Cain Sicarius

Cain Sicarius is the titular main protagonist of the upcoming Heresy. He is the Cain depicted in Genesis, with him being amongst the Primeval Humans, beings predating (albeit marginally) even Primordials, the first life forms to emerge from the Chaos, with Cain being the first being to be born and the first to sin. Since committing the Original Sin and being cursed with the Mark of Cain, he was forced to wander eternally and be unable to die, no matter how much he would wish for such, no matter what happened he is forever doomed to be a glitch in the eyes of existence, his Mark forcing him to be unable to die, his soul being forcibly trapped in a body which is unable to die no matter how broken, even if its existence is to cease he shall remain. Cain is known as the First Sinner and Ultimate Killer due to his actions resulting in him creating the act of “murder” and his status as the oldest being and undying allowing him to maintain such a title.

Appearance
A man who is known to silence people who see him for the first time, he has been likened to “perfection embodied”, and what the likes of Devils tried, and failed to imitate, a level of natural beauty not encumbered by perfection, but paradoxically perfected through a lack of it. Despite his youthful appearance, Cain’s true age is hinted at through his perplexing eyes, which seem to shift and interlock countless emotions behind his organic looking glasses, many find them alluring in the same way the eye of the storm is, a centre of untold chaos where is safe within. Commonly seen with a slight, mocking smirk gracing his face Cain is slightly infuriating and, yet, inviting, in a manner similar to an older brother or a teasing old friend, although Cain is known to be able to scowl just as easily, with it causing people to fear due to the weight it bears after countless years of being honed. With such traits, Cain doesn’t seem to fit the archetype which one would conjure for the creator of the First Sin, with a body which can be likened to ineffable beauty, but his body bears the marks of one who has partaken in, and endured, unimaginable evil.

Despite being well hidden under his clothes and (normally) several layers illusions which give off the impression of unperturbed flesh, Cain’s body is heavily scarred. If one where to strip him bare, then they would find a menagerie of scars dotting his flesh, with them being the most common on his torso, although there are several long scars on both of his arms, as well as evidence of both of his feet having been hacked off before. On top of these are several tattoos, flowing perfectly and unaffected by the rising and falling of the scar tissue. On his back, there are countless intricate straight and curved lines, each of them five centimeters, with the intricate mass of lines eventually forming “an unknowable shape, something which would force despair into any who saw it; it was impossible, and yet it existed, it was an insult to all of existence and marked him out as something which was a perversion to all existence, and yet it also had an undeniable beauty and power to it,” with this being the Mark. Other than his Mark, Cain also has several impossibly small markings on his body, with the infinitesimally minuscule script making up several bands circling his left bicep.

Befitting of a man who is renowned to be able to kill anything, Cain’s body is in peak physical condition, with his body being a cross between lean and muscular, with there being no wasted or pointless flesh. In terms of what he looks like physically, Cain stands at an intimidating 6’4, with him towering of the vast majority of people, of both normal and supernatural denomination. Cain has ashen white hair, with it being likened to being made of ash rather than a natural lack of pigment that comes with age or albinism, and, conversely, deeply tanned skin, it being ever so slightly beyond what a tan could be. His face is clearly defined by his high cheekbones and sharply defined jawline, them causing many people to liken Cain to ancient nobility due to how iconic and regal they are.

History
Cain has lived an life which, he alludes, predates even the current incarnation of the universe, which he has dubbed “pretty neat” and “way better than the original, a whole lot more personality”. Whether he’s telling the truth or not is unclear, but the Biblical God Himself said that He had no idea as to what or where Cain came from, only that he found the Original Sinner quite affable and incredibly perplexing, as well as great propaganda. Great Red and Ophis have also been said to have no clue as to what or who exactly Cain is, although this could simply be due to apathy on the part of the Infinite Dragon God and a lack of care for the True Dragon.

