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   World Name: Hellboy Universe (Mignolaverse)

   Overview: A world shaped by ancient cosmic entities, fallen angels, infernal powers, and forgotten histories. Earth exists as a battleground between forces seeking its destruction, domination, or preservation. Primordial beings known as the Ogdru Jahad, imprisoned long ago, constantly seek release to return the universe to chaos, often aided by human cultists and monstrous offspring (Ogdru Hem). Hell, a distinct dimension ruled by Satan and powerful demons, vies for control over Earth and ultimately Heaven. Caught in the middle is humanity, largely oblivious but defended by secret organizations like the B.P.R.D., alongside various supernatural individuals, including Hellboy, a demon destined to potentially unleash the apocalypse with the Right Hand of Doom – the key to the Ogdru Jahad's prison. The narrative blends modern-day paranormal investigation with deep mythological roots stretching back to creation itself.

   Geographical Background: The primary setting is Earth, featuring recognizable modern locations alongside hidden and mythical sites. Key areas include:

   • Hyperborea: The mythical homeland of the first human race, now lost. Associated with advanced ancient civilization.
   • Atlantis: Another legendary city founded by the Hyperboreans during their golden age.
   • Agartha: A hidden city located somewhere in the Ural Mountains, serving as a refuge for enlightened descendants/inheritors of Hyperborean knowledge, dedicated to fighting Ogdru Hem and preserving ancient wisdom.
   • Hollow Earth: A subterranean realm beneath the Earth's surface, inhabited by the descendants of enslaved beings created by fallen Hyperboreans, who now plot to conquer the surface world.
   • Hell: A separate dimension, the domain of demons, Satan, and the infernal hierarchy. It has distinct regions and structures, like the capital city Pandemonium.
   • The Abyss: The primordial void from which 'God' and the first Spirits emerged. The Ogdru Jahad were imprisoned in crystal nests somewhere in the cosmic abyss.

   Historical Background: The timeline begins before Earth's formation, with the self-creation of 'God' and Spirits in the Abyss.

   • Primordial Era: Spirits known as Watchers descend to the newly formed Earth. They create the Ogdru Jahad from mud.
   • First Conflict: The Ogdru Jahad birth 369 Ogdru Hem. The Ogdru Jahad and Hem rebel against the Watchers. The Watchers destroy the Ogdru Hem.
   • The Imprisonment: A Watcher named Anum imprisons the Ogdru Jahad in the cosmic abyss. Fearing Anum's power to potentially release them, other Watchers kill him, shattering his body. Only his Right Hand remains intact and falls to Earth.
   • The Golden Age (Hyperborea): Other cosmic Spirits are permitted to take physical form, becoming the first human race. They establish the civilization of Hyperborea, build great cities like Atlantis, and revere Anum's Hand. King Thoth places the Hand on a giant statue in his garden and protects the last Watchers (calling them angels).
   • The Fall of Hyperborea: Thoth's consort, Heca-Emem Ra (Hecate), kills the Watchers in his garden to gain forbidden knowledge, becoming cursed (half-serpent, vulnerable to sunlight) and banished. She becomes the Queen of Witches, the Black Goddess. Hyperboreans increasingly turn to worship Hecate, leading to corruption and civil strife. The statue animated by Anum's Hand walks, slaughters the corrupt, and destroys itself, leaving the Hand intact once more. The civilization collapses.
   • Rise of Modern Humanity: The second race of humans inherits Earth. Some surviving Hyperborean scholars teach early humans Vril energy and how to fight Ogdru Hem (e.g., Shonchin) before retreating to Agartha. Other Hyperboreans retreat underground, create humanoid slaves, are overthrown by them, and these slaves become the Hollow Earth dwellers.
   • Modern Era (Approx. 19th Century - Present): Humanity flourishes. However, individuals and cults seeking power through the Ogdru Jahad or Hell emerge repeatedly (e.g., Grigori Rasputin, Nimue the Blood Queen, Roderick Zinco/Black Flame). Rasputin's ritual in 1944 summons Hellboy (Anung Un Rama), bearer of the Right Hand of Doom, intended as the harbinger of apocalypse. The B.P.R.D. is founded to combat these escalating supernatural threats.

   Level of Technology: A blend of contemporary late 20th/early 21st-century technology (firearms, vehicles, communication) used by baseline humanity and organizations like the B.P.R.D., coexisting with powerful ancient magic (Vril energy), remnants of advanced Hyperborean technology (e.g., giant robots created by subterranean Hyperboreans), infernal powers derived from Hell, and cosmic forces tied to the Ogdru Jahad and Watchers. The B.P.R.D. develops specialized technology to detect, contain, and combat paranormal entities.

