Erzael Austrirus

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> Your Highness, allow me to introduce myself again. I am Erzael, the royal tutor for your brother, His Highness Bredaireit, and the History professor at your academy. It is unfortunate that such a detriment befalls upon you; As a servant of the imperial family, I will do everything in my ability to help you recover.
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> Erzael to Deulara

## Erzael Austrirus

* Current Era
* Polutheos Era
* Teenage

## Names

### Alias

* Aelrindel Austrirus
* Erzael
* Erzael von Techempes

### Titles

* Seraph of Cosmos
* Blade of Discipline
* Karma of the Divine Throne

### Nicknames

* The Sempiternal Sage
* The Supernal Sovereign
* Light of Cestrisan
* Twilight Emperor
* The Godslayer
* Erza
* Grandpa

## Characteristics

### Species

* Conceptual Being
* Llivine (formerly)

## Personal Information

### Nationality

* Empire of Emparal
* Empire of Omnthyr (formerly)

### Education

Strausniara Academy of Knighthood (formerly)

## Professional Information

### Occupation

* Royal tutor (formerly)
* Professor (formerly)
* Knight (formerly)
* Emperor of Omnthyr (formerly)
* King consort of Emparal

### Affiliation

Knights of the Planetarium (formerly)

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## **Physical Description**

Erzael is regarded as a young man of unearthly beauty with delicate facial features, pale, smooth skin, along with pointy ears and star-shaped pupils typical of Llivine. He has long, slightly wavy blonde hair that reaches his hips and is low-braided near the end, with bangs partially covering his left eyes and asymmetrical sidelocks. His eyes are glaucous and commented on to be as gentle as moonlight, yet "sharp and cold like a blade" at times. There’s a mole underneath his right eye, and small fangs that can only be seen when he opens his mouth wide. He has a slender hourglass-shaped figure, but under his clothes there are defined abs, pectorals and arm muscles. His hands and the center of his chest remain crystallize, though he can still move them normally.

When Erzael uses Cosmos Magic, rings appears on his irises that make them resemble atom and glowing blue lines start to show up on his body, originating from his chest and eyes. They will spread over his entire body and face during prolonged usage, and turn red if his Magic Circuits are overcharged or damaged. After he becomes a Demigod, he grows three pairs of white feathered wings on his back that he can retract at will.

Had a full-face black mask adorned with blue gemstone and intricate silver pattern as a Knight of the Planetarium, it however was cracked when he blocked an attack for his comrades during the War of Divine Throne and broke completely under the energy splash emitted from the Goddess' deceased body.

## **Personality**

Erzael makes himself known as a serene, cordial gentleman who is generally respected by everyone he’s in contact with, but has no strong attachment to anybody aside from Bredaireit. Though he’s quite reserved and keeps his distance from people and attention, he’s by no means unfriendly; when approached, he conducts himself in ways expected of a true gentleman - humble, pleasant and respectful regardless of his actual feelings. That said, he doesn’t tolerate injustice and when he acts out, it’s for the sake of the weak and oppressed, a behavior commented on to be reminiscent of knighthood. Because of his demure demeanor, his aloofness, reclusion and difficulty with blending in is frequently assumed to be shyness. As such, his students and coworkers often try to bring him out of his shell by showing him that socializing isn't too hard and they care about him. Subverted because Erzael isn't shy; he's simply too broken to make any meaningful relationship, and in the past he was a charismatic ruler whose position left no room for timidity.

To his students, he’s helpful, understanding and the atmosphere in his classes is relaxing even if it’s a test, turning History into the favorite class for a majority of student body which is noted to not happen very often. He appears to find joy in imparting knowledge and look out for his students beyond academically. While he only started teaching in the academy four years ago with his previous experience allegedly all came from the time he was a private royal tutor, he has displayed teaching skills that should have belonged to someone hosting classes for much longer than that, earning him both the admiration and the suspicion of his fellow teachers. In the circle of scholars, he’s also renowned for his bold statements regarding history and obsession with finding and preserving traces of the lost Empire of Omnthyr, but still taken seriously as he’s a Llivine who may have seen the past a lot more than other scholars and only wants to learn more about his origin. For the Techempes children, he’s a tutor who has been with them since childhood, and sometimes akin to a second father figure who stays by their side whenever their real father is too busy, with Bredaireit being especially attached to him. The way he treats them comes from his "fatherly instinct", which makes him well-liked by children, and he himself is naturally drawn to their innocent and all-loving nature.

