Azazel

**Angels**

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

**Fallen Angels**

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

**Demons**

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

**Primordial Men**

* Adam (Brother)
* Eve (Sister)

**Adopted Children**

* Vali Lucifer (Son)

**Azazel** is the Governor-General of the Grigori and leader of the Fallen Angel faction. He was the fallen angel who taught weapon-smithing and the arts of war to the First Men, and because of that, all the wars that happened afterward are said to be his doings.

## Overview

They lusted after beautiful human women, making them their wives, and taught the humans forbidden knowledge, angering God. Azazel had knowledge of weapons and cosmetics. Men soon learned how to fight, and women learned to be promiscuous.

**Azazel** (עֲזָאזֵל‎), also known as **Hazazel**, **Azazil** or **Azael**, is one of the leaders of the Grigori, a group of fallen angels in Hebrew Lore who married with female humans and in the process produced the Nephilim and a fallen member of the watchers. He was a fallen angel who was offered goats as sacrifices.

Azazel was cast out of Heaven after he taught men how to make swords, knives, shields and breastplates; and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them; and all kinds of costly stones and all coloring tinctures. Because of this, the humans became corrupted and viewed themselves as invincible with such tools.

When God saw what Azazel's actions had wrought he told Raphael to bind Azazel's hand and foot and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert and toss him therein. He would then place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there forever, and cover his face so that he may not see light.

In the Bible, the name Azazel appears in association with the scapegoat rite; the name represents a desolate place where a scapegoat bearing the sins of the Jews during Yom Kippur was sent. In Islam he is sometimes considered as the devil before he became a Jinn. In some depictions, he was the angelic name of Iblis.

## Appearance

Azazel assumes the form of a tall and good-looking man in his mid-30s to late 40s, with a lean and muscular build. He has short black hair with golden bangs and a black goatee. His body is covered in constantly moving angelic runes.

Due to unknown reasons, presumed personal interests, after he lost an arm in the Khaos Brigade's attack on the Three Factions’ peace conference, he chose not to regenerate it but rather replacing it entirely with a prosthetic arm created from his Artificial Sacred Gear research.

During the conference, he wore a maroon-colored long coat with a wide high-collar that opened up at the hem. The long coat also featured two black belts around the wrists and four black bands on each arm, two of the bands at the wrists and the other two near the elbows. He also wore gray slacks and brown dress shoes,

While working as the chemistry teacher at Kuoh Academy, he wears a knee-length dark-blue blazer with a light-blue dress shirt and black waistcoat underneath. He wears faded-purple slacks and black dress shoes. He also wears a tie and is occasionally seen wearing a dirtied white lab coat stained with "questionable colors and substances unlike anything seen on Earth".

He possesses a total of twelve large and feathered wings, each with a wingspan of 4-meters in length, growing out from his back. His wings resemble that of a corvid, with feathers that appear to be crafted from "all the metals known to men" beneath sunlight. Scattered across his wings are numerous eyes from which tears of thick, warm blood fall out. His broken halo hovered behind his head like a laurel wreath made of darkened metals.

### True Form

In his true form, Azazel is described as a giant humanoid mass of black sword-tongued serpents, with a giant swirling void in where his head is supposed to be and his shattered halo crowned his head like "a broken crown for a broken king". Three pairs of neverending blackened wings grow out amid the coiling snakes, covered in a thick oil-like substance, with two wings covering his face, two covering his genitals, and two used for flying, He also has countless eyes and teeth-filled mouths scattered across his form.

## Personality

It is hard to determine Azazel's true personality and motives. Despite being mainly seen as laid-back and a little bit eccentric, he can be reflective of the situation at hand and become serious and wise. He loves to collect things and is a research fanatic on Sacred Gears. He has shown to be a pacifist, preferring to talk his way out of troubles rather than resorting to violence. He also cares deeply for his fellow Cadres, especially for Shemhazai and Baraqiel, who are his closest companions even back in Heaven.

He has shown to be extremely sly, cunning, and charismatic, being able to charm anyone he comes across with ease. He is also deliberately deceptive and manipulative, often manipulating human governments and propagandas to achieve his goals. According to him, scheming is more enjoyable than death and destruction to him.

