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 currently employed as a Chemistry teacher at Kuoh Academy and adviser of the the Occult Research Club, as well as the adviser of Team DxD.

He is the Fallen Angel of War and the patron of weapon-makers, and all wars fought with weaponry are said to be done in his name.

Overview
"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."

- The Infernal Compendium

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.

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.

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.

Like all angelic entities in their physical form, he has multiple pairs of large, feathered wings, each with a wingspan of roughly 4-meters in length, in order to demonstrate his position among the “Angels of the Lord”. In his case, particularly, he possesses a total of twelve corvid-like wings to demonstrate his former position as a Seraph, which are described as a "neverending black" and crafted from "all the metals mankind used in their weaponry". Brightly-glowed eyes scattered across his wings, placed near the tips of each feather, though they are usually hidden using illusions.

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 jet-black feathered-wings sprouted from behind him, each feather resembling that of a sword's blade or a spear's tip, 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, as well as loudly project his dream of fondling the bodies of all the Angels he found attractive.

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 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 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 enjoying 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 Edenith Civilization and Tellus Mahte, the primordial planet created by 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 from behind the scene due to the Celestial Prince's own disinterest in ruling. He officially became the organization's leader after Samael's banishment in the aftermath of the Celestial War.

At some point in the Bronze Age, he seduced and accidentally killed one of Raphael's priestesses, which angered the Celestial Prince enough to punish him. Using Adamic Iron chains, Raphael chained him down in the Dudael mountain range in the Netherworld 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 to anyone but them 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 join. 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 run away from his abusive father and grandfather, 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

Artificial Sacred Gears

 * Down Fall Dragon Another Armor-Burst Mode.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.

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.

Harming, Trapping, & Banishing

 * Witchcraft: As witchcraft is a form of magic wielded by witches to oppose beings of heavenly nature, Fallen Seraphim such as Azazel are susceptible by witchery. There are many witchery spells and rituals that can be used to trap, weaken, and hurt him, with some rituals even rumored to be capable of banishing him back to Purgatory 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.
 * Powerful Waves of Energy: Azazel, like many other heavenly beings, can be hurt by powerful waves of energy. However, for a Fallen Angel of his ranking to receive serious damage from the attack, it will require what can only be described as 13,000 suns going supernova simultaneously in order to generate an energy wave of such proportion.
 * Brain Penetration: Fallen Angels like Azazel can be stunned and immobilized for several centuries by placing large spikes made out of sacred metals inside of their brain as a means of temporarily sealing them.
 * Celestial Weapons: Weapons made out of sacred metals, such as Celestial Bronze or Imperial Gold, can be used against the majority of supernatural beings, including Fallen Angels such as Azazel, though the amount of damage caused by celestial weapons are only miniscule to him at best.
 * Divine Weapons: The divine weapons of the pagan gods, which are crafted from sacred metals and are imbued with their wielder's divinity, can be used to harm heavenly beings like him. However, for a Fallen Seraph such as Azazel to be harmed by attacks formed of divine weapons, it will require the usage of the chieftain gods' Symbols of Power.

Killing

 * Enochian Weapons: Azazel can be killed using weapons made out of Enochian metals. When his physical body is destroyed by a 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 angelic entities, he can be killed if the user used his own Angel Blade as the weapon, incinerating his physical body and leaving a burned imprint of his twelve wings on the floor where his body lies.
 * Original Longinus: As the original Longinus are the original Sacred Gears, created from the highest-quality Enochian metals and forged in the Heavenly Forges with the greatest of Enochian technology, in addition to being imbued with the Biblical God's divine light, wielders of the original 13 Longinus can potentially kill a Fallen Seraph such as him if they have enough skills and experience.
 * Faustian Weapons: Azazel can be killed using weapons made out of Faustian metals. When his physical body is destroyed by 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: Weapons created and wielded by primordial entities can be used to permanently and absolutely obliterate every and any being in existence but other primordial entities, erasing their entire existence from the worlds so that they can never be reborn, or resurrected again without being saved by God's omnipotence.

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".