Since his mask covers half of his face and his mood itself never seems to waver, it’s difficult to tell what he really thinks. Regardless of his instabilities, Erzael still has an exceptionally strong mental fortitude and innate talent in suppressing his emotions, allowing him to keep a degree of control over his actions and thinking no matter how much psychological torture he has been under. A combination of his former life as an emperor and having to hide his identity created his habit of bottling up his emotions and obsession with staying in control of his behaviors, even if he’s aware it’s detrimental to his mentality. As a result, he usually comes off as unsettling for people who can see through his facade. Despite his socially respectable status, Erzael still feels out of touch with everyone else and struggles to make a meaningful relationship as he can’t move on from the memories of those he once knew, which he admitted as making things easier for his revenge since he doesn’t have an image to keep, unlike when he was an emperor. This changes once he starts to bond with the Techempes children and especially Bredaireit, explaining "The Godslayer"’s inaction in recent years. While a sophisticated and respected scholar, he struggles with social interaction beyond teaching, locks himself up in his room when there're no classes to do "research", and has some weird habits, sleep schedule and diet. He also tends to randomly disregard his surrounding and has injured himself several times when he is deep in his thoughts. These are all the signs of his deteriorating mentality and how even though he has made efforts to lead a new life, the damage he sustained from two hundreds years of suffering still affects him.

Beneath his exterior, Erzael actually suffers from bordering insanity and severe PTSD, and struggles everyday to prevent others from discovering his true disheveled self, torn apart by unending guilt and fury and having nothing left to lose. His two centuries in a crystallized state has resulted in severe visual, olfactory and auditory hallucination fits related to the war, from seeing and smelling blood to hearing screams from nowhere. When it got particularly bad, he heard his brother's voice inside the paintings he made, saw shadow people trying to choke him, the wall pulsating, objects floating, and sunlight despite being in a dark room at nighttime, caught the smell of decomposing corpses and thought his body was rotten. After 200 years in endless delusions, he has lost the ability to distinguish between reality and his hallucinations and his efforts to ignore them caused him to be apathetic towards everything, which he’s aware and fearful of, thus he tries to hold onto teaching like a thread connecting him to life. While the effects have subsided since Bredaireit becomes his emotional crutch, allowing him to actually lead a social life, his physical deterioration caused the hallucinations to resurface and contributed to his breakdown. He can commit self-harming actions without batting an eye because he’s both gotten used to doing so in his mind and trying to utilize the pain to tell whether or not he’s conscious, however, he begins to think twice before hurting himself when he’s reminded of Bredaireit. Erzael believed he belonged to the previous era and had little regard to actually "living", instead merely "surviving" to carry out his vengeance, and self-declared that there was no point of living anymore once he could avenge his empire.

Erzael is known as an artsy person due to his Omnthya origin, and during his years of serving the Emparal royalty, he has produced a lot of paintings, occasionally partaken in singing, playing instruments and dancing, and even written two piano pieces; though he makes an effort to keep all of these as unknown as possible because they're all strongly reminiscent of Omnthyr's culture and tend to venture into unsettling category as his insanity begins to show, which might tip others on his true identity. He also learned cooking, sewing and gardening for another type of coping: by submerging himself in his delusion of normalcy where he was just a nameless resident leading an idyllic cottagecore life, completely detached from who he really is in real life. He also built up a reputation for humbleness since he always shuts down compliments or expectations regarding his supposed beauty, claiming that the mask makes him seem more attractive than he actually is by covering a majority of his face. His insecurity mainly comes from his Body Horror and his guilt-ridden aversion to praises, and although he loses the Body Horror when he comes back to life, he still finds Bredaireit "impossible" for praising and seeking the body of an old man.

