Illyria (Angel)

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Illyria is a demonic television character who features in Angel.

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Biography

Illyria was a powerful demon who commanded a kingdom and was one of the Old Ones who once ruled the Earth long ago. In that time, they possessed a mighty army of warriors and a priest to serve them. During their era, they knew of a trio of demons known as the Wolf, the Ram and the Hart who were minor beings that were barely above Vampires in terms of power. Eventually, Illyria was defeated and their essence was trapped within a sarcophagus that was sealed within the Deeper Well on Earth. (Episode: Shells)

The Old One's resurrection was masterminded by her worshiper Knox, who chose Fred — with whom he had fallen in love — as the vessel for Illyria's reincarnation. However, due to geological changes and the continental shifting from place to place, the sarcophagus teleported outside of the United States. Somehow it was transported to U.S. soil, but it was held up at Customs at LAX airport. Knox plotted with doctor Sparrow, who blackmailed Charles Gunn into using his restored knowledge of the laws to release the sarcophagus from Customs. (Episode: Shells) After its release, Knox had the sarcophagus delivered directly to Fred at Wolfram & Hart's science lab. In order to maintain his cover, Knox claimed the sarcophagus was impenetrable to lasers and imaging beams. When Fred touched one of the purple crystals embedded into the surface of the coffin, a gust of air was released directly to her mouth. Illyria manifestation was described as an infection that liquefied her organs, hardened her skin, and consumed her spirit. After hours of increasing agony, Illyria completely overtook Fred's body. (Episode: A Hole in the World)

He found her a pastime: training with Spike. More accurately, she would beating the vampire up while he tried to ask her how she felt when he hit her and recorded the details on a clipboard. Although Illyria criticized his adaptability, declaring adaptation to be a compromise, she enjoyed beating him up, expressing her desire to keep him as a pet. (Episode: Origin) When Wesley mentioned to Illyria that Gunn was trapped in Wolfram & Hart's Holding Dimension, Illyria opened a portal and rescued him without hesitation, later noting the great debt that the group owes to her. In the process of finding Gunn, she destroyed eleven torture units, two troop carriers, an ice cream truck, eight "beautifully maintained" lawns, and "rendered useless" dozens of Wolfram & Hart employees, according to Marcus Hamilton. (Episode: Time Bomb)

In her weeks reincarnated, Illyria's power grew unstable, throwing her out of linear progression of the timeline, altering her perspective as her power sought a way to escape its shell. Initially, she killed Spike, Wesley, Lorne, and Angel in a confrontation, interpreting their actions as an attempt to kill her; however, during her time jumps, she dragged an earlier version of Angel into the present, revealing what just took place before she detonated, potentially causing enough destruction to wipe out the continent. The explosion sent Angel backward in time to shortly before Illyria killed the others, allowing him to use his foreknowledge of their deaths to save his friends and calm Illyria down. Before Illyria could detonate again, Wesley used a Mutari generator to extract a large portion of her power, effectively ending the threat. (Episode: Time Bomb)

As a result of the Mutari generator, Illyria was stripped of much of her strength, as well as her abilities to alter time. She grew bitter, withdrawn, and humiliated after the loss of her powers, which she considered a significant defeat, stating that "this fate [was] worse than death." After recognizing Wesley's feelings for the "shell," Illyria wished to further explore Fred's relationship with Wesley; however, he rejected any possibility of accepting her in Fred's form. (Episode: The Girl in Question) Illyria developed a connection with Spike, who communicated easily with her and helped her venture into the world. He explained to her why Wesley began ignoring her: she may consider herself extremely weakened, but for a lot of people, her ability to take on Fred's form and persona was her strongest ability due to the emotional ties everyone had to Fred. Spike also invited Illyria to go demon hunting with him, when she easily killed a Boretz demon with one kick. (Episode: Power Play)

Overview

Personality and attributes

In its native appearance, Illyria was a massive multi-armed demonic creature with tentacles along with blades. (Episode: Shells) She was known as the God-King of the Primordium and as the Shaper of Things. (Episode: Time Bomb) Upon her resurrection, the entity came to take over the body of Winifred Burkle. (Episode: Shells)

In the demon age, Illyria was noted for being a great monarch and a warrior. (Episode: Shells) She believed that never dying and to conquer all was the act of winning. In her era, betrayal was held as being a neutral word and was as unjudged as water or a breeze. Illyria saw humans as being akin to motes of dust and like mayflies who died as soon as they were born to the point that she saw that there was no point of them living at all. (Episode: Time Bomb) Upon her resurrection, she came to be surprised that humans still persisted on Earth and had thought that they would have died out long ago. (Episode: Shells)

Illyria was held as being unpredictable, dangerous and too powerful a being. (Episode: Time Bomb)

Powers and abilities

The ancient demon operated akin to an infection and could consume a human body to be their new form with the soul of the host being destroyed in the process. (Episode: Shells)

It was said that Illyria was loved and feared as few of the Old Ones were, so much so that she still had followers and acolytes in the modern day, arguably millions of years after her reign. (Episode: A Hole in the World)

Chief among Illyria's followers was the person that held the title of Qwa'ha Xahn who served as head priest. (Episode: Shells)

Illyria once possessed a horde of warriors that were referred to as an army of doom. (Episode: Shells)

Notes

  • Illyria was created by Joss Whedon where she featured in the Buffy-Angel universe.

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