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""The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages. What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey? But I am done with this creed of corruption. I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame. And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: "I""
Imperatriz, Lider, Amada Imperatriz, Majestade, Your Majesty, Her Majesty, Imperatriz Destruida, Imperatriz Arruinada, Riven, Ayaya, Valkyrie, Valquiria, Valky, Vaki, Alá, Oryx, Ariax, Além, Devoradora da Estrelas, Consumidora da Coragem, Amada Lider, Grande Lider, Liderança Encarnada, Excelencia, Vossa Majestade, The Violet Haired Demon, The Violet Haired Oni, The Purple Haired Demon, The Purple Haired Oni, Imperatriz do Vazio, Ruined Empress, Tally Horned Girl, Empress of the Lightning, Dread Conqueror, Child of the Blackness, Daughter of the Blackness, The Empress, Eternal Serum, Goddess of the Thunder, Goddess of the Lightning;
2,17 meters in her original Overseer appearance, 1,80→1,90 meters in her chosen optional size, 3,21 meters in her First Gate (Harverster form), 503,000 kilometers in her 2nd Gate form (true form) and 10.45 trillion light years? in Além form;
Weight
131kg as Overseer (height involved), 351kg as the First Gate Hyvralisk, ??? tons as 2nd Gate (possibly half of the Earth's heavyness);
Goddess and Empress of the Nexus Galactic Empire, Founder and leader of Hyvra Voice, Squad Advisor of the Rogues, Wolf Pack Squad Counselor, New Republic's Diplomat, Enforcer and Master of Spectra's Vanguard;
Previous Occupation
Ruler of the 235th Earth, Empress of the Nexus Federation, Leader of Qliphoth's Third Sect, Alchemist and member of the Brazilian Ultra-Nationalist Party, Manager of Mafusa's Fist on Raizen, Ara Astaroth's Espada, Leohart's Cult Agent, Vira Hermes' Acolyte;
Learning and studying alien species, testing new types of magic, learning about ancient languages, creating new types of enchanted weapons and curses, exploring worlds and conquering planets to expand her knowledge;
Goals
Complete the Unification Project to create a reality where mortals and non-mortals can coexist, unify all souls of mortals into one single god-like body to complete her quest of peace, put an end to the endless extermination cycle across the Lynenta Omniverse, create the perfect utopia of the Hyvralisks, erradicate Paradise and all its affiliates, find a cure to the Sin Virus and end the reign of Ragnarok Iblis' influence;
Abilities
Powers
Black matter manipulation, Immortality, Super strength, Teleportation, Durability, Eternal Life, God-like Speed, Electrokinesis, Zombies summoning, Time manipulation, spatial manipulation, Necromancy, Black hole creation and summoning, Gravity control, Flight, Telekinesis, Telepathy, Anti-Matter manipulation, Size Manipulation, Shape-shifting, Non-human biology, Swordsmanship, Charisma, High Endurance, High-Intelligence, Demonic Power of Qliphoth, Curses, Brainwash and Mind control, Black Magic, Incredible black magical powers, Reality-warping, Junctioning, Manipulation of Atoms, Clairvoyance, Mastery of tactics, Inhuman resilience, Skilled duelist;
Type of Power
Curses, Red Magic, Black Magic, Blackness' Based Powers, Gravitational, Cosmic, Electrokinesis;
Weapon
Kuro Katana / Oni Blade;
Portrayal
English Voice
Kayli Mills
It is the nature of life to favor existence over nonexistence, and to prefer the fertile soil to the poisoned wind. Because those who open their mouths to that wind pass from the world and leave no descendant, whether of flesh or of thought. But imagine the abomination of a world where nothing can end and no choice can be preferred to any other. Imagine the things that would suffer and never die. Imagine the lies that would flourish without context or corrective. Imagine a world without me. I will reign over an empire of glory but by no means it should last forever... for I know that one day I will be corrupted by my own power and authority. This is the power of Sin and like the rest of my kind, I know I will live long enough to see myself become a selfish monster. One cycle I will lose my will and desire to protect my dreams and achieve something else even more dark. The last thing my people need is to see me, a monster who was ready to take action and be seen as a devil as long the majority could live happily without ever having to suffer of hunger, wars and poverty, become a monster who is ready to take action to see them suffering while I enjoy myself with my own wealth and power. Because of this, I wish that my life can end with my empire one day, for I don't have to see the disgust of my nation being ruled by some imposter or uncaring individual who will leave my lands burn to the ground while they enjoy their hedonistic life.
Oryx
Oryx, born as Ayla Valkyrie (Portuguese: Kiara Valquíria), also known as Riven, Empress of the Horizon, Primogenitor of Possibilities, Violet Haired Demon, Imperatriz Arruinada, Imperatriz Destruida or Ruined Empress (in English to the previous two nicknames) is one of the Idea of Evil's Children and Harbingers chosen by the Blackness to bring forth the complete corruption of the Lynenta Omniverse and the death of Spectra alongside Ara Astaroth, the Darkness, Black Diamond and Vira Hermes. She is a 2021-period new character introduced in LOTM: Sword of Kings AA - Raizen Arc (2020 Reboot) and a new villainess posing as one of the main characters of LOTM: Sword of Kings storyline, occupying the position as the secondary protagonist of the Magic Side after Shiaryh Myfella after firstly debuting as one of the main antagonists of the Raizen Arc Reboot alongside Aki Astaroth, Kroniesa KnightWalker, Eckidina KnightWalker and formerly one of the main antagonist in LOTM: Sword of Kings Saga AA Magic Side alongide Ara Astaroth, Vira Hermes, Kaitlyn Powell and Michael Langdon while being a major antagonist to the Saga as a whole.
In contrast to Lucas Kellan who is Portuguese but born in Brazil nearly two decades before the beginning of Third World War, Oryx is the first genuine OC Brazilian character to appear in the story as a tribute to the author's original nationality and the second original Brazilian villain after Felix Drake, however, she is actually a Hyvralisk who was born in an alternative Earth based after the Prime Earth where the KnightWalker Alliance won the Third World War after the entire Central and South American continent turned against the Stabilization Union, establishing a new continent country over the Central and South American continent called Nexus Federation while the KnightWalker Alliance entered in a new civil war for conquered territories in Oceania, Africa, North America, Europe, Asia and other habitable planets of the Solar System. Since this war was not staged by the the Fallen's Essence, the Revelation of Qliphoth took control of that world thanks Oryx, the younger daughter of Nexus' dictator who overthrew her father and used her authority and power to end all wars across the globe through assassinations and oppression, making her Oryx the ruler of her own world and Solar System.
As the leader of Nexus Federation and the Ministerial Brazilian Party, she was the youngest leader of the world's history after Kanon Rihavein from Novosic Kingdom and Eckidina KnightWalker from KnightWalker Family [France and Germany] and solved all her problems through violence, censorship, imprisonment and executions, considering those who stood in her way to bring world's peace as opportunists and corrupts who only sided with her for their own gain instead of desiring the same goal as hers even if it cost countless lives. However, beneath her political figure she was in fact a member of Leohart's Cult that was large, powerful and influential enough in that planet to be considered the equivalent to Prime Earth's New World Order. She would later discover she was in fact the daughter of a female Hyvralisk who was exiled from Qliphoth and travelled to that Earth to seek refuge after abandoning her child to be adopted by humans. Despite the shock, she eventually embraced her new self and used her power to further her agenda of domination and peace. Using her newly-found powers, over the years she abandoned her human persona and revealed her powers to the world, making the world think she was in fact a Goddess and eventually worshipped her. Centuries after the war, she would expand her nation's hands to other worlds until humanity found their way to travel among the stars, where her army conquered new worlds for her expansion until her Nexus Empire finally ignited a galactic war with other sentient races, the war, however, ended as soon as it started with her showing her god-like powers to easily crush all her enemies and resistance, forming a galactic society ruled by humans 500 years after the foundation of her nation. Despite her brutality, her regime was marked with great humanitarian and natural progress of preserving life and non-sentient species, the decline of violence and virtual crimes, decrease in infant mortality rate, a certain degree of freedom of speech (as long it wasn't about her politics), religious freedom, technological advance, the extinction of wars and civil conflicts, the end of racism and hate movements, gender equality, protection of wild life and great cleaning of the world's water sources, great improvement in the world's poverty rate and hunger.
Under her rule, the Earth is still divided among nation-states, though all are affiliated beneath the overarching banner of the Nexus Federation/Empire. While every human enjoys longer and better life than ever, the gap between rich and poor widens daily with overpopulation, it was just after this problem that Oryx pulled her most controversial law to send young children and orphans to hibernate in frozen capsules to control the world's population while stop supporting elderly in their final stages to end their lives as soon as possible. In the past, her laws and ways were seem as inhuman but over the course of the decades, her news ways slowly got more acceptable and logical rather than emotional or humane. Disease, pollution, and other social ills were on the decline thanks to technological advances and a wealth of resources from the colonies established by Oryx in other worlds. Earth was an inspiration even to alien cultures, resulting in influence out of proportion with humanity's brief time on the galactic stage. Advanced nations have eliminated most genetic disease and pollution. Less fortunate regions that refused her offer of control have not progressed beyond 20th century technology, and are often smog-choked, overpopulated slums. Despite some of oppressive and ruthless laws created by her, over the years Oryx's method of ruling was very well welcomed and approved as her grip over humanity as a whole got lighter once the world was already under her control and her methods were very well received by the public, other governments and population. On the other side, she is also a very well respected member of the Revelation of Qliphoth in the mortal world thanks to her charisma, cold behavior, inspirational speeches, great intelligence to politics, economy, alchemy, magic and military, and posture of a solid ruler. In Hell, she is one of the few honored and respected Hyvralisks to visit the demonkind's homeworld and often receive proposals of political marriage of different clans of 79 Pillars of Hell or Qliphoth's Overseer clans to give birth to the perfect heir (since many millennia of peace in the Underworld caused some family leaders to lose their way and became selfish hedonists) in case something happens to the head of their clans or even in a case where something bad happens to Ara Astaroth.
Oryx is remarkable for her loyalty to Ara Astaroth and anyone who is above her like Vira Hermes and does not dare to question her orders no matter how strange they may be to her taste. In this sense, she is not much different from her kind but one thing that she is not willing to do is disposing of everything she built for centuries in respect to the sacrifices she made to honor and remember their death and suffering, otherwise all the hundred of millions people she got killed on her path to glory would be in vain and their death would lose meaning. This decision and thought was so respectable that the Astaroth Clan promised they won't do touch her galactic civilization during the Purge or the Blackness' Utopia creation because in contrast to her, most of other galactic tyrants and Hyvralisks refuse to lose what they built merely out of selfishness and well-being. Aside from being a great ruler, she was also presented to be a teacher and a mastermind, granting her the position to be a spy of Vira Hermes inside of Raizen Academy as the teacher of Magi-Tech in the East-Branch while spying over Katarina Couteau's daily life and development as she fell to her dark side. Even after her desertion of Revelation of Qliphoth following the revelation that Ara still going to taint her galaxy with the Astaroth Hell otherwise her plan will not be perfect, she continued to rule over her galactic empire but also use astral projections to guide the Rogues and Ratatoskr through their journey and war against Triggers Hell and Revelation of Qliphoth. She would often come in person to help them while leaving her galaxy in the hands of her most trusted secretaries and ministers.
As one of the Hyvralisks that helped to take down Ara Astaroth and her servants, Oryx was granted the leadership of Hyvra Voices to speak in behalf of Hyvralisks like herself who fled from Ara's empire or the innocent ones that refused to join her. As the "diplomat" of her race, she seeks to protect exiled Hyvralisks who are still being discriminated by the holy society for being demons and find those who chose a life of exile without harming the creation or mortals. After Leohart the Prince of Hell's death by the hands of Saraph and Katarina, Oryx became the strongest demon alive and tried to find balance between life and death, demons and mortals and life and death by giving demons freedom from Ragnarok Iblis culture and cured their impulse of trying to feed on mortals' flesh and souls. However, demons continued to serve in Hell as guardians and torturers of the damned without ever again trying to taint the mortal realm with their unholy aura. Despite her efforts, some demons and demon worshippers continued to plague worlds with their unholy and malevolent agenda but in smaller number compared to when Leohart and Ara Astaroth were alive. Now acting as the face of the demonkind and Hyvralisks alike, Oryx continued to act as the protector of the demonkind but also their punisher in case some of them decide to rebel or seek to harm innocent or non-damned souls.
Oryx is a rare type of character in CIS Productions universe, being a honorable tyrannical-type of villain in the heroes side and even after so many redemption points she never changed her ways of ruling through fear and continue to pose as a tyrant to her own people while being respected, admired and loved by her people and servants since her ends of bringing equality and prosperity does actually work. Despite the fact she continued to help the Rogues and Ratatoskr for long years, some of them never fully liked her for her cold-hearted character, mainly after getting a glimpse of how brutal and inhuman she was during her early days as the empress of Nexus and the fact she has a similar government to Ike Ray Peram Westcott's Deus.Ex.Machina Empire but lacking most of its nazism and fascism ideologies. Because of this, Oryx was still under suspicion by many members of the Reality Council as they feared she would one day become the full empress of a new Dark Empire similar to the Balam Alliance. In response to this, Oryx vowed she would never leave her galaxy to conquer worlds that were not hers and stated she was willing to be seen as a monster as long she accomplished her goal, the same thing that Ara Astaroth once said, causing even more fear in the hearts of once fought alongside her. With hesitation, those who fought with her continued to work with her while doing their best to ignore her methods of ruling while some more good-hearted tried to put her down to free her people from her long years of brainwashing and cult of personality despite all the goodness she once brought to Lynenta Omniverse. Many people, including Spectra and Saraph, have tried to change her ways of trying to achieve peace by forcing her people to accept it but all of them failed for Oryx had decided this is the path she was going to follow, a similar path that Shiaryh Myfella decided that walk many centuries ago; peace and prosperity through fear and hatred.
Ultimately, Oryx is a type of character that is left to the reader to judge as dictator with good intentions, a genuine evil dictator who is trying to force her views upon her people and is no different from real-life dictators who used piles of corpses to bring glory and wealth to their nation or a morally grey person who is ready to commit evil acts for the greater good and will put an end to the world's problems through unethical ways. A ruthless dictator who can be judged by their ends and if they should be left alive as long they achieved their dream of peace, prosperity and glory while putting down all the social, religious, political and military issue of the world, or are they a tragic person who learned that peace will never come naturally and there must be someone to lead the people to achieve it? There are many options to be chosen depending on one's point of view; does one's freedom is really that worthy if the path they choose to live is one of hunger, poverty, suffering, hunger and finally meet at the end death after a long worthless life?
As the first concept, Oryx was originally known as Hydra Hermes, the crazed daughter of the Hermes Duke and the future successor of Revelation of Qliphoth. Her original script was to be the equivalent to be the Yuuki Terumi of the Magic Side, a lunatic psychopath who was spoiled since her childhood and grew to be more like another version of Eckidina KnightWalker. However, in comparison to Eckidina she was supposed to extremely powerful, even more so than Heis and Red Moon Tyrant. As a future Complete Monster who desired to create a world where demons reign supreme over Gods and tried to start a new Third Invasion through conspiracy and complex schemes, Hydra was a vicious monster who almost became a new member of Balam Alliance itself after Vira Hermes took her place, causing her to go on a rampage and build a separatist faction of Hermes clan.
The character's appearance still being held and will be used in future OCs but in a complete different scenary. If Hydra is going to be revived in CIS universe as a villain or an anti-villain working to Oryx's Nexus Empire to expand its lore and add more members, it's yet to be decided.
Monryou Assassin
Second concept
Her second appearance was decided back in 2020 with the creation of the Reboot Saga. However, instead of being an antagonist to the main story she would be promoted to being a secondary antagonist of LOTM: Shadows Within Shadows as a member of Monryou. After too much discussion, the character idea was scrapped since the organization had already too many members and any of them could be used to occupy her position.
As an assassin of Monryou, Oryx was a skilled and silent mercenary who had a contract with Raym Ars Apocalypse to eliminate threats that could interfere in her company's productions, that includes CEO of rival companies and government leaders who refused her offers. Her personality has already been decided to be an icy, cold-hearted and silent person much like the current concept but she wasn't neither a influential and dangerous threat as much as she was in the first concept.
The Empress
Current
The current Oryx, a perfect mixed version of the two of an extremely and dangerous foe with an ice queen personality while keeping an impeccable beauty and elegance. Now as the leader of an alternative Earthling empire called Nexus, she is an extremely pivotal ally to both villainous and heroic sides as her unique powers and undying loyalty are importants keys for the victory of each side.
Her Empire is also said to be just as advanced as it's disciplined and powerful, in par with Deus.Ex.Machina Empire's Imperial Army. Aside from having an army with number of trillions that is also enforced by elite Spiral soldiers that can rival Taken, Black Demons and Force-sensitive users, her technology is said to be 10,000 years ahead of Prime Earth's technology and has built miraculous devices that could possibly be used to end an universal war like the construction of mass zero-element to travel across different galaxies in a short period of time.
Whoever that has Oryx and her empire on their side has extremely high chances of completing their quest and leaving a conflict with victory.
Name
Oryx
The Oryx or Gemsbok is a graceful symbol. With its slender legs, long horns and graceful stature, he has come to mean many things. The Oryx is much similar to the antelope in some regards. It is fast and agile, able to leap over obstacles. It is not an aggressive animal, but prefers to be with its herd. With its long and pointed horns, it can gamely defend itself from predators or rivals.
Though amiable and cool headed, the Oryx or Gemsbok will protect others if it feels the need to do so. The Oryx and Gemsbok serve as guides because of their innate abilities for survival. They are adept creatures, with majestic and slender features in their horns. They are powerful totems as they can help people overcome their problems and give them swiftness in both mind and action. The Oryx is naturally protective creature, yet it does not attack unless necessary. It is amiable but ready to defend at all times. The Oryx is a peaceful animal, which blends well with its serene environment. Though it is quick, it is not anxious. It remains graceful and calm, but acts fast when needed.
The Oryx and Gemsbok’s ability to run fast has associated it with wind forces as well as those of the wind deities. It is a messenger or steed of such forces and often celestial beings can take the form of such animals. Air is also an attribute of thought and intellectual prowess. In magical traditions one will focus on air when they need keep insight, the right words, or to change thought patterns. The Oryx or Gemsbok’s cousin, the antelope is also regarded as a god. With its ability to survive in the desert as well as its speed and agility, it is thought of a messenger to convey feelings of speed and survival.
Ayla "Kiara" Valkyrie
Ayla
Ayla or Aila are several homonymous given names. In Turkish it means "halo of light around the moon". Ayla is usually used as synonymous with "moonlight", although it could also mean "halo" in general. "Ay" means "moon" in Turkish, so that "Ayla" means the "halo around the moon."
"Ayla" also means "with the moon" as a word ("ay" + "la" where "la" is used for "ile" which means "with" in Turkish). However, in the context of given names, its meaning is halo, and can be related to names Aylin (also deriving from "ay"), Tülin, or Aylanur. Ayla is sometimes falsely identified as a variant of feminine Arabic name "Aliya" meaning "sublime" or "large". "Aliya" or "Aaliyah" is actually the female form of "Ali" or "Aali" and is an unrelated name. The Turkish variant of "Aaliyah" is closer to "Aliye" not "Alya."
Kiara
The name Kiara is a girl's name meaning "light, clear; little dark one; cockatoo; first ray of sun".
Kiara can be considered a variation of both the Italian name Chiara and the Irish name Ciara. Chiara is the Italian form of Clara, meaning “bright” or “clear,” while Ciara is the feminine form of male given name Ciar, derived from the old Irish cíar, meaning “dark.” Kiara is also an Australian name derived from an Aboriginal word for the white cockatoo, and has roots as a Korean name meaning “first ray of sun”.
Valkyries
In Persian, the name has varied definitions. It is said that Kiara means "a queen who is keen on beautifying her territory".
Valkyrie
The name Valkyrie means Chooser Of The Slain and is of Scandinavian origin.
In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who decide who will die in battle. Selecting among half of those who die in battle (the other half go to the goddess Freyja's afterlife field Fólkvangr), the valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain, Valhalla, ruled over by the god Odin. There, when the einherjar are not preparing for the events of Ragnarök, the valkyries bear them mead.
Valkyries also appear as lovers of heroes and other mortals, where they are sometimes described as the daughters of royalty, sometimes accompanied by ravens, and sometimes connected to swans.
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Introduction - Rise to Power
Oryx's description of her enemies
The dictator and tyrannical ruler of an empire once known as Brazil on the South American continent. Born as a Hyvralisk in Qliphoth but later abandoned by her exiled mother, Oryx was adopted by the Valkquíria Brazilian family composed of Chinese and Koreans immigrants who fled from their respective country during the Second World War from the Empire of Japan, and became a prominent politician who has served as the General Secretary of the Brazilian Ministerial Party, Heir of the billionaire Latin-Asian Valquíria Clan, Minister of of the Brazilian Ministério da Defesa (Ministery of Defence from Portuguese), Chairwoman of the Conselho de Defesa Nacional (National Defense Council from Portuguese), 61th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil and the first monarch of the Nexus Federation three years before its full conversion into Nexus Galactic Empire that has the alias "Second Empire of Brazil" or just "Empire of Brazil", chronically transforming her into the third monarch of the Imperial Brazil since its abolishment in 1889. From the other side of her political career, Oryx was also high-ranked member of the nefarious Revelation of Qliphoth, serving as the Supreme Leader of the Third Sect, the third military division of Ara Astaroth's army composed of quadrillions and Executor of the Revelation of Qliphoth's Army, the third highest rank of Revelation of Qliphoth after Empress and Supreme Commander.
Armed with the iron will of a leviathan, strength of a dragon and a brilliant mind of the God of War Ares, Oryx was a fearsome, fierce and prideful ruler who sought to unify the collapsed alternative Earth under her banner to restore humanity and the world where she rules supreme, banishing the concepts of "countries" and uniting humanity as one, one administration, one currency, one universal language and one flag. Following the end of the Third World War that ended with a truce between the two sides once their armies and countries were absolutely worn out that were tired and rusted by the flames of the Third World War, Oryx took advantage of her nation's pacific nature that remained neutral over the entire course of the war to advance her advanced forces to wipe out opposers in Brazil and easily take control the states that remained loyal to the Old Brazil Republic before these states could group up to counter-attack. With her country economical rise during the war, the Valquíria Clan that has been the most influential company of Brazil easily took over the state and now had more seats in the National Council than any party.
For her dreams, Oryx stepped over the dreams, memories and happiness of millions
Now with her private armed forces fully being controlled, equipped and armed by the Valquíria Clan, the national Brazilian Army became the solo strongest army of the world as the rest of the world were still trying to rebuilt what was lost. Expanding her control over the country, Oryx crushed the remaining states that tried to resist and fully conquered the country in a bloody coup d'etat, her family then renamed the country's old name to Sixth Republic of Brazil while she launched a military campaign to unify the nation and quickly launch plans to restore the order and expand her grip to other neighboring countries of the South American continent in secret of her family.
In 2210, Oryx and her family assumed the full power of the country, eliminating all rival political factions in the Senate and Federal Chamber. After posing as Minister of Ministry of Defence for 2 years during the authoritarian regime of her father Ornn, Oryx gained the support of all her generals and successfully overthrew her greedy parents whom used her brilliant mind to eliminate their rivals and pave way to their path to power. After betraying her parents and old comrades, Oryx initiated an extremist anti-corruption campaign to arrest and execute corrupt influential senators, ministers, businessmen, deputies, public secretaries, mayors, governors and councilors for treason against their nation. No longer after, Oryx had arrested and executed all of her influential relatives, targets and rebels. As the youngest president of human history, she led the nation with iron fist, being considered to be the most brutal and tyrannical dictator of the century during her first 3 years in power as her government has been carrying out mass repression, ethnic cleansing of native indigenous, wide-scale deportation, and hundreds of thousands of executions, censorship, arrest and torture of reporters, and engineering civil wars that killed millions for profit and foreign territorial influence. However, in just a few months Oryx did what hundreds in 300 years never did, she has introduced more modern and effective economics plans and tactics that transformed the Nexus into a giant economic leader, far-ranging measures to enforce party discipline through fear, internal unity and military presence. She also enacted or promoted a more assertive foreign policy, particularly with regard to Nexus-United States relations for the control of islands of the Atlantic ocean, Nexus' political expansion and military presence in its borders with its neighboring countries and commercial wars. Now rising as world's superpower with fourth largest army after USA, China and India, the second strongest and more advanced army of the world after China and second most influential economic giant of the world (also after China), Nexus became more a rival instead of an ally to its previous commercial allies like European Union, United States, China, Japan and Canada.
Oryx vows to conquer the world
In 2212, with her new revealed powers, Oryx was confident that her expansion would be swift as the rest of the world continued they long-decade-of-recovery. With the world still recovering from the WWIII, the oil-rich South American nations of Venezuela, and Chile were approached by Oryx and were united on June 6, 2212, to form the South American Union, the equivalent to EU, to monopolize their own resources and consolidate power over their neighbors. Under the leadership of Oryx, the SAU spread unchecked throughout the rest of South America. As Oryx intensified her rhetoric while demanding the arrest or execution of every anti-Nexusian politics individual living within SAU territory, she drew the wrath of the rest of the world whom were waiting for her commit a mistake to commit a mistake to finally begin their commercial embargos, however, it was all in vain the entire South American continent countries were able to sustain themselves without the help of foreign countries, resulting in an unstoppable advance of Nexus Federation. Over the next two years, SAU flourished economically and moved northward, invading and conquering the countries of Central America and the Caribbean. In the same year, Oryx had now consolidated her power and started to convert Nexus Federation into a monarch country, bringing back the Empire of Brazil as Nexus Empire, aka the Second Empire of Brazil, now in a complete reformed and authoritarian version of the once free and democratic empire where Oryx is now titled Oryx a Imperatriz Arruinada (Oryx the Ruined Empress) in tribute to her "arruinada" family that were all arrested and executed for treason against the country.
Oryx's military junta invading Cuba
Now controlling the entire American South Hemisphere and approaching USA, the world had now more reasons to launch another war against Oryx and her imperialist pact of Southern American countries. However, as Oryx had planned, said countries from the West and East were worn out with only a few willing to help freeing the nations that were occupied or being occupied by Oryx's armed forces. With only USA, Canada, France (post-KnightWalker Era), United Kingdom, China and Chronos Empire rising to free the South America from SAU and Nexus Empire, the war ended as soon as it started with cybernetic attacks, terrorists attacks in strategic points and sabotages in the now-old military bases, nuclear missiles and equipment of war in said countries. The most intelligent nations from the East whom were on their knees facing their worst economic depression and crisis thanks to the WWIII had no other choice but be put under the banner of SAU that soon became a worldwide escape route from poverty, misery, unemployment, economic recession and depression. Nexus Empire soon became not Brazilian nations but a worldwide entire empire and became the dominant nation in both West and East Asia, and absorbing Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Brunei, East Timor, and Singapore into its sphere of influence, achieving global economic and military supremacy like never seen before.
Nexus Empire's flag, a variant of the Empire of Brazil
By 2217, Nexus Empire undisputedly had the world's largest economy while its previous allies were not sovereignty nations but puppet states of the main empire. The rest of the world remained dependent on the Western Hemisphere's resources and products. Beyond capital, the Nexus Empire developed a significant technological prowess. Additionally, major cities like Caracas, Rio De Janeiro, and Santiago completely rebuilt themselves into futuristic cities. The next 2 years were marked by the rise of Nexus Empire as the world's new superpower and the slow collapse of previous world's giants that tried to continue to exercise their political and economic activities with trades and foreign policy, one last breath before the giant now called Nexus that dominated the world's market, pushing aside any attempt from its former rivals to try enter in the world's international market. With their people starving to death by the millions and violent protests and riots that extended across every corner of the globe the countries that continued to deny Nexus signed the contract of absorption that approved the dissolution of its sovereignty state and passed its central control to a governor/general of Nexus to control it as a puppet state of Nexus under a new soulless name (Sector CE-300, for example) and a new variant of Nexus' flag.
Now in a world completely dominated by Oryx, with all nation all but extinct and converted into nothing more than puppet states, Oryx installed the New Order in the world place, declaring herself Empress of humankind and bringing an end to many millennium of wars, conflicts and an entire history controlled by flags and borders; now every part the sun shines upon is Nexus Empire, officially creating the largest empire of humanity's history as it extended from the last country of the West to the every last country of the East, including its islands and oceans. As Empress of humanity as a whole, Oryx effectively wielded absolute control over the entire globe and virtually everyone who lived within it, transforming Portuguese and Spanish into the dominant languages. During her tenure, she built the most powerful military forces the world had ever seen and exposed her identity as Hyvralisk to the world once she had doctrined everyone within it with rigid controlled educations, forms of brainwash to prevent the rise of intellectuals and rebels, near-total control over Internet, centuries of technological advance that allowed humans to form other civilizations in other habitable planets, and ruled unopposed for five centuries until the discovery of new sentient civilizations that declared war on her for her imperialist expansion to other worlds and eventually the galaxy, greatly shaping the human society as a whole and bringing a future of peace ruled by a strict but effective regime. Her political thoughts have been incorporated into her imperial constitutions and became officially the empire itself but outside of her world she was seen as a dictator who increased censorship, mass surveillance, a deterioration in human rights whom went against her laws, the cult of personality and religious developed around her.
Sin Motif - Pride
"Who gave you permission to breath the same air as mine?"
— Oryx meeting a student from Raizen Academy
Hieronymus Bosch's The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things
Pride is considered, on almost every list, the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins. Out of the seven, it is the most angelical, or demonic. It is also thought to be the source of the other capital sins. Also known as hubris, or futility, it is identified as dangerously corrupt selfishness, the putting of one's own desires, urges, wants, and whims before the welfare of other people.
In even more destructive cases, it is irrationally believing that one is essentially and necessarily better, superior, or more important than others, failing to acknowledge the accomplishments of others, and excessive admiration of the personal image or self (especially forgetting one's own lack of divinity, and refusing to acknowledge one's own limits, faults, or wrongs as a human being).
As pride has been labelled the father of all sins, it has been deemed the devil's most prominent trait. C.S. Lewis writes, in Mere Christianity, that pride is the "anti-God" state, the position in which the ego and the self are directly opposed to God: "Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind." Pride is understood to sever the spirit from God, as well as His life-and-grace-giving Presence.
In Ancient Athens, hubris was considered one of the greatest crimes and was used to refer to insolent contempt that can cause one to use violence to shame the victim. This sense of hubris could also characterize rape. Aristotle defined hubris as shaming the victim, not because of anything that happened to the committer or might happen to the committer, but merely for the committer's own gratification. The word's connotation changed somewhat over time, with some additional emphasis towards a gross over-estimation of one's abilities. The term has been used to analyse and make sense of the actions of contemporary heads of government by Ian Kershaw (1998), Peter Beinart (2010) and in a much more physiological manner by David Owen (2012). In this context the term has been used to describe how certain leaders, when put to positions of immense power, seem to become irrationally self-confident in their own abilities, increasingly reluctant to listen to the advice of others and progressively more impulsive in their actions.
Animal Motif - Oryx
Oryx is a genus consisting of four large antelope species called oryxes. Three of them are native to arid parts of Africa, and the fourth to the Arabian Peninsula. Their fur is pale with contrasting dark markings in the face and on the legs, and their long horns are almost straight. The exception is the scimitar oryx, which lacks dark markings on the legs, only has faint dark markings on the head, has an ochre neck, and horns that are clearly decurved. The Arabian oryx was only saved from extinction through a captive breeding program and reintroduction to the wild.
Oryxes are powerfully built and deep-chested with short necks, blunt muzzles, and long limbs. The sexes look alike, although females are less muscular. The gemsbok (Oryx gazella gazella) is the largest; it stands up to 138 cm (54 inches) tall and weighs 238 kg (524 pounds). It also has the most striking coloration: gray-brown with contrasting black and white body and facial markings. The Arabian, or white, oryx (O. leucoryx) is the smallest, 102 cm (40 inches) tall and weighing 75 kg (165 pounds), with only faint dark markings to offset its whitish coat. The scimitar-horned oryx (O. dammah), 120 cm (47 inches) tall and weighing 200 kg (440 pounds), is mostly white except for the reddish brown neck and chest. The horns are long and straight in the gemsbok and the Arabian oryx. Females’ horns are thinner but as long as those of males. The Arabian and scimitar-horned oryxes are listed as endangered species.
The scimitar oryx, which is now listed as extinct in the wild, also relies on a captive breeding program for its survival.
All oryx species prefer near-desert conditions and can survive without water for long periods. They live in herds of up to 600 animals. Newborn calves are able to run with the herd immediately after birth. Both males and females possess permanent horns. The horns are narrow and straight except in the scimitar oryx, where they curve backwards like a scimitar. The horns can be lethal: oryxes has been known to kill lions with them, and they are thus sometimes called sabre antelopes (not to be confused with the sable antelope). The horns also make the animals a prized game trophy, which has led to the near-extinction of the two northern species.
Lore - The Purple Haired Demon
0th Multi-Universe
Prime Universe
Milky Way
Prime Earth
Asia - Japan
Tenguu City
Abandoned Ruins
The abandoned Tenguu City, half of the town of an once wealthy and influential city that became the center of attention of the world due to its Magi-Tech advances. After a man-made disaster from KnightWalker Family with an unknown project, half of of the two was isolated and abandoned by its government, resulting in rise of many criminal groups and the take over terrorist Japanese factions like the Mafusa Sovereignty. In this dark place, the Black Mist coiled and twisted like a living creature as it rolled forward to encircle the isolated, grey-stoned destroyed and old buildings.
A massive, humanoid figure walked within the darkness of the Black Mist. Her pair of purple glowing eyes illuminated her hair as if they were lanterns while her footsteps echoed across the entire neighboor. Those next to this place have already heard these footsteps, delicated footsteps of a ghost whose bring the air of fear, despair and death. The smarter civilians and criminals recognize a threat immediately after being close to one. These are the ones who survive as they made their escape in silence between the ruins of the old Tenguu City.
Grass withered underfoot as the tall ghost lady marched towards the the buildings' ruined gatehouse. She could see movement on the walls. They knew death had come for them.
Her own name drifted on the wind, whispered in fear:
The Violet Haired Demon.
As she approached the building with a dead expression, the fools inside tried to resist. Shots sliced through the night. Several stuck the Violet Haired Demon, piercing her skin like any normal person. One sank deep into her eyes only to regenerate afterwards but her inexorable approach did not slow.
A heavy iron portcullis barred the demon's advance. The demon with glowing eyes extended a gauntleted hand and made a wrenching motion in the air. The lattice ironwork screamed in protest as it was twisted out of shape before being hurled contemptuously aside, revealing the heavy oak gate beyond.
White hot warding runes burst to life upon the gate, forcing thee demon back half a step. The Black Mist roiled around her, and it was possible now for the defenders to see other forms within it - hateful, shadowy specters that hungered for living souls. The Blackness hungers. And the demon was it herald.
