What's the deal with Agrat though? Have we learned anything about her in the game yet? I remember reading something about her in one of the books probably at the temple?
This is what I found about her on the Internet:
Agrat bat Mahlat
Agrat, daughter of Dancer/Disease
In the rabbinic literature of Yalquṭ Ḥadash, on the eves of Wednesday and Saturday, she is "the dancing roof-demon" who haunts the air with her chariot and her train of 18 messengers/angels of spiritual destruction. She dances while her mother, or possibly grandmother, Lilith howls.
(So she is Lilith's granddaughter?)
She is one of the four queens of demons, along with Lilith, Naamah (meaning Pleasant), and Eisheth Zenunim (meaning Woman of Whoredom), with Lilith being the most powerful and senior of them all.
She is also "the mistress of the sorceresses" who communicated magic secrets to Amemar, a Jewish sage.
In Zoharistic Kabbalah, she is a queen of the demons and an angel of sacred prostitution, who mates with archangel Samael (Lucifer in Christianity and Iblis in Islam, Satan in both) along with Lilith and Naamah, sometimes adding Eisheth as a fourth mate. According to legend, Agrat and Lilith visited King Solomon disguised as prostitutes. The spirits Solomon communicated with Agrat were all placed inside of a genie lamp-like vessel and set inside of a cave on the cliffs of the Dead Sea. Later, after the spirits were cast into the lamp, Agrat and her lamp were discovered by King David. Agrat then mated with him a night and bore him a demonic son, Asmodeus, who is identified with Hadad the Edomite. (Although, there is a contradictory story --big surprise, huh?-- that says Asmodeus was the offspring of Naamah and the angel Shamdon or Shomron and Asmodeus became king of devils.)
(Where is Samael in NLT's stories though? We're just seeing Lilith. And what's the power dynamic between him and Lilith? Who's more in charge?)
In a Kabbalistic treatise by Nathan Nata Spira (d. in 1663), it is explained that Mahlat was daughter to Ishmael and his wife, who was herself daughter of Egyptian sorcerer Kasdiel. Mother and daughter were exiled to the desert, where the demon Igrathiel mated with Mahlat and engendered Agrat. Mahlat later became the wife of Esau (elder son of Isaac). About 1000 years after the era of Solomon and David, another widely known intervention occurred known as "The spiritual intervention of Hanina ben Dosa and Rabbi Abaye" which ended up curbing her malevolent powers over humans.
And as for Naamah, in Talmudic-midrashic literature, Naamah is indistinguishable from the human Naamah, who earned her name by seducing men through her play of cymbals and slept with Shamdon. It was later, in Kabbalistic literature like the Zohar, that she became an inhuman spirit.
I don't expect any accuracy from NLT though, especially since they've mixed Greek and Abrahamic myths. You have Lilith and Athena in one story. So.
, update only files helped us to keep the momentum of the game going