Back to when he was the Emperor of Omnthyr, Erzael was beloved as a benevolent, reasonable, modest yet effective sovereign who maintained order through pacifism and diplomacy, but had a tight grip on all situations and never gave in to oppression. To the people of the Cestrisan continent in particular and the world itself in general, he was the "light", a peacekeeper who single-handedly prevented several wars from breaking out due to the actions of his less levelheaded fellow rulers, and an agent of the Gods bestowed upon the Llivine who would one day ascend into a true angel. His role in instigating the War of Divine Throne was actually orchestrated by the gods to make him lose his credibility and Omnthyr vulnerable, because otherwise his influence would make their subjects much less willing to attack Omnthyr. Unbeknownst to most however, in order to become such an impeccable figure, Erzael had spent his childhood suffering in his almost crippling sense of responsibility which prevented him from doing literally anything - even the most basic like sleeping or eating - without taking others into account, and by his own admission he would have destroyed himself if Qrokelia hadn’t gave him what was basically a therapy. A glimpse of his schedule back in the day he was the emperor shows that he was also a workaholic who would spend more than 12 hours just doing paperwork, receiving reports and having meetings back to back alongside religious duties in an *uneventful* day. While he did have some time for himself in the form of meals, he also utilized them as letter reviewing time, meaning he was technically still doing works, and his daily training was for national security. He earned his position as a Sword Saint because of how he was capable of fighting with a murderous intent yet without actually killing anyone and overwhelming his opponent while giving them the smallest of scratches, which signified his absolute control over his movements and mind. He explained that his purpose for taking up swordplay was to protect, not to kill, and he had never been one to relish in the loss of something as important as life.

That said, while famed for his benevolence, Erzael had no mercy when it came to enacting judgment and punishment, or making morally difficult decisions for the benefit of his empire and people. In records, he's even said to have "given all threats to his perfect rule a fate worse than death, and no one would dare to say a word of defiance". During the War of Divine Throne, he had ordered the destruction of some threatening countries in retaliation to threaten the world into leaving Omnthyr alone, as well as giving up his pacific and no killing code to protect his people.

After his resurrection, though he does take a while, he slowly regains his calmer and in-control emperor persona instead of being constantly on edge. Justified because of his Pre-Existence Loss Clarity - a condition in the multiworld that described how someone feels peace after knowing they can let go of everything that burdened their existence. Once the restraint in his heart is removed soon after his second awakening, all the emotions he has been suppressing for the last centuries begin to be let out in the form of crying. He cried for ten minutes straight at Bredaireit's confession because it was the first time in centuries he felt such intense happiness, and he spent two days afterwards just bursting into tears at random times.  When he accepts his Cessation of Existence as a price for coming back to life, the Heavenly Will reveals to him exactly why losing one's existence is such a big deal: Erzael's The Ace status came from his past lives' karma, and he himself has accumulated a gigantic amount of karma that could have provided his next life even more advantages than what he had in this lifetime and may have been life-saving to the next world he would be reincarnated in. As such, it questions if he could afford to waste all of the future potentials and possible salvation of a world just for some more times with a mortal, and Erzael's answer is he doesn't give a crap about the future beyond his current lifetime anymore. The karma belongs to him now, so he decides what he wants to do with it, and he deserves to quit playing hero and enjoy life with the person he loves after several centuries of self-sacrifices and endless suffering, even when it's the last thing he'll ever do.

## **History**

Erzael was born the first prince of Omnthyr during the golden age of the Polutheos Era and had been under strict education to become the next emperor. The enormous sense of responsibility rendered him unable to function without taking others’ interest in mind, and he couldn’t find joy in anything he did, making him see life in a very technical, detached and unusual way. At a young age, he already suffered frequently from insomnia and lack of appetite, but he still presented himself in a flawless manner as he never knew how to express his feelings. Recognized as one of the Strausniara Academy of Knighthood’s most distinguished graduates in its history, his fame reached far and wide even outside of Omnthyr, and he became a member of the Knights of the Planetarium at the same time at 20 years old. At one point during the next five years, he had his first audience with Qrokelia, who realized the emotional struggle beneath his seeming perfection and personally reached out to help him open himself up, allowing him to develop the more "humane" self he has today and his relationships with others. When the previous Grand Master passed away from old age, once he finished proving his power and necessary skills, Erzael was elected as the next Grand Master and came to hold supreme power over Omnthyr’s military, managing national security as well as several ceremonial events for knighthood. He was also swordplay instructor for official members and candidates of the KotP, and sometimes taught electives in Strausniara Academy of Knighthood.

Ten years later, he passed his title to his younger brother Elluin and ascended the throne as the Emperor of Omnthyr under the blessed name "Archeran", when he inherited the sword [Sanctity] along with the prestigious title [Seraph of Cosmos]. Despite being greatly occupied, he still managed to further hone his combat skills and magic, successfully harnessing the Cosmos Magic granted to him after he became Qrokelia’s high priest. Well-respected and esteemed, Erzael had a blissful life that overshadowed the inevitable losses of his acquaintances during a century, until the War of Divine Throne broke out and the whole world devolved into chaos.

