The Gods of Shinza
Dies Irae
Kajiri Kamui Kagura
Avesta of Black and White
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Ashavan, the side of Good
Yazata
Quinn
- Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki
The main viewpoint character of the story. She is an automaton that has the unusual distinction of having both Good and Evil parents with her father being the great Archdemon Khvarenah. She is to gather an understanding of hope and humanities capability to create miracles in their darkest hours.
Her Commandment requires her to obey any order she receives provided it doesn't conflict with another order that carries higher priority, but in exchange she is able to fulfill those orders with absolute mastery no matter what it might be or if she has ever done it before.
- Artificial Human: Was created by Khvarenah as a means to gather hope and miracles for him to understand
- Black Box: Her body is treated as something of a mystery to how it works. It looks human, both inside and out, but it certainly doesn't function like one. It's clearly something artificial, and yet her wounds heal on their own and healing magic works just fine one her.
- Blind Obedience: Due to her Commandment she is forced to obey any order given to her unquestionably provided that it doesn't conflict with any prior orders of higher priority.
- Death of Personality: It is heavily implied that in the end her mind is swallowed by Magsarion as he ascends to Godhood.
- Determinator: Exemplified with her first fight with Frederica. She keeps on fighting against such a powerful opponent even as her limbs break and bend, skin tearing and vision fading, using all of her Divine Blessings just to keep up the pressure while enduring the Arch Demons relentless assault.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Fights mostly with her fists.
- The Heart: She is a very caring individual that tries to do her best to help others.
- Heroic RRoD: Due to the strength of the foes she has to face, she often has to push her body way beyond safe limits. After their fight with Frederica, Alma had to outright order Quinn to stay put and not move as her body was in such a sorry state that the slightest exertion could have severed her last tenuous grip on life.
- Heroic Second Wind: Gets utterly trounced by Frederica during their fight in Zahhak, until she asks her to be a better opponent for her...Which in turn gives Quinn a huge power-up and allowing her to fight back.
- Instant Expert: She cannot do anything unless ordered to, but once ordered she can do anything with perfect mastery.
- Joke and Receive: Of sort, but she half-jokingly tells herself that Roxxane must be a Dragvant due to her teasing while she and the other girls are in the bath. Unfortunately, turns out said joke was right on the mark.
- Line-of-Sight Name: Variation, but she took her name from the first person she attuned herself with, a queen named Quinn who plunged herself to her death to prevent the birth of her child.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Makes an amused note to herself in her first bout with Frederica where she is pushing herself and her body to realms beyond sanity that at the moment she is not much different from Magsarion and his endless recklessness.
- Seeing Through Another's Eyes: She can attune herself to other people's thoughts allowing her to see what they see.
- Telepathy: Can read others minds to an extent and also send thoughts to others, allowing her to act as a sort of communications array.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She is utterly terrified of the artifacts produced by Khvarenah.
- You Are Not Alone: She tries to give Magsarion a speech about how he is not alone, how he has those around him that truly do care for him such as Alma and that he should try and open up. He just ends up bursting out into laughter having none of it followed by him expressing that maybe he should have killed her a long time ago.
Magsarion
Massive Spoilers
- Voiced by: Kentarō Itō
The other main character of the story. The younger brother of the great hero Varhram, he is driven by an undying hatred of evil unlike that of any other and is perhaps the most dangerous individual under Yazata's employ.
His first Commandment forbids him from any kind of physical contact with others apart from those of shared killing intent, with the boon being that he gains additional power based on the total amount of killing intent in any given battle.
His second Commandment forbids him from doing anything unrelated to battle, such as eating, sleeping, excreting, and many other basic human necessities, with the boon being that he is able to strike at his enemies weak points, and if they have no weak points, he forcibly creates one.
His third, technically first chronologically, Commandment is that in exchange for "denying Varhram and not continuing his way of life", the boon he receives is "vanishing of parts resembling Varhram". Due to the extremely vague nature of this Commandment, many things could break it, such as simply comparing him to Varhram. But by the same token as it is so vague, the punishment for the Commandment being broken is simply intense agony.
His final Commandment is "remaking his existing Commandments, and not using them as he had until now", the boon he receives is "becoming an existence that exceeds Mithra's predictions". In order to defeat Mithra, who rules the universe and had planned all successive Throne era, Magsarion decided to remake his Commandment in a way she couldn't predict.
- Attack Its Weak Point: His second Commandment allows him to always strike his enemies weakness no matter what. And if they have no weakness, then he can create one.
- Ax-Crazy: No splitting hairs here, this guy is firmly off his rockers.
- Berserk Button: A lot of things will set him off, but doing or saying anything that links him to his brother will set him off bigtime. Turns out to be a very good reason for this. Whenever characters did this, even when being considerate, they nearly violated his third (technically his first, but it is the third revealed) Commandment the requires him to absolutely reject any similarity to Varhram. However, due to the Commandments vague nature and the fact that even Magsarion himself didn't fully understand it as he got it when he was still fairly young, instead of it being violated it would cause him intense pain instead.
- The Berserker: Fights with nothing but pure, unadulterated rage and tears foes apart with pure aggression without any semblance of self preservation.
- Blank Slate: He is little more than a hollow husk of a man put in motion by a bottomless rage, but as the story progresses he starts to absorb the ideals and wishes of those with powerful desires, allowing him to grow beyond his beginnings into something else.
- Death of Personality: In the end, the violent and borderline insane man that Magsarion was throughout the story is swallowed up by the numerous identities and wishes that he had absorbed into himself, becoming a bizarre kind of amalgamation of several characters that is described as an armor that can now ascend as a Hegemonic God but with the original either dying or at least being suppressed.
- Determinator: He knows he can never be the kind of hero his brother was, yet to him giving up is not an option. He will keep going on to fulfill his purpose of destroying evil until the bitter end as if he quits he will truly be a nobody.
- Deuteragonist: Alongside Quinn, he has the most focus on the story.
- The Dreaded: People, good and evil alike, ends up fearing this monster of a man. In the new world, his killing spree has lead to creepy bedtime stories being created were he is referred to as the Faceless Monster that is destroying the universe, one star at a time.
- The Faceless: His face is never shown in the artwork. Even when his younger self is shown he is shown to have a paper bag over his head concealing his face. That is cause there is nothing but a black void underneath as a result of his third commandment that rejects everything about Varhram.
- Family Relationship Switcheroo: He is initially made out to be Varhman's brother before it is revealed that he is actually his bastard son.
- Final Solution: Once he finally kills Nadare he utters a prayer of highest sincerity, to kill everyone. And thus, it is the beginning of the end.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Get's bisected by Munsarat in their first skirmish. Not that it stops him.
