Prince Varázsló

"We are all players in the grand scheme of things, whether we like it or not. But in the end, even the smallest action will create giant ripples in the cosmic pool that is the universe at large."

- Prince Varázsló

Prince Varázsló (his entry here) is an infernal son of Pokhot, and is the younger identical twin brother of Prince Cselszövő.

Appearance
Both Varázsló and Cselszövő are identical twins, though they may not appear that way at first due to embodying different domains and bearing different chimeric animal traits. According to Varázsló, identical twins can still look different thanks to various environmental factors.

In his youth, Varázsló was a Pony-Deer Draconequus, sired by Pokhot through either the Knowledgeable Sorcerer or the Cruel Sorcerer. After being thrown into the Well of Eternity alongside his brother, he aged incredibly to the point where he resembles a “Titan”-ranked deity even though his actual age is officially recorded as “Tier III”. This has caused much confusion since he and Cselszövő are now older than most of their family, including Belyolen and Temnobog, who are “Tier IV” deities. By his own admission, he and Cselszövő were relatively young when it happened, a few years older than Crystal Prism when he was Page Wheel.

Varázsló’s default form is a tall Alicorn with an azure-blue pelt, a navy-blue mane and tail, and a Cutie Mark depicting a butterfly resting on an open book. Owing to his incredible age, he has two pairs of butterfly wings that have a gradient going from azure blue to navy-blue, resembling a dark starscape much like the wings of Queen Star Flower Rosedust. He usually wears silver barding and scholarly robes. His mane and tail resemble a dark, rippling galaxy with twinkling stars.

Varázsló’s true form is an even taller Alicorn-Deer Draconequus with slender branch-like antlers in addition to an Alicorn horn, and navy-blue Deer markings on his body and face. His chimeric traits come from animals related to his domains, or are associated with races known for wielding strong magic, such the left hind leg of a Black Cat, the eight eyes of a Spider (which Pokhot also has), the right front leg/talon of an Owl, the right hind leg of an Alicorn, the left front leg of a Deer, and the tail feathers of a Raven.

However, Varázsló’s time in the Well of Eternity has made his true form incredibly eldritch. His form now vaguely resembles an Alicorn hybrid with his body constantly distorting and shifting to show bits of what he had been and what he could’ve been, along with everything in-between. His chimeric traits also shift with his overall appearance, while still relating to his domains. His butterfly wings are mirrors that, when looked into, show multiple future versions of the person staring into them like a crowd staring at a single person from the other side of a window. Likewise, his mane and tail frequently break into sparkling orbs that show moving images of various futures and realities, both good and bad. This understandably has led to comparisons to the Grand Primevals, or being mistaken for a relative of them.

Because he took out all of his eyes in a fit of despairing madness, Varázsló is blind. In his default form, his eyes are closed and sometimes covered with a blindfold. In his true form, his eyes are holes that, when looked into, will reveal the dark expanse of space, filling the looker(s) with an existential dread.

Personality
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Pokhot
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Phykti
Varázsló has a good relationship with Phykti, his maternal aunt. Both he and Cselszövő frequently work together with Phykti in devising deceptions and prophecies for the damned, since their domains can be used for cruelty as much as they can be lusted after. They also punish damned shades who were imported from Phyktis hell-fief.

It's speculated that Phykti is the 'Cruel Sorcerer' who comforted/encouraged Pokhot during the latter's time as a sex slave for a cabal of sorcerers, and may have sired Varázsló and Cselszövő by sleeping with her younger sister. This makes Phykti both the mother and father of Varázsló and Cselszövő if true. But the fact that Varázsló and Cselszövő are part Alicorn muddles this theory a bit.

Prince Cselszövő
Being identical twins, Varázsló has a strange, if close relationship with his older brother, Cselszövő.

As survivors of the Well of Eternity, Varázsló and Cselszövő have a unique understanding of each other's traumas and experiences. This initially alienated them from the rest of their family as Varázsló became increasingly aloof and distant, believing that no one else could understand them. However, Varázsló losing everything in his brief clash with Emperor Golden Scepter, and being introduced to Dr. Endless Dreams and the Elder Quintumvirate afterwards, forced him to realize that there are people who suffered similar experiences as he and his brother did, and he was going down the same path as the sorcerers who abused him by obsessing over fate. Once Varázsló reconciled with his family and Cselszövő overcame his own problems, they would team up to punish those who did the same things as the sorcerous cabal did to them.

