@Rinel said in The Arx Secrets Thread:
Was Azazel always capable of Devouring things as powerful as gods and their reflections, or did he get supercharged by it?
No, he started very smol. He got bigger by eating so many secrets over so many years, until he was big enough to start eating really powerful beings. And the more he ate, the more powerful he became.
I’m assuming the reason he didn’t go after any of the gods originally was because it would negatively affect their reflections.
He needed to get through the Thinnest Point to get in nom range of the gods, I think. He was going for the Thinnest Point to eat the Wheel.
You mentioned Skald needing to merge with Vellichor as a result of Fable being consumed; were any of the other gods affected by Azazel’s unholy buffet?
Skald was impacted because his Reflection was Eaten. The only other archfiend Azazel ate was Fable, who he just replaced.
Finally, were Death and Skald unusually anthropomorphic for gods, or was it just that we (I?) saw more of a human side to them due to their relatively outsized influence in the founding of Arx?
Skald was embodied on the Prime because he was using his power to keep Legion bound. Death isn’t embodied, but she did get kicked out of Elysia by the other gods.
Skald was definitely the closest to being able to seem human because of the nature of Choice and all the practice he got wandering around and interacting with humans.
Death definitely does not act human. She’s a mad goddess.