Goetic demons in popular culture

The demons identified in The Lesser Key of Solomon have appeared many times in modern fiction.

The Lesser Key of Solomon

In addition to the individual listings, the entire Key as well as every demon within it appears in some form in the Playstation 2 game Shadow Hearts: Covenant

Agares

• Agares is one character in Wayne Douglas Barlowe's series of paintings depicting Hell and its inhabitants. He appears in portrait in Barlowe's Inferno and as a minor character in Barlowe's first novel, God's Demon.

• Alion Lucada, a member of the alien race known as the Shura from Super Robot Wars Compact 3 and Super Robot Wars Original Generations, pilots a Shura God known as Agares.

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Agares appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power. He is portrayed as both a crocodile and a hawk.

• An accessory named "Agales' Chain" appears in the game Vagrant Story. The item provides some DeFence against 'evil'-type monsters, and it's description implies that Agales (presumably a mistranslation of Agares) is duke of the underworld.

Aim

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Aim (spelled as Aym) appears as a dwarven "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power.
• In DC Comics, the letter "a" in the demon Sabbac's name stands for Aym.

Amdusias

• Amdusias appears in Castlevania's Symphony of the Night, Curse of Darkness and Portrait of RUiN. He resembles a tall, dark-clad man with a horse's head. While Seldom encountered, it attacks the player with powerful lightning bolts and dashes. The games also state that he's one of the best musicians in Hell.

• Ambdusias appears in Final Fantasy IX as a monster. It is represented as a black horse with demon wings.

• Amduscia, a Mexican aggrotech band derives its name from Amdusias.

• Appears in the MMO Final Fantasy XI as one of the members of the "Kindred Spirits" in an optional battle. Like all other Goetic demons found in the game, they take the form of the Dark Kindred demon race. In his case, his job class is that of a Black Mage.

Amon

• Amon appears as both a boss and a fusion for the main character in the Playstation 2 games Shadow Hearts and Shadow Hearts: Covenant. Amon is also one of the six most powerful demon crests in Shadow Hearts: Covenant along with Asmodeus, Astaroth, Gaap, Baal, and Orobas. in these incarnations he appears as a large humanoid man in black armour, with large dragon-like wings.

• Amon in the Anime/Manga Devilman (by Go Nagai) is the Demon which possesses the main character Akira Fudo and in turn CREATES the hero Devilman.

• Amon is an alternate name of the Egyptian god Amun.

• In 1983's Monster Manual II for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Amon is featured as one of the important dukes of Hell.

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Amon appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power. His appearance is the same as his wolf form in the Lesser Key of Solomon.

• Amon is the name of a character in the popular anime Witch Hunter Robin, which centers around the pursuit of witches.

• Amon appears as a recurring boss in the Capcom Super Nintendo game Demon Crest.

• Appears in Final Fantasy XI as a typical member of the Dark Kindred forces stationed in present-day Castle Zvahl. In a story-arc in the Wings of the Goddess expansion, he plays a larger role, scheming to undermine the security of the Republic of Bastok.

Andras

• Andras appears as a minor enemy near the beginning of the video game Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. He resembles a winged man with a raven's head, riding on a wolf and brandishing a fiery sword. He can either stab downwards with the sword or have his steed breathe fireballs.

• Andras appears as a monster in Shin Megami Tensei looking sort of like an owl.

• Andras is listed in a sample of a Satanic incantation in the song "Symphony for the Devil" by the band PIG.

• Andras appears in Alan Moore's comic book series Promethea where he is summoned with the demon Marchosias by the magician Benny Solomon to put a hit out on the title character. Promethea defeats Andras and Marchosias in a fight at a nightclub. Later, Benny Solomon summons Andras again when he calls on the entire Ars Goetia to kill Promethea. True to the description given above, during his brief incarnation in the series Andras attempts to lure Benny Solomon out (and is rebuffed) and also seduces a taxi driver into [...] (the cabbie had molested his granddaughter, and Andras hands him a pistol and tells him "you know what to do"). Moore depicts Andras as given above - an angelic body topped by an owl's head, riding a black wolf and wielding a fiery sword.

• The music label Andras Klang. Owned by the band a ferret named Polo.

• Andras appeared in an episode of Charmed, in which he magnified the anger of the three Haliwell sisters, ultimately provoking them to use their powers against each other.

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Andras appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power.

• Andras is the last name of one of three [...] addicted characters in the anime "Gundam Seed," the other two being Sabnak and Buer, also demons of Goetia."

• Appears in the MMO Final Fantasy XI as another member of the Kindred in the dreamworld of Dynamis - Xarcabard. He is one of the Goetic demons who's death is necessary to trigger the fight with the Dynamis Lord. His job class is that of a Beastmaster, with his pet being a wyvern named after the French Vouivre.