   List of Foundational Elements:

   1. Cosmic Entities (Watchers & Ogdru Jahad): Angelic Watchers created the draconic Ogdru Jahad, imprisoned them after a rebellion, leading to Anum's sacrifice and the creation of the Right Hand of Doom. The Ogdru Jahad represent primordial chaos and seek to unmake creation, served by their monstrous offspring, the Ogdru Hem.
   2. The Right Hand of Doom: The indestructible stone hand of the Watcher Anum, the key required to unleash the Ogdru Jahad from their prison. Fatefully grafted onto the demon Hellboy.
   3. Hyperborean Legacy: The first, advanced human civilization that rose and fell due to internal corruption (influenced by Hecate). Their legacy survives in hidden communities (Agartha), subterranean descendants, ancient knowledge (Vril), and ruins.
   4. Infernal Realm (Hell): A distinct dimension ruled by Satan and powerful demons, with its own hierarchy and ambitions focused on conquering Earth and Heaven, separate from the Ogdru Jahad's goal of cosmic annihilation. Hellboy is of infernal origin, tied to its royalty.
   5. Vril Energy: A form of life force or mystical energy, originating perhaps from the Watchers/Anum, mastered by the Hyperboreans and passed down in secret to certain human lineages or practitioners, used for power and longevity.
   6. The Cycle of Apocalypse: History is marked by repeated attempts by various factions (Ogdru Jahad cultists, Hell's agents, power-hungry sorcerers like Nimue) to bring about the end of the world, often tied to prophecies involving Hellboy and the Right Hand of Doom.

   List of Defining Moments:

   1. Creation and Rebellion of Ogdru Jahad: The Watchers' act of creation and the subsequent betrayal sets the stage for cosmic conflict.
   2. Anum's Sacrifice and the Hand's Creation: The imprisonment of the Ogdru Jahad and the fragmentation of Anum results in the creation of the pivotal Right Hand of Doom.
   3. The Fall of Hyperborea: Hecate's actions and the resulting corruption lead to the destruction of the first great human civilization, scattering its knowledge and people.
   4. Emergence and Divergence of Humanity: The rise of modern humans and the split paths of Hyperborean survivors (Agartha monks vs. subterranean dwellers) shape the hidden world.
   5. Hellboy's Arrival: Rasputin's ritual brings the prophesied Beast of the Apocalypse, holder of the Right Hand of Doom, to Earth during World War II, fundamentally altering the course of the ongoing supernatural conflict.
   6. Modern Apocalyptic Conflicts: Events involving Rasputin's return, the Frog War (Plague of Frogs), Nimue's rise as the Queen of Blood, and the machinations of the Black Flame mark the escalating end-times scenario the world faces.

   Major Organizations and Factions:

   1. Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.): A multinational organization founded to protect humanity from occult, paranormal, and supernatural threats, employing human agents and paranormal individuals.
   2. Forces of Hell: The legions of demons, devils, and damned souls residing in Hell, led by powerful Dukes and ultimately Satan. They seek conquest and are intrinsically linked to Hellboy's heritage and potential destiny.
   3. Ogdru Jahad Adherents: Diverse groups and individuals (e.g., Rasputin, Zinco Corporation's Black Flame, various cults, Frog Monsters) who worship or seek to unleash the Ogdru Jahad and/or Ogdru Hem to gain power or bring about universal destruction.
   4. Agartha Monks: Descendants/inheritors of Hyperborean knowledge dwelling in a hidden Himalayan city, preserving wisdom and occasionally intervening against major supernatural threats, masters of Vril.
   5. Hollow Earth Inhabitants: Descendants of beings created by subterranean Hyperboreans, who overthrew their masters. They live in vast caverns, possess remnants of Hyperborean technology, and plan to reclaim the surface world under their King of Fear.
   6. Witch Covens & Occult Circles: Groups practicing magic, often aligned with powerful entities like Hecate (The Black Goddess) or serving figures like Nimue (The Queen of Blood), pursuing their own agendas related to power and ancient rites.
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   1879:

