Wrath

"The demon rotated in place like he was getting acclimated to his new location. His chest and torso were chiseled in a way that indicated he was well-acquainted with weapons. My attention dropped to a metallic gold tattoo that started on top of his right hand, and coiled up and around his arm and shoulder. A fearsome snake. I didn’t have time to catalogue its details because he was now fully facing me. I sucked in a sharp breath as I finally met his gaze. Dark gold irises with flecks of black stared back at me.

“One day you'll call me Death. For now, Wrath will do.” Wrath to Emilia"

- Emilia describing Wrath

Wrath is one of seven princes of hell, each of them ruling over one of the Houses of sin. Wrath is not his true name, but he refuses to give that out to anyone. At the end of Kingdom of the Cursed, it's revealed his true name is Samael, and he is the devil and King of the Wicked.

Early Life
His relationship with his brothers seems to be strenuous at best. In Kingdom of the Wicked, Emilia unwittingly calls him Samael after a roman prince and the angel of death, not knowing that Wrath is, in fact, Samael.

Like his six brothers, Wrath was cursed by the First Witch. It's revealed in Kingdom of the Cursed that this was the repercussion of him refusing to help her. The Horn of Hades, which Emilia and Vittoria had been wearing as their amulets at the beginning of the first novel, was actually his wings, which the First Witch cursed and hid from him.

Kingdom of the Wicked
Wrath first shows up after Emilia performs a casting blood spell. Emilia keeps him magically locked in the cave over a series of days in which she tries to find more information on her sister's alleged murder. When Wrath gets out, it's just in time to save her from dying of a bite from the Viperidae. He forms something of an alliance with Emilia. He claims he is searching for a bride for his brother, Pride, and that their interests aline in that they both need the witches alive.

He and Emilia then work together to find the culprit, and along the way, are introduced to a number of his brothers, including Greed, Envy and Lust, as well as one of the members of Wrath's House, Anir. They discover that the murderer was Antonio, who was being used by someone claiming to be an "angel" with a mission for him.

Wrath betrays Emilia in the end, when it is revealed that he "needed one more soul" to take back to hell. The first book ends with him presenting Emilia with a contract that binds her soul to Pride, and teleporting the two of them to Hell. At this point, Emilia believes she has sold her soul and her hand in marriage to Pride.

Kingdom of the cursed
Once reaching Hell, Wrath goats Emilia into pledging herself to the devil; she believes it is inconsequential, she she believes she has already signed herself to the devil. In reality, her vow negates her contract and binds her to Wrath instead.

Wrath tells Emilia they must travel through the sin corridor in order to reach the Seven Circles. He warns her the corridor would poke at her mind and influence her emotions in order to test her house affinity. The frigid weather of the corridor causes Emilia to develop hypothermia, and Wrath nurses he back to health in his house. Later, Emilia forces a confession out of him: Pride is not her husband to be, and instead it is Wrath.

Wrath trains Emilia in building an affinity against the powers of him and his brothers, helping her to identify the Malvagi's influences and be able to withstand them. During this time, his and Emilia's relationship further develops, but the two of them never cross the line of consumating their marriage. During a feast at House Gluttony, Wrath is pulled away by Lust for a secret conversation. Out of all of his brothers, Wrath seems to be the most cordial with Lust, and the least with Greed.

Wrath keeps many secrets from her, just as Emilia does him, and it's not revealed until nearly the end of the book that this is because he is physically unable to speak of some things— a magic curse that inables him from telling anyone, even Emilia. At this point, it is also revealed that Wrath's true name is Samael, and that he is the true King of the Wicked and the devil.

Appearance
Wrath is described as a man of tall stature with a well built chiseled body covered with different shimmering gold tattoos. On his front upper body a golden snake going from his upper body to his waist, on his back and from side to side of his shoulders he has lines in Latin. His voice is described as deep, rough and elegant all at once. His aura is described as different from usually lavender but rather a shimmering, multitoned black with specks of gold.

Abilities
As a Demon the Wrath can:


 * Travel freely between Hell and Earth.
 * Steal souls.
 * Regenerate and heal very quickly.
 * He can influence others, particularly humans and streghes, to feel certain emotions or sinful desires. Wrath demonstrates this with Emilia in the second book, as he attempts to prepare her better to battle the influence of his brothers.

As per numerous remarks and some of his tattoos, he is fluent in Latin language.

Emilia
Wrath and Emilia first meet when the latter summons him to a cave in Italy in her quest for answers after her twin was brutally killed. At first, Emilia attacks him, believing him to be the murderer, but Wrath denies it. Emilia used what she believed to be a protection charm in order to keep Wrath from hurting her, but the charm she used was in fact a binding for betrothal. At the time, only Wrath was aware of this. In the beginning of their relationship, the two carry a lot of animosity towards one another, and neither fully trusts the other. Wrath keeps many secrets from Emilia throughout Kingdom of the Wicked. Envy tells her that Wrath has ulterior motives for helping her in her search, and that he's actually looking for a soul to take with him to hell. Emilia then kisses Wrath, confronting him afterwards, and is crushed when she realizes Envy's words were true. The first book ends with Emilia believing she's signed herself into a new betrothal with Pride, another prince of hell, and only Wrath knows that this is untrue and that their own betrothal still stands.

In Kingdom of the cursed, Wrath brings Emilia with him to hell and takes her to his own home. Emilia falls victim to the Sin Corridor, a test that everyone must go through to decide which house they suit best, and she is presented with illusions and influences that weigh which of the Sins she is most aligned to. One of those illusions is a heated scene with Wrath, and she is only broken from it when he brings her out of the spell himself. He brings her back to health after their trek though the frigid weather of Hell gives her hypothermia, but the two are far from cordial. In the second novel, Wrath and Emilia's relationship is more physical than it was in the first book of the series, as Emilia allows herself to indulge in that which would have been frowned upon in the human realm, though both of them set limits on the relationship and they don't have sex. Wrath takes it upon himself to train Emilia to withstand the powers of the Wicked, subjecting her to his own in order to build her affinity against it.