Andromalius

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, a character known as "Andromalius the Repentant Rogue"is presented as a "vestige" with whom other characters can form a pact in return for power.

• In the video game R-Type Final, one of the default ships available, the R-9F, is named Andromalius.

• In the Role Playing Game In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas, Andromalius, judgment demon-prince, is the right-hand man of Satan.

• In the videogame DemiKids, Andromalius (called Andromus) is a servant of Imperius who sends prisoners of limbo to Imperius for trial (often resulting in execution). His appearance is that of a large man with a massive serpent in both hands.

• Appears in the MMO Final Fantasy XI as one of the members of the "Kindred Spirits" in an optional battle. Like all other Goetic demons found in the game, they take the form of the Kindred Demon race. In his case, his job class is that of a Dark Knight.

Asmodai

• In Dungeons & Dragons, Asmodeus is the Lord of the Ninth, the ruler of Nessus, the ninth layer of Baator (Hell) and the most powerful of the archdevils.
• In NetHack, Asmodeus is the strongest demon prince who guards the upper underworld levels of Gehennom.
• Named Sydonai, he is the final boss in the computer game Hellgate: London. He looks similar to Cthulhu.
• Asmodeus is the demon summoned by the Devil tarot card in Atlus' Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen.
• In "Voices in the Dark", the first installment of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, a man named Simon Burke was possessed by a demon who claimed to be Asmodeus, acting as a part of God's strategy to bring mankind back to the Church.
• He is the principal antagonist (though this is not revealed until the last pages) of the novel Asmodejev šal (Asmodej's shawl) by the prominent Croatian author Ivan Aralica.
• In Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, Asmodean is one of the Forsaken.
• In the PS2 game Shadow Hearts: Covenant, Asmodai, here called Asmodeus, appears as one of the main enemies as well as a crest that gives the user magic abilities. in this incarnation, he appears as a pale mass of bloated flesh in the shape of a butterfly, with six arms and an old mans' head on the end of a long fat neck.
• In the real time strategy game Starcraft, there is a popular Use Map Settings game by the name of Heaven's Last Defense/Stand, where Asmodeus is a playable character portrayed as a Terran Goliath.
• In the anime and light novel series Shakugan no Shana, Sidonay is the name of the Bal Masque member. He is shown to be able to change his form into that of a large sea monster and a flighted creature, as well as change his limbs into different forms. He is extremely protective of Hecate, referring to her as 'my Hecate'.
• In Equinox (film), Asmodeus is the controller of different demons and spirits.
• In the Australian movie 'Gabriel', he is one demon fighting against archangels sent to Earth. He owns a brothel and expresses an interest in plastic surgery. He is shown to be extremely vain, as his rage is unleased when Gabriel shoots him in the face with a shotgun, hideously disfiguring it.
• In Megatokyo, Asmodeus is the name of Piro's anti-conscience.
• In the film Born, the reincarnation of Asmodeous is the central theme
• In Geoffrey Houshold's novel, Rogue Male, the fugitive is joined in his burrow by a wild cat, whom he names Asmodeus.
• In the game Angels Online, Asmode transforms into his powerful demon form, Asmodeus, and you must defeat him.
• In the book Redwall, a part of the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, an adder by the name of Asmodeus had stolen the great sword of Martin.
• Appears as a female with three heads and is called Asmodai in the anime Rental Magica as the most powerful of the 72 demons that Adelisia Lenn Mathers summons with her Solomon Magic and has control over.
• Asmodeus makes an appearance in the novel "Sepulchre" by Kate Mosse.
• The Kids in the Hall sketch "Rock Me Asmodeus", a garage band kid battles Satan in a duel of rockers.
• Ashmodai / Asmodeus also makes a significant appearance in the novel "Lady of the Lamp" by Caiseal Mór
• Claws of Asmodai is a book by Uzzi Ornan. It deals with religious-secular relations in Israel, from a point of view critical of what Ornan considers "religious coercion."
• In the RPG In Nomine, Asmodeus is portrayed as the Demon Prince of the Game, tasked with leading hells secret police

Baal

• Overlord Baal (魔王 バール, Demon King Baal) is an alternate "ultimate" boss in the rpg/strategy games by Nippon Ichi Software, he is included in the games Disgaea 1, 2, 3, & DS. He also appears again in a stronger form of a Prinny (a demon-like penguin) named Prinny Overlord Baal (プリニー 魔王 バール).