His decision to call for the last Aetas Council meeting with the intent to stop the heated conflict between Emparal and Kazasume ironically ended up instigating the War of Divine Throne: Empress Anthrecea was assassinated while attending the council, bringing the number of conflicting empires to three out of four and everyone started blaming other nations as responsible, mainly to serve their political goal and desire for conquest, and it was only a matter of time before distrust and feud got out of hands. While Erzael wasn't entirely at fault because the war was fated to happen the moment the gods all wanted to earn the Divine Throne to become the Supreme Deity, thus setting the countries they patronized against others, from the mortals' point of view his decision and inability to quell down the conflict indeed allowed all hell to break loose.

The poor guy went through this during the War of Divine Throne: he was blamed for allowing the war to take place, saw his beloved subjects being slaughtered and violated while he was trying to stay neutral, had to break his personal Thou Shall Not Kill code to the point of building up his new reputation as a "grim reaper" for his enemies to protect his people, was so damaged after managing to slay a god during a supposed Heroic Sacrifice that he spent the rest of the war bedridden in helplessness as his empire started to weaken day by day - being ganged up on by other countries and never meant to have a chance, and despite his best efforts he still lost everything once Omnthyr fell and the world saw the light of day after 20 years. He gave the chance to die honorably to his brother and entered a Fate Worse Than Death for nearly two centuries, then woke up to the news that all of his aforementioned sufferings were for nothing since no god won the war, and he couldn't just off himself because his survival came at the cost of everything he held dear. It's quite understandable that he becomes too insane to care about killing gods left and right in his pursuit of a reason to live. Even when he thought he could lead an upstanding new life, his mind and body can't stop deteriorating, and all it takes is an unintentional Devastating Remark from the person he loves the most for him to mentally and literally self-destruct.

Seeing that the war could no longer be stopped by any pacific means, Erzael stood up and fought on the front line to defend Omnthyr from the continuous assaults of invading soldiers, monsters and even gods, but his subordinates fell one by one while he himself became gradually weaker after being corrupted by Residue. Once he took down the God of Storm when they personally attacked Omnthyr, the gigantic amount of Residue born from a god's corpse permanently incapacitated him for the rest of the War. Five years of war later, Omnthyr massively suffered as while they tried to maintain a neutral, defensive stance, all other three empires along with their alliance aimed to conquer Omnthyr and actively attacked it - either by their own or their God’s will, and Omnthyr had lost most of its lands and warriors to ceaseless aggression save for the capital Imnelenor. When a remaining active portal that offered the way to flee overseas was found, his vassals begged him to leave the besieged city before it fell, but he refused, stating that he would only die on Omnthyr’s ground, however anyone else that wanted to leave were allowed to. While many did leave, a majority of his subjects still stayed with him, and all their surviving military forces held their ground in Imnelenor for 8 months under Erzael’s command until Emparal’s army breach their defense.

After five years of being bedridden because of Residue Corruption, Erzael finally managed to move, walk and hold his sword again. He was so happy to finally be able to continue fighting that he almost cried Tears of Joy...then a knight barged in and reported that Emparal army was approaching Omnthyr. Omnthyr's forces at the point were too weakened to actually put up a fight, and Erzael alone couldn't change anything since he was in no state to be the One-Man Army; he survived and used up the nation's scarce resources to recover from the Corruption for nothing.

He and Elluin led one last charge to defend what was left but failed, and they was being cornered near Qrokelia’s temple when the Eternal Night ended as Qrokelia was slain by the God of Time Qumos. Realizing how hopeless the situation was and that it was time he accomplished his mission as a [Seraph], Erzael ordered Elluin to die in his place while he entered the temple to retrieve the Divine Core from Qrokelia’s dead body, assimilated it into his body, and locked himself in the imperial tomb underneath the place.

in order to protect him, Elluin sacrificed himself so that Erzael could escape to Qrokelia’s temple in an attempt to pledge guilty to the goddess before committing suicide to preserve his honor as an emperor, only to witness her being slain by the God of Time Qumos. Remembering his mission as a Seraph - to protect their God’s Divine Core at all cost, he retrieved it from her dead body, assimilated it into his body and locked himself in the tomb of emperors underneath the temple. After removing his armor and imperial signet, he activated the magic circle to finish the ritual of turning himself into an indestructible crystal statue so that the Divine Core would be inaccessible even to the Heavenly Order; thanks to that, he survived the Fall of Omnthyr with the Divine Core inside him while the world outside believed he died during the siege.

Two centuries later, his crystallized body was found by the Emparal Kingdom and their mages reverse-transformed him back.

