XV - Abigor

15 - Abigor - Eligor, Allogor, Abigor -  Appears as a handsome knight carrying a banner and a lance. Appears in: The Discoverie of Witchcraft, The Book of Spirits, The Grand Grimoire, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, The Lesser Key of Solomon, and Dictionnaire Infernal

From Libre Officorum

Allogor, a duke, & appeareth like a fayer knight, & beareth in his hand a speare with a banner, & giveth trewe aunsweres, & he openeth all doubtes, & showith howe they maye be brought to passe, & what shall happen, & under him he hath legions 30.

From Pseudomonarchia: 

Eligor, alias Abigor, is a great duke, and appeereth as a goodlie [handsome] knight, carrieng a lance, an ensigne, and a scepter: he answereth fullie of things hidden, and of warres, and how souldiers should meete: he knoweth things to come, and procureth the favour of lords and knights, governing sixtie legions of divels.

From the Lesser Key

The Fifteenth Spirit in Order is Eligos, a Great Duke, and appeareth in the form of a goodly Knight, carrying a Lance, an Ensign, and a Serpent. He discovereth hidden things, and knoweth things to come; and of Wars, and how the Soldiers will or shall meet. He causeth the Love of Lords and Great Persons. He governeth 60 Legions of Spirits. His Seal is this, etc.

Appearance: A handsome knight with lance and banner. 

Subrace: Likely outcast dominion

Abilities: Divination, recognition, war

Legions: 60

Rank: Duke

Notes:

[Rides the Steed of Abigor, the first Nightmare, and a personal gift from Beezlebub, created from the remains of one of the horses in the garden of eden, often depicted as winged and skeletal.] This was a fascinating one to research. I think the mdoern idea of the Steed of Abrigor came from a homebrew roleplay website called Hora Aurea, or Golden Hour. However. They likely got the idea from a misreading of ‎John Eyton B. Mayor’s 1878 translation of Juvenals Eighth Satire. The Eyton translation, which, is translated line-by-line and not as a facing-page and therefore ends an english sentence with “Steed” and begins the next latin sentence with “Abigor” which is latin for “stubborn” or “unwilling”. 

All that said, given the greek mythological penchant for powerful beings making horses out of random shit, I am entirely willing to consider this now part of the occult canon, as it adds depth to the goetia, and to Nightmares as a creature, and isn’t sourced in something actively antisemitic (Although Juvenal was a raging misogynist.)

Brand of the Tactician - The marked gains mild predictive abilities. Whenever the marked engages in conflict with someone, they will perceive ghostly images depicting their opponents possible next movies. While at first the marked is only able to see a few moments into the future, with practice the prediction time can be extended, however without careful focus this can make the battlefield appear as an incomprehensible mess of shifting color as thousands of ghostly images overlap.