Azimuth

> *This article is about the Cybertronian Patterner. For the Galvan scientist, see Azmuth.*
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## General Information

### Residence

Primafane, Mons PrimaKolkular, Kaon, Cybertron *(Formerly)*

## Relationships

### Family

Ephemeris *(Ex-Husband)*
Adrestia *(Daughter)*
Themis *(Daughter)*
Septimus Prime *(Ex-Mother-in-Law)*
Brand *(Ex-Father-in-Law)*
Wayland *(Ex-Grandfather-in-Law)*
Hlodyna *(Ex-Grandmother-in-Law)*
Solus Prime *(Ex-Great-Grandmother-in-Law)*

## Details

### First Appearance

Chapter 1 (Hytherion)

Azimuth is a Patterner scientist and body modification specialist.

## History

*Azimuth was a savant amongst the Patterners, studying under Arrius alongside fellow Novitiate Ephemeris.*

*As children, Azimuth raced Ephemeris to the menhir of Septimus Prime at Bastion Point, and managed to beat him due to her superior athletic ability. Giggling about how she won and commenting that while Ephemeris had been gaining on her, he'd need to keep training to beat her, Azimuth then challenged Ephemeris to another race to get back to Kolkular for star chart examination with Arrius.*

*Over the course of her studies, Azimuth learned the most about the Matrix of Light compared to anyone else, and became a specialist in body modification. She would eventually marry Ephemeris, and the two took on Shockwave as an assistant.*

*Azimuth and Ephemeris were informed by Quintessa Prime how to bring the spark of Septimus Prime back from the Allspark. While Azimuth was opposed to going through with making a golem, Ephemeris did it anyway and created Adrestia, and this combined with Ephemeris being so focused in this that he didn't realize he had another daughter, Themis, led to Azimuth deciding to leave him.*

*To inform Ephemeris that she was leaving, Azimuth told him that he'd gone too far in his experiment and had broken the laws of Arrius, and when Ephemeris pointed out she had a daughter now, Azimuth revealed he had another daughter, ending the debate by pointing out he'd been completely unaware of this.*

*Azimuth was then captured by Tactical Functionaries and secretly brought to the Institute in Kaon and forced to use her body modification skills to experiment on those who dissented against the Functionists. However, Azimuth refused to go against her medic and Patterner oaths and give her captors what they wanted, and she spent months using her unrestricted access to the prisoner records to select those of the highest threat level that weren't psychopaths, including her former assistant Shockwave, now known as Subject S, and then modify them for her own ends once Tumbler got her access to them.*

*After placing her re-engineered patients strategically around the Institute, Azimuth went with Tumbler and Subject S to storm the control room, telling them that they had no better opportunity to escape. Once Subject S broke the door down Azimuth leveled a stolen blaster at Director Flame, the scientists, and technicians in the room, and when the director questioned if they thought their plan would work, Azimuth simply smiled as a technician reported her patients had begun their attack, and then offered Flame the chance to surrender.*

*Once Subject S pinned down Flame, Azimuth yelled at him that it was over, but when she lifted up his head with her blaster and found him smiling, she questioned his smugness, and learned there were, in fact, multiple Institute facilities. When Shockwave then asked Flame what had become of his Garrus Metapowers Initiative and the director revealed they had become experiment fodder, Azimuth tried to calm her companion and warn him that Flame was just trying to bait him, but she was ignored.*

*When Ephemeris arrived with the Tor Kolkular Guard, Azimuth greeted him coldly.*

*Azimuth would then go to Mons Prima, practicing medicine in Primafane. However, Azimuth was involved with allowing Ze Balmary Empire to take Themis, fearing that they'd have Judecca Kadmon destroy Cybertron otherwise.*

*Ephemeris would tell Adrestia that he had sent Azimuth away, and she had no idea what happened to her mother, even considering the possibility that she was dead. Despite this, Adrestia would still tell Mithril that she'd experienced more love from Azimuth than she'd ever had from her father.*

*When Adrestia and Ephemeris started bringing up their past mistakes during dinner, Addy asked her father about Azimuth, demanding he tell the truth about where she was when he insisted she'd been sent away, only for Ephemeris to tell her that was all he knew.*

