mortis is the only Abomination known to exist for certain after ''The Abomination Vault''; if Death held to his word, the rest of them got tossed into [[CessationOfExistence Oblivion]] after the story.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's difficult to discuss anything about their true nature without spoiling about half the book.
* WeaponWieldsYou: [[spoiler: As Hadrimon's VillainousBreakdown begins in earnest, Black Mercy essentially seizes control of his body and starts acting on its own. Death specifically notes that it should ''not'' be able to do this, and speculates that it may be due to the Abominations [[ThePowerOfHate having centuries to nurse their grudges while in the Vault.]]]]

* AlasPoorVillain: During his narration of Hadrimon and Raciel's story, Azrael openly admits that he wonders if Raciel had actually been the ''strongest'' of the angels, rather than the weakest, given that she knowingly risked everything to defy Heaven's laws and be with the one she loves.

[[folder:Raciel]]

A FallenAngel and [[spoiler: Hadrimon's former lover. However, their love wasn't meant to be, as Heaven forbade relationships between soldiers of disparate ranks. Upon second-guessing their relationship, Hadrimon betrayed Raciel by informing Heaven's leaders of her infatuation with him. This resulted in Raciel being banished to Hell, where she became a demon and later]] the leader of a band of demonic mercenaries interested in the Abominations.

* ActionGirl: [[spoiler: Leads a band of demon mercenaries into battle and can fight a Horseman on roughly even terms.]]
* CreateYourOwnVillain: The entire reason she became what she is -- and by extension, the reason the Abomination Vault Crisis occurred -- is because Heaven [[spoiler: decided to inflict a hugely disproportionate punishment on her for a relatively minor "crime" during a period of extreme militarism.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: For [[spoiler: her forbidden love with Hadrimon]], she was banished to Hell. Azrael even notes this disproportional response and explains it was due to the events occurring at the height of the fighting with Hell; their leaders decided they needed to MakeAnExampleOfThem to show what would happen to ''anyone'' who deviated from Heaven's laws. The generals originally tried to get permission from the Charred Council to [[FateWorseThanDeath throw her into Oblivion]], but were rebuffed as the Council felt she had committed no crime against the Balance and had no desire to serve as a tool of revenge for others.

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Being banished from Heaven was this,]] as it's what condemned her to an eternity of torture and her ultimate corruption by the hands of the demons.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Downplayed. [[spoiler: As part of her banishment from Heaven, memories of the White Army's military secrets were removed from her so that they could not be used against them. She was allowed to keep everything else, however.]]
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: [[spoiler:More or less why she became a FallenAngel. Heaven exiled her to Hell the height of their war with Hell to show all angels the penalty for defying their strict laws, and prevent any internal division or questioning of the law at a time when they could not afford it.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: Used to be this with [[spoiler: Hadrimon, given that they were widely different ranks in Heaven's military, which, according to the angels' very strict laws, was considered illegal. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] because she now hates him due to his role in her exile, though whether or not she would have killed him once they had their hands on the Grand Abominations with which to take revenge on Heaven is ambiguous.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Does not hesitate to give [[spoiler:Hadrimon one when she reunites with him, calling him out on how he betrayed her.]]

A FallenAngel and [[spoiler: Hadrimon's former lover. Since Heaven's laws are extremely strict to a degree where even who they love is dictated (in Raciel and Hadrimon's case, only angels that are much closer in military rank (ex. a general and their second-in-command) are actually allowed to have a relationship), Raciel was betrayed and ratted out by Hadrimon (who was having second thoughts about their relationship) and was exiled to Hell where she eventually transformed into a demon and became the]] leader of a band of demonic mercenaries.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Downplayed. [[spoiler: As part of her banishment from Heaven, memories of their defenses and magics were removed from her so that they could not be used against them. She was allowed to keep everything else, however.]]

* CreateYourOwnVillain: The entire reason she became what she is - and by extension, the reason the Abomination Vault Crisis occurred - is because Heaven [[spoiler: decided to inflict a hugely disproportionate punishment on her for a relatively minor "crime" during a period of extreme militarism.]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: As part of her banishment from Heaven, her memories were altered to remove knowledge of Heaven's defences and magics so they couldn't be used against her.]]

--> '''Keeper of Oblivion''': [[GetOut Go away, Horseman]]. Go - and pray to whoever you still trust that you can make the [[ControlFreak Charred Council]] understand [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight your choices here today.]]

** NotSoStoic: The thought of the Council losing trust in him - which would almost certainly see him [[IronicDeath thrown into Oblivion]] - is enough to deeply unsettle the Keeper, almost to the point of refusing to help Death.

