Azalie
Name: Azalie (アザリー)
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Height: 166 cm (170 mentioned in books)
Weight: 56 kg
Race: Black Magic Sorcerer
Blood Type: AB
Constellation: Squirrel
Hometown: Suburbs of Raindust
School: Tower of Fang
Master: Childman Powderfield
Also Known As: The Bloody August
Specialties: White Magic
Hobbies:
- Meddling in other people's business.
Special Skill:
- Matches her enemies cut for cut with just one hand.
First Featured: Stray Journey: "Beast, Answer My Call"
Acquisitions:
- Ancient Ring
- Sword of Baldanders
Related Characters:
- Childman (Teacher)
- Forte (Classmate)
- Comicron (Classmate)
- Korgon (Classmate)
- Leticia (Classmate, Foster Sister)
- Orphen (Classmate, Foster Brother)
A sorceress of incredible power, who excels as magic and has become familiar with a number of old world secrets. She went missing from the Tower of Fang after discovering an ancient sword, transforming herself into a horrible monster.
Concept Art
Features
Prominent Features:
- Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (Anime)
- Reckless Arc (Books, Second Story)
- Stray Journey (Books)
- Majutsushi Orphen: Stray Journey (Manga)
- Majutsushi Orphen: The Origin Project (Manga)
- Orphen (Manga)
All Features:
- Stray Journey: 1 "Beast, Answer My Call!" (Prominent Character)
- Stray Journey: 5 "Assassin, Erase My Past!"
- Stray Journey: 6 "Successor, Come To My Tower!"
- Successor of Razor Edge (Art Book: 7 Color, 5 black and white)
Personality
Azalie has a sharp mind and a quick wit. She loves to antagonize others, getting reactions with anything she can. It's not uncommon for this to lead to a fierce and explosive disagreement between her and her loved ones, most commonly Leticia.
Beneath the surface she's fiercely competitive. She desires power, and more than that knowledge. The lengths that she'll go to in order to obtain this knowledge is extreme. Violence, and even murder. After years of being chased by the Tower of Fang, following the Baldanders incident, she took on a "kill or be killed" attitude, and her typical anger gained a more dangerous aspect. Even so, she has her reservations. She confessed to being afraid of Orphen, afraid of the fact that he'd been trained to kill her, even without him ever taking up this cause. She also failed to see the harm she was causing on others, or even claim that she had helped them, in spite of the pain she'd caused.
History
Childhood:
Azalie lived in an orphanage with Leticia, her distant relative, and Orphen. During this time she cared for Orphen, who was just a toddler, until she was roughly 11 years old. At which point, her, Leticia, and Orphen were brought to the Tower of Fang, supposedly by Whurl Karlen. They were later placed in the Childman Classroom together.
Childman Class:
Among the 7 students chosen for the Childman Class, Azalie was the strongest. She was even chosen to go on special missions with Childman, due to him teaching her about the Nornir's legacies.
Funeral:
After discovering the Sword of Baldanders, Azalie tried and failed to use its power to her benefit. The agonizing pain from having impaled herself on the blade caused her to lose concentration, and thus control of the spell. Her form was twisted into something akin to the dragon on the blade's hilt.
Rather than admit to this scandal, the Tower of Fang chose to hide it. They held a funeral for Azalie baring an empty casket, intending to hunt and destroy the creature. It was the Tower's position that whatever was left of Azalie had disappeared when she became the beast, and that no part of the sorceress's mind remained.
Beast, Answer My Call:
Although Azalie went missing for 5 years, the creature resurfaced near the Everlasting household in Totokanta City. It repeatedly attacked the Everlasting home, seeking the ancient Sword that had since been sealed away in its warehouse. When the Dragon succeeded in stealing the sword, Childman opted to organize a hunting party. His goal: To destroy the beast and put an end to this five year search.
