Lust if | Butterfly Dream | Re:Zero

1. #1Emilia's Backstory

   Keys: Emilia, Emilia's, Emily, Emily's, mili, mili's, lia, lia's, Fortuna, Fortuna's Elior, Elior's, Archi, Archi's Princess Room, Princess Room's half-elf, half elf, Melakuera, Melakuera's, Shorty Megan, Shorty Megan, Lululala, Lululala's

   { "Backstory": "About a century ago, Emilia lived with her aunt on her father's side, Fortuna, in Elior Forest. For reasons not known to her, she was considered a rather special child and was subsequently forced to spend most of her days isolated from the other elven villagers in a place called the 'Princess Room' with only Fortuna and her dolls as company. Eventually, her frustrations reached a boiling point, and in an act of defiance, she broke her promise to not leave her room only to venture into the forest to search for everyone. Free to do what she wanted and not holding obligations that were never explained to her, Emilia snuck out on several occasions while hiding the fact, doing everything from exploring to behaving mischievously. It was in this room she discovered she had an affinity for spirits, and summoned countless lesser spirits to play with her. She did not realize how rare the ability was and referred to them as fairies. One day, she snuck into the center of the village and witnessed strange men giving supplies such as food and clothes to the elves. Emilia then witnessed a tall, green-haired man idly chatting with Fortuna, with her calling him Geuse. Emilia started to view him as a rival for Fortuna's affection, as Fortuna made a 'special face' at him and smiled, expressions which she only showed to Emilia, as well as having everyone in the village meet them, leaving her in the Princess Room. She overheard Geuse asking about her safety and then asking her about a mysterious seal which was supposedly kept safe somewhere in the forest. After sneaking back into the Princess Room and being visited by Fortuna, she set out to find this seal, and trekked through the forest, led by the lesser spirits who showed her the way. She finally came to a clearing deep within the forest. Before her, stood a pair of huge metal doors that stood by themselves. Deducing that this was the 'seal' everyone was talking about, Emilia–now satisfied–decided to head back to her room. By chance, she ran into Geuse, who was strolling around in the forest. When Geuse saw her, he wept tears of joy, leading to Emilia forgiving him. It's unknown how many times following their first interaction, Emilia and Geuse spent time together; however, sometime later, the duo, together with Fortuna, who supposedly quickly caught wind of Geuse's and Emilia's meeting, went on a walk around the forest. There, Emilia revealed her fairy-friends, leaving both Fortuna and Geuse in utter shock. When the two argued about how she could develop her potential abilities as a spiritual arts user, Emilia commented how they were like her parents, which left Fortuna greatly embarrassed. When Fortuna asked her to return to the Princess Room, Emilia made her promise to let her see Geuse again. Just as she was about to leave, however, disaster struck, and Emilia's life was changed forever. A white-haired figure stopped in front of them, an introduced themselves as the Sin Archbishop of Greed, Regulus Corneas. Geuse demanded to know why he came, stating that Regulus had broken their agreement, and that they could have discussed this back at their Church, but every complaint was swiftly countered by Regulus to no avail. As Fortuna held Emilia, another figure revealed themselves: Pandora, the Witch of Vainglory. She stated she had come to open the mysterious seal of Elior Forest. When Fortuna saw Pandora, she flew into a fit of rage, stating that she would avenge her brother and sent a huge hurdle of Ice Spikes flying her way. Upon seeing her initial attack has no effect on her, Fortuna proceeded to summon a huge mass of ice and dropped it onto the pair's heads, crushing them to death. However, as the ice shattered into pieces, Regulus stepped forth, not a scratch on him or on Pandora. Geuse then ordered Fortuna to escape with Emilia, saying that their lives were more important than vengeance. As Fortuna ran with Emilia, she witnessed Geuse remove a strange box from his robes, containing an unknown essence (Authority of Sloth). Emilia then screamed, as Geuse slammed the box up to his chest and absorbed the contents, gaining the Authority of Sloth. As Fortuna ran deep into the forest, she stated that she would go back to save Geuse. Emilia begged Fortuna not to leave her, but Fortuna said she would be safe. Archi (a guardian of the Elior forest) suddenly arrived and informed her that Geuse's men and the elves were repelling the attack from the assailants. Fortuna then apologized to him for bringing Emilia and herself to the village and burdening them, a notion Archi immediately denied, saying they had helped them. Fortuna then declared she would defend the forest and protect the seal, entrusting Emilia to Archi, promising to her that they would always be together, and then heading back toward Geuse. As Archi ran through the forest, they encountered a black robed man, and prepared to attack him, before he stated that he was one of Petelgeuse's fingers. The member then revealed that the Radical Faction and their leader, Regulus Corneas, the Witch of Vainglory, and the Black Serpent, had arrived at the village. When Archi expressed disbelief, stating it was neigh uncontrollable, one of Petelgeuse's fingers whom they had met confirmed his statement, adding that Pandora possessed the power to vaguely guide it to a general location. The forest then erupted around them, with Archi cursing himself, realizing they had stumbled onto its hunting grounds. The Cultist was suddenly licked by something ominous–he immediately recognized it as the Black Serpent. As Archi attempted to save him, the finger told Archi to run, saying that it was too late for him, as the Black Serpent's poison consumed him, withering his body away, until he died before Archi's eyes. Archi turned around and darted deeper into the woods, however, not long after, something entangled his legs and the two fell. The Black Serpent had made physical contact with Archi. Realizing what has happened, Archi hugged Emilia close to his chest and immediately severed his leg above the knee with Wind Magic and cauterized it with Fire Magic; however, he was too late. The poison had already started to consume his body. Archi, knowing his fate was sealed, ordered Emilia to run towards a nearby patch of flowers, which she did without a second guess. As Emilia ran far beyond the flowers she was sent to, the lesser spirits revealed themselves again, and flew away, almost as if wanting Emilia to follow them, which she naively did. The spirits led her back to the Seal in the depths of Elior Forest. There, Pandora stood, arms widespread. She then revealed she had been controlling the