Nazologia

Nazologia is an Immortal/Invulnerable sorcerer and is the main antagonist of Their Dark Devices. Nazologia is the only user of both Necromancy and Animancy, gaining Immortality from his inner balance. Nazologia views himself as the savour of The Mortal Raes and of Seistia itself, not the "Dark Overlord" that the legends portray him as. He is also the literal Blood-Father of Adventas, Presley and Morgause Lamient, having slit his own arm to create them using the Ishgerius Mechanism that he theorised himself. Nazologia is viewed as the terror of the world (not including Severi) and his mere presence inspires fear. He is also the one whom started The Great War and executed the plans for Phase II.

## Appearance

Though Six-Hundred years old, Nazologia is described to have a youthful radiance meaning that he is quite young (Low Twenties). He has ivory pale skin and messy, jet-black hair, similar to Adventas's, Presley's and Morgause's. His eyes are a stunning gold that even surpasses the gleam of an Infelici, though he gained these due to his overpowering Aether energy. His features are attractively elegant, even including his hollowed cheeks. Nazologia wears sweeping white and black robes that are frayed/torn around the bottom.

## Personality

Most legends portray Nazologia as an evil and bloodthirsty demon that kills all in his sights due to his part in The Great War. In person however, Nazologia can be understanding and intelligent. Nazologia has never been known to give way to anger but is always giving off an aura of calmness, though a feeling of terror and sickness is often inflicted on those around him when he experiences displeasure. Another factor that he falls under is being able too see right through acts and into their inner-most thoughts, very much like Parthonius.

Nazologia's twisted side is that he sees conflict and pain as a mere chess game, much like Mavis Tenaebris. Nazologia is also one of the people whom inspired the ideas to create Reapers, along with Mavis herself. He views it as his purpose to treat all life the same, punishing those whom he feels are unworthy of living in the new world balance that he wishes to create. Nazologia finds disgust in pointless pain however, only torturing for information or tidings. An odd thing about him is that he does not arrogant about her abilities, even though his powers are more than that of a literal god, Zergreld. Although he is described as "misunderstood", Nazologia states that he wouldn't mind slaughtering an entire race as long as he can make a few "balanced" of the same. Nevertheless, Nazologia is shown to be a man of the people, as the Infelici praise him for his kindness to their race. He views most people as pawns, except those whom are close to him. As a result of his immortal life, Nazologia has developed a misanthropic loathing for most of The Mortal Races and their repeated idiosyncrasies of hatred, evil, and conflict

## Background

Nazologia was a human traveller of The Ice Wastes originally, before he stumbled upon an abandoned Infelici temple. A snowstorm had started so Nazologia hid in the temple for warmth and shelter. Nazologia was appalled by the amount of Infelici corpses that were littered around the Temples' chambers. He discovered that a small crowd of Oni had murdered the Infelici to take the shelter for themselves. Nazologia was forced to slay the oncoming Demons for his own survival.

Once all the Oni had been slain, Nazologia started to read the runes that were scrawled across the temple walls. They told the Infelici version of the eternal stream of life and death. The reason Nazologia had travelled to The Ice Wastes in the first place was to study upon the flow of imbalance and death. In the Infelici Temple, Nazologia learned the art of Necromancy, an ancient yet forbidden art due it's fatal flaw.

Necromancy comes with the curse of Immortality, though it's user is unaware of it. Nazologia used Necromancy to revive the slaughtered Infelici, creating the first Lich in Eight-Hundred years. Over the years, Nazologia wondered why he never aged, eventually returning to The Ice Wastes to learn more. He became aware of his Immortality by reading through the Infelici Runes once more. He watched his friends/family age and die while he remained, as young as ever. He eventually embraced his Immortality and began to recognise the worlds flaws. He became disgusted by the human rejection of Infelici and took the matter into his own hands.

This started The Great War, Infelici, Remaining Oni and Lich against Humans, Felinria and some other Mortal Races. Though Nazologia loathed violence and had very little to do with the war, he was seen as the leader of the opposing sides and rumours of his Necromantic abilities spread through horror stories. In the end however, neither side emerged victorious, as Severi himself almost obliterated both sides, rising above the rest as the alone victor.

Nazologia's early life is unknown as it has faded from history, due to it being nothing special at that time, even Nazologia himself has forgotten most of it. The only known factor would be that he was an incredible genius and became a famed member of The Anu'Talris. Another aspect is that he was greatly interested in the Infelici beliefs about Life and Death. In his low twenties, Nazologia started to travel around The Ice Wastes, breaking away from the Anu'Talris. He found an Infelici temple during his early travels and entered. It was abandoned however, due to all the Infelici being mere corpses littered around the temple passages and chambers. Nazologia discovered that an assortment of Warlocks had broke their way into the temple and slayed all in it's inhabitants for shelter. The warlocks attacked Nazologia immediately, believing he was an Infelici scout, though were easily defeated and killed.

