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Rezo the Red Priest / Aka Houshi Rezo / Rezo Greywords / Fuck Not This Guy Again
 

One:
Rezo is a priest with an unmatched proficiency in white magic- that is, healing and exorcism magic. Despite his relatively young appearance he has lived for over a hundred years and has spent most of that time wandering the world healing the sick and injured. As a result he is regarded as a Great Sage and has a saintly reputation.

Two:
Rezo has been blind since birth due to a mysterious condition that makes his eyes literally unable to open. Although he is famous for curing others of blindness, Rezo has not been able to cure himself and has been searching increasingly desperately for a cure for his entire life. He has studied all sorts of magic, even outside of white magic, to try and find one.

Three:
Despite his reputation, Rezo has secretly done various terrible things in an attempt to find a cure; these include forcibly transforming his great-grandson into a monster, experimenting on a magical clone of himself, manufacturing a deadly disease and unleashing it on a country as part of a scheme to test soul transferal magic, and summoning a Dark Lord intent on destroying the world.

Four:
Rezo thought that said Dark Lord, Shabranigdu, was sealed within an ancient tower, but it turned out that Shabranigdu was actually sealed within Rezo’s very soul; the plan was to use Shabranigdu’s power to fix Rezo’s eyes and then banish the Dark Lord, but instead Rezo was painfully transformed into Shabranigdu.

Five:
During the ensuing boss battle with the heroes who’d been trying to thwart him the remnants of Rezo’s soul mustered up the strength to hold Shabranigdu back so they could kill him properly. Afterwards Rezo thanks the heroes and apologizes and presumably passes onto the afterlife-

Six:
-except instead he wound up as a disembodied soul stuck in a magic jar, with Shabranigdu still grafted onto him. The jar bounced around being a bad influence and source of magical consultation for a few years before the heroes found him, got him into a body, and had him cure the deadly disease he'd infected a country with.

Seven:
Rezo, knowing that Shabranigdu would only regain his strength if Rezo avoided the issue, decided to get it over with and unseal Shabranigdu again, this time with the understanding that the heroes would be able to destroy the two of them. They did, and Rezo is presumably finally dead for good.

tl;dr Healer, mage, and mad scientist from a D&D-esque world with a demon thing stuck in his soul. Blind and fixated on that. Kind of ambiguous just how much of his villainous acts are him and how much are due to the aforementioned demon thing.

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