Ehit

Ehit (エヒト) was the main antagonist of both "Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest" and "Arifureta Zero".

Ehit was the pseudo-god, who once ruled over Tortus through the doctrine passed through various disciples. Ehit would use everyone as disposable game pieces on a game board, aka, Tortus; and enjoyed playing with the lives of people while leading them straight to their doom until humanity turned against him after the truth was revealed by both Aiko and Liliana.

During the final battle in Tortus against the false god, Ehit was killed by Hajime Nagumo, thus ending the fake god's so-called "chessboard of life and death" for all eternity.

Appearance
Ehit's appearance when the heroes were summoned was that of a being of light in a humanoid shape, like a soul. The reason Ehit existed as a soul was because over the course of millenniums, Ehit used the knowledge from his previous world to convert the faith of the people into power to achieve a sort of immortality, As a result, however, Ehit's body was lost and had become an existence of only a soul.

After Ehit possessed the body of Yue, changes were made to it which caused her to physically age into an adult.

Personality
Ehit was originally kind, or at least, considerate enough to help people in need, as seen when along with the fellow survivors who escaped to Tortus, saw how people were terrorized by magical beasts and monsters. Ehit, along with their fellow comrades, decided to help the people of Tortus to fend off the threats, and also gave them knowledge so that they could develop and prosper. It was even rumoured that Ehit had used the miracle elixir Ambrosia to heal the masses.

But over the course of millenniums after achieving immortality and becoming a soul-like existence, Ehit's mentality started to change, especially after the fellow survivors started to give up on their lives and slowly accepted death. All alone, Ehit's mind slowly corroded and started to feel enjoyment by seeing the suffering of the very people he once helped and saved. Ehit developed an immensely cruel, psychotic and sadistic personality which was filled with malice and contempt, becoming a psychotic Evil God who manipulated both Humans and Demons of Tortus to fight millienias of brutal wars for his own twisted entertainments by posing as two different individual gods which the two races worshiped as Hajime had correctly guessed. As stated by Noint, Ehit derived the greatest joy by seeing people try their best, only to be thwarted and failed in absolute despair when they had reached their goal. As shown when in past, after the Klarus Dragonman tribe had succeeded in achieving world peace after centuries of painstaking efforts by building a paradise Kingdom where all races lived in harmony as well as creating a global alliance between countries which will helped each other in times of need, Ehit manipulated his worshipers both Humans and Demons to betrayed the Dragonman by declaring them as a race of heretical Monster destroying the multi racial Kingdom the Dragonman had worked so hard to built even driving them into hiding for centuries. When his archenemies the Liberators had been ready to start a revolution to overthrow Ehit after immense efforts, Ehit cleverly manipulated his own worshipers the very people the Liberators wished to protect to turn against them, ultimately forcing to part ways and built the Great Labyrinths to hide themselves in. Ehit also wanted his so-called summoned "heroes" to die to their miserable deaths and to ensure they will never leave Tortus back to their world alive. Ehit also supported Eri and Hiyama in betraying their classmates due to finding their intentions and actions amusing.

Ehit's ego also inflated to extreme level, which developed into a selfish, narcissist and prideful nature. Ehit felt joy in staying one-step ahead against the enemies with the designed plans, but doesn't like it when the plans don't go the way as needed. Ehit viewed humanity to be weak and playthings as he is toying with their lives.

Ehit is also a failure-intolerant who holds no uses for his weak pawns and disposed them of their uses as a sign of disappointment to himself as his pawns brought nothing but shame upon him so miserably such as Hiyama was killed by Hajime and his greatest pawn, Kouki gotten defeated by Hajime so easily in the Frost Caverns. Despite Kouki has failed him for the last time, he adapted a use for him by manipulating his newly-made servant, Eri of willing to give Kouki to her as a "prize" for her services.

Ehit hold a lust for immortality as he once tried to search for Yue and possessed her as a "host body". When learned Yue is with Hajime, Ehit send his minions to seize her. After Eri retrieved Yue, Ehit temporarily possessed Yue's body which caused Hajime to his raged consumed state. While using Yue's body, Ehit doesn't got a complete control which caused to his death when Yue's willpower freed herself from his control leaving Ehit vulnerable as Hajime killed the false god and destroyed his "chessboard of life" for all eternity.

Ehit is manipulative liar who deceived humans that beastmen were just an "inferior" species. His beliefs of protecting humanity against Garland was just a setup which would lend his pawns to their deaths. While the truth has been revealed, Ehit doesn't have anyone else to manipulate after humanity turned against him.

