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| “ | For the longest time, I thought I could rule everything around me and become so powerful without becoming a god. Then I was ultimately proven wrong, and my present state shows that I can't so much as rule anything as powerful as the Multiverse. Now if you need a god to lead the people into victory, then so be it. I'm your god, man. And besides, a god always needs to rule any and all that exists, and then some. Otherwise, well, what's the point? What's the point, pray you, of being a god? | „ |
| ~ Ezekiel Stayne on godhood |
The Maestro, real name Sir Ezekiel Stayne, also known as Remiok Sethos, Nekrobile, and Sakriel Maestromus is one of the two secondary antagonists of Multiversal Legends (alongside Niklovich) and Tales of the Omniverse. He is He is Wade Stevenson's arch-nemesis and sworn rival and also the ally/occasional rival to Master Magus and Niklovich.
Ezekiel is a highly ruthless and genocidal mastermind with a god complex who's primary goal is the complete eradication of the human race and ascension to godhood, who later became a demon and the right hand man of Nekrozoth. He was once an powerful magic user and a elf who once run a cult that worships Nekrozoth, who orchestrated a bloody war between humans and elves so that they could sacrifice the souls of both sides to Nekrozoth. He later poisoned all of the members in order to open a portal to Oblivion and gain demonic powers. As the Maestro, he is the absolutely monstrous and sadistic dictator of multiple worlds who seeks to dominate the Multiverse, later the Omniverse.
Maestro manipulated the surviving Elves by exploiting their hatred towards humanity and throughout the centuries on Earth plans the destruction of the human race. Taking on many names and alias through out the years such as "Haman", "Set" and "Heinrich Himmler". He lead the Adeptum Circle, a powerful militia cult who worships Nekrozoth who weaponize evil beings and causing havoc in order to take control of the world and a sub-faction of The Hunter's Party and The Empire of Eternal Darkness. Acting as a totalitarian manipulator and extremely corrupt dark priest whose treatment of his church and the town they reside in was considered a fascism by many, with Ezekiel acts as a monstrous Machiavellian with influence over the town of Anarchy Oaks. He plans to harness the powers of the Prime Omegas his power to influence the world's economy: by spreading war, death, and pain.
Later in the franchise, he becomes even more monstrous and shows to have a twisted nihilistic view on life. When he invaded the Pandora Foundation and stole one of their Omniversal teleportation device during his arc in Multiversal Legends, he hasn't made a single appearance in the Multiversal Legends franchise until he later appears in later projects in Tales of The Omniverse. Once he finally returns, he was worse than he was before and became a omnicidal maniac who commits needless acts of genocide on several species he comes across and his god complex worsens. He became a servant of Nekrozoth and now desiring to remake the omniverse as he and Nekrozoth saw fit. Ezekiel desires to not just see humanity suffer but every sentient being he knows of too. His new goal is to finish what Nekrozoth has started, by weaponizing the Omniverse and turning it into a living bomb capable of killing all sentient life and cosmic beings so he could rewrite the law of reality in his own liking and tear down the omniverse as his twisted excuse of playing god. He and Nekrozoth are responsible for causing the mass reboot of the franchise and is one of the most evil villains in the franchise.
He was a major antagonist of Phase 2 and 5 of Champions of the Multiverse, as one of the main antagonist of Pandora Files, the titular main antagonist of both The Malice of the Maestro saga, and The Maestro Among Us arc in Forces, and one of the final antagonists of Tales of The Omniverse.
History
Backstory
Ezekiel Stayne was an elf who grew up in a small town in the once mystical land of Alfheilm near the beginning of the Dark Ages/Medieval Times. During that time, the elves and humans were at war where his parents were killed by a band of humans who raided his village. He was soon sent to an orphanage, It was not long until he finally knows the difference from him and the other children and even from the elves themselves in his home. Ezekiel was a genius child prodigy among the other children which gave him a sense of arrogance in him. In his home city full of magic and science, Ezekiel has surpassed even the adults themselves in such fields. He can control his mana better than everyone else even surpassing everyone in his home city that no one could surpass him. He was soon adopted by a Elf general who's intention was to raise a powerful soldier in order to enslave the humans, preaching his philosophy to how inferior humans and trained him on how to kill which soon gave Ezekiel a twisted fascination of war and carnage whom he hid under a guise of a curious elf knowing such fascination would lead to isolation.
