Magdiel is a Slayer. She is possessing the body of a mortal known as Anila Kaul.
Biography[]
Anila Kaul just wants to be left alone. She has moments when she is more Magdiel than Anila, and then she finds herself caught up in the infernal life of London, but much of the time she'd much rather be Anila Kaul, social worker and wife to Tony Dotchin. Anila has a better life than Magdiel, after all.
The major problem Magdiel has is that she remembers precious little of the war. She has brief glimpses, little more than images really, but nothing more. She suspects that she served in the Crimson Legion, for she has vivid memories of fighting near Lucifer, and certainly of seeing him fighting the final battle of the war. Her rapid recovery of lore that gives her access to Haven suggest that she was one of those Slayers who owed allegiance as much to the Alabaster Legion as to Lucifer's Legion.
Her memories of Hell are vivid, though, and she seeks to repress them in the experience of Anila's life, without realizing that she is re-creating her torn loyalties between Lucifer and Azrael in her family split between her Hindu Pakistani-born father and agnostic, white husband. Magdiel feels an intense sense of guilt for possessing the badly wounded Anila, possibly ending her life unnecessarily and is sublimating that guilt by trying to be the best faux-Anila she can manage. If she were left to her own devices, she'd probably be living as mundane a life as she could get away with. It's a shame other demons won't leave her alone. An Earthbound living under London has made repeated attempts to recruit her and the London infernal court has tried to draw her in, to capitalize on her knowledge of this alien demon. Her conflicts with high Torment Slayers attached to the court ended that relationship quickly enough. News of those conflicts have spread, though, and she has become the leader of a small group of Slayers dedicated to preventing their fellows making things worse for the spirits of the dead than they already are, by disposing of those demons. She's just about managing to hold on to Anila's life, but relations with her husband grow more and more strained the more time she spends away pursuing Halaku business. She constantly fights the temptation to enthrall her husband, but she has resisted the urge so far.
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References[]
- DTF: Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p. 59-77
- DTF: Lucifer's Shadow: Tales of Fallen Angels, p. Taking His Name in Vain by Adam Tinworth
- DTF: Houses of the Fallen, p. 185