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Demon · ◆ Darkness
Ahriman
majorattested650 BCE to 550 BCE
Angra Mainyu, the Zoroastrian principle of evil and darkness. Eternal adversary of Ahura Mazda, author of death, disease, and all suffering in the world.
Darkness93
Chaos90
Power80
Cunning78
Signature powerThe LieThe eternal destroyer, set against the truth itself.
The same idol, across the ages
Scholars have long read Ahriman as one face of a wider figure that recurs under many names through history: the the adversary.
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