Azazel

**Adopted Children**

* Vali Lucifer (Son)

**Azazel**, also known as the **Strength of God**, is the leader of the Grigori and the fallen angels. In the Bible, his name is synonymous with the **Scapegoat** of Yom Kippur.

## Overview

In the Bible, the name **Azazel** appears in association with the scapegoat rite; the name represents a desolate place where a scapegoat bearing the sins of the Jews during Yom Kippur was sent.

During the end of the Second Temple period, his association as a fallen angel responsible for introducing humans to forbidden knowledge emerged due to Hellenization, Christian narrative, and interpretation exemplified in the Book of Enoch.

His role as a fallen angel partly remains in Christian and Islamic traditions.

## Appearance

Azazel appears as a tall and roguishly attractive middle-aged man, with a well-built frame. He has short black hair with golden bangs and black goatee, as well as mysterious purple eyes. His body is covered in constantly moving angelic runes.

After he lost an arm in the Khaos Brigade's attack on the peace conference, instead of regenerating, he replaced it with an Airgetlám. However, when reforming his body after it was destroyed in the Evil Dragon War, his missing arm is also regenerated and his prosthetic arm was stored away.

Like other fallen angels, he possesses five pairs of large and feathered wings, each with a wingspan of 3-meters in length. His wings carry a metallic sheen to them, appearing as if they are made from "all the metals in the world and more, coated in a layer of everlasting darkness".

His former golden halo is darkened and shattered, the shards forming the illusion of curved goat-like horns on the sides of his head.

During the peace conference, he wore a maroon-colored long coat with a wide high-collar that opened up at the hem and two long belts tied around his stomach. The long coat also featured four black bands on each arm, two at the wrist while the other two near the elbows. He also wore gray slacks with two black belts tied around each ankle and leather dress shoes.

While working at Kuoh Academy, he wears a knee-length dark-blue blazer with a light-blue dress shirt and black waistcoat underneath, faded-purple slacks, and black dress shoes. He also wears a tie and is occasionally seen wearing a lab coat stained with "questionably-colored substances unlike anything ever seen on Earth".

### True Appearance

Azazel is one of the few fallen angels whose true appearances was revealed through the Ezekiel Glass. His true appearance is that of a colossal creature made of darkness, his head of a goat, his upper body was that of a man with thousand arms, and his lower body was a mass of coiling giant serpents. He has a giant pair of wings in this form, made from "all the weapons that were made by men, all the weapons that are being used by men, and all the weapons that will be invented by men".

His voice is described as "the sound of war, of the battle, of the true nature of men once a weapon is placed in their [Human's] hands". His broken halo floats above his head, "a broken crown for a broken king".

## Personality

It is hard to determine Azazel's true personality and motives. Despite being mainly seen as laid-back and a bit eccentric, he can be reflective of the situation at hand and become serious and wise. He loves to collect things and is a research fanatic on Sacred Gears. He has shown to be a pacifist, preferring to talk his way out of troubles rather than resorting to violence. He also cares deeply for his fellow Cadres, especially for Shemhazai and Baraqiel, who have been his closest companions since they were still angels of Heaven.

He has shown to be extremely sly, cunning, and charismatic, being able to charm anyone he comes across with ease. He is also deliberately deceptive and manipulative, often manipulating human governments and propagandas to achieve his goals. According to him, scheming is more enjoyable than death and destruction to him.

He is extremely perverted, as Shemhazai stated that he had hundreds of harems filled with gorgeous men and women over the millennia. Even before he fell from grace, he was already a pervert as he would fantasize about seeing and touching Gabriel's breasts, as well as loudly project his dream of fondling the bodies of all the angels he found attractive.

He is very compassionate as he will do whatever he can to help people in need. He cares a lot about his children, regardless of whether they are his own blood or the ones he adopted, even going as far as to hide them from his fellow fallen angels for their safety. Vali admitted that despite him being a "perverted overprotecting good-for-nothing dad", he wasn't as "good-for-nothing" as many people believe.

When he first learned about the abuse Vali had to suffer, he had to be restrained by the Grigori's entire fallen angel population so as he wouldn't commit genocide against the devils and a potential Great War wouldn't be started.

He is a weapon fanatic, being regarded as one of the greatest blacksmiths and the greatest weapon-maker in all mythologies. He personally developed most of the weapons and technology used by the Grigori and is the first to be able to replicate the Biblical God's miracles and create the Artificial Sacred Gears. He also has the habit of collecting rare Sacred Gears and mythological weapons from various cultures, mythologies, and religions, and doesn't care what he had to do or who he had to kill just to perfect his own private collection of weapons and Sacred Gears.

And despite his seemingly good qualities, he also possesses a cruel and sinister side to him. As pointed out by Shiva, he was once the cruelest out of all the Cadres and was Samael's personal executioner and torturer prior to his imprisonment in Mount Dudael. He enjoyed corrupting humans and gods alike to see them fall into the depths of depravity and get crushed in agony and despair, which was something he deemed more entertaining than anything else.

He has a twisted and sadistic side to him as he proudly admits to enjoying seeing innocent people suffer, much to the horror of his students. He revels in the misfortune of the less fortunate, and prospers in the pain and agony of the miserable, lonely, and depressed. He has also shown to be quite apathetic to the problems of other people, as long as they won't pose as a danger to him, his children and students, or the Grigori and the fallen angels as a whole in the long-run, as well as showing no empathy to the tragedy of others, as shown when he tried his best not to look bored when he heard about Yuuto's past in the Holy Sword Project.

