Azazel

Angel of War, Great Lord of Swords, Herald of Destruction, The Scapegoat, Head of Watchers, Leader of Crows, Father of Million Youths, Prisoner of Dudael... (Titles)
Blazer Shining or Darkness Blade Governor, Last Boss Fallen Angel, Governor of Crows, Most Sinister Fallen Angel (Nicknames)

## Biographical Information

### Occupation

Former Angel of the Lord
Governor-General of Grigori
Head of Special Technology Deparment
Science Teacher/Occult Club's Adviser

### Employer

The Cadres, Grigori
Kuoh Academy (as Teacher/Club Adviser)

### Residence

Mansion of the Damned
Kuoh City, Kantō Region, Japan
Tower of Salvation, Purgatory (True Home)

## Relationships

### Relatives

The Presence (Creator/Father)
Celestial Princes, Angels, Demons, Fallen Angels, Adam & Eve (Siblings)
Völund Darkvitha, Sfrith Darkvitha, Agilaz Darkvitha, Anung Un Rama... (Sons)
Grigori Rasputin, Vali Lucifer (Adopted Sons)
Wayland Family (Descendants)

## Personal Information

### Affiliation

The Cadres (Leader)
The Grigori (Leader, Governor-General)
Purgatory (Co-Ruler)
Three Factions (Fallen Angel)
Abrahamic Pantheon
Team D×D (Adviser)
Occult Research Club (Adviser)
Kuoh Academy (Faculty Member)
Azazel Cup (Founder, Staff Member)

### Ranking

Governor-General of Grigori
Cadre-Ranked Fallen Angel (Former Cherub)

## Portrayal

### Depictions

Rikiya Koyama (Japanese VA)
Phi Parsons (English VA)

**Azazel**, also called **Ouza** or **Alhireth-Hotep**, is the Governor-General of the Grigori and leader of the Fallen Angels. He was among the angels who taught "forbidden knowledge" to the First Men and was imprisoned by Raphael as punishment.

In the Bible, his name is synonymous with the **Scapegoat** rite of Yom Kippur.

## Overviews

### Overview: Azazel

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.

During the end of the Second Temple period, his association as a fallen angel responsible for introducing humans to forbidden knowledge emerged due to Hellenization, Christian narrative, and interpretation exemplified in the Book of Enoch. His role as a fallen angel partly remains in Christian and Islamic traditions.

### Overview: Scapegoat

In the Bible, a **scapegoat** is one of two kid goats. As a pair, one goat was sacrificed (not a scapegoat) and the living "scapegoat" was released into the wilderness, taking with it all sins and impurities. The concept first appears in the Book of Leviticus, in which a goat is designated to be cast into the desert to carry away the sins of the community.

Practices with some similarities to the scapegoat ritual also appear in Ancient Greece and Ebla.

## Appearance

Azazel appears as a roguishly attractive middle-aged man, with a tall and well-built frame. He has short black hair with golden bangs and a black goatee, as well as mysterious amethyst-purple eyes. His body is covered in constantly moving angelic marks, with burn marks around his neck, his wrists, and his ankles, which are remnants from his time imprisoned under Mount Dudael.

After he lost an arm in the Khaos Brigade's attack on the peace conference, instead of regenerating, he replaced it with an Airgetlám. However, when reforming his body after it was destroyed in the Evil Dragon War, his missing arm also regenerated and his prosthetic arm was stored away.

He possesses five pairs of large and feathered wings growing out from his lower back. His feathers are sharp and long, akin to a sword's blade, which make their weapons appear to be "forged from all the metals in the World and beyond, imbued with everlasting darkness". His former halo is darkened and shattered, the shards forming the illusion of curved, goat-like horns on the sides of his head.

### Clothes & Attires

During the peace conference, Azazel wore a maroon-colored long coat with a wide high-collar that opened up at the hem and two long belts tied around his stomach. The long coat also featured four black bands on each arm, two at the wrists while the other two near the elbows. He also wore gray slacks with two black belts tied around each ankle and leather dress shoes.

While working as Kuoh Academy's Science Teacher, he wears a knee-length dark-blue blazer with a light-blue dress shirt and black waistcoat underneath, faded-purple slacks, and black dress shoes. He also wears a blue tie with the Grigori's emblem, and can occasionally be seen wearing a lab coat stained with "questionably-colored substances unlike anything ever seen on Earth". While not working, he's often seen wearing a purple *kimono* decorated with the images of fallen angels casting out of Heaven.

### True Form

Azazel is one of the few fallen angels whose true form was revealed. His true form is that of a colossal entity made of darkness, with the head of a goat, the torso of a muscular man with millions of arms and is covered in eyes, while his lower body is a mass of giant, coiling serpents. A pair of wings sprout from his waist, made from "all the weapons that had been made by men, that are being used by men, and will eventually be invented by men". His darkened halo floats above his head, "a broken crown for a broken king". His voice is described as "the sound of war, of the battle, of the true nature of men once a weapon is placed in their hands".