• Ba'al is a member of the fictional alien race, the Goa'uld, portrayed by Cliff Simon in the Science-Fiction television series Stargate SG-1 who makes appearances in seasons 5 through 10. Ba'al is also featured in the Stargate SG-1, direct-to-DVD movie, Stargate Continuum as the main villain.

• The Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne character Chiaki obtains the powers of Baal to create her own view of an "ideal" world where only the strong survive.

• Baal is the name of the amoral protagonist of Bertolt Brecht's first play (1918), itself made into an opera of the same name (1980) by Friedrich Cerha.

• Baal is the antichrist in the Robert R. McCammon novel by the same name.

• Baal is the Lord of Destruction, one of the three brother demons and rulers of Hell called the 'Prime Evils' in the Diablo video game series and appears as the main antagonist in Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.

• In The Forgotten Realms D&D campaign setting, Bhaal is a dead god who once embodied [...]. Prior to his death he fathered a large number of half-mortal half-god children known as 'Bhaalspawn'. The Bhaalspawn are notable for their prominent role in the 'Baldur's Gate' videogames.

• In the Playstation 2 game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 (and its remake Persona 3: FES) Beezlebub is the most powerful form of the Devil arcana, obtainable by completing the Tanaka Social Link.

• In the RPG In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas and its American remake In Nomine Baal is Hell's Demon Prince of War, and has a deep, but somewhat friendly, rivalry with the Archangel Michael.

• Baal appears (along with Oribas, Gaap, Asmodeus, Astaroth, and Amon) as one of the six most powerful demon crests in the game Shadow Hearts: Covenant. It is depicted with bird-like features and sadistic illusionist tendencies by pretending to be the character's deceased daughter/wife to get him to commit [...]. Ironically, he was depicted (with the other 63 demons available) to be controlled by King Solomon.

• Not directly referenced as Ba'al, but Beelzebub or 'The Lord of the Flies' was a demonic figure depicted as a sow's head planted on a stick sharpened at two ends, who speaks to the Jesus figure, Simon, in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies.

• In the role-playing game Vampire: the Masquerade, a primarily antagonistic vampire clan called the Baali are said to be somehow connected the demonic Baal, a connection reinforced by the preponderance of infernal and demonic themes present in the clan.

• In Warhammer 40,000, Baal is the fictional home planet of the vampiristic Blood Angels.

• In the PlayStation game Grandia, Baal is the main antagonist.

• In the MMORPG Ragnarok Online one of the MVP Monsters is called Beelzebub. It's portraited as a giant fly with king's attributes (a crown, a mantle and a sceptre). He summons powerful flying monsters looking like red houseflies.

Balam

• In the early 90's there was a gothic band called "Balam and The Angels".

• Balam (as Balan) appears in Polish fantasy movie "Dzieje Mistrze Twardowskiego" ("The Story of Master Twardowski") as the Duke of Hell, the main adversary of famous polish necromancer Twardowski.

• In the Outlanders SF series by Mark Ellis(writing as James Axler), Balam is presented as 1,500 year old alien/human hybrid, the last of the Archons, who correspond to the Roswell Greys.

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Balam appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power.

Beleth

• In the RPG In Nomine, Beleth is portrayed as female and the Demon Princess of Nightmares. She was also Bladine, Archangel of Dreams lover before the Rebellion.

• In Heroes of Might and Magic V, the monarch who rules over the demons is named Kha-Beleth.

• In Capcom's SNES game Demon Crest, Beleth appears as Belth as the graveyard level boss.

Berith

• In the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI, Berith (known in game as Duke Berith) is a Demon Red Mage "Notorious Monster" located in Dynamis-Xarcabard. He can drop the Duelist's Chapeau, the Red Mage Relic Armor hat.

• In Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Berith is a demon wearing a suit of armor and riding a brown horse, wielding a gold spear/sceptre and is a mini-boss, a guard in the Assembly of Nihilo, and recruitable demon, fuseable in the Cathedral of Shadows.

• Berith also features in the original Shin Megami Tensei looking much the same.

• Also appears in Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3.

• In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Beherit was the former ruler of the Sixth Layer of Hell, but was destroyed (along with his consort, Batna) by Asmodeus for disobeying "restrictions upon the elevation of devils" (see Dragon #91, p 32).

• In the anime/manga Berserk, Behelit is an item that can be used to call the Demonic demigods of the Godhand, and grant the user their hearts desire at the cost of sacrificing what they hold most dear. The rarest behelit, the Egg of the King, is crimson in color.

• Mentioned in Slayer's song Final Six from the Christ Illusion album.

Bifrons

• Bifrons appear in several Castlevania games including Symphony of the Night, Aria of Sorrow, and Portrait of Ruin. He's depicted as a hunch-backed, gray-haired man in a green coat and carrying a lantern that shoots fire.