- Harmful Healing: The only way this guy ever use any kind of healing abilities is if it is for more offense as demonstrated with his special technique Gaokerena (created from using three Haoma (Healing) blessings and one Sam (Attack) blessing) which makes whatever Healing Factor the victim might have to go into overdrive, resulting in their bodies breaking down like they were made of sand.
- Hates Being Touched: Justified, his Commandment forbids and kind of non hostile physical contact so of course he would not be too kind the the though of touching someone else. This is why in their mock battle, Sirius has to fight like he intends to kill so that Magsarions Commandment isn't violated.
- Heroic Bastard: Umm... Heroic is stretching it but he is working for the good aligned Yazata and is the bastard child of Varhram and the Ahura Mazda possessed Priestess Quinn, making him the half-brother of Frederica and the son-in-law to Nahid. Him being Varhram's younger brother was just a huge lie to cover up this fact.
- Irrational Hatred: He holds and almost instinctual hatred towards his brother. And while he can name some reasons as to why, even he isn't sure why said hatred burns with such ferocity within him.
- It's the Only Way to Be Sure: How he justifies cutting down a whole village of good aligned people. They had come into contact with a deva that they ended up viewing as a god with Magsarion stating that they could all undergo what is basically an alignment change with the "god" gone. Quinn notes that while possible, the chances of this actually happening are infinitesimally small to the point that most consider it a fairy-tale.
- Knight Templar: The guy is an infamous fanatic when it comes to eliminating evil, including slaughtering a whole village of good aligned people just to deal with a single deva problem. While almost all veterans of Yazata are overzealous to the extreme, Magsarion is described to be in a league of his own.
- Leeroy Jenkins: His preferred method of combat is just to jump straight into the fray guns blazing with little consideration for anything else. This attitude causes problems for the others as his behavior tends to throw their plans into disarray.
- The Needless: His armor makes sure of that he doesn't need any kind subsistence, rest or toilet breaks allowing him to keep going without interruption. Just as well due to his second Commandment forbidding him from doing anything unrelated to battle, including the aforementioned activities.
- Omnicidal Maniac: During the final chapter he begins a crusade of annihilation against everyone alive in the new world, all to reduce the spiritual mass of the universe, causing it to implode on itself so that he can reach God as he currently lacks the qualities to form his own hegemony.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After Quinn gives him a You Are Not Alone speech, she can't help but feel a chill down her spine as Magsarion erupts into laughter, something that is suffice to say unusual for the mad Yazata.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Ferdows speculates that part of the reason that Magsarion is so driven in what he does is, more than simple revenge, a sense of duty to live up to his older brothers legacy. Of course, it is neither. More than anything, Magsarion wants to distance himself from his brother and will do whatever he can to be as different as possible. This is just another instance of other people forcing their preconceived notions onto him.
- Parting-Words Regret: Quinn speculates that the reason for his de-aging is due to him regretting some of the things he said and felt about his brother prior to his death. The de-aging being a way for him to start over and clear the one thing he regrets.
- The Power of Hate: While most of the side of Good are hateful, Magsarion is that taken to an absolute extreme. His hatred alone is what fuels him and what allows him to power through everything he comes across.
- Power of the Void: He holds the immutability of "mu", void or nothingness, which gives him a host of bizarre traits. The most immediately noticeable is his lack of a proper body, just being a swirling mass of black flames. The other is that he acts as a sort of sponge for people's wishes and desires, absorbing them and incorporating them into his own existence.
- Pulling Themselves Together: His armor seems to put his two halves together again after Munsarat slice him in two.
- Psychological Projection: This trope forms a central criticism surrounding Magsarion. The younger brother of the great hero Varhman, following his death, now has everyone saddling him with being their beacon of hope and constantly project their assumptions onto him. He is left to reject all that his brother was just to try and be his own person, and yet people around him keep ignoring his true self, constantly assuming they know all about him and what he is thinking when nothing could be further from the truth. This in turn only ends up fueling his hatred.
- Reality Warper: Whenever Magsarion claims that he can hear the heartbeat of his long dead brother, strange things start to happen as he starts to wear away at the very fabric of reality itself.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Many speculate that the reason for his bottomless hatred for Evil comes from the death of his brother at the hands of Khvarenah.
- Screaming Warrior: Always seem to have a knack for screaming his lungs out whenever he enters battle with thunderous battlecries.
- Shadow Archetype: He is an Apoptosis, a being born from someone's self destructive desires with inverse values from the original. In his case, he was born from the divine blade Ahura Mazda.
- Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: He hates the kind of blind heroism often spoken of in stories, viewing it as disgusting and shallow.
- Sword Beam: Is able to create a flying shockwave from his sword via his Kamangir technique, created by combining Sam and Fravard blessings.
- Tin Tyrant: Violently unstable and covered head to toe in armor.
- Token Evil Teammate: The guys ruthlessness among the Yazata is unmatched, he constantly defies orders and acts on his own, and in general he makes others, especially Samluch's, stomachs churn. A far cry from his brother. Turns out there is a reason for this as one of his Commandments require him to reject and be as different as possible to Varhram. Though when Varhram's true nature is revealed it suddenly blows open to floodgates to allowing him to grow into his own person.
- Training from Hell: This guy puts himself through some absolutely grueling training in order to keep up with his enemies. He trains to the point that the whole area he trained in was reduced to a barren wasteland where nothing would ever grow again.
- The Unfettered: Has absolutely zero restraint or remorse when it comes to his actions.
- Unstoppable Rage: Pretty much his default state is that of raw fury. When he enters a fight that fury will boil over in spectacular fashion and will keep him going regardless of what kind of injuries his body suffers.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: While calling him sweet might be stretching it, when he was de-aged after a battle with Mashyana he is shown to be a far-cry from the evil slaying obsessed nutjob he is currently.
- Weak, but Skilled: He lacks any kind of natural talent or powers likes his older brother did but he compensates with furious training to make himself as strong as he is.
- Would Hurt a Child: Will not hesitate to cut down children for any reason as demonstrated with poor Layley.
Samluch
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- Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō
One of the latest recruits of Yazata, among the strongest of Wahman Yast. She quickly takes the role of a doting big sister for the protagonists, being quite sociable unlike Quinn and Magsarion.
Her Commandment grants her enhanced physical strength the more she gets injured in battle, but forbids her from ever healing her wounds.
- Arm Cannon: One of the ways she uses her artificial arm is as a storage for excess energy after a fight. This energy she can then release at the start of another fight, firing it from the arm after using a pain trigger to active her Commandment.
- Artificial Limbs: Her right arm and left leg are prosthetic's. Despite there being magic that can heal her injuries she opts not to have herself healed due to her commandment making her stronger the more injured she is and prosthetic's don't break that rule.
- Cool Big Sis: Firmly acts as the mature big sister of the group.