Both Varázsló and Cselszövő also share an incredible degree of knowledge that few could claim to possess - every answer they provide is true, yet contradictory. For example, if one were to approach them and ask what they saw of the future, Varázsló would make a prophecy that is true, while Cselszövő would make a contradictory prophecy that is also true. This echoes how all knowledge can be perceived as true yet false at the same time.

Because their domains are intertwined, Varázsló and Cselszövő constantly work together, and when they aren’t punishing damned shades imported from Pokhot’s hell-fief, they’re punishing damned shades imported from Phykti’s hell-fief. They also work together with Phykti in devising deceptions and prophecies for the damned, since their domains can be used for cruelty as much as they can be lusted after. It’s heavily speculated that Phykti might have been the twins’ true parent, having sired them with Pokhot under the guise of a Pony sorcerer while her sister was enslaved… though the fact that Varázsló and Cselszövő are part Alicorn muddles things a bit.

Like many of their infernal family members and relatives, both Varázsló and Cselszövő have an incestuous relationship. At least one incident involved a group of Erobreseg Hydianite cultists making the mistake of summoning Varázsló in his true form while he was sharing an intimate moment with his older brother, traumatizing said cultists greatly.

However, Varázsló is not above punishing Cselszövő when he gets too far. Cselszövő falling nto his old ways under the arrogant belief that no one could outsmart him is what led to Varázsló's friend, Prince Crimson Star, foreseeing his transformation into a Fallen god. Varázsló helped humble his twin brother by participating in a risky plan Crimson Star launched to prevent Cselszövő's Fall; according to him, he merely advised Crimson Star to have the latter's friend Jasper beat him in a card game, knowing Cselszövő's love and weakness for card games. This led to Cselszövő being humiliated after nearly losing to a mere mortal (Crimson Star instructed Jasper to lose just to shake things up) and being poked repeatedly by Golden Scepter to retrieve Crimson Star's soul after his son lost it in a deal he made with Cselszövő.

Emperor Golden Scepter
Because Golden Scepter is a close friend of Varázsló's grandfather, Temnobog, he is considered a 'family friend' of Temnobog's children and grandchildren.

Varázsló's clandestine research on alternate timelines and dimensions brought him into conflict with Golden Scepter after his mother and half-siblings failed to stop him. Having foreseen a great disaster, Belyolen brought in Golden Scepter on account of the latter being far older and more powerful and experienced than Varázsló. Sure enough, Golden Scepter overpowered Varázsló easily and destroyed the latter's research.

Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria
At some point, Varázsló heard of Caerulus Melodia, then Blue Suede Heartstrings, snapping from three Ages worth of trauma and nearly transforming himself into a Fallen Alicorn. This led to Varázsló foreseeing multiple futures concerning Caerulus' ultimate fate, though he admitted he was greatly relieved when all of Caerulus' friends and family worked together in saving him from himself and helping him heal psychologically. At one point, Caerulus asked Varázsló if he were better off 'dead' as a mortal rather than alive as a god, upon which Varázsló advised him to stop focusing on what could've been and instead focus on what he already has now. This is rumored to have stemmed from seeing an alternate time/dimension where Caerulus died in the twilight of his music career in the Second Age, having never Ascended or escaped his abusive record manager, "Colonel" Hollow Note, at all.

After Caerulus became a Prince and joined the Equestrian Pantheon, Varázsló declined to join his siblings in the following exodus to Equestria and other countries, though he did attend the wedding between Caerulus and Prince Stoltur Skjöldur, Varázsló's younger half-brother. The fact that he's an eldritch god forced everyone who isn't an older deity to protect themselves via 'Perception Filter' glasses during the event.

Tribal/Racial Magics
As an Alicorn-Deer Draconequus, Varázsló has the combined Pony tribe magics of the Alicorns, the plant/earth-based magics of mortal Deerkind, and the reality-warping powers of the Draconequui. His hybrid nature dilutes his innate magic, but the large number of options and versatility makes up for it.

