Azazel

	Azazel
	アザゼル
	SH1DCW Artwork from Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Artwork from Devil Children White Book
Other Name(s)	AzelDevil Children Black Book and Red Book; Devil Children White Book; Devil Children Light Book and Dark Book; Devil Children Fire Book and Ice Book;
Origin	Judaism
Race(s)	AkumaDevil Children Light Book and Dark Book; Devil Children Fire Book and Ice Book; ; BossDevil Children Black Book and Red Book; Devil Children White Book; ; FallenShin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance; Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine; Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis; ; JakiDigital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II; Kyūyaku Megami Tensei; ; TyrantShin Megami Tensei IV; Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse; Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2; Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers; Soul Hackers 2; Shin Megami Tensei Trading Card: Card Summoner;
Alignment(s)	Neutral-ChaosShin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance; Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine; ; Dark-ChaosMajin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis; Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers; ; ChaosShin Megami Tensei IV; Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse;
Arcana	Hanged Man

Not to be confused with Azael or Azrael.

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Azazel is a Demon in the Megami Tensei franchise.

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Origin

"Azazel"^[a] originates as a term used in chapter 16 of the Book of Leviticus. The chapter describes a ritual to be performed annually on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) in which the Israelite high priest was to take two goats: one goat was to be a sin-offering to YHWH, and the other was to be cast out into the wilderness to Azazel. According to Judit M. Blair (2009), Azazel was a symbolic personification of the "forces of chaos that threaten the order of creation".^[1] Along with the interpretation as a personal entity, Azazel has also been interpreted as the name of the place where the goat was sent, or as a word referring the goat itself; the latter is the interpretation used in several influential translations such as the Septuagint, the Latin Vulgate, and the King James Version (which translates the phrase literally meaning "to Azazel" as "as the scapegoat").

The Ethiopic version of Enoch uses Azazel^[b] as a name of a fallen angel who taught men to make swords. However, the Aramaic and Greek versions of Enoch call this angel Asael and Azael, respectively.^[2]

Azazel^[c] also appears as the name of a fallen angel in the Apocalypse of Abraham,^[3] a Jewish text written during the 1st century^[4] which survives only in a Slavonic translation.^[5] In this text, Azazel is identified as the Adversary (Satan), which in this case refers to God's "eschatological opposite".^[6] Azazel was the one who tempted Eve to eat the fruit in the Garden and Cain to kill his brother.^[7]

Some Rabbinic Jewish literature such as Targum Pseudo-Jonathan interprets the Israelites' dedication of the goat to Azazel as being a dedication to Satan. Specifically, Pseudo-Jonathan states that the goat is dedicated so that Satan may not speak against Israel for the goat slaughtered by Joseph's brothers to trick their father Jacob.^[8] In this passage, Satan is to be interpreted as the heavenly accuser rather than as the fallen angel described in the Apocalypse of Abraham.

Design

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Gameplay

Shin Megami Tensei IV

BossAlly

Name	Level	HP	MP
Azazel	85	8032	3615

Race	AlignmentFactored with certain skills	EXP
Tyrant	Chaos	3873

Drop
Chakra Drop (1%)	Balm of Rising (1%)	—

Resistances

—	—	RpRepel	WkWeak	—	RpRepel	NuNull	NuNull
×1	×1	×1	×1¼×1.25	×1	×1	×1	×1

Ailment Resistances

NuNull	NuNull	NuNull	NuNull	NuNull

Basic Attack	Element	Hits(s)	Target	Effect
Basic Attack	Phys	1	Single enemy	—

Skills
Skill	Cost	Description
Dekaja	10 MP	Removes all enemies' stat increases.
Dekunda	10 MP	Removes all allies' stat decreases.
Megidolaon	60 MP	Heavy Almighty damage to all enemies.
Trisagion	22 MP	Severe Fire damage to one enemy.
Deadly Wind	22 MP	Severe Force damage to one enemy.

Name	Level	HP	MP
Azazel	69	371	360

Location	Fusion

Race	AlignmentFactored with certain skills	Speech	C. CostCompendium Summoning Cost	Fusion Condition
Tyrant	Chaos	—	—	Clear "Taste of the Forbidden Fruit"

Resistances

—	—	RplRepel	WkWeak	WkWeak	RplRepel	StrStrong	StrStrong
×1	×1	×1	×1	×1	×1	×1	×1

Ailment Resistances

×1	×1	×1	×1	×1

Basic Attack	Element	Hit(s)	Target	Effect
Basic Attack	Phys	1	Single enemy	—

Skills
Skill	Cost	Description	Level
Agidyne	14 MP	Heavy Fire damage to one enemy.	Innate
High Fire Pleroma	—	Increases damage output of user's Fire attacks by 50%. Stacks with other bonuses.	Innate
Recarmdra	20 MP	Full HP recovery and revival from K.O. to all allies. Instant K.O. to user.	70
Zandyne	14 MP	Heavy Force damage to one enemy.	71

Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse

Name	Level	HP	MP
Azazel	69	687	345

Race	AlignmentFactored with certain skills	Speech	C. CostCompendium Summoning Cost
Tyrant	Chaos	Great	51768

Resistances

—	RpRepel	RsResist	—	WkWeak	NuNull	WkWeak	RsResist
×1	×1	×½×0.50	×1	×1¼×1.25	×1	×1¼×1.25	×½×0.50

Ailment Resistances

×1	×1	×1	×1	×1	×1	×1	×1

Skill Affinity

—	+3	+4	—	−5	—	−3	—	—	—	—	−3

Basic Attack	Element	Hit(s)	Target	Effect
Basic Attack	Phys	1	Single enemy	—

Skills
Skill	Cost	Description	Level
Maragidyne	48 MP	Heavy fire damage to all foes.	Innate
Grand Tack	11 MP	Heavy gun damage to one foe.	Innate
Fire Pleroma	—	Boosts fire attack by 25%.	70
Gun Pleroma	—	Boosts gun attack by 25%.	71
Samarecarm	40 MP	Revives one dead ally with HP fully restored.	72

Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

Name	Level	HP	MP
Azazel	61	350	297

Race	Alignment	Speech	C. CostCompendium Summoning Cost	Gift Type
Fallen	Neutral-Chaos	—	♄Macca67218	—

Resistances

—	NuNull	—	WkWeak	NuNull	WkWeak	RsResist
×1	×1	×1	×1¼×1.25	×1	×1¼×1.25	×½×0.50

Ailment Resistances

—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
×1	×1	×1	×1	×1	×1	×1	×1

Skill Potential

—	+3	—	−4	+3	−2	—	—	—	+2	—

Basic Attack	Element	Hit(s)	Target
Basic Attack	Physical	1	1 enemy

Innate Skill
Power Menace	When summoned from the stock, lowers Attack for all allies and foes besides self by 1 rank for 3 turns.

Skills
Skill	Cost	Description	Level
Agidyne	35 MP	Heavy Fire attack to 1 foe.	Innate
Mazandyne	50 MP	Heavy Force attack to all foes.	Innate
Mediarama	60 MP	Moderate HP recovery to all allies.	Innate
Maragidyne	50 MP	Heavy Fire attack to all foes.	62
High Restore	—	MP recovery when user strikes a foe's weakness or lands a Critical hit.	63
Resist Light	—	Strengthens resistance to Light skills.	64

Magatsuhi Skills
Skill	Description
Omagatoki: Critical	All attacks, including magical attacks, will become Critical hits for all allies for 1 turn.
Omagatoki: DoublerRequires Fallen Talisman	Makes buffs and debuffs twice as effective for all allies for 1 turn.
Fountain of ChaosRequires Unwrit Chaos Periapt	Severe level-based Almighty attack to all foes and removes buffs. Removes 1 Press Turn Icon from foe's next turn.

Compendium

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Shin Megami Tensei IV	A leader of the leaders of the Grigori, angels that descended to earth to watch over mankind. They lusted after beautiful human women, making them their wives, and taught the humans forbidden knowledge, angering God. Azazel had knowledge of weapons and cosmetics. Men soon learned how to fight, and women learned to be promiscuous.
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse	A leader of the leaders of the Grigori, angels that descended to earth to watch over mankind. They lusted after beautiful human women, making them their wives, and taught the humans forbidden knowledge, angering God. Azazel had knowledge of weapons and cosmetics. Men soon learned how to fight, and women learned to be promiscuous.
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance	A leader of the Grigori, a group of angels who descended to earth to educate humans. He is said to have committed acts of defiance against God, such as being attracted to beautiful human daughters on earth and taking them as wives, and giving humans various truths of forbidden knowledge. Azazel imparted knowledge of armors, ornaments, and makeup, teaching men to fight and struggle and women to dress up and seduce men.
Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers: Akuma Zensho Dainishū	出身地：不詳ファントムソサエティの幹部にあたる悪魔。堕ちた天使の集団グリゴリの首領といわれる。天海市の情報環境モデル都市計画・最高責任者である次官・西。しかし人間の姿をとる彼の正体は、世界の歴史を影で操る組織・ファントムソサエティ幹部の大悪魔、魔王アザゼルである。彼の名はいくつかの伝承に見る事ができるが、旧約聖書偽典工ノク書によると、彼は人間達を監視する役目を持った天使グリゴリの統率者であったが、人間の娘に欲情し、他の多くの天使同様に堕天した者とされている。 Translation:
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment	Wild, desert demon. Scapegoat of the Old Testament.
Devil Children Black Book and Red Book	GBC: たくさんの　とおいセカイを　どうじにみる　ことができる　じゃあくなデビル PS: たくさんの　遠い世界を　同時に見る　事ができる　邪悪なデビル Translation: A wicked Devil who can see into multiple distant worlds simultaneously.
Devil Children White Book	たくさんの　とおいセカイを　どうじにみる　ことができる　じゃあくなデビル Translation: A wicked Devil who can see into multiple distant worlds simultaneously.
Devil Children Light Book and Dark Book	人間に　武器と　魔法と　ケショウを　教えた　ナゾのデビル　人間を　助けようと　しているのかは　だれも　知らない Translation: A mysterious Devil who taught weaponry, magic, and makeup to humans. Nobody knows whether he was attempting to help humans.
DemiKids Light Version and Dark Version	A mighty demon whose presence is enough to frighten most enemies into retreating.
Devil Children Fire Book and Ice Book	人間に　武器と　魔法と　ケショウを　教えた　ナゾのデビル　人間を　助けようと　しているのかは　だれも　知らない Translation: A mysterious Devil who taught weaponry, magic, and makeup to humans. Nobody knows whether he was attempting to help humans.