- Fiery Redhead: Red-haired and has the burning temper to match.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Samluch is someone who fights exclusively using her fists. Even the fighting spirit produced by her takes the shape of giant fists in order to keep up the pummeling.
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: At one point she wears a replica of Magsarions armor after she had been physically killed. Unlike his version, hers doesn't include a helmet while she also happens to be one of the characters one could reasonably pin as "good".
- Ki Manipulation: Specifically, she can manipulate a kind of fighting spirit that results from her Commandment, most commonly used to create huge energy fists to pummel her opposition.
- Living on Borrowed Time: Despite how resilient she is, eventually her body can't take it anymore resulting in her effectively dying. She is however put in a replica of Melek Tawus, Magsarions armor, which distorts reality in such a way that she can cheat death. It comes at the cost of her memories however as the armor takes them as an offering. And once she is no longer able to offer memories to the armor, it's effects will cease, causing her to die for real.
- Locked into Strangeness: Her hair turns white after she was put into the Melek Tawus to save her life.
- Major Injury Underreaction: It is kinda a requirement for her to not be bothered by major injuries due to the quirks of her commandment and to still be able to fight.
- New Meat: Has only just recently been drafted into Yazata at the start of the story as Quinn is giving her a rundown of the fundamentals.
- Only a Flesh Wound: No matter how severe her injuries, thanks to her commandment she will only grow stronger and being more capable at fighting. The only thing that would put her down is for her to either be beheaded or having her heart or head crushed.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: She has no problem with wearing revealing outfits and the like.
- Wound That Will Not Heal: While her numerous battle wounds appear healed on the surface, underneath they are still there and makes her suffer constant pain as a result.
Zurvan
- Voiced by: Takeshi Maeda
A unusual Yazata from Wahman Yast and a equal to Magsarion in terms of military exploits. He was the one responsible for Quinn's enlistment, being the first Yazata she met years ago. He's also infamous among his peers for partying a lot, taunting and messing with people for fun, resulting in everyone hating his guts.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He has an outstanding military record, but you wouldn't be able to tell from the way he behaves.
- Cain and Abel: He is the brother of the Archdemon Mashyana whom pursues him relentlessly in order to cure the rot he somehow inflicted upon her. Despite being of opposite alignments however, Zurvan still loves his sister.
- Firing in the Air a Lot: Really likes to fire his guns randomly in the air when in high spirits such as during the Verethragna festivities.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: No one within Wahman Yast likes the guy. This when even people such as Magsarion has his supporters.
- The Gadfly: He is someone who loves to get on other peoples nerves simply for the heck of it. This guy manages to even get on Quinn's nerves, to the point that she even considered killing him even though it would have broken her Commandment.
- The Gunslinger: Mostly uses his gun in fights, and he's crazy good with it.
- The Heretic: Due to his preference for guns he is viewed with even more scorn than usual as they are viewed as heretical weapons without skill or soul.
- Nature Spirit: Subverted. As he is the brother to Mashyana, he is also a Star Spirit, or rather, he should be. Yet everything about him is human. This discrepancy is something even he has no answer for.
- Nerves of Steel: When he teleported Magsarion away from Arzhang to keep him from going on a rampage and for his own amusement, he manages to perfectly keep his calm as Magsarion stares him down oozing murderous intent.
- Normally, I Would Be Dead Now: Thirteen years ago he was supposedly devoured by his sister and yet he shoved up in Wahman Yast perfectly fine. Although Zurvan remembers having used a teleportation spell at the last second, though he suspects that there is something else at work.
- The Nose Knows: He has a superb sense of smell, a trait he shares with his sister.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: There is generally only one situation that will make his loose his perpetually wisecracking persona; whenever the archdemon Mashyana, his sister, is around.
- Power Nullifier: His Commandment is an odd one. It is a Commandment that forbids him from having a Commandment. It has the boon of negating any power born from the current Law of the world, including other Commandments.
- Quick Draw: The guys draw is so quick it is ridiculous. At one point Quinn had synchronized with him allowing her to sense everything about him, and he still caught her off guard with just how fast he drew.
- Reality-Breaking Paradox: The basis for how his Commandment works is basically that he is forbidden from having a Commandment. This results in him being able to quite literally break the laws of the current reality and anything associated with it. Even the rules of Avesta itself does not apply to him making him perhaps the only being in existence that is truly neutral in this world of Black and White.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Blonde hair? Check. Prefers guns? Check. Requires the patience of a saint just to be around? Ooh Check. He is basically yet another Shirou, down to having the same voice actor.
- Thrill Seeker: Is deliberately sabotaging various plans whenever he senses that something big is about to happen, all so that he can find the thrill and joy of whatever chaos ensues.
- Will Not Tell a Lie: He absolutely despises lies and will always tell the truth. Though this will not stop him from twisting the truth a little or leave out certain bits of information.
Ferdows
- Voiced by: Ayaka Fukuhara
Another member of Yazata recruited at the same time as Quinn. He's one of the few who actively supports Magsarion despite his issues, seemingly seeing him as the true embodiment of justice, who follows his ideals regardless of the rules imposed by the Yazata.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: It is very easy to mistake him for a girl with his feminine features and long hair. It's to the point that he is able to convincingly pass as a handmaiden in a full Bedlah Babe outfit with even Quinn finding him mad cute in it, much to his own embarrassment.
- Eldritch Transformation: He witnessed the law of the Naraka and it turned him into a incomprehensible abomination.
- Failure Hero: He doesn't have much self esteem and despite his best efforts he just never seem to be able to succeed at what he does. This ends up being the key reason why he was chosen to be the next Nadare, a position only given to the universe's biggest failure.
- Fan Boy: Is something of a fanboy for Magsarion. This ends up coming back hard as him idolizing Magsarion leads him to take up another Commandment, one nearly identical to his.
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: He is chosen to be the next Nadare once the universe undergoes Tentsui, with all the baggage that comes with that.
- Knight in Sour Armor: Bitter and cynical on the surface, yet underneath just wants to do the right thing and to be a hero for others.
- The Lost Lenore: To him, the death of Marika hit him quite hard and it haunts him through the story.
- Mercy Kill: Magsarion puts him out of his misery after having been transformed into some kind of abomination.
- The Rival: Has something of a friendly rivalry with Quinn.
- Situational Sword: The way his Commandment works is that it grants him different powers depending on the day of his home planet, though he is only allowed to use it once per day. Some of these effects can also be subpar or even detrimental. As a result he carries around a special watch that tells him the current day of his home.
Alma
- Voiced by: Shiho Kawaragi
One of the survivors of Khvarenah's attack 20 years ago, and a childhood friend of Magsarion. At the beginning of Avesta, she's currently on a scouting mission in Zahhak, the domain of the Sixth Archdemon, Kaikhosru.
