In the New Testament Book of Revelation, Abaddon (Apollyon in Greek, Exterminans in the Latin Vulgate) is the king ruling over the infernal abyss. When the fifth trumpet sounds and the smoke of the great furnace ascends, he unleashes a regimented swarm of armored, scorpion-tailed locusts tasked with inflicting agonizing, non-fatal torment upon the unsealed for five months.
“Revelation 9:11 explicitly names him as king over the locusts and 'angel of the bottomless pit' (angelos tēs abyssou), translated as 'Exterminans' by Jerome. Commentators debate whether he is a fallen demon prince or an obedient angelic warden executing wrath.”
Domains of Authority
Sphere of Operation
What does this entity do?
Deals measured, non-fatal torment to the unsealed through the final woes.
Lays waste cities and hosts as the exterminating angel of the pit.
Looses the armored, scorpion-tailed host from the pit on command.
Operational Scope
At what scale does it govern?
Moral Register
Which virtue or vice does it embody?
Iconography & Implements
Objects, vestments, and marks borne in Christian tradition — and what each one signifies.
Star-fallen key unlocking the shaft of the bottomless pit at the fifth trumpet.
Armored thorax of the pit-locusts, hard as forged iron in formation.
Golden circlet worn by the locust-king of the bottomless pit.
Tailed barb of the pit-locusts inflicting five months of torment.
