Azwel

1= "What a thrill to see a on the brink of death abandon their sense of reason for despair or hope! It is like the sweetest method to me! I could never grow tired of the human race!"

- Azwel

2= "What a wonderful day! I have rid the world of an affliction to the human race! And with this... I am another step closer to becoming its savior!"

- Azwel, overjoyed when he kills a Malfested

Azwel (アズウェル) is a character from the Soul series fighting games, originating from the rebooted timeline of Soulcalibur VI. He appears in Taki Gaiden: The Kunoichi Who Leapt Through Time as one of the main antagonists.

History

 * Main article: w:c:soulcalibur:Azwel

A mysterious, highly intelligent, self-proclaimed anthropologist and philosopher from the Holy Roman Empire. Azwel wields a pair of gauntlets, one that utilizes a fragment of the demonic sword Soul Edge, and another that utilizes a fragment of the holy sword Soul Calibur. These gauntlets allow him to harness both swords' energies in order to create physical manifestations of the various weapons and fighting styles they have experienced. Fascinated by the effects of the Evil Seed which caused humans to become Malfested, transforming them into beings with enhanced abilities, Azwel has set a grand, insane plan into motion in the hopes of recreating this phenomenon, but under his own terms. His goal is to use his "Ultimate Seed" in order to evolve humanity, believing that it is the next step in the road towards evolution.

Personality
Azwel is, at best, a well-recognized genius who possesses mannerisms of a playwright. But, he is also flamboyant, insufferable, and pompous at worst. His defining trait is his dedicated love for the human race. However, for all his claims to "save" humanity, Azwel in truth, is a maniacal sadist who delights in psychologically and emotionally torturing his opponents, especially through his experiments. His prejudiced views of the Malfested is somewhat warped and more of out of spectacle than of morality. This does not, however, mitigate the justification of his actions in that he's no different than any other Malfested. Azwel is also cunning and manipulative, as shown when he forces Grøh to fight Curtis after turning the latter into a Malfested, and even luring Raphael to the Soul Edge on purpose knowing that those insane enough to pursue it will succeed in obtaining Soul Edge and end up becoming a slave to the evil blade.

Powers and Abilities

 * Time Travel: In an interesting case, Azwel is shown to be capable of traveling back and forth in time using his Palindrome gauntlets.
 * Soul Edge and Soul Calibur empowerment: Given that his gauntlets are imbued by shards of the two Soul Swords, Azwel can wield the two powers of the swords altogether. Given that both Soul Edge and Soul Calibur are unaffected by temporal alterations in the Soulcalibur VI timeline, that means, Azwel himself is also unaffected by any other form of space-time anomaly. Meaning, he possesses to exist independently of time itself, while immune by changes in his own past.

Weapons

 * Palindrome - Chaos & Order (Bipolar wave amplifying gauntlets)

Portrayal
Awzel is voiced by Ebara Masashi (江原 正士), who would later voice in .

In the English dub, he is voiced by Taliesin Jaffe, who also voiced the character in Soulcalibur VI.