Zasalamel

Overview

Original Timeline

Abyss

New Timeline

Gallery

Zasalamel

Zasalamel (ザサラメール, Zasaramēru), is a character in the Soul series of fighting games, a man with no allegiances except to himself, though his actions may reasonably be defined as evil. He possess great magical abilities.

Abilities

Zasalamel possesses high fighting skill with his death scythes. Zasalamel also possesses high magic abilities and could master most spells after seeing them used once. It is almost impossible to truly kill Zasalamel, as whenever he dies his soul will be reborn in a new body with all of his previous body traits and memories. He is capable of using a special magic to open up a magnet portal to the jet-black world of the abyss. He can also open up a portal to the void, which he can seal up when he no longer needs it. He is also capable of creating solid illusions that can fight, and also summoning undead servants (like Revenant). In Soulcalibur VI, he has shown to able to curse the opponent. Said curse affects the very flow of time, as he can effectively stop it with a single gesture (be it by snapping his fingers or hitting the hilt of his scythe on the ground).

Weapons

• Kafziel
• Death Scythe
• Harvester
• Ankou
• Balor
• Mrtyu
• Irkalla
• Beak
• The Ancient

Stages

• Clock Tower (SC3)
• Grand Labyrinth - Corridor of Suspended Time (SC4/SCBD)

Theme Music

Soul Calibur III - Time Marches on (Zasalamel)

Soulcalibur III, Time Marches on

SCIV Lost in the Mirage 17

Soulcalibur IV, Lost in the Mirage

Trivia

General

• Zasalamel may originally be Sumerian, judging by the names of his attacks being figures of Sumerian myth and legend, which would make him the only known character to be Sumerian.
• It is said that his golden left eye contains his soul, which stays with him in all his incarnations.
• Zasalamel's normal eye is gray, which is very rare outside of Northern and Eastern Europe.
• In an interview prior to the release of Soulcalibur III, Senior Designer, Hideo Yoshie, mentioned that it's "possible" Zasalamel was a woman in a past life. Soulcalibur VI would later confirm this.
• With the murder of the remnants of his old tribe by the hands of Raphael during the events of Soulcalibur IV, Zasalamel is perhaps the only individual left who knows of their ways and techniques.
• Zasalamel is the first and only black character in the Soul series to date (although it should noted that Spawn, the Xbox exclusive character in Soulcalibur II, was black when he was alive). The origin of the current incarnation is speculated to be in the Nubian region of Africa.
• In the Japanese version of the games, Zasalamel's attacks have two names: one in English that's written in katakana (e.g., Anu's Justice's first name being ジャスティス・オブ・アヌ) and a second name that's written in normal Japanese (Anu's Justice's second name being 天空の司、アヌの裁き).

Soulcalibur III

• It appears that in Zasalamel's Input Ending, Zasalamel is dead when he finishes his last book, or waiting for his life to end. Some argue that it is neither, that he is just asleep from writing so many books.
• Zasalamel and his alter ego, Abyss, are the only characters in Soulcalibur III's Tales of Souls Story Mode to be fought in everyone's story even if the player uses Zasalamel.

Soulcalibur IV

• In Chain of Souls, Zasalamel is one of two characters shown exploiting both Siegfried and Nightmare, the first being Shura.
• It seems that the only known way to play as Revenant is to play through Zasalamel's Story Mode.
• In the Story Modes of Siegfried, Kilik, and Algol, Zasalamel creates illusions of those who are close to these three and who are now dead. It should also be noted that all these people were inadvertently killed by the respective character. In Siegfried's, Zasalamel creates his father Frederick, who Siegfried accidentally killed. In Kilik's, he recreates Xianglian, Kilik's beloved adopted sister and Xianghua's biological sister, and in Algol's, he recreates Arcturus, Algol's son who the king was forced to kill thousands of years ago when the youth was possessed by Soul Edge.
• Zasalamel's ending is the second to involve modern times, the first one being Soul Edge's ending in Soul Edge.

Soulcalibur V

• Even though he does not appear in game, his Soulcalibur IV player 1 character model was found when the games files were hacked. Apparently Zasalamel, Kamikirimusi and 2 or 3 Generic Female Characters served as placeholders for other Legendary Souls bosses that were discarded. Hideo Yoshie via his twitter account reported that Zasalamel was not planned for Soulcalibur V.
• Zasalamel, Talim, Yun-seong and Rock are the only characters not to appear and not to have a successor to replace them.
• In addition, Zasalamel's weapon is represented by one of the statues on Algol's stage.

Soulcalibur VI

• By default, Zasalamel is the only male character to have the sacred visual during his soul charge.
• His taunt animation against Nightmare and Inferno is that from Abyss.
• Zasalamel is the first of two characters known thus far who have any knowledge of the Original Timeline, the second being Cassandra.
• Regarding the background of Zasalamel's artwork, according to the official Soulcalibur twitter account: "Zasalamel's backgrounds are filled with motifs related to "time," and the symmetrical composition indicates perfection. The use of motifs reminiscent of the Mesopotamian civilization in some of the patterns is a clue to his roots."

Series' Appearances

• Soulcalibur III
• Soulcalibur IV
• Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny
• Soulcalibur VI