Zariel
Zariel was the lord of Avernus, the first layer of The Nine Hells. An archduchess dedicated to winning The Blood War between devils and demons. She was originally an angel of Mount Celestia before transforming into an archdevil and falling to The Nine Hells.
Zariel's original form was that of a beautiful solar with precious skin, gold-feathered wings, and a blindfold covering her eyes. After her descent, she took on a more diabolical appearance; a halo of fire burned atop her head, her once fine skin seemed scorched, and her angelic wings, ruined by flame, took a leathery appearance. Her blindfold was abandoned, fully revealing eyes that glowed with white-hot rage and she had lost one of her hands and replaced it with a flail.
Originally, Zariel was an angelic warrior - her name, according to Reya Mantlemorn, meaning "Companion of Light". From Mount Celestia, Zariel was tasked with tracking the progress of The Blood War in Avernus, but from continued exposure to the conflict, grew an obsession with the War and a taste for battle. Zariel was impetuous in nature, and couldn't ignore the desire to fight within her, but her requests were consistently blocked by her angelic peers.
Zariel believed that it was the responsibility of the angelic host to defeat evil, and was of the opinion that an assault from the hosts of Celestia could wipe out both sides of The Blood War in one stroke, freeing the multiverse from the fiends who destroyed each other and vast chunks of it in the process. Despite her chastisement for their spectating stance, Zariel was repeatedly forbidden from entering the conflict.
Zariel was frustrated by her superiors' refusal to engage in the war and drew the line when a powerful devil slaughtered a village under her protection. With a host of personally trained mortal allies, she defied her superiors and descended into Avernus, only for her to be outnumbered by the devils and her mortal allies to flee in terror and shame. Asmodeus sent a delegation of osyluths to retrieve her unconscious body from underneath a mountain of the dead, whereupon the Lord of the Nine allowed her to recover and congratulated her. Zariel succumbed to the corrupting nature of Hell and Asmodeus made her an archdevil and dubbed her his champion.
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