Astaroth (Orginal Soul)

## Personal Info

Birthplace: Grand Shrine of Palgaea, Persia (Iran)

Birthdate: September 3, 1584

Age: 3-7

Gender: Male

Height: 6’8 (206)

Weight: 287 (130)

Weapon: Giant Axe

Weapon Name: Kulutues

Style: Gyulkus

Soul: Power

## Stage

Palgaea Shrine (SC)

Kunpaetku Shrine (SC)

Palgaea Shrine: Lowest Level (2)

Kunpaetku Shrine Ruins (3)

Palgaea Shrine: Ruins (3)

Kunpaetku Shrine: Dream Remnants (4)

Grand Shrine of Palgaea: Sea of Decay (BD)

## Theme

Born from Chaos (SC)

Evil Reborn (2)

Bred from the Gap (3)

Infernal Offering (4)

## History

### Soul Calibur

Ares, the god of destruction, desired Soul Edge to dethrone
his father, Zeus, so he ordered Kunpaetku, the grand priest of the cult order
Fygul Cestemus, to seek it out. Astaroth, a golem, was created in hellish heat
under the divine protection of Ares to head up the quest. Kunpaetku ordered his
creation, Astaroth, to find the demonic blade. As he watched Astaroth depart
from the shrine, the grand priest laughed to himself as he planned to keep the
Soul Edge and become a god himself. Unknown to Kunpaetku, however, Ares had
possessed Astaroth with his servants, the Keres, to ensure that Kunpaetku would
not betray him. When Astaroth finally found Soul Edge, he had lost half of
himself during the battle with Sophitia.

Soul Calibur 2

Deciding that Ares would not be pleased with the sword in
this condition, he agreed to help the Azure Knight, Nightmare, build his power
by collecting souls by slaughtering countless victims. As Astaroth was finally
ready to betray Nightmare and take the Soul Edge from him, Kilik, Xianghua, and
Maxi stormed Ostrheinsburg Castle, and Astaroth was killed by Maxi. Four years
later, signs of Soul Edge began to re-emerge, and Ares resurrected Astaroth in
an attempt to retrieve the evil blade once again. This time, though, his body
had been infused with the shards of the Soul Edge, making him more powerful
than ever before.

Astaroth had set out on the trail for the evil blade, but a
problem arose. The grand priest Kunpaetku had realized his golem was not
behaving as originally instructed – that another force now claimed ownership
over Astaroth since his initial creation. In order to reclaim Astaroth as his
servant, Kunpaetku performed a ritual on the lowest level of the cult's temple
and unleashed a powerful curse on him. Astaroth fought back against the curse,
for he had become an ideal host for the Keres, because of the fragments of Soul
Edge he had taken in during his resurrection. He would destroy anyone who stood
in his way, and now the cult had become nothing more than an obstacle in his
path. Astaroth entered the temple to destroy the cult once and for all, and his
whirlwind of destruction mowed down everything in his path.

Soul Calibur 3

The curse had only fueled him with anger, and he was determined to destroy
anything and everything he saw. The temple of the heretics had become a
crucible of chaos. Astaroth pursued Kunpaetku into the deepest part of the
temple, but the grand priest managed to escape at the last minute. Only the
words the priest left behind remained, telling him that he was nothing more
than a failed doll modeled after a mere human. Astaroth immediately stopped in
his tracks, distracted with this new found horrible knowledge, and began to
search the temple's archives for his roots. He had been made in the image of a
man called only by the name "White Giant."
Astaroth destroyed the facility in which Kunpaetku's ritual had been performed,
and his curse faded such that he regained his true strength. He then proceeded
to destroy the temple completely until it became unrecognizable debris, and
nothing was left but chaos and rubble.

Fygul Cestemus had been wiped from history by the very being that they
themselves had created. Astaroth stood within the ruined temple, quietly
thinking to himself. If the "White Giant" he had been modeled after
was as powerful as himself, then that man must surely be the greatest soul on
earth, the perfect nourishment to resurrect the Soul Edge back to its full
power. Perhaps Astaroth himself did not realize his own hidden desire to
destroy the "White Giant" – to make himself a complete creature,
unique without any model. The golem set out, his new objective set,
disappearing into the mirages in the distance. Behind him was only a column of
smoke rising from a ruinous wasteland; in front of him somewhere was the
perfect soul.

Soul Calibur 4

Astaroth had been unconsciously fighting the thoughts of him
being created in the image of the "White Giant". Perhaps because of
this, his body has been twisted to the point where he no longer looks remotely
human. But then he finally found the White Giant and nearly killed him.
Suddenly, he realized that he had been serving Ares all this time. This thought
made him insane, and he destroyed the landscape around him.

