The Demon King and Lords
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Tyrant of Steel
In the barren Land of Steel, the area was under the rule of the cruel tyrant Bifron. The ruler commanded over the Land of Steel with unrelenting force, treating all his subjects as mere objects at his disposal, even so much as imprison his own son, Digg, who he saw weak. In a joint effort with the assistance of one of Bifron's subordinates, Barkat and his son, Luciela launched a success campaign to overthrow the tyrant and wrestle herself the title of the Land of Steel ruler. Unwilling to merely replace the deposed tyrant with another tyrant, Luciela dawned the title of Queen instead of King, wishing to rule with benevolence.
Garens and Nous
In the Northwestern edge of the Demon Realm was a land scarce in resources, the primary races which inhabited the land were the Garen and Nous. The two races warred against each other for a long time before Aegirp came and offered her hand to both races alike. Under the rule of Aegirp, the two races managed to develop some form of peace and united to form the White-Ghost Army, one of the Demon Realms most powerful factions.
The Demon King
The Four Demon Lords
The Demon Realm for the longest time was a ruthless land filled with countless factions who all strive to claim power. However it wasn't until the Demon King arrived did the entire Demon Realm fall under one united rule. While recruiting powerful demons leaders, he negotiated and pit his strength against those he saw as fit candidates. He had recruited: Black-Eye King Berngart, Red-Demon King Stirbargen, White-Ghost King Aegirp, and Steel Queen Luciela. With his new allies, he set them off to launch a campaign to unite the entirety of the Demon Realm, establishing himself as the realm's absolute ruler. Ruling with the absolute authority of himself and the lords beneath him they quashed those who stood to oppose them, Chloe and her followers volunteered to join the unified alliance the Demon King created in order to spare the Dark Elf Village from becoming involved, a decision not shared with the other Dark Elves who branded her a heretic.
The King's Disappearance
One day, the Demon King's position would be left vacant due to circumstances not yet known. This empty throne left much confusion throughout the four realms and eventually created a power vacuum among many in the demon realm who lusted for power. The power structure of the Demon Realm soon completely collapsed.
White-Ghost and Elrios
Aegirp's Struggle
After the Demon King's disappearance and condition in her land becoming worse, Aegirp was forced to relocate her people as conditions grew worse. After discovering an abandoned laboratory under the land she ruled, the White-Ghost Army was able to create a functioning portal between Elrios and the Demon Realm with the technology they found. Aegirp believed that she could bring peace and prosperity to her land through trade between humans and demons. During her reign, she called for campaigns to try and create settlements in Elrios, where demons could attempt to try and live peacefully and trade with the beings of Elrios. One such settlement was a province of North Fluone, where she sent Calonne, Gunther, and Deborah as emissaries for her quest. There, the demons disguised themselves as humans or were thought to be Holy Beasts and attempted to live among the people of Elrios. The White-Ghost Army's primary export were Mystic Stones, which they traded for other necessities which would be imported back to the Demon Realm.
The Nine-Tailed Fox Eun
700 years before Ara was able to awaken Eun from her imprisonment inside the hairpin, the Holy Beast was free. Eun was a powerful beast with the ability to see into the future. A powerful demon however used their ancient magic to assist the Haan family, with the demon's power, they were able to seal Eun and trapped the beast inside the hairpin she would be imprisoned in for the next 700 years. During her long incarceration, her ability to see the world's future faded. While they were the ones who sealed her, the Haan family revered the beast for centuries.
Coup d'état
Even within the rule of the Four Demon Lords, many underlings began to see the lack of direction without the Demon King at the helm. Under Barkat's guidance, several factions of the Demon Realm would launch an organized coup against the current regimes, with Ran and Berthe amongst their commanding leads. In the process the Steel Queen Luciela and the Red Demon King Stirbargen were sealed away while the White Ghost King Aegirp had fragmented her soul to evade his death.
Within the chaos of the Demon Realm, Barkat rose to become the realm's forefront leader. Now in the front seat, Barkat began to united the other armies to plan an assault on Elrios itself.
