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Marcion of Sinope

minorattestedc. 85–160 CEChristianity

Early Christian heresiarch who rejected the Hebrew God.

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Conviction86

Influence80

Will84

✦Signature powerThe Stranger GodSevers the alien Father from the maker of this world.

Relics & objects

Sacred and cursed things that belong to the world of Marcion of Sinope.

The Forbidden FruitCursed The Holy GrailSacred

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Illustrated storyThe ApocalypseThe end, told from the Gnostic side, where the world does not end in fire but in disclosure. The stolen light is counted back thread by thread; the Archons are stripped of what was never theirs; Sabaoth, the son who turned, sits in judgment on his father; and Yaldabaoth, who said there is no other god beside me, is thrown down into the abyss he mistook for the foundation of the world. The counterfeit heaven rolls up like a scroll. The deficiency closes. And the Fullness is a Fullness again, with nothing missing, not even the one who fell.Begin reading →Illustrated storyThe AdversaryThe most famous villain in the world was not born a villain, and was not born once. The Devil is a composite, assembled across a thousand years from a loyal prosecutor in God’s court, a taunt aimed at a Babylonian king, a garden snake, a refusing angel of fire, and a red dragon at the end of time. This is the biography of how the accuser became the enemy: Satan, Lucifer, Iblis, the serpent, the dragon, and what we built when we built him.Begin reading →