Then Tira approached him, and told him that she can bring
him to a fitting place where he could hunt a god. However, Astaroth can clearly
see that she is a very loyal servant of the evil sword, and she was just using
him. Then again, she was right about the fact that he needed a better place to
find souls. So he went to Ostrheinsburg and became Nightmare's servant once
again, only this time, he plans to devour everything; those who descend upon
Ostrheinsburg, and even Soul Edge itself.

Soul Calibur 5

Fygul Cestemus, a cult that worshipped the twisted god
Palgaea, was preparing to effect its grand revival. "Pain...the pain!
UAARRRGH!" From the depths of a subterranean temple, newborn lungs
screamed in torment.

The cult's man-made giant, Astaroth, had always followed his
masters' bidding, until one day 17 years ago, the creature developed a will of
his own and rebelled; both Astaroth and Fygul Cestemus were destroyed. But it
wasn't long before the priests of Mars and Venus crafted a mechanical woman to
retrieve Astaroth's core and return it to the cult, which had already begun to
reform.

Factions battled for control of the precious artifact, but
it wound up in the hands of High Priest Kunpaetku, who had clawed his way back
from the brink of death. If Astaroth's core had been a gift from the gods,
Kunpaetku reasoned, unraveling its secrets would grant him the power to create
life of his own. He could surpass the gods themselves!

Finally, his research bore fruit. Beaming with triumph, the
high priest gazed upon the new Astaroth as he roared and tore at his chains.
"Yes, Astaroth, rage! Rage! Very soon the world will know your
wrath..." That was only the first of many such monsters he created.
Released from their underground lair, a host of them lumbered west, lured by
the power of a distant soul...

## Ending

### Soul Calibur

Astaroth returned before the grand priest Kunpaetku with
Soul Edge in hand.

Kunpaetku: "Astaroth, you have done well. Now the power
that surpasses the gods is mine!"  "What...are you doing! No,
unhand me! Stop! STOP!"

Astaroth: "Need...more...souls!"

Engulfed in crimson hellfire, the two figures eventually
fade from view.

What were Astaroth's true intentions? There is no way to
know...

### Soul Calibur 2

To infuse the sword with the strength his master desired,
Astaroth would pay the ultimate price...

He consumed countless souls, and steeped in their fear,
became the sacrificial offering.

No one knew the god of destruction's true desires, but there
would be no respite for Astaroth.

His body fused with the malevolent blade, Astaroth was
feared as the grim reaper on battlefields for all eternity.

Soul Calibur 3

Astaroth walks through the desert, dragging Soul Edge across
the ground, before the screen fades to black. When it fades back in, he is seen
sitting on a rock when Ares, in the form of a ball of light, appears before
him. Astaroth stands up and holds Soul Edge out and says: "Here, I brought
Soul Edge!", Ares says: "You did well, Astaroth. Now, offer Soul Edge
to me!"

#### No Input

Astaroth chuckles and holds Soul Edge over his head, bending
it with all his strength. "This is what you wanted, this worthless
weapon?" Soul Edge shatters into several pieces. Ares flies away without a
word. "I am the ultimate. I have the power to destroy even Soul
Edge!". Astaroth glows with evil energy and laughs.

#### Input

Astaroth swings Soul Edge around and throws it at Ares' luminous form,
causing it to disappear. Soul Edge flies back into Astaroth's hands. "Do
not...give orders to me! Ah ha ha ha! Run, run away!" Astaroth holds Soul
Edge up high. "A lowly god...does not have the right to own me!"

### Soul Calibur 4

Algol falls to the floor on the top of the Tower of
Remembrance, with Astaroth looking down on him.

Algol: Your power exceeds that of my own. I am impressed!

Algol dies, the power of Soul Edge leaving his body and
entering Astaroth, who chuckles. Astaroth: So this is the power of Soul Edge!
No, it's not enough for me. I need more!

Astaroth continues consuming power as the screen fades to
black. When it fades back, it shows a giant Astaroth stomping through the
forest.

Astaroth: Give me more, I want more!

Astaroth screams, teeming with the power of Soul Edge. The
screen fades to black, with a text that reads:"His evil spreads throughout
the world. It is the roar that announces the beginning of the dark ages."

## Critical Finish

**Eternal Damnation**: Astaroth's Critical Finish in Soulcalibur 4 sends
his opponent crashing to the ground before he catches them on the end of his
axe. He then drags them around the arena before sending them sailing into the
air. Astaroth's Critical Finish is shared with Rock and Ashlotte, the only
difference being their victory poses and the symbols that appears at the end.
(Astaroth and Ashlotte both have their symbols of their cult appear—yellow for
the former and violet for the latter).