Ziz

Ziz
Japanese name:	ジズ
Also known as:	Old Man (by Bai Ruolong)
Appearances
Primary franchise:	Fate
Appears in:	The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II
Characteristics
Species:	Human, Magus
Gender:	Male
Age:	25 (physically) 2300+ (actual)
Affiliations
Organization:	Mage's Association - Wandering Sea
Family members
Creation(s):	Ergo Bai Ruolong

Ziz (ジズ, Jizu^?) is a member of the Wandering Sea, part of the Guénon workshop. He is an antagonist appearing in The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II.

Profile

Background

Ziz was one of the magi involved in the creation of Ergo, along with the Crudelis family of Atlas and Wuzhiqi. He possesses the third claim to Ergo. He is the mentor of Bai Ruolong, who he created as a backup for his plans with Ergo.

Ziz having the third claim to Ergo behind Wuzhiqi and the Crudelis family means that something might happen to him before Ziz's turn comes. Nevertheless he has an opponent who he has been waiting years for, and so he wants to set up the board just in case for when his opponent arrives, hence his desire to obtain Akira Yakou. When asked who his opponent was Ziz showed a mask of Sun Wukong.

Appearance

Ziz looks like he's in his mid-twenties but is much older than that. He is described as a gray wolf.

Personality

Ziz loves gambling. He chose to be a mage solely because that would raise the ceiling for what kinds of bets he can make. All the logic and the calculations are lost forever at the ends of the betting act. Winning or losing doesn't make a difference, because by the point you place something in the wagering scales, that means you don't mind losing it. You can build something up for thousands, even millions of years, but it only gains meaning when you throw it away.

The view of the moon makes him want to drink.

To Ziz, students are precious tools he dedicated the most time and effort to produce.

Role

The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II

The Man Who Devoured God

Disguised as an actor portraying Sun Wukong in a show reenacting his battle with Nezha, Ziz gave Gray and Lord El-Melloi II a flower with a secret note attached. The note claimed one of El-Melloi II's students had been kidnapped and he should seek out the "Consultant". Though this later turns out to have been a lie, it was what got El-Melloi II in contact with Ergo. Ziz orchestrated their meeting because the old agreement didn't let him meet Ergo out of turn, but if he didn't intervene in any way, the game would end on Latio Crudelis Hiram's turn and that just wouldn't be any fun.

The Devil of the Wandering Sea

Several months ago Ziz made a bet with Akane Yakou: His student Bai Ruolong would kidnap her granddaughter Akira Yakou. If the Yakous got Akira back they could do whatever they wanted with Bai Ruolong; conversely, if Ruo succeeded then Ziz could do whatever he wanted with Akira. He proposed this bet instead of simply kidnapping Akira because consent is important in magecraft. Stealing the Divine Body wouldn't do anything to the Yakous' contract with their god, so mutual consent was a key factor. But more importantly, Ziz just loves gambling.

After the incident with Akira was resolved and Ergo and Bai Ruolong had the battle they wished for, Ziz appeared. As Akira didn't want to leave Ruo, that meant Ziz had won a bet he didn't actually want to win. Begrudgingly taking his prize, Ziz split the Yakou Divine Body in two, leaving half for the Yakou and half for him to feed to Ruo. A fair compromise for all, but not ideal for anyone. Ziz asked Ergo if he could remember him; Ergo couldn't but knew he hated him anyway, which Ziz found an ideal answer. After telling El-Melloi II to prepare Ergo and his students before going after Ergo's third god, Ziz then teleported away with both Bai Ruolong and Akira.

Legacy of the Alchemist

After three hours of painful spiritual surgery, Ziz manages to remove 70% of Rhongomyniad's shadow from Bai Ruolong. It has been unbearably painful for Ruo. A seal on the level of Rhongomyniad Mythos is rare even for the standards of the Age of Gods, and without the surgery it would have taken over a century to dissipate on its own.

Although Ruo questions if it was a good idea to let Ergo go, Ziz is confident that El-Melloi II will never be able to guess the identity of Ergo's third god and so he is in no hurry to rush right now, but he is looking forward to El-Melloi II discovering something significant.

Later, Flat Escardos calls El-Melloi II to say that he's having tea with Ziz in Monaco.

Fem's Casa

Waver and Ergo confronting Ziz.

Following Flat's phone call, El-Melloi II flies to Monaco to confront Ziz. Once they meet, Ziz challenges him to a game at Van-Fem's casino. Ziz also tasks Bai Ruolong with capturing Shirou Emiya, who had recently defeated Van-Fem in a game, to learn how he did it.

Ziz has taken Melvin Weins and Ye Sizhen as his apprentices. When Ziz is shot with one of Kiritsugu Emiya's Origin Bullets by an unknown assailant, he is declared dead by Van-Fem and Melvin sends him away for burial at sea with Age of Gods Magecraft that Ziz taught him. Some time later a massive spell begins to converge on Monaco from the sea, which could only be Ziz's doing, and Van-Fem laments that if he were only 700 years younger he could have figured out what Ziz was up to.

Abilities

As a mage of the Wandering Sea, Ziz uses Age of Gods magecraft. The god that Ziz (and by extension, his students) is contracted with to use his magecraft is Zagreus.

Ziz is capable of teleportation by drawing a mark in the air, which calls up a powerful gust of wind. Although in the modern day teleportation is in the domain of Magic and as such impossible for normal magi to do, Ziz is a mage from the Wandering Sea and therefore from a different era, so it's just magecraft to him. He knows an ancient spiritual surgery which he used to cut the Yakou Divine Body in half. After three hours of surgery on Bai Ruolong, Ziz could remove 70% of the effects of Rhongomyniad Mythos's seal on him.

Ziz taught Ruo a special spell for emergencies; enabling his baguazhang to hit the Divine Arms' core. The Wandering Sea spell Ruo shot Ergo with sealed Sun Wukong completely, so Ergo couldn't load his Divine Core, but he could still use the Phantom Hands just fine.