MEAZS

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MEAZS (/miːʒ/, MEE-zh) is major character in doughbyte. He is a prominent figure to all 13 Rockbiter tribes, acting as the chieftain of Clearstone during the story's events. He is the father to ZEHAL, husband to ELLAI and brother to JAKAL.

Appearance

MEAZS is brightly orange scaled, dons a pair of distinctive light pink, downward-curling, forward-pointing horns, and has deep purple eyes. He wears a dark brown knee-high skirt, and is sometimes depicted wearing a skull of unknown origin atop his head and a pair of bone-colored pauldrons. He carries a simple axe with a single long blade and a hook on the opposite end, which is described to have inscriptions of ZSUNG.

Characterization

MEAZS has a passionate and bombastic personality, infusing all his actions and words with optimistic flair. He embraces the role of his leadership and thrives in the spotlight. Though he expresses great tenderness and love to his family, he can be candid to a degree that they sometimes find distasteful. CASEI describes him and his family as "loud, energetic, and prideful."

Plot events

Murder of AURAK

MEAZS is most notable for the sudden and unexpected assassination of AURAK, the CHEVRIN king since the beginning of the story. The king's abrupt death led to the rapid scaling of the CHEVRIN invasion of the Caldera, changing its purported goal from the filling of the Glaciercreek reservoir to a full genocide of the Llokin race, and prompting the Church to reconnect with the ostensibly long-estranged Glacierdwellers.

Shortly after the king's death, the Church is locked down and MEAZS is discovered by IGLAS, who captures and gravely wounds him. However, supposedly impressed by MEAZS's resilience, IGLAS lets MEAZS escape and declares MEAZS will be made the new CHEVRIN king should he return.

His fate is currently unknown.

Related characters

• ELLAI, JAKAL, ZEHAL - family
• ROMAL - rival chieftain