Iao

**Iao**, also known as **Yao**, is one of the archons of Yaldabaoth, with his female name being **Lordship**. He is identified as the same being, or as an aspect of the God of Israel.

## Overview

Iao or Yao is one of the seven archons, he is the ruler of planet Jupiter, he equals that his father is an ignorant deity.

## Appearance

He has the appearance of a serpent with wings with a face described by Virgo as "idiotic face". Around his head, several flames surrounded. His true body is sleeping inside Jupiter, which when awake he manifests as a humanoid being larger than Jupiter's red storm, which is larger than Earth.

## Powers and Abilities

**Authority:** Iao has the power of authority; a power that grants them the right to rule, enforce orders, and establish laws within their dominion, even extending to the supernatural realm. This authority bestows upon them total control over their designated domain including supernatural elements, such as mystical forces, living entities, mythical creatures, and otherworldly dimensions that shape their environment.

**Demonic Divinity:** Iao has the "Demonic" form of Divinity, and divine powers granting them an immense amount of raw power beyond the mundane, making Iao a divine demonic being by nature and a dark divine being, a status which can be obtained by several different ways. Iao can gain this type of divinity by having an dark divine ancestry (being born a demon-deity), being transformed into an divine demon either by another more powerful divine demon, a deity, higher being such as a transcendent demon, ascended transcendent demon, etc, Iao has dominion and godhood in the divine and demonic aspects which makes them formidable in both worlds capable of overcoming all manner of demonic entities by sheer will alone. However, at times Iao with the demonic divinities are more powerful or even weaker than other deities depending on the type of divine being they are in question, some may even equal original dark divinities due to both being connected to darker forces.

**Knowledge Manipulation:** Iao can create, shape and manipulate any/all information/knowledge, they can insert new knowledge into the universe that becomes established fact and reality, or destroy it to do the opposite. An enemy could be made to forget how to walk, while an ally could be given the knowledge of an enemy's weaknesses or mastery of a fighting style.

**Morality Manipulation:** Iao can manipulate morality, making people ethically good or immorally evil by psychically kindling the targets' minds so that they succumb to the voice of truth or to the urge of sin. The victim may feel the calling of the Almighty or some other cosmic force of good or succumb to all their inner sins. The effect may expire, but that may be years after the evocations.

**Order Embodiment:** Iao is able to act as a physical manifestation or personification of order in their reality. They are thus lawful and dutiful and can cause others to become controlled and organized. Iao can also impose laws on a plane of existence and bring structure to the chaos of reality. As the embodiment of order, Iao becomes the personification of uniformity, orderliness, and immutability.

**Spiritualism:** Iao can utilize spiritualism, a belief-system/religion postulating that the belief of spirits of the dead residing in the spirit world have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living. Anyone may receive spirit messages, but formal communication sessions (séances) are held by "mediums", who can then provide information about the afterlife.

**Taming:** Iao has a skill for taming (tolerant of sentient presence) and/or training (teaching specific responses to specific conditions or stimuli) creatures, possibly to the point of domestication. The most skilled uses can even tame and train the most volatile and vicious of beasts.

## Myths and Legends

Iao was originally the Greek translation of YHVH, the gnostics theologies used the name Iao for the archon relation with the planet Jupiter.

## Quotes

*"Praise be to me! Praised be my name! Glorified and sanctified be my name!" - Iao.*

*"Cheap copy of the Father, so is this the first time someone has made you fear? So run away and pray that I never meet you or see your face again." - Eleleth expelling Iao from Earth.*

## Trivia

* Iao, Bythos, Nebro and Abraxas share "YHVH" as an alias.