Raziel Paragorne

Overview
Raziel Paragorne is one of the main plot protagonists in Testimonial Midgard. He is the commander of the guild Requiem and a long time friend of Strider, as such he is often the character who ends up leading events. He carries a mercenary attitude towards all missions assigned to Requiem and has lead the players of Testimonial Midgard to seemingly impossible victory on several occasions. This is largely because Raziel is the incarnate of Odin and carries a portion of his power, like the other incarnates he also sports some similar personality traits to his patron deity.

Pre-Ordeal
Raziel is the apprentice of grand master assassin Valaris, Raziel however is initially unaware of his master's true identity. During the events leading up to the beginning of TM plot, he was charged by Valaris to seek out a relic known as the Tae Guk Tablet before returning to Prontera to resume his duties. However by the time Raziel reached Prontera his master had gone into hiding and Raziel unwittingly handed the Tae Guk Tablet over to Strider, Loki's Incarnate. He was then recruited into Testimony of the Blade as second in command so that Strider could keep a close eye on him.

Ordeal
During the Second seal crisis, Raziel formed the guild Requiem to bring the desparate players into an organized group. It was this newly formed group that fought their way into Geffenia and destroyed the Second seal. Equally significantly though, Raziel was revealed to have a previous history with Leoric but neither would elaborate upon what it truly was. Raziel offered initially that Leoric was his estranged uncle however this was later debunked when Leoric's true nature was revealed. Ultimateley this meant Raziel had ties to 3 GM figureheads (Strider,Leoric and Valaris) placing him in a pivotal position during events. After the destruction of the tenth and final seal Requiem and Raziel went on to battle and finally defeat Loki.

Interlude
In the course of the Interlude chapter Raziel was revealed to be the incarnate of Odin. Requiem was charged with felling Freya's Tower and ending her reign, however because of Freya's manipulations almost all of Requiem seemingly deserted Raziel and joined Freya's followers. This left Raziel to tackle a series of difficult missions, aimed at exposing Freya's weaknesses, alone. Before the final battle however Requiem reformed to fight against Freya, revealing that their desertions had been planned from the start. The newly reformed Requiem went on to fight and defeat Loki for a second time. Shortly thereafter however Requiem was disbanded because of distrust among it's core members.

Resolve
Disheartened and wounded, Raziel is cared for by Freya in the Folkvangr District, from where they eventually form a deal to form Revenant. After this, Revenant goes on to delete the BETA AI's and the Jormungandir. Raziel attempts throughout this time to unravel the origins of Utgard and track down Hikaru. Raziel spends a great deal of time trying to track down his original master, Valaris, whom disappears in the middle of the Interlude Era. Revenant eventually joins Leader in a suicide mission to stop Luna and Thor, resulting in everyone being wiped out in an anti-matter explosion except for Raziel and Strider.

Revelation
Raziel and Strider delete Mitwelt.

Combat Style
Raziel is an Assassin Cross and tends to fight with a heavy reliance on his speed and dodging skills. He is a hybrid-critical assassin build and therefore does not hesitate to charge in and attack frontally when he must. More often than not during one-on-one combat he will make heavy use of his cloaking abilities to sneak attack his opponents in something of an endurance match.

Raziel has however over time lost the ability to simply stand alone before a horde of opponents since the increase of most opponents dexterity and now must more often fight alongside companions to make maximum use of his damage output.

Quotes from the Story
Raziel: (To Anyone) "..."

Raziel: (To Valaris) "From tomorrow onwards, we will surely be on the verge of death without laughing again."

Raziel: (To Valaris) "Anyone would have done wouldn’t they?"

Raziel: (To Freya) "I can’t always live up to Odin's faith in me, Freya."

Raziel: (To Strider) "... Why am I not at all surprised to see that you're still alive?"

Raziel: (To Mitwelt) "If you threaten the stability and justice of this universe, there is no God that I will not strike down to stop you..."