Shabranigdo
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| Slayers Deities | ||
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| Shabranigdo | ||
 Lord Ruby-Eye |
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| In-Universe Information | ||
| Homeworld: | Red Orb, Sea of Chaos | |
| Species: | God of Darkness | |
| Gender: | Apparently Male | |
| Eye Color: | Red | |
| Height: | Variable | |
| Known Relatives: | Mazokus Lord of Nightmares The Lord of Nightmares other creations |
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| Age: | Unknown, younger than the Lord of Nightmares | |
| Abilities: | All Dark Magic | |
| Host: | Rezo the Red Priest | |
| Series Information | ||
| First Appearance: | Slayers | |
Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo, also known as Shabranigdu, is a fictional deity in the Slayers anime universe. He is a powerful being of evil, the ruler of the Mazoku in the Slayers Universe, and the source of power for Lina Inverse's signature spell, the Dragon Slave.
The sole source of misery and negative emotions in the Slayers world, Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo is the superior of all other Mazoku. Defeated long ago by the Dragon King Ceiphied, Ruby-Eye was split into seven parts and buried in human souls. It was Ceiphied's plan to wear away at these fragments by the constant death and rebirth of human lives, until Shabranigdo ceased to be. A thousand years ago, one of these parts awakened in the legendary sorcerer Lei Magnus, the Demon King of the North, who was defeated by the Sea Dragon King Ragradia.
This was certainly a costly victory, however: the shard of Shabranigdo was sealed away, frozen in a block of ice that no Mazoku could break, and the Chaos Dragon Gaav, one of Shabranigdo's main servants, was bound to a human soul much like Shabranigdo before him. However, Gaav and the human soul eventually merged in thought and purpose: while he remained cruel and heartless, he was limited in power and no longer wished for the ultimate dissolution of all things back into the Sea of Chaos, the goal of the Mazoku. Ragradia, for her part, was wholly destroyed--all that remained were her memories and knowledge, which became the Clair Bible. The remaining four subordinates of Ruby Eye erected a shield that sealed away the divine powers from the continent where the action of the novels takes place. (These servants were: Dynast Grawshellar, Deep Sea Dolphin, Greater Beast Zellas-Metallum, and Hellmaster Phibrizo.) White Magic was created as a shamanistic substitute for the loss of the divine magic.
A second portion of Ruby-Eye awoke again in the first novel of the Slayers series, or in the earlier parts of the first season of the anime. Sealed within the Red Priest Rezo, it was released when Rezo awakened it with the Philosopher's Stone in an attempt to end the blindness that had plagued him throughout his life. Lina Inverse confronted the unbound part of Ruby-Eye, invoking the Giga Slave to do defeat him. (The Giga Slave was patterned by Lina on the Dragon Slave, but invokes the power and presence of the Lord of Nightmares instead of Shabranigdo.) It is possible that Shabranigdo could have survived this attack, but it is suggested (or outright shown, in the anime) that a fragment of Rezo's remaining will forced open Ruby Eye's defenses. For his part, Shabranigdo claims that he was so impressed at Lina's improvised spell that he allow that fragment of himself to be bested.
In the final Slayers novel, it is revealed that another fragment of Shabranigdo was buried in the soul of a character named Luke, who had appeared as a rival in previous novels. Driven to despair by the events of the previous book, Luke was contacted by the fragment of Ruby-Eye within him, and managed to strike a deal with it: to fight Lina and Gourry one more time, and if victorious, the fragment would wholly revive and stood a good chance of accomplishing the Mazoku goal of destroying the world. This battle was the only known exception to the usual Mazoku immunity to black magic drawn from their own power (described by Lina Inverse as saying, roughly, "Hey, help me kill you.") As Luke ultimately wished to die in the battle rather than destroy the world, this self-destructive impulse allowed him and the fragment contained within him to be wholly slain by the Dragon Slave.
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| Major Characters: Lina | Gourry | Amelia | Zelgadis | Naga | Xellos | Filia | Luna | Lei Magnus | |
| Deities: Lord of Nightmares | Ruby Eye Shabranigdo | Flare Dragon Ceiphied | |
| Races: Mazoku | Ryuzoku | |
| Information: Media | Spells | Saillune | |
| Movies: Slayers The Motion Picture | Slayers Return | Slayers Great | Slayers Gorgeous | Slayers Premium | |
| Related: Hajime Kanzaka | Lost Universe |
