Div-e Siah (دیو سیاه)

Div-e Siah, son of Ahriman, which is already a rough inheritance. Some people get land, some get titles, he gets “assigned role: early-stage apocalypse asset.”

He is sent as part of his father’s campaign against the first human order under Kiomars. Because when Ahriman notices civilization forming, he responds the way a malfunctioning system does: delete the source.

Div-e Siah kills Siamak, son of Kiomars. A clean act of violence in a world that hasn’t yet learned how to even describe what “war” fully means. No strategy talk, no grand ideology. Just collapse delivered directly into a family line.

Siamak’s death doesn’t just end a life. It breaks something structural. Because this is the early world, where every death still feels like it’s rewriting the rules.

Then Hushang, Siamak’s son, steps in. Not immediately, because grief and retaliation don’t run on a clock. But eventually he does what this lineage keeps defaulting to: he responds.

He avenges his father’s death and kills Div-e Siah.

So the cycle locks in early: divine corruption sends violence, innocence is destroyed, the next generation responds with violence of its own. It’s not justice in any clean sense. It’s more like the world learning its first and worst habit and never really unlearning it.

Div-e Siah ends up as one of those foundational antagonists who doesn’t get a long legacy, just a clear function: he is the proof that the system of chaos works exactly as intended until someone breaks it.