Due to word limits with posts and only about to do so many images on one post, because of the game's format, I have to break them up more into parts. I don't know if people want to expand on their character's background more, but I hope they don't mind if I copy/paste their current sheets. Characters: Old Pantheons: Spoiler: Current Faction Leader: Gloom: Aversa Once considered the greatest witch to ever live, perhaps the greatest there ever will be, that title has long since been overshadowed in the few thousand years since she's been asleep, by new demons. Aversa, once a immensely powerful Archdemon, ruled with the Crest of Gloom over the old world. In the second major war against the heavens, she fought proudly with the other Archdemons to push the angels back, aided by her power to warp minds and continually raise the dead and bind them back to her cause, leaving hell's forces nearly impossible to wear down or exhaust. Due to this, the archangels used a powerful warding spell to imprison her into a crystal barrier. They knew it would be ultimately, only temporary while the barrier weakened, but removing her from play proved to be a good move as it managed to create the broken and confused mass of undead that started turning on the demon hordes with no more guidance and eventually causing the tipping point that cost the demons the war, and the invasion repelled by the angels, winning back the lost ground in Heaven as the demons slunk back into their dimension. Aversa, having been asleep all that time, had awoke a good couple thousands years later when the crystal prison finally dissolved. Returning home to not only discover, how long she had been gone, but the House of Gloom no longer even existed. Feeling like they had completely disrespected her house, tribe, and everything she had done by the vanishing of her house, she tried to amass what group of other no longer in power holders she could looking to finally restore the names that were a reason the underworld even still stands, and they treated like they don't exist. The stance of the current regimen however, has stated that the reason the House of Gloom fell apart was because of her imprisonment along with her Crest being sealed inside and the house shortly turning on each other with no real way to claim a successor. Not only that, many of the demons that are no longer the holders are simply because they either got too old, left in shame because of their proven constant failings, or did things even other demons had to draw the line and have no intention of seceding the current regime to those who had lost their chance at being the great and powerful Archdemons they once were. Known Affinities: Necromancy Mind: Why Yegen is so deathly afraid of having to face her properly even if he won't admit it. The ability to tap into minds, read them, or string them along like puppets and brainwash them is a troublesome power for normal people and those who don't possess a strong enough mental willpower become incredibly easy victims. The Thief King responds to the prospect by his attempts to bait her into exposing herself so his rival Demon King Dimitri will hopefully be able to slay Aversa, but Aversa's ability to peer in minds make any attempt at subterfuge to try and goad her nigh impossible with so few demons having any real means of protecting and warding themselves from her attacks, and the few that do, are the high noble demons, that can almost exclusively be found on Lord Dmitri's side with no intent on betraying him. Known Weaknesses: Runes. Most demons enjoy overpowering their opponents and have little thought of how to deal with anything that counters their powers instead of fighting power with power. While her magic is on a whole other level among demons, she turns pathetically helpless if her opponent can somehow cut her away from it. She's especially prone to variations of holy magic that grant divine protection or ward from evil magic, making the Demon King her mortal bane. The best way around that is if that stupid upstart were to be the one to kill him for her, but he's very good at keeping in hiding and close, but always just out of reach.