Regardless of whether or not Cain is truly of the current universe or not, Cain is an enigma who is known to be very same as the Biblical figure. As such, throughout moonlit history he has been a presence in his eternal wanderings, being alike the Heavenly Dragons in fear of what his mere presence could cause, although he has been shown to be very random in his actions (or, at the very least, seemingly). An example of this can be seen when he went and slaughtered the entire Zoroastrian mythos for no clear reason, including killing Ahura Mazda, despite the God being entirely benevolent and only attacking when Cain butchered a third of the populace. As well as killing the head God of the religion, Cain also killed Angra Mainyu, or at least the Axis [Wrongness] whom the role had been shaped around, despite [Wrongness] only existing as a concept given sentience, giving rise to questions as to what the First Murderer cannot kill.

Beyond his varying escapades across history (including, but not limited to, saving several thousand princesses from dragons, teaching a small time German painter on the intricacies of mass-mind control magic, becoming the Pope, and attempting to become The God of Cooking) Cain also did two things of importance: he started Sicarius & Co., an “accounting firm”, and he made several hundred bootleg Sacred Gears (which he refers to as Fragments).

Powers & Abilities
Immense Magic Power:

Master Magician:

Immense Physical Prowess:

Mark of Cain: Proof and origin of Cain's impossibility to die, it is a tattoo which depicts is described as ineffable and impossible to exist and it gives Cain the ability to not die. While not as devastating as the Mark of Abel which House Abel possesses, which makes takes the intended damage and deals it out to the attacker before it can even be enacted, the Mark of Cain is one which is infinitely more ancient than that of the facsimile of the House Abel crafted by the Abrahamic God, as his is not designed to protect from danger, but rather, to imprison a person to life no matter what. For Cain, the idea of "death" is so impossible that not even an impossibility or a lack of existence can come close to ending his wander.

The Mark of Cain is a result from {CLASSIFIED}'s death and Cain's heresy to caused him to become a glitch in reality, and his Mark being a direct result of that. The Mark is not the actual cause of it, but rather merely a representation of it, as the true Mark of Cain is in his existence. Due to his status as a "glitch" in the omniscient and omnipotent system of the World, Cain is treated differently; unlike every other existence, Cain's soul is forced to stay within his body, which will continue on no matter how broken or unusable it is, with Cain being something like a puppeteer in the way he has to force his soul to reshape his body into a semi-usable state. Even if someone with the ability to truly erase matter from existence, Cain will continue to endure, his soul continue to exist even in nonexistence, with the World simply waiting for his non-existing form to resume where he previously was, with reality then seeing that "Cain" is there, therefor "Cain's body" must be as well, causing his body to appear as it last was. Due to this, Cain is incapable of being killed through any means, the only conceivable way would be to destroy his body then erase his nonexistence from nonexistence, a paradoxical and impossible feat.

All Killing: Possibly due to the Mark of Cain and being the first being to ever kill, Cain is able to kill anything. Cain’s ability to kill is able to contradict common sense so long as he has the intent to kill something, with him being able to end the life of something as abstract as a force of nature. Rationally put, Cain exists on a myriad of levels of existence simultaneously and, as such, is able to interact with everything as its superior, capable of enforcing a higher level of common sense onto them. In spite of this thesis, Cain himself says he’s simply able to “kill anything” and that he is a (relatively) normal human besides that, in that he exists on a (relatively) normal plane of existence. Whether Cain is able to synthesise his existence on an unlimited amount of existential levels at once or if his ability simply defies logic, the fact remains that Cain is able to kill anything.

Despite the omnicidal scope of Cain’s ability, there are criteria which must be met for the target of All Killing to be killed. The first of which is that Cain must damage his target to the point where they will, in the eyes of the World, die. For example, Cain can (normally) kill a humanoid by severing their head or destroying their heart, however, for a golem Cain would either be forced to damage them beyond what they could be able to regenerate from or have to sever whatever animates them. In addition to living entities, Cain is also able to kill things which don’t live, such as spells or books, with similar idiosyncrasies applying for each thing Cain wishes to kill. However, Cain is also able to kill the very idea of existence from something and turn it into “nothing”, so he could, theoretically, kill everything with the same method.

