Commandment

**Commandments**(戒律, *Kairitsu*) or **Precepts** are a concept that appears in the First Heaven. Where one makes a pledge that they must abide by, and, in return, gain an exceptional ability. These are created through one making a vow with Shinga wherein she would grant one the Commandment that they wished for if she so chooses to fulfill their request.

One's Commandment is considered to be among the deepest and most fundamental facets of one's own self, to where violating it is akin to denying oneself's own nature.

## Nature

Commandments work on the principle of a **Binding** (縛り, *Shibari*) and a **Boon** (効果, *Kōka*). By enforcing a strict law upon oneself, that one must follow lest they perish, they are in turn granted great power.

If one breaks this Law, they would be severely punished, typically resulting in death, even if said break was entirely accidental. Thus Commandments are a great sacrifice, for the Law is absolute.

### **Strength**

The power gained seems to be directly correlated with the strength of the restriction. Such as the Restrictions that limit social contact, like Hazah Ruma and Saoshyant Aushedar, granting on a massive increase in physical strength.

Though Killer Queen shows that the Boon can sometimes wholly negate the reason that its Restriction was so powerful. As Frederica made it so that she cannot avoid any attacks, but in turn is granted the greatest Immortality in the history of the Throne. Therefore making her inability to dodge a risk at all.

### **Multiple Commandments**

Most Ashavan only choose to take on one Commandment, as there is a risk of having contradictory Conditions, which would cause one to instantly break one and perish.

Though certain Dregvant have managed to get two Commandments, in the case of Zaurid and Taurvid these Commandments can indeed to contradictory, and in cases such as this the power of their Commandments increase depending on how closely they follow them, and the one they are not following grows weaker. They manage to prevent a Violation through the use of the Power of Ego, and it is due to this that Multiple Commandments are considered the specialty of Dregvant.

### **Violation**

Breaking one's Commandment leads to one suffering Divine Punishment from Mithra, who would lay one of two punishment upon the violator. If the breaking of the Commandment was accidental or nor done intentionally, they would only be punished with death.

But if they purposely choose to break their Commandment, however, they would have a Tentsui forced upon them, changing their alignment. Which is considered by many as a fate far worse than death.

## **Commandments (Ashavan)**

### **Ahuna Vairya**

*Main article: Ahuna Vaiyra*

This is the Commandment of Nahid, and is the source of her control over Star Spirits.

### **Akhvarta Jamshid**

*Main article: Akhvarta Jamshid*

This is the Commmandment of Sirius.

### **Akhvarta Sraosha**

*Main article: Akhvarta Sraosha*

This is the Commandment of Quinn.

### **Dakhma Ardvahišt**

*Main article: Dakhma Ardvahišt*

This is the Commandment of Ashozushta.

### **Nowruz Ferdowsi**

*Main article: Nowruz Ferdowsi*

This is the Commandment of Ferdows.

### **Vendidad (Ahura Mazda)**

*Main article: Vendidad*

This is the Commandment of Ahura Mazda, it has the binding of "Never telling the truth", in return for omniscience.

### **Saoshyant Aushedar**

*Main article: Saoshyant Aushedar*

**Saoshyant Aushedar** is the Commandment of Magsarion and Ferdows.

### **Saoshyant Desatir**

*Main article: Saoshyant Desatir*

This is the Commandment of Varhrān.

### **Simurgh Attal**

*Main article: Simurgh Attal*

This is the Commandment of Samrukh.

### **Spadaramad**

*Main article: Spandarmad*

This is the Commandment of Alma.

### **Spenta Mainyu's Commandment**

The Commandment of Spenta Mainyu, its Boon is unknown but its Binding is, *Do Not Make Associates*

### **Zahhak's Enforced Commandment**

This is a Great Cause Enforced Commandment the enforced upon those on the surface of Zahhak before he was slain by Kaikhosru. It involved torturing and killing the Dregvant minority, and taking joy in the brutality. The name of this Commandment is unknown.

## **Commandments (Dregvant)**

### **Angra Mainyu**

Angra Mainyu is one of the Commandments of Nadare.

### **Azhi Dahaka**

*Main article: Azhi Dahaka*

This is the Commandment of Kaikhosru.

### **Hazah Ruma**

*Main article: Hazah Ruma*

**Hazah Ruma**, also known as **Endless Desperation to Destroy**(殲くし滅ぼす無尽の暴窮) is the shared Commandment held by Bahlavan and the Locusts.

### **Killer Queen**

*Main article: Killer Queen*

This is the Commandment of Frederica.

### **Maurya Ashema**

*Main article: Maurya Aeshma*

This is the Commandment of Bahlavan.

### **Vendidad (Nadare)**

This is the Commandment enforced upon each Nadare over the course of the First Heaven.

### **Pushpaka Ratha**

*Main article: Pushpaka Ratha*

This is the Commandment of Khvarenah.

### **Rajakarma Angiras**

*Main article: Rajakarma Angiras*

Bushyasta has a currently unnamed Commandment of, "Not refusing what one is given" and in return, she is granted unrivaled adaptability

### **Sita's Lost Commandment**

This is a Commandment which Sita, the current Nadare, possessed before it was washed away and erased alongside her name upon becoming Nadare. We do not know of its name, binding, nor its boon, as it has only been mentioned.

### **Taromaiti**

*Main article: Taromaiti*

This is the Commandment of Roxanne.

### **Ustan Yasht**

*Main article: Ustern Yasht*

This is the lost Commandment of Munsarrat.

### **Xwedodah (Mashyana)**

*Main article: Xwedodah*

This is the Commandment of Mashyana and Insesuto.

## **Trivia**

The term 戒律 refers to a Religious Precept, most commonly to Śīla or Mitzvah.

## **References**

1. ↑ Situation when a single person holds multiple Commandments. Because it is obviously a dangerous deed, people that fall under this umbrella are almost nonexistent. At the present, the number of people who are confirmed to have multiple Commandments doesn't exceed five: Magsarion, Bahlavan, Munsarat, Zariched and Taurvid. Most of these are Dragvant, if a proper Ashavan, they won't impose multiple Commandments upon themselves. This is because there exists the risk of the individual Commandments being mutually contradictory, that is, a case in which Commandment B becomes an obstacle towards adherence to Commandment A, which would result in an automatic Commandment breaking.  Zariched and Taurvid hold exactly such a contradiction, but at the present they forcibly prevent/avoid a Commandment breaking through their Power of the Ego. That is, from a design perspective, it could even be said that multiple Commandments are the Dragvant's specialty. Essentially, the fact that adherence is impossible is forcibly twisted through Power of the Ego for its materialization. That is, a double edged sword that aims to increase its effects via raising its level of difficulty.*Glossary 14*