Her Commandment allows her to hide her true Avesta and disguise as a member of Dragvant, but forbids her from ever sleeping with members of Ashavan. She can also gain the power to kill any individual from Dragvant she has slept with, including Archdemons.
- Berserk Button: Slighting Sirius in any way while in her presence is a surefire way to set her off.
- Childhood Friend: With Magsarion, when he was still a relatively innocent kid.
- Determined Defeatist: When faced with Frederica, a being way out of her league, she knows that she won't stand a chance yet stands her ground despite this fact.
- Devious Daggers: Her main weapon is a katar for easy assassinations.
- Heroic Seductress: Thanks to how her power works, she can easily seduce unsuspecting men with her looks and then taking their lives quickly after they have slept with her.
- Heroic Selfdeprecation: Due to the way she is forced to work she has come to be filled with self loathing and now views herself as more of a weapon than a human.
- The Mole: Spent 5 years in Zahhak waiting for an opportunity to become a member of Kaikhosru's harem in an attempt to assassinate him.
- Nerves of Steel: It is a testament to her resolve that she can keep up her charade of both being a Dragvant and having sex with them when such an act is seen as among the greatest humiliations in this culture so focused on black and white.
- One-Hit Kill: She can kill any man she has had sex with regardless of the power disparity between her and her target. She can even do it regardless of the distance between herself and the target.
- Out with a Bang: Can inflict this on anyone who has sex with her, albeit it requires more for powerful individuals like Archdemons.
- Power Incontinence: When in enemy territory, she can't turn her Commandment off even when alone with allies. This is something that annoys Samluch as having someone that oozes Evil like this right next her makes her quite uncomfortable.
- Summon Bigger Fish: Her final trump card against the Man-Murdering Demons is to call on Kaikhosru himself, taking advantage of the fact that she is now a mistress of his as well as him not taking kindly to having these visitors wreaking havoc in what's essentially his own backyard.
Roxanne
- Can't Have Sex, Ever: Her Commandment requires her to engage in absolute celibacy, with the boon being that she can mask her true Avesta.
- Evil All Along: Is revealed to be a Dragvant and a servant of Kaikhosru using the boon of her Commandment to act as The Mole for him.
- The Gadfly: She certainly seems to like to get under people's skin for her own amusement, Alma's especially. Though as it turns out, she was only doing to help Alma went some of her frustrations.
- The Medic: She is one of the best Haoma users among the Yazata, thus making her perfect for the healing role.
- Metaphorically True: Her uplifting speech during the Verethragna was as Samluch quickly noted, not technically a lie, but was just filled with carefully chosen sugary words and without anything actually concrete on offer. It's whole purpose is little more than propaganda to instill some hope in the masses.
Incest
- Crossdresser: Is a woman crossdressing as a man.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: In an inverse when compared to Ferdows, she is ridiculously easy to mistake for a man.
- Meaningful Name: She's an amnesiac, time-traveling version of the archdemon Mashyana, whose brother/creation, Zurvan, was her lover.
Ashozushta
- Affectionate Nickname: The others affectionally refer to her as A-chan.
- Cute Owl: She is a gigantic owl with the mentality of a small child making her quite adorable regardless of which form she acts in.
- Giant Flyer: Her true form is that of a giant owl, and due to her Commandment she has to stay airborne constantly.
- Ironic Fear: She is an owl and is scared of the dark.
- Stealth Expert: She is able to conceal herself to pretty much all forms of detection, to the point that even the Demon Kings would have trouble finding her. Doubly impressive given her massive size.
- Token Mini-Moe: Her astral body is that of a small ten year old child making her the one, by appearances, youngest of the Yazata.
Sirius
The Holy King of Wahman Yast, leading the Yazata in their fight against the forces of Dragvant.- Big Good: He's the current leader of the Yazata, one of the strongest groups of Good-aligned warriors. Eventually however he starts to come to view good as worthless and falls deeper and deeper into self loathing, believing that he must become the steppingstone for the true hero. This leads to him developing a mindset that he must become the greatest of all evils to devour all evils.
- Dreaming of Things to Come: When he was a little boy he dreamed of being a hero greater than anything that had ever existed. This dream ended up translating into naive pride until he was defeated by a young farmboy. He then realized that the dream was really about that farmboy and they ended up becoming lifelong friends.
- Enemy Mine: At one point he forms an alliance with the Arch Demon Kaikhosru in order to try and get at Mithra.
- Hidden Depths: There is a lot more to the man than what is initially revealed. Most notably his jealousy towards Varhram for loosing Nahids love and a hatred towards the divine. But also that, underneath all that cynicism, he is just a simple man who wanted a simple world without the rule of a God.
- Lonely at the Top: Without Varhram nor Nahid at his side, he became a bitter man when hitting his 40's, as seen by his hair turning gray.
- Older Than They Look: The guy is in his 40's yet looks almost twice that age.
- Parental Substitute: He acted as the closest thing Alma had to a father, raising and training her from a young age.
- Power Nullifier: As he acts as the source for the Star Spirit Divine Blessings, he can also cancel any of them used against him with ease.
- Rage Against the Heavens: He is aware of the true nature of their world and absolutely loathes it, seeking to end the reign of the Gods by any means necessary. He is even willing to violate the law of Avesta if he feels he has to.
- The Reveal: He has built a Hegemonic wish based around being the ultimate evil, but it is revealed that it is a corrupted version of his true wish. It's name? Paradise Lost, Godless Paradise of the Ascended.
- Unexpected Successor: It was Nahid who was originally supposed to be the Holy King (or Queen as the case may be). However due to her and Varhram being so inseparable, Sirius decided to take the mantle himself so that his best friend as well as his beloved sister could be together.
Varhram
A legendary figure among the Yazata, famous for taking down three Archdemons at once, a feat that no one has ever seen in millennia. He was Sirius' best friend ever since childhood, and was the strongest warrior of Wahman Yast in history. He ultimately died 20 years ago during the prologue, at the hands of the First Archdemon Khvarenah, an event that left a huge scar on many people, especially Sirius, his fiancée Nahid and his younger brother Magsarion.
- The Ace: The guy is almost surreally good at everything he does, to the point that he can be considered a God amongst men.
- Beneath the Mask: There is a lot more to this guy than what initially meets the eye. At first he comes across as the archetypical hero, charismatic, virtuous and upstanding. And yet underneath all that he is almost The Sociopath, distant and manipulative without any kind of drive other than the fact that he can do it. And once again underneath that he is someone who just wants to be recognized, a lonely man who feels like he is a reader of a book, having a full view of the world and everyone in it, but is unable to stand side-by-side with those that inhabit it. And in the end, underneath everything is just a man who wants to feel just as flawed as everyone else, who stands on the same ground.
