Zetta

"What is this!? "Sacred Tome?" HA! More like...Sucky...Dumb.....Thing...!"

- Zetta

Overlord Zetta is the protagonist of Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome. He is the known as the Overlord of Overlords or, alternatively, the strongest Overlord in the cosmos.

Appearance
Zetta is a tall, muscular man who stands at a height of 190 cm (roughly 6'2"). He has bright, fluffy, long red hair and completely white eyes.

His outfit primarily consists of a black, open chested shirt with red belts over his chest and stomach, black pants held up by a red belt, a large black cape and a pair of plain black shoes.

Zetta's clothing is accented by gold bracelets, red sashes wrapped around the wrists and ankles of his clothes and gold chains on his hips.

Personality
Zetta is everything a demon usually is: selfish, arrogant, self-serving, violent, greedy. However, he isn't completely heartless, as hinted by his romantic involvements with Lady Salome and the demanded protection of Trenia. He is very short-tempered, often quick to anger. He is also very dim-witted, rushing into battle headfirst, and failing to see through plots and abnormalities, making him very easily manipulated. He seems to be unaware as to others' views of him, which is the reason Salome left him before the game's main storyline.

His battle aura color is purple, flashing with dark and light purple shades/shockwaves when showing his Mana Power. When desperate, it flashes fast, the wave of energy flowing upwards past him. When it is being sucked away or fading, it flashes periodically in shortened bursts.

Main Story
Zetta receives a prophecy from Pram telling him that his Netherworld will be destroyed. He rushes to the Forbidden Library in an attempt to retrieve the Sacred Tome, which Pram says is the cause of his loss. However, he is impeded by Raiden, Alexander's right-hand. Zetta defeats him, and retrieves the Sacred Tome from the library, only to learn that he would doom his Netherworld in an act of foolishness. Furious, he burns the tome, which turns out to be the act which dooms his Netherworld. In an attempt to save himself from the destruction, he confines his soul into the Sacred Tome, becoming it. Now he must rely on other Overlords to create new Netherworlds for him in order to conquer them and repair his empire, hopefully regaining his body in the process. Whether he gets his way depends on the ending he receives. In some, he is is killed off before he can get his body, in others, he performs a stupid action which jeopardizes his body or himself, and the canon ending, he gains his body back.

Petta Mode
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Recruitment
Although Zetta is the Tome, the player can recruit his Human form by writing the wish "I wish to fight the strongest Demon!" for 30,000 Mana upon reaching Level 300. Zetta encounters his original body, it coming to life in it's own. Trenia warns Zetta that Overlord Baal is within Zetta's body, possessing it. This forces confrontation. Upon defeating his body, Baal escapes, leaving the body. Zetta then decides to take the body back with him, despite viewing it as morbid. Be sure that Laharl is not the Leader when choosing this Stage at the Makai Gate, otherwise he will destroy Zetta's body upon winning the battle, forcing a new cycle. The body has 160% Aptitude in all Statistics, but can only use ATK-based weaponry. It is good with Swords, Daggers, Beam Swords, and Katanas. It's unique skill "Omega Drive" is a single-target skill, doing monstrous damage.

In battle
As the Sacred Tome, Zetta cannot fight and thus the player must use creatable units in his stead. Though, in the tutorial you do control him for a brief time.

In his normal, humanoid form he can be recruited upon completing the story at least once upon a new cycle.

Zetta is a powerhouse of a unit once he is recruited. All of his Growth skills are maxed out from the start and he gains ATK at a fierce rate. Not only that but Zetta also gets great use out of equipment given to him and it is a rare case when an enemy could slow him down.

Weapon Proficiency

 * Daggers
 * Swords
 * Katanas
 * Beam Sabers

Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
Although he is not present in the original PS2 version of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness Zetta is present in the rereleases of Disgaea DS and Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness.

Zetta is a bonus boss that can be encountered only after passing a certain bill that increases the level of enemies twenty times. In these games he is in his Sacred Tome book form. He lacks battle voices and can barely move at all, but makes up for it with 180% in all Aptitudes. His two skills "Zetta Beam" and "Badass Overdrive" being a shout-out to Makai Kingdom.

Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
In Disgaea 2 Zetta can be encountered after the player completes ten Dark World stages as well as passing the bill titled "Meet the Strongest Overlord." The map features facilities and vehicles that are present in Makai Kingdom. He is also in his Sacred Tome form in this game.

Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days
To encounter Zetta in this port the player must unlock him the same manner as they would in Cursed Memories. Though, he is recruitable in this version.

Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
In Disgaea 3 Zetta is once again in his book form and a recruitable DLC character. Upon Magichanging with a character, they can use the skill "Invite," which is a reference to the fact that inviting a facility onto an ally or enemy in Makai Kingdom can cause slight damage.

The player can also encounter Zetta in Raspberyl mode.

Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten
In Disgaea 4 Zetta is present in the post-game as a recruitable boss. Though, unlike his previous appearances, he is in his normal, humanoid form.

To encounter Zetta the player must defeat the previous boss, Pringer X, and then pass a bill in the Dark Senate that costs 256,000 Mana.

Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness
In Disgaea D2 Zetta is a DLC character along with Pram and Alexander.

Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance
In Disgaea 5 Zetta is, once again, a DLC character in a DLC pack that includes Pram and Petta as well.

Trivia

 * In the Japanese version of both Makai Kingdom and Makai Kingdom: Portable Zetta's voice can be noted going up an octave when he shouts "Zetta Beam" or says certain characters names, like "Micky" and "Petta".
 * On his original concept art he is noted to be 2 M (roughly 6'6") though on the height chart with other characters, which was created after, it is written that he is 190 cm (roughly 6'2").