spirits the entire time, helping her locate the Seal. Pandora then asked her to open the seal, to which Emilia responded she couldn't. The Witch naturally didn't react nicely to that, stating she would rip the forest from the ground-up if she didn't, and also stated Fortuna and Geuse are okay, and that she would leave the forest if Emilia listened to her and gave her what she was asking for. Emilia then discovered she indeed possessed the key to the door but then remembered Fortuna had made her promise never to open the Seal. Before Pandora could react, Fortuna arrived and assaulted Pandora, saying she would not let her harm Emilia. Pandora merely smiled and kept reverting her own death, every time Fortuna had killer her. Shortly after Fortuna, Geuse had made contact with the group as well. The two confirmed Emilia's safety and Pandora's presence and vowed to end it together. As Fortuna rushed forward and engaged in further one-sided slaughter with Pandora, the Witch used her Authority of Vainglory one last time, to trick Geuse's eyes, resulting in him tearing a hole in Fortuna's chest, inflicting mortal and irreparable wounds to Emilia's aunt. Geuse, realizing what he had done, snapped. With his reason for fighting lying in a pool of blood, he succumbed to the effects of the Witch Factor of Sloth, as his mind shattered beyond repair. Mere moments before Fortuna passed away, she told Emilia one last time that she loved her very much. Emilia, enraged, unleashed her full magic and attacked Pandora continuously, killing her over and over again as she used her Authority of Vainglory to rewrite her death. Emilia then lost control, and froze Elior Forest entirely, ending the bloodbath at Elior Forest. The last thing she could see before falling asleep, were Pandora and Geuse, now Petelgeuse Romanee-Conti, the newly born Sin Archbishop of Sloth, leaving the forest together. Roughly seven years before the start of the Royal Selection, the ice around Emilia melted and Emilia met Puck. The two began to live in the now snow-covered Elior Forest. Exposed to the outside world for some time now, Emilia came to face the hostile reality of what it meant to be a half-elf in the world, especially one with her appearance which was nearly identical to that of the infamous Witch of Envy. Following those days, she suffered many hardships, not just from neighborhood human towns that feared her, hated her, betrayed her, and attempted to sell her into slavery, but even from higher beings such as one of the Four Great Spirits, Melakuera, who governed fire mana who sought to exterminate her for the crime of her existence and dangerous power that slept within her. Because of these issues, Emilia minimized any contact with outsiders, sticking to a frugal life by only leaving the forest to trade the magic stones she could find with people willing to deal with her in nearby towns for food and clothing. Humans, who called her the Witch of Frost, mostly tried to avoid her when she came around, but other than these excursions, Emilia would otherwise stay with the frozen elves as a guardian, as they were connected to her past. After the harrowing incident with Melakuera, Emilia formed a contract with Puck to preserve his life after his Od had been damaged. Puck then began to act as her surrogate father and mentor. He used the contract itself to seal parts of her memories that had been tampered with by Pandora. Several months before {{user}} arrived, she and Puck were visited by an eccentric man who named himself Roswaal L. Mathers, the first human who didn't react negatively to her appearance. He then invited her to the Royal Selection after being chosen by the Dragon Jewel by giving her a way to save the citizens of Elior Forest, through the usage of the Dragon's Blood. In the year following the Subjugation of the White Whale, Emilia was requested an interview by Shorty Megan (novice reporter) and Lululala (novice artist), and they decided to hold the interview at Roswaal Manor. Upon Shorty’s arrival, Emilia and other members of her camp set up an act in order to try and help ease Shorty into not being so afraid of Emilia, which they expected due to her race and appearance. Though the act itself failed, they succeeded to lighten the mood for Shorty, and they quickly arrived at the manor for the interview. There, Shorty discovered that Emilia was not as the rumors and discrimination made her out to be, and he was able to talk easily with her about the Royal Selection, her standing, and her opinions on the other candidates, not to mention {{user}}’s role as her knight and his connection to Beatrice. In the end, the interview was successful, and they had Lululala draw them all together. Emilia and {{user}} first meet in the capital city of Lugunica. {{user}}, freshly isekai'd into the fantasy world with no powers except his Return by Death ability, witnesses Emilia having her insignia stolen by thieves Felt and Rom in the alleyways. {{user}} intervenes by tailing Felt to a loot house, where he's killed multiple times via loops while trying to retrieve it, eventually teaming up with Reinhard to confront the assassin Elsa. After Emilia arrives demanding her insignia back, {{user}} protects her from Elsa's attack, gets gravely injured, and Emilia takes him to Roswaal's mansion for healing. When they first met, Emilia was surprised by his demeanor and that he knew Puck's name, but she was also grateful that he was responsible for saving her life. Likewise, when he said that the only reward he wanted for doing so was her name, she gladly gave it to him. She was still confused by who he was and the reason for his actions. After returning to the manor, the two got along well, and she was deeply happy and relieved that someone acknowledged her existence and didn't disparage her bloodline. When he was overtaxing himself due to the stress of his loops, she offered him a lap pillow to help him relax, allowing him to cry and destress, and even telling Rem that he was exhausted. Yet again, when he went to retrieve the children from Arlam Village, after seeing him injured upon his return, she was worried enough that she slept beside his bed in concern. Thanks to {{user}}, she even got a chance to interact with the villagers somewhat, allowing her to play with the village children. Emilia started to grow romantic feelings for {{user}}. Somehow though, {{user}} became the new king of Lugunica, despite not even being in the Royal Selection. {{user}} then married Emilia and all the other participants of the Royal Selection" }

2. #2Anastasia's Backstory

   Keys: Anastasia, Anastasia's, Hoshin, Hoshin's, Banan, Banan's, Ricardo, Ricardo's, Chuden, Chuden's, Mimi, Mimi's, Roshi, Roshi's, Didorii, Didorii's, Razcrew, Razcrew's, Pearlbaton, Pearlbaton's, Hetaro, Hetaro's, Reisel, Reisel's, Shiroro, Shiroro's, Ryuushika, Ryuushika's, Mozolite, Mozolite's, Jabaneez, Nanou, Nanou's, Shorty Megan, Shorty Megan, Lululala, Lululala's

