Triskele

TRISKELE

Real Name: Triskele

Class: Demon

Occupation: Wyrm queen of succubae

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Hell

First Appearance: Hell blazer #56 (August, 1992)

Powers: Triskele was an immortal, invulnerable demon shaped like an enormous skeletal serpent. She coul barter with mortals, giving them their fondest wish in exchange for their souls. Triskele was a succubus, and a shape shifter, able to transform herself into a victim’s true love or object of lust.

History: (Hell blazer #56 (fb, BTS)) - Triskele was the mother of the succubae, and killed a hundred seraphim for her lord the devil. She murdered archangel Dariel, and after skinning his face, wore it as her own.

(Hell blazer #56) - Triskele bartered in human souls, and being quite greedy, she never let anyone over contract keep their soul for more than five years. Danny Drake sold his soul to Triskele for a golden touch in finances. When his five years were up, she came for him, but he offered her the soul of his unborn child in his stead, giving him more time. She enjoyed messing with him during the period of his extended contract. He met a lover, Ophelia, who listened to him, and let him confess the worst bits of him. Convinced he didn’t need it anymore he burned his diary, but Ophelia left him, and ever since he kept blurting out the secrets only the diary knew. He sought help from John Constantine, who didn’t know about the sacrifice of his son. When John found out, he reasoned that Danny would try the same trick again. He found a kidnapped baby in Danny’s basement, rescued it, and told Danny to take his medicine. Triskele appeared, and dragged Danny to Hell.

(Hell blazer #59) - The First of the Fallen had a plan to disentangle John Constantine’s trap that kept John‘s soul away from Hell, and sought the help of Elle, a succubus he was close with. Elle fled to Earth, not wanting to hurt John, and not wanting the First to find out how they met. The First confronted Triskele, the queen of succubae, and blamed her for Elle’s actions. Triskele calmed him down, telling him to enjoy his reign now that Lucifer had departed Hell. The First questioned the direction Hell was going in, but Triskele stroked his ego by telling him Lucifer was better gone, too much of an angel to rule as the First would. The First decided they should do something about the two angels the Creator left in charge of Hell when Lucifer left.

(Hell blazer #61) - The First opened a scrying pool in a dead man’s body, and finally located Elle. He took Triskele with her to Earth, where they lost track of Elle at the last second, and found only John Constantine. John told them he’d carved a masking sigil into Elle’s soul to keep her safe from Hell, and bragged about beating the First again. He knew the First would wage war on him one day, and John said he was ready. The rage filled First returned to Hell, and put Triskele’s head on a pike in Carrion Keep.

Comments: Created by Garth Ennis & David Lloyd.