AZRYAL

Demonstrates how a lie built from partial truths can become law, religion, history, and civilization.

• Demonstrates how a lie built from partial truths can become law, religion, history, and civilization.

• Falls in love with Fahya.
• Murders Fahya’s husband Seron.
• Wins Fahya’s genuine love without revealing Seron’s murder.
• Fathers Avaron and Fahriel with Fahya.
• Their birth kills Fahya.
• Takes Fahya’s older children, Evyra and Aderon, to Atlantis under the claim of protection.
• Becomes obsessed with overcoming the lethal Starborn-human reproduction curse.
• Manipulates Rexiel’s earlier rebellion.
• Encourages or exploits Shemyaza’s Watcher rebellion.
• Gains access to heavenly weapons and Zyelium.
• Kills the Oracle of Heaven.
• Attempts to read possible futures in the Oracle’s blood.
• Misinterprets a vision involving Amala, Celeste, or a future woman connected to his fall.
• Betrays Shemyaza.
• Publicly claims to have killed Shemyaza.
• Secretly imprisons Shemyaza beneath the Golden Colosseum in Atla.
• Engineers the Great War between Balaria and Sandoria.
• Manipulates the Atlantean Republic into responsibility for war crimes.
• Gains temporary emergency power.
• Converts emergency authority into permanent imperial rule.
• Installs Starborn governors throughout the empire.
• Exiles royal and imperial rivals.
• Establishes the Imperial Church.
• Claims El Elyon is no longer God.
• Attempts to suppress truth through altered records, controlled lifespans, censored bloodlines, false miracles, and imperial education.
• May use the Crown of Knowledge.
• The Crown forces him to experience the suffering caused by his rule.
• He becomes physically broken and unable to function normally.

• El Elyon was God.
• El Elyon entered creation and therefore became subject to creation.
• The divine throne could not remain vacant.
• Azryal, as the greatest remaining Starborn, inherited the authority of God.

• Loyal or outwardly loyal Starborn
• Secret pride and theological resentment
• Fahya tragedy
• Manipulator of rebellions
• Imperial savior
• False god
• Controller of history
• Confronted by living witnesses
• Crushed by truth
• Empire fractures around him