However, Ehit has revealed himself to be a coward as he hold a fear of death or his true nature revealed which is the legacy of the Liberators that had caused him to develop a nature which needs to do anything necessary to stay alive. He fears Hajime worse than the Liberators due to his unconcern for Tortus and its people when he simply unleashed a massacre and genocide towards both of Ehit's Human and Demon worshipers as he wanted to eliminate him and his companions at all costs by sending Noint to assassinate Hajime. He shown in a sheer of terror when Hajime killed Noint and used her body to revive Kaori as an insult to the so-called "god". When his true nature has been revealed, he shown in fears of his Human worshipers has turned against him as well losing the balance to his little "chessboard of life and death" for immortality. He is very paranoid attempted to do whatever means to stay alive by attempting to unleash an omnicide by wiping out not only the Human race, but beastmen race as well to ensure his reign as a "god" continues to proceed by sending out 500 Apostles.

Ironically, it was Ehit's tremendous arrogance and lust for immortality had ultimately became his downfall when Yue freed herself from his influence, he left himself to be defenseless and has been slayed by Hajime and his "chessboard of life and death" is destroyed for all eternity.

History
Ehit belonged to a race of beings that resided in another world. When that world was being slowly destroyed by unknown causes, Ehit was among a group of survivors that escaped to Tortus. Once they arrived the survivors helped the inhabitants of their new home advance their civilization, which at that point was extremely underdeveloped. Eventually, the survivors dwindled down to only Ehit. In order to escape death, Ehit transcended into a god, and even had a developed a religion called the Holy Church. Overtime, Ehit's personality become extremely cruel, finding enjoyment in terrorizing the other beings of his new world, responsible for mass religious wars, disasters, and famine. One such example was when Ehit orchestrated the destruction of the Sacred Kingdom Klystron (whch was also the most devout nation at the time). The reason behind this act was so that Ehit could absorb all of the mana in the area and create a realm for the gods of Tortus, know as the Sanctuary. The result from such an act would transform the entire region into what would later be known as the the Gruen Desert.

In order to ensure a series of perpetual warfare in Tortus, Ehit created several servile gods that each race would worship individually, and would be willing to fight on their behalf. An example would be the Demons' god Alva.

At some point in time, Ehit fought against Uralt, who was the first avatar of the Grand Tree that acted as a branch for the World Tree in True World Astral, as well as the hero of that era, and defeated them both. Before her death, however, Uralt used the last of her strength to transfer her spirit into the hero's Holy Sword Artifact that was created to defeat Ehit.

"Zero" Timeline'
One day, Ehit's divine oracle from the Holy Church Belta Lievre accidentally came into contact with one of Ehit's Apostles, and saw they true nature of the god she and her religion revered. This prompted Ehit to have Belta killed in order to keep what she knew a secret from the rest of the world, while telling a surprised Belta that this was akin to discarding a "toy". Belta, however, survived thanks to the intervention of Laus Barn, and went on to recruit more people that wished to oppose the off both the Holy Church and its god. Those people would later form the anti-church organization, the "Liberators", that also included the seven "children of Ehit" that each possessed one of the Ancient Magics they inherited from Tortus' god. Ehit was fully aware of Belta's revival and had allowed her to roam free as a means of poviding him with entertainment in the future. In the end, however, the Liberators' fight against the gods resulted in the death of almost all of their members over the course of years. The defeated seven core most powerful members of the organization decided to seclude themselves into self-made Labyrinths around the world, where they could pass on their Ancient Magic to those people who in the future might want to renew their fight against the unfair world and would need the strength to do so. As time passed, Ehit's reign over Tortus continued for countless years.

"Main Series" Timeline
Ehit summoned a group of students from Earth in order to serve as pieces of his board game by aiding humanity in their war against the Demons after they somehow acquired the power to control monsters.



