The Lord of Calamity (災禍の顕主 Saika no Kenshu?, "Lord of Destruction") is an entity that appears in Tales of Zestiria and Tales of Berseria.
Description[]
The title comes from the person in question being widely regarded as the embodiment of sin, whose want for self-satisfaction threatens to plunge the world itself into chaos.
By the time of Tales of Zestiria, the title often goes to one who accumulates far more malevolence than most humans are capable of in their lifetimes; however, it is known that there were other Lords of Calamity in the distant past, and so other means to achieve the power may exist. It is implied that a powerful enough Shepherd can take the Lord of Calamity's place, and being able to form a contract with a hellion, daemon, dragon, in the same way the Shepherd forms contract with the seraph or malak Prime Lords and Sub Lords, may be a requirement.
List of Lords of Calamity[]
There are two named Lords of Calamity.
- Velvet Crowe - Known to be one of the first recorded Lords of Calamity to exist, she is the protagonist of the distant prequel Tales of Berseria who was turned into a vengeful therion by Artorius, when he sacrificed her younger brother, Laphicet.
- An unnamed Lord of Calamity was active two hundred years prior to the events of Tales of Zestiria, during the Unprecedented Cataclysm (デス・エイジ?), but was devoured by Eizen, saving the world at the cost of the malak turning into a dragon.
- Georg Heldalf - The Lord of Calamity before the Age of Chaos who was cursed by the previous Shepherd, Michael, who sacrificed a baby, Mikleo, on an altar to the dragon seraph Maotelus. The curse also brought death to all those close to Heldalf, including his newborn son, who was seemingly transforming into a hellion before being put down by Heldalf. Heldalf only realized his true form as the Lord of Calamity when he attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself onto an active battlefield. Unable to be struck down, the surplus of negativity on the battlefield empowered him into his current, lion-like form.
Trivia[]
- During the early stages of Velvet's rampage, she was simply called the Calamity (災禍 Saika?).
- Velvet took the original title Lord of Calamity, from a tale of the embodiment of sin told by Medissa. However, unlike Heldalf, who wanted to change the world into a world without pain by destroying it, Velvet actually helped save the world by killing Artorius Collbrande and sealing away Innominat who were planning to rob people of their emotions as well as individuality and remove the people who would not accept this.
- A man in Meirchio claims to have heard a rumor that the Lord of Calamity has the head of a wolf. In Tales of Zestiria the X, an ancient book depicts Velvet having a wolf's head, possibly due to her ragged appearance and her therion arm.