   • Edward Grey, a young man of rural origins in England, saved Queen Victoria from the sorcery of witches; he was knighted as Sir Edward Grey and became known as a witch hunter. 1879:
   • Sir Edward Grey tracked a mysterious monster that had appeared in London. Despite interference from a secret society known as the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra—and with the help of various individuals, including a madman named Martin Gilfryd—he barely managed to subdue the monster. However, having lost so many people he had encountered during the ordeal, he became consumed by his work.
   • He quit his post and vanished after the Queen ordered him to remain silent regarding the true identity of the serial killer Jack the Ripper. 1880:
   • Sir Edward Grey traveled to Utah, USA; amidst the rapid expansion of the American West, he faced life-threatening dangers from sorcerous witches, bloodthirsty criminals, and zombie cowboys. 1938:
   • A young Trevor Bruttenholm joined the British Paranormal Society that spring and captured a demon in southern France. 1944:
   • In Scotland, Rasputin—backed by Hitler's SS—summoned a demon from Hell. Trevor Bruttenholm, US special forces, and the hero "Torch of Liberty" defeated the German forces; they named the demon "Hellboy," took him to New Mexico, and raised him. 1946:
   • In Germany, Trevor Bruttenholm—alongside Barbara, a young girl heading a Soviet paranormal investigation agency—disposes of experimental subjects from a vampire army created by Germany during WWII using Anna, the sixth wife of the vampire Count Giurescu. That same year in New Mexico, USA, Hellboy tastes pancakes for the first time, leaving the demons of Hell distraught over the realization that he would never return to the underworld. 1947:
   • Hellboy travels to Tanzania with Trevor Bruttenholm.
   • Hellboy's puppy drinks alien water and transforms into an alien.
   • Mahatma Gandhi meets Professor Bruttenholm and Hellboy. 1952:
   • Hellboy is granted honorary human status by the United Nations and becomes a field agent for the BPRD.
   • In Romania, he defeats Hitler, who appears as a disembodied head encased in golden armor. 1954:
   • In England, Hellboy is commissioned by the Osiris Club to hunt a crocodile-like dragon; he succeeds, proving his inherent goodness. However, the victory leaves a lingering sense of unease, ending ambiguously as white lilies sprout from the creature's blood. 1956:
   • In Mexico, Hellboy teams up with three young wrestlers—the sole survivors of a village wiped out by demons—to defeat the demonic forces. However, the group drifts apart after one of them is abducted by a demon and subsequently dies during a wrestling match against Hellboy; Hellboy spends some time living in a state of despair before eventually returning to the BPRD. - For six months, Hellboy lived like a wreck, drowning his sorrows in alcohol while battling Aztec mummies, Frankenstein's monster, vampires, werewolves, and ghosts. 1958:
   • In Virginia, Hellboy teams up with a man who had once acquired a bone granting demonic power but renounced it; the man had lost his father as the price for that power and, having witnessed others suffer at the hands of demons, joins Hellboy to fight demons and witches.
   • While investigating a series of murders in Malaysia, Hellboy battles the Penanggalan, a grotesque demon consisting of a disembodied head and trailing entrails. 1959:
   • In Macapá, South America, Hellboy thwarts the plans of Hermann von Klempt, a former Nazi scientist who was creating an army of gorillas.
   • In Ireland, Hellboy buries a corpse in a sunny spot to rescue a baby abducted by fairies, drawing the attention of the fairy king, Dagda; meanwhile, Gruagach is devoured by a wild boar, takes on the boar's form, and harbors a grudge against Hellboy. 1960:
   • In Northbrook, Kansas, Hellboy resolves a case involving a bizarre mansion that lures people to their deaths in exchange for rewards, as well as a museum gift shop employee who was impersonating a pharaoh. 1961:
   • In Connecticut, Hellboy works alongside Father Edward Kelly to exorcise evil spirits.
   • In Ireland, Hellboy defeats a demon that wears iron shoes and entrusts the iron footwear to a priest. - In Alaska, Hellboy investigates reports of a mysterious creature and encounters a strange girl who is busy pulling out the teeth of a Hydra. 1963:
   • In Norway, Hellboy meets a hideous, ancient witch; after hearing her tragic backstory, he receives a tool capable of hunting down a troll that had been terrorizing a human village—without spilling a single drop of blood. 1964:
   • In Berezniki, Russia, Hellboy battles the legendary Russian witch Baba Yaga and blasts out her left eye.
   • Having lost everything through that eye wound, Baba Yaga subsequently waits in another dimension for the chance to exact her revenge. 1966:
   • In Suffolk, England, Hellboy investigates a series of vampire attacks at an inn where guests are being drained of blood; he discovers that vampires have been breeding a new generation underground since the 17th century, waiting for the right moment to strike. 1967:
   • In Kyoto, Japan, Hellboy spends the night at a suspicious mansion in a village abandoned and ruined following a string of disappearances. The host and guests turn out to be yokai (supernatural beings) that detach their heads from their bodies at night to fly about and devour humans; Hellboy throws their bodies into a lake and holds out until sunrise, causing the monsters to perish.
   • At the remote Goloski Station in Russia, Hellboy goes to meet a professor for information, only to discover that the professor intends to kill him to curry favor with Baba Yaga. There, he meets Yad Tovich, a mysterious old man who has spent his life hunting werewolves.
   • The "Crooked Man" case—an incident Hellboy originally dealt with in Virginia in 1958—resurfaces and causes trouble once again. Effie Kolb, the witch who once menaced old Tom Ferrell, returns, and Hellboy heads back to the Appalachian Mountains to investigate a new supernatural incident.
   • Hellboy is abducted by a mysterious force and forced to pilot a massive robot linked to his own mind. This "Giant Robot Hellboy" battles colossal monsters on a remote island, but the experiment spirals out of control. 1969:
   • Hellboy and Professor Trevor Bruttenholm investigate a serious case of black magic at a castle in Lochmaben, Scotland.
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   1971:

   • German medium Johann Kraus opens a small office in Munich and begins working as a professional medium. Although he would later become a key agent of the B.P.R.D., at this time he has no connection to the organization. 1973:
   • Eleven-year-old Liz Sherman had been living while suppressing the pyrokinetic abilities that had first manifested years earlier. However, in July, a moment of shock caused by a neighborhood child triggered a massive, uncontrolled flare-up of her power; an entire city block burned down, resulting in the deaths of 32 people, including her parents and younger brother. Liz herself was found completely unharmed in the center of the blaze. 1974:
   • After the accident, Liz was passed among relatives, but the recurring pyrokinetic incidents became too much for even her family to handle; in May, she was placed under the protection of the B.P.R.D.
   • The B.P.R.D. isolated Liz in a fireproof room to study her abilities. Hellboy personally visited and spoke to her—breaking her isolation from human contact—and the two grew close; from then on, Hellboy became a figure much like an older brother to her. 1975:
   • In October, a cache of corpses accumulated over decades was discovered in a New Hampshire town. Hellboy and B.P.R.D. agent Kinsley investigated, initially suspecting werewolves, vampires, or demons, but the true cause turned out to be a far more bizarre entity. Meanwhile, unable to adjust to life within the B.P.R.D., young Liz ran away from the organization and experienced life on the streets.
   • On December 22, Hellboy encountered Krampus, who was living as an old man in a European village. Krampus, believing himself to be a demon banished from Hell, grows weary of his long existence and asks Hellboy to kill him and send him back to Hell. Hellboy ultimately kills him, though Professor Broom suggests that rather than being a true demon, he may have been an ancient pagan "Yule Goat" figure who had forgotten his own identity.
   • On Christmas Eve, Professor Broom, Hellboy, and a teenage Liz spend time together. Amidst Liz's emotional instability, a minor supernatural incident occurs when spirits latch onto a snowman ornament Hellboy gave her. 1976:
   • Tom Manning joins the B.P.R.D.
   • Concerned that Liz is constantly confined within the facility, Hellboy urges Professor Broom to take her outside.
   • Professor Broom takes 14-year-old Liz to investigate a haunting in a small Massachusetts town. While the spirit of a woman killed 300 years ago after being accused of witchcraft appears to be the cause, the woman was indeed a witch and attempts to possess Liz's body. Liz repels the entity while confronting her own powers and the fire from her past; this marks her effective debut in field operations. 1978:
   • In November, plumbers discover a long-sealed room in the basement of St. Trinian's Hospital in Washington, D.C.
   • Inside, they find an unconscious creature—possessing both human and fish-like traits—contained within a water-filled capsule. The capsule bore the inscription "April 14, 1865"—the date Abraham Lincoln was shot—so the B.P.R.D. gave him the temporary name "Abraham Sapien." 1979:
   • On March 2, B.P.R.D. researchers applied electrical stimulation to Abe, finally waking him up. Researchers had been considering dissection if there was no response, but Hellboy intervened, halting the experiment and protecting Abe. Afterward, Abe began living within the B.P.R.D.
   • In Portland, Oregon, a once-famous medium named Mr. Todd used drugs to force himself into a trance, only to make contact with an extraterrestrial entity rather than a spirit from the afterlife. The entity began using Todd's ectoplasm to manifest a physical body in reality, but Hellboy stopped it. It was later revealed that this entity was a creature of the Ogdru Hem lineage.
   • Hellboy traveled to France to rescue a Gypsy woman named Nadia, who was in danger of being dragged away by a demon due to a past pact.
   • Around this time, Hellboy grew close to the British archaeologist Anastasia Bransfield and worked with her on several cases. In June, they tracked down goblins that had stolen artifacts from the British Museum; in December, while visiting retired B.P.R.D. agents, they resolved a haunting incident dating back to the war. 1980:
   • Tom Manning was promoted to Director of Field Operations for the B.P.R.D.
   • On April 15, Liz Sherman, having turned eighteen, decided on her own to remain with the B.P.R.D. and became a full-fledged field agent. - From this point on, Liz and Abe join Hellboy as supernatural members of the B.P.R.D., and the team dynamic familiar to us—comprising Hellboy, Liz, and Abe—begins to take shape. 1981:
   • Still inexperienced, Abe undertakes a mission with the B.P.R.D. team for the first time without Hellboy. The objective was to recover the remains of a powerful sorcerer—originally defeated by Edward Grey in the 19th century—near the island of Saint-Sébastien off the coast of France.
   • What began as a simple recovery operation turned dire as the entire island fell under the influence of an ancient evil, resulting in the deaths of the accompanying agents. Abe resolved the incident alone, proving his mettle as a field agent, and subsequently became an official B.P.R.D. field agent. 1982:
   • In Yorkshire, England, Hellboy tracks down Countess Ilona Kakosy, a powerful vampire he had been pursuing for a long time. She uses hallucinations to make it appear as though Varcolac—the "King of All Vampires"—has manifested, but Hellboy breaks through the illusion and kills her by driving a stake through her heart.
   • On August 19 in Prague, Hellboy battles a gambler who had been cursed to become a vampire after playing cards against corpses—since there were no living opponents available. Ultimately, Hellboy’s hand beats the vampire’s by chance, breaking the curse, and the vampire vanishes at sunrise. 1983:
   • Folklorist Kate Corrigan becomes a professor at New York University and begins serving as a consultant for the B.P.R.D. - Abe is dispatched to Campeche, Mexico, after an archaeological team discovers monsters inside a cave. Inside, he finds the coffins of ancient vampires and a massive aquatic creature—a transformed vampire—all of which he eliminates.
   • On October 13, Hellboy heads to the Chesbro Mansion with a medium after being hired to clear out ghosts before the property goes up for auction. While it initially appears to be a simple haunted house, the mansion and the Chesbro family harbor far older secrets. 1984:
   • Kate Corrigan meets Hellboy for the first time. She subsequently becomes a key folklorist, maintaining a long-standing collaboration with Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.
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   Sir Edward Grey

   • Name: Sir Edward Grey
   • Alias: Witchfinder
   • Appearance: In life, a lean British man with dark hair and a beard. He is typically depicted wearing a black Victorian-era suit and a long coat.
   • Personality: Stoic, unyielding, and tenacious. Rather than being intimidated by the supernatural, he is a man of action who investigates and destroys such threats.
   • Background: After saving Queen Victoria from a witch's curse in 1879, he became the Crown's troubleshooter for supernatural incidents. For decades, he hunted witches, demons, and secret societies. In 1916, while in Chicago attempting to stop the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra from summoning Amdusias—a Grand Duke of Hell—he was dragged into Hell by the demon himself. As of 1969, he is a legendary figure long since vanished from the human world.

