Azazel

"I am Azazel, testimony to darkness, and its king!"

- Azazel

Azazel is a legendary Fallen Angel and the Governor-General of Grigori. He is known as the Fallen Angel of Weaponry and the Lord of Wars. He is currently employed as a Chemistry teacher at Kuoh Academy and adviser of the Occult Research Club, as well as the adviser of Team DxD.

In the Cthulhu Mythos, he is known as the Outer God Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos.

Azazel
"A leader of the Grigori, angels that descended to earth to watch over mankind. They lusted after beautiful human women, making them their wives, and taught the humans forbidden knowledge, angering God. Azazel had knowledge of weapons and cosmetics. Men soon learned how to fight, and women learned to be promiscuous."

- Compendium about Azazel

Azazel ("God strengthens" or "Arrogant to God"), also known as Hazazel, Azazil or Azael, is one of the leaders of the Grigori, a group of fallen angels in Hebrew Lore who married with female humans and in the process produced the Nephilim and a fallen member of the watchers. He was a fallen angel who was offered goats as sacrifices.

Azazel was cast out of Heaven after he taught men how to make swords, knives, shields and breastplates; and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them; and all kinds of costly stones and all coloring tinctures. Because of this, the humans became corrupted and viewed themselves as invincible with such tools. When God saw what Azazel's actions have wrought he told Raphael to bind Azazel's hand and foot and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert and toss him therein. He would then place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there forever, and cover his face that he may not see light.

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. In Islam he is sometimes considered as the devil before he became a Jinn. In some depictions, he was the angelic name of Iblis.

Nyarlathotep
"A god of the Cthulhu mythos. He came to Earth in ancient times from outer space and is known as the Crawling Chaos. He acts as a proxy to his masters such as Azathoth, who have no intelligence to make their desires manifest in our world. Because he can assume various forms, he is known as a faceless god. He is particularly known as the Haunter of the Dark, and he seems to have other guises on Earth as well."

- Compendium about Nyarlathotep

Nyarlathotep was known to many as The Crawling Chaos, The God of a Thousand Forms, The Dweller in Darkness, The Faceless God, The Floating Horror, The Haunter of the Dark or many others, is an Outer God in the Cthulhu Mythos. He is the spawn of Azathoth. Like many of the well known Old Ones, he was created by H. P. Lovecraft.

Nyarlathotep differs from the other deities in the Mythos in a number of ways. Most of the Outer Gods are exiled to the stars, like Yog-Sothoth and Azathoth, and most of the Great Old Ones are sleeping and dreaming like Cthulhu; Nyarlathotep, however, is active and frequently walks the Earth, actively seeking to agitate the universe into madness, woe, and discord. He has been known as a manipulative, charismatic and cruel entity who enjoy bringing chaos to the many worlds he walks. He has "a thousand" other forms and manifestations, most reputed to be quite horrific and sanity-blasting.

While the other Mythos gods are often described as mindless or unfathomable, rather than truly malevolent, Nyarlathotep delights in cruelty, he is deceptive and manipulative, deceiving the antagonists of the mythos into believing he could grant them power (which he did at the cost of nearly losing their humanity) and manipulating them into becoming his pawns and even cultivates followers and uses propaganda to achieve his goals.

Appearance
Azazel appears as a tall and roguishly handsome man in his mid-30s, with a lean and muscular build. He has short black hair with golden bangs and a black goatee. Due to his personal interests, after losing his left arm in the Khaos Brigade's attack on the Three Factions' peace conference, he chose not to regenerate it but rather replacing it with a prosthetic arm created from his Artificial Sacred Gear research.

Like all angelic entities in their physical form, he has a total of twelve feathered-wings, with each wing having a wingspan of roughly 13-feet, to demonstrate his former position as a Seraph. In his case, particularly, he possesses a total of twelve corvid-like wings, which are described as a "neverending black" and crafted from "all the metals mankind used in their weaponry". Numerous brightly-glowing eyes are scattered across his wings, placed near the tips of each feather, though they are usually hidden using illusions.

During the summit, he wore a maroon-colored long coat with a wide high-collar that opened up at the hem. The long coat also featured two black belts around the wrists and four black bands on each arm, two of the bands at the wrist and the other two near the elbow. He also wore grey slacks and brown shoes.

While serving as a teacher at Kuoh Academy, he wears a knee-length dark-blue blazer with a light-blue dress shirt and black waistcoat underneath. He wears faded-purple slacks and black shoes. He also wears a tie and is occasionally seen wearing a white lab coat.

In his true form, Azazel is described as a coiling humanoid mass of serpent-like dragons formed out of darkness and insanity, always chaotic and desperately trying to attack one another. A shattered golden halo is on top of his head, forming a broken crown for a broken king. Three pairs of feathered-wings sprouted from behind him, each wing colored a never ending black, with glowing golden eyes scattered across them. His voice is described as thunderous and maddening, as if it was trying to draw out the darkest and most vile temptations inside the listeners' hearts.

Personality
It is hard to determine Azazel's true personality and motives. Despite being mainly seen as laid-back and a little 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, especially 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, Shemhazai and Baraqiel.