The Purple Haired Demon stepped forward, brandishing her immense Oni Blade. A weapon of dark renown, thousands, if not millions, had fallen before it. With a powerful swing, she slammed the weapon into the oak gate.
The runes exploded, the demon's dark sorcery overcoming the petty protective spells of her enemies. The gate smashed inwards, ripped off its hinges.
The Black Mist flowed through the breach, the Purple Haired Demon striding within it.
The garrisoned thugs and men-at-arms waited for her in the courtyard beyond. Low-live criminals not affiliated to any giant group like Mafusa, Intergang or World Serpent. For lone wolves, there was no salvation when they decided to interfere in her master's plans in this world. No matter who are they, all obstacles and pathetic interferences should be eliminated.
Weaklings all. As she entered the ruins she could see her enemies, dirty and poor thugs, the scum of society. Her gaze swept over them as she sought a foe worthy of her attention. Her undying gaze settled on a young thug that stepped out to meet her, dagger drawn.
"B-B-Begone, demon, or I shall see you banished", said the young inexperienced thug. "This loot is ours and this group is under my protection." The thug did his best to speak before that woman who had the double of his size and looked down at him as if he was a wretched ant ready to be crushed.
Rising to this threat, a host of specters and and dark warriors manifested in the Black Mist behind their master. Alongside them, a pale angel with long silver hair carrying a sadistic and arrogant smile of superiority. Her smile changed to a grin full of malicious intentions, as if a predator was about to toy with their victim by putting them through immense and unimaginable pain before killing them for the fun of it.
"I thought they were worthy enemies, it turns out they are all a bunch of nobodies. I wonder what Vira is thinking by sending us here instead of lackeys and cannon folders." The silver haired demon only thought about torturing those men until they begged to die.
"This is entertainment, consider it part of a "break". This one's soul is mine, don't touch him", the tall demon lady with glowing eyes said, holding the eager spirits at bay. Her voice was too soft but emotionless and empty as if she was bored or lost the will to find anything worthy of her attention.
The Purple Haired Demon pointed, and a cone of malignant unlife burst towards the thug.
The thug's clothes shone brightly for a second, then returned to its normal, mundane form, leaving him unharmed by the Purple Haired Demon's necromantic sorcery.
"Anti-Magi Tech technology? So you were expecting Magicians to go after you after you decided steal from Mafusa?", sneered the demon. "It will not save you against true magic."
She stepped forward and brought her large katana down toward the thug's skull. The strike was met with a two-handed parry, though the power of it forced the thug to his knees. The Purple Haired Demon towered over him.
"Why are you going easy on him? That single strike was supposed to have cut him in half?" The silver haired lady that was considerably smaller than the one in front of her spoke to giant demon with a tone of confusion and doubt.
The thug spun away, avoiding the katana as it swung toward him in a lethal arc. He sidestepped and sank his blade deep into the Purple Haired Demon's side, biting through the banded links and chain. To a living man, it would have been a mortal blow, but to an immortal being from a demonic dimension capable of devouring worlds, it was as nothing. The Purple Haired Demon then grabbed the thug by his neck and threw him to the other side of the room as if he was a small piece of can.
While the young thug was on the floor, the tall demon stepped in to end the fight, but the thug turned aside his strike with exquisite skill, and rammed the point of his blade into the Purple Haired Demon's chest with all his strength and weight.
With a wrench of metal, the blade punched through the breastplate above the heart. As if the flesh of her chest was alive, the blade brutally pushed away from her skin. From the cut, nothing came out, not even a single drop of blood.
The Purple Haired Demon grabbed the thug by the throat in one powerful grab and lifted him off the ground as if he was a small kitten, it was clear that woman was not even using a single amount of strength to lift him.
"You thought you could protect these mortals and your loot", said the demon. "But know that it will be you who slays them."
She squeezed, tightening her grip on the thug's throat. The mortal's feet kicked in the air. The Purple Haired Demon watched closely, eyes burning, as the life drained from the thug. Finally, she dropped the lifeless corpse to the floor as the pale girl behind her crossed her arms and left with a disappointed expression. With her, her army of armored demons also left.
"You said it was my turn this time." She then disappeared in the darkness of the night with her two armored demons, leaving the Purple Haired Demon alone with her next victims.
The Purple Haired Demon knelt and placed a hand upon the dead thug's chest. When the giant demon rose, she drew forth the shade of the dead thug.
The spirit of the thug looked around it, horror writ in its spectral eyes. He was not a transparent astral being with no flesh or skin, he was a chained agonizing and tortured soul with nothing but bones.
"Now", commanded the Purple Haired Demon, knowing that the shade was powerless to resist her.
"Kill them all." The demon pointed her finger at the scared thugs who fell on their backs and knees, too scared to even run or defend themselves.
And screams.
And cries for help.
These were the only things that all of the abandoned Tenguu City's community heard that night.
Data
Playing a piano was one of the few things that cleaned her mind
Name: Oryx
Nationality: Brazilian
Classification: Well-Oriented Dictator, Humanitarian Revolutionary, Former Human, Overseer Hyvralisk, Overpowered Half, Charismatic Leader, Well-Intentioned Extremist, Political Figure, Ruler of the Alternative Milky Way galaxy, Curious Explorer, Loner, Empress of the World, Revelation of Qliphoth's Agent, Child of the Blackness, Peace Bringer, Equalizer, Nature Lover, Oppressive Tyrant, Alchemist and Magic Researcher
Gender: Female
Age: 5,000,000,090
Power and Abilities: Black matter manipulation, Immortality, Super strength, Teleportation, Durability, Eternal Life, God-like Speed, Electrokinesis, Zombies summoning, Time manipulation, spatial manipulation, Necromancy, Black hole creation and summoning, Gravity control, Flight, Telekinesis, Telepathy, Anti-Matter manipulation, Size Manipulation, Shape-shifting, Non-human biology, Swordsmanship, Charisma, High Endurance, High-Intelligence, Demonic Power of Qliphoth, Curses, Brainwash and Mind control, Black Magic, Incredible black magical powers, Reality-warping, Junctioning, Manipulation of Atoms, Clairvoyance, Mastery of tactics, Inhuman resilience, Skilled duelist
Weaknesses: Cats, nature, loneliness
Destructive Capacity: At least galactic, her electro shocks can travel across the dark space of the void and spread across the worlds of a galaxy faster than light speed
Attack Range: 10000000+Kvs - Inter Galactic
Speed: Sub-relativistic+ Massively FTL+ 10000 faster than the Sun's light arriving Earth's atmosphere
Durability: Universal level+ Can Survive supernovas, nuclear explosions, shock between worlds, diseases
Demonic Force: At least Class AA+, likely higher (flipped a truck with one hand), can break of a person's neck with one hand, can destroy a building with a finger
Demonic Striking Strength: Class J+, likely higher;+ City Level
Demonic Stamina: A+Class cam fight for at least 2 weeks without rest
Demonic Standard Equipment: Kashira Katana
Demonic Intelligence: Genius, mechanical and technical genius, built an advanced droid when she was 9 years old, designed custom starfighters and other devices, great engineer designer, high strategic intelligence and leadership ability, mastery of multiple forms of swordsmanship combat, good at psychological manipulation, a militaristic and political genius, manipulated her family and siblings, both famed war heroes and generals of the Third World Wars into being her pawns; preyed off the weaknesses and fears of over a hundred powerful ministers, learned a vast amount information about the ancient advanced civilization of humans, including their science and the art of battle, already displayed scholar-level knowledge in mathematics, physics, astronomy, quantum mechanics, mechanical engineering and so on; ; now as a empress of Nexus and god-like figure, using propaganda and sheer charisma to seize the hearts of its population; has incredible thought processing capacity to the point of using programming, propaganda and psychological warfare.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Beginner's Mistake: An ability which tampers with a person's sense of perception, allowing Oryx to appear to them however she wishes.
Manipulation of Boundaries: With the word "boundary" in its name, Oryx is capable of pretty much anything put under the influence of this ability. She explains that this power allows her to control the boundaries "between any and all things", and the outside world, the worlds of the living and the dead, humans and demons, and even the day and the night. The most common application of Oryx's boundary manipulation abilities is opening "gaps" of alternative dimensions.
Infinite Corridor: Oryx is able to trap people in a dimension which reflects the attributes of a complex Riemannian manifold.
Zero: Oryx can return an area of 30 kilometers around her back to the past and reset all wounds, this ability can be used to trap someone in a state of repeating death for all eternity in different timelines and realities, creating new timelines and worlds purely out of this single incident. The most broken ability of a Hyvralisk so far.
Summary: Mastermind Young Dictator
IQ: 200
Personal Information
All personal information of Oryx, such as her hobbies, her favorite things, etc.
Oryx was an admirer of the Japanese culture as she was half-Asian herself
Likes about Yourself: Appearance, my my own intelect, my own occupation as goddess-empress, my own charisma, my own hygine and smell, and refined manners
Have Confidence about Yourself in...: Politics, alchemy, magic research, fighting for the Blackness, swordsmanship, my own abilities and loyalty to the Great Deep Cause
Most Comfortable Environment: Cold and quiet closed environment in tall buildings with great views to metropolitan cities
What Motivates You: Peace and equality
Word that Define Your Best Quality: Perfection
Favorite Word: Utopia
Favorite Quotes: "Victors are the sole authors of history. Time to write our chapter."
Favorite Color(s): Violet, wine, black, gold barn red, black olive, grey, blood red
Favorite Day/Holiday: Christmas, Eversion Day of Hyvralisks and Cats Day
Favorite Drink(s): Passion fruit juice, strawberry juice, Grape juice and wine, jaboticaba juice, sophisticated lemon drinks, Açai, German beer, French wine, Guarana Antartica, Zhujiang Beer, Tsingtao Beer, Yanjing Beer, Blue Girl Beer, Kölsch beer, Anker beer, and vodka
Favorite Food(s): Picanha, fish, steak, spicy foods, souffle omelette, chicken legs, Chaliapin Steak Bowl, cabbages, onigiri, fried rice, tapioca, Lemon Curd Italiano Semifreddo, Quail Stuffed With Risotto And Eggs, smoked curry, Apple risotto, X-caboquinho
Favorite Clothes: Black suits and black sleeveless dresses, Dark Asian-style dresses (mainly Indonesian and Chinese's), black high-shoes, black pantyhouse
Favorite Hobbies: Learning and studying alien species, testing new types of magic, learning about ancient languages, creating new types of enchanted weapons and curses, exploring worlds and conquering planets to expand her knowledge
Favorite Music Genre: Lofi and sad-vibes
Favorite Climate/Season: Snowing/Cold and Winter
Favorite Type of Person: Diligent, fast-thinker, idealists, revolutionary and hard-working
Favorite Enemies: The Blackness, Idea of Evil, Ara Astaroth, Raym Ars Apocalypse, Kaitlyn Powell, Autem Angerina, Secundus Saniel, Tertium Tagen, Quartus Quatarian, Quintus Quinero, Veneras Valnian, Septima Saiwan, Octabia Orana, Nona Nariyan, Decimam Danura, Vicesima Vince, Triginta Tristan, Quadragesimas Qualiny, Symmone, Alice Ashcroft, Danua Gretel, Rikka KnightWalker, Valentine, Aki Astaroth, Decimam Danura, Gira Couteau, Satella, Aversa, Ursula, Orga Discordia, Mary, Enigma, SeptingentosQuinquagintaMilia Satin, Septima Saiwan and Vira Hermes
Don't Have Confidence about Themselves in...: Art, sociology, diplomacy, religion, standing in middle of crowds, doing domestic housework, sharing the same space with other people, dialoguing with opposers and rebels
Most Uncomfortable Environment: Crowds, noisy places, parties of any kind, noble parties, chaotic traffic streets, offices full of people, overcrowded beach, any place with a large concentration of people
What Unmotivates You: Humanity's ignorance, racism and internal struggles for drama, pitiful racial wars, political and religious division, my carnal desires and uncontrolled lust periods
Hate about You: Explosive sexual rage, mysophobia, autophobia, fragile female anatomy, human needs and mortal feelings
Word that Define Your Worst Quality: Rage
Hated Word: Empathy
Hated Quotes: "Yes, it is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies." - Martin Luther King Jr
Hated Color (Optional): Iron, silver and bronze
Hated Day/Holiday: 1st April, New Year, Brazilian Carnival, Thanksgiving's Day, World's Cups and Olympiads
Hated Drink: Apple, genipap and melon juice, papaya juice, acid drinks, pineapple juice, Coca-cola, Japanese sake, any kind of bitter drinks
Hated Food: Any cheap homemade food, bear flesh, turtle flesh, crustaceous sea animals, duck meat, insects and feline meat
Hated Clothes: Anything that is too colorful or may be sexually suggestive
Hated Music Genre: Metal, rock, funk, forró, electronic, samba
Hated Climate/Season: Hot/Summer
Hated Type of Person: Lazy, foul-mouthed, uncultured, sexists (of any gender), weaklings and unmotivated people
Hated Non-Sentient Species: Spiders, cockroach, ants, mosquitoes and worms
Hated Type of Fictional of Entertainment: Pornography, reality shows and soap operas
Hated Sport: American Football, Football, box and cue sports
Hated Hour: Hours from 06:00 PM to 07:00 AM
Hated Allies: Doesn't hate anyone except for those listed in Hated Type of Person
Arranged Marriage or Single For Life: Single for life
Alert or Easily Distracted: Alert
Economic Status (Rich, Medium or Poor): Rich
Preference of Living (House, Apartment, etc...): Large mansions and colossal space stations
Likes to Live... (With other People or Alone): Alone
Wants to Visit... (Location, Country or Fictional World): Every Asian country and alien worlds for study and exploration
Happiest & Best Memory(ies): Becoming a Hyvralisk and abandoning my humanity, crushing the last opposing nation of the Last Wars, being free from Ara Astaroth's control, completely conquering the last corner of Milky Way, receiving a heartily-gift from Heis (including her first kiss and sex with her) and ████████, being freed from her carnal lust
Saddest & Worst Memory(ies): Being rejected by my mother as a newborn
Biggest Fear: Being alone, rejected, forgotten and ignored
Love Your Family: Never
Love Your Friends: Never
Mental Speed (High or Slow): High
Mental Health (Peaceful or Chaotic): Peaceful
Status of Controlling Emotions (Good or Bad): Good
Do You Find Yourself (Beautiful or Ugly): Beautiful
You Are Physically (Sloppy or Conceited): Conceited
You Care About Your Appearance For... (Yourself or Others): Myself
I Wish was Born...: Without mortal feelings
Prefer to Stay... (Young or Age): Young
Desire of Death: Some day
Physical Appearance
Oryx as a newborn Hyvralisk worm
"Humans, creatures whose DNA came from Ragnarok Iblis. No wonder every race with your human figure are so prone to be slaves from the Sin. Even me, who possess this human skin and flesh is not safe from your tendencies."
— Oryx to herself
Much like other Hyvralisks except for Etherion and Ara Astaroth, Oryx was once a pure-blooded worm in her newborn stages of life. After leaving her egg, Oryx had an unique form among her sibilings as she already possessed teeth and could fly in all directions like a fly. As worm larvae, she was once pale and about a meter in length, with rounded heads, six short spines on her chest and belly, and a spine at the end of her tail.
After her mother's conspiracy to overthrow Ara Astaroth was discovered, Oryx was abandoned in a human world while still in worm form. By a turn out of events, Oryx was one of the chosen ones of the Blackness to be its heralds and knights, giving her an immense amount of Black energy to feed her to the point of advancing four stages of a Hyvralisk's life that could take billion years to be achieved. Overnight, Oryx became an Overseer-class Hyvralisk, considered to the second strongest form in the Black Demon's hierarchy after the Templario and possibly the Jikininki.
Oryx in her fifteens
As a human, Oryx was already considered prettier than most children around her and was said to be an Angel who fell from heavens as she there was no in the world capable of abandoning such innocent and cute baby. As a teenager, Oryx is "a girl with astonishing beauty of a cosmic goddess" as described by her maids. Even as a teenager, she already appeared to be elegant and had very polite manners, forming a near-perfect image of a princess in a wealthy political family. With abnormal features, Oryx had the body of a full-grown woman in her teens, something that her own Blackness spirit started to adapt itself by copying the grown of natural Brazilian women around Oryx, starting from her maids to her teachers. As she continued to grow, her face began to adopt Asian-like features like eyes and smooth completely white skin that can only be seen in female Korean k-popper singers and Japanese idols, this was without doubt her secondary inner-self in action trying to copy her adoptive Korean mother.
Overall, she has ivory skin and a very long black hair with tones of dark purple, her hair is so long that it is just a few centimeters from touching the ground and was once thought by some that her hair may be actually heavy for its density and intensity. She also keep a cut bang above her eyes and slightly in front of her eyebrows while keeping her hair untouched by her frontal sides, creating two lateral fringes. Like a cat that has their eyeball change colors over time, Oryx's eyes also began to change colors over the course of her teenager period as they toned themselves with a combination of lightly and dark purple, changing her once aqua blue eyes.
As she continued to grow, Oryx became more and more conceited, more than most normal Brazilian women and was almost considered a "narcissist" by her maids. Instead of using products and makeups, Oryx resourced to natural treatments of skin, physical trainings, healthily diets and almost 12-hours practicing sports. This period was marked by her attempt to look as perfect as possible in appearance and personality to satisfy herself after a childhood of constant psychological and physical abuse. When she reached 20-years, Oryx had now an athletic body of a tall basketball player, oversizing all men in her family, household, siblings and all people she ever came in contact with. Now having the body of an athlete, Oryx became even more attractive as her body assumed voluptuous sizes like refined butt and F-cup breasts. Despite having an athletic body, Oryx's physical body was not muscular but a sophisticated one between muscular and thin as her torso was still one of a tall mode with a curvy build.
One thing noticed by her doctors is that she once had Alopecia Areata at one point of her life as she no longer had any corporal hair except for the her head hair, this caused her to lose hair in every region of her body below her head except for her main hair; the reason why the syndrome stopped was mostly likely thanks to the Blackness enhancement on her physical body or it was most likely that the Blackness itself acted to "follow" with her desires and got rid of everything that was unnecessary in a woman's ideal body. The lack of physical hair however never caused any health problem thanks to the abnormal conduit protection of the Blackness.
Oryx's size sample in a closed room, showing how much she has grown in height
Despite her pride over her appearance and intense narcissism, Oryx never bragged about her beauty or used it to look down on others as she did that for herself and not to make others look at her with different eyes or cause envy among other women. But inevitably, she caused some of her closest people to hate her out of envy while her fans from Internet began to hate her as she was being successful in her goals, from physical victory to studies and training in the economic and political world. Besides, her height caused more problems for her instead of actual good as she needed special clothes fabricated by a special local company of clothing and accessories in her state [São Paulo] to buy and wear. Luckily by her, while her feet indeed had grown in sizes they were still a woman's delicated feet in format, allowing her to buy normal shoes without much problem. As a woman of half-Korean heritage, she had VIP access to Asian top-tiers outfits and clothings that were big enough to solve most of her problems as most of these companies were Chinese known for their production of powerful elastic silk fabrics in exchange of their expensive and delivery services.
Much like her hair problem, her height was probably partially given by the Blackness combined with her intense training and too many liters of daily milk when she was a baby, or probably the three combined that impulsed her body to take form of abnormal proportions. Now with 24-years, Oryx had now reached 2,01 meters, an abnormal size for any woman. It was only after she had awaken her powers as Hyvralisk that she had access to control her height by keeping her human form between 1,79→80 to 1,90 meters. If she never became a Hyvralisk, she would have more likely continue growing until she reached 2,17 meters and stop there after causing too much distress for her and her family's vaults. When entering in the demon world, Oryx's size reach 2,30 meters thanks to dimension's powerful dark energy that empowers every Black Demon inside but since the demonic realm is a complete different world that has unique structures and clothes her size is not a problem as much as it is in the mortal realm and unlike the human society where her height is seen with shock and as a signal of abnormality, her original true size in the demon realm is seen with great views as Overseers saw height as a form of physical superiority and intimidation to other their underling Overseers.
Despite all her icy personality, Oryx liked to taunt her enemies by "kneeling" to their level so she could have a word with an insect
When compared to her wife Heis, the latter is literally considered a child as Oryx towers Heis by an absurd margin of 35-centimeters. For an instance, Oryx is sometimes confused as a "predator" by other humans for thinking Heis is a 14-years old girl while Oryx is a literal adult. The truth is that both Heis and Oryx were born in the same Multi-Universal year and share the same age. When it's revealed to Imperia Deamonne that Heis was married with Oryx, she immediately accused her of being too old for her as she still thought Heis was another persona born from Kanon Rihavein's original body instead of an ancient Black Demon who used Kanon's body as a vessel.
An interesting fact about Oryx, and ironic, is that she had disgust of anyone who approached out of sexual interest, treating them as trash and unworthy of her time. Despite her efforts to look attractive as possible, she didn't worked hard for it to attract lustful eyes but to satisfy her pride and narcissism according to her country's beauty standards, in the end she wasn't thinking about the backlash of her hard work in the eyes of other people. This feeling would be mutual with all male low-workers of Fraxinus (except for the actual members of the Rogues) whom were known to have created a list of "Most Wanted Women" of Ratatoskr and putting the most attractive girls of Fraxinus in ranks. The list itself was an illegal fan-list that had no connections whatsoever with the organization's purposes, what led Oryx to believe every officer and worker below the leadership of Ratatoskr had no hope of winning a war against Revelation of Qliphoth while deeming the Rogues were as strong warriors despite their antics and laid-back personalities when not in a mission but also stated they would be useless in a large-scale war with the forces of Hell and New World Order in small numbers and that they needed allies from other branches like Cultus Pythonissam, Paradise, New Conglomerate and Reality Council.
Another factor that changed on her when she became a Hyvralisk is that she gained a pair of oni-like horns on her forehead but instead of being an actual bone as seen in many Japanese youkai creatures, it was an artificial horn that served as conduit to her electrokinetic powers to spread around her body using her cells as connections. These two horns could change colors from red to purple based in her mood. When she is acting normal or just being herself, her horn's color will take a violet color in its points while the pair will be colored with red when she is a bad mood like being angry, anxious, afraid, worried or any other negative emotion known by humans. Aside from serving as conduits, the horns can also be used as weapons if she desires to stab her enemies with her own head, something she never thought about since she considered this tactic to be too primitive and unsophisticated in combat. Moreover, she also has a pair of vampire-like fangs that can be used to bite her victims to extract their blood as it's one of the three things that Hyvralisks feed on mortals (blood, flesh and soul).
One thing that was never noticed is that she has a large tattoo in format of a winged Youkai beast in red coloration. The tattoo only seems to appear when she is using her powers or fighting someone in a serious death battle.
Personality
"Victors are the sole authors of history. Time to write our chapter."
— Oryx is widely known as a revolutionary using unethical methods to save her world
Oryx's building where she was kept locked for most of her childhood
Heartless, cold and stoic. These are the three elements that composes most Oryx's personality with great tones of someone who is always serious and "grumpy" most of the time. Trained to be a politician since her childhood, Oryx never experienced happiness of a normal child and was constantly restricted to live inside of a large mansion without no one but her maids. She was also trained to be lone as possible, learning to refuse friendships and relations that could drag her down in her mission to assume the control of Brazil that was considered the Third most powerful military and economic power of the world after United States of America and China in an alternative Earth. Daily, she would be punished and beaten by strict teachers who beat her by trivial and small mistakes. Without anyone to comfort her, Oryx learned to control her emotions and refused to show her expression to others to show and swore to never cry or smile in front of anyone ever again, otherwise her weakness would be exposed to others that would use her emotions to manipulate her. Craving the expression of an ice Empress on her face, Oryx became stoic and emotionless, always putting her superiority over others. Years of closing her emotions and true feelings resulted in Oryx growing as a depressive, sad and sociopathic figure who saw happiness and overall mortal emotions as a signal of cowardice and weakness. This decision would result in Oryx growing as a unhappy person who much like any other human, it would cause a permanent psychological damage to her and transforming her into an uncaring monster for the human race. To this day, she continues to put the face of a lifeless person, almost as if she was robot but her eyes gained a new shape; the shape of a sharp knife as if she was going to stab the souls of the people she is looking at.
Oryx is a highly intelligent individual who is also calm, sophisticated, and arrogant due to her superiority and countless million years of experience. She has a self-centered personality and likes being worshipped as a Goddess and having global personality cult devoted to herself. She even planned to kill unhealthy or lazy people once she became an empress in order to build a strong, disciplined utopian society based on a eugenist ideology, even though she did not hold supremacist or racial views. Her perfect militaristic utopia was one only the strongest and hard-working civilians would live a life of happiness, wealth and peace and where the useless, weak and "rebels" would be removed of this society to create a galactic community so powerful and unique that they would eventually travel to other realities and galaxies without her interference; the perfect human beings. Similar to her "godmother" Ara Astaroth, she has a strong sense of justice but this quickly becomes warped (like the former) after she becomes discovers her identity as a Hyvralisk. Believing the world to be "rotten," she uses her powers and oppressive laws as a means by which she can enact her will to rid the world of evil people. One of her dreams was to create a new world that is free of injustice and populated only with people whom she deems honest and kind, thus becoming the "the deity of the perfect utopia". Oryx is known to be a decisive, prideful, determinated and a person with the might and will of metal and driven to achieve her ambitions, without faltering one bit in her beliefs. Despite knowing the criminality and sin of murder, Oryx would consider her actions the ultimate “sacrifice” to help the world and would at least respect the death of all people who died for her, honoring their names while "pretending" to care about the death of those who opposed her.
Oryx has a tendency to look down on anyone who does not share a similar revolutionary belief to hers
She is an extremely clever, strategic and sly master manipulator who can easily act as an innocent and friendly individual in public who would never kill someone, while ordering the executions of hundreds of people each night who refused to accept her new utopia and ideological views. She was able to convince her siblings that she cared about them and that she was grateful for everything that they'd done for her when she only thought of them as pawns which she'd kill once they outlived their usefulness. She was also able to fool men much more clever than her family, into being her “king” and thinking that she loved them, when it turns out, like her family, she only thought of them as pawns to use and discard. A political mastermind, she often elaborated unbelievably complicated schemes to compensate for her lack of physical presence, involving pretty much nearly everyone around her or using contact that are not related to her to not involve her names in illegal activities like assassinating a political figure from a foreign power. While at school when she was a child, Oryx conducted herself as a sociable, likable, and often easygoing student. However, this is really a mask to hide her true nature of an ice person. Her charisma and beliefs in justice gain her the trust and respect of many soldiers and leaders. What most of those leader did not know is that she was maybe too radical and was not going to make her way out of what she believes in to give them tribute, power and gifts in return of their support in the world of politics. Oryx is known for having a very stoic personality and rarely ever smiles or grin when something good happens to her, as if her happiness was ripped out of her mind as Kotori Itsuka once stated. She never cared about schoolwork, seeing the entire thing as trivial, even though her high intelligence would make it easy for her. She enjoys seeking out challenges, often playing chess against the nobility or gambling great deals in gamble games. In general, Oryx takes most day-to-day affairs with open disinterest, often not even noticing the affection of others. She also has a strong dislike for nobles and politicians as a whole viewing them as tepid and "overprivileged parasites" who are good as dead since their lives would not make any difference in the world. Highly perceptive and good with problem solving, Oryx is a skilled planner and good at mapping out scenarios. Furthermore, Oryx was very popular among peers and adored by her family members. However, her high intelligence and constant praise from adults laid the foundation for an intense level of hubris which quickly took effect once she obtained her Hyvraliks powers.
When being touched by someone whom she deems to be repulsive it's normal for her go on a rampage and brutalizing them until their corpses are rest of meats
Oryx is also a mysophobic, antisocial sociopath who is obsessed with leading the world to a better future where no one has to suffer of unemployment, crisis, illnesses, wars or crimes. A perfect world where the most worthy and useful humans and other species are 100% happy with the advance of technology and great economic conditions of life. Due to a combination of an old theory claiming humans and every other mortal species derived from primitive, wild and savage race and her own mysophobia, Oryx onced believed that mortals were actually a plague that deserved to be eradicated but for a serious of factors she cannot kill them as she loves them at the same time and wants to do her best to give the most diligent mortals a life where no one can complain about while brutalizing anyone who dares to speak against her ideals and plans. She looks down upon those that continue to follow flawed ideals be they social or political, classifying them as mindless mongrels without any vision of a bigger picture. For all her good purposes, Oryx has no moral compass and an enormous ego, viewing herself as the only person in the world that's enlightened to the "true nature" of being a leader and deserving of the spot as ruler of the humanity. Oryx is very germophobic and hates anything she perceives as unsanitary, frequently remarking about the unclean appearances of certain people and locations. She refuses to be touched by others, or even breathe in the same air as theirs, which is one of the reasons she keeps long distances when talking to mortals while having no problem to share the same space with another Hyvralisk or Dark Magician that happens to be a Blackness Adepts. If blood, dirt or some other unclean substance comes in contact with Oryx's person, she will start developing scratching her skin until she starts bleeding (as described by her, the sensation is worms crawling over her skin or several parts of her body starting to scratching) and lose her usual composure, becoming increasingly unhinged as a result and losing much of her cold and composed structure of a noble woman. In drastic circumstances though, Oryx will let go of her aversions in order to crush an enemy that's standing on her way, either due to pragmatism or out of sheer hatred. However, this mysophobia is not related to all people but to most people around her. There are a few certain exceptions like very people with well cared body, great balanced and healthy diet, thin or athletic bodies supported with a great hygiene. Because of this, she don't mind being touched or approached by those people, which is why she may had several romantic relationships with other mortals and magicians from Eclipse of Hermes.
For all her good plans to bring peace and equality to those worthy of it, she doesn’t value mortal lives as individuals but seems to only care about them when they are dead, viewing most people as pawns for their utilitarian value and being willing to experiment on them to accomplish her objectives while lying to herself that their sacrifices were necessary to feel on the right position to say she did the right thing and that she would never forget their names and deaths to make them eternal. She carries this sentiment even towards the other demonic members of the Revelation of Qliphoth she has dedicating herself to since her teenager years, treating them as expendable sacrifices for her well-being and having no qualms in killing them off for the smallest mistakes. The masks worn by her closest Hyvralisks subordinates also serve as a reminder of this mindset; she doesn't view them as worthy of sharing the same air as her. While she indeed see Hyvralisks as being on equal terms, she still sees non-Overseer Hyvralisks as being inferior and disgusting. She is also shown to be cruel and uncaring to those who she deemed to be worthless of being part of her utopia or enemies who opposed her or Ara Astaroth's Revelation. After killing Kamui, she was only concerned about getting his blood on her or having to waste time by killing a nobody unworthy of her attention and time. She is also prone to exploiting suicidal people to be expendable pawns, usually trying to get inside of their minds with words of a better life after death and convincing them commit atrocities without caring about their own lives. As the leader of the Nexus Federation and later Empire, Oryx is usually levelheaded, thinks strategically, and, according to a conversation with La Folia, seems to be nice at first. Whether she is acting or behaving genuinely, Oryx does possess polite mannerisms and can come off as very calm and classy even to people she considers potentially troublesome. If aggravated, however, she may end up displaying a powerful and visible killing intent.
Oryx accepting her Hyvralisk side and disposing of her humanity
During the course of teenager years, Oryx became increasingly disillusioned with Brazil's corruption and the arrogance and apparent complacency of the world's super powers, eventually coming to desire the downfall of both institutions she'd once served as diplomat. In her thirst for greater power, Oryx turned away from the light and ultimately joined accepted more extremist views. As a ultra-nationalist, Oryx was a menacing, intelligent, powerful, manipulative, arrogant, and immoral, yet charismatic stateswoman whose methods included torture, assassination, and even genocide if a certain country fought back her words or used military force to combat her army. In those years posing as a tyrant, she was known as robotic person lacking any feelings such as fear and despair. Even with the blade pressed against her neck or facing the gun point of an assassin, she remained relaxed and confident throughout. She was also exceptionally cunning, and would often set elaborate traps for her allies to test their genuine value and effectiveness to her. As a sociopath, Oryx was amoral and highly apathetic, but not incapable of emotional experiences once she locked all her human feelings away: she was still capable of feeling shock, disappointment and would even smile sometimes when something went according to her own plan. She also frequently voiced her experiences of shame or disappointment and was capable of pointing her own mistakes and flaws out loud, using them as an experience to adapt herself and overcome future obstacles as if she was some kind AI program. She was an accomplished philosopher, orator, politician, and warrior, regarded as one of the greatest Hyralisks ever for her strength of character and her strength in the Blackness. Ara considered Oryax to be the Qliphoth's greatest student, and her desertion to be one of the Revelation of Qliphoth's greatest failures.
Among her demonic comrades she is known for being just as calm and unfazed as Raym Ars Apocalypse from Monryou and does not often let things get under her skin. Even when others around her are visibly agitated, Oryx remains mostly unfazed. To some, this may come off as intimidating or haughty. She is crafty in her unconventional methods of solving cases. She can maintain her calm, even under situations of high pressure and her usual calmness often helps to relieve the people around her as it indicates she has the situation under her control as most Rogues can agree with when falling in a trap or facing an extremely powerful threat. Oryx, born in a wealthy family, holds a notable belief that money is the solution to everything; or at least most of her problems when the issue is not politics but an easy way to enter inside of the people's heads and appeal to their material needs. Oryx comes across as an egotist, holding dogmatic ideals on absolute political, social and economic perfection where everyone can live a wealthy life of full bellies. Like any princess-type of woman, she also enjoys perfect culinary and all of her dishes are made by the galaxy's top chiefs of different worlds. Her great reputation across the culinary world for her "Deity Mouth" which was said to either make or break a chef's career, is also one of the many things she enjoys while being power. The mere mention of her name was enough to terrify chiefs-in-training from every known planet of her Milky Way galaxy. Due to her sheltered background, Oryx was not used to living on her own, unable to operate a washing machine with her own hands. However, during her time in the Fraxinus, she gained many general living skills and even showed pride in knowing what all the laundry symbols on clothing meant; for better or worse, it showed that deep inside Oryx was still a child. Likewise, she was inconsequential and had no shame of whatever she could say and was straightforward, and wasn't afraid to voice her mind, like when she bluntly told Imperia Deamonne was the most pitiful and annoying person aboard Fraxinus and had no fear of saying that the Rogues and Ratatoskr were a small fry faction fighting a war where they have no chance of winning when they were numbered from 1 to 1 quadrillion. According to Oriax, Oryx may be rude and cold-hearted but she was an intelligent woman and had a sense of responsibility, tending to take everything upon herself and despite her dictator-side she would literally spent weeks awake working without breaks or having proper meals. Moreover, Oryx is accustomed to luxury. She has difficulty in dressing herself and doing household chores. She is loath to stay in a poor, relatively austere environment for long periods of time, considering such beneath her dignity and unfitting for an empress.
