Chorazin
Introduction
Chorazin, also referred to as the Damned, was a village in northern Galilee, two and a half miles from Capernaum on a hill above the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The place was one of the mightiest Baali fortresses ever known; along with Tyre and Damascus, it was regarded as a holy place for followers of the Path of Screams.
History
The Baali fortress at Chorazin, also described as a sepulcher or acropolis (the main part of which may have existed underground), was a stronghold of the infernalists during the Second Baali War. According to "Clanbook: Baali", when Nergal returned under the guise of Shaitan, he moved the center of his activities to Chorazin, abandoning Mashkan-Shapir and leaving it to ruin. He had done so to protect the resting place of the demon Namtaru against his siblings Moloch and the Unnamed, as well as from the other clans (as it suffered constant attacks by many foes, primarily by Salubri and Assamites).
According to some accounts, it was the place where Samiel met his Final Death at the conclusion of (one of) the Baali Wars; this is usually said to have happened at the conclusion of the Second Baali War at the Baali acropolis in Chorazin, although Salubri oral tradition sometimes instead places his destruction at the end of the First Baali War.
Salubri lore claims that the Baali were assisted in that final battle by a traitor, one of the Salubri who had thrown his lot in with the Baali; the traitor struck down Samiel with a fatal blow from behind. The traitor's name was wiped from the clan's history, and he was given the name Ahab to mark his treachery in the wake of the Baali Wars.
This traitor may have originally been one of the four Warrior Salubri who first learned of the Baali threat and was seduced by the promises of the Baali, turning on his brethren; if so, Samiel may in fact have been one of the two scouts who were slain in the first encounter with the Baali, although this would contradict nearly every other account of Samiel's death. More than half of Samiel's forces were lost with him, as was the Code of Samiel; in the aftermath of this Baali War, there may have been as few as five Warrior Salubri remaining, all of them neonates.
Chorazin was also the place where the Assamite Warrior Izhim abd'Azrael was captured and where the Baali used his potent blood as a conduit to unleash the first Blood Curse upon his Assamite caste, (filling their warriors with a ravening hunger for vampiric vitae). Although Chorazin and the Baali were destroyed by Al-Ashrad and the other assembled Assamites, the curse spread quickly through the entire caste, and has persisted ever since.
The dating of this account is consistent with the personal history of Qawiyya el-Ghaduba, the last childe of Samiel, but not with most non-Assamite accounts of the Baali Wars. Additionally, the Assamite accounts of this battle do not mention the presence of the Salubri, or of any other Cainites save for Assamites and the Baali.
In the 11th century, the Baali Azanael took up residence within Chorazin's subterranean levels, determined to decipher the cryptic writings on its walls. In an alliance with the Angellis Ater, he managed to open the gates to the hidden resting place, where Namtaru once slept. The power contained within the vault destroyed most of the intruders, turning them against each other in a murderous fury (except for Azaneal, who was fundamentally changed by the darkness).