He is extremely perverted, as Shemhazai stated that he had hundreds of harems filled with gorgeous men and women over the millennia. Even before he fell from grace, he was already a pervert as he would fantasize about seeing and touching Gabriel's breasts, as well as loudly project his dream of fondling the bodies of all the angels he found attractive.

He is very compassionate as he will do whatever he can to help people in need. He cares a lot about his children, regardless of whether they are his own blood or the ones he adopted, even going as far as to hide them from his fellow fallen angels for their safety. Vali admitted that despite him being a "perverted overprotecting good-for-nothing dad", he wasn't as "good-for-nothing" as many people believe. When he first learned about the abuse Vali had to suffer, he had to be restrained by the entire Grigori's fallen angel population with Dudael in order to stop him from starting a war against the devil-kind as a whole.

He is a weapon fanatic, being regarded as one of the greatest blacksmiths and the greatest weapon-maker in all mythologies. He personally developed most of the weapons and technology used by the Grigori and is the first to be able to replicate the Biblical God's miracles and create the Artificial Sacred Gears. He also has the habit of collecting rare Sacred Gears and mythological weapons from various cultures, mythologies, and religions, and doesn't care what he had to do or who he had to kill just to perfect his own private collection of weapons and Sacred Gears.

And despite his seemingly good qualities, he also possesses a cruel and sinister side to him. As pointed out by Shiva, he was once the cruelest out of all the Cadres and was Samael's personal executioner and torturer. He enjoyed corrupting humans and gods alike to see them fall into the depths of depravity and get crushed in agony and despair, which was something he deemed more entertaining than anything else.

He has a twisted and sadistic side to him as he proudly admits to enjoying seeing innocent people suffer, much to the horror of his students. He revels in the misfortune of the less fortunate, and prospers in the pain and agony of the miserable, lonely, and depressed. He has also shown to be quite apathetic to the problems of other people, as long as they won't pose as a danger to him, his children and students, or the Grigori and the fallen angels as a whole in the long-run, as well as showing no empathy to the tragedy of others, as shown when he tried his best not to look bored when he heard about Yuuto's past in the Holy Sword Project.

According to Shemhazai, Azazel only tried to become a better person after he adopted Vali, as he doesn't want his son to grow up becoming like him, personality-wise, something that nearly all of his children before him had become.

## History

### Early Life

Azazel was one of the pure angels created by the Abrahamic God eons ago prior to the first days of Creation. He was a seraph who served as one of Samael's vanguards, in addition to being one of the inventors within the Fifth Heaven. Even then, he was fascinated with creating weapons and machinery, and had created numerous famous weapons that are still being used by Heaven nowadays.

One time, he had written a report on his research about one of his prototype weapons called the Blazer Shining or Darkness Blade, which was published by Michael throughout the seven heavens much to his horror and embarrassment.

### Heavenly War

During the Heavenly War, Azazel sided with Heaven and was among the heavenly hosts fighting against Lucifer's army, though it's implied that he, alongside many others, sympathized with Lucifer's calls and would have joined him if not for reasons unexplained. He was the one who defeated and banished the former cherub Mulciber down from the Fifth Heaven.

### Tellus Mahte

When the original sin was committed and the Primordial Men, Adam and Eve, were banished from the Garden of Eden, Azazel and several other high-ranked angels were chosen by God to be the guardian angels of them and their descendants, the First Men. Together, they founded the Watchers' Guild, and Azazel was among the first members of the Angiris Council, who ruled the guild and oversaw other guardian angels.

While their original mission was to observe and protect the First Men from the demons' influence, everything quickly changed as the First Men grew by the years, becoming more beautiful and desirable in the eyes of their guardian angels. Eventually, this innocent admiration for their beauty became sinful lust. This lust grew greater and greater, until one day when it reached its peak, and Azazel and his brethren descended from Heaven to "Mount Hermon" and took on human form for the first time to kidnap and make the First Men their husbands and wives.

Soon, from their union came the Nephilim whose strength, powers and form allowed them to rule over the primordial realm of Tellus Mahte and founded the Edenith civilization under the guidance of Cain, the first Nephesh. However, it was because of their powers that brought their own destruction, as their arrogance and blasphemous/atheistic world-view resulted in Heaven's wrath and the civilization was drowned beneath the Deluge, with only a handful of First Men and Nephilim survived.

