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Azazel is a [[Demonology|Yellow-Eyed Demon]], one of the [[Prince of Hell|Generals of Hell]] commanding the [[demon]] army,<ref name="essential" /> and seemingly the only one still active by 2007. He was the first supernatural creature and the first demon who appeared in the series. Azazel planned to bring his army of black-eyed demons forth from Hell to unleash upon the world in preparation for the [[Apocalypse]].<ref name="two22" /> The demon [[Casey]] described him as a "tyrant" who nevertheless held the demon army together; without him, the army's disciplined nature dissolved into chaos and power struggles.<ref name="three04">[[3.04 Sin City]]</ref> He referred to two particular black-eyed demons as his "children" -- [[Meg]] and [[Tom]].<ref name="one22" />
Azazel became integral in [[Lucifer]]'s plans to escape from [[Lucifer's Cage|his prison]]. Azazel kept faith in [[Lucifer]] even after other demons his fellow Princes of Hell gave up on his return, and continued to search for him for years, eventually discovering the site where his prison opened and how to contact him through it. On Lucifer's instructions, he created the [[Special Children]].<ref name="four22" /> It is during this mission that he encounters [[Mary Campbell]]; after killing her parents and her fiance [[John Winchester]], he makes a deal with her that if she'll allow him entry to her home in ten years time, undisturbed, he'll bring John back to life.<ref name="four03" /> On the night Azazel visited Sam's nursery, he killed Mary when she discovered him, and set fire to the Winchester home. These actions caused John Winchester to pursue Azazel for the rest of his life, and [[Sam]] and [[Dean]]'s lives were forever altered.
After years of searching, John had started to pick up of Azazel's trail in 2005. After Dean attempted to contact John, he didn't answer him so he went to get Sam, who was studying to be a lawyer in Stanford and trying to have a normal life. Sam reluctantly agreed to help Dean find John, but they were only able to recover his [[John's Journal|journal]] when they looked for him in Jericho, California which led them to hunt in his place while he tries to follow Azazel's trail. They discovered that he was hunting a [[Woman in White]] named [[Constance Welch]] when he located Azazel and he sent them on another hunt in Black Water Ridge, Colorado to hunt a [[wendigo]] when they finished the hunt in Jericho. Dean left Sam back at Stanford, only to discover that Sam's girlfriend [[Jessica Moore|Jessica]] was murdered the exact same way their mother was. In the aftermath of the fire, Sam decided to stay with Dean to find their father, hunt down Azazel, and avenge the deaths of their mother and Jessica.