Rosier (demon)

In popular culture

• Jean-Bernard Rosier features in the novel Mr Mee by Andrew Crumey, as creator of an esoteric work titled "Rosier's Encyclopaedia". Crumey's subsequent novels Mobius Dick and The Secret Knowledge feature the Rosier Corporation, which is responsible for sinister experiments using quantum computers. The Secret Knowledge includes other characters with surnames from the Sebastien Michaelis' classification of demons, e.g. Verrier, Carreau, Verrine and Oeillet.
• One of the main characters of Kaori Yuki's manga Angel Sanctuary is called Rosiel, and is named after the fallen angel. The different desinence is due to the uniformity of the and sounds in Japanese. However, there are other ideas as to why the name is spelled with an 'l' rather than an 'r'. Rosiel, in Kaori Yuki's manga, Angel Sanctuary; the name difference due to Yuki ending the names of most angels with "el", meaning "god". When an angel turns away from god, he/she normally abandons the "el" in favour of "er".
• Rosier is depicted as an incubus and is lord of the incubi in the Cassandra Palmer series by Karen Chance.
• "Rosier the Fallen" is the religious hero of the evil religion "Ashen Veil" in the Civilization 4: Beyond the Sword fantasy mod "Fall from Heaven 2". However he is a human religious fighter who abandoned the good counterreligion "The Order".
• Evan Rosier was a Death Eater in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Druella Rosier was the mother of Bellatrix Lestrange, Andromeda Tonks and Narcissa Malfoy.
• Adam Rosier is a character in The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller.
• Rosier is the name of a demon of obsession in Big Finish's audio drama Dark Shadows: Tainted Love. He is able to possess people through their obsessions in order to try to break into our reality.