| “ | In the deep recesses of history, among the supernatural there lies a name that has haunted all for centuries...Kupla. A terrifyingly powerful king of hell and the source of the nosferatu. He was terror that took sparda himself needing aid from other to simply seal away. That alone should tell us of the threat he is to the world. To the vampires, he is spoken of in hushed whispers, but to others, be they monster or otherwise, his name is forbidden to speak and a ill omen. but all of us agree on on one thing, he needs to stay buried and forgotten. | „ |
| ~ Integra Hellsing |
Kupala, formerly known as Akiel, once a high ranking member of the Dominion, is a Fallen Angel and King of Hell along with being an Extremely powerful Archdemon that worked directly under Satan in his court.
Overview[]
Kupala is an ancient and extremely powerful demon that is credited for creating the Blood God, Absalom. Kupala was perhaps first demon ever to be physically bound in the earth, and he may even have invented the technique with the aid of his priests and followers. No matter how the binding occurred, it allowed Kupala to anchor his essence into the soil of the Seteran mountains, deep in the heart of what would become Carpathia. Kupala inhabits not just a single mountain, but the entire range. he would be responsible for directly and indirectly influencing the nation into dark acts and wars that transpired through history.
History[]
Background[]
kupala before his fall as akiel the dominion.
Before his fall, Kupala was once known as Akiel and was a high ranking member of the Dominion, angels of the second heaven. He was the brother of Baphomet and grew to have a friendship with Mastema. He and the other three served and received orders directly from samael, upon which they grew close and quickly adopted the same views as him. They would also for a time work alongside Lailah, the archangel of the night. During the War in Heaven, he and his brother sided with satan and Lucifer, and went against heaven upon which they were defeated and cast out into hell. Upon the establishment of hell's kingdom and hierarchy, akiel was ranked as a king of hell who would serve satan in his court. He is one of the few beings in all of the inferno that has close relationship with the devil.
He would be one of the few demons to travel to Tartarus, and would visit Pluto to relay the plans of satan for using the Logos and turn it into the Right Hand of Doom. while visiting, he would uncover many dark truths, and learn vast secrets.
After lucifers imprisonment within his tomb and Mundus rise to become the demon emperor , satan was irritated with the devil prince and ordered akiel to eventually, as time went on, subtly stoke the flames of rebellion among the the denizens of hell against mundus. He would be the one to indirectly begin inform Belial of the devil princes acts, which would lead to his eventual rebellion against him. He did the same with Amenadiel, and would greatly aid the demon king against mundus but only acted in secret among the shadows.
Dark Reign[]
He took part in Mundus's invasion of the human world, and under satan's order, was told to observe and report the actions of the prince of darkness. Its was here that he and his brother baphomet would split ways and affect the human world via their own means. akiel was among the remaining infernal legions that still roamed the Earth after the great powers of Hell were vanquished by the Legendary Dark Knight, Sparda. Kupala was revealed to have founded a massive cult of humans who were corrupted by Hell's energies to weave a powerful spell that would help bind to the Earth without repercussions. It was in this time that he would adopt the name of Kupala and began to be worshiped as a god.
Succeeding, Kupala was at last free to roam the human world. At some unknown point during his venture, his followers notified of him of a horde of mutated humanoids that look as if their "shadows were mangling their bodies". Curious, Kupala came over which was when he encountered the Darkness, one of the fabled Ab Initio Artifacts, which was festering within humans who were filled with hate. Fascinated, as well as elated to have one of the great artifacts of creation in his possession, he would extract the powers of the Darkness from its hosts as a means to experiment on the land of Setera, filling it with many dangers and chaos sprung forth from the artifact that it threatened to spill out into the rest of the now free world. he would begin to create creatures of darkness that would later become the newer and higher breed of vampires, the Nosferatu.
Imprisonment[]
Fortunately, Kupala was intercepted not just by Sparda himself but a group of mortals that came together to repel Kupala's dark forces. Sparda and these band of mortals would take the fight directly to Kupala as the great demon was finding a method of removing the spells that bound his masters to the Infernal plain. He would be confronted by the Legendary Dark Knight in a massive battle while the mages worked on sealing away Kupala inside his own Hell Gate using the same spell he taught to his followers to bind him on the Earth. The mages realized that to complete the spell they must use something with extraordinary mass as a reliquary to contain Kupala's massive essence in his Hell Gate; ergo sealing him into the earth itself.
Their hopes were rekindled when a mighty golden dragon named Villentretenmerth arrived and used his powers to create chasms around the land that Kupala dwelled in. Villentretenmerth then conjured forth great magic that uprooted chunks of the earth surrounding Kupala with Sparda collaborating in the effort by piercing Kupala with Yamato and creating spatial disruptions in reality's fabric between the material and immaterial that phased Kupala's very essence into the Gate before using his own powers to move these masses of earth into Kupala in conjunction with the spell that was led to the creation of what would be known as the Carpathian mountains. Sparda and the humans entrusted Villentretenmerth to take and conceal the Darkness artifact beyond the eyes of any would so foolishly dare to harness its destructive power. The humans that helped seal Kupala away would form into an organization known as the Order of Ecclesia, dedicated to ensuring Kupala's eternal imprisonment.
Return[]
Despite having been sealed away, Kupala's energies were faintly encompassing the mountain ranges, whispering to any that pass by the land of where he was imprisoned. He made contact with one such individual, a mortal so deranged and monstrous he could hardly be considered human; Absalom. Upon reaching the entrance of a large cave and stepping forth, Absalom came into contact with Kupala.
Aware of Absalom's intentions, Kupala proposed a pact; in return for bestowing Absalom with frightening demonic power the war lord would break Kupala's ancient chains and aid him in seeking out what Kupala only describes as the "Darkness", a proposition that Absalom accepted. Imbued with power that was beyond the reach of even the strongest of vampiric sorcerers, Absalom became the dreaded Blood God and began his quest for absolute dominion over Europe and then the world as a whole.
after absalom's fall and defeat, he would become aware of Vlad the impaler, and having grown interested in him, he informed satan who grew equally interested in Wallachian prince. The two of them would conspire, and work through absalom, to manipulate events that would lead to him becoming the dreaded king of vampires and the first Nosferatu.
