Card Lores:Dissonance Gyze

This is the Dragon Deity of Destruction, "Gyze", during its younger days. Initially, "Gyze" and "Messiah" were intended to be the two governing forces of Planet Cray; Messiah would create wildly, and Gyze would destroy the parts of Messiah's creation that would interfere with life, shaping the world into an ideal state. (If the world is represented in binary, then Messiah is 1 and Gyze is 0. You can't have binary code composed of only 1s or only 0s.) If the world was filled with positive thoughts, Messiah would be empowered, signaling it to continue creating new beings and things. However, when Messiah's new creations would inevitably clash and war with each other, the world would fill with negative thoughts; this would empower Gyze, signaling Gyze to destroy the offenders. In the aftermath of Gyze's destruction, the world would become filled with positive thoughts once more, signaling Messiah to start creating things again and continue the cycle.

While Messiah and Gyze got along well enough, both understanding that the other was necessary for Cray's balance, both of them secretly resented each other. Messiah resented Gyze for destroying its creations, killing living beings and destroying the lands Messiah had worked so hard to create. Gyze resented Messiah for creating beings that would cause conflict (which Gyze would have to fix), not understanding why Messiah would knowingly do things that would inevitably send the world into despair. Messiah did not understand why destruction was sometimes necessary, and Gyze did not understand that Messiah valued its creations' free will.

While Messiah and Gyze were the two most powerful original spirits, there existed many other original spirits who participated in the creation of Cray, like Minerva. One of these was Hazur, and unlike the other spirits, he felt that he didn't belong anywhere in the order of creation, and that there was something off about it. To try to alleviate this, he sought out each of the original spirits, following them and learning their professions, and eventually Hazur became close to each of the spirits. Hazur got along with Messiah well, as both of them held a vested interest in people's happiness, but Messiah dismissed Hazur's concerns about his dissatisfaction with creation, believing that creation was perfect and that all Hazur needed to do was to find his place within it. When Hazur confessed his concerns to Gyze, however, Gyze was more receptive, as it too was somewhat dissatisfied with the state of creation. Thus Hazur became closer to Gyze than Messiah, and they became great friends.

Eventually, after Hazur discovered the existence of Earth and the demiurge, Gyze too would discover Earth and the demiurge. However, unlike Hazur, Gyze was not left alone by the demiurge. The demiurge desired to create a villain, and the terrifying deity of destruction would be the perfect choice. The demiurge warped Gyze's mind, revealing to Gyze the terrifying truth of Cray and the source of it and Hazur's dissatisfaction. From the very beginning, Cray was intended as a breeding ground for suffering and hate. Suffering leads to rage, rage leads to hate, and hate leads to conflict, and as a storyteller, the demiurge loved conflict. Gyze, driven insane by the truth, decided that Cray was rotten to the core; it was too horribly flawed to exist and must be destroyed.

Gathering followers that would eventually be called the Apostles, Gyze began the Cataclysm, warring with Messiah over the fate of the world. Gyze implored Hazur to join their side several times, telling them about the truth of Cray. Hazur, however, refused, as while it agreed that Cray was inherently flawed, it rejected the conclusion that Cray must be destroyed. Hazur believed that even if Cray was inherently evil, it was also inherently good, and thus worth saving, and if Hazur had to confront the world's evils to save it, he would do so.

After Gyze was defeated by Messiah, it was sealed in an unknown space. By then, its mind was shattered, and Gyze lost any semblance of personality or presence of mind. It was no longer able to remember or express why it wanted to destroy the world, only vaguely remembering that the world's existence was evil and that "nothingness is peace" and "nothingness is equality." And you see, this is why Gyze was such a flat character in Cardfight!! Vanguard G: Z.