What is the name of the Zoroastrian savior figure?

The Zoroastrian savior figure is called Saoshyant.

Saoshyant comes from an Avestan term meaning “one who brings benefit.” In Zoroastrian eschatology, the name is associated with the figure who will bring about Frashokereti, the final renovation of the world. In that transformation, evil is defeated, creation is restored and the cosmic struggle between truth and falsehood reaches its conclusion.

The terminology is more nuanced than the singular wording of many quiz questions suggests. In the Gathas, the oldest sacred hymns traditionally attributed to Zoroaster, saoshyant can function as a common noun for people who benefit humanity, including the prophet and his followers. In later scripture and tradition, Saoshyant becomes the proper name of an end-times savior.

Later Zoroastrian tradition also speaks of three successive savior figures, sometimes called the Saoshyants, who progressively prepare the final renovation. That plural tradition does not make the stored answer wrong: “Saoshyant” is the standard English name for the central eschatological savior figure. It should not be confused with Krishna, Buddha or the Christian Messiah, even though comparative religion often discusses broad savior parallels.