Archdemons: Spoiler: Wrath: Demon King Dimitri Kolarav Latest inheritor of the crown and wielder of the sin of Wrath, it's a common misconception that this leads him to being fiery and impulsive. Rather the demon prince before he had taken his position was known for being a calm person who was polite to brothers, sisters, the Archdemons, and just about everybody. They were also aware of his actions in the third heaven war revealing the true nature of why Wrath chose him. The true form of his wrath comes in pure cold blooded fury. Already a controversial figure as a prince, he was derided for desiring to ally with old enemies, restore former friendships, and focus on the well being of the people. At the same time, if someone rejects his offer or offends him or his family, the reaction is silent, but efficient. A believer in trying to make friends until it's clear it doesn't work, and if it doesn't it, then you can't just beat them. You must crush them into the ground until they can no longer stand. He insists that when you live in Hell, you have to prove your more dangerous and can be nastier than what any other demon is capable of, though he doesn't enjoy it. The idea of whether or not he does out of seeing it as genuine necessity or as an excuse, is debated even among those who enjoy his ideas and beliefs for the future. A believer in the traditions of proud nobility, while it's widely agreed the concern he shows for the citizens and state of the realm's affairs is genuine, it's also widely agreed, he seems to believe this can be accomplished by simply restoring the "Golden Age" instead of looking to make a lot proper advancements. Werther or not this could really work, is a incredibly heavy topic full of strong opinions from many. He is an adamant believer in progressing equal rights between demons, humans, angels, and women, but the fact he's also unwilling to budge on class issues, has had scholars see him as something of a case study, curious if whether or not he's methods will be ultimately vindicated by history or derided as merely an egotist who thought he knew better than everyone. Known Affinities: Melee Combat Seal: The reason for all of Aversa's desire to reclaim the throne, she absolutely will not resort to a direct attack against the castle. With the power to completely wall a demon's ability to use magic against him, Aversa has never even entertained the idea of seriously trying to attack him seeing the results of other powerful magical demons who believed they would be an exception. They were not. Completely neutering a demon's ability to call upon their magical might, she views the only options to be either trying to have someone beat him down with overwhelming raw physical strength, which still takes a lot of doing compared to his own sword skills, or the solution of trying to engineer a situation where Yegen will kill him for her, before casually executing the thief herself. Known Weaknesses: Curses: A true curse is quite rare, even for demons. Many don't bother even trying to learn because making a power born out of pure malicious thought, while some demons are more than capable of having the mentality, the understanding of them as a supernatural act entirely separated from magic is very hard to comprehend. As such, while the underworld has no shortage of necromancers and dark mages, a true user of curses ends up rather rare as most demons who do have an affinity for the darker powers and the power to use them are typically more comfortable calling up the wellspring of innate magic power instead of learning an entirely new act that they aren't even sure if it will work. And Dimitri is aware of the danger this presents to himself, leaving him perfectly willing to sic the guard or Archdemons on anyone caught practicing it. Spoiler: Pride: Ravenor - Scourge of Dishonor Name: Ravenor - Scourge of Dishonor Spoiler: Male Form Spoiler: Female Form Branch of Sin: Pride Crest: Axe of Domination - An ancient weapon that grows more powerful, the more the user's ego has been bruised, though it also makes the user more likely to take offence to the people around them. Affinities: -Melee Combat -Fire Passions: -Ego -Honour Achilles Heel: (Not quite sure about this. Is this a physical weakness, like Achilles' literal heel?) Elemental Weakness: Water Code: Ravenor, as someone who cannot abide having their own pride insulted, is greatly angered when they see others being treated in this way. If people are being unfairly maligned or humiliated, Ravenor will step in to remedy the situation, generally with violence. Mental Weakness: When Ravenor is insulted or humiliated, their quest for vengeance is generally executed in a headstrong, brash manner. Because of this, they are exceedingly easy to provoke, and often enter situations without thinking of the consequences. Spoiler: Sloth: Eyno Crest: Eligor: Manifested in the form of a claw like arm that Eyno used in combat. While it's abilities aren't especially flashy, it's most notable trait is the ability to stretch and increase it's range leaving very little out of her reach to hit in combat. It's almost universally acknowledged that Enyo is a very powerful demon. The reason she bears the crest of Sloth has less to do with her own attitude(Though she was always going at her own pace since birth.) and just as a counter measure from having her active again. During