* WhipItGood: Like Fury, his main weapon is a whip.

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* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Partly averted. She has red hair, yet, unlike most angels, her skin isn't dark but fair.

* DissonantSerenity: Lilith describes finding her after murdering Gulbannan standing over his corpse and covered in his blood, yet Belisatra was as calm as "a drugged statue."

* KilledOffscreen: Implied. [[spoiler:Death remarks that the Council will likely want to "introduce her to the Keeper [of Oblivion]" for her actions, and she's last seen being dragged away to an unknown fate by several of his ghouls.]]

* LackOfEmpathy: Lilith describes her as having a burning intellectual curiosity without much in the way of emotion to cloud it. This translates to being willing to cross ''any'' line if it means satisfying her quest for knowledge, even if she has to kill to do it.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Visibly panics when Death off-handedly name-drops the Keeper.]]

* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: A firm believer in this view, which is part of the reason he flatly refuses to look into whether or not his victims are actually as guilty as the Council charges them to be -- he understandably thinks that doing so would cause him to go utterly barking mad.

* CreateYourOwnVillain: The entire reason she became what she is - and by extension, the reason the Abomination Vault Crisis occurred - is because Heaven [[spoiler: decided to make an example of her with a horribly disproportionate punishment.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: For [[spoiler: her forbidden love with Hadrimon]], she was banished to Hell. Azrael even notes this disproportional response and explains it was due to the events occurring at the height of the fighting with Hell; their leaders decided they needed to MakeAnExampleOfThem to show what would happen to ''anyone'' who deviated from the laws. The generals originally tried to get permission from the Charred Council to [[FateWorseThanDeath throw her into Oblivion]], but were rebuffed as the Council felt she had committed no crime against the Balance and had no desire to serve as a tool of revenge for others.

A set of extraordinarily powerful weapons crafted by the Nephilim for use in their rampage across Creation, designed to destroy entire realms and exterminate whole races. Most of them are now long believed lost, contained, or destroyed.

* HumanResources: As Death reveals halfway through the novel, [[spoiler: they were crafted from the remains of an extinct race known as the Ravaiim, the very first victims of the Nephilim's genocidal rampage across Creation.]]

* MagmaMan: Earth Reaver can channel magma from faults and fissures into a massive volcanic eruption, capable of wiping out whole armies at a stroke. However, it can only do this once for a specific region; all the magma in the area is used up in that one shot, so it has to move on to a new one before it can fire again.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Named Abominations include Black Mercy, White Anguish, Anathema, Lamentation, Gravesire, Bleak Tranquillity and Earth Reaver. There's also several dozen others which aren't named.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The Grand Abominations aren't magical weapons like Affliction or Harvester. They're living things created from the Ravaiim's remains through a process so horrific that it corrupted the Ravaiim homeworld into a [[EvilIsVisceral hellhole covered in fleshy growths]], and were used by the Nephilim to butcher whole worlds. Death was directly involved in making them, having come up with the initial idea and methodology, hence his secrecy about them in general.]]

* SacrificialRevivalSpell: [[spoiler: After the Ravaiim blood is cast into Oblivion by Death, Hadrimon and Belisatra take Earth Reaver apart and break it down to its base components, essentially sacrificing it in order to awaken Black Mercy once more.]]

* AttackReflector: [[https://darksiders.fandom.com/wiki/Mortis Mortis]]' primary function was to absorb attacks directed at the wielder, then reply by sending a retaliatory attack toward a random friend, loved one, or other figure drawn from the attacker's memories. [[YouWillNotEvadeMe It could even strike across realms]], and cross a world in a matter of heartbeats.

* WeaponWieldsYou: [[spoiler: As Hadrimon's VillainousBreakdown begins in earnest, Black Mercy essentially seizes control of his body and starts acting on its own. Death specifically notes that it should ''not'' be able to do this, and speculates that it may be due to the Abominations [[ThePowerOfHate having centuries to nurse their grudges while in the Vault.]]

* TheMole: Heavily implied. [[spoiler: It's hinted that it was Panoptos who told Raciel and her band of mercenaries about the existence of the Abomination Vault in the first place. At the very end of the book, Death confronts him about it, masking his accusations, but making it fairly clear that he believes Panoptos wanted the Grand Abominations to break from the chains of slavery using his "children" as his army.]]
* MonsterProgenitor: Of the Watcher race.
%%* SmugSnake

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Apparently having one of the Grand Abominations on your person can make you this.]]
* BigBad: Of the novel.
* ButtMonkey: After Raciel's exile, Hadrimon made so many futile half-planned attacks that Heaven actually thought of him as a joke. [[spoiler:...Until the Abomination Crisis began.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: When [[spoiler:Black Mercy, one of the Grand Abominations, briefly takes control of him and kills Raciel. He attempts to kill himself, but it doesn't work as Black Mercy wouldn't allow the chambers to collapse. He has to settle for holding himself back long enough for [[SuicideByCop Death to do the deed]].]]