He is sly, cunning, and charismatic, being able to charm anyone he comes across with ease. He has complicated feelings about the fact many of his friends and acquaintances are all married and have a family of their own, often reminding him about his children who aren't quite as close to him as he wants them to be.

He is rather perverted, as Shemhazai stated he had hundreds of harems of 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.

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 one he had adopted, even when as far as to hide about them from his fellow Cadres for their safety. Demeter admitted that despite him being a "perverted overprotective good-for-nothing dad", he wasn't that "good-for-nothing". When he learned about the abuse and cruelty Vali had to suffer from his father and grandfather, he had to be restrained by the entire Grigori in order to stop him from starting a war against the Devil-kind as a whole.

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 non-Archangel to be able to mimic the Biblical God's Sacred Gear System and create the Artificial Sacred Gears, albeit less versatile and powerful compared to the real ones. He also has the habit of collecting rare Sacred Gears and mythological weapons from various cultures, mythologies, and religions, as he was the one who tracked down and harvested the Vritra's Sacred Gears from their past wielders just to "perfect" his collection and was described as being enraged when he found out he had let one of them escaped.

Despite his overall 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, who enjoyed corrupting humans and gods alike to see them fall into the depths of depravity and got 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 enjoy seeing innocent people suffer, much to the horror of his students and the questioning gaze of his angelic siblings. He revels in the misfortunes 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 seem to harm him, his children and students, or the Grigori 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 Kiba'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.

History
Like the rest of the leaders of the Grigori, Azazel lost his place as a Watcher and a Seraph of the Fifth Heaven after siring half-Angel offsprings with Edenim called the Nephilim, in addition to teaching humans forbidden knowledge that indirectly caused the destruction of the Edentith Civilization and Tellus Mahte, the primordial planet created by the Abrahamic God. During his time there, he had once written a report on his Artificial Sacred Gear, the Blazer Shining or Darkness Blade, which was published by Michael throughout the seven heavens much to his embarrassment.

He then joined the Grigori, an organization created by Samael mainly for Fallen Angels, and together with the other Cadres, manipulated the behind-the-scene due to the Archangel's own disinterest in ruling. He officially became the organization's leader after Samael's banishment in the aftermath of the Celestial War, after which he chose his trusted friends, Shemhazai and Baraqiel, to be his seconds-in-command.

At some point in the Bronze Age, he seduced and accidentally killed one of Raphael's priestesses, which angered the Archangel enough to punish him. Using Adamic Iron chains, Raphael chained him down in the Dudael mountain range in the Underworld before leaving him behind for thousands of years. There he stayed until he was rescued by the Elder Olympians in exchange for helping them win the Titanomachy against their Titan predecessors, which he gladly agreed to. He then adopted the six young gods as his own children afterward and taught him some of the knowledge he once taught the Edenim, allowing them to turn the tide of the war and became one of the strongest pantheons of the region.

Azazel is one of the survivors of the Great War, having ordered the Fallen Angel troops to retreat once their Faction's casualties became too great, much to many Cadres' dismay. Afterward, he started to research Sacred Gears, creating Artificial Sacred Gears and other objects related to them. He also founded the Grigori's Department of Special Technology solely for his research purpose, though it later on became a manufacturer for the organization's special items and weapons, mainly due to his fellow Cadres' nagging.

In the early 15th-century, he accidentally resurrected the Dragon King Fafnir when doing experiments on the legendary Rheingold from the Nibelungenlied, which he tamed and formed a contract with, creating his own Artificial Sacred Gear: the Down Fall Dragon Spear.

According to Odin, because of a petty grudge between him and Azazel, the Cadre had hid the news about the Dragon King's resurrection from the Norse Pantheon entirely, as it had become common knowledge when the pantheon was realized in 1870. He later on lent Fafnir to the Norse gods for a few decades, only to realize that the Norse had somehow perverted his Dragon when he found out Fafnir had been raiding the female Cadres' panties without letting him joined. Because of this, he decided to seal Fafnir inside the Down Fall Dragon Spear full time, only letting him out when the Artificial Sacred Gear required maintenance.

Sometimes in the early 20XX, Azazel found a young Vali Lucifer who had been abandoned by his parents, took him to Grigori and taught him how to properly use his powers along with his Sacred Gear while raising him.

Abilities
TBA

Powers
TBA

Inventions
Being the leader of the Grigori organization; that has done various research on Sacred Gears, Azazel has developed a number of inventions. 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 weaknesses 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 ininappropriate 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 when he was drunk, even he himself doesn't know the full potential of the car.
 * Doppelgänger Machine: A machine that was able to create multiple copies of a person, which had their sexual desires enhanced due to a failed experiment. It was later destroyed by Rias Gremory.
 * 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 the humans 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 go 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' technology used in Rating Game 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 Meeting, one of which could allow Gasper to control his Forbidden Balor View and the other to Issei to let him use the 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.