The second requirement for All Killing to work is that Cain must be able to conceptualise his target and have the intent of attacking them, with the latter half being along the lines of a “trigger” for All Killing. By that, Cain must be able to see and know the nature of his target, as the act of killing an illusion would be different to killing, say, a human, as Cain would be trying to kill something which function on an entirely different level. This allow for illusions and disguises which are able to catch Cain unaware are particularly effective when dealing with him, as if he is trying to kill an imaginary being masquerading as a physical being, it will end the facade (or at least, it will bring about the World’s realisation that the masque is not real and, as such, cannot continue to exist), allowing for Cain to draw nearer to killing the true target with each successive killing of a layer. However, there is a fine line of what classifies as “different entities” in the eyes of All Killing, as the act of killing a human functions the same as killing (linear) Devils, Angels, and Youkai, as they are simple existences and are all on the same level. However, the likes of Seraphs, Demons, Elementals etc., beings who are incarnations or representations of ideas and aspects of reality, are not, as they exist as “concepts made into living beings” and are in betwixt imaginary and real.

The third caveat of All Killing is that the target must exist. While, quite literally, everything exists, there are, paradoxically, things which do not, such as Cain if his entire existence was to be erased, as he would exist and yet, would not. Such things are incapable of being destroyed through any means which exist, the only way they could be killed would be if they were to be destroyed by a being capable of enforcing existence and Laws upon them or a being which does not exist and has greater nonexistent power than its target.

[Heresy]: Either a byproduct of All Killing or its progenitor, [Heresy] is the result of the Heretical Work of Cain, stemming from his defiance in the Original World, otherwise known as Genesis, by disobeying the Original Law of the First. Through his impossible actions, he went against the First, the First Work of The True God, and invented the idea of “heresy”, the idea of going against the will of the universe. Through this, Cain became the first native Axis to ascend to such a state, as opposed to being born as such, with his very existence being an insult to all other Axes. His mantle of [Heresy] grants him {CLASSIFIED}, a feat which caused the birth of more Axes and the idea of an omniverse, as opposed to {CLASSIFIED}

As an Axis, Cain is capable of complete control within his particular field, although this is different to others due to two reasons: he was not born a Axes and his concept is that of “heresy”. Due to the fact that he was not born a Axis, Cain’s level of understanding of his power is severely limited when compared to every other Axis, although he is more creative than the others due to him not being capable of directly bombarding and reshaping reality with his powers. And, as he is [Heresy], Cain’s powers are much less linear and comprehensible when compared to even esoteric beings such as the First [Chaos]. His Axis Work is unlike the others, as the other Axis are clearly defined and function neatly in the grand scheme that is reality, whereas Cain’s {CLASSIFIED}, while it exists inside the system as well, causes havoc and chaos due to its {CLASSIFIED}. With his Axis, Cain is capable of achieving feats which can only be rivaled by First Works.

Heretical Work of Killing: While he still has it, Cain’s Heretical Work has been made redundant through All Killing and [Heresy]. As well as this, once he achieved it his actions resulted in the First Law which he went against to be destroyed, and with it {CLASSIFIED}, as he defied its very nature and caused it to no longer exist (as its First Work was {CLASSIFIED} and the idea of {CLASSIFIED} were incomprehensible to it, so the birth of the Axes of {CLASSIFIED}, {CLASSIFIED},{CLASSIFIED}, etc., caused him to be split into the Axes of{CLASSIFIED}, {CLASSIFIED}, {CLASSIFIED}). As such, Cain’s Heretical Work no longer functions correctly, as even though it still “exists” and occupies "an impossible top tier spot” it cannot do anything except stop the effects of any and all Axis Work due to it superseding them as it is made to go against athe First Work of {CLASSIFIED}.