Weapons
Day Blade
Blessed by the Angel of Light, Leliel, Day Blade is perfectly attuned to the element of light and is capable of harnessing light in any manifestation possible. Elements can be weaved into different shapes and forms by more capable Arians, Day Blade facilitates this easily and makes manipulating the element of light quite effortless for the user. The Blade also emits light and is dazzling to behold.
Night Blade
Blessed by the Angel of Darkness, Jophiel, Night Blade is perfectly attuned to the element of darkness, casting powerful manifestations of darkness for the wielder of the blade. Darkness can assume many forms and can be a draining element or a destructive one. In Azura’s hands Night Blade takes on another role, channeling her Archangelic power to cast powerful spells such as summoning her shade to fight alongside her. The Blade absorbs light and echoes the abyss.
Bio
Azura is the Child of Light and Darkness, daughter of the Archangel, Rusalka, and a girl broken by the cruelty of the world. Immensely powerful due to her being a Dezi-Arian and the daughter of an Archangel, her power could not be overlooked by the forces of evil. Rusalka knew this and so attempted to hide her by choosing a good man to be her father and keep her safe. However, her father grew deranged with the knowledge that he sired a child with an Archangel and made Azura’s life miserable.
He wrestled with unholy thoughts regarding the child, he wanted to hurt her or even kill her at times. In the end he settled for abuse and neglect. Azura lived a horrible existence, never knowing love, always hatred for how she looked and what she was. As a child she didn’t understand what she had done wrong, why she had to suffer in this way, or why her appearance caused her father to hate her so.
Azura has bubblegum pink hair, a trait that marks her as the daughter of an Archangel as the hair color is not natural. Her eyes are a deep but beautiful purple, the color of Amethysts. In childhood she was gaunt and malnourished. She considered herself ugly and unpleasant to look at. Azura cried a lot and she suffered a depression and despair that no child should ever have to carry as a burden. Things grew better when her mother visited her on her ninth birthday, but soon she had to leave again. However, she left Azura with a promise that on her sixteenth birthday she would be where she needed to be.
Then came the worst day of her life, the day that her father attacked her. What his intentions were she did not know, she only knew that she was distressed and fearful for her life. In that moment the shade rose and killed the man, splattering her with blood and causing her even more distress. Horrified by him and by what she had done she fled that place. Soon after she entered the Library and there she found something miraculous, she found Christian and he protected her like no one else had, except perhaps her mother.
But where her mother had rage and anger mixed in with her love, Christian only had a pure and wholesome love for her. And she was instantly taken by him and he never disappointed her. Although he did not know the whole story, he knew that she had suffered greatly. She saw the scars along his body and thought of her own emotional scars forever etched upon her mind. Alongside Christian she had found two things that were even more beautiful, the first being love and the second, hope.
Inspirations & Insights
Empathy and sympathy are powerful emotions and nobody likes seeing someone suffer. That love and desire we have to protect those that cannot protect themselves is a powerful urge that makes us all noble and heroic. I wanted to conceive a most wretched character, I wanted someone who had all the tragedies befall them and who desperately needed kindness shown to them. And then I wanted them to have it, to have all the love and kindness and warmth thrust onto them, I wanted Azura to feel loved.
Strangely enough she became my favorite character throughout the story and seeing her find happiness and friendship brought this warm feeling inside and so continuing to tell her story was as interesting for me as it is for the reader. I’d like to say that I don’t always consciously decide the fate of a character, rather sometimes I feel as if their fate played out in the way that it did and I am simply transcribing it. As such, Azura’s story is one that deeply intrigues me but I’m sure hers will be a happy ending.
Light and Darkness brought balance to both sides of Azura, Angelic and Archangelic, and it also contrasts both phases of her life, where her first sixteen years were ones of hate, suffering and evil and then afterward she only knew love, kindness and good. This balance between both aspects of her is important and with it she can support the Guardian of Aria, Christian, as he is meant to be a symbol of balance as well for Aria.
I hope that when people read about Azura’s predicament and story that they also show kindness and love to those that may be suffering. We should all be Christian in that regard and help to protect and nurture that love and hope in those that are wretched and downtrodden.