Allies

 * Alva - Alva was Ehit's fellow god and retainer. Alva was very loyal to his master. When Alva is killed by Hajime, Ehit experiences immense fear.
 * True Apostles - The True Apostles were Ehit's personal servants, as he send them for assignments disguised as nuns for various missions such as brainwashing his worshippers in particular various political leaders in order to continue religious wars for his own entertainment as well as killing all those who posed a threat to his games. After Noint's death and failed mission in eliminating Hajime, Ehit send all of his Apostles to assist Freid to kill Hajime and his party to ensure they'll never leave Tortus and return back to Japan alive. Unfortunately, he shown in great fear after his true apostles failed their task and all of them got killed by Hajime.
 * Noint - Noint was Ehit's strongest apostle. He send her to capture Aiko to prevent her to expose the truth and kill Hajime for ruining his "game board". However, after Noint's death and Hajime used her body to revive Kaori, Ehit shown in greater fears and rage as being more insulted by Hajime.
 * Daisuke Hiyama - Despite not meeting him, Ehit found Hiyama's insanity to be amusing as he allowed him to work for him. However, when Hiyama has failed him and died miserably at Hajime's hands, Ehit lost his all of his interest on Hiyama and saw him as a disappointment and worthless for being pathetically weak as well having no intentions of rescuing or resurrecting Hiyama due to his immensely weaknesses.
 * Eri Nakamura - Despite not meeting her, Ehit found Eri amusing and viewed her as an interesting piece and allowed her to work for him to kill her classmates and turn them in undead slaves. After the undead slaves and Hiyama's deaths by Hajime, Ehit is willing to meet Eri as he willing to make her of his uses against her classmates While meeting Eri, Ehit undergone Eri to become an apostle hybrid for her to continually working for him. He manipulated Eri in her desire of having Kouki as a "prize" for her. After captured Yue and possessed her body, Ehit deemed Eri to be worthy of his uses against Hajime and their classmates. While her defeated by Suzu Taniguchi, Eri chose to commit suicide by exploding herself in her last loyalty for Ehit. Ehit however, doesn't care about Eri and viewed her as a pawn.