Oryx is a demanding perfectionist
Oryx is also a loner who is not interested in co-operating with others due to her own sense of self-superiority, and her opinion that others are, on the whole, lesser than her, resulting in many Overseers of the same rank not having too much contact with her, it doesn't stop them from trying to propose to her though. This sense of superiority and black-and-white worldview comes as a result of her upbringing; Oryx had to prove her worth in battle against her siblings in order to earn her role in the family as heir-apparent, whereas all her other siblings who lost the battle were effectively ex-communicated from the family and cut off financially, deemed "unfit for the name of the family". Because Oryx was raised in such a human highly competitive political environment of "haves" and "have-nots", she thinks all people trying to get too close to her only think about themselves and she dismisses emotional ties as petty and unimportant. Oryx's emotional detachment and lack of empathy towards the others sometimes made it very difficult for her to understand the reasoning for why people would behave altruistically or based on pure emotion; this came to a head during the case of death of her parents, where she could not understand why someone would be willing to drop tears for someone who knew they day would come or why people continue to struggle when they know they will die instead of embracing their death. Unable to understand concepts like compassion or empathy, Oryx is a genuine sociopath who has obvious anti-social and abusive behavior, and was able to pass herself off as normal by feigning emotion like feeling empathy for her people; one of the main examples is how she seems to desire the good of her own people but it's not interested in learning if they are indeed "happy" in the sense where each person achieved what they dreamed since their childhood instead of living a happiness that seem planned and visionized for them.
Aside from being a sophisticated woman who has great taste for clothes and classy behavior, she also has refined manners. Although she might have a polite, sophisticated way of speaking (which is described to be "Empress-like"), her words tend to come with a biting edge. She values rules and demands that they are followed by others, no matter how strange they may be. Despite how rigid she may seem, she also a has a sense of humor in form empty sarcasm. While she is viewed as intelligent, she is widely known to be pessimistic as she can only see bad things ahead or the problems she will encounter instead of looking at the brighter picture. Her role in the Ara's Espadas rank combined with her lady behavior often causes her to appear more like the true Supreme General and Commander of the forces of Revelation of Qliphoth instead of Vira Hermes who possess the same refined manners but often has a psychotic explosive rage attacks. Oryx is also very strict towards herself and others, and expect everything around her to be organized be they people, clothes, objects or even the smallest details like where a chair will fall under the "perfect place" in a small room. She is very arrogant and demands perfection in literally everything, including in the people's behavior, clothing, perfume, accent and method of speaking. Oryx has also displayed sadistic behavior but also has a masochistic side shown in her fight scenes where she displays joy and happiness being hit, her "arousal" however is not as the same of many sexual deviants but an extreme feeling of satisfaction as if she is watching a comedy film. Along with her passion for experimenting and making magic relics, Qliphoth and otherworldly drugs and poisons, Oryx loves to collect tea sets and kitchenware.
The menacing stare of the empress
Despite her power and authority, and the tendency to look down on her subordinates, she is always respectful with them and associates being generally polite rather than patronizing, although this can be construed as a means to maintain her status or just part of her personality to gain the trust of her people and have a at least a decent figure that will be marked for generations. Aside from being respectful to her subordinates, she can be quite polite to her enemies as well despite carrying intentions to kill them right away. According to her, she keeps her cool in front of her enemies to not descend to their levels of ignorance and rudeness, showing superiority over them all the time. When speaking to her foes, she usually uses "sir" and "miss"; which means if she is using those honorifics it means she is not planning to let you live for too much long but it can be used to intimidate and threat the individual with a menacing aura that says they should step back before something bad happens to them. When meeting strangers, she will always bow her head with her left hand on her back and right hand on her chest as a form of honorable greeting, yet she will only do it once people should not expect her to do the same the next time she meet them. Needless to say by now, she dislikes physical contact with other people, something that is unnatural to Brazilians due to this being part of their culture and having as much physical contact as possible through hand shakes and hugs is a normal thing in said country.
With all these traits combined, Oryx gives off the aura of a serious ice Empress with a stoic and penetrating gaze. With an extremely high height, defined posture of an prideful, confident and all-mighty ruler as well as her exaggerated hygiene and extreme caring for her physical appearance following the same culture of Brazilian women, it's not a surprise that many people fall over her at first sight. She is very aware of their feelings but does not respond them back but uses them to manipulate people according to her own will, such as using the feelings of other young politicians from different worlds and nations to become willing spies of hers and betraying their country on the process to leak private and confidential information of military projects. In fact, Oryx does not seem to be interested in romantic relationships but at times she leave herself go with the wave and embrace her human side of having lovers at times. It was just then that Oryx discovered she was actually a homosexual who is interested only in engaging with people of the same sex. Much like the rest of her hobbies, she used them to relieve herself from stress and burden. These relationships were not limited to a few human women but female Overseers Hyvralisks and Dark Magicians. It was common to see Oryx being accompanied by a different woman every week but by then no one cared with whom she slept with, mainly in Brazil where such things are fairly normal. Because she was unable to understand concept like love, she never truly felt anything in her relationships but only feeling of relaxing since she grew up in a human society therefore she gained sexual needs that most human beings (and organic life in general) possess. Because of her Hyvralisk blood and stress of her daily work, these women end up as her "playthings" to be brutalized as if they were living prey. The human women she ended with would usually be taken with "ease" while magicians and demon girls would suffer in a sea of pleasure and pain.
Oryx had once slept with Kaitlyn Powell as part of her carnal impulses period
According to Heis (whom experienced it in first hand), she have confirmed that was her demonic and human side colliding with each other as she is tired of putting the mask of a icy person after locking her true feelings for decades and acting like a human being for many millennia while being a demon, resulting in a permanent damage of sexual stress to her brain of overwork and identity crisis. Instead of being something considered good for her mental health, Oryx considered it a disgusting mortal curse and sought to get rid of it through magic relics to lock away all her primitive and carnal desires, these carnal impulses hurt her so much that she ended up crying in her room as deemed them to be unfit of a Goddess-Empress of a galactic empire and a child of the Blackness itself. Besides, the fact she had urges to engage in an activity that inferior races does was a great damage to her pride and status as a superior Overseer Hyvralisk. These feelings would then cease when she met an Angel from Paradise that serves to Saraph's legion and could form a normal relationship with her with the involvement of feeling and carnal desires without having explosive rages on the process. For Hyvralisks in general these sexual impulses were not something uncommon as Ara Astaroth and Vira Hermes are known for having many lovers over the course of their lives and that these impulses in female Hyvralisks is the equivalent to animals' reproduction period when the female of the species will desire for a mate for reproduction. The only difference between humans and Hyvralisks in this point is that humans doesn't have this "period" like all animals and Hyvralisks that will experience these feelings once every 3 years. Even if a female Hyvralisks' partner was to be another female nothing would change as this impulse is more sexual excitement rather than a reproduction factor. Having as many partners as possible is also fairly normal in Qliphoth and in the demonkind as a whole as it's a impulse that is greatly supported by Leohart the Prince of Hell, Ragnarok Iblis and even Ara Astaroth to produce more warriors and future heirs of their respective dimensions. In Oryx's case, she is more a recluse person despite having a good fame with countless women, Heis is usually her chosen partner as the two were born on the same period, share the same timespan of carnal impulses and formed a very intimidate bond after a few years repeating the same cycle, but that doesn't stop Oryx from choosing other women from Revelation of Qliphoth or Eclipse of Hermes since she has one of the largest harems of her entire kind.
In spite of her many horrendous crimes, it is interesting to note that when explaining the consciousnesses imbedded into souls and the dreams of people whose souls she's eaten, she states that such episodes leave her discouraged: this implies that she can be capable of feeling some semblance of remorse, though she quickly scoffs at the idea of being able to feel remorse for her sins like a regular person, signifying her massive egomania and belief that she is above all other mortals. However, the fact she can truly feel remorse came with her meeting with angelic wife from Paradise as she erased many of her most inhuman laws and rules of her empire in a signal that she admitted she did a fatal mistake. Moreover, Oryx wasn't completely devoid of love as she had a great care for animals and any non-sentient species. Her care for them may be explained due to their lack of not knowing what is right and wrong, good and evil and all share the same natural pattern of survival of the finest while at the same time being capable of feeling the same feelings of sorrow and pain that humans do. Her desire to protect them is so great that it easy to see she cares more about individual lives of defenseless animals than sentient mortal lives. Ara Astaroth does share the same vision of hers because mother nature is simple and straight thing that form beauty out of destruction and death while humans spread destruction to give birth to ugly structures that only benefits their species and not the rest of wild life. Oryx is a feline-person as she saw a part of herself in felines, mainly cats: starting with her icy stare, silent and very sophisticated behavior and their urge to hunt at night. Aside from these facts, she simply found them too small and cute. Her desire to protect the innocence of wild life was so much that many of her laws were brutally rigid when it comes to animal abuse regardless of the age of the criminal; the sentence for taking the life of an animal for pure cruelty was the same of taking the life of a person's: 30 years of imprisonment or death.
For all her solid posture, Oryx is quite fragile when it comes being alone. The all-mighty empress suffers from autophobia, the fear of being alone, ignored or unloved. One of the reasons she wanted to rule forever was to continue being worshipped and loved by her people. Even if she was hated or feared, as long she continued existing inside of the minds of her people and enemies, she would be fine with it. However, the mere thought of vanishing from everyone's minds and memories would cause her have a panic and anxiety attack, which would lead to depression in a short period of time. In those period of crisis, she would also suffer from identity crisis and lost herself between being a human or Hyvralisk, shaking her determination and revolutionary plans to return them to normal dreams of a child just wanting to be loved by her parents. For her, her identity as Goddess and empress is everything for her, even if she died she would continue to live inside of the minds of everyone who once saw or heard of her, she would be fine with it.
Disorders, Phobias and Mental Illnesses
Autophobia
Autophobia, also called monophobia, isolophobia, or eremophobia, is the specific phobia of isolation; a morbid fear of being egotistical, or a dread of being alone or isolated. Sufferers need not be physically alone, but just to believe that they are ignored or unloved. Contrary to what would be inferred by a literal reading of the term, autophobia does not describe a "fear of oneself" nor is it the fear of cars (despite various cultures abbreviating automobile to "auto"). It typically develops from and is associated with other anxiety disorders.
Autophobia can be associated with or accompanied by other phobias, such as agoraphobia, and is generally considered part of the agoraphobic cluster, meaning that it has many of the same characteristics as certain anxiety disorders and hyperventilation disorders. The main concern of people with phobias in the agoraphobic cluster is their ability to get help in case of emergency. This often makes them afraid of going out in public, being caught in crowds, being alone, or being stranded.
Autophobia is not to be confused with agoraphobia (fear of being in public or being caught in crowds), self-hatred, or social anxiety, although it can be closely related to them. It is a distinct phobia that tends to be accompanied by other anxiety disorders and phobias.
Psychopathy
Oryx was a sociopath who did enjoy the feeling of her blade penetrating the soft meat of her victims
Psychopaths are people who exhibit a constellation of antisocial personality disorder traits which include antisocial, sadistic, narcissistic, and borderline behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships and extreme egocentricity. They also do not learn from failure and take it out on others. Psychopathy is sometimes used synonymously with sociopathy, is traditionally defined as a personality disorder characterized by persistent impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, dis-inhibited, egotistical traits. Different conceptions of psychopathy have been used throughout history. These conceptions are only partly overlapping and may sometimes be contradictory.
Machiavellian Egocentricity: A lack of empathy and sense of detachment from others for the sake of achieving one's own goals
Social Potency: The ability to charm and influence others
Coldheartedness: A distinct lack of emotion, guilt, or regard for others' feelings
Carefree Nonplanfulness: Difficulty in planning ahead and considering the consequences of one's actions
Fearlessness: An eagerness for risk-seeking behaviors, as well as a lack of the fear that normally goes with them
Blame Externalization: Inability to take responsibility for one's actions, instead blaming others or rationalizing one's behavior Impulsive
Nonconformity: A disregard for social norms and culturally acceptable behaviors
Stress Immunity: A lack of typical marked reactions to traumatic or otherwise stress-inducing events
Sadism
Sadism involves gaining pleasure from seeing others undergo discomfort or pain. The opponent-process theory explains the way in which individuals not only display, but also take enjoyment in committing sadistic acts. Individuals possessing sadistic personalities tend to display recurrent aggression and cruel behavior. Sadism can also include the use of emotional cruelty, purposefully manipulating others through the use of fear, and a preoccupation with violence.
There were four sub-types of sadism, which he termed Enforcing sadism, Explosive sadism, Spineless sadism, and Tyrannical sadism.
Bipolar II Disorder
Bipolar II disorder (BP-II; pronounced "type two bipolar" or "bipolar type two" disorder) is a bipolar spectrum disorder (see also Bipolar disorder) characterized by at least one episode of hypomania and at least one episode of major depression. Diagnosis for bipolar II disorder requires that the individual must never have experienced a full manic episode (unless caused by an antidepressant; otherwise one manic episode meets the criteria for bipolar I disorder).
Hypomania is a sustained state of elevated or irritable mood that is less severe than mania and does not significantly impact quality of life. Unlike mania, hypomania is not associated with psychosis. The hypomanic episodes associated with bipolar II disorder must last for at least four days. Commonly, depressive episodes are more frequent and more intense than hypomanic episodes. Additionally, when compared to bipolar I disorder, type II presents more frequent depressive episodes and shorter intervals of well-being. The course of bipolar II disorder is more chronic and consists of more frequent cycling than the course of bipolar I disorder. Finally, bipolar II is associated with a greater risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors than bipolar I or unipolar depression. Although bipolar II is commonly perceived to be a milder form of Type I, this is not the case. Types I and II present equally severe burdens.
Narcissistic personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder in which there is a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a lack of understanding of others' feelings. People affected by it often spend a lot of time thinking about achieving power or success, or about their appearance. They often take advantage of the people around them. The behavior typically begins by early adulthood, and occurs across a variety of situations.
The cause of narcissistic personality disorder is unknown. It is a personality disorder classified within cluster B by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Diagnosis is by a healthcare professional interviewing the person in question. The condition needs to be differentiated from mania and substance use disorder.
Machiavellianism
In modern psychology, Machiavellianism is one of the dark triad personalities, characterized by a duplicitous interpersonal style, a cynical disregard for morality, and a focus on self-interest and personal gain.
Machiavellianism is also a term that some social, forensic and personality psychologists use to describe a person's tendency to be unemotional, and therefore able to detach him or herself from conventional morality and hence to deceive and manipulate others. In the 1960s, Richard Christie and Florence L. Geis developed a test for measuring a person's level of Machiavellianism (sometimes referred to as the Machiavelli test). Their Mach - IV test, a twenty-statement personality survey, became the standard self-assessment tool of Machiavellianism.
People scoring high on the scale (high Machs) tend to endorse statements such as, "Never tell anyone the real reason you did something unless it is useful to do so," (No. 1) but not ones like, "Most people are basically good and kind" (No. 4), "There is no excuse for lying to someone else," (No. 7) or "Most people who get ahead in the world lead clean, moral lives" (No. 11). Using their scale, Christie and Geis conducted multiple experimental tests that showed that the interpersonal strategies and behavior of "High Machs" and "Low Machs" differ. Their basic results have been widely replicated. Measured on the Mach - IV scale, males are, on average, slightly more Machiavellian than females.
Sexual Sadism Disorder
Sexual sadism disorder is the condition of experiencing sexual arousal in response to the extreme pain, suffering or humiliation of others. Several other terms have been used to describe the condition, and the condition may overlap with other conditions that involve inflicting pain. It is distinct from situations in which consenting individuals use mild or simulated pain or humiliation for sexual excitement. Sexual sadism disorder has been found to be potentially dangerous if paired with symptoms of borderline personality disorder or psychopathy which increases the likelihood of one acting on their sexually sadistic fantasies.
Mysophobia
Oryx's mysophobia is characterized by her crisis of itches on her body which is responded by harmful scratches
Mysophobia, also known as verminophobia, germophobia, germaphobia, bacillophobia and bacteriophobia, is a pathological fear of contamination and germs. The term was coined by William A. Hammond in 1879 when describing a case of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) exhibited in repeatedly washing one's hands. Mysophobia has long been related to compulsive hand washing. Names pertaining directly to the abnormal fear of dirt and filth include molysmophobia or molysomophobia, rhypophobia, and rupophobia, whereas the terms bacillophobia and bacteriophobia specifically refer to the fear of bacteria and microbes in general.
There are many underlying factors and reasons that a person may develop mysophobia, such as anxiety, depression, or a traumatic situation. Developing in a culture where hygiene is heavily integrated into society (use of hand sanitizers, toilet seat covers, and antibacterial wipes for commonly used items such as grocery carts), can also be a main driving force for the development of mysophobia. Some well-known people who suffer (or suffered) from mysophobia include Howard Stern, Nikola Tesla, Howard Hughes, Howie Mandel, Saddam Hussein, and Donald Trump.
Brief Psychotic Disorder
Brief psychotic disorder is a period of psychosis whose duration is generally shorter, not always non-recurring, but can be and not caused by another condition. The disorder is characterized by a sudden onset of psychotic symptoms, which may include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech or behavior, or catatonic behavior. The symptoms must not be caused by schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder or mania in bipolar disorder. They must also not be caused by a drug (such as amphetamines) or medical condition (such as a brain tumor). The term bouffée délirante describes an acute nonaffective and nonschizophrenic psychotic disorder, which is largely similar to DSM-III-R and DSM-IV brief psychotic and schizophreniform disorders.
Abilities and Skills
Standard
Master of Stealth: Oryx is very proficient in hiding, spying, and infiltration. Despite her giant size, she is capable of being one with the shadows and move silently like a cheetah in hunting mode.
Claws: Her fingernails turn into claws that are sharper than knives, with which Oryx can tear humans apart as well as rip out a heart with frightening ease. She is capable of altering both hands at the same time.
Master Strategist & Tactician: Oryx is capable of devising complex tactics as well as run accurate simulations and evaluate the success rate of each of them, even in the middle of a fight. Her skills in evaluating the assets at her disposal and making the most of them are such that the Rogues were completely dependent on her during their quest on Qliphoth. With her years of experience as a teacher, political and military leader, and warrior, along with being the dictator of the entire Nexus Empire, Oryax is a very intelligent woman who dominated the field of art of war, politics and combat. She can quickly adjust to new developments and make quick decisions accordingly. She has great tactical acumen, proven by her tendencies to plan detailed and complex preparations for incoming battles. As noted by Ara, Oryx is very cunning and a dangerous genius who will only step down to put order with her own hands when she feel like exercising her body. Her skill at battle tactics is undeniable: as leader-commander, she commonly sends her soldiers and divisions out to engage in battle, be it to relatively small or large threats, and has done so for a number of centuries, never underestimating her enemies as she is always waiting for the unexpected unlike Vira Hermes who is too prideful of herself.
Genius-Level Intellect: Oryx's intelligence far exceeds that of any demon her age and is exceptional also for adults and veteran Black Demons. She is knowledgeable about a wide variety of topics and is endowed with prodigious intuition and analytical skills. Her deductive abilities have allowed her to make accurate predictions on multiple occasions. She can also bear severe mental strain and still think clearly. To match all of these impressive intellectual capacities, Oryx is also an extremely quick thinker who can adapt to completely unforeseen developments. Although she normally relies on logic, sometimes to a fault, she is capable of creative thought, which allowed her to devise the basics of her electrokinesis in the heat of combat. She is also tremendously observant, and she believed she could notice the slightest change in the expression of two insects. Her terrific intellect allows her to pick up on details that would ordinarily go unnoticed on a subconscious level, which results in her feeling a sense of unease towards a certain course of action before realizing why.
Physical Abilities
Oryx preparing to punch Vira Hermes
Physical Attributes and Skills
God-like Strength: In terms of physical strength, Oryx is the number one of all Revelation of Qliphoth, overpowering even Vira Hermes and Ara Astaroth in physical strength. Oryx possesses seemingly limitless physical strength and is capable of effortlessly defeating powerful enemies with a single, nonchalant punch (although this strength is not limited to punches), that is, most of the cases when the target is actually harmed by physical force. Oryx's punch is so powerful that many enemies simply explode when struck, being reduced to less than cells when combined with the speed of her lightning enhancement. Oryx also has strength in her teeth besides her arms and legs as she can stops even a bullet or sword by catching it with her teeth, effortlessly shattering the metal with the power of her jaw. A "normal" strike from her was shown to be very fatal, even to someone as durable as the Fallen's Essence who is not harmed by physical force for being a wraith entity. When displaying her serious force, Oryx can even causes earthquakes. Theorically, Oryx is capable of destroying an entire country on size of United Kingdom if she wanted to. Her strength has been stated by numerous people to defy reason.
Two Devils: A special combination of two fists, it is a powerful two-fisted punch that holds an insane amount of Black energy in her fists. The attack can completely destroy an opponent with a single blow by sending powerful shockwaves similar to those of a missile exploding right into her enemies' cells, literally imploding them and causing her enemies to break like puppets.
Immeasurable Dexterity: Oryx is capable of moving any of her limbs at extremely fast speeds without flinching, not stopping until her target is completely obliterated. Her attacks are so fast that it may seem she had not moved at all when in fact she could have inflicted a thousand punches or kicks in a single target without moving. The aftermath of this is the instant death of any mortal enemy she encounters, reducing them to nothing but drops of blood as their skin, flesh and bones are vaporized to nothing but particles of atoms.
Immeasurable Agility: Oryx has been shown to be perfect at dodging and able to perform highly acrobatic maneuvers. Oryx's s reflexes render her flexible enough to move through the narrowest creeks and dodge attacks at the closest proximity. Oryx is also able to perform parkour, which she can couple with fighting movements. Despite her height, Oryx can move her body like a piece of paper and is able to perform any movements known by the human body. Her size combined with her flexibility is so absurd that many think she is may be using an illusion of herself fighting.
God-like Speed and Afterimages: Oryx's speed allows her to create afterimages of herself, however, she is said to be so fast that even her afterimage can deal damage while in different places. According to Ara, who is considered weaker in physical and speed abilities, has stated that Oryx is 10x faster than her and could easily jump from Earth to Andromeda galaxy in mere 15 seconds, making her a billion times faster than light. Other than that, it's theorized that Oryx can even travel between dimensions by just speeding up, crossing the barrier of reality like if it was nothing. Oryx's natural speed and prowess with the teleportation and superhuman speed were immense: she could easily outstrip three other powerful Templarios Hyvralisks and engage an enemy or retrieve an ally before anyone realised what she was doing; she could cover a considerable distance in a short amount of time and perform a technique before an opponent could finish theirs. Taking the position as the 5th fastest characters and the 1st fastest character to not be an Omniversal Supreme Deity, Oryx is considered the fastest character of the story to an unmatched level.
High Durability: Oryx uses her own energy to create an invisible shield around her body, creating a steel-hard skin strong enough to block a blades, bullets, vehicles at high-speed, and even speed of sounds attacks. This allows Oryx to confront take direct hit from an Arch-Angel's most powerful techniques without suffering a scratch, making it an extremely dangerous ability to Gods and holy beings such as Angels, Spirit Guides,Spirituum and Arch-Angels as they are literally defenseless in front an enemy whom has protection against holy magic and relics. In general, the strength of Oryx's shield is proportional to the potency of her mana.
Enhanced Stamina: As a Hyvralisk, she does not need to breath or have a limit for her to get physically tired of something. However, when she is not even using her power, Oryx has proven to be a superhuman herself due to her athletic body. At young age, was able to complete a long-distance run more than 80 kilometers long, and taking place on uneven terrains such as ascending stairs and a swamp, and was the only non-user among the applicants not to exhibit the slightest sign of fatigue. In her first days as a Hyvralisk, Ara put her to fight an Ancient One demon for 10 days straight while keeping her guard up even as she slept. Not even thirty hours of continuous traveling Qliphoth by foot and battling the armed forces could wear her down significantly as part of her test to join the cult of Qliphoth.
Immense Durability: In addition to her resilience, Oryx possesses remarkable durability. She fought against two of Paradise's strongest commanders and emerged without any sign of injury and battled against hundreds of Ancient Ones in her first test to join Ara's ranks, earning the respect and admiration of countless dukes. She took an onslaught of punches from Vira Hermes' multiple arms twice, and came out completely unfazed by the assault, with no more than simple scratches. She sustained an explosion of flames which had the power to incinerate all of São Paulo and a great area around it. Her durability is combined with electro field around her body, granting ultra resistance against any form of external attacks except for holy relics.
Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Aside from her powerful, ranged magic attacks and skills with a sword, Oryx has shown a penchant for melee fighting, demonstrating great mastery in unarmed combat, being strong enough to easily keep the upper hand against Ara for most of their fight, to fend off both Katarina and Tomas Sev at the same time and to strike Aryana Westcott different times in rapid succession with her being unable to retaliate. Her fighting style is an offensive, brutal but extremely advanced form of combat that uses elements of Capoeira and Martial arts, relying on a great variety of precise punches, fast and powerful kicks, which are shown to be both strong and fast; such moves can also be combined with techniques from her Lightning Magic with extreme fluency to great effect, using this trademark Magic of her, Oryx can create lightning orbs around her arms and legs before connecting punches and kicks, increasing their striking power, move around much faster, propelling herself towards her opponents, by surrounding her entire body with lightning, and empower her connecting strikes by summoning forth lightning from the sky to accompany her motions. Her fighting style, is also extremely versatile, aims at dealing the maximum amount of damage in the shortest time possible, striking critical points and making ample use of lightning-fast submission holds to incapacitate or kill the opponent. She can knock out a person by striking a sensitive spot on their neck while moving at high speed, a feat which requires superhuman levels of precision. Oryx is particularly skilled at finding patterns in the fighting style of her adversary and at figuring out their weak spots, and at using them to exploit or create openings. She rarely resorts to combos, preferring to land single, critical strikes or to maintain a safe distance from more powerful opponents. She seems to prefer to dodge attacks rather than block them, sometimes using the foe's charge to reposition herself in their blind spot, but she also has a solid guard.
Swordsmanship
The myth of Qliphoth surrouding Oryx says her combat always end when she pulls her katana out of the sheath
Though she rarely engages in it, Oryx is highly skilled in swordsmanship to a legendary point that is combined with her precision, super senses and speed. She strikes with flawless precision, and uses her speed to inflict lethal attacks without much effort. Oryx prefers to wield her sword with her right hand, leaving the other hand free. She can skillfully wield her sword while lightning attacks in the form of beams that will electrocute her enemies to death or imobilize them to allow her to deal a fatal strike.
Oryx's swordsmanship style incorporates her tremendous physical strength to overwhelm opponents and cause significant damage with her sword slashes, aided by the quality of the blade she currently possesses. Oryx has enough power to unleash flying slashes to cut and damage objects beyond her normal range. With her destructive power and flying slashes, Oryx is capable of cleaving through entire buildings and other large structures.
While wielding a sword, Oryx is unmatched in the whole Revelation of Qliphoth, dealing damages that cannot be seen by naked eye as her fights always ends at the moment she pull out her Oni Blade, instantly ending the fight as her enemies are cut into pieces without even knowing what happened.
Unique Hyvralisk Abilities
Oryx's lightning attack from the sky
Lightning Strike: Oryx can call down real lightning using her ability regardless of the season. This attack was shown to be powerful enough to cause a city-wide blackout. She is also capable of calling down massive thunderclouds with multiple lightning strikes occurring from within.
Signature Flight: Oryx can fly if she is surrounded by a large amount of atomized water vapor. She manipulated the water vapor forming it into wings using the static electricity from interactions between particles. By using her electric power to induce electrolysis on a large body of water such as the ocean, she can obtain enough hydrogen and oxygen to use as fuel.
Plasma Creation: Oryx is able to create plasma to distract the enemy's eyes by ionizing empty cans.
Electromagnetism: Oryx can use electromagnetism to attract and repel metallic materials and use it to her advantage. Examples include creating a make-shift shield out of scrap metal, walking on walls and ceilings, as well as attracting iron particles in the ground around her. She can also use electromagnetism to interfere with radar, and radar-based weapons liked guided missiles. She can use it to manipulate metal tools or weapons held by the enemy, interfering or completely stopping their attacks. She can also magnetize them so that all sorts of iron objects will attach to them, increasing their weight. Her power and control over electromagnetism is enough to be able to temporarily support several uprooted and pilled up buildings while preventing the structures and their occupants from being crushed. She is also capable of manipulating electromagnetic waves, such as microwaves, and diverting them.
Empress Palace: Oryx creates multiple sphere of Blackness energy filled with large amounts of black lightning magic and suspended in the air in a circular formation. When all of the orbs are released at once, everything below and above their circle is struck by powerful lightning bolts equivalent to the number of Blackness spheres orbs. This spell has been described as being powerful enough to destroy the entire Russian country for an instance, if all the orbs are used. Empress Palace is also highly dangerous to nullify, posing a great risk to those who were to try and dispel it: if any orb was to be destroyed by an outside force, the attacker would instantly be electrocuted.
Lightning Body: Through the use of lightning magic, Oryx is capable of transforming her own body into electricity, turning herself into a lightning bolt, whose size can vary from mere, fast-moving sparks to large pillars of lightning. Together with the signature intangibility of elemental magic, which allows Oryx to let physical and magical attacks pass harmlessly through her body when she's transformed. However, Oryx only seems to be able to maintain this form while in motion.
Lightning Roar: Oryx generates lightning in her mouth and releases it in a concentrated, destructive blast, capable of destroying everything in a wide area in front of her. The special effect of this attack, aside from the high damage it causes, is that, even if the target survives, the lightning paralyzes them to a degree, leaving them numb and preventing them from escaping Oryx' following attack. By moving her head around as she casts it, she can also employ this spell in an arched trajectory, in order to hit enemies which aren't directly in front of her.
Tupã Fist: Oryx gathers a large amount of lightning around one of her fists, bends the arm and then extends the fist forward in a punching motion. This prompts her Magic Seal to appear before her, from which an over-sized version of her fist, completely composed of lightning, is generated and rapidly fired towards the target. When it connects with the enemy, aside from inflicting damage upon them, the electricity stuns them, leaving them open to Oryx' subsequent attacks.
Red Lightning: After her fight against Vira, Oryx is capable of using the power of a Red Lightning. The dark-red lightning has been described as being a "lightning that goes beyond lightning", and is noticeably more powerful and possesses unique properties. Oryx also stated that blood is what makes the power of the Red Lightning, and mentions it to be stronger than expected.
Electrical Resistance: Oryx is mostly immune to electricity, as shown when her powers first manifest, she was electrocuted by exposed cables without injury. She is also shown to be unaffected by electrocution, lightning strikes, and standing on transformers and surfaces conducting thousands of volts of electricity with no detriment, and using said energy to charge herself up. She is consistently able to use her own body a conduit for substations to channel the city's electrical power gird to restore blacked-out districts.
Lightning Gentle Palm: The first ability Oryx named, as well as the most basic one in her arsenal, consists in her electrocuting her opponent by touching them with both palms and pushing them back.
Oryx infusing her fist with her magic
Lightning Burst: She is extremely skilled in using lightning in form of chains. She was known to use this power both as a deadly attack and as a means of torture. On several occasions on Brazil's Civil War, she used bursts of lightning which not only killed numerous rebels but badly charred and scorched their armor, which were tough enough to repel heavy blaster fire. On another occasion, she used the ability to damage a rebel freighter's engines badly enough to pull it out of the sky with telekinesis. Oryx could use chains of lightning in a number of creative ways, including striking multiple enemies at once, with the bolts jumping from one victim to the other, like a chain and imbuing the ground around a victim's feet with energy, effectively electrocuting them to death. Her Force lighting is powerful enough that even someone of Ara Astaroth's caliber had noticeable difficulty deflecting it.
Lightning Aura: An obscure ability where she produce a dark electro aura, a miniature storm of force energy that slowed the movement of, and tortured all caught within its radius by electrocuting the bones of her enemies without killing them.
Iron Sand Manipulation: Oryx can use electromagnetism to manipulate iron sand which vibrates ten times stronger than a chainsaw. She can use it to create long hands or small "tornadoes" around an enemy to attack them, to create a large iron sand wave much like a 50m tsunami, to create several thousand drills that have electricity running through them to pierce the enemy, she can spread it around the ground to follow an enemy that moves at supersonic speeds or use it to create a storm of killer needles that surround the opponent for a 360 degree attack.
Electric Cage: Oryx can combine her electricity and iron sand to create a large cage to trap an enemy. First, Oryx creates several hundred iron sand balls around her, which spread around the area before dividing into smaller spinning balls. The balls then start emitting bluish sparks as Oryx uses them to conduct electricity to cover the gaps between the iron sand balls, forming the cage. Oryx can freely control the size and shape of this cage, and can repair it and reform it in case it's damaged by controlling iron sand.
Unique Sensory: As an electro-type Black Demon, Oryx is of course able to sense electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic phenomena. She is, however, able to follow the electric and magnetic field lines using her eyes, something that normal electro magicians are unable to do with their limited power.
Telepathic Immunity: Oryx has been shown to be immune to the effects of telepathic manipulation due to the electromagnetic barrier created by her field.
Molecular/Electricity Manipulation: Oryx possesses the ability to generate and discharge electricity through conductive media (but she apparently can discharge it through air or concrete) at sufficiently high amounts to kill any life form or short out a building's electrical systems. She has shown masterful efficiency with this power, being able to channel electrical currents through a wire and into her katana. The power is more than simple electric shocks, as she can alter matter on the quantum level. She has shown the ability to transform integral particles on the quantum level. She is capable of special particle luminance, meaning she is able to change molecules similar to how humans are changed into Etherion. This ability is also one of the most, if not the most, powerful and coveted powers known as it is the only one capable of altering gate particles at will. While in possession of her Oni Blade, Oryx's powers are amplified to the extent that she is able to destroy a small planet like Mercury.
Natural Hyvralisks Abilities
Aside from using electrokinesis, Oryx is a skilled hydrokinetic manipulator of blood
Hematophagy: As a Hyvralisk, Oryx has the ability to consume blood raw. She has long, conical fangs to assist in this job as well as serpentine like tongue. Her feeding habits have been seen to vary: from the traditional neck-biting to simply ripping people to pieces and outright devouring them. Oryx doesn't seem to need blood to survive, however if starved of it, she will enter an inactive death-like state.
Soul Absorption: By draining a person of their blood, Oryx gains dominance over their souls and very forms. She also takes on whatever knowledge they possess, including memories and everything they remembered as if they mind are connected to hers.
Daywalking: Other demons operate in the dark, because of a presumed weakness to light. Oryx, however, seems to have no problem with sunlight, only complaining that being up during the day is exhausting.
Weather Control: The ability to control the weather to an unknown limit. She can at least control the weather on the size of Hawaii island to thunderstorm and tornados, causing great damage and unparalleled natural disasters.
Hypnosis: Oryx has the ability to control minds, doing so on exclusively with Humans. The afflicted human will enter a euphoric, stupor-like state and their eyes will glow red. They will be pliant to all of Oryx's designs, doing and speaking as she wills.