Eventually over the years, he grew smarter and stronger that he arguably became the strongest and smartest of his species which gave him a minor god complex which he also hid from his fellow elves. The war had ended and both the Elves and Humans made a piece treaty, however Stayne still retained a hatred of humanity. When one refused to kneel to him Stayne decided to start another war between Humanity and Elven kind by poisoning his king and blamed it on the humans, while doing the same with a human king. The new Elven-Human War lead his people to near extinction as the elves lost the war as well as their home as a price for the war. Stayne did not care however, as he still seeks to end humanity while callously disregarding the suffering of his kind. He used this as a means to motivate his kind to hate his humanity and lead another genocidal war, dooming his kind to repeat history.
Over the centuries of planning the demise of the human race, Stayne and his Elven walked the Earth while gaining many names and aliases. Stayne was known as "Loki" to the Vikings and was worshiped as a wicked trickster god. Then during World War II, he killed the real Heinrich Himmler and stole his identity and was the one who caused the creation of concentration camps on Earth. He later encountered the wicked Master Magus and decided to work for him for his own benefit and so that Magus can help him end humanity. He acts as a right hand to the Master Magus and works as the founder and leader of the Adeptum Circle as well as being the acting head manager of Omega Corp while Magus is scheming in the shadows.
Champions of The Multiverse (Phase One)
Ezekiel Stayne makes his first appearance in the first half of Phase One, where he tampered with the new military project called the "Demon" serum created by scientist Jonathan Moriarty. He stole credit in making the serum and fired Moriarty from the company which leading Jonathan to drink the serum in order to have his revenge on Omega Corp for stealing his creation.
Alliances
With his most notable allies including: his psychotic "son", Steven Maelstrom, whom Maestro manipulated and twisted his mind into a monstrous megalomaniac like him, his undead armies of Corrupti, who are fanatically devoted to him, the sadistic serial killer Diabolus, the equally psychotic Deacon Helfyre, his equally power-hungry ally Master Magus, the sadistic criminal mastermind Niklovich, the omnicidal lunatic Xorin, his top scientists Kellbourne, and his limitless armies of criminals, serial killers, psychos, sadists, megalomaniacs, perverts, terrorists, fanatics, and even demons and aliens who are insanely devoted and loyal to him no matter the cost, all by his side. Most of all, there is his master Nekrozoth, his equally omnicidal, power-hungry and monstrous god of evil and chaos who has the same goal as him. Maestro is infinitely merciless and dangerous and therefore will stop at nothing until all of existence of under his tyrannical rule, or if they do not wish to bow to him, destroy all of existence and not care about the results.
Appearance
| “ | He's just a monster wearing skin. | „ |
| ~ Wade Stevenson about Maestro |
Maestro/Ezekiel Stayne is a man in his near 30s, dressed in a black suit and has a pure white tie. He has Caucasian skin and has the typical sharp ears Elves are known to have (though he sometimes hides this in order to blend in with the humans). He also has purple eyes and black hair. He also has a white warsuit similar to the Lexosuit used by DC villain Lex Luthor and the Iron-Monger from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He also has a white metal mask with his warsuit to protect his head. After he makes his returns in the franchise he now has a scar across his left eye which is blinded. He also seen to wear a white glove on his left hand, the glove is used to hide his mechanical hand which he uses t replace his original hand a while ago. The reason behind this is unknown, though it may perhaps use to mechanize himself into something stronger.
