Card Lores:Betrayer, Shemhazai

She is the second-in-command of Kallen, the current ruler of Black Heaven. An ancient and powerful angel, Shemhazai was one of the Watchers, the group of angels that founded Black Heaven, and was the one who convinced the others to descend to the mortal realm to assist mortals in the first place. Compared to the other Watchers, Shemhazai was the most pragmatic one; she was dedicated to her vision of order amongst mortals, and had little time or patience for the vices and depravities that the other fallen angels participated in. She is the one most responsible for running Black Heaven day-to-day activities, enacting authoritarian policies to solidify the grasp the fallen angels over the populace. Eventually, however, Shemhazai became sick of the other fallen angels' indiscretions, believing that they were just as bad as the mortals that they had opposed long ago, so she threw her lot behind Kallen's rebellion. However, as one of the people responsible for Kallen's suffering in the first place, neither trusts the other, and both are planning to betray the other at the first opportunity.

A deeply cynical woman, Shemhazai does not believe in people's fundamental goodness: she believes that all people, mortal and immortal alike, are either looking out for themselves or are naïve weaklings who rely on handouts from the strong, and that they can only be made to do so otherwise through harsh and cruel order. Selflessness and altruism is for the weak, who must delude themselves into believing that the strong are contractually bound by some form of morality help the weak. Shemhazai is thus puzzled by Kallen, a powerful angel in her own right who nevertheless tries to help others. She thinks that Kallen is simply trying to gain more power by spreading her influence and attacking the other nations, but every day, she sees Kallen doing things that contradict that hypothesis. Perhaps she is mad, or...