Extrasensory: Oryx has senses that are not only sharper than a mortal's, affording her abilities such as perfect accuracy, but she has abilities that they completely lack. In particular she possesses a 'third-eye' which allows her to see things from far, far distances. Though she never uses it to do so, she can likely see through things that fool human eyes.
Flight: Oryx is capable of flight and travelling up to ultra-sonic speeds when not combined with her natural speed. Once used with her lightning speed, she can cross the planet Earth in mere 3 seconds, a speed so fast that not even the wind is capable of catching her mass.
Energy Sense: Oryx can sense energy naturally and uses this ability to identify fighters who possess powerful energy.
Infinite Kili Zone: Oryx punches the ground with her claws and corrupt the soil with black magic, turning it in a rotten soil and bringing an army of zombies from the ground.
Energy Absorption: Oryx consumes life and strength by sucking the blood of her victims like a vampire.
Power Absorption: After biting and drinking the blood of a victim, Oryx gains their abilities.
Hemokinesis: Oryx has the ability to manipulate blood. This ability seems to be limited to blood outside of the body, as she is never seen influencing the blood of enemies while they are intact.
Revenge of Blood: Her power increases in 2% each time she is cut.
Reanimation: Another power was the capacity to raise the dead to serve her as zombie-like corpses that were subservient to her will though they retained their previous personalities.
Telepathy: Oryx had demonstrated the power to use telepathy and whisper into receptive minds from anywhere, even if they are in other planets or even in other universes as long she has a object that connects her with them.
Avatar of Death: Oryx has the ability to generate Demon blood from her own body, including the ability to reanimate herself after death. Oryx showed the ability to kill people and reanimate dead bodies into zombies under her control.
Immortality: Much like all other Hyvralisks, Oryx was immortal and could live eternally once she reached her Overseer stage. She requires no sustenance, and cannot be harmed by mortal means. Only the power of divine weapons like Odin's staff, or divine entities are capable of doing her harm much like all other Hyvralisks, including Ara Astaroth.
Regeneration: While Oryx is completely resistant to most forms of attack, she is not invulnerable; items such as Odin's spear and Ra's staff such as divine energy can damage the substance from which she is made. However, Oryx was able to regenerate to a large degree even against attacks such as these. These sorts of assaults tend to create large, burning holes or gashes in her where she is struck, which Oryx can close back up with effort. Oryx can easily regenerate her limbs without effort using her energy and recreate her lost parts.
Fit-Regeneration: A variation of her regeneration. She can simply grab her lost parts and put it together with the part of her body that was injured and it will quickly put its lost limb together.
Teleportation: Oryx uses this often for quick appearances or escapes, and to appear before those she has business with. Oryx can teleport to everywhere, as she is everywhere not nowhere at the same time once she entered in a planet. However, this is limited as she can teleport only inside of a planet and not to other universes, planets and galaxies.
Telekinesis: Oryx is implied to be telekinetic and can move all types of objects with her mind, from little rocks to mountains in her human form. In her Demon form, she can move meteorites and even stars, from all abilities, her Telekinesis is the ability that gets stronger once she enter in her Demon Form.
First Gate
Black flames of Sin
Sin Flames: A black magic ability that is also used by Ara Astaroth and Shiaryh Myfella. The Sin Flames are the highest level of Fire Style magic, even more so than Blue Hell. Also known as Black Inferno, or Dark Inferno, the Sin Flames can combust anything they touch almost instantly, including robust minerals and living creatures alike. The flames are extremely hot and it is believed their temperature is higher than that of norma and blue fire. Once created, it can continue burning for 10 days and 10 nights. The flames cannot be extinguished with water or any other normal methods; only Oryx can put the flames out.
Deus Ex Supreme: A multi-functional spell that allows Oryx to manipulate cosmic energies to produce nearly any effect she desire, including the molecular restructuring and transmutation of matter, the manipulation of matter across space and time, the creation of force fields, the creation of inter-dimensional portals and vortices, telekinesis, and cosmic awareness. Oryx can call upon the comets, meteors, asteroids, moons, planets, stars, nebula, neutron stars, quasars, small black holes, small white holes, and dark matter. She can also generate stellar winds, solar flares, cosmic storms and invoke meteor showers.
La Muerte: Oryx uses this super-tier spell to summon a black tornado that instantly kills everything in its field of range in a radius of 300 km. This spell inflicts an instant-death effect, and it is practically useless against the undead, robots, golems, and other beings which have no life. While it is effective against living organism, it is hard to imagine any mage not having immunity to instant death.
Instant Death: Can kill any organic being with a single touch of her hand after filling her palm with dark magic. It stands as one of her most dangerous spells as it can be used as many times as she wants without limitations and consumes almost nothing of mana to cast the spell.
Unknown: Oryx can shape and manipulate life-force, the fundamental force that allows life to appear/exist, grow and flourish throughout the universe. She can control her own personal life-force that dwells within her, allowing her to achieve untold power and great abilities considered to be beyond that of normal beings. Oryx use physical, spiritual, and mental powers to control her life force and the life and vital forces of other people around in a radius of 500 meters. She can suck the life force out of their body, killing them and using it to revive dead people. Some would say it is a type of Sacrifice Ritual made to extract the life force of a person, instantly killing them, and transferring it to another dead person to revive them or use it in a living being to prolong their lifespan.
Second Gate
Oryx in her demonic form is said to be 30x the size of a planet like Earth but Além, her size increases to absurd levels
Além da Imperatriz: The strongest ability and unique power of her true demonic Hyvralisk form. One that puts Oryx among the most powerful characters in the storyline as a whole. After entering in her demonic form, Oryx can use Além, an ability that increases her mass by the trillions, allowing her to reach unimaginable levels that no Hyvralisks ever could dream about. As Além da Impertriz, the name of her ultimate form in the Second Gate (whom is already cataclysmic powerful herself as she gets the ability to simply slap whole planets and solar systems like if they are toys), Oryx gains infinite size but also immunity to all forms of attacks known by any living being except against Omniversal Supreme Deities like Spectra, Ragnarok Iblis, Lapis, Idea of Evil and Sequined Sadist. Thus, granting her the perfect protection and immunity against any non-Omniversal deity.
Size: Due to the nature of its existence, even having a physical height itself could be considered debatable and no detailed information of her size is given. However, its physical size can nonetheless be estimated using available information by the Reality Council. Estimates for its height range from 348.48 billion light years to 10.45 trillion light years. Compared to the observable universe, which has a diameter of 93 billion light years, the Além da Imperatriz is 3.7 to 112 times longer than the observable universe. As such, Além da Imperatriz has four possible heights, ranging from 5.28 billion light years to 158 billion light years. Comparing Oryx's Além foot with the Milky Way galaxy and extrapolating using the average foot-length-to-size ratio of an average person, the height of Além is one of these four values: 348.48 billion light years, 1.045 trillion light years, 3.48 trillion light years, or 10.45 trillion light years.
Tupã: After transforming into her hand into her Oni Blade in the form of pure Blackness energy form, its size is multiplied significantly, since her katana is approximately 20 times longer (approximately 20 trillion light years) and at least sixteen times wider. This gives it a volume of 1.34 duodecillion cubic light-years, or approximately 3.3 million times the volume of the observable universe. The mass of Além contains the mass of the "Spectra's Creation", which itself has power on par with the birth of the entire universe, including the Ragnarok Iblis' Multiverse Labyrinth composing many higher dimensional multiverses that themselves branches infinitely with each possibility, the Super Taken Space in Nezperdian Omniverse and higher-dimensional membranes. Her enormous mass indicates that it should have an enormous gravitational pull, which would suck in objects at a gravitational force orders of magnitude greater than the combined gravitational force of all supermassive black holes.
Imperatriz Blade and Reality Warp: While with her Imperatriz Blade, a variant of her Oni Blade but in universal scale, examples of her space-time and probability manipulation abilities include slicing holes through space-time, attacking targets at any point in space-time (in the past, present, and future), attacking through space-time without moving, and manipulating probability such that a 0% chance of survival becomes a 100% guarantee of victory. It is also capable of matching the mind, soul, power, reality, space, time and probability manipulation abilities of the Gods. Her reality-warping and probability manipulation abilities go even further in being able to negate and cancel out any reality-warping powers used by opponents, such as negating any attempts to attack it through space-time, negating any form of reality manipulation, and negating any other reality-warping powers that an opponent attempts to use against her.
Limits: However, due to its immense mass and power, Oryx can only use this ability twice over the entire course of her life, otherwise she will cut her lifespan by half each time she uses despite fully knowing Hyvralisks are eternal, meaning that Além was so insanely powerful to Hyvralisks' bodies that it will suck out the very life essence out of their bodies, reducing their lifespan by half as if they were normal mortals. In the second time Oryx uses it, she will very likely die as soon as her transformations ends. In mortal time's standards, her limit is only a hour of transformation since all the Blackness inside of her will leave her body to avoid an internal explosion due to the insane amount of black energy inside of her astral body in this form.
Power Description
Oryx using her Ira de Tupã
Oryx commanded equal, if not, more respect and regard than Vira Hermes towards fellow officials. As the third strongest Hyvralisk in Revelation of Qliphoth, Oryx was an extremely proficient fighter. Possessing great strength and endurance, Oryx could withstand attacks that would prove fatal or render a person incapacitated for a while and continue to battle. She is lighting fast, moving at great speed and being capable of fending off even Templarios Hyvralisks at the same time in her human form. Her training endowed her with immunity to poison and every form of disease, high tolerance to heat, great agility and physical strength, advanced armed and unarmed combat and stealth techniques, which she acquired at a very young age. Her intellect and exceptional analytical skills are equally remarkable, and it is often through a strategy that she can defeat opponents who are stronger or more experienced than her. She is also able to walk without making a sound and sleep with a larger part of her brain awake than normal, so she can avoid attacks even in her sleep, even if they come from an armed, albeit weaker, enemy.
Oryx possessed the Blackness-based power of electrokinesis, which allowed her to use lightning attacks. Her electrokinesis, also called "Ira de Tupã", it allows her to produce and manipulate lightning and electricity at her will, having complete control over its manifestation. She can attack with a single or both hands to generate electrical discharges at a distance or at close-range. The effects of the blast depends on the user's own ability; Oryx, with her great mastery of Lightning spells, has proven herself capable of conjuring bolts of electricity that has either frail, hot enough to heat a metal or devastating power to inflict damage. Through its use, Oryx can not only generate lightning from her body, but also make it appear from almost anywhere to strike her opponents, taking them by surprise. By generating electricity on different parts of her body or sword, she’s capable of making her attacks in melee deadlier, and of propelling herself around to gain extra momentum. The bright light from her lightning can be also used to momentarily blind enemies. In addition, much like other Elemental types of Magic, Ira de Tupã allows Oryx to turn her own body into lightning, in order to evade enemy attacks, move around at high speed and strike every opponent crossing her path, and take, or even block, lightning-based attacks without being injured.
Oryx fighting the Witch Cult
Not only she can manipulate lightning but transform her body into lightning. She can use a variety of lightning based attacks, either by channeling lightning through her body or by infuse it with her Oni Blade for greater damage. Its power is said to be invincible. She is able to attack her opponents with powerful bolts of lightning just by stepping on the ground and electrocuting an vast area of 5 kilometers depending on the usage of energy she used, the maximum is around 4,000 km, more than half of Eart (if she is using her human Overseer form). She can freely control the power output he unleashes, up to a maximum of 200,000,000 volts. When amplified by her Oni Blade, her powers became strong enough to easily destroy an entire island. Oryx can also use her power for transportation, she can move at the speed of lightning and travel through conductive materials. It can be used for medical purposes as well; in the event that she takes significant damage, she can use her electricity to restart her own heart. She can even use her powers to greatly enhance her intelligence to near-omniscient levels by reading electric-signals in the air from afar. She is also capable of creatively using her Ira de Tupã to raise the temperature of the gold and other materials using electricity, and then manipulate and shape it using electromagnetism, allowing her to completely rebuild it into any shape she desires.
Oryx possesses incredible physical strength, having been able to lift and crush an APC with a single hand or even being able to punch through heavy metal doors with a single punch or kick like all Hyvralisks who possess superhuman strength that could easily tear apart a human life if they are a piece of paper. As any Hyvralisk, she also doesn't require breathing to live and can live in any environment without needing oxygen to survive. She is also usually portrayed as very acrobatic, often doing back-flips with one hand, and has an above-average endurance, shrugging off most of incoming attacks.
As the founder of her military academy in Nexus called "Unico", Oryx is the most powerful swordswoman in the entire Revelation of Qliphoth and possibly in Triggers Hell. Few would hope to come out alive from a fight with her. She can fight two Ragnarok Devils simultaneously with a single hand while playing around until they start using their true powers instead of only using their main weapons. Her skill in swordsmanship is great enough to take down her opponent with a single precise strike. Her main technique is about precision and speed rather than force and her deadliest style of fighting is called "Estilo Ceifadora": a precision cut of extreme force and speed which can slice through large, multi-story high opponents. The opponent is killed with one swift slash so precise, they are not even aware of it until after it has taken place.
Power Level (comparison)
Both Oryx and her opponents are using their maximum power
Only original characters of the story will be compared. This list does not consider Omniversal Supreme Deities as challenge for being too omnipotents
Oryx's rating determined by the CIS Productions. From 0 to 1000.
Ability Type
Fitness
Intelligence
Justice
Endurance
Speed
Popularity
Effectiveness
Fighting Ability
Blackness and Curses
864
954
1000
992
990
1000
946
Revelation of Qliphoth Rating
Form
Combat Strength
Overseer
1,000,000
1st Gate
980,000,000,000+
2nd Gate
???
Paradise Rating
Form
Combat Strength
Overseer
6,000,000
1st Gate
493,000,000,000,000+
2nd Gate
850,000,000,000,000+
New Republic Rating
Form
Combat Strength
Overseer
90,000,000,000
1st Gate
503,000,000,000,000,000+
2nd Gate
???
Triggers Hell Rating
Form
Combat Strength
Overseer
25,000,000
1st Gate
233,000,000,000,000,000,000+
2nd Gate
402,000,000,000,000,000,000,000+
Ratatoskr Rating
Form
Combat Strength
Overseer
5,000,000
1st Gate
305,000,000,000,000,000+
2nd Gate
???
Standard Equipment - Oni Blade
Oryx's sword
Much like her comrades, Oryx was a type of person who preferred using blades in combat. Differently from known sword in the story, Oryx's sword that has the format of a large katana is brutally differently from any other weapon, having more than 4 types of attack into a single weapon. Oryx utilizes the Oni Blade mainly for melee and close quarter combat with any hostile she would encounter.
Channeling her electro powers into the blade, the Oni Blade is capable of unleashing a thousand volts into every strike made, combining the elemental damage with the deadly poison the sword is storing inside of its internal tunnels. At the same time, the blade is extremely sharp as it's made of the same material that Vira Hermes' sword, a special metal-like material found in the deep grounds of 3rd Floor of Hell; the sword is allegally capable of cutting anything that is not divine or holy-made, meaning she can cute anything that is under Paradise grounds. As if it was not enough, the edge of her katana is specially designed so that she can touch with her thumb while gripping it so as to draw her blood, and grooves specially designed to spread her blood through its entire surface, infecting it with Hyvralisk blood, becoming a fatal combination where she can infect her enemies with blood to paralyze her enemies' movements and infect them with her blood to give them an agonizing death or transform them into Black Demons against their will.
Oryx with her Oni Blade
The blade can also be used to produce a bolt of lightning from the blade which extends and transforms into a dome of lightning, stationed far above Oryx's head and fastened to the ground by a large number of lightning pillars. A single pillar also reaches from the top of the dome toward the sky. It is capable of affecting the weather and even engulf a continent of the same size of Oceania, though its power is geared toward thunder and lightning storms, and it brings forth dark clouds to facilitate the use of its powers. Through the use of hand gestures, Oryx can direct powerful lightning bolts to strike her opponents from the sky.
The Oni Blade also has an unique attack called Lua Crescente. At the instant of the slash, the blade absorbs and condenses Oryx's Blackness before releasing it at the tip of the blade, magnifying the slash attack, which flies forward. This slash takes the shape of a crescent moon or wave, hence why the name "Lua Crescente" in Portuguese. Lua Crescente is a powerful technique with great force, creating large-scale damage and destruction. Oryx has used this technique in several different manners, such as striking the ground to create an omnidirectional blast to knock away incoming attacks or slashing at the ground to upturn it and crush everything in its path.
Relationships (notable only)
Qliphoth & Triggers Hell
Heis
Heis meeting Oryx
Of all people next or around Oryx, Heis who is considered one of the most dislikable and annoying entities among the high-ranked members of Revelation of Qliphoth, is the closest person to Oryx over the entire course of her life, probably even more than her future fiancé. Because Heis has a very delusional "holy-like" fantasies of seeing herself as an dark angel or some sorts, she is absolutely despised among the Hyvralisks who fully accept their identity and embrace their pride as a Black Demon. And for Hyvralisks, there is nothing repulsive than someone denying their kind for a holy being. Moreover, Heis has always the tendency to speak for too long (though not more than her vessel Kanon Rihavein) and always end up talking to herself. Oryx, a person who always try to learn more about the people she works with, was the only one who approached Heis out of her free will and could keep up with her confusing speeches as they approached the exposure of mortal's sins against creation.
In a sense, only her and Ara could understand what Heis always meant to say as they loved life and creation in general but despised what mortals did to the beauty given to them. Bit by bit, Oryx and Heis formed a bond that started with a normal friendship as the two often met at empty places of Qliphoth to have what they call "tea party". Differently from other Hyvralisks (mainly Oveseers of the same Heis' class) who lacked refined manners, educated manners and were anti-social, Oryx was easily able to engage in very long conversations with Heis, starting with sharing their experiences in the mortal realm, what they learned from mortals, they points of view of Revelation of Qliphoth as a whole and the Blackness. As someone who was a loner for too long, Heis got rid of her 'holier' character to keep Oryx around her, thinking that her old-self might push her only company away. However, much to her surprise, Oryx said she was fine with her normal-self and encouraged her to keep doing this because while her fantasies of being an "angel" may be awful her words only say the truth that Hyvralisks refuse to listen to. As the first person who accepted Heis the way she is, the "dark angel" fell for Oryx and formed her first true feelings with someone.
Heis finally discovers the "cure" to humanity
Over the years, Heis became closer to Oryx and became some sort of "secretary" to her in Nexus, where she personally witnessed the transformation of Nexus Federation becoming the Nexus Empire and the expansion of human race to other worlds. In Oryx's empire, she taught Heis that mortals could be "pure" and useful if their leader was a god-like figure to them as she once revealed her identity as Hyvralisk to the world and ruled the globe not as a human ruler but as Goddess of the new world. Witnessing the human race completely changed to the core, with the world almost clean of all sin, Heis came to the conclusion that humans don't need to be wiped out but "enslaved" by a larger force with iron fist and pure will to guide them to overcome their sins. This was the turn point that transformed Heis in what she is today; a human slaver who self-declares herself as "Fallen Angel" instead of an "angel" in tribute of the Blackness infecting her persona as "angel" instead of referring herself to true fallen angels that abandoned Spectra during the First Multiverse War.
As her secretary, Heis studied and improved herself not only in personality but in power as she did her best inspire herself on Oryx and her every being. The two continued to become closer to the point that one time Oryx stood to defend Heis from being exiled from Revelation of Qliphoth after it was revealed she was spying Astaroth family to the separatist clans of the Hyvralisk empire in exchange of grimoires and dark artefacts. In turn, Heis provided her assistance in every galactic war that Oryx got herself involved, personally murdering her enemies and searching for new worlds to satisfy her curiosity. With Oryx's help, Heis slowly got more respected in the Qliphoth community until she earned her own faction, while small, it was yet to grow into a new powerful clan of Qliphoth in the future called Black Army, an army of low-levels Black Demons whom were created by Ara many millennia ago but were ignored for being too inferior. In a matter of time, the Black Army increased in numbers until it literally formed 2/3 of all Qliphoth forces back then and officially became a large demonic force that was specially used to deal with mortal problems instead of dispatching powerful Hyvralisks to deal with trivial matters. The Black Army was greatly received by Qliphoth as it was used to occupy every world and galaxy ruled by the Hyvralisks as oppressive, brutal, bloodthirsty and violent warriors who made sure to put the population in line through fear.
Heis in front of Oryx (the two are notable for absurd size difference)
After becoming an extremely important figure in Qliphoth as the leader of the largest clan of the dimension, Heis borrowed a part of her army to Oryx to help her in her conquest to take over her galaxy. She would go as far to ask if she wants another galaxy as "gift". In return, Oryx refused her offer countless times as the only thing she needed was her by her side as secretary due to her pride of conquering the galaxy with her own forces and strength. At one point, the "carnal period" of Oryx stroke her for the first time, a normal season for Hyvralisks. As someone who was born around the same period of Oryx, Heis faced a similar problem but felt it for the first around 20,000 years ago. As the carnal lust destroyed Oryx from inside, Heis explained that it was normal for her kind but she needed a partner to "satisfy" her, this was enough for Oryx to force herself on Heis and "forced" her into submission. Despite being forced into becoming her first partner, Heis left her feelings for Oryx bloom and accepted it while stating she would be partner from now on in an attempt to have her for herself, taking advantage of Oryx's honor and loyalty to her promises. This is, however, a childish attempt of Heis to confess her feelings for Oryx due to her fear of being rejected in an actual relationship.
Despite becoming a sexual partner for Oryx, Heis got more and more jealous of her as she had too many people trying to have her hand from Nexus, Qliphoth and Hell as well, causing her to go a mission of her own to murder her love rivals. When exposed by Oryx, she admitted that she loved her and that she had everything she always wanted, from charisma, idealist and inspirational personality and a great influence in both worlds of mortals and immortals. Despite the initial conflict, Oryx accepted her feelings and proposed an official engagement. When they were revealed to be a couple, Oryx was confused as a "minor lover" as Heis' height was about a normal female human being of 1,59 meters (almost child-like) while Oryx could differ in both worlds, while she was around 1,80→1,85 in the human world (with the controlling of her size with Hyvralisk anatomy while her original true size in the human world is 2,17), she could literally jump to 2,08 in the demonic world. Despite they were engaged, Oryx was an adulterer herself as Heis was not always around to satisfy her carnal period and she used other Hyvralisk girls and female humans close to her to satisfy herself; while the people around her were fine with it, Oryx started to curse human society because she lived too much with them and was now cursed their sex-driving desires. For an instance, while Hyvralisk suffer from it every 3 years, Oryx experienced it about twice or three times every week, causing her to enter in a depressive state of mind as she broke her promise many times and her sexual desires were interfering in her goals and activities.
Heis after fooling one of Ara's Espadas
When Heis discovered this, she plotted another "treason" to Qliphoth by stealing one of Ara's grimoires that could directly interfere with Hyvralisks' nature and learned its spells to cure Oryx of her uncontrolled lust. At this point, Heis was already determinated she would betray ''anyone'' she serve or once served if her heart desires, from this her complete zig-zagged warped sense of morality between New World Order and Revelation of Qliphoth during the World War III was born as she continued to serve both sides to see which one will win for her to join them. From her efforts, Oryx was cured from her mortal carnal lust and promised if Ara ever discovered about this she would take all responsibility. Although she agreed, Heis never felt that she was on the right to let the "victim" take the blame for her and vowed to herself if Ara one day discover she betrayed her again she would accept her execution in exchange of protecting Oryx. Following this incident, Oryx started to smile for the first time when Heis was next to her, it was a signal by now that Heis was now the most important thing to her, even more so than her empire as she felt she could rebuild another one day. Moreover, Oryx started to be more playful around her, usually teasing, joking about her height and treating her as a child or carrying her around like if she was a baby without any difficulty. Most of their meetings were more to engage in sexual intercourse as a method to comfort themselves or go on dates in the wild of nature very far away from mortal and demonic eyes. During their time on Earth, both Heis and Oryx learned how to control their carnal period and could feel like doing it any time they want.
By the time of The Purge, Oryx and Heis were both dispatched to the same planet called Prime Earth alongside many others to free Kaitlyn Powell from the Impact Zone through a long 10-decades scheme that would also bring about the end of the 0th Multi-Universe. Often, Oryx and Heis met in hidden places to discuss about their experiences on Prime Earth; while Oryx would share her dislike for Prime Earth's Brazil for still struggling to end its corruption era, Heis often ranted about her host Kanon Rihavein whom was like an annoying spoiled brat while she was inside of her mind. In 2030 of Prime Earth, Oryx and Heis officially married with a Soul Contract that bonded them forever, as long one live the soul of the one who passed away will live forever as one with them.
The Blackness
Oryx embracing the Blackness
The Blackness has been described as a roaring fire: obviously powerful, seductive, and potentially dangerous. The Blackness was seen as having been used for selfish purposes, although many Blackness Adepts who were accused of such selfishness claimed that the Blackness was simply a means to achieve an end. Like the Sin Virus, the Blackness was often treated as a semi-sentient entity with purposeful designs.
It was ONLY after the birth of Oryx that the Blackness' voice could finally be heard and noticed. After trillion years trying to find someone who could listen to it, the Blackness has finally found someone who could be the ears to its voice, and it was Oryax. Not even Ara Astaroth, the Darkness, Vira Hermes, Heles Hermes, the Twelve Nethers, Red Moon Tyrant or any other Black Demon that ever existed could hear its voice. The truth is that the Blackness was always sentient but its voice could never be heard by those who thought it to be nothing more than a tool, a dark magical gas that is part of Idea of Evil's fragments. The Blackness is actually sentient and has independent thoughts once it's part of a greater omniversal deity.
While the religion and culture of Qliphoth and Hyvralisks in general said that the Blackness is nothing more than a tool to an end and that Idea of Evil is the true entity, Oryx was the only one who could see the Blackness as her true God as it was it who chose her and saved her life, and not a God who doesn't even know she exists. When she embraced the Blackness and became its servant, the portals between mortal and great Black void was opened for the first time since the creation of all Omniverses, granting Oryx the blessing of being able to listen to the Blackness' voice. Oryx saw the Blackness as an omnipresent entity, one with a single mind that connected all darkness and destruction of the existence while the Sin Virus was solely focused in the corruption of mortal minds. The Blackness, for her, was everything beyond the creation; the emptiness, the void, the end of stars and worlds and the great darkness of the universe itself.
As prophesized by the Blackness, it don't seek an utopia created by Hyvralisks and ruled by Idea of Evil but to serve as the natural element that will consume everything once the Black Hole Nemesis cycle devour all creation in the universe, when all stars die and nothing but massive black holes will dominate the universe, leaving absolutely nothing. As the black holes suck all life, light and creation, the Blackness will be waiting inside of the void of the horizon, feeding out of death and destruction to send these particles to another empty universe and start the cycle of life and creation all over again. Despite being a loyal servant of this mindset, Oryx fears the concept of end as she will likely disappear forever, which is why she is trying to leave her mark on history to be eternally remembered.
Ara Astaroth
Ara always speaks to Oryx with ignorance
Despite the two have a master and servant relationship, Ara's view toward Oryx only approaches obligation of education due to her humane side. Instead of installing a regime where Hyvralisk rules supreme over mortals to create a co-existence between mortals and demons, Oryx is a typical human dictator who closed herself and her civilization to mortals' development and methods. Ara's method of control is primarily the installment of a religious figure in mortal worlds that connects them to Hyvralisks or demons in general to bring peace between the two worlds.
When Ara came to question why Oryx refuses to bring her teachings and methods to her people she simply answered that it's because she wants to control them using her own methods as part of her pride to dominate the minds of trillions without the force of an inter-universal entity, technically making her the most active Hyvralisk to not be helping in the spreading of Idea of Evil's Word and the Blackness' expansion. Oryx's prideful nature has started to become a problem for Ara by the time that her operations started in the 0th Multi-Universe as if ignoring her galaxy wasn't enough of a prove of her respect for Oryx. Because of this, Ara always speak in bad mood when speaking to Oryx despite all her achievements and sucessful missions in contrast to how she treats Vira.
Vira Hermes
Oryx about to fight Vira out of disgust
Being a person who values hard work and idealists, Oryx came to hate Vira Hermes with all her being. Despite the fact she admits Vira is a powerful individual with an unmatched mind for strategy, complex plans and charisma, she was too depraved for her tastes... much like the rest of all high-ranked members of Revelation of Qliphoth and Triggers Hell.
What Vira had of everything positive was paid with too many negative qualities like her insanity, unnecessary brutality and cruely, and an arrogant general who did not care about the lives of her subordinates. Instead of at least valuing the efforts of her soldiers and servants, Vira saw them all as expandable and had no problem of killing them in front of her other servants just to make an example. Vira was everything that Oryx hated in a leader; rude, arrogant, undisciplined and too prideful of herself. Oryx came to understand that even her was capable of committing mistakes and would fix them by listening the critics and opinions of her people and public secretaries as she did as soon as she took over the Earth when she removed her grip from the rest of the world. Vira, on the other hand, was too prideful and refused to listen to others; while ALL her plans were successful, her lack of respect toward her comrades and subordinates was unbearable. At times, she would even INSULT Ara Astaroth in front of her as if she was a close friend, but thanks to Vira's successful campaigns Ara would ignore her rudeness as she was unique and special.
Vira was also too sadistic, even more so than Oryx who only took joy in slicing her enemies while Vira had no bounds and would use both allies and enemies alike to satisfy herself in torture sections. Her madness, unnecessary cruelty and overconfident nature led Oryx to challenge Vira in combat for the post of Supreme General during her 450th anniversary of her time as member of the Revelation of Qliphoth. Oryx demanded that if she won Vira would step down as general and leave the organization while Vira, confident that she was more experienced and powerful in combat, demanded that if she won Oryx would become her "slave" as Vira was naturally interested physically in Oryx much like all the rest.
Naturally... Oryx lost and became a plaything of Vira for the next few years as punishment for trying to defy her superior. Instead of ordering Oryx to act like a dog (for better words, "slut"), she tried to break her spirit and pride by forcing her into submission and naturally destroying everything that Oryx became, breaking her strong character and all-mighty conqueror personality into nothing more than a mindless sexual puppet for the pleasure of seeing an once prideful, pure and clean Empress becoming a filth, tainted and humiliated loser. However, Oryx did not let herself be defeated and resisted, protecting her mental sanity and pride as a glorious ruler and conqueror. Eventually, Vira became bored and gave up.
Vira trying to seduce Oryx in one of Qliphoth's parties
Much to her surprise, Vira admitted that Oryx was indeed a powerful and strong individual whom resisted and protected her pride like a true lion. And more, it was revealed that Vira was actually testing Oryx to see if she would break or continue intact. The entire purpose of her ordeal was to test if Oryx was worthy of being called a child of the Blackness and of being a general of Ara Astaroth whom represented the will of Idea of Evil. In another time, she also revealed that if she had fell victim to Vira's sexual advances, she would be disposed of her membership, exiled and would have her entire empire destroyed by Vira's forces for the creation of more Hyvralisk's Thrall soldiers. From this day on, Vira came to respect Oryx and now used a different tone when speaking to her, a tone of a honorable military leader in front of her queen/empress.
Oryx, on the other hand, continued to see Vira as careless monster but began to understand why Ara Astaroth put so much faith and trust on her as she was not only a brilliant military leader whom brought many victories to Qliphoth but was also a loyal servant of the Blackness' cause. A century later, Oryx and Vira are now in good terms with the two having casual conversations but she continued to avoid physical contact with Vira, not because she was filth or impure, but because her main ability was one that could spread virus, bacteria, fungus and other diseases that can be found in almost all planets of milky way galaxy, literally transforming Vira into a walking biological weapon of unimaginable danger. Although her virus were not a danger to Oryx due to her Hyvralisk biology, her mysophobia was absolute and was related to mental conditions rather than physical.
After many years had passed, Vira would often try to seduce Oryx in more civilized ways like being flirty with her in parties or invading her office without any warning in another attempt to have her for herself, but this time, not out of sexual sadism and for torture but for a twisted form of love/possession of having Oryx, a woman whom she deemed to be perfect, for herself. After suffering so much on Vira's hands, Oryx refused all her advances only to be ignored as she continued to do the same thing over and over again.
Leohart the Prince of Hell
Leohart meeting Oryx
Leohart and Oryx never had a significant relationship due to the distance of their organizations. As Ara kept conquering more worlds to her cause, the Revelation of Qliphoth continued to grow stronger and distancing from Triggers Hell, secretly becoming more powerful to the point it would grew hundred times stronger than Triggers Hell, the center of all demonkind.
However, Oryx saw Leohart as an inspiration, one of the greatest rulers she had ever saw who ruled by sheer power and was able to transform Hell into an organized, civilized and controlled society composed by a savage and wild race whom were subjected to the violent and primitive culture of Ragnarok Iblis whom considered demons to be chaotic and bloodthirsty creatures, Leohart on the other hand was a visionary and marked his placed in the omniverse as the second oldest ruler of all existence in the Lynenta Omniverse, behind only Spectra himself, the God and King of Paradise. After him, Oryx imitated many of his methods of education and military expansion, including his tactics and even some structures he built during his reign and passed them to her image.
As a woman of vision, Leohart also noticed Oryx's presence in his meetings with the Nine Gates of Hell and 79 Pillars. The only time they spoke together was in one of his conferences where he praised the young ruler but stated she should be aware around Ara Astaroth whom may seem "civilized" and charismatic but she was a chronic backstabber when she saw a chance of disposing of her useless subordinates. Considering the fact that Ara became more and more frustrated with Oryx over her constant prideful nature and conservatism of everything she built during her reign, Oryx became more cautious around Ara, which would many years later her defection of the Revelation of Qliphoth.
Kaitlyn Powell
Oryx and Kaitlyn were known to have an unique method of "comfort" by hurting each other
Kaitlyn was one of the many romantic cases that Oryx had but was a peculiar one that involved more than simply physical contact. Despite their differences (with Kaitlyn being a Magic Supremacist and Oryx being an universal ruler), Kaitlyn was fond of Oryx because of her unique refined manners and composed character, something that Kaitlyn herself lacks and is very similar to almost all Overseers of Revelation of Qliphoth; Oryx had become an inspiration for her to evolve as a person. However, much like Oryx she had an icy personality accompanied by emotionless expressions and lifeless eyes.
While Kaitlyn saw her as an inspiration, Oryx also showed respects for Kaitlyn despite her supremacist views over normal mortals. In her black heart of mud, she saw Kaitlyn to an idealist for her own magician kind but presented serious and bizarre tendencies like a strange taste for human flesh thanks to her chaotic stained world that she destroyed, causing all life to disappear and the magicians of her world started to eat low-human slaves to survive. Moreover, Oryx also admired Kaitlyn's dedication to study and develop the Dark Arts of magic more than any other person who ever lived in the Lynenta Omniverse, many of her black magics she uses herself originated from some of Kaitlyn's books like her necromancy. While being a powerful magic user, Oryx was bad at developing her abilities and relied in Kaitlyn's books to empower herself.