In his more demonic form, he wears a crown and has a demonic hedgehog like appearance with yellow sharp teeth, and pale grayish purple-skin. The only major difference with his appearance now is that when he shifts to his vampire form, his eyes turn demonic black and red, and his teeth has vampiric fangs that stay protruded, but not enough to impair his speech. He looks somewhat akin to Satan, which is fitting since he acts as one of the demon lords of Hell. Later on in the series he still kept his crown and demonic appearance, but has now have a scarred left eye that is now pure white, and is seen in his armor that makes him mores suited as a classic tyrannical villain. Later, after he turns into a god and immortality, he looks more godly but still quite demonic. He has almost the same appearance as Father's godly form, except again with pale grayish purple skin, and now yellow, fanged teeth. His attire has not much changed at this rate but still retains his crown and armor warsuit.
Personality
Maestro is an insane, twisted and cruel entity that enjoys causing chaos around the multiverse, he has no remorse or empathy on what he does as he believes it as a game to him, and claims that life is a meaningless experiment by formed by the gods. It is mainly his unpredictability and his cruelty that earns him the fear of even the most ruthless and menacing of other villains from other worlds and why his most loyal allies are cautious of him. His minions usually refers to him as "boss" when he is not around or when they are sent on other missions. This is because Maestro prefers absolute anonymity, and is quick to resort to violence and intimidation in order to ensure that his allies and minions do not speak his name out of line. Typical of a psychopath, he is completely unapologetic, unsympathetic, and remorseless towards his crimes, and is devoid of empathy, and hates human feelings deeply, as he sees them as weaknesses that could be distracting with his plans. Even as a child in a land of Alfhielm, he developed a warped fascination of death and carnage, something he saw as good and thought it would be a good idea of creating a world of bloodshed and destruction.
He acts as a sociopath with little love or empathy towards others and callously disregards the suffering of his own people, having a belief that death is inevitable to avoid and will come to attack others eventually. Ultimately, he love death, destruction, and pain seeing it as the most beautiful thing in creation. Stayne shows some symptoms of sadomasochism as he shows pleasure in his pain as demonstrated when being strangled by Master Magus, he is heard giggling when trying to grasp for air which hints that he might have enjoyed being strangled. When getting shot in the leg, he does seem in pain but is shown smiling at the same time with a hint of joy in his pain. As a "fanatical" follower of Nekrozoth, he shows some form of loyalty towards the Dark God to the point that he does not see him as evil, but above concepts of morality itself. When he was a Nekrozothic priest, he would preach the twisted morals and philosophy in a manner similar to a preacher at church would preach about God. However he is not completely loyal, as he has his own ambitions which includes becoming the sole ruler of the omniverse and only sees him as a stepping stone in gaining power. Like other minions of Nekrozoth, he also wants to hoard all of the power himself which makes him as ambitious as Nazaroth.
He is also violent and unhinged, so he has no regards for any life whatsoever, not even his own. Compared to most tyrants, who only seeks to maintain their power, get their revenge on the hero, or get absolute power at the expense of others, the Maestro is outright obsessed with the domination of the entire Multiverse, later the Omniverse; true enough, he has an inhuman amount of knowledge of the Multiverse and the realities that are a part of it thanks to his dealings with the Prime Omegas.
Perhaps what is most dangerous about him is his undeniably high intelligence; he is knowledgeable, persuasive, sophisticated, cunning, refined, capable, charismatic, deceptive, calculating, sly, and absolutely brilliant, with an especially loquacious and eloquent form of vocabulary. Conversely, he is also dishonest, traitorous, manipulative, unscrupulous, exploitative, and deceptive, at the same time, as he knows very well on how to manipulate and deceive others into doing his bidding, as well as throw off any suspicion of his true colors until he deems it necessary otherwise. Put simply, he is a devious mastermind with plenty of intelligence and persuasion to outmatch and outwit many villains from other worlds and do so with a cheerful smile on his face and not a shred of arrogance on his mind. As such, Maestro knows just how to corrupt even those who are pure of heart, from manipulation to threats to sadistic mind games to even torture and painful experiments; in fact, he has a very corruptible presence, as he can bring out the worst in people with just his charisma or threats.