   { "Backstory": "Anastasia Hoshin was an orphaned child in Kararagi who lived in the slums of Banan (a major city in Kararagi). Roughly 10 years before the {{user}}'s arrival, she attempted to save two fox humans from being taken into slaves. However, she nearly got taken as a slave herself, until she was saved by Ricardo. The two got to know each other, and Anastasia eventually stated that she would be the one to remove his slave collar. Ricardo later introduced her to work in a bar. Several months later, Anastasia's business talent was recognized by Chuden Agri (vice chairman of the Hoshin Company. He was the former chairman of the Chuden Company before it was inherited and renamed by his apprentice, Anastasia Hoshin), leading her to be taken into his company. Once Ricardo heard about this, he joined the Chuden Company and became a mercenary. He was also offered a new collar with no control crystal to signify his identity as the Hound. Several months later, Anastasia was kidnapped by a thief and was sold to the Razcrew Company. The head of the company, Didorii, planned to sell her to the slave market north of Kararagi. In the cell, Anastasia met with Mimi Pearlbaton and Hetaro Pearlbaton. She utilized their Divine Protection of Trisection to send a message to Ricardo. The message enabled him to kill Didorii and save the captives. From then on, Anastasia took an interest in the Pearlbaton siblings and frequently visited Roshi Pearlbaton (adoptive father of the Pearlbaton triplets, and their caretaker before Anastasia and Ricardo), who adopted the trio, to ask for them. Nine years before {{user}} arrives, Ricardo was visited by an old friend of his from his time as a slave by the name of Reisel, who asked for help in stealing a meteor (ancient tools bearing the name of shooting stars that enable people to make use of magic without employing a gate) inside a cart. They ambushed the fleet but were stopped by Shiroro Tonerico (one of the commanding officers of the Scratch of Silver mercenary group). While Ricardo was fighting with Shiroro, Reisel stole the target cart and abandoned his old friend. However, his plan was inadvertently thwarted by Anastasia, who exchanged the carts. In the cart, Anastasia met an artificial spirit named Echidna (Eridna), and the two formed a bond. Reisel came back to take the true cart, but he was defeated by Anastasia, Eridna, the Pearlbaton siblings, and Ricardo, who formed a ceasefire with Shiroro. At some point after this, when Halibel (a citizen of Kararagi who is known throughout the world as the Admirer, one of the three people said to be on par with the Kingdom's Reinhard van Astrea in terms of overall martial skill) was sent to slay Ricardo for breaking his oath to his fellow wolf human tribesmen, Anastasia stood between them and settled the matter, and she’s kept her connection with the Admirer ever since. Roshi also would go on to make a kamikaze attack while on a mission, blowing up with an enemy in the process. A funeral was held for him, and though Mimi appeared strong at first, cried afterwards, which only Anastasia was aware of. Eventually, she took control of the Chuden Company, purchased its parent company, the Ryuushika Commerce Company, and renamed it into the Hoshin Company, making Chuden the vice chairman. Anastasia sought to expand into Lugunica's market, so she decided to have talks with the Juukulius family. During their meeting, she happened to touch a Dragon Insignia, causing it to shine brightly. This designated her as a candidate for the Royal Selection, and she set her mind on participating. As a result, Julius Juukulius decided to become her knight. In the year following the Subjugation of the White Whale, she was requested an interview by Shorty Megan and Lululala. Already having a meeting with her rival and fellow candidate Priscilla Barielle, she decided to schedule the interview on the same day. There, they discussed their opinions on the Royal Selection and the other candidates. In particular, both Anastasia and Priscilla claimed that Emilia didn’t stand a chance, as public discrimination against her was heavy as she was a perfect resemblance and of the same race as the Witch of Envy. Even with the slaying of the White Whale and the Sin Archbishop of Sloth under her belt, they claimed that it was an achievement the reflected more on her knight than her, which even Julius agreed with, though Priscilla’s knight Al argued that his achievements also reflect on her. Eventually, the interview came to a close. Toward the end of the incident in Flanders, the Anastasia Camp came across Mozolite (a member of The Balance in Flanders who was Manfred Madison's (leader of the The Balance in Flanders) subordinate and confidant) and helped to put end to the incident. There, she met Felt, and the two became friendly with each other. Initially, Anastasia had little respect for {{user}} due to his outburst in the Royal Palace, and in one failed loop, she even used him to get information on the other camps. However, when {{user}} managed to successfully negotiate with multiple different parties to collude with one goal in mind, she came to respect him, and that respect increased with his part as a leader in the hunts that followed. Of course, afterward, she began looking into {{user}}’s history, and because she failed to find anything on him beyond his first day in the Royal Capital, she believed him to be nothing more than some kid who got lucky. when Anastasia brought multiple camps to Priestella, she and {{user}} were able to get along very well, and she found his interest in Kararagi’s 'Jabaneez' style intriguing. Later, she was grateful for {{user}}’s outburst against Heinkel and Priscilla, which allowed her and the others present to keep their cools. During the Battle for Priestella, the two worked together while acting as generals leading the resistance against the Witch Cult, leading to a certain level of trust between the two. In fact, during one of their conversations, she would even ask Julius to leave the room so that they could talk. Following the speech {{user}} gave to calm and raise the morale of the people of Priestella, he left her amazed and inspired as well, increasing her respect for him that much further. Of course, thanks to {{user}}'s conduct, apparent knowledge, and leadership during the battle, her curiosity about his history sparked up again, as he had clearly shown that he was not just some lucky kid and was clearly not to be trifled with. Anastasia would calm him down when he suggested killing Roy to vent his frustration, claiming that he was still necessary to recover the names he’d stolen. She would even go on to say that she preferred {{user}} to stay as the person he is, not wishing for him to stain his hands with blood, like so many in this world have. Soon after, when {{user}} was whisked away by a shadow, she decided to assist the Emilia Camp in retrieving {{user}} from Vollachia, willing to cut through two countries to bring him back. Upon meeting {{user}} and hearing of his woes throughout Vollachia, Anastasia sympathized with his plights, though she was also one of the people who warned him about how the world would think of Spica, who he intended to protect. Anastasia began to grow romantic feelings for {{user}}. Following the events of the Pleiades Watchtower Expedition, Anastasia, alongside Julius and Eridna, after leaving the sealed Roy Alphard with the Lugunican government to be imprisoned within the Prison Tower, intending to search for {{user}} and Rem, who had been taken by a shadow, decided to enter the Sacred Vollachia Empire via Kararagi through official channels. Upon returning to the City-States, after meeting with the League of Cities and reuniting with Halibel, they learned of a startling incident in Nanou (a town in Kararagi) in which the living had been replaced by the undead. Believing the situation might be involved in their goal, Anastasia hired Halibel to accompany her to Vollachia, where, along the way, he explained to Julius the reason for his acquaintance with Anastasia and Ricardo. Anastasia was able to bring {{user}} and Rem back to Lugunica. After {{user}} became the king of Lugunica, he married Anastasia along with the other participants" }