* EvilWeapon: He has the nephilim sword Affliction, which poisons and rots any wound it creates such that only someone with an incredible HealingFactor like Death can survive, and even then with difficulty. [[spoiler:And then there's Black Mercy, one of the Grand Abominations forged from the flesh, blood and bone of a dead race that when fully awakened causes instantly fatal wounds in whatever it shoots or even turns still-bleeding wounds fatal if the target is in the range of the user.]] He wields them in a SwordAndGun manner.
* FallenAngel: Unlike the common use of the trope, however, he isn't a demon. He's just defected from Heaven and against ''everyone''.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Basically, a summary of why he [[spoiler:wanted the Grand Abominations in the first place. Subverted since said cause of revenge was technically his own fault.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: Used to be this with Raciel, due to Heaven's strict courtship laws. [[spoiler:Subverted since he was the one that betrayed her and indirectly got her sentenced to being exiled to Hell.]]
** MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction afterwards.

* TheDragon: [[spoiler:To Hadrimon.]]

* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Hadrimon's red.

* TheExecutioner: The Keeper's job is essentially this -- if the Council decides someone is too dangerous to be simply killed (which would let them reincarnate), they have him throw them into Oblivion, [[CessationOfExistence utterly and totally erasing them from Creation]].

A fallen-angel-now-demon and Hadrimon's former lover. Since Heaven's laws are extremely strict to a degree where even who they love is dictated (in Raciel and Hadrimon's case, only angels that are much closer in military rank (ex. a general and their second-in-command) are actually allowed to have a relationship), Raciel was betrayed and ratted out by Hadrimon (who was having second thoughts about their relationship) and was exiled to Hell where she eventually transformed into a demon and became the leader of a band of mercenaries.

* ActionGirl: Leads a band of demon mercenaries.
* DisproportionateRetribution: For her forbidden love with Hadrimon, she was banished to Hell. Azrael while recounting the tale notes this disproportional response and explains it was due to the events occurring at the height of the fighting with Hell and their leaders decided they needed to MakeAnExampleOfThem to show what would happen to ''anyone'' who deviated from the laws. The generals actually tried to get permission from the Charred Council to [[FateWorseThanDeath throw her into Oblivion]].

* StarCrossedLovers: Used to be this with Hadrimon, given that they were widely different ranks in Heaven's military, which, according to the angels' very strict laws, was considered illegal. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] because she now hates him due to his role in her exile, though whether or not she would have killed him once they had their hands on the Grand Abominations with which to take revenge on Heaven is ambiguous.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Does not hesitate to give [[spoiler:Hadrimon one when she reunites with him.]]

* EmotionBomb: Prolonged exposure to the Abominations and their hatred [[SanitySlippage gradually degrades the user's mind]], eventually reducing them to an EmptyShell or an OmnicidalManiac. Death and other sufficiently disciplined users can block out this influence, though.

* HumanResources: As Death reveals halfway through the novel, [[spoiler: they were crafted from the remains of an extinct race known as the Ravaiim, the very first victims of the Nephilim.]]

* MagmaMan: [[spoiler: Earth Reaver]] can channel the magma from faults and fissures into a massive volcanic eruption, capable of wiping out whole armies at a stroke.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Named Abominations include Black Mercy, White Anguish, Anathema, Lamentation, Gravesire, Bleak Tranquility and Earth Reaver. There's also several dozen others which aren't named.

* ThePowerOfBlood: [[spoiler: They need Ravaiim blood to awaken their full power.]]

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The Grand Abominations aren't advanced {{Magitek}} weapons. They're living things created from the Ravaiim's remains, through a process so horrific that it corrupted the Ravaiim homeworld into a [[EvilIsVisceral hellhole covered in fleshy growths]]. Death was directly involved in making them, having come up with the initial idea and methodology, hence his secrecy about them in general.]]

!DownloadableContent Characters

[[folder:The Hunter]]
!!The Hunter
!!!Voiced by: Creator/SteveBlum

From the Belial DLC. A human who roamed around the ruins of Earth, whom Death eventually bumped into after hearing rumors of survivors from Uriel.