For this, he recruited Orphen into his hunting party. However, when the foolish young sorcerer fled the group to save Azalie, he inadvertantly led them directly to the dragon. A battle ensued, and in the chaos Orphen stole the sword. However, this gave them time to fight the beast. In the battle, Comicron, Azalie and Orphen's former classmate, was killed. By the time Orphen returned to the battlefield, Childman was gaining the upper hand. He tried to interfere, only to be stabbed in the gut by his former master. Now disabled, he was unable to stop Childman from killing the beast that Azalie had become.
Orphen desperately rushed to the dragons side, and learned, in its dying moments, Azalie's horrible secret. She had used her white magic to swap bodies with Childman. She had been the one to form the hunting party, and to track the beast to the Everlasting Home. Disgusted, he confronts Azalie as she's leaving Totokanta, and forces her to admit her crimes. In spite of this, Orphen and Azalie had fundamental differences in opinion. To Azalie, she'd been ousted from her Tower, her only true home, and hunted by her former colleagues, who blindly labeled her as a monster and tried to slaughter her. She'd been forced to kill in defense of herself, and while she saw this as justifiable, Orphen saw it as murder.
As their reunion comes to an end, Orphen offers to use the Sword of Baldanders to change Azalie into whatever form she wants. Whether that be to return as Childman, or to be returned to her former self. She chooses to return to her former self, but Orphen insists that no matter her choice, he never wants to see her face again.
The Start Of A New Mission:
In spite of Orphen's request, Azalie continued to follow him throughout his journey. With her astral projection, she was able to keep a close eye on what his group was doing. When they reached Alenhatam, she witnessed what transpired with the Guardian of the Treasure, a Killing Doll left behind by the Nornir.
Realizing that she knew the location of another one of these ancient relics, she used her knowledge gained in Alenhatam to activate a second Killing Doll. From its mouth, she learned the secrets of the dragons. The current state of the continent of Kiesalhima, the location of the dragon sanctuary, and more. The doll further led her to a number of unknown dragon ruins, one of which was buried beneath Alenhatam. Thanks to its help, she was able to recover the Sword of Baldanders, which Orphen had lost. This started Azalie on her true mission. She used the sword to transform the Killing Doll into Krylancelo, Orphen as she had known him at 15 years old, and soon the doll became completely devoted to her.
Return To The Tower:
Azalie continued to trace Childman's steps, while following Orphen from the background. She realized long before Orphen did that the Whurl Classroom was starting to move, and that the Tower of Fang had fallen into a state of unrest. She sent Krylancelo to warn him, but instead this turned into a fight. The Killing Doll would confront Orphen again later, then proceed to capture Cleao as bait. Lured to the basement of his former Master's mansion, where he used to receive special training for the express purpose of countering Azalie, he faced off against the Killing Doll in a final fight to the death.
Though he won, as expected by Azalie, he was none too happy to see her. She pressed forward with her congratulations nevertheless, and confessed her fears of what Orphen had been trained to be. Upon his passionate plea that he would never actually harm Azalie, she invited him to join her in her quest to uncover these mysterious secrets. She felt that she was the only person Orphen could ever trust, or that would truly understand him. She took his silence as a refusal, and retreated.
The Whurl Class:
Throughout all of this conflict, Orphen remained silent. Azalie had been careful to avoid showing herself in front of others, and at first, hadn't wanted Leticia to know that she was alive, feeling this would disrupt her plans. She was left with no choice when Leticia was ambushed by students of the Whurl Class. She interfered to save her life. However, now that Leticia had been harmed, she knew the Whurl Class would be forced to act. So, she confronted Orphen once more, and enlisted his help to handle Whurl once and for all.
Azalie agreed to guard Leticia during the conflict. As the fight was coming to a conclusion, Azalie reappeared in the Whurl Class, changing the tide of the fight. She waited as Orphen defeated Whurl Karlen. Though she'd hoped for him to kill his original master, she came to realize that he still lacked the fortitude to do so. So, she opted to use her white magic, a poetic incantation, to steal the memories of her being alive from Whurl and his students. She soon realized that Orphen had hidden the real World Book, and that the one in the hands of the Whurl Class was a fake. Rather than begrudging this, however, she asked to have the fake, Cleao's diary, returned to its proper owner and departed from the Tower. Her final words told Orphen to find her in Kimrak if he wanted to see her again.