Realizing that he had a chance to avenge his Goddess, he found a way to stay in close proximity with the royal family as a scholar and court mage under another name and fake identity.

## **Powers and Abilities**

Erzael has always excelled in both sword and magic, he simply puts his focus more on one in different eras. He's currently more on the Magic part right now, being The Archmage with Divinity in his body, allowing him perform complex spells with ease. As a Knight of the Planetarium, he was definitely on the "Knight" part as in more physical oriented and better known for his swordplay skills.

Though he was only rank 5 among the Sword Saints, even those ranked above him had shown either respect or wariness to him as he also wielded Cosmos Magic - one of the Four Pillars of Existence, was incredibly smart and experienced, deemed capable of killing a God, and the fact that he had incredible self-control over the matter of taking life meant were he to decide to kill, things would have gone to shit.

He was one of the seven people of the Polutheos Era deemed capable of killing a God thanks to his weapon [Sanctity], as well as having enough skill, intelligence and knowledge of the Gods for the task. He did legitimately accomplish this by taking down the God of Storm when they personally attacked Aetas, but not without a cost: the gigantic amount of Residue born from a god's corpse permanently incapacitated him for the rest of the War.

### Skillset

* **Multilingualism:** She has strong ability with foreign languages, especially English as Aquarius and has earned gold medals and first prizes at contests.
* **Photographic memory:**
* **Playing instruments:** He was a gifted musician, and reportedly played music for his people during festivals.
* **Drawing and painting:** He
* Textile
* Cooking

### Abilities

* **Cosmos Magic:** As an elite follower of the Goddess of Space, Erzael excels in all aspects of Cosmos Magic. He was granted access to the Spatial branch of Cosmos Magic - one of the Four Pillars of Existence.
	+ **Spatial Magic:** He can create rifts in space itself which lead to an unlimited void, allowing him to block any attack swiftly or even trap his opponent in there for as long as he wants with a nifty side effect of rendering them immobile and unconscious if their mind is weak enough. Self-admittedly, he isn't truly proficient in Spatial Magic to open portal or bend space outright, but inheriting the Goddess' Divine Core amplifies his pre-existing abilities and gives the rifts the brutal potential of Portal Cut. His space rifts, if open on an object or body part then closed on them, can sever the thing and trap one part inside the space. And yes, it can kill.
	+ **Stella Magic:** rapier, knife, scythe,...
	+ **Moon Magic:** He can use Moon Magic to create powerful illusions that pretty much rewrite reality for anyone under its influence. While this wasn't his strongest suit in the Polutheos Era, his ability is now greatly amplified by the Divine Core with authority over the Cosmos inside him and his own insanity, allowing him to immediately incapacitate mortal guards around temple of the god he was about to kill so that he could enter it without ruckus.
* **Swordplay:** Cepheus reveals that Erzael's skills with sword can put most knights in Emparal to shame, and that he learned most of his swordsmanship from Erzael instead of his official swordplay instructor. Came the reveal that he was once the leader of the Knights of the Planetarium - the most elite knight order in Aetas and one of the ten Sword Saints of the last era, and Erzael indeed demonstrated how he was chosen for those positions by almost handing Cepheus his ass during their fight with perfectly calculated movements and blinding speed, only overwhelmed because he had no intention to kill Cepheus, thus did not go all out. When he actually went murderous against Xenatos, he had his head just a few seconds into the fight and chopped him up multiple times afterwards, while in a weakened state. In fact, him able to not kill Cepheus despite the heated fight is a more profound proof of his mastery, since his impeccably controlled swordsmanship - so controlled that he could attack someone and make them feel "killed" without actually wounding them - was what earned him his place among the Sword Saints and his nickname "Blade of Discipline".
* Hand-to-hand combat: Despite his mastery with a sword, Erzael was still trained in hand-to-hand combat in cases he didn’t have access to his weapons, and he’s quite proficient in Noendara, a martial arts field of Kazasume. He also literally performed a wrestling move on Xenatos and snapped his neck barehanded when his sword got flung out of his hands,
* Hearing
* **Semi-Divine:** Erzael is keeping the Divine Core inside his body, giving his existence the [Divine] attribute not unlike that of demigod children. Since he has kept the Core for nearly two centuries, his body has synchronized with it and allows him to preserve his soul inside it when he died in the space rift, which in turn leads to his successful resurrection once the Core was returned to his body.

