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The characters in “Demented…” are inspired in entities from several religious, historical, mythological and legendary sources. Mainly, they either are Demons, Angels, Archangels, Saint, Deities or Monarchs of ancient times. According to the mythology of the Seven Gates, when the archangels come to life, the split into two or more to fit human bodies, mainly as a male called Key and a female called Gate, because they were the portals to life used by the divine. These entities are eternal and they had many different names through history because they had several incarnation. Most of them have no memories of their real identity but they are gifted with several supernatural abilities.
He is a secret agent who suffers from a rare memory disorder that makes him forget his past and his identity every time he wakes up, but is blessed with supernatural abilities. His body is a mortal weapon and he can hear people’s thoughts. He works for a powerful and ancient organization that grants him limitless resources. His missions take him across the globe to handle crimes of paranormal nature. Some believe that he is the Luvion’s Key, the male half of the archangel Michael who splits into two when it takes human form. Saint Longinus in the first century and Saint Rodolfo in the 16th century are incarnations of this entity. His consort soul is the Luvion’s Gate, possibly to be Emmanuelle de Merlova.
Max di Santi
Emmanuelle Merlova
She is the adopted heiress of a powerful man known as the last Merovingian, Lord Byron Merlova. She was born from a lifeless body of duchess Michelle de la Croix, which remained hidden in a convent for 500 year. He was born blind but she can see more that what the eyes can show. She was promised in marriage to the mysterious tycoon Samael Bacchus, and she is hunted by the demon Abrahel. She is believed to be the Luvion’s Gate, the female half of the Archangel Michael when incarnates in human form splitting in two. She is known as the Eye of God, because she can see the past, the present and the future.
Abrahel
Abrahel figures in the Daemonolatreiae libri, of the witch hunters of the middle ages, but she is much older than that. According to the legend, Abrahel was daughter of Lilith (Adam’s first wife), and Samael, the archangel who went after her, and possibly the father of Cain. She is eternal but she must change bodies to remain alive. She tried to manipulate the bloodline of the seven houses but Saint Rodolfo cursed her in the 15th century, so she could neither change bodies nor die. Trapped in the body of Baroness Sophia von Holtzendorff, Abrahel learned how to remain young and beautiful by eating hearts from the holy ones. She stole the newborn Gate of Luvion and raised her as her own daughter; her name was Michelle de la Croix.
Demented...
The Word
According to ancient manuscripts, Aranset is one of the seven archangels, better known as Metatron (The Scribe of God). He is not mentioned in the canonical Bible of most Christian denominations, or in the Hebrew Bible, but is a prominent figure in ancient Para-Biblical texts, notably the Books of Enoch: 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, and 3 Enoch. In fact, according to Jewish medieval Apocrypha, Metatron is Enoch himself (the great grandfather of Noah), transformed into an angel. The book of Genesis (5:24) is often cited as evidence of Enoch's bodily ascension into heaven: "And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." Although he is mentioned in a few brief passages in the Talmud, Metatron appears primarily in mystical ("Kabbalistic") texts .
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Summary
Viewers and readers will interact in the environment of “Demented… the Video Game”. In the persona of Max di Santi as avatars, the gamers receive mission commands through a gadget and these missions take them to all kind of places in different times of human history as Max di Santi has flashbacks of his previous lives.
The gamer will face a number of dangers that he or she must overcome with the help of weapons, information and supernatural powers. Among the dangers are the demons, that tend to poses common humans and animals to prevent the gamer from achieving the ultimate goal.
Gamers become part of the exciting and rich mythology of Demented…
In the tradition of the action gaming environment, the gamer has to achieve specific goals in order to ascend levels until the game is completed.
The Video Game
Little is known about this elusive figure or his intentions. Records of a “Samael Bacchus” date as far as the fifteenth century. It is always described as a young and handsome blond man with the body of a gladiator and the face of an angel, with piercing green eyes; therefore Bacchus might not be a man but a dynasty. He is a tycoon from unknown origins with many properties across Europe. He is a traveler but his main residence might be a villa surrounded by his renowned vineyards in the region of Bordeaux in France. He is associated with the Key of Acktenon, the male half of the archangel Samael, regarded as good and bad alike. Against popular believe, it was Samael who seduced Eve in Paradise, and he is believed to have fathered Cain and Succubus such as Abrahel and Java. Emmanuelle de Merlova was promised to him in marriage since she was adopted.
Samael Bacchus Dionysus
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The Art
It is a day of December in the year 2012; according to the ancient Mayans, it is the end of an age, but we underestimated to what extent. Today the world is facing a pandemic where people of all genders, ages and ethnicities are experiencing psychotic episodes with visions and collective paranoia, resulting in tragic and mysterious deaths.
Those who are affected by this hysteria are sharing the same dreams and hallucinations, and they believe to receive divine revelations. Their lives are at risk and many are afraid, trying to live a normal life and hiding from those who are chasing them. Some of them have been found death, by having their hearts ripped off their chests while still alive. The media calls it the “Genocide of the Enlightened”.