- Broken Pedestal: Impressive given Magsarion's already abysmal opinions about his father, but the full reveal of Varhram's nature still manages to disgust him.
- Empty Shell: Despite his reputation as the ideal hero, in truth he had no kind of aspirations or drives or any kind. He was just a hollow man doing the things he did just cause he could. Not to save others, not to prove himself, not to further some grand plan, nothing. Even Magsarion's conception was just a result of this.
- Farm Boy: He was but a humble farmer's boy until he ended up defeating Sirius and go on to be hailed as the greatest hero who had ever lived.
- Flawed Prototype: He has the powers of Aeon's, the ability to bring spirits to life through their memories and wishes. The problem is that he was born way too early. His existence was only meant to come into fruition after several divine eras had passed, becoming the protagonist of the canceled Pantheon. This mixed with his own limited ability to understand others makes this power a far cry from what it is meant to be. However, as this is an ability originally meant for someone to act as the Top God of the series entire divine pantheon, even in an incomplete state it is still an absurdly powerful ability, especially when put in a regular world.
- Ideal Hero: In life he was pretty much the definition of the kind of hero most would look up to and aspire to be.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Was one for many people in Wahman Yast, and was betrothed to the princess Nahid.
- Lonely at the Top: He was a man so perfect and so pure that he just couldn't look down at others and see them as equals which left him feeling extremely lonely despite how adored he was.
- Martyr Without a Cause: He had no reasons for his heroics. He only ever did what he did cause he could, nothing more.
- Posthumous Character: Died 20 years prior to the start of the story in the disastrous battle against Khvarenah.
- Walking Spoiler: It is pretty much impossible to talk about this character at depth without going into some serious spoiler territory.
- World's Strongest Man: Before his death he was known as perhaps the strongest warrior the Yazata had ever seen having taken down no less than 3 Archdemons by himself during his lifetime, which is all that have been taken down during the whole of Wahman Yast's 2000 year history. In fact, according to Masada, in the canceled Dies Irae Pantheon he would have been in the same rarity tier as the Hegemonic and Transcendent Gods, being the only non-god in the tier.
Nahid
The younger sister of Sirius, known for her kindness and tremendous magic power, and the fiancée of Varhram. Alongside him, she was considered the most powerful woman of Wahman Yast, able to manipule 2000 Star Spirits at once. Upon his death however, she entered a catatonic state and was put into a pseudo-cryogenic stasis to prevent her from losing herself.- Benevolent Mage Ruler: Her benevolence is perhaps her most defining trait and is among the most powerful individuals that have ever existed. She was actually considered for the role of Holy King before Sirius decided to take to role to allow her to continue lead the front-lines together with her beloved.
- Broken Bird: Varhram's death hit her pretty hard to put it mildly. She was put in time stasis just to keep her from completely breaking.
- Broken Smile: In her current state she is just sitting in a colorless empty room staring out a window with a gentle smile and tears streaming down her face, frozen in time.
- Put on a Bus: She's currently in time stasis, which can be undone by Sirius when the time is right.
- World's Strongest Woman: Similar to Varhram, she had access to downright unimaginable power when compared to everyone else. At her height she could communicate with and command over 2000 Star Spirits simultaneously.
Ahura Mazda, The Divine Sword
The spirit of the Divine Sword that has existed since the universe's inception. She initially appeared in Quinn's mind before possessing a priestess to make herself known.- Black Eyes of Crazy: Inverted, she has black sclerae and is the ultimate force of good. Eventually however she is revealed to have a kind of madness, namely one of love.
- Demonic Possession: Heroic version, she possesses the body of the original Quinn to interact with everyone else.
- God in Human Form: She is a sensory for Mithra, and like Yakou she has a high degree of independence from the god she spawned from.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: She is an immutable being and can never be corrupted and brought to the side of evil. Even the universe itself undergoing a Face–Heel Turn won't change that. She will always remain among the forces of good.
- The Mistress: She the mistress to Varhram.
- The Omniscient: As a result of her Commandment she has the boon of omniscience at the cost of having to conceal and never reveal the truths about the world.
Dragvant, the side of Evil
The Seven Archdemons
A group of seven beings of Dragvant among the most powerful in existence. Each of them have a specific title and rank, from the strongest to the weakest, and they all inhabit a personal domain like the Yazata, which usually extends to an entire planet or another dimension entirely, and acts as an extension of their very being.
- Demon Lords and Archdevils: They all have a myriad of servants of varying power to do their bidding.
- Prescience by Analysis: It is eventually revealed that the Seven Demon Lords are actually a result of a system imposed by Mithra to try and simulate and predict the archetypes of the future Hegemonic Gods of the Shinza verse. As their numbers indicate, she had planned for it to total at seven but as fans of the series know, things kinda went off the rails resulting in nine of them, possibly ten.
- Random Power Ranking: Rather than being ranked by raw power, they are ranked according to the threat they pose to Wahman Yast as well as the amount of atrocities they have to their name. This results in individuals such as Kaikhosru being ranked fairly low despite his power as he mostly keep to his own realms and have a more pragmatic approach to his evil. And then there is Aka Manah who is just a giant question mark and as a result is ranked at the bottom by default.
- Red Baron: Each demon lord also have a title associated with them:
- Khvarenah, the Workshop of Destruction.
- Nadare, the Fractured World.
- Bahlavan, the Violent Locust Swarm.
- Frederica, the Princess of Slaughter.
- Mashyana, the Immobile Impurity.
- Kaikhosru, the Covetous Starving Dragon.
- Aka Manah, the Wicked Admonition Ekou. note
- Reality Warper: All of the Archdemons has a power called the "Power of Ego" which let's them distort the surrounding world according to their desires.
- Really 700 Years Old: All of them have existed for centuries, excepting Frederica who is only 20 years old.
- Rule of Seven: There cannot be more than seven Archdemons, but they have their tremendous powers to compensate.
- Seven Deadly Sins: Played with. Instead of the standard sins, each of the demon lords are associated with a certain "malignancy":
- Khvarenah's is Oblivion.
- Nadare's is Contradiction.
- Bahlavan's is Violence.
- Frederica's is Ignorance.
- Mashyana's is Degeneration.
- Kaikhosru's is Infatuation.
- Aka Manah's is Fiction.
- Small, Secluded World: Similar to the Yazata, they possess the ability to manage an entire dimension/planet and ruling it as they please.
- Specifically Numbered Group: Their numbers are always capped at seven. No more, no less. Should one fall, then another one will rise to take their place within a year.
- Standard Evil Organization Squad: All 7 of them belong to Dragvant and act as its top leaders.
- We ARE Struggling Together: Despite being compelled to fight against Ashavan, some of them don't actually participate in the war at all, and in the case of Bahlavan, even kill other members of Dragvant because of his Commandment. Even during the Gathas where fighting is technically forbidden, or rather, pointless, it still descends into an all out brawl between most of those present.
