Overview
Jeremiah is an ancient Malverand guardian, first-batch earth-shard wielder, earth and cosmic mage, founder of Jazarel, and ruler of the Jazarel Empire. Barachiel brings him from Maraveth into Malverand's ruling circle as a prodigious child, and Michael and Raphael train him. Jeremiah becomes an early cosmic mage when he calls down a meteor and names the discipline cosmic magic. As an adult, he teaches cosmic magic at Maraveth's elite magical academy and mentors young mages.
Jeremiah is proud, ambitious, and deeply attached to Jazarel. He designs and rules the city, pushes for independence from the Malverand Empire, and eventually declares Jazarel a separate empire with himself as its one true god. He continues to care for citizens, even while his secession, struggle against Uriandel, and the surviving guardians' rivalries hasten the Fall of Malverand.
Appearance and Aura
Jeremiah has gray eyes and an immense guardian aura. When he fights, he uses cosmic light, starfield-like barriers, floating stone, meteors, and earth magic that can reshape terrain. His forces use deep brown and vivid blue colors, while Jeremiah himself wears regal white robes with silver accents during Vianna and Kren's confrontation outside Jazarel.
History
Barachiel brings Jeremiah into Maraveth's ruling circle as a child mage. Jeremiah's earth magic is exceptional, and his use of cosmic magic proves that entirely new magical disciplines can be created. As Malverand expands, he collaborates with Arcanis and Uriandel on essence devices, Malverand hearts, and shards.
When the guardians divide the empire into regions, Jeremiah establishes Jazarel in central Malverand with his closest advisors. He builds Jazarel's white-and-gold architecture, city plans, and construct-supported defenses. After Barachiel and Arcanis disappear and the empire deteriorates, Jeremiah repeatedly tests separation from Malverand. He eventually forms the Jazarel Empire, absorbs disputed territory, and commits his forces against Uriandel.
Thalion and Isandriel's faction exploit the rivalry among the surviving guardians. False-color attacks draw Eremion toward Jazarel, Raphael moves against the city, and Jeremiah is pulled deeper into direct opposition with Uriandel. At the Crosford plains and around Jazarel, Jeremiah fights at guardian scale with meteors, cosmic barriers, earth walls, floating stone, and battlefield-wide essence draining. Jeremiah and Uriandel's clashes devastate armies, cities, and surrounding land.
During the final Jazarel Battle, Jeremiah and Uriandel weaken each other while Jazarel is ruined. Zero and Mia attack the two guardians and drive them into the earth. Thamrielle's intervention briefly changes the Jazarel Battle, and Igor later uncovers Jeremiah battered underground. Jeremiah confronts Thalion and Isandriel over Jazarel's destruction before Isandriel kills him with Tal'Massar's unmaking power.
Magic and Skills
Jeremiah is a powerful earth mage, a first-batch earth-shard wielder, and an early practitioner of cosmic magic. He summons meteors, raises cosmic barriers, fires cosmic beams and missiles, reinforces his body with cosmic power, shapes terrain on a massive scale, raises hills and walls, traps enemies in stone, and rides floating slabs of rock. He also drains essence during guardian-scale combat and survives battlefield injuries through his Malverand heart.
Outside combat, Jeremiah is a builder and teacher. Jazarel's white-and-gold architecture, consulate, barriers, skyships, constructs, and city plans are his civic and magical projects as Jazarel's builder and ruler. He researches essence devices and shards with Arcanis and Uriandel.
Relationships
- Barachiel brings Jeremiah into Malverand's ruling circle as a child.
- Michael and Raphael train Jeremiah, then become political rivals as Malverand collapses.
- Jeremiah's cosmic magic demonstrates that new magic can be created, and Arcanis later studies essence technology with him.
- Uriandel collaborates with Jeremiah in the early empire, then becomes his chief battlefield rival during Jeremiah's clashes with him.
- Thaddeus serves Jeremiah as a trusted protector, envoy, and commander.
- Thalion, Isandriel, Zero, Mia, Vianna, Kren, Benedict, Ignatius, and Rhyz all take part in the Jazarel Battle and the broader Order effort against Malverand's surviving guardians that bring Jeremiah down.
- Thamrielle later defends Jeremiah to Thalion after Jeremiah's death.