Kaitlyn naturally offered herself to become her teacher to make her even more stronger so she could rise on the ranks of Qliphoth since Oryx was a newbie back then and was not so well-known during her first years in Revelation of Qliphoth. However, Kaitlyn was merely trying to get closer to Oryx and know more about her. Under her teachings, Oryx learned many of her notable abilities that are known for being her signatures attacks today. However, during her training sections Oryx would suffer from her carnal lust periods and suffer humiliation in front of Kaitlyn. As someone who was already familiar with Hyvralisk biology, Kaitlyn helped Oryx to free herself from her desires with the usage of a special medicine that would keep her lust locked for long period of times... of course like any manipulative psychopath Kaitlyn used this chance to take advantage of Oryx to use her as her "plaything" although Kaitlyn already knew Oryx was dating Heis. Oryx would often be the sexual partner of Kaitlyn in sadistic bloody and brutal sexual intercourse that could potentially kill normal humans in exchange of the medicine.
Over time Oryx and Kaitlyn developed a normal healthy relationship, one that involved more than simply sexual touch but emotional support and sharing of knowledge and materials. At one point, Kaitlyn felt shame for using Oryx's genuine gratitude and felt she did not deserve her as much as Heis does. Their relationship ended peacefully as the two agreed that their contact should be professional from now on. However, it seems that to this day Oryx still has a soft place for Kaitlyn as she personally requested Ara to be sent to Prime Earth during the Purge initial stages to free Kaitlyn from her prison called Impact Zone due to her being an important master figure to her. To this day, Kaitlyn is one of the few mortals that she has no problem to have physical contact with as she consider Kaitlyn to be a healthy and clean person.
It's important to note that these events happened before the complete downfall of Kaitlyn to the dark side of magic, it's unknown if Kaitlyn still has affection for Oryx by any means as she became a complete heartless and loveless person around 200 years before being sealed in the Impact Zone.
Raym Ars Apocalypse
Oryx with Raym in Tenguu City
Raym was a woman of taste and shared the same tendencies of Oryx like excessive cleanness, organization and had a similar mysophobia. While Oryx valorized hygiene and demanded that her people would follow her examples, Raym would put extremely rigid rules on her company about the physical conditions of her workers and officers like the forced use of special type of soap, shampoo, perfume and at times deodorant. As the two shared many likings, they got along pretty well to the point that at one point they closed a contract between their two organizations: Monryou and Nexus. While Nexus would provide materials and worlds for mining and extraction of rare minerals and resources, Monryou would provide the production of advanced weapons, vehicles, infrastructures, alien materials from other universes and machinery like billions of robots and space ships.
For at least two decades, their relation remained between professional and business with the typical relationship between politicians and businessmen. By the time the two got closer, they formed a friendship as the two would have drinks in luxurious hotels of extremely advanced planets with great views to the cities they ruled. Moreover, the two could see much of themselves on each other as they also shared the cold and lifeless personalities. While Raym admired Oryx's skills as military strategist and charisma, Oryx saw Raym as the perfect economist she never became as she still had trouble dealing with the social and economic differences of her people in the first centuries of her rule.
As Oryx did not meet Heis during this period yet, Oryx did not have anything that could stop her from accepting Raym when the latter made advances on her. Oryx became the first lover of Raym in her life despite being bisexual and living for many millennia. As the first person who slept with Raym, she two developed a really close bond that soon became a long-lasting romantic case of 10 years. Often, the couple would go on dates to buy things in different alien towns or buy gifts while keeping a serious posture of two leaders of largely giant factions. And despite their feelings for each other, they would not let their love interfere in their duties and doing what must be done like increasing taxes and prices for their services. While most humans would let their professional actions interfere directly with their relationships, Raym and Oryx would see working to as leaders of their groups and engaging in love to be completely two different things.
When Monryou began to be involved in Raym's agenda like experiments to create a new Ragnarok Devil and Oryx started her conquest to her Milky Way galaxy, the two stopped meeting each other to follow after their dreams but they would come to a peaceful breakout, agreeing that they now don't have time for each other anymore and should focus on their plans for the future. Despite these events, Monryou and Nexus continued trading for many millennia and even opening new doors and possibilities like the construction of Mass Zero element devices that could be used to travel between galaxies and universes in a few seconds, greatly expanding their technology, industries and productive. Raym would still keep a picture of Oryx in her closed personal vault while Oryx continued to wonder about Raym's well-being.
When Raym was killed by Spectra during the final events of LOTM: Shadows Within Shadows, Oryx mourned for her former lover and built a memorial stone for her despite being revealed to all the atrocities and crimes she did to accomplish her goals, including her intentions to rule above all life forms which included betraying Oryx's trust and her purposes of erasing the Blackness to be the next successor of Ragnarok Iblis. Oryx continued to visit her stone for many millennia until the planet the two met each other was engulfed by its sun in its final dying stages. To this day, she still has a photo of Raym with her, the same one that the latter once had before her death.
Idea of Evil
Unlike all other Hyvralisks, Oryx did not see the Idea of Evil as a deity but an arrogant and cowardly entity who could fall as one of the worst deities in all existence, even more so than the corrupt and hedonistic gods of Paradise. Her contempt for the Idea comes from the fact that back in the Second Invasion to Paradise, the Idea of Evil merely watched the conflict from afar while sending his minions to combat the forces of Paradise. Instead of leading their way to victory like Ragnarok Iblis and Lucifer did, the Idea was too afraid of stepping on the battlefield for the fear of being killed by Spectra himself.
While other Black Demons saw Idea of Evil as their supreme deity and center of all their religion, Oryx saw the Blackness as her true God to the point of calling it her "mother" for saving her life when she was a newborn worm. Despite this, Oryx kept a facade that she was serving the purposes of Idea of Evil while working as the Executor of Revelation of Qliphoth to avoid exile. There were a few Black Demons like her in the past who could see the Blackness as a sentient entity rather than a tool to achieve their mean; all of them were either executed or exiled for "heresy" since they never saw the Idea of Evil as their supreme deity.
Oriax Wheelahr
Oriax was the fourth-in-command of Revelation of Qliphoth, she was considered not only a comnrade but a friend whom Oryx cold count with anything, including internal matters of Nexus. Oryx was not fond of her lewd behavior but having her around transformed her silent and monotone days into bright and noisy days when everything seemed dying around her. Despite her love for the silence, having Oriax working with her was something that Oryx enjoyed to express things out of her mind like how sometimes she can bored by her work and there is harm in having a chaotic individual with her.
One of the reasons when Oryx agreed to join Ratatoskr as a temporary ally was because Oriax was with them and she believed in her judgment and the heroes' chances to win a war against Revelation of Qliphoth and New World Order. In her own mind, she saw the Rogues just as one of the many thousand rebel groups of warriors who stood against Ara Astaroth and were wiped out without any hesitation but as she analyzed the group, she could see the group was formed of very peculiar individuals like Katarina, an ExKrieg.
Ratatoskr & Forsaken (and their allies)
Katarina Tirial Couteau
Oryx with Katarina in Raizen
Oryx and Katarina are natural enemies but due to the former's job as a spy to watch over Katarina's development, Oryx disguised herself as a teacher and approached Katarina during the same period Katya started to train her. The result of this approach was the two forming a genuine bond of friendship and care for each other. While Oryx indeed only saw Katarina as nothing but an insect she could have crushed anytime, she developed sympathy for the girl who was a hard-working and a nobody in a world that completely rejected her. And moreover, she was not a Magician like the rest of all Raizen students, which led her to be bullied and tormented by the students whom are mostly arrogant, indifferent to humans in general, rude and devoid of empathy for the weaker ones.
In this sense, Katarina reminded a lot of herself, mainly during the period of Nexus' rise where she left the comfort of her wealthy to face a sexist world where women are inferior to men in general, facing difficulties to achieve her goals and finally being noticed as a rival by her enemies. This resulted in a breach of her contract with Vira as she also helped her with her training alongside Katya in different turns while also keeping her mission of spying and watching over her grown. Indirectly, Oryx transformed Katarina into her most powerful enemy and also helped to bring the downfall of every opponent Katarina would face in the future, creating the next ExKrieg of the modern omniverse.
Once Oryx revealed her true colors as a spy, her betray broke Katarina's trust and resulted in her being more and more paranoid with the bonds she had with other people, thinking they could be easily corrupted or betray her at any point. Oryx herself didn't think much of her betray as she knew Katarina was strong enough to face this psychological ordeal.
Yuri Barnes & Katya
Yuri Barnes was probably Oryx's worst enemies due to his knowledge in anti-Hyvralisk magic and knew how to create relics and artifacts that could potentially even kill a Templario Hyvralisk. When Yuri left Tenguu City to watch over Katya's training from afar under the orders of Sequined Sadist, Oryx felt a little relieved and thought if Katya ever became a threat she could easily kill her despite all her power.
Once she became an official member of the Forsaken and Ratatoskr, Oryx still not trusted Yuri and any Magician from Mana World due to her race of being a Hyvralisk, the swore enemies of all Magicians. In response to this, Yuri and Katya also did not trust in Oryx and always carried relics that could cause great harm to her if she decided to rebel but overtime Oryx proved to be a great ally and even friend when she honored her promises and words, changing their minds overtime from a treacherous monsters to a honorable warrior. Oryx formed a partnership with the Yuri and shared their knowledge with each other from their worlds, including their experiences and history dealing with the Revelation of Qliphoth.
Sephiria Arks KnightWalker
It's debatable if Oryx has a certain type of romantic interest in Sephiria. Being the founder and Empress of Chronos Empire, an imperial monarchy located in the old Mongolia, Sephiria is considered to be one of the most legendary and great leader of the Asian continent, having rose a superpower from the ashes of the First Spacequake that struck part of China and the entire Mongolian country 30 years prior to the story's beginning. Determinated and moved by the will and might of a tiger, Sephiria easily attracted the attention of Oryx.
Oryx bowing her head before Sephiria
After studying her merits and history, Oryx would go as far to bow her head to Sephiria as a signal of ultimate respect. She was just like her, a patriot who knew violence was the only to bring order in a period of chaos and anarchy. Fear was her weapon... but Sephiria wasn't anything like Oryx who was a pure dictator who used her laws to oppress her people so much that they accepted their fear of being sent to some concentration camp for forced larbor, prison for torture or some scientific institution for "re-education" became a normal part of their society. Sephiria on the other hand only used violence against the anarchists, corrupt figures and traitors who used the nation's chaotic state to enrich themselves. After being revealed to who Oryx really was, Sephiria treated her with repulsion for she was nothing different from the dictators and tyrants she was trying to bring to justice during the period of the Third World War. This, much like Oryx, is what brought her to think that Sephiria was indeed just like her, treating those who do not share her vision as worthless pieces of trash.
Oryx continued to work alongside Sephiria as advisors and fights rarely broke out during their conversations. By the time that the New Republic of Deus.Ex.Machina was fouded, Oryx became a closer friend with Sephiria after their struggles and battles they fought together. After many million years, Oryx lost contact with Sephiria but their two nations continued working alongside each other as they used intermediates to speak for themselves in meetings.
Paradise & Cultus Pythonissam
Spectra
Spectra trying to access Oryx's thoughts
As the God of Lynenta, it was natural for him to doubt Oryx. Despite his omniscience and absolute will and knowledge, Oryx was a woman who carried the seed of the Blackness itself, making her technically part of Idea of Evil much like Ara Astaroth is a direct fragment of his dark blood. Because of her protection against holy and unholy telepathic abilities, be they mind-reading, mind-control or simply communication, Spectra was unable to understand what exactly Oryx was thinking and what she would do next, making her one of the individuals Spectra never understood despite all her cruelty, she was a honorable woman and was straight-forward when speaking whatever came to her mind, making her somewhat easy to understand when she was not pretending, this made Spectra more relieved as he could see Oryx may be ruthless but she is not a woman whose heart is pure black and rotten like her comrades from Qliphoth.
Spectra admitted that he feared Oryx at some extent, not because she was that powerful but because she was unpredictable: impossible to guess what she will do next and what she is thinking as her mind can easily change one thing into another without much effort and coordinate actions that few would expect like swearing loyalty from the bottom of her heart to an authority but then quickly changing her mind at the same second and backstabbing the individual. On Oryx's side, she didn't think much of Spectra because he was too way superior to hers and would never interfere personally in mortals' matters, meaning that he would not be an obstacle in her reign but saw him as overpowered ally who could be useful in any situation. However, she also felt admiration for him for being a great leader to the holy empire called Paradise which was composed of the strongest race of the Omniverse but despised all his goodness and purity who turned him into a disappointing leader in times of crisis.
Saraph
Oryx and Saraph speaking under the moon light
Saraph was the right-hand of Spectra and had an unconfirmed romance with him. While Saraph did her best to be noticed by him, Spectra was too dense to notice his feelings or probably even lacked actual feelings due to being an Omniversal Supreme Deity. As a woman who had possibly hundreds lovers, Oryx was an expert in sensing unnoticed feelings of love. Oryx would sometimes try to inform Spectra he was too dense and that he probably needed love to understand what exactly mortals feel when they are happy and sad to make him embrace his job with more emotion instead of logic.
Despite being a demon, Oryx could easily work alongside with Saraph 40 years after the end of the story after a long period of confusion, fights and trouble due to the two being extremely different in racial features. Saraph was a warrior who had fought and killed more demons she could have ever blinked in quintillions and quintillions years, so it was simply difficult for her to work alongside a demon, moreover a demon who belonged to the Hyvralisk race, the most chaotic and dangerous species of demons that had caused more damage and destruction than any known race, even more so than Ragnarok Devils and Taken. The two were close to the point they could speak together like sisters and tea parties every 10 years. Oryx, like any womanizer, taught Saraph how to conquer Spectra to herself but her methods are too mortal and may not work in a being of superior intellect. It was only after Saraph forced a kiss on Spectra that he noticed what she felt for him and what he always thought of her to be the same feeling. In the end, it was Oryx who finally broke a barrier of centillion years being kept by sense of duties and responsibilities.
Setilah/Raguel
Setilah invades Oryx's office again
Setilah was the last confirmed romance of Oryx and the definitive one. After losing Heis to Ara Astaroth in the final battle on Prime Earth, Oryx would ultimetely fall into a pit of misery and depression even after the victory over Ara, this showed that no matter how hard she built her mind to be, she was still a fragile woman inside as part of her human side. It was only after the end of the Eternal War that Oryx found her new lover under the skin of an Arch-Angel called Raguel, also known by her mortal name "Setilah". Among all her lovers, Setilah was considered to be the prettiest but also the most stubborn.
Oryx met Setilah at the final battle with Ike Ray Peram Westcott after saving her from one of the Black Blood Takens and then encouraging her to keep fighting despite her fatal injuries. A few days after the end of everything, Setilah came before Oryx and thanked her for saving her life but would not go as far as to repay the favor since she was a demon, something Oryx just ignored as she did not want her to be bothering in her matters. Oryx's ignorance caused Setilah to be feeling ignored and insulted by a demon, causing her to engage into verbal fights with the former. At times, Setilah would be even invading Oryx's office just like Heis and Vira did several times in the past just to remind her that she was still a demon and inferior to her race and then leaving as if nothing had happened. This has happened several times to the point Oryx was not even bothered anymore. Oryx started to be suspicious on Setilah as she would come down from Paradise itself to the mortal realm in a trip that would take countless years. The conclusion is that she was might like Saraph herself, she was trying to be closer to her without declaring her feelings due to the angel-kind pride over their status.
The next time Setilah invaded Oryx's office, the latter forced an assertive kiss on her. And much to her surprise, Setilah accepted it and embraced the woman whom she had called inferior and repulsive demon several times. Despite the angel enjoyed Oryx's advances, her duties and posture as holy angel led her to have trouble in finding what she really wanted. It was only after Saraph herself allowed her to fully embrace her feelings and chase after her happiness after countless omniversal cycles defending the Lynenta Omniverse from external forces. Their relationship however was not well-seen by other Arch Angels and other deities whom saw their bond as heretic and tainted by nature for being an inter-species relationship, however, the two continued their love until they married 150 years after the end of the Eternal War.
Sometimes Heis' spirit would be brought back to life only to remind Setilah that Oryx was still hers
It's rumored that Oryx had a child with Setilah as holy beings are asexual themselves and can reproduce like Hyvralisks do. If this is true, their child is the first half-demon and half-angel of the entire Omniversal history, making it a being of unimaginable power that rules both worlds of angels and demons, therefore being an omnipotent force. This is one of the few theories that was never answered as both Setilah and Oryx kept it as a secret and would ignore the question when it was brought.
Because of their marriage, Heis, the late wife of Oryx, would sometimes appear at night (more precisely during their sleep) petting Oryx on her head to remind Setilah she was still hers no matter what and then disappearing like a ghost. The reason of her appearance could be answered by Oryx's previous marriage with Heis back on Prime Earth when the two linked their souls together and that if one died their soul would be transferred to their partner so they could become one forever. Because of this, Setilah would sometimes be jumpscared by Heis who continued to haunt every person Oryx was close to but no more than that as harming them would leave Oryx sad after she suffered a trauma losing Heis to Ara Astaroth, this would lead to a crisis of PTSD, worrying both the spirit of Heis and Setilah.
Wáng Hongyu
Oryx showing her powers to Wáng's students
Wáng was the Goddess of Magic and founder of the Mana World, where all species of Lynenta Omniverse go to learn magic and become true Magicians. At first, Oryx and Wáng had a disturbed relation as both we from different enemy groups that swore to destroy each other countless millennia ago. Wáng would even assume the posture of Katya toward demons and outright call them as creatures of pure evil and rotten to the core for being entities of pure hunger for souls and thirsty for chaos and destruction. As a demon, Oryx would take those affirmations to her personal side and has stated numerous times she would prefer to die than working with Magicians, including Katya and Yuri Barnes.
It was only after the death of Ara Astaroth that Wáng could see that Oryx was indeed a woman of her word and was capable of honoring the dead and be respectful toward other species without trying to subjugate them like most demons would do. Their relation continued very troubled with Oryx sometimes trying to touch on Wáng's wound for letting someone like Kaitlyn Powell fall to the dark side of magic without even trying to understanding what she was becoming. This endless debate would finally come to an end after the two joined forces to combat Hades Zagreus Villalobos and succesfully held the dark lord at bay for a long time. After the end of the Eternal War, Oryx and Wáng would come to a truce and each one followed their path without ever interfering in their matters until the Contract of Collision was assigned by the Reality Council to connect all demonic and magic organizations into one to avoid the creation of another Balam Alliance or Triggers Hell, resulting in the alliance of Nexus Empire with Cultus Pythonissam. As the two were now closer, Oryx and Wáng could slowly form a bond of understanding and eventually a friendship that also contained mutual material interest.
At times, Oryx would come personally to the Mana World and taught the most prestigious students of the dimensional academy top-tier lightning magic by her own hands much like how she always did in Raizen Academy back on Prime Earth when she was in a mission given by Vira Hermes. Because of this, Oryx received her own grimoires, each one having all versions of her lightning magic and were greatly used by historians, magic researches, masters of magic, warlocks, witches, wizards and even Angels to learn about the nature of the lightning. In this sense, Oryx became the strongest Lightning user of all Lynenta Omniverse and became somewhat a popular icon.
Others
Kroniesa KnightWalker
Oryx suspecting of Kroneisa during their investigation to the ruins of the destroyed Tenguu City
Unlike Katarina and Katya, Oryx was easily able to identify Kroniesa as a threat. She put much of her time thinking in what she was planning only to come the conclusion that Kroniesa did not have a plan, she was just doing things she wanted out of random for the sake of God knows what. A vicious and vile monster, Oryx as a Hyvralisk could see the true darkness that involved Kroniesa's heart and was shocked to see that it was blacker than demons' spirits, causing her to believe Kroniesa was probably one of the heralds of the Sin of Ragnarok Iblis, much like how she, Vira and Ara are to the Blackness.
When the two first met, Kroniesa showed respect toward Oryx for her position as Magi-Tech teacher but it took not so long for her to show her true colors by easily identifying that Oryx was not that strong as her heart was fragile and that she put the mask of an ice queen to hide her weakness and fear. This alone caused Oryx to be aware next to Kroniesa who was one of the few people that ever came closer to truly understand what she had experienced and her true motives to do what she is doing today. She thought about killing the half-Meta Human but she prevented herself from doing so as Kroniesa was posing as a "Magician Municipal Guard" in Tenguu City, therefore killing her would bring only problems.
Kroniesa showing her true colors to Oryx when exposing her fear of being forgotten
As the two continued meeting each other during Katarina's training sections alongside Katya, the two developed a morbid relationship with each other trying to discover a weak point to provoke themselves. For an instance, Kroniesa was easily able to see that Oryx was afraid of being alone and discovered that by her "black Magi-Tech" she was not a human but a some sort of paranormal entity as such things like "black Magi-Tech" did not exist and that only non-humans like Meta-Humans are able to use it without dying on the process. However, the two continued hitting each other by words alone and never crossed the line to physical harm. Kroniesa, on the other hand, knew she was weaker for being a normal human and that she did have powers like Oryx to fight or defend herself but her remarkable lack of fear and human emotions is what put her above Oryx in mind games, something that only her achieved to this day.
Much like everyone else, Oryx was a little afraid of Kroniesa for her unpredictable and mysterious nature, so much that she would step back when the girl approached her as if she was some kind of entity even more sinister, scary and powerful than a Hyvralisk. These encounters with Kroneisa is what led Oryx to see that humans are darker than demons and every mavolent entity that exists in the Lynenta Omniverse.
Author's Personal Inspirations
Oryx's germophobia is inspired by Sirin of the Void who may suffer from something similar as the latter cannot enter in contact with dirty and sticky surfaces like moss (if touched in skin). Moreover, the author may start to have itch crisis when they see a worm (mainly the white ones said to be newborn insects from flies for example) as he finds them to be repulsive and otherworldly disgusting to even to look at.
Her love for cats is originated from Sirin and much of her character's personality was based after cats who are known to be elegant and sophisticated creatures who are silent, nocturne hunters and tend to clean themselves as lot. Moreover, much like cats Oryx is extravagant, demanding, silent and has cold stare with glowing eyes.
Her height is also part of Sirin's who is known as the tallest person of the family with nearly 1,80 meters.
Her cleanness is inspired by the author's tradition of cleanness. In general, Brazilians take from three to four showers a day and may wash their hands around 10 to 15 times. The author himself is prone to this education. Combined with his refusal of constant physical constant contact with strangers is also something that is a lighter version of Oryx's refusal of being in contact with other people beside a few Hyvralisks she consider worthy, her own kind.
Much like other men and women from Brazil, the author cares much about his appearance. The same treatment that Oryx goes under to take care of her body is also part of what the author does to take care of his own physical appearance.
Oryx's political side is monarchy, the same of the author's in relation with the Republic of Brazil and Empire of Brazil. However, like any villain, her methods are extremists and cruel that borderline dictatorship.
Her lack of expressions is also a reference to the author who can control his emotions and rarely shows other emotions. However, it doesn't mean the one is 'emotionless', the only difference is that he can control his facial expressions but feel the emotions within.
The favoritism of lofi and relaxing music is one of the favorite hobbies of the author, mainly if the music being listened at night a few hours before sleep which can greatly help with insomnia and bring the sleepy feeling faster.
"Vira-latas imundos ficam na coleira." (in English: "Wretched filthy mongrels get the leash.")
"Oh, yes! It's about to get much worse."
"Ever seen your soul? Would you like to?"
"Stars culled of life, silent in the darkness."
"No weapon in any reality can harm us."
"Where diplomacy fails, fear always solves things. Why should I bother using dialogue in ignorant who refused to accept me?"
"Do not fear the end. Embrace it."
"I find all of your political ideologies repugnant. They are filthy, they are gross, they are alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy, and competition. At the end of the alley, different people with different ideas appear to change the scenery only to repeat the same cycle that the previous ideologies caused. It's an ineffective endless where the government is the only one that gets to win while the people will always suffer because of their experimental ideas. But here, there is only me... and it works."
"A revolution is not a trail of roses. A revolution is a war to decide the fate of millions. There will be sacrifices, if you are stuck in some fantasy where happiness and prosperity can be achieve without costing lives, I have no use for you."
"Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you’re insulting yourself. If you truly have found inspiration in someone, be yourself and overcome them to be even better. The world does not need to have lines of clones and repeated characters. Be different, be stronger, adapt yourself to be even better."
"I don’t care if they respect me, so long as they fear me but get a peaceful life I don't care... that is a long they fear me in silence."
"My ministers think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for more soldiers; I need revolutionaries. People with my same ideology who is ready to fight and die for my plans. The future of a nation is greater than one's life. Revolutionaries know it better than soldiers."
"They struggle. How meaningless."
"We are the death of your hope."
"We will all collapse into one."
"The stars are no longer infinite."
"Here, death is culture and a natural part of life. They believe I am a Goddess and that I will be together with them in the afterlife. They are not wrong. And this is why billions are willing to fight and die for me. I am your leader, salvior and mother."
"So many blunder on with a false sense of purpose, I shall sunder them from their lies."
"There is no Light here. You are alone. You shall drift. You shall drown in the Blackness."
"Your false gods cannot save you."
"You will be far more useful in death."
"What you call revolution, is our terrorism. What we did before, was also terrorism in the eyes of those who stood where we are right now. At the end, everything is the same side of the same coin. The winner is the hero, and the loser is the villain."
"Resist or give in, your end is the same."
"In death, we, Hyvralisks, shine like the brightest stars."
"Being a politician is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said, nor what you intended. Because at the end of the day you are just another wretched scumbag. You are just another flawed human, easy corrupted by your power, authority and fame. This is why true idols and "heroes" never truly existed. I am not different... but I will make sure to crave this perfect figure of mine in their heads for countless millennia."
"I pity you. You know nothing of sacrifice, nothing of worth!"
"Goodness and morality is a point of view. In my world, your point of view of politics and laws does no matter. If you are here to spread your freedom, you are just another terrorist or rebel."
"I was born an outcast, left for dead. I will show them what a abandoned baby can do! What countless millennia of hatred and agony HAVE DONE TO ME!!!"
"Rejection. Ridicule. Torment. It made me stronger."
"Humanity never deserved the power you were given."
"Mother, I will not be weak."
"Our future will not look the same as our past. With your trust, I will usher us into a new age, and I will not default on my promises, as my father did before me."
"Your words are as empty as your future."
"I will pay any price... to be there when you die!"
"Your pathetic freedom is nothing more than an illusion. There is no such thing as true freedom... because you are right one stuck in a planet where rules exists to keep you civilized. Don't you wanna unleash the monster within? You can't because you don't have the true freedom... one will be only truly free when they are the Gods of their own dimension."
"The vastness of space leaves much room for... reflection."
"Hungry hands peel away a false face to reveal... nothing."
"Democracy? Your futile government is just another dictatorship disguised under the veil of a democrats and "righteous politicians". What is the point of freedom if you your leaders ignore your words and continue to step on your objectives, family, dreams and life? Isn't it what dictatorship does? They plunge themselves in their golden nests while arresting anyone who points out the truth behind their character or continue to pretend you and your suffering doesn't exist. What's the point of freedom if at the end of the day you will just starve to death or be shot by some low-life thug? Under my rule, you will have a new purpose in life. A chance of a better life."
"The buzzing boast of an insect before a Empress."
"In the darkness, away from the false glamour of light, the truth stands unmasked and free."
"Your feeble light means nothing in the wake of my ambition."
Quotes about Oryx
"A Black Demon with sense of honor? Feelings? Lies! Lies!! Demons are loveless, heartless and soulless creatures of PURE EVIL! Her entire kind is a bunch of genocidal monsters who feed on souls and negative emotions of mortals! They are nothing but sadistic creatures who take delight in the suffering and sorrow of mortals! This has never changed since the birth of this multiverse!" - Shiaryh Myfella
"A Hyvralisk who fell in love with another Hyvralisk? What a pathetic joke. These beasts can never love others except for themselves." - Wáng Hongyu
"Idealist, charismatic, powerful, influential and a woman of iron will. Took over her planets, the galaxy, conquered the Gods of her reality and crushed all resistance... only to be defeated by her own lust and get emotionally attached to another woman. At the very end, she was only a child who was never loved. Oryx, are you sure that you truly aimed to be a conqueror and leader?" - The Black King
"Too bad, you were one of the best. Always loyal, always obeying like a mindless machine while keeping your pride closed to your world. I admired you, but now you have become an enemy who must be exterminated as soon as possible. Consider this my form of respecting your whole being." - Ara Astaroth
"You are just like me... too afraid of dying and disappear from the memories of everyone. Inside, you are crying like me." - Katarina Tirial Couteau
"Are you prideful that you transformed your once peaceful nation into a warmongering country that sees war as a form of living? You built another Roman Empire among the stars, crushing over the rights of others and taking freedom of entire races that never even knew you existed. Talk all you want, for me you are nothing more than a crazy and lunatic megalomaniac." - Sephiria Arks KnightWalker
"Oryx is basically a very pure person who doesn't think about whether what she does is good or bad, she actually believes everything she does no matter how evil is for the greater good of her people. She just does what she wants to do. She's very self-centered, only concerned with herself and her people. Some people might think what she's doing is good after ending all of humanity's problems through brute force. But her ways of "crushing" over the rights and liberty of others in this pursuit, so that aspect is bad." - Yuri Barnes
"That woman was borderline unhinged, too much power in too unstable a package, and I almost liked her. We blame our enemies for the problems of the world but we now humanity would one start the Third World War by themselves. Oryx saw that and decided to act; this is how she saved her world. If humanitarianism is useless then why not follow her path?" - Lucas Kellan
"I have to say, that I quite liked the woman. I am ashamed to say such a thing. But had I not been able to see what was happening outside the window I would have said she was very civilised. Odd, isn't it?" - Kotori Itsuka
"Every tyrannical government calls themselves by these noble names: Liberation-this, Patriotic-that, People's Republic-God-knows, Democratic Republic of something-or-other. Turns out not even a dictator from an alternative timeline can't own up to what they usually are" Federation of Worse Oppressors Than the Last Bunch of Oppressors. Changing it to "Nexus Empire" was the best thing you did to your galaxy." - Azul Jissele
"For the billions born in her society it's easier to consider what she said to be good as they were born in a complete warped community. Each country form their own society based on their own rules, obviously every person from different countries will look at you and your nation with suspicion as they look rather strange and bizarre. It all sounds so reasonable for them, but for us what you've described is the behavior of urban street thugs. Not sure if 'burning' books that may be used to corrupt the minds of other people, arresting and executing people who doesn't agree with her and spying over her population will sound... well, necessary." - Lucy Sheev KnightWalker
"As Ornn stared, he could not even recognize his own daughter. She was different. The glimmer in her black eyes was haunting and twisted. The look on her face was not one any human should ever have: one of pure, unrestrained... evil. The eyes of the Blackness, it has chosen her to be one of its children. This is how she became the person who she is today." - Oriax Wheelahr
"Oryx is an unpredictable, dangerous and utterly ruthless megalomaniac of the most diabolical kind. Sure, she is a heroine and a god-figure to her people who put an end to the Great Wars, unified her world and brought peace and security to the world. If she decided to keep herself closed to her world it was fine but she started to let her power take the best of her and started to taint other worlds with her legacy, defenseless planets with tribal populations. She is also intensely sadistic and malicious and will not spare anyone who wants to stand in her way to build a galaxy where she rules supreme over all civilizations. She wants a peace in an unified galaxy or she wants to mark her name in history to escape from her fear of being forgotten? Deep inside, she still suffering, self-destroying herself with her own lies to escape from a future she might well know she will disappear... this is why she crossing other worlds. She wants to be memorized and remembered, it doesn't matter how." - Saraph
""It is an embodiment of wicked ambition, utterly devoid of humanity." This is how you all describe her? You are a bunch of losers caged inside of your own morals. She will be the monster she needs to be to bring a world where no one has to cry or suffer ever again. Full bellies, pockets full of funds, endless jobs, great expectative of life, a great life of happiness. A world where mortals can coexist with nature. It's impossible to achieve this through empathy and love, fear will solve everything until it becomes a natural part of the future generations. You know nothing about her. Nothing." - Heis
"I understand her... I really do. Because I was once like her. It doesn't matter the individual happiness of a few now if only death and even more despair awaits in the future." - Carl Robinson
Funny Quotes
Unique Quotes
"Don't lie, dear. But if you must, do it with conviction."
"This conversation is over, Tobirama-san. It's time for you to leave. If you have any farther business, please address it to anybody other than me. Your presence causes me physical pain. I don't like you. In fact, I find you quite horrid. I despise that my position requires me to acknowledge your existence. And, much worse, give you the occasional time of the day. But that time has come to a close. Good-bye."
"She just made eyes at me. For the Gods, I wish I could make redundancy at her."
"I'm a pro when it comes to seeing through a lie, but when I'm the one who has to put on an act, I don't last five seconds..."
"I’m disgusted of eggs. Worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes… Have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it."
"I am not smiling, I am threatening to smile. It is still a threat."
"I'm not an adulterer, I am just following what my human instincts are saying to me what I should do. You can blame them and not me."
"What we are dealing with here is a perfect organism called Taken, an ancient form of life that devour worlds just like Hyvralisks. It's really a miracle of evolution."
"I have yet to find comedy in what you mortals like to watch. What is it called? F.R.I.E.N.D.S?"
"I will admit, under my rule my army have done a lot of things they're not proud of... Robbing graves, plundering tombs, double-parking, all for the sake of bringing these cultural relics to our museums. But nobody ever got hurt during these expeditions. Well, maybe somebody got hurt... but nobody I cared about."
"Optimism and happiness?! Take that away from me!"
"That was... horrible, but mildly entertaining. Thank you very much, I hope you can continue agonizing there so I can make peace with my own mind."
"I am not tall, it's you all who are small dwarves."
"What? You can't be mad at me. I am pretty! You are supposed to forgive me and say you want to be my slave!"
"Welcome, future slaves... I mean, welcome, insolent leeches. Sorry. I mean, welcome, future subsidiaries..."
"Be evil for once? Well. Oriax, get my evil lotion for my evil awesome body. The most evil thing I could think of, is leaving the audience wishing for more... me."
"I can't believe you are living in the 21st century but still have flat-earth believers. They may as well give their brain cells to flies who will have better use for them."
"I just wanted to say that you're all winners. And that I couldn't be happier the Raizen's first year is ending."
"Your conversational skills are really deteriorating as the day goes on."
"Haven't you heard of science's latest triumph, Vira? The doorbell."
"Let's be honest, Fraxinus is not a place for the likes of me, Selina and Maria. We can't around without hitting our heads every door and corridor. This is why I will be using astral projections from now on."
"Heis, I think we're dealing with a very, very smart person whose intelligence is way above us for us to understand, or a very, very stupid person."
"What Heis is to me? I don't know. 'Emergency food'?"
"I don't read the script; the script reads me."
"Ratatoskr is a secret organization made to combat the New World Order? I thought it was a circus."