Enemies

 * Liberators - Ehit's archenemies, the Liberators had learned of Ehit's true nature as an Evil God as well as the fact he had been manipulating the people of Tortus both Humans and Demons to fight and kill each other. Due to having witnessed Ehit's worshippers commiting countless gruesome atrocities from fighting brutal religious wars to sacrificing innocent people just to expressed their devotion to Ehit as well as having the personally suffered from Ehit's tyranny. The Liberators held absolute hatred for the Evil God with Miledi refering him as a rotten scumbag and had worked tirelessly to overthrow him. However, Ehit gleefully manipulated his own victims, his devoted worshippers of both Humans and Demons whom the Liberators were seeking to protect to turn against by branding them as heretics who tried to destroyed the world. And thus the Liberators failed and were forced into hiding themselves in various parts of the World, creating Great Labyrinths as trials for those who could conquered them in hopes of their successors realized their dream of overthrowing Ehit until their hope has came true when Hajime slayed Ehit and destroyed his "game of death" forever.
 * Hajime Nagumo - Ehit's latest archenemy and killer from his summoned heroes, at first, Ehit thought little of Hajime, simply gave him a common non combat Job Class of Synergist without any other blessings such as superhumanly enhanced abilities and a variety of skills as Hajime's classmates had. After Hajime fell into the Orcus Dungeon and succeeded in conquering it, Hajime learnt from Oscar about Ehit's true nature and thus refused to rejoined his classmates and aid the Holy Church and Heligh Kingdom in their war against Demons due to realizing that the war that Ehit summoned them to participate in was simply another twisted entertainment of his and Ehit had in reality summoned them to Tortus to be pawns in his mad game of death. Hajime proved himself to be a far greater threat to Ehit than the Liberators themselves not only due to Hajime newfound immense power, but also his complete disinterest in the well being of the people of Tortus. Ehit's method of turning his worshipers on those who go against him failed to worked on Hajime as unlike the Liberators, Hajime could not care less about Tortus and its people due to his new ruthless personality who is perfectly contend to massacre every last one of his worshipers be they Human or Demons if they come after him at Ehit's orders proven when Hajime and his party massacred a majority of Freid's army along with Ishtar Langbard and the bishops of the Holy Church in the Heligh Kingdom when they tried to attacked Hajime at Ehit's instigation. Ehit thus sent one of his God Apostle Noint to kill Hajime only for Hajime to succeed in slaying Noint, as a last insult, Hajime used Noint body as a vessel for Kaori as well as managed to exposed the truth of a non existent benevolent Ehit that villianized the real Ehit as a new Evil God who has posed as the benevolent Ehit, effectively turning the Humans of Tortus who were supposed to be his devoted worshipers to turned against the false god himself with the help of Aiko and princess Liliana. In the final battle, Hajime fought Ehit (while in take over Yue's body until he got separate from her body by her own freewill) and later killed the false god to end his "chessboard of life and death" forever. After killing Ehit, Hajime earn his newly reputation from his classmates as the "God Slaying Demon King" meaning he can kill any deities or immortal beings.
 * His Former Chosen Heroes and Worshipers - As Hajime stated, while Ehit had blessed his classmates with superHuman abilities and powerful Jobs Classes and variety of Skills as his chosen heroes, in reality, Ehit had summoned them to Tortus as pawns in his mad game of death and thus will never allow them to returned home and is perfectly willing to allow to them die miserable deaths proven when Ehit sent his Apostle Noint to assist Eri and Hiyama in betraying them by massacring the Knights of Heligh Kingdom and inviting the Demons to destroyed the Kingdom and have Eri zombified all of them into her undead puppets as she did to Kondou. However, when the Heroes learns from Aiko and Princess Liliana that they were being used as pawns manipulated by the false god himself, they've turned against him and sided with Hajime caused Ehit shown in fear. The Holy Church and Heiligh Kingdom eventually cleared Hajime's name from his falsely accused heresy when no longer worshiping Ehit anymore. Emperor Gahard shown his disrespects for Ehit by calling him a false god. In the final war, Ehit declared his former "chosen heroes" that he planned to invade of their home world.
 * Kouki Amanogawa - Ehit had chose Kouki to be a potential vessel thus blessed him to be the strongest out of his summoned Heroes by giving him the Job Class of Hero as well as having the highest stats and most amount of Skills out of his classmates. Kouki due to his misguided sense of justice and inability to differentiate between good and evil proved to be one of Ehit's easiest to manipulate pawns, having trained hard in preparation to participate in his war, even attempted to recruit Hajime's extremely powerful party members, Yue, Shea and Tio to joined him in fighting for Ehit. Hajime even stated Kouki will never want to believed that Ehit whom the Humans had worshiped and had also specially chosen him to be the Hero is in reality an Evil God and all his efforts in fighting for Ehit are meaningless and would even get angry at Hajime for supposedly villianize Ehit, a fact which Kouki could not denied. However, after learning from Aiko of Ehit's true nature as an evil god and his manipulative schemes of using him and his classmates as pawns for his game of death including the fact that Eri had personally exposed how Ehit had helped her in betraying them by sending Noint to abduct Aiko and brainwashed King Eliheid and his nobles during her death trap, Kouki despite his misguided sense of justice, begrudgingly forced to accept the truth of Ehit's evil nature and thus lost all of the his trace of respects for the God in his atrocities. When Kouki was corrupted by his trial in the Schnee Labyrinth, Kouki having decided to misinterpreted everything to suit his delusional justice chose to believe Hajime had been slandering Ehit ruining his glory as the chosen hero of Tortus, had continually willing to fulfill his useless heroism by killing Hajime and take his harem to "save" the world in Ehit's name but got easily defeated again. After his second defeat, Ehit revealed to Kouki as his valuable pawn for his "chessboard of life" before rediscovered Yue. When Amanogawa has failed him for the last time, Ehit now deemed Kouki to be useless to him as he is too weak to be of any real use to him in his upcoming final battle against Hajime after he captured Yue and temporarily possessed her body. Ehit has instead found new use in Kouki by using him to manipulate his new servant Eri Nakamura by giving him to her as her "prize" for serving him.
 * Yue - Ehit merely viewed Yue as a "host body" to possess due to her immortality. However, Yue's people has sealed her within the Oscus Labyrinth to ensure he will never search for her. While discovered Yue is one of Hajime's harems, Ehit decided to capture her. After Eri captured Yue, Ehit temporarily possessed her body before his upcoming final battle against Hajime. In his fight with Hajime, Yue was able free herself from Ehit's influence which gave Hajime the upper hand as he successfully killed Ehit and demolished his "chessboard of life and death" once and all. Following his death, Yue obtained all of Ehit's powers.

Weapons & Equipment

 * Divine Sword - A magic sword Artifact that Ehit used during his final fight with Hajime, it has the ability to freely contract and expand, it also can jump through space to attack. It could also penetrate through strong defences.

Powers & Abilities
As Ehit was the last surviving member of his comrades from his dead world who had managed to travel to Tortus with their World's extremely advanced magical research. Ehit possessed numerous powers and abilities that had only continued grow stronger, after he'd ascended into a being of pure thought and energy, to the point that the entire populace of Tortus had regarded his powers as being divine. However, Ehit's power had proven inferior in comparison to Hajime's own power when the latter slayed Ehit after his difficult battle the monstrous murderer due to Yue.

Magical Abilities

 * Magic Mastery - Ehit is shown to be extremely skilled in magic, having completely mastered all seven Ancient Magics (and presumably concept magic) brought from his dying world, to the point that he could easily perform godlike spells and feats normally impossible for regular "mortals" to accomplish. His power was so immense that the majority of Tortus's local populace stood no hope of containing his being due to the sheer might of his powers. The only exceptions being Yue and Kouki Amanogawa, who were the only beings that stood any chance of hosting him and surviving. This is considered incredibly amazing due the fact that Yue was considered an extremely rare, born only once, anomaly among the already extremely powerful Vampire Race and Kouki being an otherworlder summoned from a foreign world. Ehit was also known to have been the one to give each of the Hero Party members their unique job classes via magic.