Magic Domain
As a god of Magic, Varázsló is arguably one of the most powerful sorcerers of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon in terms of sheer raw magical power, with his great-uncle Kúzelník being a potential match for him. While he showed signs of sorcerous talent as a child, being thrown into the Well of Eternity boosted his innate magic to insane degrees.

As part of his domain, Varázsló can wield both 'white magic' and 'dark magic'. In terms of the former, he can grant status buffs to his allies, heal people, wield light magic, and purify corrupted areas. In terms of the latter, he can cast various curses and hexes, perform necromancy, steal his enemies’ life-force to replenish himself, and wield shadow magic, among other things. He can wield elemental magics, including fire, earth, air, and water, something that he shares with Kúzelník. Varázsló's domain also grants him accessibility to other branches of magic, such as Psionics and Alchemy, though he has a strong preference for psionics. And like all deities of Magic, Sorcery, and similar domains, Varázsló can strip someone of their magic indefinitely and sense the presence of magic, though his magical senses increased after he blinded himself.

Varázsló also has knowledge and skill in using Malrègnarian dark magic. According to him, he once went to the Empire of Malrègnar with his cousin, Lord Knechten, and others to learn under Vicearch Iniquitous and her Princelings, infernal lesser deities of Vice. Why isn’t known, but it’s speculated that it was part of a favor between Iniquitous and Temnobog. This might explain why Varázsló’s able to use dark spells not found anywhere else.

Knowledge Domain
As a god of Knowledge, Varázsló is granted a photographic memory that allows him to remember something perfectly no matter how long ago it was learned, as well as an overall boost in intelligence and IQ. He can boost one’s intelligence and cure ignorance and/or memory-altering spells, and duplicate information from any source. This is useful in preventing the loss of information. He can perform telepathic information transference, or take information away. He can instantly learn the contents of something simply by touching them. Being a Knowledge deity also gives him the ability to adapt faster to any given situation, such as learning an enemy’s weaknesses or having the intuition to understand and perform certain spells.

Unlike many benevolent Knowledge deities, Varázsló has no qualms about using his domain to essentially lobotomize people by scrambling their memory and mental processes, inflict ‘Laser-Guided Amnesia’ by editing mental information (in Cultura’s words), or make them forget even how to walk or speak. His great power means that he can do this on a wider scale.

Fate Domain
As a god of Fate, Varázsló is a powerful Seer whose precognitive abilities are both accurate and far-reaching, especially now that he’s blind. He can perceive all possible fates of a person or persons within all foreseeable timeframes and circumstances. He can bind people to certain paths, or alter the natural progression of certain fates in some way. This means that he can enchant certain weapons and artifacts so that they could only be used properly by those who are fated to do so.

Varázsló can also break fates by ‘denying’ them, similar to what deities of Defiance, Self-Determination, and Freedom like Princess Winter Opera and Luminiferous can do. One of Varázsló’s favorite ways of using his Fate domain is to grant someone causal immunity, usually a hero, which protects them from certain events. He does this as a way to prank malicious forces who are obsessed with fate and prophecy, or wield powers that involve them.

Interestingly, the time Varázsló spent in the Well of Eternity gave him the ability to perceive alternate realities and dimensions that have sprung from all the possible choices that a person can take. Whether this is an extension of his Fate domain, the result of absorbing knowledge from the Well of Eternity, or both is currently unknown.

Hope Domain
As a god of Hope, Varázsló has telepathic and empathic abilities that allow him to sense and encourage hope in others. He can project an empathic aura hope that helps alleviate feelings of despair and get rid of spells that induce it. He can also see people’s hopes, whether for material or abstract concepts, and bring out their innermost desires. His reality-warping powers allow him to summon objects of one’s desires and create illusionary fantasy worlds where people can fulfill their hopes and dreams. However, he can take away the hopes of others, leaving them empty shells who can’t remember exactly what they wanted most. In regards to his depraved nature and domains, Varázsló often seeks out ambitious sorcerers, academics, and the like and tests them by stoking their hopes that they will obtain whatever they’re searching for, even if they have to use unethical means to do it.

Background
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Trivia

 * Varázsló's name translates to "sorcerer" in Hungarian.