- World's Strongest Man: They represent this for Avesta as a whole.
Khvarenah
Khvarenah
- Archnemesis Dad: Deliberately invoked. He created Quinn to both learn about Good as well as to eventually face him down. When she states her intention to eventually return and fight him, he states that he is looking forward to it.
- Badass Cape: His Astral Body possesses a cape made of 500 galaxies.
- Blessed with Suck: His Commandment basically forces him to perpetuate the war by constantly creating the weapons everyone uses. And the boon pretty much ensures that he creates endless suffering for everyone by just existing. A pretty problematic ability for someone that simply wants to create and see beauty in everything. In fact, if not for the Commandment he could very well have become a Hegemonic God whose world could have been even more perfect and peaceful than even the 3rd and 5th Heaven's.
- Celestial Body: In his Astral Body, Khvarenah has a cape woven from 500 hundred galaxies, leading to this effect.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: As he is of the Evil side, there are many things that he doesn't understand about Good. As a result he created Quinn in order to find some understanding on what it is that drives the Good side, especially the concept of hope in the face of defeat.
- Long Haired Prettyboy: His Astral Body takes the form of a young and pretty boy with hair longer than his whole body. And fittingly, he has many of the same features that Quinn has.
- Planet Eater: Planets, Stars, Galaxies. It's all food for this guy.
- Red Baron: "Workshop of Destruction", "Forge of Ruin" and "Star Cluster of Destruction" are some of his better known titles. He is also known as "Halo of Light".
- Ultimate Blacksmith: Really unusual case. He is constantly producing weapons and gadgets as a waste product of his usual goings on and is basically the pinnacle of engineering and tool crafting. The Yazata have a duty to recover what is essentially his garbage in order to prevent it falling into the hands of evil. Magsarion's armor for instance is one such object.
Nadare
Nadare
- Black Eyes of Crazy: Downplayed, she has only one one eye with a black sclera and is the ultimate representation of evil.
- Blessed with Suck: Has perhaps one of the most powerful Commandments in the series, but it also comes with some of the worst baggage. Specifically, it has the boon of giving her power close to that of a Transcendence God and the trait of acting as a Sensory for Mithra. However it also forces her to act as a supervisor of the struggle in between Good and Evil, forced to be a plaything to fate and to ultimately be tied to everlasting failure, and her final fate is to simple serve as the Final Boss for whatever challenger that stands before her and to herald the rebirth of the world when Good and Evil trade places. And unlike other Commandments, this one cannot be violated, forever shackling her to her role.
- Cosmic Plaything: She is pretty much nothing but a toy for Mithra, forever bound to manage to war between Good and Evil, with the only end in sight is to be killed by whatever hero faces her.
- Duality Motif: Her whole design is about invoking the opposing and dualistic nature of black and white, with things being black as the abyss on one side while the other side is as stainless white as the void. It extends even to her eyes being mirrored in color to each other.
- Evil Counterpart: She is basically the ultimate representation of Evil and as such stands as a mirror to the Divine Blade Ahura Mazda, though in a different way from Aka Manah. Additionally, both Ahura Mazda and Nadare are the Sensories of Mithra, both representing different sides of the same coin and having similar roles to play in this universe. The only real difference is that Ahura Mazda is a permanent fixture while Nadare is replaced with each cycle.
- Evil Will Fail: She is fated to always fail and her ultimate role is to just serve as a Final Boss that is meant to fall at someone else's hand.
- Failure Is the Only Option: She is bound by karma to always fail whatever she attempts, nothing will ever go her way and any plan she attempts to cook up will either fizzle out or blow up in her face.
- God in Human Form: She is a sensory of Mithra. However she also plays with the typical archetypes quite a bit in that she was not born as one, but rather became one after she was made into Nadare.
- Humanoid Abomination: There is something fundamentally wrong with her existence, as if the universe itself is trying to reject her, which could be the reason of her teleportation's. Similarly, she has abilities that just seem to defy any semblance of common sense within the world, like she has some kind of authority over the universe itself.
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: Unlike other Commandments, hers cannot be violated, preventing her from taking her own life despite how much she might want to do it.
- The Jinx: Thanks to her second Commandment she is able to use her fate of failure to make others always fail around her..
- Legacy Character: Nadare is in fact not a name, but a title passed on to different individuals.
- Name Amnesia: When she became Nadare she had her name stripped from her, only remembering it as she lay dying, Sita.
- Onee-sama: In a bizarre way she acts as a sort of big sister figure to the other Archdemons, treating them with a friendly sisterly affection. This is especially true towards Frederica, being described like a little sister to her.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Has extremely pale, almost white, skin with pitch black hair though with the scattered white stripes.
- Reality Warper: While the setting is full of Reality Warpers, Nadare's special ability called "Fractured World" allows her to basically sow chaos in a physics sense on a gigantic scale. She can fuses objects together or separate them in order to basically turn it into something the ought not be, be if people or even the stars and planets themselves.
- Really 700 Years Old: Is by far the oldest out of all the Archdemons and is speculated to have existed since the worlds inception.
- Sensual Spandex: Wears a grey or perhaps a sheer black skintight bodysuit underneath her regular accessories that doesn't leave much to the imagination. Given the technologically advanced nature of her realm, it also somewhat crosses over into Future Spandex.
- Thanatos Gambit: In a devious move she managed to weaponize her karma of eternal failure via her second Commandment that allows her to control fate in exchange for carrying out her role, creating a bizarre paradox. As she is bound to her first Commandment to always carry out her role, that means that the second one cannot fail, she is bound by fate yet can manipulate it at will. It becomes so bizarre that she is basically an embodiment of irrationality, making everyone else fail around her. And the only way to get around this is to be more powerful than her, more powerful than someone with the power of a Transcendence God, thus someone who can challenge the Gods. In short, she has set things up in such a way that her final failure will be the biggest middle finger to the powers that be.
Bahlavan
Bahlavan
A wandering warrior who's mostly driven by his desire to fight strong foes. Despite being the 3rd Archdemon, he has killed far more than most of the others, including members of Dragvant. His Commandment forces him to attack everything on his sight at full power, be it human, insect, alien or even Star Spirit, all for the sole purpose of becoming the strongest warrior of the universe.- Above Good and Evil: Enforced by his Commandment. Because he's forced to fight anyone he sees, he's responsible for killing numerous members of Ashavan and Dragvant, including Archdemons.
- Ax-Crazy: This guy kills just for sport. And he is not picky either, he will kill whatever or whoever cross his path. And his Commandment assures that he does this as it requires him to fight anyone or anything that he makes contact with at his full power. This has resulted in him being the leading cause of up 90% of all Archdemon kills.
