Sahjhan
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Sahjhan is a fictitious character on the WB Network's television program Angel. Sahjhan was portrayed by actor Jack Conley. Sahjhan claims to have invented daylight savings time, although he has a tendency towards sarcasm and dry wit.
Sahjhan is one of a race of demons, known as the Granok, who thrive on chaos and violence. The Granok are pale and disfigured, with faces covered in scars and markings. Sahjhan and the rest of his kind were made immaterial by Wolfram and Hart. Mesekhtet (the little girl in the White Room) claims this was because she liked trouble, but hated the chaos the Granok were bringing. Once an immaterial being, however, Sahjhan became capable of teleporting through time and dimensions, earning him the nickname Timeshifter.
When solid, the Granok possess tremendous strength and endurance, capable of throwing around automobiles effortlessly. They can only be contained in a special urn, called a Resikian Urn, like a genie in a bottle. These urns are supposed to be indestructible.
Sahjhan is responsible for bringing vampire hunter Daniel Holtz to the present. Sahjhan claims to have a grudge against Angel; however, his plan is, in fact, to use Holtz to kill Angel's son Connor because of the prophecies in the Nyazian Scrolls which foretell that Connor will kill him. In order to confuse Angel and his friends, Sahjhan actually alters the passage in the prophecy about his death; the altered passage reads, "The Father Will Kill the Son", leading Wesley to the conclusion that Angel will kill Connor.
However, Sahjhan grows impatient with Holtz, who, instead of just killing Connor, lays out and executes an elaborate plan to kidnap Connor. Sahjhan seeks the help of Wolfram & Hart's Lilah Morgan, thus setting up a chain of events that end with Holtz disappearing into a Hell dimension known as Quor-Toth, taking Connor with him. Just a few days later, Justine imprisons Sahjhan in Holtz's Resikhian Urn as revenge for Holtz's disappearance, which she blames Sahjhan for.
Two years later, Sahjhan is released under the watch of his enemy Cyvus Vail, whom Sahjhan had tried to kill on a number of occasions. Minutes later, he is killed by Connor, and thus the prophecy of the Nyazian Scrolls is finally fulfilled after all his efforts to prevent it, though Sahjhan's actions led to a series of events that caused his own death.
[edit] Trivia
- The name of Sahjhan's species (Granok demons) is mentioned on a line that was cut from the show and in the spell Angel performs to make Sahjhan corporeal.
