Vahntrius Griffith

### Cause Of Death

Stabbed through the chest by an unknown entity, later revealed to be Daisy Lucifer, after severe injuries fighting Zane, Kieron and Rowan.

## Series

### Debut

 **Book 1**, **Chapter 9**

**Vahntrius Griffith**, better known as **Vahn**, is an artificial devil and the main villain of the first book of the Black Crown series, *The White God-Slayer.* After surviving Project G-S, Vahn was imbued with White God-Slaying Magic. His goal is to exterminate the entire devil race and then absorb the soul of every devil so that he can purify them and start anew.

## **Appearance**

Vahn is described as having semi-spiky black hair and black eyes, who is always see wearing his golden cross-shaped earrings. In each of his appearances, he wears a heavenly-white robe over dark-black clothing.

In his Divinity Unleashed transformation, Vahn's hair becomes white, and he is shielded in a bright white aura. When facing off against Ren Asura, he momentarily shows what he refers to as "the true form of a God-Slayer," which is described as appearing as a wheel of white wings with a bright golden glow surrounding it, although Zane states it was hard to process.

## **Abilities**

As the White God-Slayer, and a manducan devil, Vahn has a plentitude of abilities.

* **White Magic:** Allows Vahn to conjure and create things from the element of holiness
* **White God-Slaying Magic:** Allows Vahn to absorb and release White Magic, and also preform Armor Summoning; additionally, he can more effectively harm gods with Inverse Principle.
* **Time Magic:** Allows Vahn to slow down the flow of time around him, affecting everyone but himself
* **White Armor Summoning:** Turns the color of Vahn's hair into white, and gives him a durable suit of armor, along with a boost in his power and speed"To destroy my own kind... it pains me more than you can imagine," Vahn answered. "However, I'm the only one with a strong enough will to do what's right—to eradicate this plague."

## **Personality**

Vahn's is shown to be very relaxed and confident in his own abilities, constantly boasting about his divine power. Due to Hanayome's influence, Vahn believed that he was a truly a divine being sent by God to eliminate the devil race; and as such, was fully intent on completing that task whether it costed him his life or not.

When in danger, Vahn does not hesitate to resort to his Divinity Unleashed form; however, Kieron states that Vahn's transformation was incomplete, and that he had likely rushed to move forward with his plan as soon as he unlocked it rather than attempting to master it, which is confirmed. This is later backed up by Afeus Clover, who states that while Vahn was fairly intelligent and had some good points regarding his ideology, he was impatient and lacked the cold and calculating nature needed to destroy the devil race.

In his fight with Jack-O'-Hollow in Book 10, Vahn states that he hates uncivilized behavior, something he mentioned back in his fight with Zane in Book 1. This could be due to his previous life as a privileged child in combination with his belief that he is divine.

## **Background**

Having grown up as a child to the wealthiest family in the Underworld besides the Royal Family, Vahn was incredibly privileged and developed an ego, believing that he was superior to everybody else. This eventually led to him being captured by scientists, who lured him away from his home by provoking him. After enduring every trial he was put through, he survived Project G-S, a scientific plan that hoped to create the ultimate God-Slayer by torturing children with Exponetia in them. Vahn then lived in the mortal world afterwards, witnessing the wrong doings by devils onto the mortal race.

After receiving a vision by Hanayome, Vahn was implanted with the belief that he truly was beyond everyone else—a divine being created by God with the purpose of clearing the devil race's sins. For years he would begin training his White God-Slaying Magic, eventually discovering the existence of the God-Drive and unlocking his own named "Divinity Unleashed" after killing Zane Euphoria and being struck by one of Divinos's lighting bolts.

## **Trivia**

* After Vahn transforms in the final battle, Kieron references the Super Saiyan transformation, which was the inspiration for the God-Drive ability
* It is stated by Caloris Azathoth that there is an alternate timeline in which Vahntrius succeeded in conquering the Underworld with the help of the Alliance, going onto wipe out the devil race successfully
* Afeus Clover notes that his plan involving Greek entities became much harder when he found out Vahn had already messed with the pantheon by brutally beating down Kronos and stealing his power