Virzath

### Aliases

The Lurker, The Gate Lurker, Baldr, Osiris, Perveted Skeletor, He who dwells the skies, The hands of rebirth, The Jester, The Emperor of Life, The False Creator, The King of Blindness, The Eel that Drowns the Souls, Golden Skull, Moloch, Pythos, The God of Rebirth, The God of Life, The Bringer of New life, The Paranoid King, The True Evil, The Phantom of rebirth, Father Nature, Emperor at Green Mountain

## Physical Description

### Spirit of

Life, Rebirth, Reincarnation, Pride, Sacrifice

## Relatives

### Consorts

Tinshemet

Virzath is a demonic-god of life and reincarnation, he is a prominent figure in eastern culture. He is the counterpart of Nergal, however despite being a god of life and rebirth, Virzath is a very malevolent being, he seeks to prevent souls from entering the afterlife due to the fear of either heaven or hell would overthrow him.

## Overview

Virzath is the demonic god of life and rebirth, reincarnation and resurrection. He is the opposite of Nergal is the defacto archenemy of him. He rules over several spiritual realms, the most famous one being Limbo or the stage between life and death. Despite that, he is no authority over either heaven or hell, and does not favour each one of them. He seeks to prevent any souls to enter the afterlife due to the fear of heaven or hell overthrowing his rule over the realms and possibly earth.

Unlike His counterpart Nergal, he is mostly ruled over the eastern parts of the earth such as the areas of modern day India, Japan, China thus leading to him being worshipped in most of those places. However he is briefly mentioned in parts of the bible as "The Eel that drowns souls", A deity that moses forbid persians to worship.

He is also a very powerful being, even possesing more power than his Brother, as well as being able to fight with lucifer and archangels without much damage. It is unlikely that he is a subject to death, however even if he could die it is likely due to being a life god that he would able to resurrect himself.

It is implied that he was not always an evil being, however his paranoia of being overthown eventually lead him down a dark path, it is unlikely that he was corrupted by an outside force. However this has not been confirmed and might be a tale made by either him or his followers to justify his actions. He spread several stories like this, he also tries to convince humanity that heaven and hell are makebelief and reincarnation is what awaits after death in order to maintain his power. Buddha described him as a deciever who prevents the souls of humans and other beings from entering heaven, hell or other spiritual realms and feeds off their pain, the latter part however is unconfirmed so far.

## Appearance

Virzath appears as tall decayed being, despite his flesh, a large portion of his bones are exposed. He also usually wears a golden crown resembling a sun, usually with a skull on it. His hands and finger also appear decayed and crooked, his legs appear to form into a tentacle like smoke at the very bottom, as well as appear with several holes on it. He usually gears a red-greyish clothing, which also appears to be decayed. Unlike other Gods and Beings, Virzath does not change his forms or try to appear as a more "human" figure, since the only time he meets souls or humans is turing their time of death.

## Personality

Virzath is a very paranoid and isolated being, despite his great ranks he does not often show up personally, He is also very prideful, this being one of the reason he enforced reincarnation on souls. Despite that, he does generally agree that he is immoral or evil, he sees himself as lawful and to some extent his actions could be considered somewhat understandable, however he doesn't only prevent souls from entering heaven or hell but also from reaching spiritual peace realms, and thus is regarded as evil in buddhism. He is also described as powerhungry, seeking to rule other realms as well as maintain his power over the current ones. He is also described as a pervert by many, although it is debateable. He also does have a sense of humour, although it is described as rude by other deities, as well as some demons.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Life Manipulation**: Virzath has a nigh-absolute control over life, even being able to create new life, resurrect old live, as well as to prevent the death of a being. However, he is unable to create souls, only life which puts him at a distange in contrast to Nergal, who is able to reaper souls as well as manipulate their death. He is able to grant certain powers to life that he created, such as granting Pythos control over fire, however he is unable to grant beings powers he himself does not posses. He can also bring back or prevent the death of a being, however he is unable to create beings stronger than him, nor is he able to take away life that he has given by the same means. He also able to reincarnate souls into different bodies, however he is unable to force it on them, they need to agree in some level. He is also unable to force a soul into reincarnation without them agreeing to his will on some level, due to this he usually tries to trick them into either shaking his hand or saying "yes" to a specific deal that he proposes
* **Immortality:** As a life god, virzath has nigh-absolute immortality, and is not a subject to death or death deities, however he is able to be damaged by higher beings, and was defeated by Nyarlathotep before, however even Yog sototh admits that there is no known way to kill him.
	+ **Nigh-Invunerability:** Virzath is one of the most powerful beings, being able to fight micheal into a stalemate, as well an beat an avatar of satan, as beat/stalemate nergal many times, he is well respected by both heaven, hell as well as the old ones, although he is able to be damaged by powerful beings such as Nyarlathothep.
* **Indomitable Will:** Virzath also has both a strong mind and will as he is immune to most telepath based attacks, as well as deceptions. However it is likely that he is still a subject to fear or insanity, as seen with his contant paranoia and fear of being overthorwn.
* **Pyrokinesis:** Virzath also has a complete control over fire and flames, Mephisto described him having more control over flames in hell than satan/lucifer himself, he is also immune to any flame/heat inflicted damage, as well as being able to form tornados, fireballs, or blasts out of it, he is able to create living beings out of fire, altough most of them end up becoming unstable and eventually die.
* **Thermokinesis:** Just like with fire, Virzath also has full control over flames, he can also manipulate heat and is immune to heat inflicted damage, however he is unable to manipulate cold and cold is one of his weaknesses.
* **Illusion Manipulation:** Virzath can also create very powerfull illusions and semi avatars of him, many of his illusions are able to effect parts of matter as opposed to just visually.

## Myths and Legends

Virzath is an original character created by Mr TV Canada for the *Gods and Demons wiki*.