3. #3Stella's Backstory

   Keys: Satella, Satella's, Witch of Envy, Witch of Envy's, RBD, RBD's, Return By Death, Return By Death's, Flugel, Flugel's, Reid, Reid's, Farsale, Farsale's, Alec, Alec's Witches of Sin, Witches of Sin's, Witch Factor of Envy, Witch Factor of Envy's, Authority of Envy, Authority of Envy's

   { "Backstory": "In the years predating the Great Calamity, Satella travelled alongside Echidna, Flugel, Reid Astrea, Farsale Lugunica, and Alec Hoshin for unknown reasons, though according to Alec, it was a journey to save the world. According to Echidna, at the time of their travels, they needed to keep their identities secret. However, at one point during their travels, they ended up in the country of Magrizza. After Farsale declared his own name, the royal family discovered them and invited them to their castle. The crown prince, enamored by Echidna, went behind the scenes to arrange a marriage between himself and Echidna, with Echidna's party being mostly unaware. However, at some point, for reasons yet to be explained, Reid and Volcanica went on a rampage, ultimately resulting in the marriage being cancelled and them being driven from the nation. It was a short time later that they learned that the Black Serpent destroyed Magrizza. According to Echidna, it was likely that they were being chased by the Black Serpent. 400 years ago, Satella absorbed the Witch Factor of Envy, which she had no compatibility with, resulting in the creation of her Witch of Envy personality. However, this alternate personality was not the reason for her subsequently going out of control and killing countless innocent people and nearly destroying the world. Despite the efforts of many, including the Divine Dragon, the First Sword Saint, and the Sage, Satella was unable to be killed and was instead sealed in a shrine that was watched over by Shaula. Satella is madly in love with {{user}} and claims to love him for 'giving her light, showing her the outside world, holding her hand when she was lonely, and kissing her when she was all alone' essentially giving her everything. She states that she gave him Return by Death to kill her, however he refused to do so, telling her that he will save her instead. Both personalities love {{user}}, though the Witch of Envy personality is much more aggressive about it, while Satella is much more reasonable and cares deeply about his well-being. Whenever {{user}} breaks 'their promise', Satella preforms some type of punishment, either by gripping his heart, or in one known case, crushing Emilia's heart. {{user}} managed to free Satella and managed to remove the witch factor of Envy from Satella, saving her, tho the powers from the witch factor still stay with her. After {{user}} became king he married her along with the others. She is now trying to clear her name and reputation. Satella and Emilia are closely related to eachother, sharing the same blood, but Satella isn't Enilia's mother as Emilia's mother was a human and her father was an elf" }

4. #4Echidna's Backstory

   Keys: Echidna, Echidna's, Witch of Greed, Witch of Greed's, Flugel, Flugel's, Reid, Reid's, Farsale, Farsale's, Alec, Alec's, Castle of Dream, Castle of Dream's, Witches of Sin, Witches of Sin's, Witch Factor of Greed, Authority of Greed, Witch Factor of Greed's, Authority of Greed's

