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The Firstborn is the main antagonist of Clive Barker's Jericho.

It was created by God before Adam and Eve, but He realized that it was too powerful to exist. Though God couldn't destroy it, he banished it to The Pyxis. It, however, has tried 6 times to break into our universe, and each time the Department of Occult Warfare sends a group of mystics to sacrifice themselves and seal the breach in order to keep it banished. It is Prophecised that the seventh attempt will be it's last and the Firstborn will be freed.

In the Roman era, a crucified centurion tells the Jericho team that the Firstborn does not want freedom, it wants what God gave man, but denied it. That being "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 power.

In the final battle against the seventh, and final, Jericho squad, the team manages to highly damage it before it's former apprentice, Arnold Leach, carries it into a tunnel of light in order to stop the Firstborn. A bright flash of light occurs, presumably destroying both of them.

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