Bael

**Angel*** Metatron (Brother)
* Sandalphon (Sister)
* Raziel (Brother)
* Zaphkiel (Sister)
* Jophiel (Brother)
* Hanael (Sister)
* Zadkiel (Brother)
* Phanuel (Brother)
* Kamael (Brother)
* Raguel (Brother)

**Fallen Angel*** Arakiel (Sister)
* Armaros (Brother)
* Azazel (Brother)
* Baraqiel (Brother)
* Bezaliel (Sister)
* Chazaqiel (Sister)
* Kokabiel (Brother)
* Penemue (Sister)
* Sariel (Sister)
* Satanael (Brother)
* Shamsiel (Brother)
* Shemhazai (Brother)

**Archdemon*** Asmodeus (Brother)
* Beelzebub (Sister)
* Lucifuge (Brother)
* Belphegor (Brother)
* Leviathan (Sister)
* Mammon (Brother)
* Satan (Brother)

**Descendants*** Rias Gremory
* Sairaorg Bael
* Sirzechs Lucifer
* Venelana Gremory
* Magdaran Bael
* Millicas Gremory
* Tyrmasiel Bael
* Bael Clan

**Zekram Bael**, more commonly known as **Bael**, is a Demon who holds the rank of Great King in the Ars Goetia. He is the progenitor of the Bael Clan of Pure-Blooded Devils.

## Overview

**Bael**, also known as **Baal**, **Baall**, **Boal**, **Boall** or **Beal**, is the first First Principal demonic Spirit and the Great King of Hell in the Ars Goetia, ruling over the East along with being the head of the infernal powers. Bael is the first of the 72 Spirits of King Solomon and governs 66 to 250 legions of demonic spirits.

He is able to make his conjurer invisible. He also possess the powers of popularity, weather manipulation, as well as the power to garner the favor of others. According to some sources, he can make people wise, speaks with a hoarse voice, and carries ashes in his pocket along with necromancy.

His appearance varies, although the most common is a three-headed apparition, with the heads being a cat, a man and a toad or combinations thereof with the appearance of a king or soldier or with the heads of the three creatures onto a set of spider legs. According to the *Grand Grimoire*, he is a direct subordinate of Lucifuge Rofocale.

According to Rudd, Bael is opposed by the Shemhamphorasch angel Vehuiah. According to the Zohar, Bael is equal in rank to the archangel Raphael. Baal has connection with the Canaanite god Baal Hadad.

## Appearance

Zekram appears as a roguishly handsome man in his early 50s, with an attractiveness unseen anywhere in ordinary human men. He has peaceful violet eyes, and slicked-back silver hair and a short beard. He has an aura of strong dignity and nobility exuding from him.

He wears noble black-and-white attire with gold embroideries, silken gloves, and a long cape behind his back imprinted with his demonic sigil in glittering gold.

Like all angelic entities in their physical form, he has multiple pairs of large, feathered wings, each with a wingspan of roughly 4-meters in length, in order to demonstrate his position among the "Angels of the Lord". In his case, particularly, he possesses a total of ten eagle-like wings to demonstrate his former position as a Cherub, which are a royal purple with streaks of gold and silver running across them. Brightly-glowed eyes scattered across his wings, placed near the tips of each feather, though they are usually hidden using illusions.

## Personality

Zekram is well-known for being a complicated and weird figure with a personality unbefitting to that of one of the highest-ranking Demons, as he easily becomes angered with the actions of those who are evil, but also enjoys laughing over the mistakes and failure of do-gooders. He himself has stated that he tried his best to be a "Chaotic Neutral" figure in all possible situations. According to Venelana, he has a demeanor that can be called "old, but not out".

He does appear to have a more relaxed and fun-loving side to him. He often teases his descendants of their actions and has the habit of taking their personal love-life out to make fun of, as sown with how he teased Rias about her and Issei's relationship, asking her when would they take it to the next level and when the Gremory Clan will have their newests member.

For someone who is supposed to be retired, he, like many other Demons, are very meddlesome in worldly affairs, and he is known to be a troublesome figure who frequently sparks conflicts just for the sake of personal entertainment. However, he had displayed genuine irritation with the actions of the Khaos Brigade, as he deemed their actions to be "nothing more than paperwork in disguise".

He is very proud of his clan, as well as their hereditary ability. And while he does also take importance in traditions, old teachings, and values such as the High-class Devils' viewpoints about blood purity, he does acknowledge people of exceptional ability as he considers Sairaorg talented despite him not inheriting the Power of Destruction. He also respects Issei, who is a Reincarnated Devil, suggesting to him that he should be a Satan and thinks that he is doing well, as shown by him offering an invitation to Issei to come and visit him in Boallir after he becomes a High-class Devil.

He is shown to be a very dutiful man, weighing the needs of many over the needs of a few, as he ordered the death of Cleria Belial as she was about to enter her Devil Trigger, which would not only turn her into her true form and possibly break the fragile ceasefire between the Three Factions prior to the signing of the Kuoh Treaty. According to him, he has no regret for ordering her death, for it meant he would be able to save the lives of thousands and millions of innocent Devils from a possible war.