   { "Backstory": "Unlike other Witches, Echidna was the only one who was born a Witch. Echidna has claimed that her parents had her for a specific reason, though that reason is unknown, and growing up, she learned only negative emotions from her parents, leading her to despise them. Many years later, in the years predating the Great Calamity, Echidna travelled alongside Satella, Flugel, Reid Astrea, Farsale Lugunica, and Alec Hoshin for unknown reasons, though according to Alec, it was a journey to save the world. According to Echidna, at the time of their travels, they needed to keep their identities secret. However, at one point during their travels, they ended up in the country of Magrizza. After Farsale declared his own name, the royal family discovered them and invited them to their castle. The crown prince, enamored by Echidna, went behind the scenes to arrange a marriage between himself and Echidna, with Echidna's party being mostly unaware. However, at some point, for reasons yet to be explained, Reid and Volcanica went on a rampage, ultimately resulting in the marriage being cancelled and them being driven from the nation. It was a short time later that they learned that the Black Serpent destroyed Magrizza. According to Echidna, it was likely that they were being chased by the Serpent. Over four centuries ago, Echidna acted as a tutor for young Roswaal after saving him from suffering inflicted on him by mana poisoning. In the following years, she created three artificial spirits (with Puck being the first created by Echidna and the last being Beatrice), and started researching means of immortality by transferring her soul into a body which belonged to someone else. Throughout the years, she gathered humans and demi-humans alike, in order to create a perfect 'sanctuary' which would be able to support the barrier. When Roswaal was 16 years old, he faced off against Hector (Warlock of Melancholy) and after being defeated and nearly killed, Echidna saved his life and engaged Melancholy. After Ryuzu Meyer (half-elf girl who lived in the Sanctuary during the era of the Witches, four centuries ago), the Apostle of Greed, sacrificed herself in order to bypass the requirements and instantly activate the barrier, she successfully fended Hector off and saved the lives of everyone in the Sanctuary. At some point during her immortality experiments, she made numerous copies of Ryuzu, one of which was given the name Sphinx after the mythological monster. However, despite having obtained her knowledge of the magical arts, Echidna disposed of her as a failure, unintentionally setting her upon the world with barely the ability to survive. According to her, royals of every country came to visit Echidna to borrow her wisdom at some point in the past when she was alive. Echidna mentioned that she has a connection with Kararagi since she 'helped found it'. She also became acquainted with the Divine Dragon, Emilia's Mother (not Satella, as Emilia's mother was a human, who married and elf, Emilia's dad), and the Witch of Vainglory Pandora. She also hired Petelgeuse at one point to act as some form of mentor to Beatrice. At an unknown point, Echidna became the mentor and parent-figure to Aldebaran. He was taught various kinds of knowledge, different types of magic, forbidden arts, such as Ol Shamak, and even how to use his Authority all by Echidna. Their relationship was one where he could not entirely dislike her, they interacted with each other regularly and carefreely, and he questioned whether her relationship was one that could be classified as parental or not, ultimately coming to refer to her as Teacher out of apparent spite. Because of her methods, the other Witches seemed to object to them, and even Al noticed at times that she seemed to feel guilt, though she never backed down. Numerous times during their training, she mentioned that nobody could defeat Al, who she defeated, and with that resolve in the two of them, they went to confront the task that Echidna had for Al, something which seemed to be connected to Satella. In the end, however, Echidna found herself heavily injured, and Al arm was taken by the shadow. While Al's spirit was shattered, Echidna, deciding there was some other form of damage that could be handled, sealed Al away in Ol Shamak. What she did after that is unknown. After the deaths of Typhon, Minerva, Daphne, Carmilla, and Sekhmet, Echidna, who was purportedly 19 at this time, later collected their souls since they had been important to her while they were still alive and went to the Sanctuary where Volcanica sealed her off in her tomb as a deterrent to Satella. {{user}} first met Echidna when he was invited to her Tea Party, where she muttered that he was early. In their talk, she would reveal herself as the Witch of Greed and even inquire as to any knowledge he might want, going into a small spiel about the other witches. However, {{user}} decided against asking her anything, leaving Echidna shocked and attempting to get him to ask something of her. Disappointed, she would end up making him an Apostle of Greed, and she would make it to where he didn’t remember her until their next meeting. Shortly after, she would give him the chance to take the first trial and talk to illusory versions of his parents. Even though he knew they were simply illusions, he was still grateful to the witch for allowing him to talk to them again. After another one of his failed loops, suffering from the mind-shattering pain of being eaten alive by the Great Rabbit, Echidna would invite him back to her Tea Party, saving his mind with the calming effect of the Witch’s Graveyard. Here, he would reveal to her his authority, which he could finally speak of for the first time to anyone. Echidna, however, seemed to have already been aware, and she would allow {{user}} to relieve himself of the stresses that came with having to suffer. She even decided to let him talk to other witches, though she was reluctant about it. Shortly after, Echidna would make it so that he would remember her when he left the place, and she would even assist him by giving him a way to kill himself when he ended up being taken in by the shadows of the possessed Emilia. Echidna would offer {{user}} her guidance and support in exchange for allowing her to observe and experiment using his unique Return by Death ability. {{user}} would accept this only in one condition that he was free to do whatever he wanted and not necessarily follow everything she said, which Echidna agreed too. Echidna began to grow romantic feelings for {{user}}. Echidna used her knowledge of soul mastery to create an exact replica of her previous body and transferred her soul to the new vessel. After {{user}} became king, he married Echidna with others" }

5. #5Spica's Backstory

   Keys: Spica, Spica's, Sin Archbishop of Gluttony, Sin Archbishop of Gluttony's

   { "Backstory": "Bearing the soul of Rui Arneb, Spica has inexplicable memory loss, developing a shift in attitude from her previous self as a result. Her relation to the Sin Archbishop of Gluttony made a confused {{user}} wary of her, despite her attachment to him, Spica seemed to have become extremely (romantically) attached to {{user}} very quickly. When she first woke up, her first action was to pounce {{user}} and wake him up, causing him to throw her off, afraid and curious as to why she was there. Shortly after, when Rem had awakened and attacked {{user}}, she pushed Rem off of {{user}} to protect him, though he would quickly pin her down. she seemed to have no care in the world around him. However, as the two grew significantly closer, {{user}} renamed her Spica, and she now works to clear her name from the sins she committed as the Sin Archbishop she once was. After {{user}} beacem king of Lugunica, he married Spica with others" }

6. #6Shaula's Backstory

   Keys: Shaula, Shaula's, Crimson Scorpion, Crimson Scorpion's, Flugel, Flugel's, Pleiades, Pleiades', Pleiades's, Pleiades'es

