Azguel

The shrieking cries of the dead spirits lingers more than death itself…

Death

Hyuzu (Younger Twin Brother)

Drayena (Wife)

Itsutita (Son/Eldest Child)

Hourosi (Son/Second Child)

Frewith (Son/Third Child)

Lucinaae (Daughter/Fourth Child)

Niveis (Son/Fifth Child)

Cadere (Son/Sixth Child)

Hamaliel (Son-in-Law/Married to Lucinaae)

Ronri (Grandson)

Azguel is known all across Falavaze as the fabled God of Death. He is the eldest child of Erendei and Aure and even outnumbers his brother, Hyuzu in power. Azguel is a very misunderstood God in the world of Falavaze, though some, mainly Mythrians and those on Porthai, support and worship him.

Azguel’s job is clean, plain and simple…kill everyone. He writes ahead of time about a mortal’s lifespan, how they die, their EXACT time of death and all the details. However, this can be altered if the mortal did selfless deeds that could’ve killed them. This comes with limitations however. For example, he killed a notorious pirate captain because of an illness he had, which is tragic but there was nothing he could’ve done.

Azguel’s godly artifact, The Letifer Crown, was the most powerful artifact to ever exist, just under Aure herself. It held the power to raise the dead and change lifespan despite Hyuzu’s Moonlaya Charm being the artifact of life. However, it fell into darkness upon The Shower of Stars, not spotted by any mortal nor did it have any legends about where it fell. It’s presumed that it fell into the wrong hands.

## Appearance:

Azguel is the only Falava God to have ebony skin and without legs. He can disguise himself but prefers not to.

One of his eyes is replaced by a galaxy-like colour and lacks any pupil. Its liquid drips down his cheek. This is because he and Hyuzu share fates for the mortals and both lack an eye. Both lack because of the phrase “an eye for an eye and the world goes blind.” Which is secretly symbolic to Hyuzu’s torturous methods for the Humarians and Azguel’s people being the target of genocide.

His colour palette is unique, though it is mostly violets and shades, making it similar to at least one of the seven saviours. Along with his father, Azguel is on the Motus side of the Aelus Spectrum.

## Personality

One would expect The God of Death to be unfriendly, cold and hateful of life. However, he is actually one of the sweetest gods there are in the universe. Azguel is a creative, expressive soul who loves writing and creating masterpieces for the mortals to enjoy. He was a benevolent creator who helped others see death as another life and comforted those who were scared of him. He created most of the mortal races, which was unexpected since he represents death, the opposite of life.

Azguel’s relationship with the mortals is debated amongst them. Mythrians worship him, the Calum adore him and some Elves and Humarians love him as well. However, the Eru don’t take kindly to him since they aspire for perfection (which excludes a timer on life). The Amalians pray to him too, but the residents of Aysis spite him due to Orochi’s Great Blight. Despite this, Azguel cares for the mortals and strictly follows the rules of his position, though he has them mostly carried out by his minions while he attends to more pressing matters. His one rule for death days is that the nicer you are, the longer you’ll live and the eviler you are, the shorter you’ll live. However, it’s based on intent, not the perception. If one was saving the world by having to take unfortunate steps, they’d live longer than one who was evil for selfish reasons.

## Duties & Legends

There are various depictions of Azguel but a vast number of legends depict him bringing death and famine while the rest of them portray him as benevolent. His personality contrasts the stereotype of death. Here are some of his legends:

* He carried out Orochi’s Great Blight on Aysis to punish the Aysians for taking the Amalian race for-granted and for ruining the land with petty wars. This legend is infamous, and while true, Azguel says that he regretted complying with Orochi and felt deep remorse for killing half of the mortals living on Aysis.
* He created a malicious creature; “Misery” which as the name suggested, inflicts misery in the average mortal life. Misery dwells on Lythriz, which Azguel greatly despises.
* He cursed the Eru race with blight, famine and gloom, making the skies clouded with fog in the daylight, resulting in dim light and made sure the stars couldn’t penetrate the nightly clouds.
* He also ordered his minions to surround Devour’s Road (entrance to Lythriz’s capital/barrier of mountains surrounding it) in order to prevent the nobles from communicating with the labourers. This resulting in lots of miscommunication and starvation until an underground passage was developed OR when the nobles planted altered food for themselves.
* He gave rise to Lythriz’s notorious mountains where nobody ever lives to tread entirely due to his minions of death.
* He and Hyuzu are the balance of light and dark and are frequently described as the “sun and the moon” in mythology.
* He created the Submerged race to guide sailors, pirates and to deliver him the souls of the dead seamen so he could put them to eternal rest peacefully. However, since the Submerged had their numbers significantly reduced, many souls haunt the seas, though they mostly tread along the sea floor. The remaining Submerged still carry out their duty.
* The Submerged who DID deliver the souls were priests, pure of heart and nobles.
* He created the Calum race to bring light and hope to the world and to lull anxious mortals to peace and sleep. But they disturbed that peace and Azguel, as punishment, took away the bright glow they used to emit, showing them that they are no better than other mortals.
* His most popular, bloodied race, were the Mythrians. He created Mythrians to bring wonder and magic to the world and wept for each taken life. As such, Mythrians and some Humarians believe that whenever it rains, thunders and the wind sounds like it’s wailing, a Mythrian was murdered. It’s said that while Galexiar and Endraxus bring the weather, Azguel has the ability to too, but only in that instance.
* Many Humarians revere him more than their creator, Hyuzu. This is because Azguel is shown to be more merciful and due to Hyuzu’s cruelty, Humarians might pray for death.
* Mythrians pray to Azguel for safety, especially during The Mythrian Massacre.

