Irshaz

The demon, and Asmodeus’s Minister, of Propaganda. Within the purview of her Word are all attempts to disseminate a worldview, especially when employed as moves in the political Game ~ Truth, or what is mistakenly viewed as Truth, as a means to achieve loyalty. She keeps a keen interest in the methods humans use, and how they could be adapted; she also keeps a “salon” of damned propagandists on hand. At least five of her six eyes, though, are trained on the internal political landscape of Hell: it is her profane calling to be the propagandist to the demons and damned, to inspire them to resistance against Heavenly tyranny, appreciate the freedom they have won, and reconcile any apparent contradictions between serving oneself and serving the princes.
In earlier days as kakangelion she presented her office as that of a celebrant of public rites, as the lictor of religion of a nation of slaves made into exiles – of Aaron to Lucifer’s Moses. Nowadays, the most resonant images from that and a number of other periods have been mixed in with a mostly Soviet aesthetic, and substantive messages taken from consumer culture and pop spirituality. (Irshaz despises Communism every bit as much as monotheism, but, well, all that talk about defending the revolutionary state from counter-revolutionary traitors certainly fits.) Collating all of these aesthetic influences is a task not so different from collating all the substantive messages into a coherent one, and it’s a task she’s gotten quite good at. Thanks to her, there is an “official” answer to almost all ideological questions ~ even if, to her frustration, it’s not one that’s accepted or even known by all the major actors in Hell.
She sometimes work with and sometimes against the seraph angel of Propaganda.
To Asmodeus, Propaganda is a powerful, pervasive, and enduring Word which encompasses Post-Truth. In the hierarchy of his court, Ishraz is the Duke of Arkham and outranks the demon of Neurolinguistic Programming, who is Count of Sapir-Whorf
Category:Demons
Category:Wordbound
Category:Balseraphim
Category:The Game (Word)
Category:Propaganda (Word)