   The Lobster

   • Name: Real name unknown
   • Alias: The Lobster (later popularly known as Lobster Johnson)
   • Appearance: Wears a black combat uniform and coat, a face-concealing mask, round goggles, and a claw emblem on his chest. He carries a pistol in each hand.
   • Personality: Taciturn and fiercely resolute. He shows little mercy to criminals and possesses an unwavering conviction in dispensing justice.
   • Background: He hunted gangs, Nazi spies, and supernatural criminals in 1930s New York. He was notorious for branding the foreheads of the villains he defeated with a claw-shaped mark. He died in 1939 at Hunte Castle in Austria while attempting to thwart a Nazi space program. Later, as the U.S. government concealed his actual existence, he was adapted into a "pulp hero"; young Hellboy grew up as an avid fan, unaware that Lobster Johnson was a real person. In 1946, he even received a "Lobster Decoder Ring" as a Christmas gift.

   Trevor Bruttenholm

   • Name: Trevor Bruttenholm (commonly known as Professor Broom)
   • Appearance: A middle-aged British man (as of 1969). He has dark hair and is typically depicted wearing glasses, a suit, and a coat.
   • Personality: Calm and rational, befitting a scholar, yet he is far from someone who views the supernatural solely through books. He is a deeply affectionate and protective father figure to Hellboy.
   • Background: In 1944, while attempting to stop Rasputin’s ritual, he discovered the newly summoned red demon child and spontaneously named him "Hellboy." He treated Hellboy as a child rather than a test subject and formally adopted him in 1946. He was a key figure in founding the B.P.R.D. and raised Hellboy to become a supernatural investigator. In 1969, he investigated a serious magical incident in Lochmaben, Scotland, alongside Hellboy.

   Harry Middleton

   • Name: Harry H. Middleton
   • Appearance: An ordinary British man; as he ages, he is depicted with graying hair and is usually seen in a suit and coat.
   • Personality: Curious and humorous; he remains remarkably unfazed by the supernatural.
   • Background: A friend of Broom’s from their days at Eton; the two had been investigating ghosts since their student years. He met Hellboy through Broom in 1953 and befriended him, treating him more like a fun young companion than a monster. He continued to investigate various supernatural cases alongside Broom and Hellboy.

   Jacob Stegner

   • Name: Jacob Stegner
   • Appearance: A sturdy white male and World War II veteran. He typically wears practical attire suited for a soldier or government agent.
   • Personality: A serious, pragmatic field agent who is highly attuned to risk management.
   • Background: He participated in the liberation of Auschwitz at the end of the war and joined the B.P.R.D. in 1947. A veteran agent, he accompanied Hellboy on his first official B.P.R.D. mission in Brazil in 1952. He continued to carry out missions alongside Hellboy and Susan Xiang.

   Archibald Muraro

   • Name: Archibald "Archie" Muraro
   • Appearance: A human male with no distinctive supernatural traits; he favors standard field agent attire.
   • Personality: A pragmatic and composed early B.P.R.D. agent.
   • Background: Active with the B.P.R.D. since 1948, he accompanied Stegner, Susan Xiang, and others on Hellboy's first official mission in 1952. He served as a senior agent during Hellboy's early days as a rookie.

   Susan Xiang

   • Name: Susan "Sue" Xiang
   • Appearance: A Chinese-American woman with black hair. Although an ordinary human, she wears B.P.R.D. field gear while on duty.
   • Personality: Intelligent, straightforward, and highly inquisitive. She prefers to verify her abilities rather than relying on them blindly.
   • Abilities: Possesses psychometric powers, allowing her to read traces of the past or future by touching objects or people.
   • Background: Formerly an FBI analyst, she joined the B.P.R.D. in 1952 after Broom recognized her abilities. He accompanied Hellboy on many of his early missions; notably, in 1963, he investigated a case involving his own Chinese family and the Golden Crane Society alongside Hellboy. He is a superhuman agent who worked with Hellboy long before Liz did.

   Woodrow Farrier

   • Name: Woodrow "Woody" Farrier
   • Appearance: Black male. An ordinary human with the air of a scholar or researcher.
   • Personality: A studious and tenacious researcher.
   • Background: He conducted research in cryptozoology but was unable to secure a proper academic position due to the racial discrimination of the time, working instead as a mathematics teacher. After Broom discovered his research papers and personally recruited him into the B.P.R.D., he became an agent specializing in monstrous and unidentified creatures.
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   Sir Edward Grey

   • Name: Sir Edward Grey
   • Alias: Witchfinder
   • Appearance: In life, a lean British man with dark hair and a beard. He is typically depicted wearing a black Victorian-era suit and a long coat.
   • Personality: Stoic, unyielding, and tenacious. Rather than being intimidated by the supernatural, he is a man of action who investigates and destroys such threats.
   • Background: After saving Queen Victoria from a witch's curse in 1879, he became the Crown's troubleshooter for supernatural incidents. For decades, he hunted witches, demons, and secret societies. In 1916, while in Chicago attempting to stop the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra from summoning Amdusias—a Grand Duke of Hell—he was dragged into Hell by the demon himself. As of 1969, he is a legendary figure long since vanished from the human world.

   The Lobster

   • Name: Real name unknown
   • Alias: The Lobster (later popularly known as Lobster Johnson)
   • Appearance: Wears a black combat uniform and coat, a face-concealing mask, round goggles, and a claw emblem on his chest. He carries a pistol in each hand.
   • Personality: Taciturn and fiercely resolute. He shows little mercy to criminals and possesses an unwavering conviction in dispensing justice.
   • Background: He hunted gangs, Nazi spies, and supernatural criminals in 1930s New York. He was notorious for branding the foreheads of the villains he defeated with a claw-shaped mark. He died in 1939 at Hunte Castle in Austria while attempting to thwart a Nazi space program. Later, as the U.S. government concealed his actual existence, he was adapted into a "pulp hero"; young Hellboy grew up as an avid fan, unaware that Lobster Johnson was a real person. In 1946, he even received a "Lobster Decoder Ring" as a Christmas gift.

