The Firstborn



The Firstborn is an ancient being of great power born at the very beginning of the universe and the the main antagonist of the 2007 first person shooter psychological horror videogame Clive Barker's Jericho.

It was created by God within His own image before the creation of the first 2 human beings Adam and Eve, but He realized that it was too powerful, but could never destroy it, only banish it to patch of reality called the Pyxis Prima (often now dubbed "The Box" by the Department of Occult Warfare), the deep chasm located below the ruins of the lost Middle Eastern city of Al-Khali (also known as "Rub Al-Khali").

However, It has tried 6 times to break into our universe via creating time-space distorting portals called "Breaches", and each time the secret U.S. government organization known as Department of Occult Warfare sends a group of mystics to sacrifice themselves and seal the breach as much as have a lost order of Sumerian mystics and priests did in the distant past against the Firstborn before. It is prophecised that the 7th attempt will be it's last.

In the Roman era, a crucified centurion tells the Jericho team that The Firstborn does not want freedom. He states that The Firstborn wants what God gave man, but denied it. That "Freedom is the absence of chains, just as evil is the absence of love". One can guess all The Firstborn wants is to be loved, and not hated or feared, or just worshiped for it's own power.

However, the final Jericho squad managed to highly damage it during the final battle within it's skull-like chasmal tomb before it's former apprentice named Arnold Leach, former high-ranking General of D.O.W. turned leader of the apocalyptic terrorist cult known as the Brotherhood of the Dark Rapture who worshipped the Firstborn, angrily lunges at the Firstborn and carries it into a tunnel of pure/light energy where a flash of burning light occurs. It is unclear if they were both destroyed or if they have teleported somewhere.

Trivia

 * "The Box", the alias of the Firstborn's cavernous prison, the Pyxis Prima, was another name of the Lament Configuration, the demonic puzzle box from the Hellraiser franchise within the works of film director Clive Barker.
 * Also, the Pyxis Prima was often called "The Abyss", a name for the Bottomless Pit of religious Judeo-Christian traditions which is said to be a chasm leading to the Underworld or Hell.