He derives sadistic pleasure in turning innocent people into monsters, devoid of their very innocence and personality, and turning them into nothing more than vicious tools that would go so far as to kill their loved ones, all for the sake of serving him. Sadly, though, he also does not even see his own minions, though he is aware of them being quite ruthless and sadistic on their own, as living beings, but as tools for his own goals, and is willing to sacrifice them if he deems it necessary to. All in all, Maestro is so entirely obsessed with absolute power that he is willing to torture or kill anyone that dares to stand in his way, and is so megalomaniacal that he is willing to sacrifice and fake any meaningful relationships if he deems it necessary. In fact, he actually takes glee in breaking apart and tearing apart relationships, using lies, blackmail, corruption, extortion, threats, and deceit to do so, going so far as to actually compare it to broken glass, their broken bonds being the "glass", while he "shatters" it. He was willing to kick start a war that lead to the near genocide of his kind, then poisoned all of the members of his cult he started just so that he could sacrifice their souls to Nekrozoth and gain demonic powers that puts him above a normal demon.
Contrary to other tyrants, he is not arrogant or egotistical, or at least isn't as much, as he knows all too well that they are weaknesses that can be easily exploited and taken advantage of, as he says. Despite this,he has the one flaw in tyrants that isn't egotism or paranoia, as he wants nothing more than to make himself powerful and become the total ruler of the entire Multiverse, but he knows that his plans have flaws and makes certain that they are managed and not to be exploited by his enemies. This also spawns another disgusting side of him, as he outright enjoys killing and torturing anyone who isn't on his side. This was shown quite often with him, as whenever he meets his allies on other worlds, he makes certain that he is completely hidden by its authorities, and makes certain that he is never exposed. He is also willing to exploit his victims' weaknesses as a method of distracting them from harming him. He is was once outright afraid of dying, as he will gladly take the first chance of gaining ultimate power and immortality, even if means sacrificing anyone close to him. This is especially true when he decided to transfer his soul into Victor Dracula's body, since he is half-human, half-vampire, not caring in the slightest that he was just a teenager, and that he has his friends who cares about him. When he became Victor, he wasted no time to get his revenge on killing the ones who killed him in his old body. This happens yet again when he takes over Jaune Sega's body, worse still, considering he was an insecure teenager, and his reason for choosing him was purely out of sadistic glee rather than necessity.
However after becoming immortal and becoming a demon, he became a twisted nihilist ever since. Ever since he became a demon and lived a very long life, he grew bored and thought lift have became duller, and that the omniverse is not perfect which lead him to be a omnicidal maniac who seeks to destroy everything in the omniverse to become a god, and so that he could also remake it in his twisted image. However he still kept his goal of becoming a all-powerful god and wanting to rule everything in existence, even if he had to destroy and remake it in his image. He does not care if he dies, since in his final moments he accepted his death at the hands of Nekrozoth, who devoured his existence when Maestro no longer became useful.
A truly diabolical and outright psychotic tyrant and an especially monstrous character in a sea of multiple irredeemable and especially fiendish characters, Maestro wants nothing more than to make certain that his plans are fulfilled, and is gladly willing to kill anyone who stands in his way, be they man, woman, or child, and does all this with a businessman-like, cheerful disposition. He is a completely certifiable, delusional, and monomaniacal psychopath with an insane and hypocritical desire for power, death, and destruction, completely selfish and narcissistic desires and ambitions, and showing a massive sadistic evil that outmatches quite the amount of tyrants like him with the exception of Nekrozoth; as an example of that fact, he actually laughed insanely when he saw many innocent people being brutally slaughtered to death, all for the sake of his deranged amusement, both in the Champions reality, and when he invaded the past version of Steven Maelstrom's reality. Even when his allies were literally fighting for their lives, Maestro saw this war as nothing but a show for his own petty amusement. He commits all of his horrendous crimes out of his own free will, and takes pride and joy for all of his crimes, and is without qualms or regrets about his numerous atrocities. In spite of his jovial personality, and his claimed good intentions, he is truly a heartless, sadistic, spiteful, and omnicidal maniac with no regard to anyone except himself, and is willing to do whatever it takes to get the power to rule all of existence, or if they do not wish to submit to him, to kill everyone and everything in existence. Alongside Nekrozoth and Niklovich, he is the most depraved and monstrous out of all the other villains that exist in the franchise, surpassing even other villains there on the title of being the worst of the worst (with only being outclassed by his master Nekrozoth) Along with that, what is certainly unnerving about him is that he is certainly aware of the difference between good and evil, yet gladly chooses evil, and is willing to do whatever it takes to become absolute ruler of all that exists.
