Cameron Friday entered a pact with a very 1970s Devil in which he gained immortal life and enhanced magical powers in return for his eternal soul upon an unnatural death. He “disappeared” for several years after his late 1970s emergence, finally resurfacing last year for unknown reasons. (In fact, he returned from seclusion to protect Arcadia from an unknown menace he knows will come in 2012, and knows he will need time to prepare the city’s arcane defenses.)

Upon his return to Arcadia, he reassumed his old haunts, including an elaborate penthouse in a downtown skyscraper. In addition to living in the lap of luxury, the Luciferian fights crime on the streets of Arcadia. He wears a blood red tuxedo shirt and a black vest and dress pants. Very gentlemanly, but also quite dark. Short black hair and very tightly cropped black hair. Wears the Sorceryamplifying Rings of Andach on his little fingers. These rings once belonged to Doc Mesmer.

Before his disappearance, Friday had a close relationship with Arcadia’s Police Commissioner, working with the man on several notorious cases. The Luciferian solved crimes no one else would touch, such as tracking down occult criminals and busting up urban cults.

Upon his return, he attempted to reinitiate contact with the commissioner’s office, only to find that a new commissioner had moved in over the intervening years. This new fellow wants nothing to do with a man who claims to derive power from the Devil himself, and has done everything possible to distance the department from the actions of this unusual occultist.

That’s pretty much it so far. I basically see the Luciferian as a suave, charismatic manipulator who follows the type of pointy-moustached, martini-holding “Devil” that was a common motif in seventies cinema and comics. This is the era of Damien Hellstorm “Son of Satan!” and countless Saturday afternoon movies about some poor couple’s car breaking down in an unusual town filled with cultists. Never has the world seen more staged witch burnings than in 1970s devil movies, and the Luciferian is my homage to that, with a touch of Hellraiser and the style of James Bond thrown in. This guy is a major clotheshorse.

Friday wears rings on his pinkies because Dean Stockwell does in the wonderfully quirky film “The Dunwich Horror,” in which an H.P. Lovecraft story about the Necronomicon becomes a love story psychodrama on a swinging sixties college campus. I see Cameron Friday as someone who would have sought multiple paths to power, discarding each when they failed to meet his standards. He knows a bit of martial arts, transcendental meditation, Crowleyism, etc. And just before he hit it off with Old Scratch, he was on a Dean Stockwell-like quest for the secrets of something very like the Cthulhu Mythos.

Whether or not Friday really consorts with the Devil is a topic he keeps ambiguous. He certainly follows a doctrine similar to that of Anton LaVey, so his whole origin story might just be obfuscation and whimsy. A metaphor for selfactualization.

Or maybe the Devil did it.

Forward | Courage Unlimited | A Note on Notes | Thematic Influence | The Luciferian | Roll Call | Knock-Off | Gimmick | Twist | Cyclone | The Pugilist | Minotaur, ANTAG and Bestiary | Iraq Discoveries | The Reserve | The Front

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