Agarat

**Agarat**, also called **Agares** or **Rayrdon Agares**, is one of 72 demons summoned by King Solomon and ranked second of the Ars Goetia. He is the progenitor of the 72 Pillars' Agares Clan of pureblood devils.

## Overview

**Agares** (or ***Agreas***), ruling the eastern zone of Hell, and being served by 31 legions of demons. He can make runaways come back and those who stand still run, finding pleasure in teaching immoral expressions. He also has the power to destroy dignities, both temporal and supernatural. He is depicted as a pale old man riding a cockatrice.

## Appearance

Agarat appears as a pale-skinned man with a refined appearance, with thick black lines decorating around his blue eyes. He has a slicked-back white hair with a curl at the front and sports a mustache along with a well-kept beard. His teeth are similar to a crocodile's and his voice is described to be gentle, calm, soothing, yet carries with it undeniable hints of authority.

He wears rather extravagant clothing, featuring a dark-purple jacket with enlarged collars and coattails, a pair of loose, pinstriped pants, and two belts. He also wears a pair of cuffs and a purple scarf. He is seen using a cane to walk even though he's perfectly healthy.

Like other demons, he lost his wings to Michael when the Celestial Prince tore them out after banishing them into Hell. As such, he replaces his original three pairs of feathered wings with bat-like ones formed of infernal energy. His eyes were also plucked out by Michael, and his current ones are illusions placed on top of his hollowed eye sockets that bleed viscous black blood without control.

## Personality

Agarat is a demon whose true nature is impossible to properly read. Befitting his gentlemanly appearance, he appears to be a polite and well-mannered person, with an unusual aura of calmness and confidence surrounding him at all times. Due to his soothing voice, he attracts many audiences to his weekly radio podcast, over 80% of which don't even know he's part of the moonlit world, much less one of the most infamous demons in existence.

He is known among his fanbase as the "uncle-next-door". He is always open to hear about his fans' personal problems and share his advice to them, completely without any judgment or intolerance, which earns him the love of many.

Once outside of the recording booth, he becomes shyer and more awkward, often blabbering his thoughts out loud without control, much to his own embarrassment. He's also rather clumsy, and his knuckles, elbows, and knees are often bruises and he always carries emergency bandages on him for this reason.

However, underneath that mask lies a monster, a cruel and twisted individual who embodies all the negative connotations associated with a "Demon". He is prone to fits of insane laughter and eccentric mannerism befitting for a harlequin than an Overlord of Hell. He has little to no regard to the lives of others, save for perhaps his fellow demons.

He is prideful and enjoys showing off his skills to his opponents just to showcase his power, not to mention his sadism as shown with how he played with his opponents the same way a predator plays with its food. He also seems to derive some form of twisted pleasure from the agony of others, especially if said agony was born from their own selfish desires, even comparing his pleasure to sexual orgasms.

He is a battle maniac, obsessing with war and battles, and becomes easily upset at the thoughts of not having an opponent who can "satisfy" him. During the Great War, he was put under severe surveillance as, if not, his lust for fighting would have caused them many great losts. In the end, his thirst for battle was his downfall as it caused him to be sealed away.

He is also particularly fond of corrupting the minds of the youths, often by perverting their minds through his vessels or priests. In occult lore, he is regularly mentioned as someone who finds pleasure in teaching immoral expressions, with Gaeneron noted that it was he who introduced depravities such as incest, pedophilia, and beastiality to the new humans. Despite this, however, he denies participating in these, as he doesn't practice he preaches.

## Equipment

**Gryveas - Asargki(Twice-Sealed Mace That Shatters the Earth)**: Agarat's personal weapon of choice in the form of a giant mace roughly twice the height of his human form. It was forged by devils from the Mulciber Clan from dark *adamas*, so corrupted by infernal energy that it gains a twisted, sentient mind always craving its own destruction to release from its torment. He could also transform it into a giant morning star, at which the head will drop down and become attached to a black chain, looking like a pulsating heart from afar.

## Trivia

* Back in Heaven, Agarat once ranked as a Virtue.
* Agarat can only be summoned during daytime from March 31 - April 10th.
	+ Depending on the summoning method, he can also be summoned from March 31st - April 9th or March 25th - March 29th, though due to his podcast schedule, he's usually busy in the former period.
* Despite his color scheme, Agarat's favorite color is green, especially hunter-green.
* Agarat's naturall smell is a combination of the earth, copper, and dried carnation.
* While he favors the smell of myrrh, Agarat doesn't oppose sandalwood oil either.
* In demonology, Agarat is said to be the demon who grants his invoker noble titles, knowledge of foreign languages, causes earthquakes at his invoker's commands, and stops and retrieves whoever runaway from them.
* His podcast, "Second's Chat", is voted to be the most popular podcast for 5 years in a row.
	+ It's unclear how much of the personality Agarat shows the world in podcasts, videos, and interviews is true and how much of it is a cover created by him to hide his true colors.