#### Teacher of Men

During the early years of the Edenith civilization, Azazel was among the angels who shared forbidden knowledge of Heaven with the First Men to help them advance their civilization. He, in particular, taught people how to craft weapons and armory, to create swords and knives and breastplates, and to forge all the metals of the earth. He also taught mankind how to create jewelry and accessories and how to use cosmetics to beautify themselves and further enticing the watchers' attraction. Because of him teaching mankind how to forge weapons, he had also taught them war, and since then, all the wars between mankind are attributed to him.

#### The Darkvitha Brothers

In the Edenith civilization, Azazel slept with a First Woman from the noble house of Darkvitha and produced three sons: Völund, Agilaz, and Sfrith. According to Shemhazai, he doted on them greatly and even taught them many great secrets, many of which were unknown even to his fellow watchers. When the Deluge came, he was able to save them by sneaking them onto the Preserver of Life, allowing them to escape to Earth.

### The Grigori

After the Deluge, Azazel and the watchers rebelled against the Heavenly Council to seek vengeance for their dead children, but were banished instead by the Elder Seraphim. Before they could be thrown into the Underworld like the demons before them, Samael intervened and created Purgatory as the new home-realm for the exiled angels.

In Purgatory, Samael then gathered all the fallen angels together and founded the Grigori, the watching ones, and together, they planned a rebellion to force the Heavenly Council to change their oppressive rules and to give rights to the lower-ranked angels and the mortal beings that they should have been protecting. Because of his power and authority, Samael undoubtedly became the Governor-Emperor while his closest confidants became the Governors or Cadres. Azazel, in particular, became the Governor-General because of his military experience and talents.

### Celestial War

The Celestial War began in the Long Night, a period of time between the Deluge and the Big Bang when the entirety of Creation was nothing but an endless sea of void. Under his commands, Azazel personally led an army of 100,000 half-fallen angels and over 120,000,000 legions of eldritch monsters created by Samael known as the "Favored Sons".

During the war, he led the Grigori to one victory after another, and began to be seen by the Heavenly Council as the Fallen Angel faction's true leader. Because of this, they prayed to Raphael and asked him to help them defeat him, albeit only begrudgingly due to unknown causes. Taking an Empyrean Steel chain, he imbued it with his angelic power and used it to chain down Azazel before chaining him to the rough and jagged rocks of Dudael, where he is to abide in utter darkness until the great Day of Judgement.

Despite this, Azazel was still able to use his angelic power to project his consciousness back to the Grigori's base in Purgatory, where he assisted with the strategy. He was also there when Samael was sealed inside Orbis Alius and was the one who crowned Shemhazai with the title of Governor-General.

### Release

As the Day of Judgement came with the Great War, the chains that held Azazel down in Dudael had shattered and he had once again been allowed to roam the world in his physical form. With the urging of Shamhazai and the other Cadres, he took back his title as Governor-General and the position as leader of the Cadres, and with that, leader of the Grigori and of the Fallen Angel faction as a whole.

Under his commands, the Fallen Angel faction was finally able to change the tide in their favor and became a recognized threat on-par with their former brethren and their corrupted ones, though many of the newer agents of Grigori looked down on him because of his dishonorable methods and strategies. In the near end of the Great War, when all Three Factions had suffered immense destruction, Azazel decided to shock the entire faction with his decision to pull all of their armies back to the Purgatory, retreating from the final conflict in order to preserve the survival of their kind.

### Grigori Reformation

Following their retreat into the Purgatory, Azazel had the Grigori gone under many reformations, many of which weren't all approved by his fellow Cadres, who hadn't fully recovered from their battle-hungry mindset. Under these new reformations, the Grigori slowly transformed from a pure fallen angel-only group into a diverse, multi-mythological organization that claims to dedicate themselves to the creation and preservation of peace within the supernatural between all the mythological factions.

#### The Netherworld

In the Late Medieval period, Azazel personally led multiple conquering campaigns to claim more territory within the Netherworld, the first layer of the Abrahamic Underworld that got severed during the construction of the Ouroboros Barrier, on the pretend that it was created by the demons, former fallen angels, so it should belong to the Fallen Angel faction - and by proxy, to the Grigori - instead of the devils, who were created only to serve as the demons' servants, slaves, and soldiers.

