Caliban
Caliban is a cambion and the son of Mephistopheles and a witch named Sycorax.
Description[]
Caliban appears as a deformed monster and is one of the few cambions that did not retain his humanly features unlike others. While he is referred to as a calvaluna or mooncalf, a freckled monster, he is the only "human" inhabitant of the island that is otherwise "not honour'd with a human shape". In some traditions, he is depicted as a wild man, or a deformed man, or a beast man, or sometimes a mix of fish and man, a dwarf or even a tortoise.
Overview[]
According to the mage known as Prospero, who served as the Court Astrologer of queen Gloriana I of England, Caliban is the son of the witch Sycorax and the devil Mephistopheles. Expelled from Algiers, Sycorax takes refuge on the island, where she gives birth to Caliban and where she died before the arrival of Prospero, who raises him and makes him his slave. Despite his inhuman nature, Caliban clearly loved and idolized his mother, referring to Setebos as his mother's god, and appealing to her powers against Prospero.
Prospero explains his harshness towards Caliban because, according to him, when he treated him naturally and humanely, he only responded with animalistic aggression. Prospero then traps Caliban and torments him with harmful magic if he does not obey his orders. In revenge for this inhuman treatment, Caliban adopts Stephanus, one of the castaways who arrive on the island, as his new god and lord, after tasting his wine. Caliban tries to goad Stephanus into killing Prospero; However, he recognized that Stephano is neither a god nor someone equal in importance to Prospero, and he will agree to serve his former master again.
Caliban remained as a slave to Prospero but was eventually released alongside the sprite Arael where Caliban would make his way to the northern lands as Arael returned to Avalon. In 1723, Caliban took possession of a trading ship and left Scotland to explore the New World, but presumably perished when the ship went down in a storm near Massachusetts. He was later revealed to have survived and somehow took refuge within the dark tunnels of Venice. In modern days, John Constantine summoned Caliban and they talked in regards to having his father free Izumi Curtis from his contract. Caliban had no love for his father and told John everything, having gotten his revenge on his father for abandoning him all those centuries ago.