- Evil Counterpart: Samluch likens him to Magsarion, since both of them are infamous for slaying everything in their path.
- Establishing Character Moment: His introduction during the Gathas involves him smashing in Nadare's face so hard she is reduced to atoms before she can even finish greeting him and he keeps going even as she keeps on regenerating due to the laws of the Gathas. His next scene immediately following this shows him fighting the Star Spirit Spenta Mainyu, known for killing an Archdemon by itself, on a neutron star. Following a battle of epic proportions, he manages to kill the Star Spirit, while thanking it for making him even stronger than before.
- Fiery Redhead: His official art shows him to be red-headed, and he's by far the most ferocious of the Archdemons.
- Me's a Crowd: His Commandment has the boon of constantly creating copies of himself.
- Offhand Backhand: Reduces Frederica to a bloody pulp without even looking when she attempts to strike him from behind. Of course, this doesn't stick.
- Red Is Violent: Has a primarily red color scheme and is a vicious Blood Knight and is associated with the malignancy of Violence.
- Single-Stroke Battle: His duel against Spenta Mainyu ultimately came down to just a single strike where Bahlavan survived the star spirits opening strike followed by him delivering a single, earth shattering punch to it's head, crushing it and sealing the duel.
- Supernatural Floating Hair: His hair is near constantly floating as a result of his immense fighting spirit. In fact it is capable of rising through the air even under the extreme gravitational influence of a neutron star.
- Team Killer: Several Archdemons were actually slain by his own hand.
- To Be a Master: He desires nothing more than to be the strongest there is. His Commandment further takes it to its logical extreme.
Frederica
Frederica
- Voiced by: Mamiko Noto
- Always Accurate Attack: At one point, she limits her vision which in turn causes her to gain the power of being able to ignore distance and angle when attacking her foes.
- Antagonistic Offspring: She is a Dragvant born from Ashavan parents so she is this trope by default. Doubly so as she is eventually revealed to be the daughter of Sirius.
- The Baby of the Bunch: She is the youngest of the Archdemons by a wide margin at a measly 20 years old and is as a result treated as little more than a spoiled child by the others.
- Born from a Dead Woman: She crawled out of her dead mother's body after she committed suicide in the prologue.
- Complete Immortality: As long as she doesn't try to avoid and blocking attacks, she's effectively immortal.
- Depower: After Munsarat betrays her she willfully violates her own Commandment causing her to lose all of her powers and be converted to an Ashavan before being finished off by Magsarion.
- Dance Battler: The way she fights is likened more to a dance than to some actual fighting moves.
- Discard and Draw: On top of her regular Commandment, she also has access to a special one that allow her to gain an even more versatile tool-set by inducing various restrictions on herself. And unlike regular Commandments which are permanent, these only last for as long as the time period she decides on when invoking them.
- Due to the Dead: In spite of her nature as a Man-Murdering Demon, she has imposed an absolute ban for anyone to desecrate the remains of her mother.
- Enfant Terrible: Looks like a cute little girl, but is still one of the Seven Demon Kings, responsible for untold calamities and atrocities. To put things into perspective, she killed her own mother while she was still in the womb.
- Finger Poke of Doom: At one point she induced the limitation on herself that she would only be able to fight with her pinkie. This resulted in her now being able to strike the vital points of an opponent even from a distance with nothing put a poking motion.
- Glass Cannon: Downright obscene offensive power at the expense of any and all defensive capability. Thanks to her Commandment though she is practically immortal as long as she never tries to avoid or defend against an attack.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: Upon their first encounter, Frederica uses a torn off lower half of a handmaiden's corpse as an impromptu whip.
- Healing Factor: Her Commandment grants her infinite regeneration and immortality as long as she doesn't avoid or defend against attacks.
- In Love with Your Carnage: Upon seeing Magsarion's brutal fury and relentless aggression in trying to kill her she couldn't help but feel pure love and passion for what she was witnessing even as he was slinging curses her way.
- Mythology Gag: The name of her scythe comes from the nickname of Lyle in Paradise Lost who was known as Lyle of the Deathscythe.
- Red Baron: The Princess of Slaughter.
- Self-Made Orphan: She killed her own mother and devoured her from within the womb.
- Shout-Out: Her name is apparently a reference to Freddie Mercury and her Commandment is named Killer Queen.
- Sinister Scythe: Her Deathscythe, a weapon with powerful dimension distorting powers.
- Story-Breaker Power: Her regeneration might be simple compared to other powers in the story yet it proves to be one of the most insurmountable of them all. In fact, even Magsarion at his strongest couldn't get through it. It was only after she willingly defied her Commandment which resulted in her loosing said power that he finally managed to kill her.
- The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort: Invoked by her Commandment, which makes her invincible to any attack she doesn't try to dodge or block. As a result, her body is so fragile that most attacks go through her with next to no effort, and yet due to her insane regeneration, heals from it so fast that Quinn, Samluch and Alma though they were fighting an illusion at first.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Compared to the other Archdemons, her young age is apparent from her lack of fighting skill and experience. She is however more than capable of compensating for this deficiency via simple strength and her absurd regeneration.
Mashyana
Mashyana
A star spirit and Archdemon who rules over the planet Druj Nasu, a gas giant and the sole remaining planet in it's system after the rest were destroyed by Mashyana. She acts as the empress of the sole piece of land around the planet, her star body the tree of Gayomart, that orbits the planet. Haughty, cruel and surrounded by a stench of rot, yet beautiful like the most well crafted of dolls.- Brought Down to Badass: Heavily weakened due to losing her other half but still powerful.
- Cain and Abel: She is the sister to Zurvan who of course is of the opposite moral alignment to her, making them bitter enemies.
- Cherry Blossoms: Her main body is a giant cherry blossom tree and is heavily associated with the decay of death.
- Evil Smells Bad: She is near perpetually surrounded by a stench of decay and rot.
- Frozen Face: No part of her face ever seems to move even when she speaks creating a very uncanny effect likened to a deathmask.
- Green Thumb: As Gayomart is her body, she can manipulate it's roots, branches and petals as she pleases.
- Hime Cut: Fitting with her "oriental empress theme" she has the traditional haircut to match.
- Meaningful Name: Gets her name from the first human woman in Zoroastrian cosmogony, who is paired with Mashya, the first human man. This ties into her complicated relationship to her brother Zurvan, her counterpart.
Kaikhosru
Kaikhosru
- Voiced by: Takuma Terashima
- Affably Evil: The guy is a monster like the rest of his kin, yet he also just incredibly easygoing and friendly even to assassins after his head.