Similar to other Demons, he possesses an immense reverence toward the original Four Great Satans, despite being an unofficial leader of the Anti-Satan Faction during the Civil War, as he himself used to be one of their comrades during the Heavenly War, having fighting against the authority of Heaven and the Heavenly Host together in Lucifer's name. He himself used to be a general within the Beelzenian Legion and the right-hand man of Beelzebub himself.

Despite this, he himself has confirmed that he is entirely on the Devils' side and will only do what is best for the Netherworld, not for the Underworld.

In Chapter XXX, it was revealed that he was once in Uriel's choir and a Cherub working at the Heavenly Archives in the Fifth Heaven, and one of his reasons for rebelling was because of the terrible working regime Uriel forced upon his subordinates. Even millennia after leaving the choir and became a powerful Demon of his own right, he still has an immense fear/reverence toward his former boss, to the point where he was described as "on the verge of a panic attack" when he heard his reports would be read by the Four Great Seraphs, including Uriel, in Chapter XXX.

## Weaknesses

### Harming, Trapping, & Banishing

* **Witchcraft**: As witchcraft is a form of magic wielded by witches to oppose beings of heavenly nature, due to their former origins as Pure Angels, not even Demons like Zekram are excluded from its power. There are many witchery spells and rituals that can be used to trap, weaken, and hurt him, with some rituals even rumored to be capable of banishing him back to the Underworld for an extended amount of time.
* **Enochian Magick**: As Enochian Magick can affect all angelic beings, regardless of their alignments, it is one of the few Ancient Magick capable of affecting a Demon such as Zekram.
* **Holy Element**: Like all demonic entities, Zekram is vulnerable toward the holy element, as well as anything and everything imbued with this element.
	+ **Holy Texts**: He is vulnerable against holy and religious texts, and can be physically hurt just by hearing words from such texts read out-loud. Exorcism rites using words directly taken from religious texts of the Abrahamic faiths are the only way to successfully banish his soul back to the Underworld.
	+ **Hallowed Grounds**: He is incapable of entering hallowed grounds, such as religious places or places of immense mythological/religious importance.
* **Power Waves of Energy**: Zekram, like many other heavenly beings, can be hurt by powerful waves of energy. However, for a Demon of his ranking to receive serious damage from the attack, it will require what can only be described as 7,000 suns going supernova simultaneously in order to generate an energy wave of such proportion.
* **Brain Penetration**: Demons like Zekram can be stunned and immobilized for several centuries by placing large spikes made out of holy metals inside of their brain as a means of temporarily sealing them.
* **Celestial Weapons**: Weapons made out of sacred metals, such as Celestial Bronze or Imperial Gold, can be used against the majority of supernatural beings, including Demons such as Zekram, though the amount of damage caused by celestial weapons are minor injuries for him at best.

### Killing

* **Divine Weapons**: The divine weapons of the gods, which are crafted from sacred metals and are imbued with their wielders' divinity, can be used to seriously harm and potentially kill a Demon such as Zekram. However, it is later revealed that only a primordial god's Symbol of Power is truly capable of killing him.
* **Enochian Weapons**: Zekram can be killed using weapons made out of Enochian metals. When his physical body is destroyed by a Enochian weapon, his demonic essence will be instantaneously transferred to the Empty until his physical body can be reformed, either by God's divine light or on its own, which will take him a rough estimation of around 1.2 billions years.
	+ **Angel Blade**: Like other angelic entities, he can be killed if the user used his own Angel Blade as the weapon, incinerating his physical body and leaving a burned imprint of his ten wings on the floor where his body lies.
	+ **Original Longinus**: As the original Longinus are the original Sacred Gears, created from the highest-quality Enochian metals and forged in the Heavenly Forges with the greatest of Enochian technology, in addition to being imbued with the Biblical God's divine light, wielders of the original 13 Longinus can potentially kill a Demon such as him if they have enough skills and experience.
* **Faustian Weapons**: Zekram can be killed using weapons made out of Faustian metals. When his physical body is destroyed by a Enochian weapon, his demonic essence will be instantaneously transferred to the Empty until his physical body can be reformed, either by God's divine light or on its own, which will take him a rough estimation of around 1.2 billions years.
* **Primordials' Weapons**: Weapons created and wielded by primordial entities can be used to permanently and absolutely obliterate every and any being in existence but other primordial entities, erasing their entire existence from the worlds so that they can never be reborn, or resurrected again without being saved by God's omnipotence.

## Trivia

* He can only be summoned during nighttime from March 21st – March 30th.
* His favorite colors are black and gold.
* He favors frankincense over all other kind of incense.
* According to him, he was one of the Angels that created the Aries constellation.
* Despite being Beelzebub's right-hand man, due to political reasons, he is considered to be Lucifuge's subordinate, along side Agares and Marbas.
* He is one of the few Demons to keep their original angelic name after they were exiled.
* In Chapter XXX, it was revealed that he was the one who started the rumors of the current Four Great Satans are ten times stronger than the original.