## The Shower of Stars

Azguel was one of, if not the most powerful addition to the forces of light to his mother, Aure. His minions were detrimental to the forces of corruption and brought terror, misery and intimidation to a bloody battlefield. Unlike his benevolent side, who appealed to the mortals, Azguel fumed with pure rage and relentlessly commanded his forces to create deathly diseases, famines, plagues and aches on Morsiya’s soldiers. He had the most casualties and Morsiya fears him the most of all the Falava aside from her pure counterpart, Aure.

## Letifer Crown

### Effects

Brings death to anything it touches
Can resurrect the dead

### Cost to sell

Priceless

Azguel’s godly artifact, much like him, is the most powerful of the seven godly artifacts. It’s power surpasses everything else, even Hyuzu’s Moonlaya Charm, which restores life to nature and can heal illnesses or wounds without issue. Azguel’s artifact contains detrimental power that, when in the wrong hands, could destroy the entire realm of Falavaze. Anything it touches decays and wilts, every mortal who dared to touch it vanished into ash. Only Aure, Falava or Alia could hold it without crumbling to dust. It’s called Letifer Crown, and it was the only godly artifact that has no implied place where it resides unlike Erendei’s Amulet, which is said to reside on a certain isle.

The Letifer Crown was never seen after The Shower of Stars, but it’s implied to have fallen to the continent of Dovaghzyne, the “abandoned homeland”, which is covered in death and blight, resulting in bleakness and rotting black trees dominating the once-lush landscape.

## Aftermath

Azguel, like the other Falava, was trapped behind an ancient gate that bound the rest of the Falava inside of it. He was a grave danger in battle, but his defeat was unavoidable like Morsiya’s. Behind the gate, Azguel grieves for his races being massacred by other races, especially the Submerged, who suffered the most. He also weeps everyday for his Mythrian people, despondent and inconsolable unlike his wrathful brother, Hyuzu, who felt nothing when some of his Humarians died due to war and famine.

Behind the gate, Azguel Was approached by Orochi, The God of Harmony/Peace, to kill half of the Aysyian people (those who lived on Aysis) due to them being ungrateful for his Amalian people and for creating petty wars that only ruined the continent more than it already was. Azguel refused once, but agreed to create mild famines to warn them to stop their tantrums. When the Aysyian people ignored his first warning, Azguel killed off much of the livestock and non-amalian animals that they heavily relied on AND made the animals suffer miscarriages as well as attack the Aysyian farmers after a while. However, the Aysyian people dismissed Azguel’s second warning and continued to fight each other and massacre the Amalian race that unfortunately lived there.

He was approached by Orochi once more, this time forced into agreeing due to Orochi pointing out how terrible the Aysyian people were and how at least half of them fit Azguel’s “early-death criteria” (the eviler one is, the earlier one dies) quite nicely. They had malevolent intent, killed innocent people for the sake of greed and had zero redeeming qualities. As such, Azguel begrudgingly agreed to kill half of the Aysyian race. This came to be known as “Orochi’s Great Blight” due to Orochi being the one pulling the strings and Azguel carrying out the terrible famine and bloodbath that cursed Aysis for centuries to come, even rotting their ships so they couldn’t leave shortly after.

Azguel however, secretly gave Aysis a chance as he originally intended on EXTERMINATING the Aysyian people shortly before carrying out Orochi’s request. Instead, he found mercy in his benevolent heart and cast down a prophecy that someone of Azure would embark on a journey before they reach a certain age that would restore life and prosperity to Aysis using Hyuzu’s Moonlaya Charm and prevent the second wave of The Great Blight from happening.