Even though he treats them with respect and is sociable and gregarious towards them, he does not truly care of even his own allies, and views them as disposable pawns as part of his plans, and has no qualms on betraying them, and either leaving them to die or killing them either by himself or by one of his minions. This shows that he thinks his allies are expendable, and is able to enact situations where his victims or even allies are set to fail. He was even able to intimidate anyone, monstrous or not, into working for him, even making Willy break into a cold sweat after icily threatening him, just after he said he likes him. Being the vicious ruler of multiple worlds, and also being able to forge alliances with powerful beings than him, he knows how to gather respect from his allies or minions through fear, and even hold egotistical, megalomaniacal, and otherwise unpredictable people in line through intimidation, mind games, or promises of absolute power. He is willing to do whatever it takes to get his absolute power, and is especially glad to to kill, torture, blackmail, extort, cheat, and betray to get what he wants, and he truly does not care about anyone nor his own being. A cold-blooded, nihilistic, and purely evil monster inside and out, he can be reasonably and narratively compared to real-life monsters like Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin, even right down to their plans of changing the world for himself, and being motivated by a xenophobic and misanthropic hatred of humanity and being primarily motivated by hatred alone at best, despite frequently either claiming to want to help the world progress or otherwise claiming to ultimately have have the best intentions in mind, and wanting absolutely nothing more than power, and will gleefully kill, maim, and torture anyone, friend or foe, that dares stand in his way.
Powers and Abilities
- Genius Intelligence: Stayne possessed incredible intelligence which is the reason how he was consider the most intelligent and strongest of his race. He some knowledge in making machines, as he was the one who created his Warsuit and had design a majority of weapons for the Adeptum Circle and some for the Chaotic Imperium. He is skilled in the art of magic, even more so than any other Elf in his race. He is also capable of making complex plans and schemes, which is why both Magus and Nekrozoth chose him to be their minion. He is only rivaled by Wade Stevenson in terms of intellect and strategy. Ezekiel even managed to fool even the gods of Asgard, even Odin himself, through his disguise of Loki.
- Magic: Said to be the most powerful magic user in his kind due to his usage of mana. It was said that he was able to defeat an adult sorcerer when he was a teen. He was able to summon demons from the Pandora Dimension by using a summoning spell, and is very skilled in combat spells. He had once fought Xuriah D'arcmast'r, an evil magic user who rivals Master Muller, and gave him a difficult time and shown to temporarily overpower him.
- Technopathy: Shown to be able to manipulate technology with his mind, this could be part of his abilities as a result in mastering Elven magic. He used this ability to summon his Warsuit, and manipulated the nano-tech in Xuriah's body which stunned the draconic warlord for a while. He shown to be as powerful as Animazoth in terms of being technopaths. He is also hinted to be a polyglot like Animazoth.
- Teleportation: Though not confirmed but he is capable of appearing out of nowhere, suggesting he might have this ability.
- Superhuman Attributes: Elves are shown to be more agile and has more stamina than humans. He is also physically stronger than humans as he was able to toss one who was bigger than him without any effort and was able to leap in great length.
- Levitation: Albeit a minor ability, he only shown to levitate small objects like furniture and rocks. He is able to levitate himself for a while, but he rarely if ever use this ability.
- Fast Healing and Longevity: Part of his race's attributes, he can take fatal damage and quickly heal from them. He and his kind can also live far longer than normal humans but this does not mean he can't die.
