The Corner Stone

To borrow from Robert Jordan, "Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather". Alone, invisible, brooding, calculating, and with a single never ending duty, Zuriel is like the little light in your room that keeps you up at night - not that big, but troublesome enough to give you grief. But does that little light in your room grow? Does it glow ever brighter until it shines like the stars in the midnight sky? Zuriel does.

To understand Zuriel, one has to imagine being the last human on earth... or better yet, being the last person who speaks english in a world full of others that prattle on in gibberish. You can see these people, you can interact with them, but truly joining them and learning to speak their language is a farfetched dream. It's gibberish after all, and what's the sense in that?

Now that you've got this hermit mindset going, imagine being required to work for those that damned you. Imagine being made to run errands for all of eternity for the people that left you alone, the people that forced you onto a god-forsaken land far away from home and devoid of friendship, laughter, love and revenge. Thats Zuriel.

He fits into the Hierarchy in a very peculiar way - he's the last of his kind. He is a watcher, a spy, a reporter and an errand runner. He is a warrior, a priest, an unknown disciple of some far away and long forgotten religion - or could you even call the Hierarchy a religion? Zuriel represents an epoch of forgotten events, of forgotten wars and strife that once tore the earth to its very foundations; he is the corner stone upon which so much of the worlds story has been built.

But heres the thing about corner stones....once they are placed, their importance is oft forgotten.