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− | After resurrecting [[Samuel Campbell]], [[Crowley]] has him tracking down high-ranking creatures, especially [[Alpha |Alphas]], so that he can question them about the location of Purgatory. Crowley says he is interested in Purgatory for "development purposes" | + | After resurrecting [[Samuel Campbell]], [[Crowley]] has him tracking down high-ranking creatures, especially [[Alpha |Alphas]], so that he can question them about the location of Purgatory. Crowley says he is interested in Purgatory for "development purposes" |
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− | Location, location, location. I'm a developer. Purgatory is vast, underutilized, and hell adjacent, and I want it. | + | '''Crowley''': Location, location, location. I'm a developer. Purgatory is vast, underutilized, and hell adjacent, and I want it. |
===[[6.10 Caged Heat]]=== | ===[[6.10 Caged Heat]]=== |
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Dean: Purgatory? Purgatory's real?
Alpha Vampire: Stupid cattle... Of course! And it is filled with the soul of every hungry thing like me that ever walked this earth. Now, where is it? That is the mystery, and that is what your kind-hearted granddaddy is trying to beat out of me.
It's like the backside of your worst nightmares. It's all blood and bone and darkness. Filled with the bodies and souls of all things hungry, sharp, and nasty.
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Characteristics
Purgatory is a spiritual realm where souls of supernatural creatures go after they die. Its physical location is separate from both Heaven and Hell. Crowley estimates there are 30-40 million souls there.[1]
Purgatory is also home to several native creatures, one such example being Eleanor Visyak, who escaped Purgatory when H.P. Lovecraft and some dinner guests performed a ritual to open a door to another dimension on March 10, 1937. [2]
Dragons, after reciting a spell from a book, open a doorway to Purgatory, which releases Eve from its bowels.[3]
Crowley and Castiel have been trying to locate Purgatory in order to use the souls housed there.
The ritual revealed by Eleanor Visyak, and used to open the door to Purgatory by Castiel, involves drawing a series of sigils in a mixture of the blood of a virgin, and the blood of a Purgatory native.. A spell is then recited:
Iagnua Magna Purgatorii
Clausa Est Ob Nos
Lumine Eius Ab Oculis
Nostris Retento
Sed Nunc Stamus Ad Limen Huius
Ianuae Magnae Et Demisse
Fideliter Perhonorifice Paramus Aperire
Eam
Creaturae Terrificae Quarum Ungulae
Et Dentes Nunquam Tetigerunt
Carnen Humanam Aperit Fauces
Aius Ad Mundum Nostrum Nunc
Ianua Magna
Aperta Tandem!
Episodes
6.07 Family Matters
After resurrecting Samuel Campbell, Crowley has him tracking down high-ranking creatures, especially Alphas, so that he can question them about the location of Purgatory. Crowley says he is interested in Purgatory for "development purposes"
Crowley: Location, location, location. I'm a developer. Purgatory is vast, underutilized, and hell adjacent, and I want it.
6.10 Caged Heat
Crowley tortures and interrogates the Alpha Shapeshifter for Purgatory's exact coordinates. The Alpha refuses to reveal its location, claiming ignorance, so Crowley angrily retaliates by decapitating it with a sword. Later in the episode, Crowley appears to be killed.
6.11 Appointment in Samarra
Death hints to Dean that he supports their investigation into Purgatory and the souls, and encourages him to continue.
6.12 Like A Virgin
Purgatory is revealed not only to be the place where supernatural beings go after death, but also to be the place where the "Mother of All" is locked away. A group of Dragons are collecting virgins in an attempt to raise the Mother from Purgatory and allow her to walk the Earth once again. Sam and Dean discover an ancient manuscript made of human skin that Bobby ultimately deduces is a manual for accessing Purgatory and bringing forth Eve.
Toward the end of the episode, this plan is carried out by the remaining dragons, who use the knowledge gained from the manuscript to open a door to Purgatory. They take one of their captives and throw her into the fiery chasm below. Out of the portal, the girl rises again as Eve.
6.19 Mommy Dearest
Eve tells Sam and Dean that Crowley is alive, and still torturing her children to find Purgatory.
6.20 The Man Who Would Be King
In a flashback, Crowley convinces Castiel that if they find Purgatory, they can split the souls inside, so that Castiel can defeat Raphael and Crowley can secure his position as the leader of Hell. In the present, Crowley is dissecting Eve for clues that might lead them there, but to no avail. He insists that if Eve were alive, and not killed by the Winchesters, she could have led them there.
6.21 Let It Bleed
Bobby reveals that there was another person who attempted to open the door to Purgatory; a horror writer named H.P. Lovecraft. In 1937, in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft held a dinner party with five other people, and they held a ritual to open Purgatory. Eleanor Visyak managed to emerge through the door, and proceeded to kill all of the attendees except for a maid's son.
6.22 The Man Who Knew Too Much
Castiel and Crowley continue their attempt to release the souls in Purgatory, developing a ritual that will open the door to Purgatory. It calls for a mixture of virgin blood and the blood of a "Purgatory native", who turns out to be Eleanor Visyak. Castiel collects the blood, decides to deny Crowley his share of the souls, giving Crowley the option to "flee or die." Crowley turns on Castiel in response, allying himself with Raphael. The two force Castiel to leave while they conduct the ritual themselves. Castiel deceives them by switching the correct blood with dog blood, instead drinking the original blood himself. Castiel then proceeds to absorb the souls of Purgatory all at once, and destroys Raphael after Crowley teleports away. Sam triess to kill Castiel with an Angel Killing Sword, but Castiel proves immune. He then declares himself to be the new "God".
Purgatory in Lore
- Purgatory on Wikipedia
- Dante's Purgatorio on Wikipedia