• In the online PC game Final Fantasy XI, Count Bifrons appears as a demon Notorious Monster in Castle Zvahl. It is revealed in the Scholar story arc that he was one of the great tacticians of the Beastmen Confederacy during the Great War, keeping up a fierce rivalry with the scholar strategist Gunther Schultz.

• In Shadow Hearts, Bifrons (misspelled as Bifronze) appears as a monster in Rouen, France. It is shown as a cloaked demon carrying a large, bloody scythe.

Buer

• Buer is portrayed in a Polish fantasy movie "Dzieje Mistrze Twardowskiegobuer" ("The Story of Master Twardowskibuer") about famous polish necromancer Pan Twardowski, as a president of Trade Collegium of Hell...or Devoncourt.

• A monster called a Buer (sometimes Buel) appears in the Final Fantasy series of games, usually as a multi-winged bat.

• Buer appears in the Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow Game for the Nintendo DS and in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow as a Demon with a painful Flaming rim of fire.

• Buer also appears in the Hellblazer comic book as one of demons of Hell, who tortures little children, dogs, ants and small mammals who opposes lead character John Constantine.

• Buer appears in the Role Playing Game Arkanun as a president of Hell.

• Buer appears in Alan Moore's comic book series Promethea, when he is summoned (along with the entire Ars Goetia) to attack the title character by a magician named Ben Solomon. He also appears in the first issue of Ben Templesmith's Wormwood comic.

• Buer appears in Grim Grimoire as a chimera, summoned using the alchemy rune.

• The first boss fight in Tales of Destiny 2 is against a monster called Buer.

• A "Buer" is also the slang name for a man who cannot leave his home.

• A mythical creature, known only as either a Buer or a Rustle Buer, has been said to wander the moors of Devon. The creature is said to be tall, grey skinned and is believed to mumble incoherent jibberish and make odd rustling noises. It is said that to encounter a Buer at close quarters brings a slow and lingering death.

• Buer also appears as a very lower-class British slang term for a woman (inferring that she is a prostitute) in Graham Greene's book Brighton Rock. Greene appears to have invented this usage for the novel.

• Buer has a small comedic role as a lusty teacher in the manga series "Stray Little Devil" by Kotaro Mori. It is also apparent that he can teach without making any sort of signs of communication, phyiscal or otherwise, making him mute throughout the series.

• In the Dungeons & Dragons supplement, Tome of Magic, a monster known as the Roving Mauler has the same appearance as Buer, and Buer is the name of one of the "vestiges" attainable as a member of the Binder class.

• Buer is the last name of one of three [...] addicted characters in the anime "Gundam Seed," the other two being Sabnak and Andras, also demons of Goetia."

• There is a black garbed figure know as a "Buers" that is said to haunt Exmouth in Devon. It has been seen by several of the local townsfolk, mainly at night and mainly found squatting with a toothless grin. It is said to be found near banks of rivers.

Crocell

• In the videogame Demikids, Crocell (called Crosel) appears as a demon in a semi-human form who speaks in a very overconfident and menacing tone with two blades of ice that never melt. Most of his attacks are ice and water based.

• In Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Crocell (though shown as Procel) appears as a female demon that appears on water surfaces in the game's Subterranean Hell. Her soul gives the ability to free up movement while the hero is underwater.

• In the game Aquanox a giant fish-like being is called Crocell and is part of a faction of energy-sucking seamonsters called the Shaks. Some other Shak monsters are also named after demons, such as the enormous Forneus.

Dantalion

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Dantalion appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power. Like his classic depiction, he is portrayed with multiple faces and is able to grant characters the ability to read thoughts.

Decarabia

• In Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Decarabia is an orange starfish-shaped demon, recruitable and fuzeable in the Cathedral of Shadows. Also in the original Shin Megami Tensei. He is a close friend of Forneus in the game.

• Also appears in Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 as one of the Protagonist's usable Personas.

• In the Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Decarabia is depicted as an amphibious wheel-like monster 'in the shape of a starfish'. It infrequently drops the edible item 'Boiled Starfish'. It returns in Order of Ecclesia, with a high resistance power and the ability to poison on contact.

• In Wild Arms, Decarabia appears in some early areas as a demon wearing a white tuxedo and top hat, emerging from a pentacle.

• Appears in the MMO Final Fantasy XI as Marquis Decarabia, a Kindred general that must be defeated with the 15 other Kindred Leaders to trigger the Dynamis Lord's appearance. His job class is of a Bard.

Eligos

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Eligos appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power. His name is spelled "Eligor". He appears riding a half-horse/half-dragon, wearing armor and carrying a lance.