While his armies were eventually pushed back by Aegil Sitri and the Sitri Clan's armies, the Grigori was able to claim one-fifth of the Netherworld for his faction and began to build their new military base there. Azazel himself stayed in the Netherworld for a near century to prevent any of the remaining demons or cardinal devils from storming the place in his absence.

#### Nephilim Institute

Between 1250 - 1300, Azazel opened the Nephilim Institute and collected students from all across the world and from multiple mythological factions to attend, with the purpose of cultivating their talents and training them into future agents of the Grigori. The Institute was a scandalous idea at the time of its establishment, as it ignored the majority of what society deemed important, such as birth, background, gender, or sexual orientations, and instead valued only power and potential. According to many, the Renaissance period was heralded, either directly or indirectly, by the Nephilim Institute, as many of the most famous figures from this period were alumni of the Nephilim Institute.

#### Sacred Gear Research

For unknown reasons, though many simply contributed to boredom, Azazel began to obsess over Sacred Gears and its functionality and background, though many fallen angels claimed this is purely a re-awakening of interest due to his already profound love toward weaponry in general. He began to collect Sacred Gears and Sacred Gear wielders in order to research and experiment on them, in order to find a way to replicate the miracles created by the Biblical God and create new Sacred Gears that anyone can use, not just humans and human hybrids.

Normally, the Sacred Gear wielders he found were sent to the Nephilim Institute to be trained of their power by the professors there, though there were some rare cases where he himself took the wielders under his wings either as a ward or an apprentice, which was typically the case for wielders of Longinus Sacred Gears, which are Sacred Gears with the potential power to kill any God-class being and beyond, including celestial beings such as angels and fallen angels like Azazel.

On rare occasions, there are cases such as the Vritra's Sacred Gears when Azazel, in his desire to complete a "set" of Sacred Gears, used a special device created by the Grigori using Enochian Magick and thaumaturgy to extract a person's soul from their body to collect their Sacred Gear, with the soul later given to the purification process in Purgatory to be transferred to Heaven as an apology for straight up ripping their soul out.

### Nyarlathotep

In 1920, while unconsciously using his Longinus to travel across Creation, H. P. Lovecraft accidentally came across the true visage of Azazel, and while his mind wasn't shattered because of his prophetic bloodline, his sanity began to waver upon the eldritch being he had laid eye upon. Several weeks later, in November 1920, Lovecraft published the prose poem "Nyarlathotep", based on the dreams he had of Azazel, much to his annoyance.

### Artificial Sacred Gears

In the 1980s, Azazel and the Grigori's research about Sacred Gears have finally come to fruition, as they successfully created the first working Artificial Sacred Gear called the "Down Fall Dragon Spear", which held the spirit of the Golden Dragon Monarch Fafnir inside per the familiar contract he had made with Azazel in exchange for his resurrection.

### Recent Events

Sometimes before the beginning of the main storyline, Azazel found a young Vali Lucifer, who ran away from his abusive household and was on the verge of dying of hypothermia when he was rescued by the Grigori's medics. At first, he was only going to take him in to teach him how to properly use his powers alongside his Longinus, Divine Dividing, though their relationship eventually grew into a proper father-son relationship and Azazel officially adopted him, making him the Prince of Grigori, despite his political rivals' snide opinions, though he later admitted he did cut out their tongues for their comments.

## Equipment

**Down Fall Dragon Spear** (墮天龍の閃光槍ダウン・フォール・ドラゴン・スピア, *Daun Fōru Doragon Supia*): An Artificial Sacred Gear that has one of the Five Dragon Kings, Fafnir, sealed inside of it after he made a pact with him. It had the appearance of a golden dagger which has a purple orb at the pummel. It created an aura of light around the user which strengthened their overall powers by several levels in addition to protecting them from long-ranged attacks. It was destroyed when Fafnir's pact with Azazek ended.

