Illyricus

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## Physical Information

**Illyricus** is an important character from the **Ministry Succession Tournament** verse. He is an Angel who made a pact with Albert Graff about 100 years ago before the start of the story, recruiting him to avoid a huge crisis that would doom the known world. Ever since the crisis was avoided he acts as Graff's assistant and overseer of the Cube.

## Appearance

Illyricus is a tall humanoid being. His true form is unknown, as he’s mostly covered by a pointy hooded white cape that covers almost the entirety of his body. His actual "body" is completely black and featureless, with only his two glowing eyes and a circle on his chest being visible. He possesses a metallic mask covering part of his "face" and both his hands and feet are armored.

## Personality

A mysterious being, despite his inhuman appearance, Illyricus is normally a cordial individual easy to get along with and polite with both allies and enemies. He rarely dislikes someone, and the times he does, he normally hides his disdain perfectly. Normally, he uses his politeness to get people to do what he wants of them, though he’s a generous employer and doesn’t treat his subordinates badly unless they betray him first. He’s for the most part a loyal friend to Graff, but puts the Ministry above everything else. One of the few ways to make him angry is speaking ill of the Ministry or simply ridiculing its name. This all comes from the fact he considers the Cube one of his masterpieces, so he takes care of it as a father caring for his child. In order to assure the Ministry’s survival, he's willing to take a myriad of measures, even acting against his own allies if necessary (Graff included).

Though normally calm, he can be very theatrical, bombastic and employ exaggerated mannerisms, usually because he considers it amusing. Illyricus can be sardonic at times, but masks that under his usual polite behavior. Despite being a superhuman being, he understands humans and their feelings after spending centuries working with them. While he puts his interests over the ones of other people, he genuinely likes humanity and wants to protect it, as he feels it is the duty of a holy being to care for the creations of God.

There are two things that obsess him: seals and other pinnipeds and the now extinct Valkyries of the past. For the former, he loves how cute they are, considering their round bodies and puppy eyes to be the most adorable thing he has ever seen. His love for pinnipeds is so big he even ended up creating an exact replica of the XXI century Earth in order to preserve all of them, known as the Sealiarium.

As for the Valkyries, he’s utterly fascinated with the idea of a group of female demigoddesses aiding the humans of the past. He has spent a lot of time researching them and deeply laments that they were all gone when he came to Midgard. For that, he’s decided to revive the Valkyries in his own way, with his Seven Fake Heavenly Maids being the culmination of that project. He treats them with love and respect, like a father caring for his daughters, and hopes for them to be able to learn the sacred art Volund one day so they can connect with humans. At the end, Illyricus is an inveterate romantic who dreams with the idea of humans and supernatural beings living in harmony.

## History

Not much is known about his origins or if his appearance is how he looks in truth. All that is known about his being is that he isn't a human, but some kind of angel (but completely different to those from Graff's world). He claims to be serving an unknown deity far above any known god, but he doesn’t talk much regarding that respect. The only thing known about his background is that he was freely traveling through the dimensions until he arrived in the world where Ragnarok took place, according to him to save it from a great cataclysm. At some point he noticed Albert Graff's power and contacted him, as he saw great potential in him to save the world. Albert Graff while initially untrusting of Illyricus even labeling him as Prophet of Doom sarcastically, ended accepting his offer and would eventually found the Ministry with Illyricus becoming one of the Elite 4 members.

His main role in the Ministry is taking care of the Cube (the construction holding the entirety of the Ministry), the dimensions it holds, and overall the state of the Ministry. He’s helped by his Seven Fake Heavenly Maids in that task. He also organizes the Famine Plays, a merciless battle royale held in one of the dimensions created by him. Participants there are pit against each other in an event lasting until only one person stands victorious.

Apart from that, he acts as Graff’s number two and butler. He supervises the members of the Ministry and their abilities, being in charge of reuniting the strongest members in case of emergence.

## Abilities

**Spatial Manipulation**: Illyricus main ability is the manipulation and interaction of the space around him. He can create dimensions, manipulate them at will, generate portals/wormholes, teleport himself and others, move people at his will, redirect attacks, trap others in dimensional barriers, etc. Illyricus can't use two abilities simultaneously but even with that said, he's hard to defeat.

**Portal Creation**: He can generate portals connecting to many different locations. The size of the portal depends on the size or number of people/objects he needs to cross them. The portals are purple colored.

**Dimension Creation and Control**: Illyricus is able to create and customize pocket dimensions at will. He’s able to model them to his liking, being able to recreate any landscape he desires, as well as changing it if he wants to (like making a volcano appear in a Sea zone). Likewise he can destroy the dimension if he desires, along with everyone and everything  inside.

**Dimensional Slicing**: He can create spatial blades of energy able to cut through everything. He can either use his hands for it or employ a sword.

**Attack Redirection**: By creating portals around him, he’s able to redirect the attack to any direction he wishes. He can also “trap” the attack between dimensions so he can keep the attack trapped and release it when he desires.

**Teleporting**: By calculating the distance he wishes to travel, Illyricus is able to teleport himself or others. Usually does this when he’s in a hurry.

**Position Swap**: Thanks to his spatial abilities, he can change the position of people and objects at will.

**Alternate Dimension Persona Creation/Summoning**: Thanks to spatial manipulation, Illyricus is able to bring versions of other people from parallel worlds. By teleporting the being (soul) of dead people into the alternate world versions, he can basically revive them.

**Automaton Knowledge and Creation**: Due his access to other worlds, Illyricus has vast knowledge of supernatural technology. While he doesn't craft master-class magic weapons, he can fabricate convincingly human-like automatons. His masterpiece in this regard are the Seven Fake Heavenly Maids, a group of seven female automatons that act as his personal assistants.

## **Former technique:**

### **Sword of Salvation**

Sword of Salvation is long and massive golden blade with cross insignia, it is ridiculously heavy and in normal circumstances wouldn't be combat viable. It's highest-grade divine construct which ironically enough doesn't slice through flesh but destroys spirit of anything that isn't human and slices through concepts. Illyricus turned himself into that upon Albert request and transferring most of his power granted by Illy in the blade, he defeated Kortheth. This blade is also called Evil Slayer.

## Trivia

* The flashbacks of the contestants of the tournament are narrated by him.
* Illyricus can't lie due to nature of his creation. However that doesn't mean he can't keep silent or speak partial truth, he can't be coerced into answer unless motioned by Graff.
* When forming contract he's to state each term of contract as it can only be bound with full knowledge and conscious choice on contractor side. However he has no need to repeat the terms of contract after it has been formed unless motioned by contractor.
* Illyricus other-worldliness makes people fear him.