Zekram Bael

**Gremory Clan**

* Millicas Gremory
* Rias Gremory
* Sirzechs Lucifer

**Zekram Bael**, also known as the **Great King Bael**, is the cardinal devil who was placed as the first of the Ars Goetia. He is the progenitor of the Bael Clan of pureblood devils.

## Overview

According to the Grand Grimoire, **Baal** (or Bael) is the head of the infernal powers. He is also the first demon listed in Wierus' *Pseudomonarchia daemonum*. According to Wierus, Bael is the first king of Hell with estates in the east. He has three heads: a toad, a man, and a cat. He also speaks in a raucous, but well-formed voice, and commands 66 legions.

Bael teaches the art of invisibility, and may be the equivalent of Baal or Baalzebub, one of the Seven princes of Hell.

## Appearance

Zekram appears as a roguishly handsome old man, with peaceful violet eyes and radiating an aura of strong dignity and nobility. He has long, slicked-back hair that reaches his waist, once was jet-black but has turned into silver after time, and a well-kept beard. His voice is described as hoarse and authoritative.

He wears a noble attire in shades of purple lined with gold, dragging behind his back is a velvet cape imprinted with his demonic sigil in glittering gold. He also wears a crown in the shape of an *arachnid*, embedded on it are the heads of a human, a cat, and a toad.

### True Form

His true form is a humanoid creature formed of darkness, rolling black smoke, and glowing destructive energy, with pits of golden fire for eyes. Behind his back are a total of ten bat-like wings, set in a position that brings in mind the image of a spider extending its appendages.

## Personality

Zekram is known as a strange and complicated figure in the devil nobility. His characteristics are unbefitting to that of his status as the first of the Ars Goetia, as he can easily become angered by actions of those who are evil, but also enjoys laughing over the mistakes and failure of do-gooders. He considered himself as a "Chaotic Neutral" figure, with emphasis on the "chaotic" part.

Despite his age and power, he has a relaxed and fun-loving side to him. He likes to tease his descendants for their actions and often pick petty fights between them just for his own amusement. He's also a not-so-secretive pervert, having hundreds of consorts throughout history, and a legendary collection of the most infamous and depraved pornography in the Netherworld.

He takes great pride in his house and their hereditary power, and although he does take great importance in traditional teachings and values of high-class nobility, he sees his descendants' beliefs in blood purity as nothing but ignorance and expresses disappointment in the supremacists within his bloodline.

While being known as having officially retired, he's still an extremely influential figure within the Netherworld's politics, basically acting as the power behind the throne of the Great King Faction, the largest and most powerful faction of pureblood supremacists. However, according to him, this is due to his sense of duty as he knows his descendants would lead them to ruins had he not taken over.

And true to his words, he is an extremely dutiful and responsible man, greatly opposed his regular demeanors, and weighs the needs of many over the needs of a few. He has no problem sacrificing people for the sake of his realm, and would gladly place the blame onto himself if it means his people are spared. As he once admitted to Issei, nobody has any idea how much blood he had sacrificed for the Netherworld's sake and the devil-kind's survival.

Like other cardinal devils, he holds the demons - especially Lucifer, Asmodeus, and Beelzebub - on a level of absolute reverence, though unlike his "siblings", he can notice how flaws some of them can be at times. Despite his status as the Great King Faction's leader, he's shown to be conflicted of what to do with those behind the Ouroboros Barrier, half agreeing with the Great Kings, half approving the Extra Demons.

In addition, he's affiliated himself to the devils' side and is willing to sacrifice himself to protect the devil-kind. Later on, the extent of his loyalty to the Netherworld was shown when it is revealed that he was the one who gave Magnus the Gevurah Sword, believing him to be the one mentioned in the Eldest Curses who is destined to finally kill Asmodeus.

## Equipment

**Sword of Black Lightning** (稲妻の魔剣, *Inazuma no Maken*): Zekram wields an ornate demonic sword in the form of a *shamshir*, created by devils of the Mulciber Clan. He can imbue the sword with his demonic power so its blade can be infused with his Power of Destruction, allowing him to create slashes of destructive energy capable of disintegrating anything they hit.

## Trivia

* He can only be summoned during nighttime from March 21st – March 30th.
* His favorite colors are black and gold.
* He favors frankincense over all other kinds of incense.
* While he's older than the stars that made up Aries combined, he is "spiritually an Aries".
* Unlike Ynatus, who named his house Asmoday to honor his creator, his house was named Bael because he's terrible with names.
* He was the one who started the rumors of the urrent Four Great Satans being ten times stronger than the original Satans, both as a way to boost the Anti-Satan Faction's morale during the Devil Civil War and to honor his creator's last wish to "fuck up all records of him".