But when the world faces the greatest darkness, the brightest light is sent to us. Legends, myths and religions all over the world speak of then; but you might know them as “Angels”. Among them, seven are above all; they are the great Archangels and when divine intervention is needed, the Archangels come to life as human without memories of their real identity. But as eternal and multidimensional beings, the angels and archangels have to split into two or more, to fit human bodies and dream the dream of life. They normally split into a female and a male half, creating twin souls. The males are called the Keys, and the females are the Gates, because through them is how the divine entities can crossover to the realm of men. These are believes of those affected by this dementia, waiting for the awakening of the archangels in their human form.
The assassination of the so-called “Enlightened” has caught the attention of the highest circles of power; the kind of power that can build nations and destroy governments. There is an ancient control system “Control” that centers the political, religious, scientific and financial powers across the globe; they have live in secrecy for generations; they were there in the times of the Templars, but their existence can be traced to the times of the last pharaohs.
“Control” has many agents positioned around the world, but there is one above all others: Max di Santi, a man like no other. His body is a mortal weapon that pushes the limits of strength, speed and flexibility of our species. His brain is unique, manifesting eidetic memory, telepathy and telekinesis, therefore he is blessed with photographic memory, he can hear and see peoples thoughts, and he can move objects with his mind. But Max also suffers from a rare memory disorder that prevents him from storing long-term memories, and every morning Max wakes up with no knowledge of his past or his real identity. For this reason, Max records messages on his “gadget” hopping that when he wakes up the next morning he will have enough information to survive another day. Through this same gadget, on the shape of a mobile phone, Max receives his instructions from Control, and he has access to limitless resources and information through “Operator” which he trusts blindly, so he can fulfill the most dangerous missions in the most unlikely places, no questions asked.
Max’s mission borders on the paranormal and his badge grants him jurisdiction around the world. He is entrusted to neutralize the Heart-rippers and end the “Genocide of the Enlightened”, but now he has been commanded to find and neutralize a mysterious cyber terrorist and to retrieve a vital file. The target goes by the web alias “The Word”, but others call him Metatron. The Word had obtained and leak highly classified information on the net and the file is a diary written in future dates, describing with disturbing precision the world events that are happening after the diary was written. The name of this file is "The Third Testament". When Max discovers that The Word is a mixed-race teen and he causes the boys death, Max starts questioning the legitimacy of his actions.
Max’s journey takes him to track members of ancient royal dynasties, which can be traced to the times before Christ; among the people he gets to meet are the queens of an all female court originated en Africa, which might have answers about The Word. Another important figure in his life is lord Byron Merlova, also known as the last Merovingian; Max in confronted with the lord when a massacre in the Merlova castle becomes his mission. There he discovers that it was not the fist time he walked the halls of the castle; he starts remembering his childhood when he was tested and tutored by lord Byron himself who is the highest authority of “Control”. Older memories takes him back to the life of Saint Rodolfo who visited the castle five centuries ago and initiated the Inquisition, and the life of Saint Longinus who was present at the crucifixion and prevented the mutilation of the body of Christ.
Max discovers that most of his missions involve secrecy surrounding the “real” lineage of Jesus Christ, both his ascendance and his descendants. Great forces are battling to either reveal or conceal this secret. Max also discovers that the genealogy of one of the seven dynasties involved traces down to him.
A series of experience reveals that Max is either in the middle of a war between angels and demons, or he is just demented.
Demented...
Prologue
The Gate of Acktenon; a Venus you may say, but the woman that inspired the Greek myths of Aphrodite was just one of her incarnations. Her beauty is her curse. Some called her Helena but her astonishing beauty and her delicate manners hide a powerful and greatly destructive force. She is the consort soul of the Key of Acktenón (the entity associated with the pagan God of Wine, that later on was associated to the devil), but she is the only one who is totally immune to his destructive forces of seduction and temptation, she balances him as he does it to her. She is the mother of a northern race called “the Elves”. In the fifteenth century her beauty had no equal, and this was her curse, but she chose to be a nun, but when she was part of a Portuguese mission she was captured by the Shaddar who made him his wife.
Margot Ackton
Synopsys
This is the story of the seven archangels that come to life as humans when divine intervention is needed. They have no memory of their past or their real identity. According to the myth, the archangels are multidimensional beings that split into two to fit human bodies, normally as females known as the “Gates” and males known as the “Keys”.
The story is centered in Max di Santi, the Luvion’s Key, who came as Saint Longinus during the crucifixion of The Chris. Fifteen centuries later, he returned as Saint Rodolfo, who initiated the witch hunts.
Today we believe that the Luvion’s Key has returned as Max di Santi, a secret agent for a powerful organization who suffers from a rare memory disorder but is gifted with super natural abilities. His mission involves solving crimes related to paranormal events around the world.
There is a conspiracy to assassinate members of seven ancient royal families that are linked to the bloodline of Jesus Christ. The assassins are trying to prevent the fulfillment of the prophecy that speaks of the return of the Messiah, upon the unification of the seven bloodlines.
Max eventually discovers that he belongs to at least one of these families. Max begins to believe that he is then incarnation of the Archangel Michael, but it might all just be dementia.
By Walter Moore
Another city Another Night in Demented
The Gates of the Merlova Castle, home to the last Merovingian
Environment:
The story of “Demented…” can take us to any given place across the world, as the main character, Max di Santi is an agent with global jurisdiction. His cases can take him to the white sand beaches of the Caribbean, cosmopolitan cities such as London, New York, Paris, Montreal and Rome, the sands of the Sahara, and more.