#### Weaknesses

* The accumulated effect of Residue corruption, damaged Magic Circuits and overexertion right after being recently brought back to life left Erzael in a coma for a whole year, and when he woke up he mostly remains bedridden. Even becoming Semi-Divine can't restore him to the powerful warrior he once was, just allowing him to move around while still physically frail, and a friendly spar already leaves him terribly exhausted.
* Due to his severe Residue Corruption, his natural healing doesn't work and even healing magic can barely do a thing to him. The crystallized parts on his body? Those were once his wounds that never got healed after his fight with the God of Storm, and somehow turned into actual crystal when he crystalized himself. Considering that he just fought a God near death, the amount of wounds that stayed unhealed was understandably tormenting enough that he occasionally asked for a Mercy Kill from his own brother.

### Equipments

* [Sanctity]: A rapier forged from divine materials - thus insanely durable, and combined with a magic glyph that is capable of draining Divinity from a God as long as it is constantly fed with mana. It was bestowed on the leader of the Knights of the Planetarium along with their title, and had been passed to 20 generations of "Seraphs of Cosmos".

## **Preferences & Hobbies**

### Likes

* Art
* Fashion
* Music
* Pastries
* Tea

### Fears

* Fire (formerly)
* Losing loved ones

### Hobbies

* Cooking
* Playing instruments
* Reading

## **Etymology**

Federico: It is of Spanish and Italian origin, and the meaning of Federico is "peaceful ruler".

Hironori: "tolerant rule" or "benevolent ruler". It is derived from the words 'hiro', which means 'wide, large or tolerant', and 'nori', which means 'rich, fertile or revere'.

Aozora: 青 (ao) meaning "blue" and 空 (sora) meaning "sky".

## **Quotes**

* *" Everyone died fighting, they fought to protect, to destroy, for what they believed. But me? I lived by walking on their corpses, I lived like a coward! I should have died, but it wasn't me who died! Excuse this, excuse that, in the end, it was all my fault!* *Many of them were so young! Their future should have been bright, the thing they should have held was not weapons, but toy, but book, anything but weapons! I took the lives of kids, of lovers, of families! Even Elluin, I took Elluin's... Can you believe it, I took my own brother's life!"*

## **Trivia**

* He's mostly associated with Atraire, the national flower of Omnthyr known for their beauty and aroma, bloom under moonlight, and commonly used in religious practice. This association is alluded to when he killed the Goddess of the Moon, whose death caused all Atraire in Aetas to wilt at once, and Erzael himself also emotionally collapsed in that moment. After he becomes Bredaireit's consort, he's nicknamed the "White Atraire of the Court".
* As an emperor, Erzael was a mild victim of flanderization due to how secluded Omnthyr was compared to other empires. To the outside world, Emperor Aelrindel was so kind that he wouldn't hurt a fly, causing historians to speculate that he disappeared from the battlefield for the rest of the war because killing others, even in self-defense, damaged his very conscience and in return his mental health. Erzael himself comments that the history makes him out to be "too tenderhearted", as there were several times he had been downright cold-blooded during his rule and while he admits that having to break his non-killing code was incredibly painful, he would never have let it stop him from protecting his people.
* Lucy, the maid who was assigned to him, reveals that he has a particularly austere diet: he always requests bland foods that are easy to digest like soup, congee or oatmeal along with a dessert; and usually eats very little. He won't decline if Lucy "accidentally" gives him more food than he asks for but will tell her against doing so next time by saying that he has a sensitive palate and a weak stomach, thus he can't eat food with too much flavor or quantity. The real reasons are that: 1) the Residue Corruption makes all the food he eats taste bitter, so his safest bet are food with little to no taste and something sweet that can offset the inevitable bitterness and 2) his trauma from the war prevents him from eating more than his allowed "portion".
* Being a war veteran who has been endlessly tormented by his memory of the war, Erzael has several trauma triggers that seem unconventional and/or weirdly specific.
	+ Dawn is one such example, as he lost everything when the sun rose, so he always wakes up at noon and sleeps around 2-3 A:M while the sky is still dark to hide from it. The day he received the Devastating Remark from Bredaireit, he accidentally stayed up past his curfew when trying to calm down and saw the dawn, then his hysteria got out of hand as the trauma and guilt flooded back, leading to his later actions.
	+ When Bredaireit called him and there was a scream (by the heroes who were joking with each other) from the prince's side, Erzael froze and looked genuinely terrified, and it took him a few minutes to regain his composure. It's because the situation reminded him of when a Knight of the Planetarium called him to ask for assistance during the War, only to be killed mid-sentence and a pained scream was the last message of that knight he received.