## Personality

It is hard to determine Azazel's true personality and motives. Despite being mainly seen as laid-back and a bit eccentric, he can be reflective of the situation at hand and becomes serious and wise. 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, and has a problem destroying innocent lives in order to advance his plans. However, Azazel has shown to be a pacifist, preferring to talk his way out of troubles rather than resorting to violence, though he claims this is because scheming is more enjoyable than death and destruction to him.

He is very compassionate as he will do whatever he can do to help the people he holds dear. He cares a lot about his children, regardless if they are his own blood or the ones he adopted, even going as far as hiding them from his fellow fallen angels for their safety. Vali admitted that, despite Azazel being a "perverted, overprotecting, good-for-nothing dad", he isn't as "good-for-nothing" as people believe. He also cares deeply for his fellow Cadres, especially for Shemhazai and Baraqiel, who have been his closest companions since they were still angels.

He is a weapon fanatic, in addition to him being regarded as one of the greatest blacksmiths and weapon-makers - if not, the greatest - in all mythologies. Azazel also loves to collect things and is observed with Sacred Gears. He has personally developed most of the 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. Azazel also has the habit of collecting rare Sacred Gears and legendary weapons from various cultures, mythologies, and religions, and doesn't care what he has to do or who he has to kill just to perfect his private collections.

He is extremely perverted, as he has had hundreds of harems filled with the world's most attractive men and women across the span of history. During antediluvian ages, despite the extremely low rates for a celestial hybrid to conceive, Azazel still managed to have thousands to millions of Nephilim born from his loins. Even before he fell from grace, he was already a perverted angel as he would fantasize about seeing and touching Gabriel's breasts, as well as loudly proclaiming his dream of fondling the bodies of all the angels he found attractive.

However, despite his seemingly good qualities, Azazel also possesses a cruel and sinister side to him. As pointed out by Shiva, he was once the cruelest of all Cadres and was Samael's personal executioner and torturer prior to his imprisonment under Mount Dudael. He enjoys corrupting those of strong-will, both humans and gods alike, just to see them fall into the depths of depravity and get crushed in agony and despair. He also has a twisted and sadistic side to him as he proudly admits to reveling in the misfortune of the fess fortunate, and prospering 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 a danger to him, his children and students, or the Grigori and the fallen angels as a whole in the long-run.

## Powers & Abilities

### Power-Ranking

* **Acumen** - 7 (20 Points)
* **Speed** - 7 (20 Points)
* **Tactical** - 7 (20 Points)
* **Energy** - 6 (15 Points)
* **Resilience** - 7 (20 Points)
	+ **Yield** - 115: "God Among Men"
* **OCCULT** - 8 (100 TP)
* **WEAPONRY** - 8 (100 TP)
* **EXPERTISE** - 8 (100 TP)
* **RANGE** - 6 (25 TP)
* **STRATEGY** - 7 (50 TP)
	+ **Total**: 435 TP - "Cataclysmic Threat"

### Personal Inventions

Being the founder and de-facto head of the Grigori's Department of Special Technology, Azazel has developed a number of inventions across history. The most notable ones, as well as the ones that have been introduced, 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 minds of people 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 angelic hieroglyphs 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

* Azazel has been worshiped under many names, such as Beelzebub, Anubis, or Legion.
* Whether intentional or not, Azazel has been seen as the template of the Elder One Nyarlathotep.
* In the Book of Enoch, Azazel's said to have taught humans warfare, weaponry, and cosmetics.
* In the Bible, Azazel's name is synonymous with the Scapegoat rite performed during the Yom Kippur, in which goats would be sent into desolated places bearing the sins of the Jews.
* In Islamic traditions, he was one of the three angels that were imbued with bodily desires as a test from Allah to see if they could do better than humans with the same conditions, When they failed, Azazel repented his decision and Allah allowed him to return to Heaven, whereas the other angels failed and ended up on Earth, introducing men to "illicit magic", i.e. witchcraft.
* Azazel is recorded as Vali Lucifer's guardian angel in Heaven's records.
* Azazel is a fan of Moloch meat, comparing it to *Matsusaka* beef.
* Azazel had/has a severe case of *chuunibyou* back when he was still an angel. This led to him giving bizzare long/cringey names to his inventions such as the "Blazer Shining or Darkness Blade".
* Azazel is associated with those on whom blame falls unfairly.
* Some believe Azazel to be the whisper in Cain's ear when he struck down Abel.
* Azazel was previously the manager of Kuoh City's women professional wrestling team which he named "Hyper-Dimensional Women’s Professional Wrestling".