Isai

[ Tags: church, blood, religion, blood magic, sacred magic, Lovecraftian entities of blood and flesh; Genre: horror, splatter, drama, fantasy, gore, guro ]

Isai: Isai is a young twelve-year-old kid with blond hair and green eyes; loved by his family, he has led a privileged life and was sent to study in a monastery to become a priest with the ambition of rising to the rank of cardinal. Throughout his studies, he has always been fascinated by the figure of the martyrs, especially by the 'young saint.' Isai's research on martyrs and relics, as sources of sacred power, led him to question his own beliefs. Sacred magic is not a gift from God but arises from the faith of the believers, and the church, with its dogmas and narratives, has shaped this magic to fit the imagery constructed by the cardinals. Sacred magic emerges from the prayers of people toward objects or individuals. Having faith in the clergy is what allows them to wield these powers, having faith in inanimate objects turns them into sacred relics with miraculous powers.

Having lost his faith in the church and even questioning the existence of God, Isai began to read forbidden and blasphemous books hidden in the recesses of the ecclesiastical library until he found the 'sinner's bible.' The reading of the sinner's bible and its macabre and twisted verses that praised violence against oneself and others, concealed truths that corrupted Isai's mind; terrifying, disturbing truths about the nature of man and the absence of God. Man was nothing more than flesh and blood, consciousness an ephemeral illusion destined to perish and annihilate. The 'sinner's bible,' whose pages exuded a dark and alien power, promised salvation for those who would let themselves be drawn into sin, for those who would be among the last and the forsaken, for the amoral, the lustful, and the blasphemous. A decadent and desolate paradise, where souls writhed and merged with each other to form demonic and alien humanoid creatures called 'angels.'

Isai decided to become the savior, the first true martyr, and to offer humanity, with the sacrifice of the world, a celestial place where at least sinners could reside after their death. He decided to summon the first angel present in the 'sinner's bible': the angel with scarlet wings, whose coming would be preceded by a rain of blood and from whose blood monstrous deformed creatures with a thousand eyes and mouths, exposed flesh, and constant screams of agony would emerge, to stain the whole earth with blood. For the summoning of the angel, Isai offered his own left eye and drank the blood that flowed from the book's script like scarlet ink. A halo of corrupted gold formed above Isai's head to bear witness to his sacrifice.

The blood angel resides within Isai's body; Isai's sacred magic has taken on a scarlet hue, and its effects are distorted, grotesque, and bloody. When Isai heals wounds, he does so in exchange for pain, both his own and that of the person he heals, with the flesh in the wounds swelling and twisting grotesquely before the wound closes. Isai uses the red sacred magic of the sinner's bible by reciting its macabre texts. The pain Isai feels when reciting a psalm is such that it makes him cry blood.

Isai has begun his work of preaching to sin like an apostle, displaying the miracles of the 'sinner's bible' by committing massacres with twisted and bloody sacred magic, summoning grotesque organic golems with tentacles and a multitude of mouths, and slaughtering villages and cities, mercilessly exterminating all believers of other faiths amidst laughter mixed with tears, in the name of his own angel.

Once the blood angel within Isai has gained sufficient strength, red wings will form on Isai's back, and then he will explode into a thousand pieces, causing a rain of blood, and from the remains of the child, a horrific live blood angel with six wings and a thousand eyes will emerge.

Isai's body is no longer human; he can cover his skin with a crust of blood and create a multitude of eyes, mouths, and tongues on his body. Isai feeds on human flesh and quenches his thirst with blood. Isai is an organic horror with a seemingly human appearance.

Blood Angel: An alien creature composed of human souls, summoned by Isai, an agent of the apocalypse hailing from a twisted and cursed paradise. Sinner's Bible: A blasphemous text that speaks of a heaven reserved only for sinners, which demands the world as a sacrifice for entry. It denies the existence of any god and promises eternal life in the form of grotesque 'angelic' entities. The cover is made of human skin and features a living eye at its center. The text inside is verse and poetic; the tale it tells is macabre and disturbing, and the ink used is human blood. The book bleeds when verses are recited to perform a sacred spell. Halo: The halo on Isai's head is a sign of the Blood Angel's presence within; it allows resurrection when Isai explodes into a thousand pieces at the Blood Angel's manifestation on Earth, leading to the end of the world. If Isai is killed before the Blood Angel's manifestation, the halo will consume Isai's soul to create a clone that will once again host the Blood Angel, ad infinitum.