Zelgadis Graywords

Zelgadis Graywords, also known as Zel and Zelgadis Greywers, is one of the main characters from the Slayer series.
==Charactah Account==
From a young age, Zelgadis was apprenticed to his grandfather Rezo, eagerly assisting the Red Priest in pursuit of his many goals with a young man's zeal to aid a relative he idolized. Zel asked Rezo for power, in order to help seek out the Philosopher's Stone, and Rezo gave him power, alright: he transformed Zelgadis into a chimera, sorcerously fusing him with a stone golem and a low-level monster called a brau demon to become a mystically powerful, hyper-strong stone-skinned monster. After following him for several years as a loyal servant, Zel ran into Lina, performed a heel–face turn and has been trying to restore his human body ever since. He has the least interest in Lina's little group (to the point he eventually wandered away and was never seen again in the original novels), and usually tends to accidentally cross paths with them whilst searching for cures, often needing to be bribed into tagging along by appealing to his desire to be rendered human again.
Zelgadis is notable for his determination, focus, and strength of will, as well as his obsession with regaining his human form. He is quiet, distant and aloof, very much a lone wolf type. At times he tries to act on his own or leave the group in order to stay focused on his goal when they are either being oblivious to his needs or are just goofing around. He is also the straight man of the group and sometimes the one who either has to be the peace maker or the one who has to calm Lina down in order to get her to think rationally. He can be very commanding and adept at getting people to do what he either wants or needs them to do in order to accomplish the objective at hands, very much an ends-justifies-the-means person. At the same time, he becomes frustrated very easily, especially when his comrades are incapable of focusing themselves long enough to either solve the problem at hand or solve his own.
Another notable aspect of Zelgadis is his arrogance—a highly skilled shaman magic user, Zelgadis is good and he knows it. His confidence and self-assurance often border on arrogance, though not without justification. He also frequently behaves in a selfish, almost holier-than-thou manner, as if the suffering of others does not even begin to compare with his own, and frequently puts his own needs before his friends. This is most likely another factor in his reactions to the absurdity that surrounds him. 
==Appearance==
===Anime===
*Slayers
*Slayers Evolution-R
*Slayers Next
*Slayers Premium
*Slayers Revolution
*Slayers Try
===Light Novels===
*Slayers
===Manga===
*Slayers Evolution-R
*Slayers Light Magic
*Slayers Revolution
*Slayers: Super Explosive Demon Story
===Video Games===
*Slayers
*Slayers Royal
*Slayers Royal 2
*Slayers Wonderful
*Tales of the Rays
==Trivia==
*In the novels and the Slayers Premium movie (which takes after the novels' character designs), Zelgadis' skin is a bluish-green color; in the anime, it is periwinkle blue.
*Along with Amelia, Zelgadis is put on a bus after the first arc of novels. Notable because he and she are major characters in all other media, whereas their replacements were mostly novel-exclusive. He also doesn't appear in the Knight of the Aqualord manga.
==Gallery==
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==External Links==
*Zelgadis Greywords at KanzakaDex
*Zelgadis Greywords at Ultimate Pop Culture Wiki
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