NERGAL	BIOGRAPHY
Created by Jamie Delano and John Ridgway

PERSONAL DATA

Full Name: Nergal Draanu Veiatrophomoris Memoth Asrokhel
Aliases: Black Nergal
Known Relatives: Rosacarnis (daughter); Stercorax (brother); Gurruth (father)
Base of Operation: Hell
Group Affiliation(s): Damnation Army
Gender: Male
Hair: None
Distinguishing Features: Red skin, wings; may also vary his apperarance
First Appearance: Hellblazer #6 (June 1988): "Extreme Prejudice"
Creators: Jamie Delano and John Ridgway

HISTORY

An Arch-Duke of Mendacity, the diabolic Nergal was supposedly once a mortal man, so tainted with evil that he became a demon in the afterlife.

He became a frequent enemy of John Constantine as the leader of the Damnation Army, a group that Constantine opposed. After making a deal with Constantine, Nergal gave him a blood transfusion that now makes him related by blood to both Constantine and his biological daughter Tefé. It has recently been revealed that Nergal was also the one who gave Constantine his first cigarette when he was still a child.

Nergal had his own hell-city, Mashkan-Shapir, which was devastated by Anton Arcane. Nergal himself was demoted by the First of the Fallen.

[Note: This Nergal apparently has nothing to do with the renegade Oan who also posed as the Babylonian/Sumerian death-god Nergal. It is possible that they were both impostors of a real deity.]

CHRONOLOGY

For a definitive list of appearances of Nergal in chronological order click here