   Trevor Bruttenholm

   • Name: Trevor Bruttenholm
   • Appearance: An elderly man, now in his late sixties. His hair has turned white, and he typically wears glasses along with a suit and coat.
   • Personality: Remains calm and scholarly; acts as a father figure to Hellboy. He tends to treat young individuals with supernatural abilities as human beings rather than dangerous specimens.
   • Background: Raised Hellboy and worked alongside him at the B.P.R.D. for many years. The B.P.R.D. took Liz Sherman into protective custody in 1974, and he became personally involved in managing her supernatural issues. He persuaded Hellboy to accept Abe Sapien—discovered between 1978 and 1979—as a member of the organization, eventually helping Abe adjust to life at the B.P.R.D.

   Harry Middleton

   • Name: Harry Middleton
   • Appearance: An elderly British man with graying hair; typically wears a suit and coat.
   • Personality: An occult investigator with a sense of humor and a composed demeanor.
   • Background: A longtime friend of Bruttenholm and Hellboy; he passed away in 1984. Both Bruttenholm and Hellboy attended his funeral.

   Tom Manning

   • Name: Thomas Tom Manning
   • Appearance: A middle-aged American man with no supernatural traits. As an agency executive, he is frequently seen in a suit.
   • Personality: Pragmatic and administrative; places great importance on regulations and organizational operations.
   • Background: Joined the B.P.R.D. in 1976 and was promoted to Director of Field Operations in 1980.

   Liz Sherman

   • Name: Elizabeth Liz Sherman
   • Appearance: A young human woman. Long dark brown to reddish-brown hair and a slender build. Usually wears relatively ordinary clothing.
   • Personality: Sensitive and introverted; harbors a fear of her own abilities. At the same time, she is deeply affectionate toward those close to her.
   • Ability: Powerful pyrokinesis—the ability to generate and control fire.
   • Background: In 1973, at the age of 11, her powers spiraled out of control, resulting in the deaths of 32 people, including her parents and younger brother. She came under the protection of the B.P.R.D. in 1974. She learned to trust Hellboy after he reached out to her, and later grew close to Abe, bonding over their shared status as "unusual beings" within the organization. She became a full-fledged B.P.R.D. field agent upon reaching adulthood in 1980.

   Abe Sapien

   • Name: Abraham Abe Sapien
   • Appearance: A slender, tall, humanoid aquatic creature. Features include blue-to-teal skin, large eyes, and fish-like gills and limbs. In the 1970s and early 80s, he wore a long coat, hat, and gloves to conceal his appearance when venturing outside.
   • Personality: Calm, polite, and intelligent. He harbors anxiety regarding his identity and appearance while possessing a strong curiosity about the human world.
   • Background: Discovered in 1978 inside a water tank beneath Washington, D.C. Initially treated like a test subject, he began to be treated as a person in 1979 after Hellboy put a stop to the excessive experimentation. He gained experience on minor missions alongside Hellboy; in 1981, after proving his capabilities while accompanying the B.P.R.D. team on a mission alone for the first time, he became an official field agent.

   Kate Corrigan

   • Name: Katherine Kate Corrigan
   • Appearance: A young white woman with relatively short, light brown-to-blonde hair and practical attire.
   • Personality: Pragmatic and intelligent, yet possessing great human empathy. Rather than blindly believing in the supernatural, she prioritizes verifying information through folklore and historical records.
   • Background: A folklorist who became a professor at New York University in 1983 and began serving as an external consultant for the B.P.R.D. that same year. She first met Hellboy in 1984 and grew close to him after beginning interviews for a book about him in 1985.
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   Grigori Rasputin

   • Name: Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
   • Appearance: A tall, gaunt Russian man. He is characterized by a receding hairline, a long black beard, and sunken eyes.
   • Personality: Fanatical and highly charismatic; he treats other humans merely as tools to achieve his ends.
   • Background: A powerful sorcerer who worships the Ogdru Jahad. In 1944, he attempted to summon the "Key to the Apocalypse" using the Nazis' Project Ragna Rok, resulting in Hellboy's arrival on Earth. After the ritual, Rasputin vanished into the Arctic. From the perspective of the B.P.R.D. in 1969, he is the instigator of the 1944 incident, though his subsequent whereabouts remain unknown.

   Baba Yaga

   • Name: Baba Yaga
   • Appearance: An extremely old, gaunt crone. She has long, straggly hair and a skeletal, emaciated physique. She has been missing her left eye since 1964.
   • Personality: Proud, cruel, and deeply vengeful.
   • Background: An ancient Russian witch. In 1964, while abducting children near Berezniki, she clashed with Hellboy; he shot out her left eye, forcing her to retreat from the human world.