- Astral Projection: When he doesn't want to show himself physically, he can appear to others via an astral projection of himself.
- Master Manipulator: He is known for being very persuasive, crafty and deceitful but also charismatic. He started a are between humans and elves from behind the scenes and motivated the elves to hate humans more as a means to further his own agenda.
- Shape-Shifting: He takes a different form over the years. His current look is just one of many forms he takes. He had once murdered the trickster god Loki, and changes his appearance in looking like the god himself and fooled even the gods of Asgard themselves through this.
Quotes
| “ | That would be me. | „ |
| ~ Maestro's first words. |
| “ | Arrogance and egotism are weaknesses that can be easily exploited and taken advantage of. | „ |
| ~ Maestro's famous catchphrase. |
| “ | Everything is going exactly according to plan. | „ |
| ~ Maestro |
| “ | Who the hell are you to talk to me about the fate of the Earth? The way, I see it, you're the aggressors. You idiots don't understand the bigger picture here. Every single day, you humans screw up your lives with drugs and violence, each day bringing you one more painful step to extinction and self-destruction. Don't you see? I'm not destroying the world, I'm saving it...from itself. | „ |
| ~ Maestro's delusions of grandeur and hypocrisy |
| “ | My friends, most of you know me. Some of you are new here. To those of you who don't know me, I am the Maestro. Do not let this pretty face of mine deceive you from your true calling, your true purpose. I am the same person you all know and hold oh so dear. I have called you all here today to remind you of a very important lesson, a lesson that will pierce your enlarged egos and your desire for destruction. I have been clawing my way to get this far, and how I did it was not just because of dedication or relentlessness or even ruthlessness, but ambition. As far as I know, I've always been a man of ambition, and I always knew just what it takes to make your plans come to life. Some of you here are already plenty ambitious, and even more of you are about as ruthless as the human mind can even begin to comprehend. I'll have each and every one of you know that even though I do not fight, I know what it's like to suffer. I know what it's like to feel pain, the ceaseless burning and scratching that is threatening to tear you apart. I've sweat and bled my way into building my plans and making sure that no one stops me. It isn't because I was confident, or my desire for power, or even the fact that I may have godly powers right now. All they do is bolster my progress to a degree, but otherwise they are not reliable tools if you want to get your ambitions straight. Those of you who have been using only those, no wonder you never win, but it's not over, no way. You have a chance to redeem yourselves, and I can promise that you have a chance to be absolute. Power, fame, domination, money, recognition, attention, survival, all those are goals that are omnipresent in every single living being that exists in the entire Omniverse, because they are primal instincts bred into your bodies. Speaking of bodies, do any of you know how many bodies that I took over before you see me now? God, have I lost count already, but I can remember how hilarious and certainly exhilarating the circumstances surrounding them were. Mother of God, I do so deeply enjoy all the times that I ripped off the souls and minds of all those gorgeous bodies. Oh, how they screamed and begged me to stop. I will not lie, I enjoyed every single second of it, all of it. All the lives I took, all the blood I shed, it was glorious. But enough about me. The bigger picture is us as a whole. Each and every single one of you has a goal in mind, whether it's good old fashioned death and destruction, or absolute power, or even aspirations of godhood. Admirable indeed, but just thinking about it isn't gonna help you out. You need to think, you need to plan, you need to show the entire goddamned world that you mean business. And believe me when I say it's hard work. There's no easy way out of it, nor is there an alternate way. You want power, you're gonna have to earn it. You want to make an example, then make an example. You want the world to respect you, then make them respect you. Give them a reason not to screw with you. You may have what it takes, but you can't get enough time for your goals to come to life if you don't be smart about it. That leads to another thing. Archenemies. Don't you just hate it when people wanting to be the hero prance around and ruin your plans, your lives? Don't you just hate it when you have setbacks? Those of you who claim to search for a worthy opponent, then you're narrow-minded. There is no such thing as a worthy opponent. You either win or lose. You either rise from the top or be dragged into the dirt, covered in