*Thanks to the time manipulating powers of the Hytherion, Adrestia found herself experiencing an illusion of the past in Azimuth's lab, where Azimuth demanded she explain how she had gotten into the off-limits area as she pointed an ion pistol at her. Not believing Addy's claim that she had no idea how she'd gotten there, Azimuth then told her who she was and demanded that however she got there, Addy get out and away from her life's work, at which point the vision shifted.*

### Dark Future

*Septimus Prime told Stonecrusher and Ursus Magnus how Azimuth had gotten the information to bring her back from Quintessa.*

### Revised Future

*Azimuth would prove to be a problem for Thunderwing when he attempted to construct the Matrix of Malice. As such, when Aphelion suggested turning to Azimuth for help on constructing the Matrix due to her knowledge, Thunderwing informed her that Azimuth would be of no help.*

*When Mithril needed to get the injured Speeder medical attention, Azimuth was called in due to the severity of his wounds, and she melded the armor he was wearing to his body and gave him a Spark Engine. Once he woke up, Azimuth was introduced to Speeder by Mithril, and while Speeder guessed that she was related to Adrestia in some way, Azimuth explained what she had done to him. When he then asked where Thunderwing was, Azimuth told him that he'd been last spotted near the entrance to the Catacombs, and suggested he could join the assault team "Rex" was gathering.*

*Ephemeris reflected on how he'd loved Azimuth but had driven her away by making his golems during In the Laboratory.*

*When Adrestia brought Themis to Mons Prima for medical treatment, Azimuth asked her daughter to meet with her, which she did during In Kaon, A Duel. Telling Addy that she wasn't just Septimus Prime reborn to shine a light in the darkness, Azimuth told her that she was still her daughter, and that she cared about Adrestia, not Septimus, and pointed out that she'd lived most of her life with the voice of Septimus in her head, being completely unaware of what Ephemeris had done despite living with him. However, when Addy pointed out that she'd been involved with the experiments as well and had handed Themis over to the Balmarians because of it, Azimuth insisted she not mention her and tried to justify her choice, thinking with horror about Judecca burning Cybertron in a world where she hadn't given up Themis. Trying to change the subject of the long-term injuries Themis would suffer because of what she'd done to her, Azimuth told Addy that she hadn't beaten the Balmarians just by destroying Neviim and Colonial Fleet, only to be told that no matter how much she claimed to be a good Patterner, she'd gone against Arrius just as much as Ephemeris had by burdening her children so she could play god. Before Azimuth could protest, Addy left to deal with Wayland attacking Kolkular, giving Azimuth a glare that made it clear their discussion wasn't over.*

*Ephemeris would recall how Azimuth told him that she was leaving while looking at the construction of the Timaeus Loop in Reverie.*

*Shockwave kept a recording of himself speaking with Azimuth and Ephemeris about why he joined the Patterners, which he looked at in Repentance.*

*In Zehirut Azimuth was called in to the Fulgurite Facility as part of the team to study the Zehirut brought there. When Themis was called in to help with the study of the Balmarian technology, Azimuth let her daughter know that only 30% of the data had been recovered from the photoresponsive databanks and that she'd been asked to help with the rest. After Themis told the team that the Zehirut was a weapon and Teslor questioned her claim, Azimuth told him to let her talk due to her being the most experienced with it out of all of them.*

*Ephemeris recalled how his coldness towards his family had driven Azimuth away from him in Hero Wars, as well as made her consider him to be a blasphemer of their Patterner ideals.*

## Powers and Abilities

It is unknown if Azimuth has a talent. She can presumably transform, but her alternate mode is unknown.

## Relationships

### Allies

* Patterners
	+ Ephemeris - Ex-Husband
	+ Arrius - Mentor
* Themis - Daughter
* Autobots
	+ Adrestia - Daughter
* Lifegivers
	+ Quintessa Prime
* Circle of Light
	+ Speeder
* Shockwave - Former Assistant
* Tumbler
* Mithril
* Teslor
* Apelinq

### Enemies

* Functionists
	+ Tactical Functionaries
	+ Flame
* Ze Balmary Empire

## Appearances

### Text Stories

#### Autobot Academy: Wrath of the Rijk

* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3

#### Other Text Stories

* In Kaon, A Duel
* Zehirut

## Trivia

* Azimuth is based on the Aligned continuity Patterner of the same name, while her design is based on her 2019 IDW comics incarnation.
* Azimuth is described as being silver and black with a blocky body and deep, light blue optics.