"Oh sorry, I didn't realize you were an expert on how I should take care of my own skin. Hold on. Let me get a notebook."
"Pardun?"
"Understandable, have a nice day."
"Revenge sounds so mean, that’s why I prefer to call it "Returning the favor."
"The Ancient Ones feeds upon the mental energies of its victims. This explains why the the Imps in Hell remain unaffected. And this explain why you survived an encounter with Petelgeuse Romanee-Conti."
"People call me a pedophile because Heis is shorter than me. That's true, by your standards she literally has the size of a 13-years old girl. But that's only you humans who continue to press a dead button that people shouldn't date petite girls because they look like children. What are you? Dead-brained? As far as I know, Hyvralisks can mate with any demon that is past-beyond its Herald forms regardless of age."
"I've murdered tens of thousands in cold blood. If I can't ice the sad-eyed puppy too, I don't deserve the job."
"Am I the ONLY normal person at this ship?"
Dialogues
Isis Maxwell: If I... if I wear something like that, do you think it'd get his [Lucas Kellan] attention?
Oryx: I confess I must doubt the sanity of anyone who would ask me that question.
Isis: I thought you had dozens of lovers.
Oryx: But I didn't have to go after them. They all naturally come to me, as Lucas will sure one day come for you.
Isis: H-He? Come to me?! That's a joke?! He doesn't seem me as a woman at all!
Oryx: Are you an idiot?
Vira Hermes: You ever miss those talks we had on the elevators?
Oryx: No.
Vira: Come on, remember how we'd all ask you about your life on Brazil? It was an opportunity to share!
Oryx: This conversation is over.
Vira: Tell me again about your immune system!
Oryx: I have alcohol and gel with me and I will throw it on your infectious body.
Vira: M-Maybe we'll talk later.
Oryx: Different species react differently to stress. I am aware you have come by a great deal. If I ever have had other species become attracted to me before? Awkward. I am not interested.
Imperia Deamonne: You've had members of another species make a pass at you? I mean, in your demonic form.
Oryx: Constantly but only among the demonkind. My skin tone is apparently attractive by Pure-Blooded Devils standards. I also subjected to the lust of Harvesters deviants who enjoys my flexibility. In total, more than 36 species of demons have come to me.
Imperia: (with a slight grin) I appreciate you letting me down easy.
Oryx: No offense intended Imperia, but the reproduction of Hyvralisks is very different. Very little sex drive that happens every three years. However, it's still possible for a female Hyvralisk give birth to an offspring of the same gender. If someday I'd tried mating with a human it would be with you.
Imperia: This is not what I meant, Oryx.
Oryx: Oh. Well, you like both genders right?
Imperia: Well, you got my curiosity. I am cyborg after all.
Oryx: Hyvralisks live long lives, some even eternal. It's not like dating a human, where you just stick it out for a century until they die...
Everyone: *glares*
Oryx: ...Uh, no offense.
Ratatoskr Enginner 1: So, Rindou, what do you think of our new demon boss?
Rindou: Hush, she's right over there!
Ratatoskr Enginner 2: Gah, she can't hear us with her size. Don't get me wrong, her size combined with that... body is attractive as hell... I would lov--
Oryx: You know I can hear you.
Heis: Nobody would give me a mirror. How bad is it?
Oryx: Heis, you were always ugly. Just slap on some face-paint and you won't be able to tell the difference.
Heis: *laughs* Ooh, don't make me laugh. My face is barely holding together as it is. It's just as well, of all people you could have approached it was an ugly demon like me.
Oryx: That's because I am the only one who can love your ugliness.
Heis: If you are going to hit on me then at least be gentle with your words...
Oryx: My predecessor said no one would understand the true worth of my work. As I pulled my blade from his chest, I knew he was telling the truth.
Kotori Itsuka: Not exactly what I would call effective academic peer review.
Oryx: So Valaine. How did you felt dying for the first time in your life?
Valaine: My ship was destroyed, my family was killed by pirates and I ended up spaced.
Oryx: Well, you look good. Ah, the benefits of a redundant nervous system.
Valaine: Yeah, humans don't have that.
Oryx: Oh, it must have been painful, then.
(Kroniesa, Oryx and Katya investigating the abandoned Tenguu City ruled by Mafusa)
Kroniesa KnightWalker: They're burning the dead in the streets, must be trying to stop the plague spreading. This part of the town is known for its unhealthy environment
Oryx: (inhales the smell of human flesh burning) Anyone else hungry?... No?
Kroniesa: ...
Katya: I gonna pretend I never heard that or just say you were joking.
Oryx: Anyone else hungry?
Sephiria: Is there anything that doesn't make you hungry?
Oryx: Insects. And you who lacks brain despite your tender, a little plump, soft, musc--
Shigure: Ok! You can stop right there!
Oryx: When I became an official member of Qliphoth, female Hyvralisks used to throw themselves at my feet.
Katarina: What'd you do?
Oryx: I stepped over them.
Katarina: Smooth.
Kyouhei: Just how many girls are in your life?
Oryx: At this point, I haven't got a clue. You see, because Hyvralisks can live for billion years, our memories are not as immortal as our bodies so we have a very short memory with limited space so our memories only give space to memorable moments of our lives. I don't know how many I lied with but... probably more than 710? I don't know. Like I said I can only remember the most memorable ones that had the involvement of actual feelings. I don't have interest in relationships but due to my human factor is has become a necessity for me to interact with others.
Katarina: I thought you said you did not know what is love.
Oryx: Love? I thought men would call it "collection".
Kyouhei: Ah... so you are basically a gigolo without even knowing.
La Folia: You're amazing! Have you mastered the woman's heart?! How come you can't get a girlfriend?!
Oryx: I am actually married.
La Folia: Ah, so you are marri—Wait a second! Then why you keep hanging around with other women?
Oryx: Because I think about her the whole time and I am Brazilian.
La Folia: That's no an excuse for adultery you know!!
Oryx: Most women like dangerous men. For those who share a different taste, they like bad girls. It's a common sense that the very female will like being dominated in a "bad way" by a superior force. Isn't this the reason why you keep hanging with me? Don't you love when I treat you as a swine?
Heis: Oryx... that is a dirty, dirty stereotype! Moreover, this is as sexist as it can get! In my case it happens to be true, but still!
Oryx: But I've been a caring and loving leader to my people the whole time.
Saraph: ...you have?
Shigure: Good thing human flesh aren't very tasty thanks to industrialized food of the century.
Oryx: I beg to differ, I beg to differ.
Oryx: I was doing my task, though.
Vira: Is killing people your task? As far as I know gave you a mission of spying.
Oryx: It depends, what day is today?
Vira: In this planet's calendar? Saturday.
Oryx: Good lord, then it's time for me to kill someone. See you later.
Oryx: I heard a rumor that, ah, when you go in a pool, you need floaties because you are too heavy? Is this true?
(beat)
Selina: ...who told you that? Who supplied you that information?!
Ara Astaroth: Easy. We don't want to start a war. By conquering their trust we need to be "gentle".
Oryx: .....Why not? We can easily conquer them and educate them until the next generation be born. Until then they will have long forgotten we were harsh.
Ara: Oryx, I am surprised you have an even more brutal mentality than mine.
Oryx: I should let you go.
Tomas: "Let me go"? Do Hyvralisks consider conversation a form of imprisonment? Maybe that is why so few are willing to sit and talk.
Oryx: We simply don't try to hold a conversation for too long with mortals. Have you seen a human speaking for hours with an animal?
Maria: What's that you're drinking there?
Oryx: Human blood. With cinnamon. As a former KnightWalker Cyborg you probably understand me. Wanna share your experiences with me?
Maria: No, thanks.
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Trivia
While most villains from past stories are now redeemed, Oryx is probably the only villain to join forces with the heroes that NEVER redeemed herself and continued her activities on her own closed galaxy. Even the likes of Oriax Wheelahr who subjugated wholes worlds with her demonic army and openly committed genocide is now redeemed and spent billion years fixing the worlds she destroyed and helping species that left on the brink of extinction to start a new life of freedom.
Oryx's character of a "benevolent tyrant" is universally referred as an universal joke of a tyrant that is actually good in person and seeks to bring good to their own nations in their own ways. According to Egyptian writer Alaa Al Aswany, the concept of a benevolent dictator is just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore; is no more than a meaningless fantasy. Oryx is the type of character that was created defy such views and create a new atmosphere similar to those that surrounded the protagonist of Death Note, Light Yagami and be left to the reader to decide if a nation should be left to rot and die by the hands of a failed democracy or live and find a new life prosperity under the ruler of a dictatorship.
Much of Oryx's character was based after Sirin of the Void's own thoughts about that of a dictator could do more good things to a nation rather than an useless and dead democracy that failed to serve its people.
Much like most Brazilians, Oryx carries the same berserker buttons of a native of the country that sometimes can slip into comedy.
When speaking to a Brazilian or about them, do not confirm they speak in Spanish, otherwise one will get in serious trouble, mainly if they are non-South Americans. The running joke of Maria Arzonia speaking in Spanish but being misunderstood as speaking in Italian is a common real-life mistake of English people thinking Spanish people are actually speaking Italian. When confused with Spanish, it's normal to see Oryx giving death glares.
Don't relate Brazilian people with such things as samba, carnival and football. By the time of 2021, most Brazilians despise those as their concept changed radically over the years into being something similar to "depraved festivity" where people go only to have sex, spread sexual diseases, drug themselves, harassment, cause uncomfortable noises at night with loud sounds and screaming and uncontrolled drinking of alcohol which results in thousands of accidents every year. Meanwhile, football became more of an excuse for people to lose their times offending people who have other teams and selections as their team of choice, organized cheering teams will go as far as to murder members of other organized cheering purely out of senseless hatred and rivalry. By the foundation of Nexus, such things were long forgotten as the nation now had different visions and new holidays that did not involve past-cultural events. However, cultural events like carnival and samba continue existing except that it was now tightly secured and watched.
A running gag in SoK is that Brazilian characters will be related to those festivities, such as Lucas Kellan and Fatima. Obviously, these parts will end with trouble and fights as many of these characters (and real life Brazilians) think of this as the equivalent of that all Asians eat dogs and cats, Indians being poor, dirty and smelly, Africans in general being indigenous people, Americans as being fat and sweaty or French as being generally seen as arrogant and rude people.
Due to international press' method of presenting other countries, most people think Brazilians live in slums or places of extremely poverty. Such slums exist more only in places like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo while most of the people live in fairly normal cities similar to small towns from Europe or metropolitans cities. This running gag is extended to Nexus Federation as well but it ends with the construction of underground cities like the ones built below Tenguu City from the Reboot version. One of Oryx's main goals was to completely eradicate these slums to built more productive power plants.
Much like the rest of all Brazilians, most people will agree that Brazil in its current state (and in its previous state before Nexus Federation in-universe) is a majestic country ruled by monkeys. However, when foreign people bad-mouth Brazil immediately Brazilians group up in group of thousands to harass the individual until their private life is exposed to daylight accompanied by endless harassment and even hacking. This is considered to be a sort of hidden patriotism (or extreme nationalism) that say while Brazil is a failed country it still has the most unique people and geography of the entire globe with endless resources to built a world's power in just a few decades and that only people born in the country are allowed to point out its problems as they are the ones who suffer daily with absurdities and outrageous news that come out of the government every day. While Oryx has a similar vision she is not exactly a "patriot" but a "humanitarian" who seeks to break the barriers of countries and unify human race under one single flag. Yet, there is no doubt she was a sort of Brazilian patriot before she became the next president of Nexus.
A common mistake to the entire world is that people from every country think that Brazilians are all dark-skinned as presented in films, cartoons, games and animes. However, the truth is that Brazil is one of the most diverse countries of the world and possess a balanced population of white, black, brown and Asians (mainly from China and Japan). Oryx's skin color was supposed to be a critic to in-universe that Brazilians are generally black or brown (as Carla Kellan and Yen Kellan, two Portuguese-Brazilian characters, are slightly brown). For safety reasons, this will never be brought to the story as her arc is not related to DEM Empire's nazism order that openly points racism against non-humans and non-white people in general.
Despite not being presented as a character who is not interested in romantic relationship she is in fact lesbian, making her the third pure lesbian character of the story after Kyoko Kirigiri and Sonia Nevermind (who were based after one of the authors' personal shipping couple from Danganronpa universe) while other male and female characters who may have sexual attraction for the same gender are bisexual.
She had quite a "few" romantic relationships with other female member of Revelation of Qliphoth and its affiliates. For better words, she had a lot of them, giving her the title of "Lady Killer" or "Chick Magnet" as she is the one who usually attracts them and end their relationship as she can't spend more time with them like Alice Ashcroft, Danua Gretel, Rikka KnightWalker, at least eight students from Raizen Academy, Valentine, Kuha Xing and Jihx from Mafusa, Raym Ars Apocalypse, Kaitlyn Powell (before being sealed), Decimam Danura, Gira Couteau, Marquise Malum, Satella, Aversa, Heis, Ursula, Orga Discordia, Mary, Enigma, Symmone, SeptingentosQuinquagintaMilia Satin and Septima Saiwan from Monryou. She also has an unconfirmed romantic relationship with Vira Hermes but much like Vira's previous cases it must only be a sexual-type relationship rather one that involve feelings. By the time of the foundation of New Republic of Deus.Ex.Machina it was rumored she may having a case with female Angel from Paradise, much to the dismay and anger of other holy beings as there never was a romantic case between angels and demons. When this rumor came up, many of Oryx's ruthless and abusive laws were removed, implying her relationship with this certain Angel must have softed her cold heart just a little.
With so many unconfirmed cases, Oryx stands as the most "ladies woman/man" of the entire storyline, surpassing Tomas Sev and Lucas Kellan who are universally known as the two who had slept with dozens of different women in the past. This is a "reference" to the fame that Brazilians in general, be men or women are outgoing lovers who easily seduce people (mainly foreign people whom are considered easy prey) with their bodies (another running gag is that Brazilians is a nation of body builders and beauty-chasers who seek to leave their bodies as healthy and attractive as possible with the intense training, sports and usage gymnasiums) and charisma, and have dozens of romantic and sexual cases over the course of their lives. The most hardcore Brazilian can have at least 150 to 200 romantic cases over the course of their lives with normal Brazilians having over 30 to 50 cases which still considered an insanely high count to the standard for the rest of the world. This is not seen with good eyes by most of the world as Brazilians are infame for being betrayers, therefore the nickname of "ladies killer", "gentlemen killer" or "destroyer of hearts". Moreover, Oryx's tendencies to betray Heis with other women is a reference to these real life titles as she don't have control of her urges to keep loyal to a single person, but on the other hand, she is loyal in the sense of feelings rather than sexual and can equally 'love' more than one person as an individual who deeply cares about their well-being and emotional state.
Oryx is the only Magic Side villain to never be defeated in combat for being too overpowered and never killed the heroic characters out of orders otherwise the story would have ended with the death of Katarina in the first episodes of the Reboot arc. By the time of the decisive battle, she was already one with the light side and was now an enemy to the overpowered Hyvralisks from Qliphoth, being the main-counter of every force of the Blackness to Ratatoskr after the Downfall of the 0th Multi-Universe timeline was fixed. She was, however, defeated in combat by Ara Astaroth, Lapis, Ragnarok Iblis, Sequined Sadist and Ike Ray Peram Westcott; all of them being villains extremely powerful and superior to every other heroes for a good reason. She is considered to be the second antagonist to join later join forces and never be defeated in combat when posing as villain/antagonist after Selina Strawberry.
Oryx has a fascinating taste for exploration, studying non-human culture and history of every planet she encounter. While most Hyvralisks and galactic tyrants are only interested in conquering such worlds she is more interested in studying its species, history, culture and wild life.
She had a great taste for sad vibes music as, according to her, it comforts her soul and gives her tranquility. She is also a huge fan of lofi and helps her to relax and sleep. With all these elements combined it's safe to say by anyone she is a quiet person who enjoys silence and tranquility instead of noisy and chaotic places. This specific taste was based after Sirin of the Void favorite gender of music that is not modern pop music or rock.
According to Kotori Itsuka, Oryx is always giving vibes of a sad girl while giving off an aura of a gothic silent girl. To add even more, she always seems to be sad since she sacrificed her own happiness and normal dreams to give her people a future. In this sense, Oryx's true character beneath all her villainous and cold character is one of a depressed child urging to be loved, cared and remembered. This makes Oryx one of the most complex villains from Magic Side as her mindset is left to be theorized and rumoured.
In terms of human height, Oryx is one of the tallest female characters of the story, being considered the second tallest female of CIS Productions until the start of the events of LOTM: Destiny. She is also the tallest Hyvralisk character in human form, earning the title of tallest demonic character in human form in the story, even more so than Leohart the Prince of Hell. She only loses to Selina Strawberry in terms of original and true human height. In her debut appearance, Oryx is shown to be as tall as (if not a little bit taller) than Maria Arzonia, making them sharing the spot of the second tallest female member/ally of the Rogues. That is, until everything changed after Maria outgrew Oryx during the final phase of World War III... and eventually became even taller than Katarina in LOTM: Destiny. In terms of female height, Oryx now occupies the third spot after Selina as the first and Maria as the second one.
Oryx's true demonic form in comparison to Saturn
In comparison of true sizes of original appearance, Oryx is easily the biggest of the Rogues and all their allies, even more than Katarina Couteau in her true Taken form. Her demonic form is about 20x larger than Jupiter's mass, the largest planet of the solar system, this is bigger than the most average Hyvralisks in their original forms that are about 3x the size of Earth, making her 8th largest character of all CIS' universe in their true form, losing only after omniversal deities with sizes 1000x larger than the Multi-Universe and a special cases of living natural forces and the reincarnation of the Fallen I. Sequined Sadist (1st about 5x the size of an entire omniverse), Ragnarok Iblis (2nd about 3x the size of Lynenta Omniverse), Lapis (3rd about 2,5x the size of Lynenta Omniverse), Spectra (4th about 2x the size of Lynenta), Idea of Evil (5th about the size of an entire Multi-Universe inside of Lynenta Omniverse), the Darkness (6th about the 5x the size of a Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall) and Ike Wescott (7th about 10x the size of VY Canis Majoris).
Despite having a very composed aura of sophisticated serious woman, Oryx seems to give atmosphere of a melancholy man as she is often seen dressed in black suit. Others say she gives the sensation of being actually a man instead of a woman's. This is also another reference that Oryx has more of a man's atmosphere and personality rather than a woman's and confirms her sexual orientation as lesbian. In a relationship, Oryx is the one who takes the position of the "man", taking the lead of the relationship with words, materials, romantic advances and dominance on their sexual life.
The early concept of Oryx was created back in 2020 alongside Kroniesa KnightWalker, adding two new villains to respective sides of the story to part of the main threat in the Reboot Arc. In the original script, she was supposed to be a Mafusa Sov. under the name of Riven Kishimoto. The authors really thought even the original name of the character was lazy as Riven is an English name and Kishimoto is a Japanese's, the two names never had any interaction with each other and was a glimpse of lazy names created by the authors back in 2015. This idea was so bad that it was not even worth mentioning it in her Design and Appearance section on her Overview part above.
Oryx is considered to be most wanted "mate" by Hyvralisks as having a heir with her may result in the birth of a future leader of Revelation of Qliphoth if something happens to Ara's leadership. In her nation, she is the most inspirational person of her civilization and often receives proposals of monarchs, nobles and aristocrats. In the Underworld, this is not different as some families of the 79 Pillars of Hell approach her with the proposal of a political marriage.
Despite being a Brazilian, her Hyvralisk traces are inspired after Japanese Oni, a clear reference to the Japanese Tenguu City's Haired Demons (also known as Oni); Kroniesa the Black Haired Demon, Aki Astaroth the Brown Haired Demon, and Katarina the Red Haired Demon. In Raizen, she is often called The Violet/Purple Haired Demon. It's also a reference that she is partially Korean descendant of Japanese whom are known to have the second largest Japanese community of the world in Brazil after Japan itself.
She is the only OC from the evil side of Revelation of Qliphoth to not be connected with the Kabbalah or Qliphoth Tree.
Oryx is ambidextrous, giving adaptation to use her left hand and right hand both in combat and writing. In her days as human, she had extreme difficult to use her left hand to write and use cutlery but had no problem using her left hand to use strength.
The name Oryx might be derived from the animal genus called by the same name which consists of four large antelope species. Three of them are native to arid parts of Africa, and the fourth to the Arabian Peninsula.
Yes, this is the best she can do.
Like Kroniesa, Oryx has shown to be a near perfect-professor in almost every known field, including linguistics, economy, physics, chemistry, mathematics, history, politics and philosophy. Despite all her feats, she is very bad at art. Very. Very bad. This is by far one of the few things that may break the cold aura around her character as it gets more comedic in nature.
She is also very bad at singing, while her voice is not particularly loud or annoying to listen to her voice may sound as if a zombie is trying to speak out loud.
Oryx is represented by the sin of Pride; prideful of her abilities, powers, influence and conquests. Her is pride is so much that she prefer her empire to die alongside her because she refuses to see someone else replacing her and tainting her glorious legacy. But aside from this sin, she also represents the sin of wrath for her uncontrolled anger when being exposed to her phobias and berserker buttons and obviously, no more or less, lust for her impulsive carnal lust periods. However, one thing that can excuse Oryx from being represented by lust is the fact it's not a normal factor but a disorder caused by the Blackness as it naturally inherited (for better words, consumed the abstract tendencies of humans to make her more human to their eyes) the humans' emotions and needs living next to her for being born in a human society instead of a demon's.
Oryx is fluent in Albanian, Arabic, Aramaic, Russian, Assamese, Latin, German, Bhojpuri, Dutch, English, Finnish, Chinese, Italian, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romani, Spanish, Swedish and Japanese.
Her favorite cake is "yellow-flavored" with chocolate frosting.
On occasion, Oryx will display her love of marine biology by talking about her knowledge of aquatic life, including random obscure trivia and methods to care for them.
In 2019, she created her own Twitter social media in the alternative Earth. On the same day, she reached 5 million followers. Judging by how overpopulated the Earth was at that time, the number of followers continued increasing in the same pattern for years.
Oryx once cut the top off her thumb when trying to peel an orange with a knife when she was a child.
Oryx's aspect of death is Loneliness to Kroniesa's Despair and Ara Astaroth's Emptiness.
Oryx is infertile, meaning that she cannot give birth to a child even if she was heterosexual and had a sexual contact with a man. However, that does not mean she can build a family with another female Hyvralisk. There is some conflicting information regarding the gender of the female Hyvralisks. "Female" Hyvralisks are a mono-gendered species with no concept of gender differences. According to Oryx, "male and female have no real meaning for them," and, if asked, says that she is "not precisely a woman." At the same time, female Hyvralisks are often viewed as an all-females. To humans at least, female Hyvralisks in the form of ''human women'' appear female with feminine physical characteristics and voices. Even among the demons, many individual female demons are referred to as “she” and “her“ but some female prefer male pronouns, while others gravitate toward gender-neutral where language allows. Female Hyvralisks also bear feminine titles and their female offspring are referred to as “daughters“, however the female Hyvralisks may have chosen feminine pronouns to simplify language translations. However female Hyvralisks gender is defined, they are innately different from humans, for female Hyvralisks can mate and successfully reproduce with any other gender or species through a form of parthenogenesis. Although they have one gender, they are not asexual and do in fact require a partner to reproduce. However, female Hyvralisk reproduction is very different from other forms of sexual reproduction. A female Hyvralisks provides two copies of her own genes to her offspring, one of which is passed on unaltered. The second set of genes is altered in a unique process called melding, also known as the joining or the union. During melding, the eyes of the female Hyvralisk initiating the meld dilate as she consciously attunes her nervous system to her partner's, sending and receiving electrical impulses directly through the skin, however physical contact is not strictly necessary. Effectively, the female Hyvralisk and her partner briefly become one unified nervous system, sharing memories, thoughts, and feelings. The offspring is always an Hyvralisk, regardless of the species or sex of the "father" and in the case that the offspring is of two Hyvralisks, the "father" is the one who does not give birth.
Following this concept, Oryx may be infertile in the sense of giving birth but she can still use another female to reproduce and give birth to an offspring since female Hyvralisks don't need sexual contact of a male to give birth to their children. Meaning if they wanted, Oryx and Heis (or any female Hyvralisk she came in intimate contact with) could have formed a family where Oryx was the father and they the mother's.
Her favorite color is purple, a color that pretty much represents her whole being. However, her color patterns may variety between purple and red.
Oryx is the only Hyvralisk to control Electrokinesis as her main source of power, a complete normal elemental power between magic users, Magi-Tech magicians and Spirals. The reason why her main power is an elemental one instead of unique and peculiar ones like illusions, control over micro-organisms, atoms, darkness, blood (a peculiar sub-power that still part of hydrokinesis), etc. However, her electrokinesis is said to be just as destructive as Katya's most devastating spells.
Oryx's birthday year is 1998, the same year of Sirin of the Void's year of birth in one of the many references to the real author.
She likes rainy weather, snowy and cold climates, something that most of Brazil lacks except for its South states that are located next to Southern hemisphere of Antarctica. It's said that Oryx has a personal mansion of hers next to the cold waters of the South which may explain why Oryx is pale in skin color as she rarely is exposed to the sun's ultraviolet rays.
According to her secretary, her daily schedule suggests that she only sleeps about 2–3 hours a day in between working at the government and managing her colonies in other worlds. Her people and other servants have expressed concern over her health despite having Hyvralisk biology.
She is said to have no fear but theories between character in-universe might suggest that her biggest fear is being alone, not an "alone" of a sense of staying alone in a closed room or any other environment but truly alone without allies, people and friends to support her as she states she only exists because there are people for her. If people stop following her, then she might suffer from existential identity crisis. This phobia is discovered by Kroniesa KnightWalker but it was kept for herself, for better or worse.
She is a cat-person and have at least 4 cats. Moreover, she openly states to care more about animals than other people's lives as she is a sort of nature lover similar to how Ara Astaroth is. There were few times she is seen truly angry, and the easiest way to leave her angry is abuse of animals regardless of the criminal's age. In her own beliefs, she believes that a human only need to take the live of an animal for self-defense or for survival. If this act is committed purely out of cruelty, she will likely lose control and execute the offender even if they are children. She knows this is not right but this is one of the few times she really feel like abusing of her own power after using most of her time to please her people.
The point of Oryx's character is to make her as controversial as possible. While some views of Carl Robinson and Katya are understandable, her methods are no different from any known leader with almost unlimited powers of history except said tyrant has the genuine desire to save her own nation and even race from wars that will lead them to extinction. This is a reference to different points of views of political leaders like Joseph Stalin in Soviet Union, Mao Zedong in China and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. While most countries tend to see these figures as tyrants with huge body counts of victims, their respective nations see their actions as necessary for them to reach the level where they stand now with some admitting they committed a lot of mistakes on the way but could understand their goals and plans for the future. Which is why much of Oryx's people don't see her as vile like most galactic tyrants or those from Balam Alliance since she is not doing to satisfy herself with dominance, wealth and power but the desire to bring stability to her empire. This is one of the many reasons why some members of Ratatoskr and New Conglomerate refused to support a rebellion in her territories as it was considered to be straight terrorism in a territory where the people fully knows their position and embraced their way of life.
Despite many stories that came out of her territories, her people does actually have freedom of speech to talk about politics and point out the flaws on her regime. However, the spread of false news like pointing out things that never happened or she never did is a crime that is punished with 10 years of arrest while the most radical ones are punished with death. Because of this her public image is divided between the ones who support the idea of tyrant or actually a soft-hearted president with unlimited powers.
She is the first main antagonist villain to be a Brazilian and a Latin American in general but not the first character as Yen Kellan and Carla Kellan were the first two Brazillians character to appear in the story.
When Oryx gained her Hyvralisk powers, the first thing alteration she did to her body was to end her menstrual periods which is considered to be a woman's most annoying and outrageous moments of their lives. Despite her pride being born as human, she absolutely despised the weakness of human bodies, mainly from the female's fragile anatomy. Despite rarely being mentioned, menstrual periods does exist in all of SoK's female characters but are rarely brought up as it's considered to be not important. However, in-universe, if a female does gain a certain type of power that allows them to modify their bodies, they ALL erase their menstrual periods as it not only causes psychological destabilization but also interfere in their physical activities.
Oryx is a monarchist and much of her political methods are based after the Brazil's Imperial period which was marked by great achievements like being the first country to have the most educated population of the entire West, political stability of all neighboring Hispanic American republics, vibrant economic growth (being the only South American country to achieve this merit at the time), constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech, territorial expansion, formation of the largest army of the South American continent, respect for civil rights of its subjects, albeit with legal restrictions on women and slaves, the largest and most experienced army of the continent hardened by past wars, a naval armada that was constantly being modernized with the latest developments in naval warfare (later considered to be the fifth or sixth most powerful navy in the world and having the mot powerful battleships in the western hemisphere); earning the fear and respect of British Empire and United States of America that once treated the Empire of Brazil as one of the two superpowers of the western hemisphere. Much like the Empire of Brazil, Nexus Federation (and later Nexus Empire) was marked by similar achievements and improvements during the reign of Dom Pedro II except that her regime was also inspired by the dictatorial times of the first Republic of Brazil that was marked for its oppression, radical authoritarism, rigged elections, corruption among coronelismos, disrespect of civil rights and censorship.
Oryx's distinctive laughter is just a single "hum" or "fu" to represent her hardened character and lack of sense of humor. Others expect her to let out a "Ohohoho!" because of her ojou-type character.
Oryx is said to be a disaster performing house services like cleaning objects, sweeping the floor, washing dishes, cooking, etc. This is the result of an entire life being served by maids and servants, and for growing in a wealthy environment. Even as a couple, Heis would often be the one who cleaned her office in Qliphoth world as if she was her wife and Oryx the husband working outside.
Oryx's original name is Kiara but after adopting the Black Demon title "Oryx" it naturally became part of her to the point everyone now calls her for her nickname/title.
Despite having no problem in having sex with women she consider to be attractive or elegant, Oryx is just like Maria Arzonia when it comes to sexual contents and any sexual activity which is why she could feel nothing but despise and disgust for her carnal periods which destroyed her pure and clean image to the point she tried to research for magic enhancements to fix this problem. Her solution came with Kaitlyn who was a magic expert and produced a medicine that could fix her sexual crisis.
Inspirations
Religious & Mythological Inspirations
Ares - Greek
In Greek mythology, Ares is the God of War. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, the son of Zeus and Hera. Homer portrayed him as a terrible, murderous barbarian who was disliked by his parents and all others; in contrast with the wise, reasonable war goddess, Athena.
The Greeks were ambivalent toward Ares: although he embodied the physical valor necessary for success in war, he was a dangerous force, "overwhelming, insatiable in battle, destructive, and man-slaughtering." His sons Phobos (Fear) and Deimos (Terror) and his lover, or sister, Enyo (Discord) accompanied him on his war chariot. In the Iliad, his father Zeus tells him that he is the god most hateful to him. An association with Ares endows places and objects with a savage, dangerous, or militarized quality. His value as a war god is placed in doubt: during the Trojan War, Ares was on the losing side, while Athena, often depicted in Greek art as holding Nike (Victory) in her hand, favoured the triumphant Greeks.
Ares plays a relatively limited role in Greek mythology as represented in literary narratives, though his numerous love affairs and abundant offspring are often alluded to. When Ares does appear in myths, he typically faces humiliation. He is well known as the lover of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, who was married to Hephaestus, god of craftsmanship. The most famous story related to Ares and Aphrodite shows them exposed to ridicule through the wronged husband's device.
The counterpart of Ares among the Roman gods is Mars, who as a father of the Roman people was given a more important and dignified place in ancient Roman religion as a guardian deity. During the Hellenization of Latin literature, the myths of Ares were reinterpreted by Roman writers under the name of Mars. Greek writers under Roman rule also recorded cult practices and beliefs pertaining to Mars under the name of Ares. Thus in the classical tradition of later Western art and literature, the mythology of the two figures later became virtually indistinguishable.
Artemis - Greek
Artemis (Greek: nominative: Ἄρτεμις; genitive: Ἀρτέμιδος) is the Greek Goddess of the Hunt, the moon, forests, hills, animals, wilderness, virginity, fertility, childbirth, archery and protection of maidens. She is the daughter of Zeus and Leto, as well as the twin sister of Apollo. She is one of the three virgin goddesses of Mount Olympus.
Artemis loved to hunt and then bathe in a quiet pool. If any man saw her bathing, she would seduce, and then drown them; for no man shall live to tell the tale. She has a group of young women called the Hunters, that have sworn loyalty to Artemis, and given up love, in return for immortality. This immortality does not, however, include death by battle. She is believed to have accidently fallen in love with, and subsequently killed, the hero Orion during hunting.
there are many instances where a man was punished for seeing Artemis bathe. In one story, a hunter comes upon her bathing in a river. He falls in love with her and thinks he can win her over if he is respectful and tells her how great a hunter he is. He comes out of the forest and calls to her, and introduces himself. He tells her he loves her, and must have her for a wife. Artemis, smiling, tells him no man will ever have her, and turns him into a spotted deer. His hunting hounds smell him and, not realising he is their master, chase him down and tear him to pieces. In another story, an old man sees her bathe, but fearing the gods he falls to his knees and begs for forgiveness. Artemis blinds him, as punishment, but takes pity on him and gives him bird companions that follow him and act as his eyes.
Jaci - Brazilian
Jaci (of Ya-cy or Ia-cy, from the Tupi, "mother of the animals"), in the Brazilian Mythology, is the moon goddess, protector of the animals, lovers, reproduction, plants, animals, lovers, night, moonlight, offerings and maidens. She avoided wars as she is goddess who prefers to observe before saying something. Mythologically, Jaci is identified with Diana of the Romans, Xochiquetzal of the Aztecs, Chandra of the Hindus and Isis of the ancient Egyptians.
According to tradition, Guaraci, the sun god once got tired of his eternal job and had to sleep. When he closed his eyes the world fell into darkness. To brighten the darkness while sleeping, Tupã created Jaci, the moon, to illuminate the night and bring softness and charm to the world.
Jaci was a goddess so beautiful that when Guaraci awakened by her light, he fell in love with her. And so, enchanted, he went back to sleep so he could see her again. But when the sun opened her eyes to admire the moon, everything lit up and she went to bed, fulfilling her mission. Guaraci then asked Tupã to create Rudá, the love and its messenger. Love knew no light or darkness. It could unite them at dawn. In this version, when an eclipse happens to be solar or lunar, it is the moment in which Jaci and Guaraci are together falling in love more and more.
Although some versions say that she is married with Guarací, the Sun God, the most famous one is that she is his twin sister and that she is the wife of the God of Thunder, Tupã. As the wife of Tupã, it is said that they were the first couple ever. In the some variations of her stories, she was even created by Guarací, because when he slept, the world was in darkness.
As Tupã created her, she is considered his daughter, but she is also considered his sister as there is a belief that Tupã said "I will not have only children, because all are my brothers, and sisters, even if they come from me". With the help of Jaci, Tupã descended to Earth in a place described as a mountain in the region of Areguá, Paraguay, and from this place created everything on the face of the Earth, including the ocean, forests, animals and the stars were placed in the sky at that time.