the war of angels she personally held the highest count kill count against the celestial host. So she wouldn't cause trouble in times of peace, it was agreed she would bear the crest of Sloth in order to keep her docile until the time she's needed to fight again. In the nether realms, she has opted to rule over a woodland with almost no civilization, simply to avoid the responsibility of having to run or micro manage anything. There is still a number of demons that believe her reputation has to be overhyped and exaggerated and that she can't be as strong as people claim. Not heavily interested in doing anything to refute this, she more or less hangs around her brother's and sisters with her time doing very little actual demon lord activities. While firmly on her brother's side, she is often only really to act in extreme circumstances where if she doesn't do anything right then and there, it could be critically dangerous. It leads to an unusual set of circumstances. If Enyo is getting her act together, it's not going to be long before the crown's opposers are screwed, but also if they need to deploy Enyo at all, it means they are desperate and if she lost, then they'd be screwed. The last line of defense to the kingdom and not one to be taken lightly. Known Affinities: Physical Healing Magic Energy Burn-What makes her such a dreaded opponent more than just terms of raw power, is her natural demon ability. Simply her presence in battle increased the amount of magical energy and stamina other creatures expend. With her potent fighting abilities and penchant for healing herself over and over, this turns her into dam near impossible to deal with through direct force. And unlike the other major demons, her laidback attitude keeps her mental barriers strong, her natural power can't be sealed, and she can recover from aliments with ease. The most advised strategy to deal with her has currently amounted to is measuring her rest periods and acting to complete objectives while she's still asleep then make any effort to properly subdue her. Known Weaknesses: The closest thing to a proper weakness is the fact, as a sloth demon, she's incredibly lazy and spends much of her time resting to save on power. Observations had showed that her sleep schedule is that she often sleeps for at least 18 hours a day. But in only about the four that's she's awake....it's bad. Making matters worse, is her recovery abilities actually become stronger while she's asleep so attempted assassinations that way don't work. Demons have resorted to simply trying to work around her, rather than against.
Claimants: Spoiler: Greed: Thief King Yegen "I want the crown, because I want it." He simply desires more. Nobody is actually too sure where he came from. The general assumption is that he used to be common thief until rounding up and organizing his pack of vagrants into a full force dominating the outskirts of the badlands that are far out of the reaches of the citiy's guard. At first viewed as just a nuisance, the Archdemons were pretty quick about crushing him the first time he attempted to raid their territory. It was after escaping the execution block, twice over, that the nobles and guard were starting to see him as something of a problem when the crest of Greed started to take special interest in his antics. While he might be an inheritor of Greed with time, for him, that's altogether not good enough. Not being satisfied with the prospect of only being an Archdemon, he desires to throne with absolutely no pretense that he's doing it for anyone other than himself. While not a particularly popular or well liked figure with his general subjects, there's still many ambitious demons that are willing to ally with him for one reason or another in an attempt to stage a coup, though it's hard to imagine many plan on ultimately keeping him still in the picture. Known Affinities: Earth Power Thief: What makes him so dangerous more than his actual combat steal is the fact he can siphon off someone else's strength and completely reverse it with him being empowered to his opponent's level while leaving them as weak as kittens. As Dimtri found out the hard way trying to slay the thief himself, this makes him an insanely difficult opponent to engage in direct combat, and he has still shown signs of retaining the usage of abilities he steals, though with nobody to siphon off of, they are lowered to his level as long as he has no direct source to feed from. The recommended plan has currently been to avoid any direct battle and trying to have him either slain by Intrigue or through long ranged combat. Known Weakness: Mental Attacks: As some of his followers noted, it doesn't seem his power copying has done any favors for his sanity and Aversa was more than happy to exploit this. After a humiliating defeat trying to bite off more than he could chew against her, he seems to have chosen slinking to the shadows to plot for a way to neutralize her without actually having to get anywhere near her himself. Spoiler: Gluttony: Levendi Class: Claimant Branch of Sin: Gluttony Affinity: Dark and Poison Passions: Love (Humanity): Her particular form of Gluttony tends to be instilling an out-of-control sense of Momento Mori in her victims, driving them to recklessly engage in ill-advised behaviors they might not normally do because they could die at any time and they