• Eligor appears in the video game Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne as a recurring boss enemy and later as a recruitable demon, and in Persona 3 as one of the main character's usable personas. He is depicted as a knight in red armor wielding a lance.

• He also appeared in the film Ghost Rider as a servant of Blackheart, a demon representing the element of air.

• Victory Gundam features a mobile suit known as the Abigor.

• Eligor appears as a massive, armored centaur boss in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia.

• In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "What's My Line, pt 2", Eligor is invoked by the vampire Spike as part of a ritual to cure the vampire Drusilla.

Flauros

• In the survival horror video game Silent Hill, the Flauros is a mystical pyramid-shaped object. It is about two inches on each side, and has a triangular base with three sides slanting up to pyramid formation. Each side is made up of four smaller triangles inside the larger one. The Flauros is used by the protagonist in the course of stopping the antagonist's daughter.

• In Silent Hill: Origins, the Flauros is mistaken for an object that can contain the psychic powers of character Alessa Gillespie.

• In Golden Sun: The Lost Age, Haures is a Summoned Spirit.

• Flauros is featured in numerous installments of the Megami Tensei series as an enemy as well as an acquirable demon. An angelic version of him appears in Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne as a result of Chiaki's ability to turn fallen angels back into angels. He also makes an appearance as a persona in Shin Megami Tensie: Persona 4

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Flauros appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power. His name is spelled as "Haures".

Focalor

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Focalor appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power. He is described in his classic form, and can grant power over storms and sea.

Forneus

• In Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, Forneus is a boss that appears like a large stingray with a crown atop of his head. He is also a close friend of Decarabia.

• In Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3, Forneus is one of the personas that the main character can summon.

• In Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga, is a common enemy.

• Also appears in the original Shin Megami Tensei

• Appears as a member of the Kindred Army stationed in Castle Oztroja, Marquis Forneus, in the MMO Final Fantasy XI.

• In Ace Combat X for the PSP, there is an obtainable aircraft called the YR-99 Forneus.

• In AquaNox, Forneus is a gigantic squid-like creature who leads the armies of "The Old Ones". He is also known to have eaten another arch-villain, Mad Sam Korhonen.

• Forneus appears with Andras in Castlevania's Portrait of Ruin near the beginning of the game as a large, jellyfish-like monster. It is described as a demonic sea creature from oceans of the underworld. It also appears in this fashion in Order of Ecclesia.

• Forneus was one of the Abyss gate guardians in the Super Famicom RPG, Romancing SaGa 3.

• Forneus appears in Tales of Destiny 2 as a boss who attacks a ferry.

• Forneus is also the name belonging to an Australian ambient solo project. Link: www.myspace.com/forneusproject

• Forneus is the main servant of Adilisia Lenn Mathers in the anime Rental Magica.

Furfur

• In the role-playing game In Nomine, Furfur is the Demon Prince of Hardcore.

Gaap

• Gaap appears as a lesser enemy in Castlevania's Lament of Innocence.

• He also appears in the Yu-Gi-Oh Trading Card Game, as "Gaap the Divine Soldier"

• Gaap is one of the six most powerful demon crests in Shadow Hearts: Covenant. Unlike other incarnations, this incarnation of Gaap is depicted as an enormous plant-like demon with earth elemental qualities. He appears deep in the Black Forest (Germany) as the final boss of Lucia's sidequest. He, much like Baal, is depicted to be a merciless sadist ("Its a pity, I would have enjoyed watching all of you wander constantly, slowly dropping to your deaths").

• Gaap is mentioned by Maria in Umineko no Naku Koro Ni as a demon who can take, to quote her, "instantly carry the desired person to any location". A witch in this sound novel is also named Gaap.

Glasya-Labolas

• He appears in the Castlevania game Portrait of Ruin as a huge bat-winged bulldog that spits a cloud of poison.

• Also, he appears in Final Fantasy VI Advance as an enemy. He is depicted as a large giant of a man.

• He appears in Final Fantasy VIII as Doomtrain, named Glasya-Labolas (Gurasyaraborasu) in the Japanese version, and is obtained via the 'Solomon Ring' item.

• In Dungeons and Dragons, Glasya is the daughter of Asmodeus, the ruler of the Nine Hells.

Haagenti

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Haagenti appears as a female "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power. She resembles her classic depiction.

• In the roleplaying game In Nomine, Haagenti is the Demon Prince of Gluttony

Ipos

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Ipos appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power. He varies his appearance to match the different descriptions of him.

