Shemhazai

**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)

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

### Affliations

Grigori (Sub-Leader)
Purgatory
Three Factions (Purgatory)
Abrahamic Factions
Angelos Concordat
Order of the Iscariot
Abrahamic God (Formerly)
The Seraphim (Formerly)
Heavenly Council (Formerly)
Fifth Heaven (Formerly)
Abrahamic Heavens (Formerly)

### Ranking

Cadre of Grigori
Vice-Governor General
Head of Domestic Affairs
Fallen Seraph

### Power-Level

**Rank:** Rainbow-Ranked
**Class:** Genesis-Class

## Portrayal

### Voice Actor

Ryōhei Kimura (Japanese)
Bryce Papenbrook (English)

**Shemhazai**, also known as **Samyaza** and **Ouza**, is a legendary Fallen Angel and the Vice-Governor General of Grigori. He is a close friend with his fellow Cadres, Azazel and Baraqiel.

He is the Fallen Angel of Names, especially Secret Names, which are under his angelic protection.

## Overview

**Samyaza**, also known as **Shemhaza** or **Samyaza**, is a fallen angel in Jewish and Christian apocrypha whose name means "infamous rebellion."

He is the leader of a group of angels called Watchers (also known as the Grigori) who abandoned Heaven to mate with human women and gave birth to the Nephilim. He taught humans various creative arts.

## Appearance

Shemhazai appears as a tall, fair-skinned man in his early 20s. He has short, slightly-tousled light-purple hair with bangs covering his right eye, leaving his magenta-colored left eye exposed. He has circuit-like black tattoos across his body and around his wrists and biceps, as well as a vertical scar running across his left eye and a large scar around his neck. On his back is a stylized black tattoo of the Kabbalistic Qliphoth.

He wears a purple tiger-printed shirt and a black leather jacket with neon-purple lines and rolled-up sleeves, black ripped jeans and an ornate belt attached to many dangling silver accessories and silver-tipped leather stripes, black leather shoes, and a pair of leather gloves. He also wears a black fur coat with white trimmings over his shoulders.

When he first appeared, he was wearing an outfit consisting of a purple beret hat, purple trench coat over a black vest, white pants and black boots.

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 twelve owl-like wings to demonstrate his former position as a Seraph, which are a deep-purple in color with the names of each and every single living human written on every feather in gold letters. Brightly-glowed eyes scattered across his wings, placed near the tips of each feather, though they are usually hidden using illusions.

## Personality

Shemhazai is one of the most respected leaders of the Grigori, possibly even more than Azazel himself due to his hard-working - borderline workaholic - nature. Many Cadres noted that he has always been this way, even back when he was still a Seraph working in the Fifth Heaven, though his workaholic tendencies had significantly mellowed out after he became a Fallen Angel.

Despite initially appearing to be peaceful, he is far from a pacifist as he is not afraid to shed his peaceful nature and becomes violent when the situation requires. He is also noted to be quite apathetic toward anyone that isn't a part of his family or his fellow Cadres.

He is a wise and no nonsense person, and is willing to discipline people if they break rules or cause problems. However, he is easily exasperated at their chaos and isn't hesitant to leave people to deal with their own consequences if they disregard his intervention and warning. He is also rather efficient and seeks to solve problems in the most straightforward ways possible, even if these ways are "less" than ethical.

According to Azazel, while he greatly cares about the Cadres, he is very much tired of their weird and often obnostious behavior, and won't hesistate to punish them when they do something stupid.

## History

Like the rest of the leaders of the Grigori, Shemhazai lost his place as a Watcher and a Seraph of the Fifth Heaven after siring half-Angel offsprings with Edenim called the Nephilim, in addition to teaching humans forbidden knowledge that indirectly caused the destruction of the Edenith Civilization and Tellus Mahte, the primordial planet created by God.

He then joined the Grigori, an organization created by Samael mainly for Fallen Angels, and together with the other Cadres, manipulated the behind-the-scene due to the Celestial Prince's own disinterest in ruling. He officially became the organization's sub-leader after Samael's banishment in the aftermath of the Celestial War.

Several centuries after he became the Vice-Governor General, he met Naamah, the infamous Devil who served as Lilith's retainer, and the two began a on-again, off-again fling despite the hostility between their respective Faction. From their union came the Naamah Clan of the Extra Demons, though the fact one of the head Fallen Angels was their forefather was kept hidden to anyone outside the clan.

Shemhazai is one of the survivors of the Great War and has since assisted Azazel in reforming Grigori and his Sacred Gear research. He also took on the position of Head of the Department of Domestic Affairs, mainly because he was tricked by his boss.

At some point in history, he and Naamah sired three Nephalem named Manāt, al-ʻUzzā, and al-Lāt. All of them would later be worshipped as high goddesses of the pre-Islamic Arabic religion in the Arabian Peninsula prior to the birth of the prophet Muhammad and the creation of the Quran.

Sometimes in the early 1900s, they officially married, with Naamah faking her death and becoming only known as a Low-class Devil that Shemhazai had fallen in love with and married to the rest of the supernatural world.

## Equipment

**Angel Blade** (天使の刃, *Tenshi no Ha*): Shemhazai possesses a three-sided angel blade with a rigid handle, and his name written down in Adamic hieroglyphs on its sides. Like all angel blades, it is created from Empyrean Steel, it is capable of killing virtually any being in Creation, especially Angels, other Fallen Angels, and Demons.

## Weaknesses

### Harming, Trapping, & Banishing

* **Witchcraft**: As witchcraft is a form of magic wielded by witches to oppose beings of heavenly nature, Fallen Seraphim such as Shemhazai are susceptible by witchery. 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 Purgatory 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 powerful Cadre such as Shemhazai.
* **Powerful Waves of Energy**: Shemhazai, like many other heavenly beings, can be hurt by powerful waves of energy. However, for a Fallen Angel of his ranking to receive serious damage from the attack, it will require what can only be described as 13,000 suns going supernova simultaneously in order to generate an energy wave of such proportion.
* **Brain Penetration**: Fallen Angels like Shemhazai can be stunned and immobilized for several centuries by placing large spikes made out of sacred 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 Fallen Angels such as Shemhazai, though the amount of damage caused by celestial weapons are only miniscule to him at best.
	+ **Divine Weapons**: The divine weapons of the pagan gods, which are crafted from sacred metals and are imbued with their wielder's divinity, can be used to harm heavenly beings like him. However, for a Fallen Seraph such as Shemhazai to be harmed by attacks formed of divine weapons, it will require the usage of the chieftain gods' Symbols of Power.

### Killing

* **Enochian Weapons**: Shemhazai can be killed using weapons made out of Enochian metals. When his physical body is destroyed by a Enochian weapon, his angelic 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 twelve 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 Fallen Seraph such as him if they have enough skills and experience.
* **Faustian Weapons**: Shemhazai can be killed using weapons made out of Faustian metals. When his physical body is destroyed by a Faustian weapon, his angelic 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

* His name, *Shemhazai*, means "the (or my) name has seen," "he sees the name," or "I have seen".
* According to rabbinic tradition, he is suspended between Heaven and Earth as punishment for having "carnal knowledge" of mortal women alongside Azazel. He's said to be constantly falling, with one eye shut and the other open, to see his plight and suffer more.
	+ It's said that he's now hanged, head down, and is the constellation of Orion.
* Despite being Azazel's second-in-command, biblical and occult sources said he is the leader of the Grigori and the most powerful of the Wachers.
* He was a part of Raziel's choir before his banishment.