Nazologia was fascinated by the Infelici scribes about the properties about the stream of life and death. He learned the sacred Infelici art of Necromancy and Animancy through the Infelici walls of time. The walls didn't warn Nazologia of a certien fact however, as both Necromancy and Animancy had never been harnessed by the same being in all of history. The properties of Death Magic and Life Magic fought to maintain a balance within Nazologia, killing him yet living him live, making him immortal and invulnerable. Nazologia didn't notice his immortality until the rest of the Anu'Talris, friends and family all died around him due to him never aging. He wandered the world of Seistia, traveling to all regions of its interiors. Whenever Nazologia came across dead bodies, he would use his power over Necromancy to re-awaken the soul inside, creating Lich's as he went. He was very interested in the Infelici and other mortal races apart from his own, (human), knowing most culture and working his ways into their legends. He was mostly known as "The Wanderer" through most religions, playing the act of the savour or ultimate evil, it was varied. Nazologia around this time started to realise the imbalance of the world that the Anu'Talris saw long ago. Nazologia became the savour of the Infelici when they witnessed famine, dehydration and poverty. He became almost a god to them through his constant travelling. He also became popular around the Teremossu, due to their ideal world of balance that first inspired the Anu'Talris. Nazologia started to form Tartaroth, a group of devoted followers that also believed in a balanced world, or simply wished to be under his protection.

Hundreds of years later, started the ideas for Phase I (The Great War) and Phase II, creating the Lamient family from his own blood, using the Ishgerus Mechanism. He then started The Great War, having Oni, Teremossu, Lich, Humans, Reapers, Feliena and Infelici upon his side to oppose a larger number of Humans, Feliena and a small number of Oni. The war was in vain however, as Severi emerged as the lone victor. Nazologia began to reinstate Phase II, leading onto the book's main plot.

## Abilities

**Magecraft:**

* **Necromancy:** Necromancy is the art of the dead, giving the user the ability to raise, communicate and control the dead. Nazologia, the most famous Necromancer, mastered the art when he entered an abandoned Infelici temple, it belonging to the Infelici originally. Necromancy is a type of soul magic, belonging to the title of Arcane Magecraft. Necromancy is the opposite the Animancy and is displayed in shadows.
* **Animancy:** Animancy is the art of life, giving the user the ability to create new beings all by themselves. Nazologia could use this art to create the entire Lamient family with his own blood using the Ishgerius Mechanism. Another form of Animancy is that they can extract the very life source of entities around them if they have the power. Animancy is known to fall under the category of Arcane Magecraft, a type of soul magic. Animancy is the opposite to Necromancy and is displayed in invisible matter.

**Separation Magic:** Separation Magic is an ability known only to Tantalus Vengressus and Nazologia himself. It comes in the form of a black and grey sphere that separates the spirit from the body so that the soul can wander freely.

**Immobilization Magic**: Immobilization Magic makes the target freeze and topple to the ground, quivering.

**Telepathy:** By putting two fingers to her forehead, a mage is able to communicate with others via the telepathic contact channel. The channel can be interfered by a powerful enough sorcerer however, as both Vengressus, Rijks and Nazologia proved.

**Alteration Magic:** This magic alters the matter of whatever the user wishes, as long as the user of powerful enough.

**Law**: Law is a magic that temporally changes the bounds of reality, Nazologia is extremely adept at this.

**Enchantment:** Nazologia is an adeptly powerful Enchanter that is shown to be able to alter the very earth itself.

**Time Sorcery:** Nazologia can temporally reshape the influence of time around the users self-being.

**Seer:** As a Seer, Nazologia can predict, form and gaze into the future, past and other points in the present.

**Sensor**: Nazologia can sense things from immense distances, even from across continents.

**Immortality/Invulnerability**: Nazologia gained Immortality/Invulnerability from his inner balance of Necromancy and Animancy.

**Physical Abilities**:

* **Agility**: Nazologia is shown to be extremely agilely swift, gracefully avoiding all of Pythaize's attacks, even dodging all member of the Yejveltis all at once with ease.
* **Durability**: Nazologia is invulnerable due to his inner balance of Animancy and Necromancy. He even took a direct, full-powered hit from the god Zergreld and being unfazed.
* **Strength:** Nazologia's physical strength is unknown, though he was able to punch a hole right through Pythaize's chest without any effort.

## Equipment

Spear - In his travelling age, Nazologia impaled eight Oni with his spear with some ease, showing he's highly skilled.