Skills

 * All Elemental Affinity - A skill to use all kinds of magic.
 * Spell Melding - A skill to fuse 2 kinds of magic.
 * Mana Manipulation - A skill to use magic without chants and magic circles.
 * Image Composition - A skill that creates a magic circle can be just by imagining it.
 * Creation Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of Gods", which grants the user control over any object, structure (be it physical or magical) or mineral, allowing the user to shape or transform them in anyway they wish. It is the only form of Magic which allows for the creation of an "Artifact". The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with any inorganic material'.
 * Gravity Magic - gives the user control over gravity. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the energy of a star', and not just gravity. Theoretically, it could also interfere with things like earth veins or terrestrial heat, bedrock or magma; and it isn’t impossible to use this magic to purposefully generate an earthquake or volcanic eruption.
 * Spatial Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of Gods", which allows the user to manipulate the space around themselves, allowing them to either bend or expand the space near them or move themselves to another space or location. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the boundary'. Meaning it can allow the user to manipulate anything, like elimination of race-creature gap, or formulating a new boundary to create the spirit world; its possible to achieve those kinds of things.
 * Restoration Magic - It allows the user to restore the state of anything to either its previous or original condition. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with time', meaning it has the ability to manipulate the time of anything, anyplace or anyone to a point the user desires to.
 * Spirit Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of Gods", which allows the user to manipulate the soul of a living being directly. It's possible to revive a living being back from the dead (time restriction applicable), or transfer the soul of a living being from one body to another, or even into a non-physical body as well, practically granting a living being immortality. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the negative material possessed by living things'. To be more specific, this magic could also interfere with things like energy inside the body such as mana, heat, electricity, then thought, consciousness, and memory. Those who have mastery over this magic, can even create an artificial consciousness, and allow it to inhabit any body they wish.
 * Evolution Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of Gods", which allows the user to enhance or evolve all other forms of power, be it strong or weak. It can even work on other "Ancient Magic" as well, boosting their power and scope. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the information of existing things'. This magic enhances or evolves an ability or power by a stage of 1, by interfering with the targets information, and then increasing it‘s stage one-by-one.
 * Metamorphosis Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of Gods", which allows the user to remake the form of a normal being and reform them into a different form. Normally its used to remake a normal organism and turn it into a monster, or even manipulate the magic stone of a monster and remake them. But the true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with any organic material'. Meaning not only animals, it's also possible to remake plants or intelligent beings, and reform their structure as needed. Even byproducts of organic material, like paper or food can also be manipulated by this magic. The magic stone which gets created during the process is just a byproduct of the process.

Spells/Attacks

 * Divine Edict - An extremely powerful form of spirit magic that allows the user to control anyone that hears their voice.
 * Soul Transformation - Spirit and Evolution composite magic that can alter a person's soul in order to grant them new abilities, as well as losing abilities.

Quotes

 * (To Belta Lievre): "We’re free to do what we want with our toys, no?"
 * (To Hajime Nagumo): "You really don’t know when to give up, do you? A normal person would have died by now. Hmm, perhaps I should have chosen you as my vessel. I got a little hasty when I learned the vessel I originally planned on taking had finally been rediscovered after three hundred years. Then again, this body is still far more suited to magic than yours."
 * (To Hajime Nagumo): "Why won’t you just die already, you damned Irregular!?"
 * (To Hajime Nagumo): "Hmph, relying on your girlfriend to save you? You’re just wasting your breath. This vessel belongs to me now."
 * (To Hajime Nagumo): "I am-, I am the god!! Irregulaaaaaar!!!
 * (To the Hero Party): "Oh yes, allow me to give you one last parting gift. You have three days. Three days from now, I will dye this planet red with the blood of all mortals. It is the final game I have planned for Tortus."
 * (To the Hero Party): "I’m looking forward to seeing what wonderful games I can play with your world. Though, I suppose since you’ll all be dying here, none of that matters to you."

Trivia

 * Ehit's name is based on the German word "echt", which means "real, genuine, true, authentic".
 * Ehit's role in the creation and destruction of various civilizations throughout Tortus' history coincides with the of "", the repeating cycle of birth, life, and death, as well as one's actions and consequences in the past, present, and future.
 * Ehit's true form is similar to "The Truth" from Fullmetal Alchemist.
 * Ehit's birthday coincides with the fall of the Astran Kingdom, and later the day Yue was betrayed by her retainers when she was Queen of Avatarl.