The Travels of Marco Polo · Character
The Devil
- Minor
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 15
The Devil enters the account as a name weighted with dread: an invocation in curses, a presence from religious imagination, and a source people associate with forbidden power. He feels less like a person plainly seen than a darkness given a name.
- Gender
- male
- Age
- Eternal
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 15
- Books
- 1
The Devil is invoked in curses and appears as a character in the account of a miracle play, where he makes a pact with Theophilus. Elsewhere, he is named as a source of magical power. The text offers no stable physical depiction, leaving his presence rooted in fear, religious belief, and the unseen.
Description
No physical form is described for the Devil. The text specifies neither body, complexion, hair, eyes, face, clothing, nor any identifying marks. His visual presence should therefore remain symbolic and indeterminate, conveyed through a sense of menace rather than invented physical traits.
Story so far
BOOK 1The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1
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