According to Shemhazai, Azazel only tried to become a better person after he adopted Vali, as he doesn't want his son to grow up becoming like him, personality-wise, something that nearly all of his children before him had become.

## Equipment

**Down Fall Dragon Spear** (墮天龍の閃光槍ダウン・フォール・ドラゴン・スピア, *Daun Fōru Doragon Supia*): An Artificial Sacred Gear that has one of the Five Dragon Kings, Fafnir, sealed inside of it after he made a pact with him. It had the appearance of a golden dagger which has a purple orb at the pummel. It created an aura of light around the user which strengthened their overall powers by several levels in addition to protecting them from arrow immunity long-ranged attacks. It was destroyed when Fafnir's pact with Azazel ended.

* **Down Fall Dragon Another Armor**: The Counter Balance of Down Fall Dragon Spear, which equipped Azazel with a golden Scale Mail decorated with large purple jewels. It increased the user's offensive and defensive capabilities and allowed them to summon a priceless weapon within Fafnir's original treasure hoard. However, the armor isn't durable and Azazel must be careful not to accidentally destroy it with his photokinetic abilities, thus putting him in a disadvantageous position against Zhihao Han during the Hero Faction's attack on Kyoto.

**Blazer Shining or Darkness Blade** (閃光と暗黒の龍絶剣ブレイザー・シャイニング・オア・ダークネス・ブレード, *Bureizā Shainingu Oa Dākunesu Burēdo*): An Artificial Sacred Gear that takes the form of a sword with a mixture of light and darkness with high destructive powers that could cut through spirits without physical form. After a series of wild shenanigans, it was confisticated by the Grigori.

### Inventions

Being the founder and de-facto head of the Department of Special Technology, Azazel has developed a number of inventions across history. The notable ones are below:

* **Mechanical Arm**: An all-purpose prosthetic arm that can be loaded with light power-style laser beams and tiny missiles. It can also fly on its own.
* **Sacred Gear Scanner**: A scanner that can tell the type, abilities, and weakness of a Sacred Gear. One was given to Gasper prior to the Hero Faction's small-scale assaults.
* **Mini Robot**: A mini-robot that was created to help Gasper in his training to control his Sacred Gear.
* **Gender-Swap Raygun**: A raygun that changes the gender of a person. It is later sealed due to its inappropriate capability.
* **Sports Car**: A special sports car made by Azazel. It has many weapons installed in it such as the Satellite Downfall Cannon System, and Dragon Destroy Missile. According to Azazel, due to him modifying the car while being drunk, even he himself doesn't know the full potential of the car.
* **Doppelgänger Machine**: A machine that was able to create 300 Issei clones, which had their sexual desires enhanced due to a failed experiment.
* **Maouga**: A humanoid-type Devil-helping super robot that was created using the fallen angels' technology and is powered by the hatred of humans. It can use its arms as rockets.
* **Definite Body Change Driver:** A handgun that fires a "Body Change Beam" that can swap the souls of people who are closest to each other.
* **UFO**: A flying spaceship made from the latest technology of the fallen angels. It had a special barrier to make it invisible to humans and could fire a beam of various effects: Issei lost his perverseness and Gasper was burnt. It was destroyed by Xenovia and Irina when they went to capture it for the sake of returning Issei back to normal.
* **Azazel Quest**: Azazel Quest is an RPG game created by Azazel as a joint project with Ajuka, Sirzechs, and the technicians of the devils' side. The game uses the devils' Rating Game technology, the Game Field, to provide an adventure-type experience.
* **Bracelets:** Azazel has created several bracelets with magical characters engraved on them. He handed two of them to Issei during the Three Factions's conference, one which could allow Gasper to control his Forbidden Balor View and Issei to let him use Scale Mail instead of sacrificing a part of himself like before. A second model assisted Akeno in awakening her fallen angel powers thus entering her [Fallen Angel Mode].

## Trivia

* He has been worshiped under many names, such as Beelzebub, Anubis, or Legion.
* In the Book of Enoch, he's said to have taught humans warfare, weaponry, and cosmetics.
* In the Bible, his name is synonymous with the scapegoat rite performed during the Yom Kippur, in which goats would be sent into desolated places bearing the sins of the Jews.
* In Islamic traditions, he was one of the three angels that were imbued with bodily desires as a test from God to see if they could do better than humans with the same conditions. When they failed, Azazel repented his decision and God allowed him to turn back to Heaven, whereas the other angels failed and ended up on Earth, introducing men to "illicit magic".
* He is recorded as Vali's guardian angel in Heaven's records.
* He is a fan of moloch meat, comparing it to *Matsusaka* beef.
* He had/has a case of *chuunibyou* back when he was still an angel. This led to him giving bizarre long names to his inventions such as **Blazer Shining or Darkness Blade**.
* According to the majority of the VIP's of all the mythological factions, Azazel's greatest achievement is instructing the Red Dragon Emperor, who shows irregular growth, and the White Dragon Emperor, who is said to be the strongest in history.
	+ While he didn't object about it, many of the primordial gods were confused at the claim due to them knowing about his history.
* He is "associated with those on whom blame falls unfairly."
* He is believed to be the whisper in Cain's ear when he struck down Abel.
* He once made a wish for some of the angels to fall, especially Gabriel, though he was struck down by Ramiel as a result.
* He created a bar named "Black Dog" which is located near the office of the Slash/Dog Team.
* He was previously the manager of Kuoh City's women professional wrestling team which he named "Hyper-Dimensional Women’s Professional Wrestling".