Leraje

• Leraje appears in Castlevania's Portrait of Ruin as a minor enemy named "Lerajie". Lerajie appears as a lizard-like, dark haired, female hunter clad in a purple garb (assumably the Amethyst Corset, which is one of its drop items) and is armed with a laser-sighting rifle that fires ricocheting bullets according to the laser's path. She frequently jumps about yelling "I see you!" before she readies her attack.

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Amon appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power. He is an archer as traditionally portrayed.

Malphas

• Several Castlevania games (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow and Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin) feature an enemy named Malphas, which varies between low-tier boss or high-tier common enemy, which looks like a black-robed humanoid with black wings, and can attack with crows and feathers. It is called Karasuman (Karasu meaning crow) in the English releases of Symphony of the Night.

• In the Steve Jackson role-playing game In Nomine, Malphas is the Demon Prince of Factions, dedicated to causing division and strife among humanity. He is the main enemy of David, Archangel of Stone

• In the game Savage 2- A Tourtured Soul, if a player collects enough souls, he can sacrifice himself to become a malphas.

• Malphas serves as the primary antagonist of the strategy game, Trapt. In this depiction, he is shown as a demon who was sealed away inside of a forest mansion the main character stumbles into and uses the protagonist as a servant to offer souls to Malphas in order to restore his body. Ironically, the fact he was sealed away in a mansion seems to fit in with his ability to build houses.

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Malphas appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power.

• In The Matrix Online MMORPG, Malphas is the leader of the Merovingian's vampires.

• Malphas has made some appearances in the Megami Tensei video games.

• His name comes up in an episode of A&E's Paranormal State ("The Raven") in which he was believed to have terrorized a family by throwing potpourri, and choking the wife/mother (he was even said to have appeared as a raven). During the choking incident, the victim hears the name Malphas in a growling voice (indicating possibly demonic activity). Wikipedia's Malphas article was even used by the researchers as a source of reference (the article was also briefly shown in the episode).

Malthus

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Malthus appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power. His name is spelled as "Halphax". Like his traditional portrayal, he was a former architect.

Marchosias

• Marchosias appears in the comic book B.P.R.D.: The Universal Machine, released on August 4, 2006. He is depicted as a monstrous red demon with a lupine face. Marchosias and Iblifika, another demon, are prisoners of an ageless marquis, and are set free by Kate Corrigan.

• Marchosias appears in Alan Moore's comic book series Promethea where he is summoned with the demon Andras by the magician Benny Solomon to put a hit out on the title character. Promethea defeats him and Andras at a fight at a nightclub. Later in the series, Benny Solomon summons the entire Ars Goetia to attack Promethea, and Marchosias appears again.

• Marchosias appears in the light novel, anime, and manga series Shakugan no Shana as a Crimson Lord bound to the Flame Haze Margery Daw, the Chanter of Elegies. He is manifest through a grimoire and speaks madly and lusts after battle.

• Marchosias appears in Shin Megami Tensei.

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Marchosias appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power.

• The band Order of the Ebon Hand wrote a song "For Marchosias" in their album XV: The Devil.

Murmur

• Appears as an NPC in Hellgate: London and as a boss in World of Warcraft.

Naberius

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Naberius appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power. He is described in his three-headed dog form.

• Nebiros is also a character in the manga series Tarot Cafe. In this version he shown as a powerful demon who "purchased" an abused teenager named Aaron, who he eventually abandoned with the curse of a werewolf as punishment for leaving his castle.

• In Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3, Nebiros is an acquirable persona of the Hermit arcana.

• In the Megami Tensei video games, Nebiros is one of the two guardians of a girl named Alice. The other being Belial. The demon is portrayed as a robed figure carrying a small marionette..

• In the World of Warcraft role playing game, Naberius appears as a character; the target of a quest to destroy him. In this case, he is a rebellious Kirin Tor student who became a lich.

• Nebiros is a demon hero in Heroes of Might and Magic V.

Orias

• Orias is the name of the Centaur in the Disney's Adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Orias is second in command to Aslan.

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Orias appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power. His name is spelled "Otiax". Rather than follow the cosmological focus of the Demonic Orias from the Ars Goetia, Otiax seems instead to be a reference to the Cthulhu Mythos Outer God Yog-Sothoth, complete with the title "The Gate and The Key". He grants his summoner powers over locks and doors, an manifests as a blue mist emerging from behind a locked gate that is unlocked from beyond as the manifestation ends.

Orobas

• Orobas is Monster in My Pocket #78. Official copy refers to him as an "oracle" rather than a demon.

• Orobas appears in the PS2 game Persona 3 as one of the protagonist's usable Persona and is classified under the Magician arcana; Orobas' pose in the game is jokingly regarded as a dance move by the characters in an online Persona 3 comic.

