Hazzareth

Hazzareth was Kobal's first joke after the Fall. When the original demon princes were asked by Lucifer to submit candidates for the first non-Superior Word-binding, the Prince of Dark Humor didn't hesitate a second. It is rumored that even Lucifer laughed during the binding of the former seraph.
Hazzy (as he is affectionately called) is the demon of Angels. If you ever wondered who invented spin, know that it wasn't Nybbas. It was Hazzareth all the way. In his line of duty, Hazzareth is charged to use angels themselves, the purest beings in God's Creation, as a way of dragging humanity towards the Pit. How does he do this? Spin, baby.
Angels are something only superstitious people believe in, after all. Y'know, all those people who enjoyed Touched by an Angel and Michael. Ugh. Makes me want to throw up. Also, talking about angels isn't PC. I mean, you may offend some atheist somewhere, so it's better just to flinch or run away from any mention of angels. Also, angelology is all that New Age stuff anyway. Praying to angels? Hah. Heresy and idolatry. Along with crystals and the Tarot, no one wants to hear about angels these days. And one more thing, only super-conservatives still believe in angels. Bible-thumpers are always talking about the apocalypse and how the archangel Michael is going to kill the dragon and such. B.S., if you ask me.
But, of course, Hazzareth isn't content with just spreading those ideas about angels. He wants a distaste for angels balanced by the image of angels everywhere you can see, so that they are unescapable, leading to more distaste, outright disgust, and a total loss of the symbol's true meaning. Like the demon of Easter has done with bunnies and eggs, Hazzy would totally leach every spiritual connotation from angels if he could.
And, hey . . . he isn't doing a bad job. Of course, as soon as Nybbas started his meteoric rise to power, Hazzy knew where he truly belonged. He's basically on permanent loan now, since Kobal agrees that he's hundreds of times more effective in the Media's services than he had been for the previous millennia under Dark Humor. Whether he ever officially joins Nybbas' ranks is still up in the air, but Hazzareth has learned to keep his options open.
As a side note, it might be important to show why Hazzareth is a good successful supporter of his Word while Nakael is not. First of all, Nakael is only focused on the "real" meaning of "Demons," as he is oathbound to reveal the true horrors of demonkind to the mortal world. This has limited him to the point that he finds it impossible to effectively accomplish his job. Maybe another choir would have been more effective, but the Seraphim Council was too afraid of having a servitor Fall, so it had to be a malak.
As a contrast, Hazzy doesn't care at all what angels are "really like." It doesn't matter to his work. He knows what he wants "Angels" to mean and works to impose that view on the world. He's also a great deal older than Nakael, and, as a balseraph, is much more ingenious and flexible about the way he implements his Word.
Category:Demons
Category:Balseraphim
Category:Dark Humor (Word)
Category:The Media (Word)
Category:Angels (Word)
Category:Wordbound