Skills and Assets
White Magic
Azalie is known not only for her incredibly powerful black magic, but for being one of only a few white magic sorcerers. A sorcerer with the ability to attack the mind and spirit, crippling enemies before they ever get the chance to fight back. Though many of these spells don't get specific incantations, they include the ability to create illusions in a target, to swap souls with another person, effectively taking over their body in the process, and to astral project outside of her body, allowing her to travel wherever she wants in spirit form without being detected. What's more, Azalie is the only sorcerer in history who has been capable of handling white magic and black magic at the same time, as well as the only one to escape the control of the Aristocratic Federation.
Legacy of the Nornir
As Childman's student, Azalie inherited all of his knowledge of the Wyrd Graphs, the silence magic that was used by the Wyrd Dragons, as well as the location and usage of their relics, which he had excavated and hidden away over the years. This included a Killing Doll, which Azalie used the Sword of Baldanders to turn into Krylancelo.
Spatial Transition Box
Azalie possesses a small artifact, a box made by the Nornir which contains Wyrd Graphs. By tracing these characters, she can activate the artifact to spatially transition to another location. As she does so, these graphs glow and spin around her, changing in shape and light intensity. The light then envelops her body, and she's gone.
Spells
"Demon!"
This is a vicious spell that solidifies the atmosphere, crushing everything within its field. It's noted to cause depressions in the ground a few centimeters deep, creating a shimmering on objects affected. The pressure will inevitably collapse whatever stands in its area of effect. The effects are deadly.
"I spin, the armor of our halo!"
Generates a netting of circular lights, which act as a shield. This can deter powerful magic, even fire, but when each ring breaks it can allow damaging spells to pass through part of the net. These halos also generate a great deal of heat, and can literally cook the flesh of something that gets stuck against the net for too long.
"Light!"
This spell forms a V-shaped arrow of light, which launches at the target. When it hits, it explodes into flames that rapidly engulf them, focusing the destructive power of the spell all around the target.
Assorted Facts
Acquisitions:
• She obtained an ancient ring from her studies, which later surfaced at the Everlasting home.
• She stole the Sword of Baldanders from the Tower of Fang to study its forbidden magic in secret.
• Childman passed his knowledge of dragon artifacts and ruins down to Azalie.
School:
• She helped train Orphen, both in his sorcery and in combat.
• She once had long hair, but the Tower of Fang made her cut it, something she laments often about.
• She was involved in the research project to study and translate ancient sorcerer scripts.
• Her proficiency at this was so great that she was the only one to discover how to use the Sword of Baldanders.
• She was claimed to be dead by the Tower of Fang after turning into a monster.
• To emphasize this fact, an empty casket was buried under a nameless tombstone.
Behavior:
• She's often seen antagonizing others, hoping to incite a reaction.
• When she sought the power of the sword, it was in hopes that Childman would see her as a suitable woman for him.
• She loved to watch old cavalry competitions, and adored the design of cavalry weapons.
Other:
• Azalie's name can be spelled Azalea, but we chose Azalie to avoid pronunciation confusion with the Azalea Flower.
Anime Appearance
Story Differences:
There were some key features changed about Azalie in the anime. In particular that her love interest in Childman was played up to the extremes.
While the story continues on a similar tangent, it diverges once Azalie switches bodies with Childman. She continues to try to hunt him, but Orphen convinces her that Childman was only trying to help her. In the end, she can't undo what she has done, and tries to use the Sword of Baldanders to fix her mistakes. This only results in both souls, her and Childman's, remaining without a host. Neither willing to possess Azalie's true body, as it would mean sacrificing the other.
Orphen manages to remedy this by using the Sword of Baldanders to return Azalie to her body, and make that body pregnant with Childman as the fetus. She parts ways with Orphen after this incident and little is said about her future, nor does she make a return for Orphen Revenge.
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