mud. Heroes, superheroes, warriors, all that crap, doesn't matter. The world wants two sides, good and bad. It's how it goes into stasis. It's how it it maintains balance. And the world desires balance. It's how the world maintains itself. Take that away for even a second, what do you get? Disorder. Chaos. Destruction. Anarchy. That will become prevalent among these humans once a single mistake is made. How often has that fact been prevalent? History repeats itself again and again, never once ending. Humans say they're improving, that they're learning, that they will move on. They say that their differences make them stronger, which is both correct and incorrect at the same time. If their differences make them stronger, then how come there is prejudice, wars, xenophobia? Yet band them together, they are capable of doing so many innovative things, and creating so many innovative possibilities. You can rock the world in your own special way, but that doesn't mean you will be recognized for it. They can make their little jokes, their little memes, their pop cultures all they want, but that will not change the fact that they will know one thing and one thing only: that the end will be near. Attack, pillage, destroy, those are the things that humans live by. It's their desire, their nature. And if they face the destruction instead of create it, then they will react with fear and paranoia and attempt to escape or destroy it. That's all they ever know, destruction. So we give them the destruction, take away what protects them, they'll bow. They'll listen. Because they'll know they won't have a choice. You are part of something great and absolute, the chance to become truly powerful, the chance to be feared. Don't waste that opportunity. Make no mistake, this is your life now. Whether you waste it is your own damn fault. Everything is about sides. Life is like that. Case in point, you will always be given a choice that will dictate your destiny. Whether you choose the right side is up to you. In the end, you will always be given a choice. Will you risk everything for power, money, and status, and sacrifice your relationships and the people you care about as a result? Or will you put family first and sacrifice the money, power, and status? Everyone is different, granted. But it's the difference that really makes the person come to life. You're different, but how long and how much are you willing to put your differences aside for the common goal? Disloyalty, treachery, deceit, theft, betrayal, disobedience, weakness, incompetence, idiocy, disrespect, those are the things that will never be accepted anywhere, and it will certainly not save your life here. If you're a problem, you must be expelled. If you're a solution, you will be welcomed. So I ask you all this, something so simple to remember out of all this: are you all gonna be the problem, or are you gonna be the solution? Never forget that if you want to survive in the Omniverse. Are you a problem, or are you the solution? | „ |
| ~ Maestro's speech to his minions |
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Trivia
- Ezekiel was supposed to be just a human and a major villain in BrandonDarkOne47's cancelled cosmology project. Then he was remodeled as one of the main villains of Zakk: Crystal of the Omniverse where he was going to be one of the titular protagonist's archenemy.
- He was also going to be written as a cartoon villain and/or a fanfic villain who was going to be the main villain of a Nickelodeon crossover (which would later expanded to several other western animation like Cartoon Network and Disney). It wasn't until BrandonDarkOne47 decided to make him a main villain of one of his projects. Then he decided to put him in the Tales of the Omniverse franchise as either one of the villains or a recurring antagonist.
- According to the Ezekiel's creator, BrandonDarkOne47, He is the "Isaac Ray Peram Westcott of Western media". Though Ezekiel was made to be a villain in a western animation.
- He was made as a attempt to make an homage to both Loki from Marvel, and Isaac Westcott from Date A Live.
- His motive on why he wants to exterminate mankind was inspired by the biblical character Haman the Agagite, along with being manipulative and deceiving.
- "Remiok Sethos" Maestro was supposed to be an alias to an entity called Evil, than would have been just called Ramok instead of Remiok. Remiok was then changed into a lovecraftian deity reminiscent to Nekrozoth and Velnias.
- Maestro has had many inspirations for his character, even some real life villains like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, but the two main characters that directly inspired him are Isaac Ray Peram Westcott from Date A Live and Johan Liebert from Monster. He even shares some traits and motives of the two.
- The name, Remiok Sethos, was supposed to be an alias to an entity called Evil, than would have been just called Ramok instead of Remiok.