Reborn Íkaros Azius

A highly intelligent inventor demigod from the recently-discovered echo of an intact Athensphere, a world once thought shattered by the all-consuming Void. His incredible similarity to the Mad Heretic has not gone unnoticed by Noel and the others at the Summoners' Lab. Azius's marked difference in disposition was most curious; Giselle postulates it may be a side effect of a single entity existing in multiversal instances. Like Gazia, Azius is zealous and passionate about his work. Both have contributed incredible technological advances to benefit their people, and yet they have been demonized, albeit for different reasons. Where Gazia sought to remake the world in cold, brutal iron, Azius refused to allow his fellow demigods to succumb to megalomania. Out of some innate need to ascend to (perhaps even overcome) the level of their progenitors, they built Athensphere with increasing blood and steel. Under their unconquerable banner, soldiers rallied as one behind their Archon, but among the demigods, a mad struggle for power behind the scenes ensured that his leadership would not remain eternal. Behind a facade of utopian normalcy, mechanical augmentations had seeped into every pore of Athensphere. Draegar's death from excessive experimentation was only the first among their kind. How many more innocent lives would be lost from his well-meaning inventions? Steeling his resolve, Azius exiled himself. It was not the Athensphere he envisioned—all he saw were hollow looks of indolence and power-hungry smiles. His only hope now lay in the mysteries of the great expanse above—across the Veil of the Void.