* **Down Fall Dragon Another Armor**: The Counter Balance of Down Fall Dragon Spear, which equipped Azazel with a golden Scale Mail decorated with large purple jewels. It increased the user's offensive and defensive capabilities and allowed them to summon a priceless weapon within Fafnir's original treasure hoard. However, the armor isn't durable and Azazel must be careful not to accidentally destroy it with his photokinetic abilities, thus putting him in a disadvantageous position against Zhihao Han during the Hero Faction's attack on Kyoto.

**Blazer Shining or Darkness Blade** (閃光と暗黒の龍絶剣ブレイザー・シャイニング・オア・ダークネス・ブレード, *Bureizā Shainingu Oa Dākunesu Burēdo*): An Artificial Sacred Gear that takes the form of a sword with a mixture of light and darkness with high destructive powers that could cut through spirits without physical form. After a series of wild shenanigans, it was confisticated by the Grigori.

### Inventions

Having founded the Grigori organization; that has done various research on Sacred Gears, Azazel has developed a number of inventions. The notable ones are below:

* **Mechanical Arm**: An all-purpose prosthetic arm that can be loaded with light power-style laser beams and tiny missiles. It can also fly on its own.
* **Sacred Gear Scanner**: A scanner that can tell the type, abilities, and weakness of a Sacred Gear. One was given to Gasper prior to the Hero Faction's small-scale assaults.
* **Mini Robot**: A mini-robot that was created to help Gasper in his training to control his Sacred Gear.
* **Gender-Swap Raygun**: A raygun that changes the gender of a person. It is later sealed due to its inappropriate capability.
* **Sports Car**: A special sports car made by Azazel. It has many weapons installed in it such as the Satellite Downfall Cannon System, and Dragon Destroy Missile. According to Azazel, due to him modifying the car while being drunk, even he himself doesn't know the full potential of the car.
* **Doppelgänger Machine**: A machine that was able to create 300 Issei clones, which had their sexual desires enhanced due to a failed experiment.
* **Maouga**: A humanoid-type Devil-helping super robot that was created using the fallen angels' technology and is powered by the hatred of humans. It can use its arms as rockets.
* **Definite Body Change Driver:** A handgun that fires a "Body Change Beam" that can swap the souls of the humans who are closest to each other.
* **UFO**: A flying spaceship made from the latest technology of the fallen angels. It had a special barrier to make it invisible to humans and could fire a beam of various effects: Issei lost his perverseness and Gasper was burnt. It was destroyed by Xenovia and Irina when they went to capture it for the sake of returning Issei back to normal.
* **Azazel Quest**: Azazel Quest is an RPG game created by Azazel as a joint project with Ajuka, Sirzechs, and the technicians of the devils' side. The game uses the devils' Rating Game technology, the Game Field, to provide an adventure-type experience.
* **Bracelets:** Azazel has created several bracelets with magical characters engraved on them. He handed two of them to Issei during the Three Factions's conference, one which could allow Gasper to control his Forbidden Balor View and Issei to let him use Scale Mail instead of sacrificing a part of himself like before. A second model assisted Akeno in awakening her fallen angel powers thus entering her Fallen Angel Mode.

## Trivia

* His name roughly means "Strong One of God" or "Strength of God".
* He can only be banished back into Purgatory during Yom Kippur.
* He has been worshipped under many names, such as Beelzebub, Anubis, or Legion.
* He is a fan of moloch meat, comparing it to Matsusaka beef.
* He had/has a case of *chuunibyou* back when he was still an angel. This led to him giving bizarre long names to his inventions such as **Blazer Shining or Darkness Blade**.
* According to the majority of the VIP's of all the factions, Azazel's greatest achievement is instructing the Red Dragon Emperor, who shows irregular growth, and the White Dragon Emperor, who is said to be the strongest in history.
	+ While he didn't object about it, many of the primordial gods were confused at the claim due to them knowing about his history.
* He is "associated with those on whom blame falls unfairly."
* He is believed to be the whisper in Cain's ear when he struck down Abel.
* Children of Azazel, both direct offsprings and adopted children, are known to be extremely talented warriors, though none of them are really sane.
* He once made a wish for some of the angels to fall, especially Gabriel, though he was struck down by Remiel as a result.
* He created a bar named "Black Dog" which is located near the office of the Slash/Dog Team.
* He was previously the manger of Kuoh City's women professional wrestling team which he named "Hyper-Dimensional Women’s Professional Wrestling".