Powers/Abilities: Xcron could possess human forms, imbuing them with superhuman strength (sufficient to rip an adult man's arm off or throw an adult male into a second floor fire escape across the street. Such hosts were minimally affected by trauma such as being shot.

    It could animate and control dismembered limbs, granting a single arm the power to pull an adult man against his well across the ground.

    It could perform various spells, enabling it to sense and/or track the magics of others.

    Xcron had superhuman strength as well as sharp claws and teeth. It enjoyed mutilating and devouring people

    It did not sleep and it could go almost forever without food, but it did feel the need to enjoy itself, especially after having been trapped in an urn for over two centuries.

    It likely did not need to breathe and was presumably highly resistant to temperature extremes as well as conventional forms of injury.

    It was vulnerable to magic, but most assaults would only briefly delay it; more powerful assaults, such as those drawing on the pattern of a city-wide pentagram or powered by multiple human sacrifices were required to contain or force its compliance.

    Xcron could fly high into the air to observe the people below, even reaching high into the atmosphere to survey the planet.

    It could apparently read the mind of those in its proximity, allowing it to mimic the voice of someone known to that person despite Xcron having never heard that person speak.

    It hungered for the experiences he had lost the last couple of centuries while trapped in the urn.

History:

(Chiller#1 (fb) - BTS) - Xcron was an intelligent demonic being from another dimension.

(Chiller#1 (fb) - BTS) - Aldo Roth of the Architects -- a secret society allegedly dating back to ancient Babylon -- sacrificed numerous African slaves to master the skills needed to summon and control demons, writing his secrets and rituals in a book via the blood of his victims.

(Chiller#1 (fb) - BTS / Chiller#2 (fb) - BTS) <In the latter half of the 18^th Century A.D.> - Roth's old comrades James Madison introduced him to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, whom he convinced to allow him to use his talents to help their cause (the Revolutionary Army) against the British.

(Chiller#2 (fb) - BTS) - Roth began by having his assistants kill some of the slaves he had recently purchased for this purpose. His assistants then used the blood to paint a pentagram trap that would draw the Shadower (Xcron) to their world. Roth directed them while he began to chant the invocation of power.

(Chiller#2 (fb)) - After many hours, Roth and his assistants brought the demon through the darkness that separated their realities. Xcron immediately tested the magical bonds they had set around it, but the bonds ultimately held.

    Xcron helped the Revolutionary Army defeat the British.

(Chiller#2 (fb) - BTS) - At some point thereafter, Roth and the Architects established a pentagram around Washington DC to be used for black magic purposes, giving them a much larger pattern from which to draw energy.

(Chiller#2 (fb) - BTS) - Objecting to the Architects' ultimate plans, some of the founding fathers had Roth slain.

(Chiller#1 (fb) - BTS) - Realizing that Xcron was too powerful for them to control, the founding fathers trapped the demon within a large urn in the center of a pentagram in an underground chamber, the door to which was labeled "Death Lies Within" (and showing a pentagram) in Mt. Vernon, Virgina. They buried Roth's tome in a suburb of Washington, DC.

(Chiller#1) - Construction workers, including Brent, Steve and Pete, unearthed and investigated the underground foundation containing the trapped Xcron. After Steve noted that his daughter, Amy, would love this kind of thing, the group ignored the warning and broke into the inner room.

Xcron then called out in Amy's voice, telling Steve that a bad man had put her in there. 

    Flying through the air to Manhattan, Xcron descended into an alley in the city where he possessed a homeless man and presumably slew his friend. Walking the streets, Xcron's host was was threatened by a group of men, but he tore the leader's right arm off, knocked two of the men down with the arm, hurled the dismembered man into a fire escape above and then laughed off the bullets from the remaining members before he slew them as well.

(Chiller#1 (fb) - BTS) - In this host, Xcron entered a building, tore apart and/or devoured several people in the hallways and entered an apartment. At some point thereafter, Xcron abandoned this host.
    Whether she had observed the previous slaughter or more things had happened in her room, the woman considered him to be the devil.

     Following the massacre, the police followed the suspect in a building and began searching door-to-door.

(Chiller#1 - BTS) - Finding partially devoured/dismembered human corpses in the hallway, the police followed the sound of a scream to a room and kicked down a door to an apartment and found the killer's corpse on the floor. The woman informed the police that he was not a man but rather the devil.

Ramone.

(Chiller#1 (fb) - BTS) - Following the massacre, the police cornered the suspect in a building and began searching door-to-door.

(Chiller#1 - BTS) - Finding partially devoured/dismembered human corpses in the hallway, the police followed the sound of a scream to a room and kicked down a door to an apartment and found the killer's corpse on the floor. Appreciating that the man was dead with dried blood around his gunshot wound, the police questioned the resident, and she told them that he was no man but rather the devil. Alpha leader (Ramone) reported that that suspect was dead and that it was situation normal.