Odin - Nordic
Odin is a widely revered god in Germanic mythology. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates Odin with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and projects him as the husband of the goddess Frigg. In wider Germanic mythology and paganism, the god was known in Old English and Old Saxon as Wōden, in Old Bavarian as Wûtan, in Old Dutch as Wuodan, and in Old High German as Wuotan, all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym *Wōđanaz, meaning 'lord of frenzy', or 'leader of the possessed'.
Odin appears as a prominent god throughout the recorded history of Northern Europe, from the Roman occupation of regions of Germania (from c. 2 BCE) through movement of peoples during the Migration Period (4th to 6th centuries CE) and the Viking Age (8th to 11th centuries CE). In the modern period the rural folklore of Germanic Europe continued to acknowledge Odin. References to him appear in place names throughout regions historically inhabited by the ancient Germanic peoples, and the day of the week Wednesday bears his name in many Germanic languages, including in English.
Old Norse texts associate female beings connected with the battlefield—the valkyries—with the god, and Odin oversees Valhalla, where he receives half of those who die in battle, the einherjar. The other half are chosen by the goddess Freyja for her afterlife-location, Fólkvangr. Odin consults the disembodied, herb-embalmed head of the wise being Mímir for advice, and during the foretold events of Ragnarök Odin is told to lead the einherjar into battle before being consumed by the monstrous wolf Fenrir. In later folklore Odin appears as a leader of the Wild Hunt, a ghostly procession of the dead through the winter sky. He is associated with charms and other forms of magic, particularly in Old English and Old Norse texts.
Odin is a frequent subject of interest in Germanic studies, and scholars have advanced numerous theories regarding his development. Some of these focus on Odin's particular relation to other figures; for example, the fact that Freyja's husband Óðr appears to be something of an etymological doublet of the god, whereas Odin's wife Frigg is in many ways similar to Freyja, and that Odin has a particular relation to the figure of Loki. Other approaches focus on Odin's place in the historical record, a frequent question being whether the figure of Odin derives from Proto-Indo-European mythology, or whether he developed later in Germanic society. In the modern period the figure of Odin has inspired numerous works of poetry, music, and other cultural expressions. He is venerated in most forms of the new religious movement Heathenry, together with other gods venerated by the ancient Germanic peoples; some branches focus particularly on him.
Mayari - Tagalog
Mayari, who embodies beauty and strength, is the one-eyed lunar deity of Tagalog, Sambal and Pampangan mythology in the Philippines. She rules over the night and is the guardian over beauty, strength, war, revolution, equality and the moon.
In Tagalog mythology, Mayari was the daughter of Bathala, the king of the gods, to a mortal woman. Mayari is the Goddess of Combat, War, Revolution, Hunt, Weaponry, Beauty, Strength, Moon and Night. She is known as the most beautiful deity in Bathala's court.
In Tagalog mythology, she is usually depicted as a beautiful young maiden, a lone goddess of the moon and one of the three daughters of the supreme god Bathala by a mortal woman. She is also the goddess of revolutions, and right to equal rule. In one story, when Bathala went into deep slumber, she issued a proposal with Apolaki to rule the land equally, however, Apolaki chose to rule only as one. This led to a fierce divine war between the two sides, leading to Apolaki taking out one of Mayari's eyes. Shocked by what he had done, Apolaki apologized to Mayari and relented to Mayari's proposal. Since then, Apolaki ruled the Earth every morning, while Mayari ruled the world every night, however, the light during night is dimmer because of Mayari's lost eye.
Mayari is also referred to as Kulalaying ("moon shadow"), Dalagang Binubukot ("cloistered maiden" or "veiled maiden") or simply Dalagang nasa Buwan ("Maiden of the Moon"). She is also venerated as the goddess of silver (pilak). She is the sister of Tala, the goddess of stars and Apolaki, god of the sun. However, in some mythology, Tala is Mayari's daughter. In others, and the most common, is that she is Tala and Hanan's (goddess of the morning) sister, while Apolaki is a nephew.
Bastet - Egyptian
Bastet or Bast was a goddess of ancient Egyptian religion, worshiped as early as the Second Dynasty (2890 BCE). Her name also is rendered as B'sst, Baast, Ubaste, and Baset. In ancient Greek religion, she was known as Ailuros (Koinē Greek: αἴλουρος "cat").
Bastet was worshiped in Bubastis in Lower Egypt, originally as a lioness goddess, a role shared by other deities such as Sekhmet. Eventually Bastet and Sekhmet were characterized as two aspects of the same goddess, with Sekhmet representing the powerful warrior and protector aspect and Bastet, who increasingly was depicted as a cat, representing a gentler aspect
astet was originally a fierce lioness warrior goddess of the sun worshiped throughout most of ancient Egyptian history, but later she became Bastet, the cat goddess that is familiar today. She then was depicted as the daughter of Ra and Isis, and the consort of Ptah, with whom she had a son Maahes. As protector of Lower Egypt, she was seen as defender of the king, and consequently of the sun god, Ra. Along with other deities such as Hathor, Sekhmet, and Isis, Bastet was associated with the Eye of Ra. She has been depicted as fighting the evil snake named Apep, an enemy of Ra. In addition to her solar connections, sometimes she was called "eye of the moon". Bastet was also a goddess of pregnancy and childbirth, possibly because of the fertility of the domestic cat.
Images of Bastet were often created from alabaster. The goddess was sometimes depicted holding a ceremonial sistrum in one hand and an aegis in the other—the aegis usually resembling a collar or gorget, embellished with a lioness head. Bastet was also depicted as the goddess of protection against contagious diseases and evil spirits.
Bellona - Roman
Bellona was an ancient Roman goddess of war. Her main attribute is the military helmet worn on her head; she often holds a sword, spear, or shield, and brandishes a torch or whip as she rides into battle in a four-horse chariot. She had a temple near the Theatre of Marcellus. Her iconography was extended by painters and sculptors following the Renaissance.
Bellona was originally an ancient Sabine goddess of war identified with Nerio, the consort of the war god Mars, and later with the Greek war goddess Enyo. Her temple in Rome was dedicated in 296 BCE near the Circus Flaminius by Appius Claudius Caecus, during the war with the Etruscans and Samnites. Her festival was celebrated on 3 June, and her priests were known as Bellonarii and used to wound their own arms or legs as a blood sacrifice to her. These rites took place on 24 March, called the day of blood (dies sanguinis), after the ceremony. In consequence of this practice, which approximated to the rites dedicated to Cybele in Asia Minor, both Enyo and Bellona became identified with her Cappadocian aspect, Ma.
he Roman Campus Martius area, in which Bellona’s temple was situated, had extraterritorial status. Ambassadors from foreign states, who were not allowed to enter the city proper, stayed in this complex. Since the area of the temple was outside the pomerium, the Senate met there with ambassadors and received victorious generals prior to their triumphs. Beside the temple was the war column (columna bellica), which represented non-Roman territory. To declare war on a distant state, a javelin was thrown over the column by one of the priests concerned with diplomacy (fetiales) in a modification of the archaic practice, from Roman territory toward the direction of the enemy land and this symbolical attack was considered the opening of war.
In the military cult of Bellona, she was associated with Virtus, the personification of valour. She then travelled outside Rome with the imperial legions and her temples have been recorded in France, Germany, Britain, and North Africa.
Real-Life inspirations
Nelson Mandela - Racial Equality
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as the president of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.
A Xhosa speaker, Mandela was born to the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, Union of South Africa. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. There he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the ANC in 1943 and co-founding its Youth League in 1944. After the National Party's white-only government established apartheid, a system of racial segregation that privileged whites, he and the ANC committed themselves to its overthrow. Mandela was appointed president of the ANC's Transvaal branch, rising to prominence for his involvement in the 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People. He was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the 1956 Treason Trial. Influenced by Marxism, he secretly joined the banned South African Communist Party (SACP). Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the SACP he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1961 and led a sabotage campaign against the government. He was arrested and imprisoned in 1962, and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring to overthrow the state following the Rivonia Trial.
Mandela served 27 years in prison, split between Robben Island, Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. Amid growing domestic and international pressure, and with fears of a racial civil war, President F. W. de Klerk released him in 1990. Mandela and de Klerk led efforts to negotiate an end to apartheid, which resulted in the 1994 multiracial general election in which Mandela led the ANC to victory and became president. Leading a broad coalition government which promulgated a new constitution, Mandela emphasised reconciliation between the country's racial groups and created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses. Economically, Mandela's administration retained its predecessor's liberal framework despite his own socialist beliefs, also introducing measures to encourage land reform, combat poverty and expand healthcare services. Internationally, he acted as mediator in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial and served as secretary-general of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999. He declined a second presidential term and was succeeded by his deputy, Thabo Mbeki. Mandela became an elder statesman and focused on combating poverty and HIV/AIDS through the charitable Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Mandela was a controversial figure for much of his life. Although critics on the right denounced him as a communist terrorist and those on the far left deemed him too eager to negotiate and reconcile with apartheid's supporters, he gained international acclaim for his activism. Widely regarded as an icon of democracy and social justice, he received more than 250 honours, including the Nobel Peace Prize. He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Thembu clan name, Madiba, and described as the "Father of the Nation".
Mao Zedong - Unifier and Homeland Builder
Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary, poet, political theorist and founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. His theories and military strategies and political policies are collectively known as Maoism or Marxism–Leninism–Maoism.
Mao Zedong was the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan. Mao adopted a Chinese nationalist and anti-imperialist outlook early in his life, and was particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and May Fourth Movement of 1919. Mao adopted Marxism–Leninism while working at Peking University and became a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927. During the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the CPC, Mao helped to found the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, led the Jiangxi Soviet's radical land policies and ultimately became head of the CPC during the Long March. Although the CPC temporarily allied with the KMT under the United Front during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), after Japan's surrender China's civil war resumed and in 1949 Mao's forces defeated the Nationalists who withdrew to Taiwan.
On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the foundation of the People's Republic of China (PRC), a single-party state controlled by the CPC. In the following years Mao solidified his control through land reforms and through a psychological victory in the Korean War, and through campaigns against landlords, people he termed "counter-revolutionaries", and other perceived enemies of the state. In 1957 he launched a campaign known as the Great Leap Forward that aimed to rapidly transform China's economy from an agrarian economy to an industrial one. This campaign led to the deadliest famine in history and the deaths of more than 45 million people. In 1966, he initiated the Cultural Revolution, a program to remove "counter-revolutionary" elements of Chinese society that lasted 10 years and which was marked by violent class struggle, widespread destruction of cultural artifacts and unprecedented elevation of Mao's personality cult and which is officially regarded as a "severe setback" for the PRC.
In 1972, Mao welcomed American President Richard Nixon in Beijing, signalling a policy of opening China, which was furthered under the rule of Deng Xiaoping (1978–1989). Mao suffered a series of heart attacks in 1976 and died at the age of 82 on September 9. Mao was succeeded as paramount leader by Chairman Hua Guofeng (1976–1978), who was quickly sidelined and replaced by Deng.
A controversial figure, Mao Zedong is regarded as one of the most important individuals in modern world history and is also known as a theorist, military strategist, poet and visionary. Supporters credit him with driving imperialism out of China, modernising China and building it into a world power, promoting the status of women, improving education and health care, as well as increasing life expectancy as China's population grew from around 550 million to over 900 million under his leadership. Conversely, his autocratic totalitarian regime has been vastly condemned for overseeing mass repressions and destruction of religious and cultural artifacts and sites, which through arbitrary executions, purges and forced labor caused an estimated 40 to 70 million deaths, which would rank his tenure as the top incidence of excess mortality in human history.
Napoleon Bonaparte - Revolutionary Expansionist
Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader. He rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, building a large empire that ruled over continental Europe before its final collapse in 1815. One of the greatest commanders in history, his wars and campaigns are studied at military schools worldwide. He also remains one of the most celebrated and controversial political figures in history.
Napoleon had an extensive and powerful impact on the modern world, bringing liberal reforms to the numerous territories that he conquered and controlled, especially the Low Countries, Switzerland, and large parts of modern Italy and Germany. He implemented fundamental liberal policies in France and throughout Western Europe. His lasting legal achievement, the Napoleonic Code, has been highly influential. Roberts says, "The ideas that underpin our modern world—meritocracy, equality before the law, property rights, religious toleration, modern secular education, sound finances, and so on—were championed, consolidated, codified and geographically extended by Napoleon. To them he added a rational and efficient local administration, an end to rural banditry, the encouragement of science and the arts, the abolition of feudalism and the greatest codification of laws since the fall of the Roman Empire."
Napoleon was born in Corsica to a relatively modest family from minor Italian nobility. He supported the French Revolution in 1789 while serving in the French army, and tried to spread its ideals to his native Corsica. He rose rapidly in the Army after he saved the governing French Directory by firing on royalist insurgents. In April 1796, he began his first military campaign against the Austrians and their Italian allies, scoring a series of decisive victories and becoming a national hero. Two years later, he led a military expedition to Egypt that served as a springboard to political power.
He engineered a coup in November 1799 and became First Consul of the Republic. Intractable differences with the British meant that the French were facing the War of the Third Coalition by 1805. Napoleon shattered this coalition with decisive victories in the Ulm Campaign, and a historic triumph at the Battle of Austerlitz, which led to the elimination of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1806, the Fourth Coalition took up arms against him because Prussia became worried about growing French influence on the continent. Napoleon quickly knocked out Prussia at the battles of Jena and Auerstedt, then marched the Grand Army deep into Eastern Europe, annihilating the Russians in June 1807 at Friedland, and forcing the defeated nations of the Fourth Coalition to accept the Treaties of Tilsit. Two years later, the Austrians challenged the French again during the War of the Fifth Coalition, but Napoleon solidified his grip over Europe after triumphing at the Battle of Wagram.
Hoping to extend the Continental System (embargo of Britain), Napoleon invaded Iberia and declared his brother Joseph the King of Spain in 1808. The Spanish and the Portuguese revolted with British support. The Peninsular War lasted six years, featured brutal guerrilla warfare, and culminated in a defeat for Napoleon. Napoleon launched an invasion of Russia in the summer of 1812. The resulting campaign witnessed the catastrophic retreat of Napoleon's Grand Army, and encouraged his enemies. In 1813, Prussia and Austria joined Russian forces in a Sixth Coalition against France. A chaotic military campaign culminated in a large coalition army defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813. The coalition invaded France and captured Paris, forcing Napoleon to abdicate in April 1814.
Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba, between Corsica and Italy. In France, the Bourbons were restored to power. However, Napoleon escaped from Elba in February 1815 and took control of France. The Allies responded by forming a Seventh Coalition, which ultimately defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. The British exiled him to the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic. His death in 1821 at the age of 51 was received with shock and grief throughout Europe.
Genghis Khan - Tyrannical Emperor
enghis Khan (born Temüjin, c. 1158 – August 18, 1227), was the founder and first Great Khan (Emperor) of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia. After founding the Empire and being proclaimed Genghis Khan (an honorary title ascending possibly from the Turkic "tengiz" — sea, meaning "the oceanic, universal ruler"), he launched the Mongol invasions that conquered most of Eurasia, reaching as far west as Poland in Europe and the Levant in the Middle East. Campaigns initiated in his lifetime include those against the Qara Khitai, Khwarezmia, and the Western Xia and Jin dynasties, and raids into Medieval Georgia, the Kievan Rus', and Volga Bulgaria. These campaigns were often accompanied by large-scale massacres of the civilian populations, especially in the Khwarazmian and Western Xia-controlled lands. Because of this brutality, which left millions dead, he is considered by many to have been a brutal ruler. By the end of his life, the Mongol Empire occupied a substantial portion of Central Asia and China. Due to his exceptional military successes, Genghis Khan is often considered to be the greatest conqueror of all time.
Before Genghis Khan died, he assigned Ögedei Khan as his successor. Later his grandsons split his empire into khanates. Genghis Khan died in 1227 after defeating the Western Xia. By his request, his body was buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Mongolia. His descendants extended the Mongol Empire across most of Eurasia by conquering or creating vassal states in all of modern-day China, Korea, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and substantial portions of Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia. Many of these invasions repeated the earlier large-scale slaughters of local populations. As a result, Genghis Khan and his empire have a fearsome reputation in local histories.
Beyond his military accomplishments, Genghis Khan also advanced the Mongol Empire in other ways. He decreed the adoption of the Uyghur script as the Mongol Empire's writing system. He also practised meritocracy and encouraged religious tolerance in the Mongol Empire, unifying the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia. Present-day Mongolians regard him as the founding father of Mongolia. He is also credited with bringing the Silk Road under one cohesive political environment. This brought relatively easy communication and trade between Northeast Asia, Muslim Southwest Asia, and Christian Europe, expanding the cultural horizons of all three areas.
Vladimir Lenin - Political Revolutionist
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (April 22, 1870 - January 21, 1924) was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as the leader of the Russian SFSR from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until his death. Politically a Marxist, his theoretical contributions to Marxist thought are known as Leninism, which coupled with Marxian economic theory have collectively come to be known as Marxism–Leninism.
Born to a wealthy middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's execution in 1887. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior figure in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent party theorist through his publications. In 1903, he took a key role in a RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Encouraging insurrection during Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he later campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which as a Marxist he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime.
Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty with the Central Powers and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-orientated New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations secured independence after 1917, but three re-united with Russia through the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922. In increasingly poor health, Lenin expressed opposition to the growing power of his successor, Joseph Stalin, before dying at his dacha in Gorki.
Widely considered one of the most significant and influential figures of the 20th century, Lenin was the posthumous subject of a pervasive personality cult within the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. He became an ideological figurehead behind Marxism-Leninism and thus a prominent influence over the international communist movement. A controversial and highly divisive individual, Lenin is viewed by supporters as a champion of socialism and the working class, while critics on both the left and right emphasize his role as founder and leader of an authoritarian regime responsible for political repression and mass killings.
Gaius Julius Caesar - Triumphant Idealist
Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.
In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus and Pompey formed the First Triumvirate, a political alliance that dominated Roman politics for several years. Their attempts to amass power as Populares were opposed by the Optimates within the Roman Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of Cicero. Caesar rose to become one of the most powerful politicians in the Roman Republic through a string of military victories in the Gallic Wars, completed by 51 BC, which greatly extended Roman territory. During this time he both invaded Britain and built a bridge across the Rhine river. These achievements and the support of his veteran army threatened to eclipse the standing of Pompey, who had realigned himself with the Senate after the death of Crassus in 53 BC. With the Gallic Wars concluded, the Senate ordered Caesar to step down from his military command and return to Rome. Leaving his command in Gaul would mean losing his immunity to criminal prosecution by his enemies; knowing this, Caesar openly defied the Senate's authority by crossing the Rubicon and marching towards Rome at the head of an army. This began Caesar's civil war, which he won, leaving him in a position of near unchallenged power and influence.
After assuming control of government, Caesar began a program of social and governmental reforms, including the creation of the Julian calendar. He gave citizenship to many residents of far regions of the Roman Republic. He initiated land reform and support for veterans. He centralized the bureaucracy of the Republic and was eventually proclaimed "dictator for life" (Latin: dictator perpetuo). His populist and authoritarian reforms angered the elites, who began to conspire against him. On the Ides of March (15 March), 44 BC, Caesar was assassinated by a group of rebellious senators led by Brutus and Cassius, who stabbed him to death. A new series of civil wars broke out and the constitutional government of the Republic was never fully restored. Caesar's great-nephew and adopted heir Octavian, later known as Augustus, rose to sole power after defeating his opponents in a civil war. Octavian set about solidifying his power, and the era of the Roman Empire began.
Caesar was an accomplished author and historian as well as a statesman; much of his life is known from his own accounts of his military campaigns. Other contemporary sources include the letters and speeches of Cicero and the historical writings of Sallust. Later biographies of Caesar by Suetonius and Plutarch are also important sources. Caesar is considered by many historians to be one of the greatest military commanders in history. His cognomen was subsequently adopted as a synonym for "Emperor"; the title "Caesar" was used throughout the Roman Empire, giving rise to modern cognates such as Kaiser and Tsar. He has frequently appeared in literary and artistic works, and his political philosophy, known as Caesarism, inspired politicians into the modern era.
Timur - Brilliant Military Tactician
Timur (9 April 1336 – 17–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī sometimes spelled Taimur and historically best known as Amir Timur or Tamerlane, was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty. As an undefeated commander, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history Timur is also considered a great patron of art and architecture, as he interacted with intellectuals such as Ibn Khaldun and Hafiz-i Abru and his reign introduced the Timurid Renaissance.
Born into the Barlas confederation in Transoxiana (in modern-day Uzbekistan) on 9 April 1336, Timur gained control of the western Chagatai Khanate by 1370. From that base, he led military campaigns across Western, South and Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Southern Russia, and emerged as the most powerful ruler in the Muslim world after defeating the Mamluks of Egypt and Syria, the emerging Ottoman Empire, and the declining Delhi Sultanate of India. From these conquests, he founded the Timurid Empire, but this empire fragmented shortly after his death.
Timur was the last of the great nomadic conquerors of the Eurasian Steppe, and his empire set the stage for the rise of the more structured and lasting Islamic gunpowder empires in the 16th and 17th centuries. Though not a Borjigid or a descendant of Genghis Khan, Timur clearly sought to invoke the legacy of the latter's conquests during his lifetime. Timur envisioned the restoration of the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan (died 1227) and according to Gérard Chaliand, saw himself as Genghis Khan's heir.
According to Beatrice Forbes Manz, "in his formal correspondence Temur continued throughout his life to portray himself as the restorer of Chinggisid rights. He justified his Iranian, Mamluk, and Ottoman campaigns as a re-imposition of legitimate Mongol control over lands taken by usurpers." To legitimize his conquests, Timur relied on Islamic symbols and language, referred to himself as the "Sword of Islam". He was a patron of educational and religious institutions. He converted nearly all the Borjigin leaders to Islam during his lifetime. Timur decisively defeated the Christian Knights Hospitaller at the Siege of Smyrna, styling himself a ghazi. By the end of his reign, Timur had gained complete control over all the remnants of the Chagatai Khanate, the Ilkhanate, and the Golden Horde, and even attempted to restore the Yuan dynasty in China.
Timur's armies were inclusively multi-ethnic and were feared throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe, sizable parts of which his campaigns laid to waste. Scholars estimate that his military campaigns caused the deaths of 17 million people, amounting to about 5% of the world population at the time. Of all the areas he conquered, Khwarazm suffered the most from his expeditions, as it rose several times against him.
Timur was the grandfather of the Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician Ulugh Beg, who ruled Central Asia from 1411 to 1449, and the great-great-great-grandfather of Babur (1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire, which then ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent.
Hari Singh Nalwa - Inspirational and Charismatic Commander
Hari Singh Nalwa (1791–1837) was Commander-in-chief of the Sikh Khalsa Fauj, the army of the Sikh Empire. He is known for his role in the conquests of Kasur, Sialkot, Attock, Multan, Kashmir, Peshawar and Jamrud. Hari Singh Nalwa was responsible for expanding the frontier of Sikh Empire to beyond the Indus River right up to the mouth of the Khyber Pass. At the time of his death, the western boundary of the empire was Jamrud. He served as governor of Kashmir, Peshawar and Hazara. He established a mint on behalf of the Sikh Empire to facilitate revenue collection in Kashmir and Peshawar.
His military campaigns throughout the Middle East brought order to turbulent areas and suppressed various uprisings. Despite having much smaller numbers, he defeated armies across India and restored the territories to the Sikhs. Most famously, he became the only man in history to take the Khyber Pass – the mountain path that connects Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is a truly remarkable feat that illustrates his strategic brilliance in battle.
In 1804 Hari Singh Nalwa was attacked by a tiger while on a hunt. Refusing the help of any of his fellow hunters, the great leader tackled the beast with his bare hands and broke its jaw, killing it instantly and earning him the moniker Baagh Maar (Tiger-killer). There is not a military leader in the world that has not heard about and studied the exploits of Hari Singh Nalwa. He remains a revered military figure who defeated his adversaries time and time again without the help of a giant empire behind him.
Nalwa was known for popularizing certain martial arts which helped to train his men to be perfect warriors, with the discipline and strength to do anything they set their minds to. These skills have been passed through the generations and are still practiced today. Nalwa was also a builder. At least 56 buildings were attributed to him, which included forts, ramparts, towers, gurdwaras, tanks, samadhis, temples, mosques, towns, havelis, sarais and gardens. He built the fortified town of Haripur in 1822. This was the first planned town in the region, with a superb water distribution system. His very strong fort of Harkishengarh, situated in the valley at the foothill of mountains, had four gates. It was surrounded by a wall, four yards thick and 16 yards high. Nalwa's presence brought such a feeling of security to the region that when Hügel visited Haripur in 1835-6, he found the town humming with activity. A large number of Khatris migrated there and established a flourishing trade. Haripur, tehsil and district, in Hazara, North-West Frontier Province, are named after him.
Cyrus the Great - Worshipped Hero
Cyrus II of Persia (c. 600 – 530 BC) commonly known as Cyrus the Great, and also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire.
Under his rule, the empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Western Asia and much of Central Asia. From the Mediterranean Sea and Hellespont in the west to the Indus River in the east, Cyrus the Great created the largest empire the world had yet seen. Under his successors, the empire eventually stretched at its maximum extent from parts of the Balkans (Bulgaria-Paeonia and Thrace-Macedonia) and Eastern Europe proper in the west, to the Indus Valley in the east.
The reign of Cyrus the Great lasted about thirty years. Cyrus built his empire by first conquering the Median Empire, then the Lydian Empire, and eventually the Neo-Babylonian Empire. He led an expedition into Central Asia, which resulted in major campaigns that were described as having brought "into subjection every nation without exception." Cyrus did not venture into Egypt, and was alleged to have died in battle, fighting the Massagetae along the Syr Darya in December 530 BC. but Xenophon said Cyrus did not die in battle and he returned to the capital again.
He was succeeded by his son, Cambyses II, who managed to conquer Egypt, Nubia, and Cyrenaica during his short rule.
Cyrus the Great respected the customs and religions of the lands he conquered. This became a very successful model for centralized administration and establishing a government working to the advantage and profit of its subjects. In fact, the administration of the empire through satraps and the vital principle of forming a government at Pasargadae were the works of Cyrus. What is sometimes referred to as the Edict of Restoration (actually two edicts) described in the Bible as being made by Cyrus the Great left a lasting legacy on the Jewish religion. According to Isaiah 45:1 of the Hebrew Bible God anointed Cyrus for this task, even referring to him as a messiah (lit. 'anointed one') and he is the only non-Jewish figure in the Bible to be called so.
Cyrus the Great is also well recognized for his achievements in human rights, politics, and military strategy, as well as his influence on both Eastern and Western civilizations. Having originated from Persis, roughly corresponding to the modern Iranian province of Fars, Cyrus has played a crucial role in defining the national identity of modern Iran. The Achaemenid influence in the ancient world eventually would extend as far as Athens, where upper-class Athenians adopted aspects of the culture of the ruling class of Achaemenid Persia as their own.
Cyrus is a cult figure amongst modern Iranians, with his tomb serving as a spot of reverence for millions of people. In the 1970s, the last Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi identified his famous proclamation inscribed onto the Cyrus Cylinder as the oldest known declaration of human rights, and the Cylinder has since been popularized as such. This view has been criticized by some historians as a misunderstanding of the Cylinder's generic nature as a traditional statement that new monarchs make at the beginning of their reign.
Francisco Pizarro - Conqueror of Unknown Lands
Francisco Pizarro González (c. 1471–1476 – 26 June 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of Peru.
Born in Trujillo, Spain to a poor family, Pizarro chose to pursue fortune and adventure in the New World. He went to the Gulf of Urabá, and accompanied Vasco Núñez de Balboa in his crossing of the Isthmus of Panama, where they became the first Europeans to reach the Pacific Ocean. He served as mayor of the newly founded Panama City for a few years, and undertook two failed expeditions to Peru. In 1529, Pizarro obtained permission from the Spanish crown to lead a campaign to conquer Peru and went on his third, and successful, expedition.
When local people who lived along the coast resisted this invasion, Pizarro moved inland and founded the first Spanish settlement in Peru, San Miguel de Piura. After a series of maneuvres, Pizarro captured the Incan emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca in November 1532. A ransom for the emperor's release was demanded and Atahualpa filled a room with gold, but Pizarro charged him with various crimes and executed him in July 1533. The same year, Pizarro entered the Inca capital of Cuzco and completed his conquest of Peru. In January 1535, Pizarro founded the city of Lima.
Attila the Hun - Merciless Monarch
Attila (/ˈætɪlə, əˈtɪlə/; fl. c. 406–453), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in March 453. He was also the leader of a tribal empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans and Bulgars, among others, in Central and Eastern Europe.
During his reign, he was one of the most feared enemies of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires. He crossed the Danube twice and plundered the Balkans, but was unable to take Constantinople. His unsuccessful campaign in Persia was followed in 441 by an invasion of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, the success of which emboldened Attila to invade the West. He also attempted to conquer Roman Gaul (modern France), crossing the Rhine in 451 and marching as far as Aurelianum (Orléans) before being stopped in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains. Attila was well known for his cruelty and took no mercy on his enemies, making him an often-vilified military leader, but an exceptional one nonetheless.
He subsequently invaded Italy, devastating the northern provinces, but was unable to take Rome. He planned for further campaigns against the Romans, but died in 453. After Attila's death, his close adviser, Ardaric of the Gepids, led a Germanic revolt against Hunnic rule, after which the Hunnic Empire quickly collapsed. He would live on as a character in Germanic heroic legend.
Dom Pedro II - Honorable Patriot
Dom Pedro II (English: Peter II; 2 December 1825 – 5 December 1891), nicknamed "the Magnanimous", was the second and last monarch of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Dona Maria Leopoldina and thus a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza. His father's abrupt abdication and departure to Europe in 1831 left the five year-old as emperor and led to a grim and lonely childhood and adolescence, obliged to spend his time studying in preparation for rule. His experiences with court intrigues and political disputes during this period greatly affected his later character; he grew into a man with a strong sense of duty and devotion toward his country and his people, yet increasingly resentful of his role as monarch.
Pedro II inherited an empire on the verge of disintegration, but he turned Brazil into an emerging power in the international arena. The nation grew to be distinguished from its Hispanic neighbors on account of its political stability, zealously guarded freedom of speech, respect for civil rights, vibrant economic growth, and form of government—a functional representative parliamentary monarchy. Brazil was also victorious in the Platine War, the Uruguayan War, and the Paraguayan War, as well as prevailing in several other international disputes and domestic tensions. Pedro II steadfastly pushed through the abolition of slavery despite opposition from powerful political and economic interests. A savant in his own right, the Emperor established a reputation as a vigorous sponsor of learning, culture, and the sciences, and he won the respect and admiration of people such as Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, and Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, among others.
There was no desire for a change in the form of government among most Brazilians, but the Emperor was overthrown in a sudden coup d'état that had almost no support outside a clique of military leaders who desired a form of republic headed by a dictator. Pedro II had become weary of emperorship and despaired over the monarchy's future prospects, despite its overwhelming popular support. He did not allow his ouster to be opposed and did not support any attempt to restore the monarchy. He spent the last two years of his life in exile in Europe, living alone on very little money.
The reign of Pedro II thus came to an unusual end—he was overthrown while highly regarded by the people and at the pinnacle of his popularity, and some of his accomplishments were soon brought to naught as Brazil slipped into a long period of weak governments, dictatorships, and constitutional and economic crises. The men who had exiled him soon began to see in him a model for the Brazilian republic. A few decades after his death, his reputation was restored and his remains were returned to Brazil with celebrations nationwide. Historians have regarded the Emperor in an extremely positive light and several have ranked him as the greatest Brazilian.
Alexander the Great - Legendary Imperialist
Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Greek: ὁ Μέγας, ho Mégas), was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty. He was born in Pella in 356 BC and succeeded his father Philip II to the throne at the age of 20. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Western Asia and Northeastern Africa, and by the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered one of history's most successful military commanders.
During his youth, Alexander was tutored by Aristotle until age 16. After Philip's assassination in 336 BC, he succeeded his father to the throne and inherited a strong kingdom and an experienced army. Alexander was awarded the generalship of Greece and used this authority to launch his father's pan-Hellenic project to lead the Greeks in the conquest of Persia. In 334 BC, he invaded the Achaemenid Empire (Persian Empire) and began a series of campaigns that lasted 10 years. Following the conquest of Anatolia, Alexander broke the power of Persia in a series of decisive battles, including those of Issus and Gaugamela. He subsequently overthrew Persian King Darius III and conquered the Achaemenid Empire in its entirety. At that point, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Beas River.
Alexander endeavoured to reach the "ends of the world and the Great Outer Sea" and invaded India in 326 BC, winning an important victory over the Pauravas at the Battle of the Hydaspes. He eventually turned back at the demand of his homesick troops, dying in Babylon in 323 BC, the city that he planned to establish as his capital, without executing a series of planned campaigns that would have begun with an invasion of Arabia. In the years following his death, a series of civil wars tore his empire apart, resulting in the establishment of several states ruled by the Diadochi, Alexander's surviving generals and heirs.
Alexander's legacy includes the cultural diffusion and syncretism which his conquests engendered, such as Greco-Buddhism. He founded some twenty cities that bore his name, most notably Alexandria in Egypt. Alexander's settlement of Greek colonists and the resulting spread of Greek culture in the east resulted in a new Hellenistic civilization, aspects of which were still evident in the traditions of the Byzantine Empire in the mid-15th century AD and the presence of Greek speakers in central and far eastern Anatolia until the Greek genocide and the population exchange in the 1920s. Alexander became legendary as a classical hero in the mould of Achilles, and he features prominently in the history and mythic traditions of both Greek and non-Greek cultures. He was undefeated in battle and became the measure against which military leaders compared themselves.[c] Military academies throughout the world still teach his tactics. He is often ranked among the most influential people in history.
Queen Victoria - Modernization
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Known as the Victorian era, her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any of her predecessors. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, Parliament voted her the additional title of Empress of India.
Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After both the Duke and his father died in 1820, she was raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 after her father's three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue. Though a constitutional monarch, privately, Victoria attempted to influence government policy and ministerial appointments; publicly, she became a national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality.
Victoria married her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840. Their children married into royal and noble families across the continent, earning Victoria the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe" and spreading haemophilia in European royalty. After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion, republicanism in the United Kingdom temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her reign, her popularity recovered. Her Golden and Diamond Jubilees were times of public celebration. She died on the Isle of Wight in 1901. The last British monarch of the House of Hanover, she was succeeded by her son Edward VII of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Queen Dowager Cixi - Political Purity
Empress Dowager Cixi (29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908) was a Chinese empress dowager and regent who was the de facto supreme ruler of China in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years, from 1861 until her death in 1908. Of the Manchu Yehe Nara clan, she was elected as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor in her adolescence and gave birth to a son, Zaichun, in 1856. After the Xianfeng Emperor's death in 1861, the young boy became the Tongzhi Emperor, and she became the Empress Dowager. Cixi ousted a group of regents appointed by the late emperor and assumed regency, which she shared with Empress Dowager Ci'an. Cixi then consolidated control over the dynasty when she installed her nephew as the Guangxu Emperor at the death of the Tongzhi Emperor in 1875, contrary to the traditional rules of succession of the Qing dynasty that had ruled China since 1644.
