Azar
1088 - Azar is born a member of a sect of Homo Magi.
1105 - 17-year-old Azar ascends to the title of Mystic within her sect.
1122 - 34-year-old Azar saves portions of the population of her sect after the incursion of the demon lord Trigon. She leads them into the Paths Beyond, forming the temple of Azarath.
1459 - 371-year-old Azar's daughter is born.
1520 - 432-year-old Azar passes along her power to her 61-year-old daughter, ascending to a higher plane.
1792 - 333-year-old Azar's daughter is born.
1834 - 375-year-old Azar, just like her mother before her, passes along her power to her 42-year-old daughter & ascends to a higher plane.
27 years ago - Azar finds & saves Angela Roth, the consort of the demon Trigon, bringing her to Azarath. Angela's daughter Rachel Roth is born, and becomes Azar's student.
16 years ago - Azar feels the power of Trigon within her student Rachel Roth, and advances her training to include control of her soul-self, empowering her against the influence of her father.
10 years ago - Azar passes on, ascending to a higher plain, allowing her power to transfer to Arella, empowering her to one day save her daughter Rachel Roth.
Azar was the mystic that created Azarath, the extradimensional city where survivors of Trigon's last attack on earth lived and practiced their magic in the hope of one day defeating him. She's basically Master Splinter, if instead of teaching turtles to be ninja, she taught a half-demon girl to control her emotions and wield her soul as a weapon. This is a bad analogy.
Our Azar StoryAzar appeared for the first time in New Teen Titans #3, the same issue that first showed Raven's Mom Arella. She appears in flashback, since it's kind of important for her to be dead if Raven's story is going to work. Essentially, she is the reason that Trigon has been held at bay for so long, and her death is the reason the world is now in jeopardy of being overrun by him once again.
There's actually a lot of cool intrigue that goes on in these backstories featuring the different denizens of Azerath and how they all reacted to Azar's decision to take in the daughter of Trigon rather than to just kill her. It's worth pointing out that in a lot of the George Perez series of this era, we see these widespread, esoterically interesting societies of people all ruled by powerful, omnipresent women. Here of course, and obviously in his run on Wonder Woman, but also in the bizarre world he built for Starfire's backstory under the goddess X'Hal. We wanted to make sure to include Azar in our timeline, because structurally speaking she's very necessary, both in understanding Raven's evolution and also in eventually empowering Arella to sacrifice herself and allow Raven to ascend to a higher plane. |