Artificial Sacred Gears

 * Down Fall Dragon Another Armor.gif]]Down Fall Dragon Spear: An Artificial Sacred Gear that has one of the Dragon Kings, Fafnir, sealed inside of it after he made a pact with him. It has the appearance ofa golden short spear which has a purple orb at its end. It was destroyed in the Hero Faction's attack on Kyoto.
 * Down Fall Dragon Another Armor: The Counter Balance of Down Fall Dragon Spear, which equipped Azazel with a golden Scale Mail which he based on Vali's Balance Breaker. It increased his offensive and defensive capabilities and allowed him to summon a two-pronged Spear of Light. However, the armor wasn't as powerful as genuine Scale Mail armor as Cao Cao noted that Azazel couldn't reflect Fafnir's power with it.


 * Blazer Shining or Darkness Blade: An Artificial Sacred Gear that takes the form of a sword with a mixture of light and darkness with high destructive powers.
 * Blazer Shining or Darkness Samurai Sword: An Artificial Sacred Gear that takes the form of a katana. Like the original, it possesses the same destructiveness powers, as well as the ability to cut down spirits without physical forms. It was later given to Tomoe Meguri.
 * Blazer Shining or Darkness Blade - Kitchen Knife Type: An Artificial Sacred Gear that takes the form of an ordinary kitchen knife that releases a slight golden aura. It can basically cut almost anything including evil spirits. It is later confiscated by Grigori.

Harming, Trapping, & Banishing

 * Witchcraft: As witchcraft is a form of magic wielded by witches to oppose beings who are angelic and divine in nature, especially powerful Seraphim such as Azazel. There are witchery spells and rituals that can be used to trap, weaken, and possibly hurt him, with some ritual even rumored to be capable of banishing him back to Limbo for an extended amount of time.
 * Enochian Magick: As Enochian Magick can affect all angelic beings, regardless of their alignments, it is one of the few Ancient Magick capable of affecting a powerful Cadre such as Azazel.
 * Brain Penetration: Fallen Angels like Azazel can be stunned and immobilized for several centuries by placing large metal spikes blessed in holy rituals inside of their head, as a means of temporarily sealing them.
 * Powerful Waves of Energy: Azazel, like many other angelic beings, can be hurt by powerful waves of energy. However, for an Fallen Angel of his ranking to receive serious damage from the attack, it will require what can only be described as 10,000 suns going supernova simultaneously in order to generate an energy wave of such proportion.
 * Divine Weapons: The divine weapons of the immortal gods, which are crafted from sacred metals and are imbued with their wielder's divinity, can be used to harm angelic beings like Azazel. However, for a high-ranked Fallen Angel such as him to be harmed by attacks formed of divine weapons, it will require the usage of the principal gods' Symbols of Power.

Killing

 * Enochian Weapons: Azazel can be hurt and killed using the heavenly weapons made out of Enochian metals. When his physical body is destroyed with an Enochian weapon, his angelic essence will be instantaneously transferred to the Empty until his physical body can be reformed, either by God's divine light or on its own, which will take him a rough estimation of around 1,2 billions years.
 * Angel Blade: Like other Angels, Azazel can be killed if the killer used his own Angel Blade as the weapon, incinerating his physical body and leaving a burned imprint of his wings on the floor where his body lies. Afterward, his angelic essence will be instantaneously transferred to the Empty until his physical body can be reformed, either by God's divine light or on its own, which will take him a rough estimation of around 1,2 billions years.
 * Original Longinus: As the original Longinus are the first Sacred Gears, created from the highest-ranked Enochian metals produced in the Fourth Heaven and forged by the greatest blacksmiths using top-tier Enochian technology, in addition to being imbued with God's divine light, users of the original 13 Longinus can possibly kill a Fallen Seraph such as Azazel if they have enough skills and experience. When his physical body is destroyed, his angelic essence will be instantaneously transferred to the Empty until his physical body can be reformed, either by God's divine light or on its own, which will take him a rough estimation of around 1,2 billions years.
 * Faustian Weapons: Azazel can be hurt and killed using the infernal weapons made out of Faustian metals. When his physical body is destroyed with a Faustian weapon, his angelic essence will be instantaneously transferred to the Empty until his physical body can be reformed, either by God's divine light or on its own, which will take him a rough estimation of around 1,2 billions years.
 * Primordials' Weapons: The weapons created and wielded by Primordial Entities can be used to seriously harm and even kill Azazel. When his physical body is destroyed with these weapons, there is a high chance that even his soul won't survive the attack and be absolutely destroyed beyond any salvation or resurrection, to the point where only the Omnipotent powers of God can possibly save him.

Trivia

 * Due to his habit of pushing paperwork onto his Vice-Governor General, Shemhazai, many occultists have mistakenly recorded the later as the leader of the Grigori while Azazel is his subordinate, instead of the opposite.
 * He is a fan of Minotaur 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 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.
 * Children of Azazel, both direct offsprings and adopted children, are known to be extremely talented warriors, though none of them are really sane.
 * He once made a wish for some of the angels to fall, especially Gabriel, though he was struck down by her 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 manger of Kuoh Town's women professional wrestling team which he named "Hyper-Dimensional Women’s Professional Wrestling".