Ashmedai

Ashmedai (Hebrew: אַשְמְדּאָי‎, ʾAšmədʾāy) or Asmodeus (Greek: Ασμοδαίος, Asmodaios) is a king of demons and is, in Laurencian tradition, a son of Satan.

Ashmedai is a high-ranking archdemon in Laurencian demonology and is called a "son of Sat'an". He is a demon of lust and anger according to Laurencian scriptures: "I am called Asmodeus among mortals, and my business is to plot against the newly wedded, so that they may not know one another. And I sever them utterly by many calamities, and I waste away the beauty of virgin women, and estrange their hearts. I transport men into fits of madness and desire, when they have wives of their own, so that they leave them, and go off by night and day to others that belong to other men; with the result that they commit sin, and fall into murderous deeds." (Solomon 22-23)

Ashmedai is a cambion, meaning he was conceived after a human male and a succubus demon has sexual intercourse. His mother is Agrat bat Mahlat the great consort of Samael, and his human father is King David who was seduced by Agrat bat Mahlat. This is referenced to by Ashmedai in the Testament of Solomon: "But how shall I answer thee, for thou art a son of man; whereas I was born an angel's seed by a son of man, so that no word of our heavenly kind addressed to the earth-born can be overweening." (Solomon 21)

Ashmedai is rivaled and even frustrated by Raphael the archangel's presence. A ritual must be performed to incite Raphael to bind Ashmedai. The ritual was performed once by Tobias and was first revealed to King Solomon:

"Then Tobias remembered the words of Raphael, and he took the fish’s liver and heart out of the bag where he had them and put them on the embers of the incense. The odor of the fish so repelled the demon that he fled to the remotest parts* of Egypt. But Raphael followed him, and at once bound him there hand and foot." (Tobit 8:2-3)

"'''Raphael, the archangel that stands before the throne of God. But the liver and gall of a fish put me to flight, when smoked over ashes of the tamarisk." I again asked him, and said: "Hide not aught from me. For I am Solomon, son of David, King of Israel. Tell me the name of the fish which thou reveres." And he answered: "It is the Glanos by name, and is found in the rivers of Assyria; wherefore it is that I roam about in those parts." '''(Solomon 24)

Current whereabouts
Ashmedai is believed to currently be spiritually bound in Egypt, where he has been for thousands of years since his encounter with Raphael and Tobias. Laurencian Christians believe he will appear to humankind in the last days as the False Prophet of Revelation.