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Demon · ◆ Darkness
Iblis
majorattested570 CE to 632 CE
The Islamic Shaitan, an angel who refused to bow before Adam and was cast out of paradise. His pride became the origin of evil and the adversary of all creation.
Pride92
Defiance90
Cunning84
Darkness82
Signature powerThe RefusalWill not bow to a thing of clay, and is cast down.
◈ Open relationship graph →Its universe
The mythic order Iblis belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.
The same idol, across the ages
Scholars have long read Iblis as one face of a wider figure that recurs under many names through history: the the adversary.
Read why these are held to be one →Voices & connections
Figures bound to Iblis, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.