should do things nownownow! She loves how inventive some of them are and genuinely gets attached to some of her victims (possibly "sparing" them by ultimately making them her servants when they would have otherwise died). This makes her oddly protective of the human race and if something is a genuine threat to them, well... corpses aren't very fun at all, are they? [Second Passion to come later] Achilles Heels: Elemental Weakness: Light Code: Never Lying: The truth of the matter is that all things great and small eventually die. This is a universal truth and, in that same sense, Levendi can only tell the truth (or at least what she believes is the truth based on her own knowledge of a given situation). Mental Vulnerability: Since Levendi's Gluttony is about inducing the need for loud, bold action, she is pathologically afraid of silence in turn. She always needs some form of noise going on around her, even when sleeping, or else she is completely shut down by anxiety attacks. Spoiler: Lust: Capris Spoiler: Male Form Spoiler: Female Form Affinity: -Water -Earth Passions: -Nurture (life): To see things grow, flourish and teem with life. Whether it is plants, humans, monsters or anything in between makes little difference. -Love (Fallen Angels): The heavenly host would stifle lust, with their ideals about chastity, moderation and shame. He feels a special kinship with all angels who have broken their chains and have become free. Achilles Heels: Elemental Weakness: Ice Code: Live to the fullest - Indulgence and lust for life in all its forms are the highest good and anyone restricting or snuffing them out are enemies. Death is abhorrent, especially necromancy as it is the end of all passion. Mental Vulnerability: Slavery, ascetism or sensory depravation. He can be easily manipulated in doing someone's bidding if it means regaining his freedom.
Kingdom Vassals: Spoiler: Willow Wisps essentially by nature, being the pieces of human and demon souls, are not in a good position. Fragmented from the original self, they rarely remember the past life of the person they were outside of vague flashbacks. Most wisps being undead often resort to feeling a need for some form entertainment, usually in the form of mischief. With barely any magic to them to be any real kind of threat, they are generally considered annoying at worst. Every once in a while, one wisp proves itself above the rest. Consuming the power of a massive amount of other wisps, they can eventually form themselves a proper body like a regular ghost does. While it's fairly rare, it's not extraordinary. At this stage, they reach a threshold where their powers actually become superior to conventional spirits due to needing to be strong enough to exert the will over the wisps forming the body as the dominant personality. Willow, being one of the wisps to accomplish this has been in the employ as a vassal for the Kalarov Dynasty for a few generations. By her account, when she was offered the position of becoming a lady of the court, she simply took the position because she had no reason not to and thought it would be temporarily entertaining for about a week or so. Then a week became a month. A month became a year. And that became her still apparently hanging around the family long after Dimtiri's great grandfather's demise. A spirit of some power, she has no problem making use of her powers for just about any petty reason, though she notably refrains from exerting her power over "lowly" creatures such as imps or goblins. It won't stop her from killing them, but it becomes without her typical sadism being involved. Known Affinities: Curses Known Weaknesses: ??? Spoiler: Rodeaux A pretty boy demon who leads a gang of thieving monsters across the lands, they initially shifted their alignment to the kingdom out of a need for protection from their enemies, as well as not needing to worry about the law stopping them when actively sanctioned by the government to irritate their rivals. Rodeaux in question doesn't seem to be even the same species of the tiny demons he commands, but they seem to acknowledge him as the leader for reasons probably only he knows. Able to communicate their language and to the classical demon tongue, that makes him key to relaying orders even if other people wish they could get rid of him. Having went on record as saying he has no reason to dislike Dimitri, that's generally accepted as the most loyalty from a demon that anyone could expect. While largely more concerned about him and his gang lining their own pockets than the actual state of the kingdom, he has a generally low view of stealing from his own allies, though there's no way to be sure if he truly believes that or that's just something he says. He has defended questions of his actual loyalty, by pointing out the fact that he doesn't see a point in fixing what isn't broken with his current alliance, and only an idiot would seriously trust Aversa or Yegen to uphold their end of the bargain. His argument is less about his personal loyalty, but rather, Dimitri would never knowingly betray an ally and that's why he can trust his alliance of the kingdom, and by extension, nobody should worry too much a knife in the back from him personally, because there'd be no point or advantage in turning on someone whose already treated them mostly well. Known Affinities: Wind Known Weaknesses: ???