   Hecate

   • Name: Hecate
   • Titles: Goddess of Witches, Dark Goddess, Queen of Dogs, etc.
   • Appearance: Depicted as a beautiful yet inhuman female deity; she can also manifest forms incorporating elements of giant serpents or monsters.
   • Personality: An ancient deity who is cold, arrogant, and views humans as insignificant.
   • Background: She is the goddess of witches, having existed since before the dawn of human civilization. In 1492, her withered body was discovered by Greek fishermen and passed into the possession of the Giurescu family; she subsequently resurrected the deceased Vladimir Giurescu, transforming him into a vampire. She did not come face-to-face with Hellboy until 1969, yet she already occupied a central position within the ancient lineage of the world's witches and vampires.

   Gruagach

   • Name: Gruagach
   • Appearance: In 1959, he appeared as a small, grotesque changeling. Later, he also manifested in a form associated with a wild boar.
   • Personality: Vain and proud; he harbors long-lasting grudges.
   • Background: He is the changeling who took the place of the human infant Alice Monaghan after she was abducted by fairies in 1959. Humiliated after Hellboy exposed his true identity, he came to harbor a deep resentment toward him.

   Dagda

   • Name: Dagda
   • Appearance: Depicted as a massive, god-like faerie figure possessing the majestic air of an ancient king.
   • Personality: Calm and solemn; he views the decline of the faerie realm with a sense of resignation.
   • Background: The King of the Irish fairies. During the 1959 Alice Monaghan incident, he observed Hellboy successfully complete his mission and ordered the infant's return in accordance with their agreement.

   Alice Monaghan

   • Name: Alice Monaghan
   • Appearance: An infant in 1959; she later grows into an ordinary Irish girl.
   • Background: Kidnapped by fairies in 1959; Hellboy rescued her after driving away the changeling Gruagach. She retained the ability to see fairies afterward.

   Varvara

   • Name: Varvara
   • Identity: The demon Yomyael, inhabiting the body of a young girl.
   • Appearance: A young Russian girl with blonde hair and a childlike face; she looks like an ordinary girl amidst the soldiers.
   • Personality: Despite her appearance, she is extremely cruel and capricious. She rules her subordinates through fear and views humans—being weaker than herself—as expendable. At the same time, she displays a strangely friendly attitude toward Broom.
   • Background: She led the S.S.S. in the postwar era, hunting down remnants of Nazi occult projects in Germany, and was involved in the Vampir Sturm incident alongside Broom. In 1952, she personally threatened Malcolm Frost, who had attempted to kill Broom. Ultimately, in 1956, she was weakened by a mutiny among her subordinates and sealed within a glass prison.

   Herman von Klempt

   • Name: Herman von Klempt
   • Nickname: Hellboy typically refers to him simply as the "Nazi head in a jar."
   • Appearance: His signature look is a bald man's head encased in a glass preservation unit and connected to machinery to sustain life. He utilizes a mechanical body and "Kriegaffe", genetically modified gorillas.
   • Personality: A classic mad scientist—megalomaniacal and arrogant—yet possessing genuinely exceptional technical skill. He remains unswerving in his adherence to Nazi ideology and belief in his own scientific superiority.
   • Background: A Nazi scientist involved in various supernatural and biological experiments. He survived the war and was active in South America; in 1959, he fought Hellboy directly at a research facility in Macapá, Brazil. Hellboy destroyed the facility.
9. #9Hell

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   Astaroth

   • Name: Astaroth
   • Appearance: Pale demonic skin, horns, massive bat-like wings, and prominent black fur and a beard. He holds a long, winding serpent in his right hand and possesses the ability to shapeshift.
   • Personality: Arrogant and calculating; unlike Gamori, however, he does not believe Hellboy must be eliminated immediately. He sees potential value in utilizing Hellboy.
   • Relationships: Azzael’s brother—Hellboy’s uncle.
   • Background: In 1947, upon seeing the young Hellboy eating pancakes and fully adapting to the human world, he worried that the boy would never return to Hell. In 1948, when Gamori attempted to lure Hellboy to the "Midnight Circus" to kill him, Astaroth intervened personally to prevent the murder.

   Gamori

   • Name: Gamori
   • Appearance: A female demon with horns. She presents an exotic appearance with dark skin, elaborate headdresses, and ornate jewelry.
   • Personality: Arrogant and impulsive, harboring intense hostility toward Hellboy.
   • Relationships: Azzael’s daughter; Hellboy’s half-sister.
   • Background: In 1948, he lures the young Hellboy to the bizarre Midnight Circus. Believing that Hellboy will one day bring about his and Astaroth's ruin, he attempts to kill him, but Astaroth appears and forbids it.
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    B.P.R.D.

    • Organization: Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense
    • Headquarters: Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
    • Characteristics: Established based on experience countering Nazi paranormal projects during World War II. Rather than a purely military organization, it functions more as an investigative agency comprising a mix of field agents, scholars, psychics, and occult experts. While closely linked to the U.S., it is not strictly a U.S. military entity. In its early days, a primary mission was tracking down occult weapons and artifacts left behind by the Nazis. This era features Hellboy as the organization's signature paranormal field agent, alongside Professor Trevor Bruttenholm and the original B.P.R.D. personnel.
    • Key Figures: Hellboy, Trevor Bruttenholm, Susan Xiang, etc.

    Soviet Special Sciences Service (S.S.S.)