- "Arabian Nights" Days: His realms follows the generally stereotypical Arabian style with himself as the sultan.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Ultimately subverted, he began to ascend as a Hegemonic God in his final bout with Magsarion but is killed before it is complete.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: In-Universe example, but him making Alma his mistress despite knowing her true nature and even compromising with her is seen as utterly incomprehensible by the heroes and that there must be some kind of catch. In general he just acts in ways that just seems to run completely counter to everything about morals as they understand it.
- Face–Heel Turn: It is revealed that he once was an Ashavan 400 years in the past before he underwent Tentsui and became one of the archfiends.
- The Fettered: Something that is extremely unusual for a Dragvant is that he is not acting on his urges for cruelty whenever they hit him.
- Greed: His defining trait is his bottomless greed resulting in him becoming a tyrannical leader who exploits planets until they are dead husks before moving on to the next.
- The Hedonist: Pretty much lives only to strip planets of their wealth and life so that he and his followers can live in luxury, seeking pleasures of all kinds to satisfy his endless greed. Interestingly though is that he extends this as a wish unto others, wishing for a world without death or decay so that other people could indulge in their worldly pleasures and desires just like he does.
- I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Alma speculates that the reason he accepted her as his mistress is due to the fact that she won't submit to him and that his pride as a man won't let him rest until he manages to make her his.
- Keeping the Enemy Close: He manages to see through Alma's deception yet despite knowing her to be an assassin decides to make her one of his mistresses, exhibiting an unusual interest for her. Turns out to be because she was given to him in an exchange between him and Sirius as a seal on their alliance.
- Mythical Motifs: Heavily associated with dragons.
- The Omniscient: After he devoured the ruling Star Spirit and took its place, the whole planet effectively became his body allowing him to see everything that is going on on it's surface.
- Orcus on His Throne: The group take advantage of the fact that he is more of the overlord type as even though he more than likely knows that they are there, he won't be bothered to get his butt off the his throne to kill them despite this.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Part of the reason he is ranked so low among the Demon lords is that he sees little value in pointless cruelty and is much more content with simply being a tyrant.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: He guesses that the God of the world is a women but not based on any real logic but just from the fact that he is infatuated with women. Not in the lustful manner mind you but in a purely conceptual manner, viewing them as beings capable of existing and thrive by containing contradictions.
- Royal Harem: Has an impressive harem composed of 18 mistresses, all of them also serving as his generals and are powerful fighters in their own right.
- Taken for Granite: He has the power to turn people into statues made of gemstones.
- The Usurper: Killed and devoured the planet's Star Spirit before taking its place as the planets sovereign spirit.
Aka Manah
Aka Manah
The most mysterious of the Archdemons, Aka Manah is an enigma whose power and threat level one can only guess at as there have so far been no events that can for certain be attributed to it. In fact, it is only thanks to the power of Vohu Manah and the fact that there are supposed to be seven Archdemons that Aka Manah's existence is even known.- All Your Powers Combined: The blade is fused from millions upon millions of star spirits and all of their powers and authorities are at the beck and call of the blades wielder. And to make matters worse, those powers can also be mixed and matched with each other to create some incredibly powerful combinations. And given just how many star spirits are infused to the blade the amount of possible combinations boggles the mind.
- Evil All Along: After some Foreshadowing, in chapter 14 Nahid is finally revealed to not be as pure as she was made out to be, being the forger and wielder of the 7th Archdemon Aka Manah. Strangely though, she is still recognized as an Ashavan.
- Evil Costume Switch: Nahid switches outfits after The Reveal to a much more evil looking outfit.
- Evil Counterpart: Aka Manah is an evil, unholy version of the divine blade Ahura Mazda.
- Evil Redhead: Nahid's hair turns from white to red after her Face–Heel Turn is revealed.
- Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: Nahid goes from having gentle blue eyes to piercingly yellow slit eyes after The Reveal.
- Living Weapon: The true form of Aka Manah is that of a cursed sword made out of hundreds of millions of Star Spirits melded together into a perverted parody of the holy blade Ahura Mazda.
- Hidden Villain: Aka Manah is a giant enigma, even more so than Nadare. No one knows who this individual really is or how powerful they are. The only thing anyone knows for certain is that they exist.
- Hikikomori: In one of
his comments does Masada describe Aka Manah as a shut-in. - Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: After Nahid reveals her true colors she switches her wardrobe from her regular fairly modest dress to a much more revealing feather-themed one that shows off her ample chest and curved figure alongside one hell of a Navel-Deep Neckline.
- Walking Spoiler: As Aka Manah is a mayor enigma for most of the story, it is a given that even remotely discussing it after being revealed is entering massive spoiler territory.
Servants of the Archdemons
Munsarat
- Voiced by: Wataru Hatano
- Battle Butler: Serves as Fredrica's butler and is one of her strongest servants.
- Blind Obedience: He is basically an evil version of Quinn, being bound to obey any order given to him by Fredrica in exchange for perfect power and expertise regardless of what that order might be. Even if he is told to kill himself he will gladly carry it out.
- Blow You Away: His weapon spins so fast and with such fury that it creates vicious winds that pull in whatever happens to be close right into the saw to be shredded.
- I Fight for the Strongest Side!: His Commandment forces him to obey whoever he views as the most beautiful, and as he views power as beauty that means he will follow whoever is the strongest around, usually whoever beat him in a fair fight. Before the start of the story he was actually under the command of Varhram following a defeat at his hands and was put under to the order to go into hibernation. Later he is then under the command of Magsarion following the death of Frederica after which he is ordered to kill himself alongside all the other Man Murdering Demons.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Averted with him despite being a Man-Murdering Demon as he views eating human flesh as something for kids. The maids that serve under him play it straight though.
- Impossibly Cool Weapon: He wields what can best be described as a mix between a huge mace and a buzz-saw.
- The Needless: He has simply grown so powerful that he doesn't need any sustenance. In fact, he hasn't eaten anything for almost 50 years and is still going strong.
Zariched
One of the Daevas that follows Bahlavan.- Two Beings, One Body: She and Taurvid can fuse into one person and combine their Commandments.
Taurvid
One of the Daevas that follows Bahlavan.- Two Beings, One Body: He and Zariched can fuse into one person and combine their Commandments.
Others
Bushyasta
- Instant Expert: Her Commandment had the boon that, in exchange for never refusing what was given to her, she would be able to adapt and handle whatever she is faced with.
- Lazy Bum: She was a candidate to becoming one of the Demon Lords, but her unrepentant sloth kept it from happening.
- Living Relic: She was born very early on during the era of the first heaven and has experienced the universe undergoing the Tentsui process at least once.
- Posthumous Character: Was killed by Varhram before the start of the story.
- Red Baron: Was known as the Goddess of Nightmares.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Although her role was a small one, her death at the hands of Varhram ends up having huge ramifications for the story at large with a lot being traceable back to that event.