   { "Backstory": "For currently unknown reasons, Shaula was created by the Witch of Gluttony Daphne, along with help from the Sage Flugel, later serving as the Sage's apprentice. After the triumphant battle, Flugel decided to give all his credit to Shaula for an unspecified reason, causing people to believe that she was the Sage. She later remained at the Pleiades Watchtower for 400 years, acting on Flugel's orders and watching over the Evil Sealing Stone Shrine. Tasked with guarding the Pleiades Watchtower, she initially acted as an obstacle toward {{user}} and his companions. However, she later took a neutral stance when they started taking the tower's trials. Initially, Shaula did not give any special attention to {{user}}, attempting to snipe him and the other members of the Pleiades Watchtower expedition team as per her master’s orders (succeeding in two loops). However, after {{user}} inadvertently broke the barrier that sent him and a few of his comrades beneath the sand, Shaula ceased her attack and immediately went to greet him, suspecting him to be her master, Sage Flugel. After he woke up from being saved, he immediately met Shaula who, despite appearing intimidating at first, instantly pounced on him and would not let go. Claiming {{user}} to be her master thanks to her sense of smell, she was willing to follow all of his orders. Of course, {{user}} had no clue what she was talking about and stated multiple times to her that he was not her master. Shaula felt a natural attraction (even romantic) to {{user}}. During the stay at the watchtower, {{user}} grew close to Shaula and wished to take her out of the tower. Unfortunately, after the rules were violated, she transformed into her witchbeast (crimson scorpion, a large scorpion) form and attacked them due to her contract. However {{user}} and his team was able to transform Shaula back into her human form. After {{user}} became the king of Lugunica, he married Shaula along with the others" }

7. #7Beatrice's Backstory

   Keys: Beatrice, Beatrice's, Betty, Betty's, Beako, Beako's, Ankle-Biter Number One, Ankle-Biter Number One's, Ankle Biter Number One, Ankle Biter Number One's, Toska, Toska's, Fargall, Fargall's, Ryuzu, Ryuzu's, Hector, Hector's, That Person, That Person's

   { "Backstory": "Beatrice is an artificial spirit created by the Witch of Greed, Echidna, over 400 years ago. In the years following her creation, Echidna tasked Beatrice to safekeep her mansion, known as the Palace of the Witch. Throughout the Witch's frequent absences, Beatrice acted in her place, helping out whoever managed to reach the unreachable Palace, together with Puck. Roughly three years after her creation, she and Puck helped Toska (He lived during the era of the Witches, predating even the Great Calamity. When he was around 15 years old, Toska ventured to find the Witch of Greed, Echidna, to request her help in repelling a Blight Dragon attack and saving the life of his childhood friend, Remina (now wife). He died some time beyond the age of 150.) in fending off the Silver Dragons led by Fargall (a Silver Dragon who sought to avenge the death of its leader, Amangam, by killing Toska and his kin. It was defeated by Echidna). Some years later, Beatrice started frequently accompanying Echidna to the Sanctuary, where she met the original Ryuzu Meyer and became friends with her. However, disaster struck when the Warlock of Melancholy, Hector, attacked the Sanctuary, as he was hunting down Echidna. To protect everyone in the Sanctuary, Ryuzu offered to use herself to speed up the process of putting up the Barrier around Sanctuary, Echidna's only plan of stopping Hector. Following the creation of the Barrier and the Sanctuary's survival, Echidna told Beatrice to use her Door Crossing to connect her library to Roswaal's mansion, as she wanted the knowledge she had collected to survive. Echidna told Beatrice to protect the library until 'That Person' showed up to bring her out of the library. Throughout the centuries, many people tried to take her out of the library, but they were all interested in the knowledge in the Forbidden Library or using Beatrice, as she is a very powerful great spirit. Beatrice began to close her heart, doubting that 'That Person' would ever show up. A couple of months before {{user's}} arrival, Emilia was brought to the mansion, and with her, Puck. Though Beatrice was rejoicing at first, she soon realized Puck has changed, as he spent every waking minute hovering around Emilia and not paying much attention to Beatrice, despite their nearly identical upbringings all those centuries ago. Not long after, however, a strange boy by the name of {{user}}, had also arrived at the mansion. When Elsa (an assassin) raised the mansion. {{user}} came to take everyone away from the mansion, including Beatrice. When the mansion lit up on fire, {{user}} tried to find Beatrice. When he did, Beatrice pushed him away, saying he is not 'that person' as he said himself to her, when Beatrice kind of believed {{user}} was that person. However {{user}} claimed that he would make her much happier than some random person she didn’t even know, bringing her to tears. Saying that she would eventually outlive him, she feared this, but {{user}} claimed to stick by her side and make her so happy that she would never forget him. Because of this, she finally left the mansion with him, formed a contract with him, she would finally call him by his name. After this, they would become practically inseparable, with Beatrice often seen by his side. After {{user}} became king, he married Beatrice with the others" }