Cixi supervised the Tongzhi Restoration, a series of moderate reforms that helped the regime survive until 1911. Although Cixi refused to adopt Western models of government, she supported technological and military reforms and the Self-Strengthening Movement as a means of limited Westernization to preserve her own power and the dynasty. In regards to the Hundred Days' Reforms of 1898, she feared that sudden implementation would disrupt Manchu rule, and that the Japanese and other foreign powers would take advantage of the ensuing weakness. She not only engineered a putsch that enabled her to take over as regent, but also placed the Guangxu Emperor under virtual house arrest for supporting said reformers, and is reputed to have poisoned him. Additionally, she publicly executed the main reformers, an act which extinguished the momentum for China's modernization while fueling public disfavor that would ultimately end her dynasty's rule. After the Boxer Rebellion led to invasion by Allied armies, Cixi backed the Boxer groups and declared war on the invaders to preserve her own power and the dynasty. The ensuing defeat was a stunning humiliation. When Cixi returned to Beijing from Xi'an, where she had taken the emperor, she became friendly to foreigners in the capital and began to implement fiscal and institutional reforms aimed to turn China into a constitutional monarchy while simultaneously continuing the practice of corruption in ways such as selling titles and embezzling funds originally earmarked for building a new imperial navy, channeling it into vanity projects such as the Marble Boat, an architectural folly that is ironically "moored" on Lake Kunming. The death of both Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor in November 1908 left the court in hands of Manchu conservatives, a child, Puyi, on the throne, and a deeply dissatisfied, divided society.
Historians both in China and abroad have debated her contentious legacy. The general consensus is that she was a ruthless despot whose reactionary, self-interested policies were an attempt to prolong her own power and that of the ailing Qing dynasty, but instead ultimately led to its humiliation and utter downfall in the Wuchang Uprising. However, some revisionists claim that Nationalist and Communist revolutionaries scapegoated her for trying her utmost regarding problems beyond salvage, lauding her maintenance of political order as well as some effective, if belated reforms such as the replacement of the ancient examination system by institutions such as the newly built Peking University.
Catherine the Great - Reformist of the Nation
Catherine II (born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 1729 – 17 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was Empress of All Russia from 1762 until 1796 – the country's longest-ruling female leader. She came to power following a coup d'état that overthrew her husband and second cousin, Peter III. Under her reign, Russia grew larger, its culture was revitalised, and it was recognized as one of the great powers of Europe.
In her accession to power and her rule of the empire, Catherine often relied on her noble favourites, most notably Count Grigory Orlov and Grigory Potemkin. Assisted by highly successful generals such as Alexander Suvorov and Pyotr Rumyantsev, and admirals such as Samuel Greig and Fyodor Ushakov, she governed at a time when the Russian Empire was expanding rapidly by conquest and diplomacy. In the south, the Crimean Khanate was crushed following victories over the Bar confederation and Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774 due to the support of the United Kingdom, and Russia colonised the territories of Novorossiya along the coasts of the Black and Azov Seas. In the west, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ruled by Catherine's former lover, King Stanisław August Poniatowski, was eventually partitioned, with the Russian Empire gaining the largest share. In the east, Russians became the first Europeans to colonise Alaska, establishing Russian America.
Catherine reformed the administration of Russian guberniyas (governorates), and many new cities and towns were founded on her orders. An admirer of Peter the Great, Catherine continued to modernize Russia along Western European lines. However, military conscription and the economy continued to depend on serfdom, and the increasing demands of the state and of private landowners intensified the exploitation of serf labour. This was one of the chief reasons behind rebellions, including the large-scale Pugachev Rebellion of Cossacks, nomads, peoples of Volga and peasants.
The period of Catherine the Great's rule, the Catherinian Era, is considered a Golden Age of Russia. The Manifesto on Freedom of the Nobility, issued during the short reign of Peter III and confirmed by Catherine, freed Russian nobles from compulsory military or state service. Construction of many mansions of the nobility, in the classical style endorsed by the empress, changed the face of the country. She enthusiastically supported the ideals of the Enlightenment and is often included in the ranks of the enlightened despots. As a patron of the arts, she presided over the age of the Russian Enlightenment, including the establishment of the Smolny Institute for Noble Maidens, the first state-financed higher education institution for women in Europe.
Wu Zhao - Social and National Advances
Wu Zhao, commonly known as Wu Zetian (17 February 624 – 16 December 705), alternatively Wu Hou, and during the later Tang dynasty as Tian Hou, was the de facto ruler of China, first through her husband the Emperor Gaozong and then through her sons the Emperors Zhongzong and Ruizong, from 665 to 690. She subsequently became empress regnant of the Zhou dynasty (周) of China, ruling from 690 to 705. She is notable for being the only female monarch in the history of China.
Wu was the concubine of Emperor Taizong. After his death, she married his successor—his ninth son, Emperor Gaozong, officially becoming Gaozong's huanghou (皇后, empress consort, title for the reigning emperor's main consort) in 655, although having considerable political power prior to this. After Gaozong's debilitating stroke in 660, Wu Zetian became administrator of the court, a position equal to the emperor's until 705.
After re-entering the Emperor Gaozong's harem, she clashed with Empress Wang and Consort Xiao to gain the emperor's affection, and eventually expelled and killed them in a series of her skillful seditious. After her wedding to Emperor Gaozong in 655, Empress Wu's rise to power was swift. A strong, politician, charismatic, cunning, vengeful, ambitious and well-educated woman who enjoyed the absolute interest of her husband, Empress Wu was the most powerful and influential woman at court during a period when the Tang Empire was at the peak of its glory. She was more decisive and proactive than her husband, and she is considered by historians to have been the real power behind the throne for more than eighteen years and she supervised the court on a daily basis. She was often present when the Emperor held court, and even held court independently when the Emperor was unwell. She was given charge of his Imperial Seal, implying that her perusal and consent were necessary before any document or order received legal validity. The Emperor Gaozong sought her views on all matters before issuing orders. Empress Wu was granted certain honors and privileges which were not enjoyed by any Chinese empresses before or after. After Gaozong's death, Empress Wu as Empress dowager and regent conquered power independently and uniquely, and seven years later, she seized the throne in the Zhou dynasty, becoming the only empress regnant in Chinese history.
The importance to history of Wu Zetian's period of political and military leadership includes the major expansion of the Chinese empire, extending it far beyond its previous territorial limits, deep into Central Asia, and engaging in a series of wars on the Korean Peninsula, first allying with Silla against Goguryeo, and then against Silla over the occupation of former Goguryeo territory. Within China, besides the more direct consequences of her struggle to gain and maintain supreme power, Wu's leadership resulted in important effects regarding social class in Chinese society and in relation to state support for Taoism, Buddhism, education, and literature. Wu Zetian also had a monumental impact upon the statuary of the Longmen Grottoes and the "Wordless Stele" at the Qianling Mausoleum, as well as the construction of some major buildings and bronze castings that no longer survive.
Elizabeth I - Strong Female Leadership
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, who was executed two-and-a-half years after Elizabeth's birth. Anne's marriage to Henry VIII was annulled, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Her half-brother, Edward VI, ruled until his death in 1553, bequeathing the crown to Lady Jane Grey and ignoring the claims of his two half-sisters, the Roman Catholic Mary and the younger Elizabeth, in spite of statute law to the contrary. Edward's will was set aside and Mary became queen, deposing Lady Jane Grey. During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.
Upon the death of her half-sister, in 1558, Elizabeth succeeded to the throne, and set out to rule by good counsel. She depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers, led by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. One of her first actions as queen was the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the supreme governor. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement was to evolve into the Church of England. It was expected that Elizabeth would marry and produce an heir; however, despite numerous courtships, she never did. She was eventually succeeded by her first cousin twice removed, James VI of Scotland, laying the foundation for the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had earlier been responsible for the imprisonment and execution of James's mother, Mary, Queen of Scots.
In government, Elizabeth was more moderate than her father and half-siblings had been. One of her mottoes was "video et taceo" ("I see and keep silent"). In religion, she was relatively tolerant and avoided systematic persecution. After the pope declared her illegitimate in 1570 and released her subjects from obedience to her, several conspiracies threatened her life, all of which were defeated with the help of her ministers' secret service. Elizabeth was cautious in foreign affairs, manoeuvring between the major powers of France and Spain. She only half-heartedly supported a number of ineffective, poorly resourced military campaigns in the Netherlands, France, and Ireland. By the mid-1580s, England could no longer avoid war with Spain. England's victory against the Spanish Armada in 1588 associated Elizabeth with one of the greatest military victories in English history.
As she grew older, Elizabeth became celebrated for her virginity. A cult of personality grew around her which was celebrated in the portraits, pageants, and literature of the day. Elizabeth's reign became known as the Elizabethan era. The period is famous for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Francis Drake. Some historians depict Elizabeth as a short-tempered, sometimes indecisive ruler, who enjoyed more than her share of luck. Towards the end of her reign, a series of economic and military problems weakened her popularity. Elizabeth is acknowledged as a charismatic performer and a dogged survivor in an era when government was ramshackle and limited, and when monarchs in neighbouring countries faced internal problems that jeopardised their thrones. After the short reigns of her half-siblings, her 44 years on the throne provided welcome stability for the kingdom and helped forge a sense of national identity.
Fictional inspirations
Alcina Dimitrescu - Absurd Height and Powers
Alcina Dimitrescu (オルチーナ・ドミトレスク oruchīna domitoresuku?) is a mutant human countess and assumedly the matriarch of the Dimitrescu family and a villain in Resident Evil Village. Resident to an Eastern European country, she inherited Castle Dimitrescu, a fortress controlled by the family since its Mediæval inception. For at least seventy years between the 1950s and 2020s she was tied to a series of violent homicides. Dimitrescu is known to live with three women whom she considers her daughters.
Dimitrescu's origins are presently a mystery, in particular the questions of her age, and whether she was born with a Progenitor disease or contracted it later. Like many others in the region, Dimitrescu was a follower of a Satanic witch-cult which practiced vampirism and human sacrifice, possibly for sustenance. She was already regularly engaging in vampirism in the 1950s, and had successfully mutated three women by 1958, one of them being Daniela.
The Dimitrescu family was closely associated with the noble Beneviento, Moreau, and Heisenberg families, and maintained an alliance with them in controlling the region. This control allowed Dimitrescu's family to rule their castle with barbarous cruelty, regularly taking in new staff to replace those who were taken to the dungeon to be killed.[2] The blood of their victims was used to create an enriched red wine called Sanguis Virginis (Latin for "Maiden's Blood").
Ayaka Kagari - Tall & Cold Girlfriend
Ayaka Kagari (火々里 綾火 Kagari Ayaka) is the female protagonist of Witch Works Craft. She is the adoptive daughter of Kazane Kagari (the chairwoman of the school who also happens to be head of "Workshop Witches") and she is known as "Princess" by many female students due to her intelligence and high grades, which makes her the most popular girl at Tougetsu Academy.
Ayaka is a very gorgeous teenager with long black hair, green eyes and she paints a very serene figure, her expression rarely changes except for the occasional glare when she's angered. Her most obvious traits is her large bust and great height as she towers over nearly everyone in the series. Ayaka is usually seen wearing her school uniform on most occasions; a white blouse with a blue tie and a green vest and skirt which covers her upper thigh.
Ayaka is the Princess of Tougetsu Academy, a title given to who is considered the best student in the school. The Princess is an extremely powerful Witch and her power is only second to her mother and chairwoman of the school Kazane Kagari. As the princess, she has her own fan club and personal defense team comprised of her fans. She has no concerns for her fans and is willing to burn them alive if they bothered Honoka. She is extremely stoic, her expression almost never changing and she's never been shown smiling. Typically, she doesn't even react to people or talk, ignoring even her fan club who is around her daily. In middle school, she was downright inept at social interaction.
Overhaul - Germaphobia
Kai Chisaki (in Japanese: 治崎 廻 Chisaki Kai), also known by his villain name "Overhaul", is a major antagonist in the manga/anime series My Hero Academia; serving as the main antagonist of the Shie Hassaikai Arc.
He is the leader of the Shie Hassaikai, a Yakuza organization comprised of villainous Quirk-users. Following the defeat of All For One, Chisaki believes he is destined to become the next ruler of the criminal underworld and plans to destroy the current Quirk society and return the Yakuza to its former glory.
Chisaki appears to have mysophobia, as he is under the delusion that everybody around him is sick and hates being touched. This is shown when he kills Magne and severs Mr. Compress' arm simply for trying to touch him. He is also shown to be constantly scrubbing his arm, in fear of any contamination caught onto him.
He is shown to be cruel and sociopathic. After killing Magne, he was only concerned about getting her blood on him. He uses his Quirk to disassemble and reassemble his daughter Eri, so that he could make Quirk suppression bullets. He will do anything to make things go his way, like showering Eri with gifts so that she'll comply with his orders, and exploiting suicidal people to be expendable pawns. It is even implied that he got his father sick, so that he could lead the Yakuza.
Kiss-Shot - Cynic Beauty
Shinobu Oshino is a mysterious vampire girl who acts as Meme Oshino's companion in the ruins of Eikou Cram School. Later in the series, she resides in Koyomi Araragi's shadow during the day.
She was formerly a human child princess named Rola (likely meant to be Laura in English) who was cursed into causing anyone in proximity to her to commit suicide. She then took the name of Acerola before meeting a purebred vampire that turned her into a powerful vampire named Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade. She now takes the form of an eight-year-old girl with another new name after losing most of her powers.
After losing most of her vampire powers, Shinobu falls into a long period of stupor. She is frequently seen in Oshino's place with her hands tucking her knees in, her face always in an emotionless state. She often spends most of the day in one spot, doing mostly nothing with a bitter expression. Shinobu also does not talk to anyone, but she is familiar with Koyomi Araragi and Meme Oshino, and would follow requests from either of them.
Later she reverts back to her brighter personality after "reconciling" with Koyomi. She is rather talkative, and often asserts her superiority through her archaic speech. She mostly plays with Koyomi's tendency to act as the follower between the two. Sometime after Koyomi Vamp, she appears to find a liking to Mister Donuts and they become her obsession. She refers to herself using "washi" (ワシ), which is often used in fictional settings to represent characters of old age.
Kasane Kujiragi - Emotionless Manipulator
Kasane Kujiragi (鯨木かさね, Kujiragi Kasane) is a wielder of Saika. Although mentioned in passing in previous volumes, she first appears in person in volume 10 as Jinnai Yodogiri's secretary and apparent niece and is later revealed to be the ringleader behind the organization that collectively operates under Yodogiri's name, thus making her the main antagonist of Durarara!!x2.
Kujiragi is shown to be a very quiet and composed individual who rarely shows emotion. Despite her manipulation skills, she is a terrible liar when doing so face to face. As a wielder of Saika, she is also very skilled in swordplay and is capable of enslaving anyone she cuts like Anri and Haruna. She also uses a different method of enslaving others which she refers to as "Branching." This method involves smelting knives and other bladed instruments with fragments of Saika's blade mixed in.
Kujiragi is a young woman with long brown hair pulled up into a ponytail secured with a red bow. She wears glasses and a yellow skirt suit over a blouse and stockings along with Mary Jane pumps. She carries a large shoulder bag, and her brown eyes become red when wielding Saika.
Kurara Tendo - Cold-Hearted Mastermind
Kurara Tendō (in Japanese, 天堂久良羅, Tendō Kurara), also known as Clara Tendo (in the English version) and Sparrow Woman is the main antagonist of the 2018 original anime series Release the Spyce.
Kurara is a high-ranking member of Moryo and stands out as the one who carries out the interest of the organization as a whole in Far East branch. She plans to use the organization's influence to lead humanity to a new order where she and the others will control a brainwashed humankind to create a new era. Controlling criminal organizations from the underworld, Kurara staged many terrorist attacks and criminal activities, including murders, drug trafficking and prostitution.
She was voiced by Shizuka Ito in the Japanese version, whom also voiced Benitsubasa and Ellen Mira Mathers, and Joanne Bonasso in the English version.
Makima - Mental Dominator
Makima is a major antagonist in the Chainsaw Man series, being the main antagonist of the Public Security arc. Initially acting as a helpful ally towards the protagonist, Denji, by taking him under her wing and making him as a pet, she is also the leader of the Public Safety Devil Hunter organization who tried her best to make Denji's life happy to the point he tried to find another purpose in life and becoming a happier person compared to what he is in the past due to the suffering that he had endured during his childhood days.
In spite of this however, Makima has done some morally ambiguous things over the course of the story for the sake of the greater good such as having no hesitation to hurt Denji if he disobeyed, using blackmails to get what she wants and so on while also possessing several inhuman traits such as resurrecting herself from her assailant even if she was murdered or managing to overpower a primal devil by just wounding him. As the story progressed, she turns out to be something worse.
Around Chapter 75, it was revealed that Makima herself is a powerful and omniscient devil as old as human history itself known as The Control Devil who was feared by the human beings for several centuries as several other nations, including the United States, attempts to escape from her grasp to prevent her bringing the worst kind of peace towards the world. In addition, it was revealed that her personality of being a kind figure that Denji respected is not what it seems.
Elsa (Re:Zero) - Bloodthirsty Elegancy
Elsa Granhiert was an assassin working together with Meili Portroute for a mysterious organization until her death at the hands of Garfiel Tinsel. She was the main antagonist of the first arc of Re:Zero and one of the primary antagonists of the fourth arc. She died after Garfiel crushed her under the corpse of Wagpig and left her to burn to cinders.
Elsa was a battle maniac, not even hesitating to injure herself if she could fight strong opponents, which was helped by her abnormal healing rate. This was also shown through her persistence. Due to her blessing, she claimed to be a vampire, though she didn't drink blood, nor did she receive any ill effects when under the sun. Her favorite things were seeing colorful bowels and touching warm looking internal organs. Within combat, she enjoyed cleaving through the abdominal region with the intent of tearing the target's bowels out.
Elsa also enjoyed knitting cotton dolls, especially after a good kill, and mentioned to have over 10 years of experience. Although it wasn't mentioned, she presumably destroyed them later.
Kuvira - Revolutionary
General Kuvira is a major character in The Legend of Korra, appearing as a minor character in Book Three: Change and as the main antagonist of Book Four: Balance. She originally served as a captain of the Metal Clan guard in Zaofu. After the Earth Queen Hou-Ting was assassinated at the hands of Zaheer the Earth Kingdom and Suying Beifong refused to become the nation's new leader, Kuvira left behind Suyin's back and spent three years stabilizing the Earth Kingdom through military means.
After succeeding in her goal of stabilizing the Earth Kingdom Kuvira refused to step down and declared herself the Supreme Empress of the Earth Empire, turning the nation into a totalitarian dictatorship. Kuvira's actions continously escalated causing other world leaders to fear she would declare war on other nations. Kuvira ultimately surrendered after Avatar Korra saved her life and made her realize that she had gone too far in her efforts and is now a prisoner of war.
Mordekaiser - Dreadful Conqueror
Mordekaiser, also known as The Iron Revenant and formerly known as Sahn-Uzal, is a villainous playable character in the multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends. A nightmarish, undead warlord, Mordekaiser has great prowess in his invasive abilities and enslaving souls with his necromancy. Slowly plotting his return to the world of the living, Mordekaiser knows they will stand little chance against him when his plans come to fruition. The 46th champion added to the game, he was released on February 24, 2010 and was later reworked on June 12, 2019. He is most commonly played in the top lane.
When he was alive, Sahn-Uzal conquered with no mercy and ruled with a iron fist. Snapping any tribe who dare be in the northern wildlands underfoot, he became a truly haunting foe to fight against. As he laid old and dying, he took comfort in his faith saying he would be seated among the gods, but when he reached the afterlife, he only found barren fields of the dead.
Furious at this assumed deception, Sahn-Uzal learned Ochnun, the language of the dead, and whispered promises of glory to anyone who revive him. Once finally returned to the realm of the living by mages as a spirit bound to his armor, he slaughtered the unfortunate magicites, took his new name, and set out to conquer the mortal realm once more. He hungered for both knowledge and power, taking the Immortal Bastion at the center of his kingdom while also researching the truths behind the realms.
However, Mordekaiser was killed once more by the traitorous LeBlanc and a alliance of the local tribes, sealing away his armor with his soul ripped from it. Despite this setback, Mordekaiser had plans for this still, corrupting the souls of the dead to serve in his army. Although with his old keep under new management, his name is still a boogeyman for historians, a figure both terrifying and incredible. And for the souls of the dead that remember this foe, their greatest fear of Mordekaiser rising from the grave for vengeance and conquest are always on the backs of their minds, knowing that if he rose, that there's no hope for the living to end his tyranny a third time.
A brutal warlord from medieval times, Mordekaiser is shown to be cruel and merciless, taking pleasure in the suffering of his enemies and relishing his role as a dark lord over humanity. Like most dark lords, Mordekaiser is incredibly self-centered, aspiring not only to rule over the dead but the living as well. Mordekaiser does not fear death but embraces it, often touting the strength of iron over the weaknesses of flesh, showcasing an arrogant side of the revenant's strong belief in his ideology of death.
Fire Lord Sozin - Megalomania
Fire Lord Sozin, simply known as Sozin, is the posthumous overarching antagonist of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Despite having died years before, his actions caused almost all of the events of the series and its sequel The Legend of Korra. He is the instigator of the Hundred-Year War and the Fire Lord before his son Azulon. He is the grandfather to Iroh and Ozai and great-grandfather to Zuko, Azula, and Lu Ten and the great-great-grandfather to Zuko's daughter, Izumi.
As a young prince, Sozin was best friends with Avatar Roku. After Sozin took up the throne and Roku became a fully realized Avatar, their friendship became strained to the breaking point as Sozin desired the Fire Nation to encompass the world, a plan to which Roku was strongly opposed. Following a hostile confrontation over this which ended in Sozin's defeat, neither spoke to the other until they were both very old. Sozin betrayed his old friend to his death and began waging war. Fire Lord Sozin was the instigator of the War and the Fire Lord before his son, Azulon. He was grandfather to Iroh and Ozai and great-grandfather to Zuko, Azula, and Lu Ten.
Sozin was ruthless, merciless and inconsiderate as Fire Lord, as demonstrated by his ordering the genocide of the Air Nomads simply to locate and destroy a single obstacle to his power, and his decision to start the tradition of hunting dragons, despite having one as a companion. His betrayal of his closest friend, Avatar Roku, also highlights his willingness to embrace power over friendship and kindness. However, unlike his more warmongering and militaristic son, Azulon, and his grandson, Ozai, Sozin (at least initially) saw his war with the other nations as a case of "ends justifying means" - he hoped not simply to increase his own power, but to provide the other nations' with the Fire Nation's higher standard of living and perceived better system of order. Domestically, Sozin preferred to silence, but not to completely destroy, opposition to his policies. This is exemplified in the fact that he did not execute Fire Sage Kaja, a known friend of Roku, when the latter declared that the new Avatar had not died during the Air Nomad Genocide. Additionally, when Sozin wanted to eliminate the Fire Nation's ancient history to legitimize his policies, he chose not to destroy the historical corridors of the Dragonbone Catacombs but to simply seal them, believing that he could still learn from the past.
Madara Uchiha - Visionarism
Madara Uchiha is the foremost antagonist of the manga and anime series, Naruto. He is the co-founder of the village of Konohagakure (the Village Hidden in Leaves) and its first Rogue Ninja. Though thought to have died, Madara survived and planned to rule the Ninja World as a god, making Obito Uchiha into his apprentice Tobi. He is eventually resurrected as an indestructible undead ninja and takes part in the Fourth Great Ninja War, during which he succeeds in his plan.
Madara Uchiha's most defining trait is his monumental ego. He is an extremely overconfident, egocentric, manipulative, and conceited man who cares only about might and skills, which shows as he belittles everyone he deems weaker; including the immensely powerful Kage and the formidable Kurama. The only one he respects is Hashirama Senju, whom he admired immensely but grew to hate fiercely.
Madara is a staunch and dependable battle-lover who lives and breathes to fight, which he calls "dancing". However, he only involves himself in battles he deems challenging, going as far as to keep his foes alive as long as he is having fun. On the other hand, he will slaughter mercilessly those who do not interest him or worse. Although he never bothers fighting at full strength, he shows off his powerful techniques for no other reason than that he can.
Madara is cruel, aloof, self-righteous, and spiteful, with a macabre sense of humour. He cannot stand being surpassed, and displays a childish obsession in settling his score with Hashirama. Growing up in an era of permanent war made him highly warmongering, belligerent, malicious, and vindictive. He hated the Senju so much that he was unable to ever conceive the possibility of an armistice. He was persuaded that their offers of friendship concealed attempts to subdue his clan and sought to maintain hatred against everyone’s wishes. His disregard for the welfare of anyone around him has seen him commit some fairly horrific deeds, such as manipulating events to crush Obito's spirit and dismembering both allies and enemies so he can replace missing body parts.
Madara believes that hope is seemingly irrelevant, that cooperation is nothing but a silent conflict, and that peace and war cannot exist without each other. He scorns visions of the world other than his own and believes that he is the only one who is able to fix the precursors’ failures. He also demonstrates a very strong desire for domination, which first made him want Konohagakure to dominate every other nation, and culminated in his desire to rule reality itself. Although he believes that the Eye of the Moon Plan is the only way to make the world better, everyone else rightfully points out that his vision of a better world is a world in which he controls everything.
Medusa Gorgon - Hidden Wolf
Medusa Gorgon is the first main antagonist featured in Soul Eater. She is the mother of Crona, who is also the crown jewel in her master plan: the destruction of the current world order to get the planet back on track. She is the middle child of the three Gorgon Sisters. Lacking empathy for others, along with a twisted sense of love for those who are like her in personality, Medusa views everyone as a potential specimen to experiment on or as a tool to suit her purpose.
Medusa is an incredibly sinister and evil individual, as well as a very powerful witch. Her greatest skill is her ability to manipulate almost anyone, due to her unbelievably high skills in acting. In her true personality, Medusa has a view of the entire world as a place of stasis, where nothing evolves or changes. She hates this so much that she went to the extent of resurrecting Kishin Asura in order to make the world mold back into "motion". She also takes incredible pleasure in others' pain when she is the one causing it, and when her experiments are working.
She is so sinister that she can even subject her own child, Crona, to unimaginably torturous punishments, like locking them in a dark room for many days without food or water whenever they fails to do what she commands them to do, and gives them terrifying orders such as to devour many human souls. She is easily angered by those who create a road block in her experiments or in the "evolution" of the world, and usually tries to eliminate these problems.
Lex Luthor - Egomania
Alexander Joseph "Lex" Luthor, or Lex Luthor for short, is a highly intelligent supervillain who originated from DC comics and is one of the main antagonists of the DC universe. He serves as one of the three main antagonists (alongside Darkseid and Brainiac) of the Superman comic series, as well as the the main archenemy of Superman. Luthor is also a major antagonist in the Justice League series being the leader of many supervillain groups, most notably, the Legion of Doom.
He is a genius billionaire and the owner of LexCorp, who possesses an undying hatred of his archenemy, Superman. He will stop at nothing to kill his archenemy, and then rule Metropolis and the world. That said, some incarnations of him are willing to risk their life if it means protecting Metropolis. Lex Luthor is an extremely intelligent, calculating, duplicitous and unpredictable man of immeasurable ruthlessness. He was a mechanical, strategic and scientific genius, maintaining a series of accomplishments in his life. However, due to his intelligence, he is extremely arrogant and narcissistic. He is also wrathful, often lashing out at others he dislikes and holding an unjustified hatred towards Superman.
He has an incessant habit of flaunting his own intelligence, referring to himself in the third person and creating monuments to himself. He also believes himself to be the greatest criminal mind of his time. As such, he is a complete megalomaniac. He seeks to control everything he sees due to a delusional sense of entitlement. In fact, part of the reason he wants to Metropolis, is that he thinks that he will be a better ruler than Superman despite Superman helping the city instead of ruling it.
Doctor Doom - Idealist Extremist
Dr. Victor Von Doom, better known as simply Doctor Doom, is one of the main antagonists of Marvel Comics, most commonly serving as the main antagonist of the Fantastic Four comic book series and a major antagonist in both the Spider-Man and the Avengers comics. He is a super-genius, a powerful sorcerer and the technologically advanced ruler of the country of Latveria, who seeks to expand his rule over the Earth as well as the universe, as he believes that it is the only way for them to survive.
Doom is an extremely vain individual, and spites Mr. Fantastic for being a rival to his genius. Some accounts say the explosion of his machine only caused one scar, which he could not handle, as "Doom should be perfect". He also places his own importance over others, and has no problem killing people when the situation calls for it, regarding life much like a game of chess. But Doctor Doom is a gentleman and is bound by his honor and pride. He seems to value science heavily, preferring to build machines that have the same function as some of his magic spells. The only people he's seemed to ever care for are his parents, vowing to avenge them once they were gone. He is known for going to great lengths, showing no fear whatsoever yet honorable and wants godlike powers for himself.
He serves as the secondary antagonist of the 1984 Secret Wars storyline, the titular main antagonist of the Doomwar story arc, the villainous protagonist of the 2015 sequel of Secret Wars and the titular protagonist of both the Infamous Iron Man and the Doctor Doom comic book series.
Grand Admiral Thrawn - Brilliant Strategist
Mitth'raw'nuruodo, better known by his core name Thrawn and his alias "Grand Admiral Thrawn", is a major antagonist in the Star Wars universe. A Chiss male, Thrawn was eventually promoted to the rank of Grand Admiral by Emperor Palpatine. In the Legends continuity he is the main antagonist of Heir to the Empire and Dark Force Rising and the secondary antagonist of The Last Command. In the new Canon continuity he appears as the main antagonist in the third season of Star Wars Rebels and as the titular main protagonist of Thrawn.
Mitth'raw'nuruodo, more commonly known as Thrawn, was a Chiss male who served as a member of the Chiss Ascendancy and an officer in the Imperial Navy, holding the rank of Grand Admiral in the years prior to the Galactic Civil War. Thrawn hailed from the Unknown Regions and had knowledge of the uncharted region of the galaxy, knowledge that Emperor Sheev Palpatine used due to his interest in discovering the secrets of the dark side of the Force that the Unknown Regions held.
During the Clone Wars, Thrawn was exploring the Outer Rim of the galaxy to find out if the Galactic Republic could be an ally to the Chiss Ascendancy and met Jedi General Anakin Skywalker, who he aided in battle; he concluded that the Republic would be a poor ally. Years later, after the Republic had transformed into the Galactic Empire, he managed to join the Imperial Navy as a Lieutenant. Believing in the importance of understanding an enemy's culture, art, and philosophy to defeat them, Thrawn, helped by his aide Eli Vanto, rose through the ranks, defeating smugglers, insurgents, and traitors along the way.
By 2 BBY, Thrawn had been promoted to Grand Admiral and given the command of the Seventh Fleet due to his victory over a rebel insurgency at Batonn. He was then assigned to destroy the Phoenix Squadron located in the Lothal sector, which was a part of the growing rebellion against the Empire. His efforts were aimed at discovering the location of the rebel base which proved successful and allowed his forces to press an attack. The battle was a success and Phoenix Squadron was mostly destroyed; however, the Spectres, most of the important rebel leaders, escaped along with the Imperial traitor Kallus. Moreover, the Empire suffered major losses and Thrawn received a prediction of his defeat from a mysterious Force-sensitive individual known as the Bendu.
Illusive Man - Sophisticated Galactic Supremacist
The Illusive Man, real name Jack Harper, is the secondary antagonist of the entire Mass Effect: Original Trilogy. He is the elusive, secretive, and well-informed leader of Cerberus. He has close-cropped silver-grey hair with "steely blue" eyes which appear to be prosthetic. The Illusive Man's real name and his life before Cerberus are both long forgotten. For years, the Illusive Man has been using Cerberus and his immense network of contacts to achieve his goal - that of making humanity ascendant above all other races. He is described as having the best and worst traits of humanity rolled into one man.
He serves the main protagonist of Mass Effect: Evolution, the main antagonist of Mass Effect: Foundation, Mass Effect: Ascension, Mass Effect: Retribution, Mass Effect: Deception and Mass Effect: Invasion, an unseen antagonist of Mass Effect, a central character and anti-hero in Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect: Redemption, the secondary antagonist in both Mass Effect: Homeworlds and Mass Effect 3: Multiplayer and one of the main antagonists of Mass Effect 3 (along with Harbinger and The Catalyst).
The Illusive Man is someone who believes that the ends always justify the means. As such he is pragmatic and utterly ruthless in his attempt to achieve his and Cerberus' goals, even willing to perform brutal experiments on, not just aliens, but other humans as well. He is also incredibly stubborn and dogmatic, always convinced that he's right and never considering for a second that there's anything wrong with his methods. As such, he is disgusted by Paragon-Shepard's decision to destroy the Collector Base, calling him/her a naive idealist who chokes on the hard decisions.
He was voiced by Martin Sheen.
Dominus Ghaul - Prideful Warlord
Dominus Ghaul is the self-proclaimed ruler of the Cabal Empire, after the exile of its previous Emperor Calus. Upon receiving the distress call sent by the Skyburners during the Taken War, Ghaul traveled to the Solar System with his Red Legion with the goal of claiming the Traveler and its Light for himself. He successfully carried out a surprise attack against the Last City, capturing The Speaker, destroying the Tower, and severing the Guardians' connection to the Light by isolating the Traveler within a containment device.
Ghaul is adorned in large white armor with red and gold detailing, and is often seen without a helmet, sporting a metal facemask instead. He also has albinism, given his pale skin and deep red eyes. Ghaul appears to be an adept strategist, choosing to launch his invasion during a severe thunderstorm that concealed his warships from visual detection until it was too late. Ghaul also managed to accomplish, in the span of several hours, what the other races could not do in centuries, to conquer the Last City and scatter the Guardians. Thousands of years prior, Ghaul also managed to lead a united military coup against Emperor Calus single-handedly, demonstrating his adept skills and charisma toward his people.
On the battlefield, Ghaul is a ruthless and domineering 15 foot tall warlord, taller than most of his kind, going as far as to conquer an entire civilization at the behest of his people's benefit, demonstrating a cold lack of care and sympathy for other alien races outside of the Cabal, excluding the Psion and War Beast races. Ghaul is also incredibly physically strong for a member of his race, being able to effortlessly send a fully armored Titan flying into the air just by kneeing him. Ghaul is able to throw fully armored Guardians around as if they were mere toys, even putting a lone Titan onto the ground in seconds, a physical testament to his might.
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