Trivia

There is leftover unused data for Azazel as a demon in Shin Megami Tensei: Nine. He is of the Fallen race and is level 80.

Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages
Language	Name	Meaning
English	Azazel
Japanese	アゼザルDigital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II Kyūyaku Megami Tensei Azezaru	Azezal; misspelling of Azazel
	アザゼル Azazeru	Azazel
	アゼルDevil Children Black Book and Red Book Devil Children White Book Devil Children Light Book and Dark Book Devil Children Fire Book and Ice Book Azeru	Azel
Traditional Chinese	阿撒瀉勒 Āsāxièlēi	Azazel
Korean	아자젤 Ajajel	Azazel

Gallery

Artwork from Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Artwork from Devil Children White Book
Render from Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2
Sprite from Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II
Animated sprite from Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II
Sprite from Kyūyaku Megami Tensei
Animated sprite from Kyūyaku Megami Tensei
Sprite from Shin Megami Tensei IV
Sprite from Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis
Sprite from the Sega Saturn version of Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Sprite from the PlayStation version of Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Sprite from the Nintendo 3DS version of Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Sprite from Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
Sprite from the Game Boy Color version of Devil Children Black Book and Red Book and Devil Children White Book
Sprite from the PlayStation version of Devil Children Black Book and Red Book
Sprite from Devil Children Light Book and Dark Book and Devil Children Fire Book and Ice Book
Sprite from Shin Megami Tensei Trading Card: Card Summoner
Icon from Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Portrait graphic from the PlayStation version of Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Portrait graphic from Soul Hackers 2
Card graphic from Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
Model from Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine
Card No.336 from Shin Megami Tensei Trading Card: 2nd Edition
Card DS-018 from Shin Megami Tensei Card Game: Devil Summoner World
Card SD-001 (Uzuki Nakamura ver.) from Shin Megami Tensei Devil Children Card Game: Maohfūin
Card SD-001 (Hideaki Fujii ver.) from Shin Megami Tensei Devil Children Card Game: Maohfūin
Promo Card LP-001 from Shin Megami Tensei D-Children Card Game

Videos

Azazel's Daily Demon Showcase for Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

Notes

↑ Hebrew: עֲזָאזֵל, romanized ʿĂzāʾzēl
↑ Ge'ez: አዛዝኤል, romanized ʾAzazəl
↑ Old Church Slavonic: Азазилъ, romanized Azazilŭ

References

General

Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology (2011), Andrei A. Orlov. Published by State University of New York Press. ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-3951-8.
The Atoning Dyad: The Two Goats of Yom Kippur in the Apocalypse of Abraham (2016), Andrei A. Orlov. Published by Brill. ISBN-13: 978-90-04-30822-0. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004308220

Specific

↑ De-Demonising the Old Testament: An Investigation of Azazel, Lilith, Deber, Qeteb and Reshef in the Hebrew Bible (2009), Judit M. Blair. Published by Mohr Siebeck. pp. 214-215. ISBN-13: 978-3-16-150131-9.
↑ The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumrân Cave 4 (1976), J. T. Milik. Published by Clarendon Press. p. 159. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-826161-2.
↑ Orlov 2011, p. 4.
↑ Orlov 2016, p. 1.
↑ Orlov 2011, p. 7.
↑ Orlov 2016, p. 119.
↑ Apocalypse of Abraham 24:5
↑ Orlov 2016, p. 38.

[1] Hebrew: עֲזָאזֵל, romanized ʿĂzāʾzēl

[3] Ge'ez: አዛዝኤል, romanized ʾAzazəl

[5] Old Church Slavonic: Азазилъ, romanized Azazilŭ

[2] De-Demonising the Old Testament: An Investigation of Azazel, Lilith, Deber, Qeteb and Reshef in the Hebrew Bible (2009), Judit M. Blair. Published by Mohr Siebeck. pp. 214-215. ISBN-13: 978-3-16-150131-9.

[4] The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumrân Cave 4 (1976), J. T. Milik. Published by Clarendon Press. p. 159. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-826161-2.

[6] Orlov 2011, p. 4.

[7] Orlov 2016, p. 1.

[8] Orlov 2011, p. 7.

[9] Orlov 2016, p. 119.

[10] Apocalypse of Abraham 24:5

[11] Orlov 2016, p. 38.

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