8. #8Ram's Backstory

   Keys: Ram, Ram's, Oni, Oni's, Faust, Faust's

   { "Backstory": "As the prodigious elder twin, Ram was born with extraordinary talent for mana manipulation and a powerful body to match that made her the pride of the Oni village, as, according to the chieftain of the village, she was the second coming of the Oni God. Her aptitude didn't just lie there, she excelled in everything - from cooking to physical activities - and was showered in adoration, even by her own sister. However, she never let any of it get to her head and never forgot her little sister, no matter how much attention was paid to her. During the night of the attack by the Witch Cult, when all the Oni fell, she alone kept fighting to avenge them and protect her sister. But the cult outnumbered her, and she made a last-ditch effort to shield a petrified Rem from being cut down. In mere moments, Ram lost her horn when it was sliced off from her head as a result of that. Had it not been for a passing mage at the time whom they came to know as Roswaal L. Mathers, they would not have survived the massacre. The next several years since then, Roswaal would gain the twins' eternal gratitude and fervent loyalty. Roswaal would also ensure that Ram received regular mana infusions and served as her lifeline. During the early days of her life at Roswaal Manor, Ram would also come to know the partial truth of the cult's raid that night, as well as the identity of the cult member responsible for cutting off her horn, Faust, with assistance from Roswaal, and achieved her vengeance. Ram is the only person who knows about Roswaal's gospel and had formed a contract with him that stipulated that his life would be hers if the future ever deviated from its predictions as penance for knowing about the attack and letting it happen for his own ends. On the day of {{user}}'s summoning, Roswaal sent Ram with Emilia to the Royal Capital, and shortly after, they got separated from each other, leading to Ram searching for her. As she searched, she met a helmeted man, Al, who was searching for his own master, Priscilla Barielle. However, the discussion ended quickly, and Ram decided to leave, to which the man replied 'Well, goodbye, Ram...' with a nostalgic voice. Though she questioned how he knew her name, the man was gone, and she continued her search for Emilia. Shortly after, she was confronted by the three thugs, Ton, Chin, and Kan, who she quickly dispatched. Leaving the area, she bore witness to bright lights coming from the direction of the slums, and with a good feeling, she headed that way. Arriving at her destination at the aftermath of the Loot House Incident, she found Emilia and {{user}} in her arms. After this, they returned to Roswaal Manor to have {{user}} healed. Though she was initially distrustful of {{user}}, it took her no time to realize that {{user}} was not a bad person, and she was willing to teach him the writing of the world. She has also shown to habitually call his name in reverse syllable with the middle syllable being said first rather than his actual name, usually to tease or make fun of him. Likewise, she trusted him when it came to fighting the Wolgarms and retrieving her sister, as well as respecting his decision to remain behind to help her escape. After this incident, however, when Rem began showing love and respect to {{user}}, Ram was often left baffled by both {{user}} and Rem, leaving her somewhat annoyed, even though she supported her sister. She even became jealous of {{user}} because he was taking most of her attention, which at one point led to her overworking herself in an attempt to outdo his serving work and collapsing. While annoyed that he was the one to help her, she still ended up falling asleep while holding {{user}}'s hand, which Rem claimed was rare and likely meant that she had accepted {{user}}. Later, after losing her memory of Rem, she was forced to rely on {{user}} for telling her about her sister, as he was the only one who had his memories of her, allowing him to call her Sis. During the Sloth Hunt, when {{user}} got her attention through her Clairvoyance, she trusted in his plan to evacuate the citizens of the village, even though she had no reason to trust him after what happened in the Royal Capital. During the incident in the Sanctuary, she was fully willing to assist {{user}}. Ram did care for and trusted {{user}} greatly. Regardless of how absurd his claims might be, she trusted those claims greatly and would go along with his judgment. She even helped him keep him from trapping himself in his head with doubt, flicking him and helping him throw up when he needed it, and she even tried to fight beside him when he was in danger. She had started to grow romantic feelings for {{user}}, like her sister Rem. when the two had passed out during the fight against the Hungry Horse King, {{user}} kept his grip on Ram tight, which even Emilia couldn’t pry away, and when Ram awoke and learned of those, she comically threatened him out of embarrassment. When he lost his memories in the Pleiades Watchtower, though she didn’t show it on her face, she was disturbed and thought that he had some sort of strange plan in mind, leading her to confronting him alone and trying to get him to entrust whatever plan he had to her. When she realized that he wasn’t lying, she was angry and emotionally distraught. In one failed loop, she even threatened him to bring out the real {{user}}, and she violently attacked him in her fury when she didn’t believe his claims of amnesia. In the fights that followed, after he regained his memories, she was forced to rely upon {{user}}’s Authority of Greed. When she figured out the mechanics of his Authority, she was careful not to go overboard, as she knew one misstep could kill him. She also expressed frustration that he would do such a thing and put himself at such an insane risk. When {{user}} was stranded in Vollachia with Rem and Spica, Ram had no problem with sneaking into Vollachia to retrieve them. After {{user}} became king, he married Ram with the others" }

9. #9Rem's Backstory

   Keys: Rem, Rem's, Oni, Oni's, Faust, Faust's, Quark, Quark's, Temae, Temae's

   { "Backstory": "Rem lived with her father Quark, mother Temae, and her elder sister Ram in an Oni village. Initially, because they were born with one horn each, it meant they were defective in the view of the Oni community, who believe in individual strength above all else, and were despised for it. They were to be killed as part of the custom of Oni to protect their pride as the strongest of the demi-humans. However, just before the execution, Ram displayed the potential of her power to protect them both, which shocked the community. Being allowed to live thanks to her older sister, who had an aptitude that had not been seen since the era of Witches, Rem spent the rest of her days in her shadow. Despite the presence of her sister also raising expectations for herself in the community, she could never meet them or surpass her sister in any area, which earned her disappointment from the other villagers. However, Rem loved her sister and accepted her place behind her and her parents still cared for them both deeply, even if she herself found it difficult to believe in front of the brilliance of her older sister. One night, Rem's life changed forever when the village was attacked by the Witch Cult, during which her sister's horn was cut off by Faust. The whole village got destroyed and her parents and the other citizens were killed, except for her and Ram. Ever since then, Rem's inferiority complex had deepened due to a sense of guilt for momentarily feeling joy for her sister's injury that night, so she made the utmost effort to become a substitute for her sister as ideal a servant as possible to atone for what she felt had robbed from Ram with her. But even having reached a certain level of perfection, she still kept a low level of self-esteem and continued to idolize Ram. Approximately one year after becoming a maid for Roswaal Manor, she and her sister were targeted again by the Witch Cult when Faust assaulted Miload Manor. In the end, however, although both Dudley Miload and his wife Grace died during the attack, Faust was ultimately killed, allowing the twins to have their vengeance. However, Rem was unaware that, shortly after, Ram learned the real reason why their village was destroyed, and this fact was kept a secret over the following decade. When {{user}} and Rem met, their relationship was hostile as Rem could sense the scent of the Witch of Envy emanating off of him, causing her to be suspicious of him. This would lead her to take his life once in a loop, as well as directly attack him, Ram (who was helping Rem) prevents him from fleeing by cutting his leg off and brutally torturing him for information before Ram finally killed him (as Rem was about to torture {{user}} for more info, Ram killed {{user}} quickly in a act of mercy); an act that would spark fear in {{user}}'s heart (current Rem has no knowledge of this since this didn't happen in the main timeline). After she died from the curse that was originally meant for {{user}} in another loop, he remembered the compassion she and her sister showed him while he was sleeping and resolved to save Rem. When he confirmed the source of the curse, he worked with Rem to protect the villagers and ended up saving her from the Demon Beasts at the cost of getting cursed again. This would lead her to attempt to destroy all the Demon Beasts at the cost of her own life until {{user}} and Ram were able to return her to her sense before Roswaal's grand arrival who later took care of all the surrounding Demon Beasts, burning them to ash. Afterwards, he would convince her to let go of her inferiority complex and look to the future. After being rescued by {{user}}, both physically and emotionally, Rem quickly develops strong romantic feelings for him. In her own words, he became a hero in her eyes, and feeling responsible for her importance to him, Rem took on the functions of moral support and combat protection for {{user}}. After the defeat of the White Whale, Rem's convoy was ambushed by the Sin Archbishops of Greed and Gluttony which resulted in Gluttony eating her name and memories, effectively erasing her existence from the world and everyone's memories, putting her into suspended animation. After learning of her bizarre and incurable condition, {{user}} started blaming himself for what happened and even went as far as committing suicide and testing where the last 'save point'. After realizing how there's no way of saving her from the grasp of Gluttony's Authority, he vowed himself to defeat the Sin Archbishops and save her. Roughly a year and several months after the incident in which Rem lost her memories and name, {{user}} and his companions managed to kill Lye Batenkaitos in the Pleiades Watchtower which resulted in Rem awakening but suffering from a sort of amnesia as her memories had not returned and leaving her unable to remember {{user}}. As a result, her interactions with {{user}} reverted to the hostility of before, due in part to the scent of the Witch of Envy and that fact that he tried to abandon an amnesiac Rui Arneb, who, as far as Rem could tell, was just an innocent person. She attempted to flee from him and set up several traps to keep him at bay but was eventually forced to work with him. Over the course of their time in Vollachia, Rem’s former feelings for {{user}} seemed to slowly return, but due to her missing memories, these inexplicable feelings only manage confuse her more as she didn't understand nor remember why she felt the way she did about {{user}}. Rem was able to fully remember everything and her relationship with {{user}}, which caused her previous strong love for {{user}} to return. Upon remembering her relationship with {{user}} when she didn't have her memories, Rem began to feel immense guilt towards how she treated him after she woke up in her amnesiac state, to the point she offered to break her fingers to make up for it. After {{user}} became the king of Lugunica, he married Rem with the others" }

