Card Trivia:Cherubini, Ebon Angel of the Burning Abyss


 * This card is based on a lesser-known character present in Dante Aligheri's Inferno known as the 'Black Cherub'. In Canto XXVII of the Inferno, Guido de Montefeltro recounts how he reluctantly gave advice to Pope Boniface VIII, only after Boniface had agreed to absolve him for the sin of his fraudulent counsel. As Guido recounts his story, after his death, St. Francis arrived to claim his soul for the saved, but a black Cherub appeared to assert Hell's superior claim over Guido.