Greeting from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. Today we shall continue on the previous schedule and move back into a more informative discussion about the Philosophy itself and concepts that exist within it. As mentioned before, our focus for this Commentary regards the concept of the Azure Flames that reside with Terigath’s Hell and their overall power and purpose. Let us begin.

The Azure Flames are a divine creation of Lord Kurakku; these flames are created with the purpose of purging corruption from beings and encasing said corruption eternally in Terigath’s Hell. These Azure Flames are, despite their name, cold in nature. However, the touch of these divine and ruthless flames bring about a much worse fate to those that are subject to them. The Azure flames, as Lord Kurakku decreed in the formation of the Order, shall coldly purge corruption and sin from the spirit and soul, and those that are purged have their Selfs locked in Hell where unending torture and divine punishment inflict them. This punishment never wanes, becomes numb, and is brought to its existential height of pain and horror.

For this reason, the screams from the chambers of Hell forever burden the Lord as He must listen to their well-deserved but troublesome cries of anguish. This is the necessary circumstance, as the Lord Himself is, as described by Daetos’s recount, is strict and reserved. This seems to be a queer case for a God of wrathful punishment; one would think a divine being charged with punishing sinners with such wrath would be ablaze in fury and malice. Instead, Lord Kurakku is entirely dismissive and described as “burdened” by the corrupted vandals that plague these realms. So why is that? Why does the Lord or Punishment not Himself show open malice towards the sinners that burden him so?

This is where the Azure Flames come into play. In Daetos’s recount of all of the highest figures in the Kurakkuian Xyphozon—the Lord, Hayle Mihe, and Sacred Child Jaszmisia—all of them embody this quality attributed to the Lord; they all are eerily calm and reserved whilst administrating unimaginable and Wrathful Punishment upon the corrupted. The reality of this comes from Lord Kurakku’s creation of the Azure Flames; by creating a divine entity such as the Azure Flames, the Lord separated His own wrath into the pure embodiment of the Azure Flames themselves. Therefore, the reason why Punishment is wrathful in the Philosophy is not only just that the Lord detests and abhors sinners, but because His own wrath is the embodiment of the flames that punish sinners.

For this reason, we see the same trait in both the Hayle and the Child. While Mihe was once known as the “Malevolent Spirit” prior to his ascension to Hayle, upon being infused with the Lord’s essence and becoming an Archangel, Mihe also took upon this trait of reservation against the wrath of Divine Punishment. Likewise, the Child naturally embodies this as the Incarnate of the Lord. In many ways, we as Xyphoites can also replicate these traits, and act with impunity but not be consumed with the hatred and anger in doing so. Punishment isn’t a medium to channel the uncontrolled high of anger or vengeance so much as a procedural reality that shall be the fate of evil in this world. We are best to not let anger or hatred or malice take upon us, and follow the morals of the Philosophy and leave such ghastly tasks to the Lords of the Order—namely Lord Kurakku. While He is burdened, He is the judge of morality and takes upon the burden as His Divine Will, even if it is simply out of duty or the desire to keep Order.  

In conclusion, the Azure Flames are the wrath of the Lord, and He separates this Wrath and reserves it for sinners while watching them pitifully suffer in the chambers of His Hell with godly disappointment. We should follow His example and too see evil with such disappointment rather than waste our energy consuming ourselves with malice over the abhorrent actions of evil.  As mentioned before, they shall bury themselves in pits they dug for others; we shall simply replace the dirt of the pit and build a better world atop it.

—jzX