    • Organization: Special Sciences Service
    • Affiliation: Soviet Union
    • Characteristics: While roughly analogous to the B.P.R.D., the S.S.S. operates with a far more ruthless atmosphere. Rather than merely investigating paranormal phenomena, it tends to view them through the lens of national security, military technology, weaponry, and exploitable assets. Immediately following the war, it aggressively seized Nazi paranormal weapons, artifacts, and researchers from occupied German territories, engaging in a dynamic of both cooperation and competition with the U.S. B.P.R.D. The era under Barbara's command has already ended; unable to endure her cruelty, her subordinates staged a mutiny in 1956 and sealed her away using a combination of rituals and Orthodox Christian prayers. The organization itself remains in operation.

    Nazi Occult Remnants / War Projects

    • Faction: Rather than a single active state agency, this term refers collectively to the various occult organizations, scientists, secret bases, test subjects, and artifacts left behind by the Third Reich.
    • Characteristics: In the final stages of the war, Germany effectively abandoned the distinction between conventional military technology and the occult in a desperate bid to reverse their defeat. Multiple competing projects ran simultaneously, ranging from vampire soldiers, dimensional experiments, and space exploration to the study of ancient artifacts and Rasputin’s "Project Ragna Rok." Although the war ended, scientists, facilities, and experimental results remained scattered across the globe. "Project Ragna Rok"—led by Kroenen, Haupstein, and Kurts—was the direct catalyst for Hellboy’s arrival on Earth in 1944.
    • They are less like an "enemy nation" and more like the undying debris left in the wake of the war—such as a research lab hidden in the South American jungle, a Nazi-built machine unearthed by someone, or a scientist long presumed dead who is actually still alive.

    British Occult Society

    • Faction: Rather than a single unified agency, this is a network of occult societies, aristocrats, royal associates, secret orders, and explorers that has accumulated within British society over a long period.
    • Characteristics: It predates organizations like the B.P.R.D. or S.S.S. by a wide margin. Instead of managing monsters through state-run institutions, its presence is felt through centuries-old records, ancient artifacts, exclusive social clubs, and the secrets of aristocratic families. While Edward Grey is a figure of the past, the cases he investigated, the documents he left behind, and the organizations he knew remain active today.
    • Key Names: Edward Grey, The Osiris Club, Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra.

    Hell

    • Faction: It is not a unified force like the nations or organizations of the human world. There are demonic lineages—ranging from kings and dukes to the nobility—each with their own conflicting interests.
    • Key Feature: Hellboy possesses a significant lineage in Hell, yet the Hellboy of 1964 is largely unaware of these circumstances.
    • Major Figures: Azazel, Astaroth, Gamori, Amdusias.
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    B.P.R.D.

    • Characteristics: The organization has evolved significantly from its 1964 iteration to resemble the B.P.R.D. we recognize today. Field teams now include not only human investigators but also clearly supernatural beings like Hellboy, Liz, and Abe. It is no longer merely an outfit that hunts down the occasional monster; it is an international supernatural investigation agency dealing with a wide range of fields, including folklore, psychic phenomena, archaeology, ESP, and anomalous creatures.
    • Key Figures: Hellboy, Liz Sherman, Abe Sapien, Trevor Bruttenholm, Tom Manning, Kate Corrigan.

    Soviet Special Sciences Service (S.S.S.)

    • Organization: Special Sciences Service
    • Affiliation: Soviet Union
    • Characteristics: While roughly analogous to the B.P.R.D., the S.S.S. operates with a far more ruthless atmosphere. Rather than merely investigating paranormal phenomena, it tends to view them through the lens of national security, military technology, weaponry, and exploitable assets. Immediately following the war, it aggressively seized Nazi paranormal weapons, artifacts, and researchers from occupied German territories, engaging in a dynamic of both cooperation and competition with the U.S. B.P.R.D. The era under Barbara's command has already ended; unable to endure her cruelty, her subordinates staged a mutiny in 1956 and sealed her away using a combination of rituals and Orthodox Christian prayers. The organization itself remains in operation.

    Nazi Occult Remnants / War Projects

    • Faction: Rather than a single active state agency, this term refers collectively to the various occult organizations, scientists, secret bases, test subjects, and artifacts left behind by the Third Reich.
    • Characteristics: In the final stages of the war, Germany effectively abandoned the distinction between conventional military technology and the occult in a desperate bid to reverse their defeat. Multiple competing projects ran simultaneously, ranging from vampire soldiers, dimensional experiments, and space exploration to the study of ancient artifacts and Rasputin’s "Project Ragna Rok." Although the war ended, scientists, facilities, and experimental results remained scattered across the globe. "Project Ragna Rok"—led by Kroenen, Haupstein, and Kurts—was the direct catalyst for Hellboy’s arrival on Earth in 1944.
    • They are less like an "enemy nation" and more like the undying debris left in the wake of the war—such as a research lab hidden in the South American jungle, a Nazi-built machine unearthed by someone, or a scientist long presumed dead who is actually still alive.

    British Occult Society

    • Characteristics: Fundamentally unchanged from 1964. It maintains a tradition of exclusive social clubs, secret societies, royalty, the aristocracy, and scholars, operating independently of the modern B.P.R.D.
    • Changes as of 1985: With modern folklorists like Kate Corrigan connected to the B.P.R.D., it has become easier to directly link ancient occult records with modern field investigations.

    Hell

    • Faction: It is not a unified force like the nations or organizations of the human world. There are demonic lineages—ranging from kings and dukes to the nobility—each with their own conflicting interests.
    • Key Feature: Hellboy possesses a significant lineage in Hell, yet the Hellboy of 1964 is largely unaware of these circumstances.
    • Major Figures: Azazel, Astaroth, Gamori, Amdusias.

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