Comic Books
"Ooooh, ooooh. It's so huge and dark. Like a shipwreck at the bottom of the ocean's deepest trench. There are snagging hooks which tear me — there are brittle, scuttling things, like crabs made out of glass — and a howling, like a constant wind of tortured souls. It's too big. It's stretching me. I can't fill it! There's rot and putrefaction -- it's dying around me, leaving me squirming and naked, like a new worm in the mire... But as this body dies, I build another, more suited to my needs — and live. Ahhh, Constantine. If you only knew. With the energy that's coursing through me, I could rule the world."
— Ritchie Simpson, after claiming Nergal's body, Hellblazer: The Devil You Know
Literature
Zarenyia: For the originals [are eternal], the Fallen Angels, yes, and there are a lot of them. But the rest of us were spawned from the sins of the world, manifested first as scraps of corrupt souls ... And, slowly, we gain form and personality.
Johannes: Then, once, you were human?
Zarenyia: Once. [smiles distantly]
Johannes: Then, once, you were human?
Zarenyia: Once. [smiles distantly]
— "A Long Spoon", Johannes Cabal
Tabletop Games
Retreating to some bizarre realm, the Infernalist gradually strips off his humanity and becomes a veritable devil. The Resonance of his deeds transforms him into a monstrosity; weird malformations twist his mind, body and soul into something only vaguely human. Setting himself up as some sort of anti-Christ or inverted Bodhisattva, the Fallen One creates his personal hell and populates it with lesser fiends and aspiring diabolists. Releasing his inner Satan, he becomes a Satan to others. This is the legacy of the Devil-Kings, who succeeded the decadent witch-priests of Bhat and Enoch: to become demons upon the Earth — or to establish hells outside it. Few Infernalists ever achieve this kind of status, but those who do become new gods of Darkness.
— Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade — Infernalism
Despite the fact that they were not born as daemons, those Chaos Champions that attain the status of Daemon Prince gain immortality and become the enemy of all that is true and natural in the world. All who set foot upon the path of Chaos eventually seek this apotheosis, the glorious moment of metamorphosis where they shrug off their mortal shell and become a being of undying darkness.
— Warhammer: Warriors Of Chaos Army Book (7th edition)
Video Games
"Do you know about Theodore Wicker? They say he bit off his tongue to better speak the demonic language. They say he carved runes into his flesh and cut out his own heart to be better adapted to their hellish environs. To know the truth, you must follow the question. It is a path of angry fishhooks."
— The Buzzing, The Secret World
"Kain is deified. The clans tell tales of him, few know the truth — he was mortal once, as were we all."
— Raziel, Legacy of Kain
