Belial

* Human Belial
* God Belial

**Belial** is officially the god of greed, but prefers to consider himself the god of value. He is one of the youngest gods known to readers. He feeds on the things that humans desire. Since humans often desire money more than anything else, he often feeds by convincing people to invest money at his discretion.

## Appearance

In his human form, Belial appears as a young man with average build and height. He has pale skin and droopy green eyes with a mole under his right eye. His blonde hair is cut short with long bangs that turn white on either side of his face. He can occasionally be seen with slicked-back hair and/or oval glasses. He wears either a full suit or business-casual wear. When dealing with potential investors, he maintains anonymity with a golden half-mask engraved with a sigil.

In his god form, his skin turns dark grey and the white strands of his hair points upwards to look like devilish horns. Glowing green geometric lines, as well as the sigil engraved on his mask, appear all over his body and across his face. His sclerae turn black and his fingernails become long, sharp, and yellow. Several golden accessories appear all over his body, including a large collar with several gold chains draped over his shoulders and chest, cuffs on his wrists and fingers connected with gold chains, arm cuffs similar in shape to his glaives, and a belt with gold chains wrapped around his hip bones. His clothes have been shown to rip, distort, and turn green when he transforms.

## Personality

Belial is obsessed with the concept of value and whether or not he and others are "worthy." As a younger god, his sense of power relative to other gods has not been properly developed, causing him to believe he is more powerful than he actually is. This discrepancy has resulted in an inflated ego that makes him look down on those he perceives to be weaker than him, regardless of their actual status. His superiority complex makes him attempt to guide them towards whatever actions and goals he deems to be the most correct while treating them with contempt and arrogance.

After being raised and emotionally abused by an as of yet unnamed god, Belial has strongly conflated his own self worth with the amount of use he can be to that god's goals. Only recently has he been made aware of the abuse he suffered, causing him to abandon that god, but the change in loyalty has not affected his personality.

## Background

Belial came into existence in the year 2008. He was imprisoned as a child before being released and raised by an as-of-yet unnamed god, who named him Belial. This god warped Belial's sense of self-worth and manipulated him into becoming his loyal servant. He would perform tasks for this god, such as giving Eros' dagger to Cairn, until Belial was defeated in combat by Eros and convinced to switch sides.

## Abilities

### Feeding

Belial feeds on people's greed. This can manifest in a few ways, but his main method of consumption involves convincing humans to invest in him. Belial's powers grow stronger as his net worth increases.

### Illusion

Belial is able to affect the minds of humans and show them illusions in order to induce terror into them. It is unknown if this power works on gods.

### Brainwashing

Belial may brainwash humans into overworking themselves into a zombified state. While under his influence, they will recite slogans popular in hustle culture and become hostile to those who do not conform to their excessive standards.

### Glaives

In his domain, Belial can summon spiked glaives that he can wield them as melee weapons or ranged weapons. When the glaives are broken, the spikes on them may elongate and stab his opponents.

## Relationships

### Unnamed God

*Main Article: Bad News Bears*

After rescuing Belial from imprisonment and giving him his name, Belial strongly revered the unnamed god and did whatever he was told to do in order to prove his worth. This pursuit and the god's manipulation of Belial caused him to temporarily conflate the god's goals and ideals with his own, and anything said to challenge Belial's view of those ideals and his relationship with this god has caused him to react in anger. After Eros exposed the ways Belial was heartlessly used, he seemingly betrayed the unnamed god to instead side with Eros.

### Eros

*Main Article: Eros*

Belial acted in order to accomplish Eros' demise at the behest of the unnamed god he served. He earned Eros' ire after he gave his dagger to Cairn. During their battle, the two regarded each other with contempt, but Eros still exposed the abuse Belial suffered and continuously offered him the opportunity to work for Eros. After Eros conquered Belial's domain, he agreed to work for Eros in exchange for being able to feed from managing his financial assets.

### Sol

*Main Article: Sol*

Despite Sol's status as an elder god and their similar views on power, Belial believes that Sol's downfall enables him to act disrespectfully towards him, resulting in extreme hostility between the two gods.

## Trivia

* Belial being born in 2008 is a reference to the worldwide recession that occurred at that time.
* The name *Belial* is a name for the devil in the New Testament, but Eros has stated that the name means "worthless."

## Gallery

Belial disguised as Chris Aurigan.A document of information about Belial.A masked Belial interacting with his investors.Belial becoming unstable after a disagreement with Sophie.Belial appearing in a monstrous form as an illusion.Belial after taking control of Sarnai Co.Belial attacking Eros with his glaive.Belial as an emaciated child.