• Orobas appears in Shadow Hearts: Covenant as one of the main enemies as well as a crest that gives the user magical abilities. in this form, however, he is portrayed as "the lord of warps and distortions", and appears as a lord with a giant prawn tail instead of legs, and wields a large sword.

• Orobas appears in Shin Megami Tensei

Ose

• In the PS2 RPG Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Ose appears as an anthropomorphic leopard wearing a cape and a white undergarment, wielding a pair of machete. He is the boss of the Assembly of Nihilo level, and can be recruited to your side later in the game. An angelic version of him also makes an appearance as a result of Chiaki's ability to redeem fallen angels and restore them back into their angelic form.

• In the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI Ose is a "Notorious Monster" from the Coeurl-type, a cheetah/leopard like big cat of prey.

• In the videogame Final Fantasy XII Ose (here "Osee") also appeared as a Coeurl, although in this game, every coeurl enemy has a squid-like head.

• Ose appears in the PS2 RPG Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 as one of the Protagonist's usable Fool-class Personas. His appearance is the same as his Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne appearance.

• Ose appears alongside Sabnock in a boss fight in Tales of Destiny 2.

• In Togari (manga), Ose is a devil, given the task of returning the protagonist Tobei when/if he dies; and takes the form of a human or dog.

• Ose appears as a regular leopard in the Wild Arms series of games, making his first appearance as a boss in Wild Arms 3. He is always shown in these games made of a liquid metal substance that can only be properly damaged with magic attacks.

• Ose appears under the name Voso in the fantasy novel The Music of Razors, by Cameron Rogers.

Paimon

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Paimon appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power.

Purson

• Purson (as Pursan) is portrayed in a Polish fantasy movie "Dzieje Mistrza Twardowskiego" ("The Story of Master Twardowski") as a devious soul-hunter and lieutenant of Duke Balan, the main adversary of Polish sorcerer Twardowski; he is also the one to organise the final trap to cheat and imprison the powerful magician.

Raum

• The demon Raum is the main character of the book Raum by Carl Sherrell published in 1977.

• In the comic book Doom Patrol, Raum is a demon who attempts to procure the Throne of Hell (abdicated by Lucifer) by using the souls of those who committed [...]. His underling, Semyaza, used a lute strung with the angel Israfel's heart strings to drive people to [...]. Raum revealed to Robotman that he is in possession of Steele's soul. Raum also appeared in Books of Magic.

• Raum also appears in the AngeLink Series by Lyda Morehouse in Fallen Host as a punk rock underling of her Euro trash Morningstar.

• Blackbird RAUM, a nihilist-anarchist folk punk band from Santa Cruz, California, is named after the demon.

• Raum, is a sludge metal band heavily influenced by early 90's grunge with members hailing from both the New Orleans and Mississippi area.

• He is a character in the PlayStation 2 game Primal, appearing as the Lord of Aetha, the Wraith realm next to his wife, Empusa. He is given vampiric traits and is depicted as a malevolent aristocrat.

• Count Raum also appears as a killable "Kindred Demon" in the game Final Fantasy XI.

• In the video game Gears of War, the main adversary is named General RAAM, a possible reference to the demon Raum as they are both pronounced the same way

Ronove

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Ronove appears as a female "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power.

• In the Sound Novel Umineko no Naku Koro Ni Ronove appears as the butler and head furniture of the Endless Witch. He is portrayed as mysterious and nonchalant, not hesitating to state facts and truths that would tease his master.

Sabnock

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Sabnock appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power. His name is spelled "Savnok".

• In the gaming universe of Classic Battletech, Sabnock is the XO of the 50th Manei Domini Shadow Division. He tends to unleash bio-chemical agents on his enemies from his battlemech during battle.

• Sabnak is the last name of one of three [...] addicted characters in the anime "Gundam Seed," the other two being Buer and Andras, also demons of Goetia."

• Sabnak is a powerful Shadow who appears in Critical Mass #3, part of Epic Comics' Shadowline series. He is identified as having been one of 72 Shadows mistaken for demons and imprisoned by King Solomon.

Shax

• Shax has made several appearances in the comic book series Hellboy by Mike Mignola

• Shax appears several times in the Japanese video game series Megami Tensei as a demon or persona.

• Shax is the nickname of the famous Tonbridge Grammar School's curly oak tree.

• Author Shirley Jackson used the name "Shax" in several of her short stories, and her black cat Shax appears in two of her semi-autobiographical works, "Life Among the Savages" and "Raising Demons."
• Shax.dk is a Danish online community where you can debate with other belivers of the true existence and form of the demon/daemon Shax.

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Shax appears as a female "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power.

