>>109029843>Jerome Wolf is a multi-dimensional demon like the Shadow King?Most famous "Jerome" by far is St. Jerome. He's the guy who translated the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate, Catholic Church's official Bible).
Note the "Cogita Mori" text behind him in pic related.
Means "Think Upon Death."
As a historical figure he was associated in later art with the memento mori (remember death) / vanitas (worldly pursuits are all in vain) theme.
In life he had a scandal where he taught ascetic / self-denying practices which resulted in the premature death of Blaesilla, daughter of a prominent Roman senatorial family.
In some ways he was the exact opposite of the wolf Jerome in this episode e.g. He was extremely against hedonism. But the wolf Jerome's role as the reality principle trying to scare or traumatize the innocent with knowledge of the world's horrors and evils matches pretty well.
Saint Jerome obsessed over Hell and in his younger years went back and forth between indulging in hedonistic partying / sex and feeling really guilty about it, visiting the tombs of Christian martyrs and relating the writings of Classical Greco-Roman greats like Virgil to the Christian concept of Hell. Poet Dante Alighieri would much later follow suit and base his conception of Hell in the Divine Comedy on Virgil's Aeneid, so Saint Jerome played an important role in building up the mythology we now think of as "Hell" today.