• Shax appeared twice in the fantasy WB drama "Charmed" where he was manifested as the demonic, personal assassin of the Source of All Evil. He appears as an evil personification of the air, supernaturally appearing and disappearing in sudden gusts of wind, and [...] his targets with large blasts of wind energy summoned in his hands.

Valefar

• Valefor appears as an aeon in the videogame Final Fantasy X as a harpy/cockatrice/wyvern creature.

• Valefor appears as a fightable monster in the videogame Final Fantasy III DS as a lizard-like man with another lizard as an arm.

• Valefor is the name of the enchanted butler of Crackpot Hall in the novel Flora Segunda.

• Valefor is also one of the major Demon Princes in the role playing game In Nomine, the Prince of Theft, specifically.

• Valefor is the name of a Shura God (Kishin, literally meaning "Machine God") in Super Robot Wars Compact 3 and Super Robot Wars Original Generations.

• "Valefar" was the name of a Lithuanian black metal band, established in 1994 by the members of two other bands - "Anubi" (go to 1) and "Nahash" (see 2). The band stopped after the death of the lead singer (Sargatanos) in 2002.

• Valefor is the name of a server a player may choose to play on in the MMO (massively multi-player online) fantasy game, FFXI.

• Valefar is the name of a Core-Chimail classified Fire/demon(fiend type) monster in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game.

Vapula

• Vapula appears in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin as a purple lion with red markings and mane, and has griffon wings. It attacks by pouncing forward and by spewing a hex from its mouth to curse the character. It may give you the "Hex" spell once defeated.

• In the game In Nomine, a RPG involving a modern day war between Heaven and Hell Vapula is the Demon Prince of technology, tasked with providing humanity with tool to destroy themselves and increase the dependence on technology. His main rival is Jean the Archangel of Lightning.

• In the BattleTech game universe, the character Dr. Devon Cortland, designer of the Word of Blake's Celestial omnimechs, Spectral omnifighters, and Demon-series powered armor is given the name Vapula upon his ascension to the Word of Blake's elite.

• One of the antagonists in the game Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber is named Vapula Simburg. He makes a brief appearance late in the game to fight your party. He is one of the Temple Commanders of the Caliginous Order of the Holy Lodis Empire, along with Amazeroth Ludon, Pruflas Watts, Thamuz Delville, and Baldwin Glendale.

Vassago

• In Castlevania, Vassago appears in Lament of Innocence as a minor enemy. It resembles a floating, ghost-like creature armed with axes.

• A monster named Vassago appears in Tales of Destiny 2 as the second boss.

• In the novel Hideaway written by Dean Koontz, the primary antagonist who is a serial killer returned from Hell uses the name Vassago rather than his real name.

• In the Chaos Comics!, in old Lady Death Continuity (prior Avatar) the loyal steed of Lady Death in Hell, was a demonic unicorn called Vassago, used for the Diva of Death in her hellwars.

• In the fantasy-terror movie Hideaway (U.S.A., 1995, dir. Brett Leonard, starring Jeff Goldblum, Christine Lahti, Alice Silverstone, Alfred Molina),the villain, the psycho-possessed artist was called Vassago, for the demon that lived within him.

• In the MMORPG Final Fantasy 11, there is a Dark Knight 3 exclusive weapon know as Vassago's Scythe 4 Vassago himself appears as a villian years later in the Fellow NPC story arc, specifically the quest "Mirror Images". He harnesses the power of the Blighted Gloom and can take the appearance of a Hume male with blonde hair.

• In the early 1990s, Vassago was a popular IRC personality and author of the IRC script "PhOeNiX.irc"

• In the Yu-Gi-Oh Trading Card Game, there is a Monster Card based on Vassago, named "Versago the Destroyer".

• Vassago plays a significant role in the novel The Day After Judgement by James Blish, where an ambiguous relationship to the majority of the Infernal forces is implied.

• Used as hero in Starcraft Brood war UMS map Heaven Final Hour as a Tom Kazansky (WRAITH).

Zaebos

• In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Zaebos is a pit fiend serving the archdevil Belial.

• Jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood released an album (July 2008) entitled Zaebos as part of John Zorn's Masada Book Two series.

Zagan

• In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic, Zagan appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power.

• The game Golden Sun for Game Boy Advance, Zagan appears as a goat-bodied summon monster.

• Appears in Final Fantasy XI as another member of the Dark Kindred in the dreamworld of Dynamis-Xarcabard. His death along with 15 other Goetic generals is necessary to trigger the fight against the Dynamis Lord. His job class is that of a Dragoon, can summon a wyvern, and can call for the rest of his remaining army to attack the players all at once.

See also

• Astaroth in popular culture
• Belial in popular culture