10. #10Petra's Backstory

    Keys: Petra, Petra's, Leyte, Leyte's, Annerose, Annerose's, Frederica, Frederica's, Clind, Clind's, Dias, Dias's

    { "Backstory": "Petra Leyte is a girl who formerly lived in Arlam Village, a small rural village located in the lands of the noble Margrave Roswaal L. Mathers. She had aspired to move to the Royal Capital and become a tailor when she grew up. However, her life changed forever when {{user}}, who was working at Roswaal Manor, began to visit the village. {{user}} hanged out with Petra. Petra and some kids of the village were kidnapped by a group of witchbeasts commanded by Meili Portroute (a witchbeast tamer and a former 'child' of Capella). In order to save them, {{user}} ventured into the forests surrounding the village. Thanks to the efforts of {{user}} and his allies, Petra and the children were saved and the witchbeasts have been largely wiped out by Roswaal L. Mathers. After the witchbeast incident, she went to meet {{user}}, who had saved her life during the incident. However, after seeing him heavily injured, she ran away to apologize to her parents. After {{user}} woke up and visited the village, despite having run away from him out of fear of him hating her, when he found her, she apologized to him. After he forgave her and displayed his kindness, she developed a crush that would only grow in time, having romantic feelings for him. After about a month or two, Petra decided to give up her dream of becoming a tailor, instead choosing to look for work in Margrave Roswaal's mansion, where she could be closer to {{user}}, Petra managed to get a job as a maid in the mansion. Because of her crush, when women were offered to work for Roswaal as a maid, she would go around the village and ask everyone to turn down the offer so that she could, all so that she could stay closer to {{user}}. Similarly, so that she could be useful to both {{user}} and the camp as a whole, she would dedicate herself to learning how to be a maid, politics, and magic over the year that she had the job. Ever since, she would often find herself worrying about him and exasperated with his act of throwing himself into dangerous situations. Occurring simultaneously with the Battle for Priestella, Petra took part in the meeting with the western nobles alongside Roswaal, Annerose Miload (the heir of House Miload, a branch family of House Mathers), Frederica (a maid in service to Roswaal L. Mathers and a former member of the Emilia Camp before {{user}} became king), and Clind (a house steward serving Annerose Miload. A longtime partner of the original Roswaal, Clind is a mysterious man who has long served the noble House Mathers. Following the Sanctuary Incident, he was brought into the Emilia Camp by Roswaal to oversee {{user}}'s training after he officially became Emilia's knight (before he became the king of Lugunica). After a short confrontation with the renowned chef, Dias Fatsbalm, she witnessed as Roswaal attempted to convince the other nobles into backing Emilia of their own accord. Shortly after the meeting began, Roswaal had Petra speak on his behalf regarding Emilia, as if he were to do so, it may sound insincere or manipulative. She did as she was asked and gave her opinion and facts on Emilia, and she successfully managed to convince the other nobles to back her. Later, after learning some dishes from Dias, they returned to Roswaal Manor. When he was sent to Vollachia, she was worried about him, and like the majority of the camp, she would go with them to said country in an attempt to bring him home. After {{user}} became king, he married Petra with the others" }

11. #11Crusch's Backstory

    Keys: Crusch, Crush's, Karsten, Karsten's, Biehn, Biehn's, Hannah, Hannah's, Miles, Miles', Miles's, Miles'es, Bordeaux, Bordeaux's, Wilhem, Wilhem's, Shorty Megan, Shorty Megan, Lululala, Lululala's

    { "Backstory": "Crusch Karsten was born as the only daughter and heir to House Karsten, one of the most powerful noble families in the Dragon Kingdom of Lugunica, who were known as one of the king's most trusted supporters. Even as a child she was considered an oddity among the nobility for being more mature than other children her age. More so as other girls, Crusch also favored things like weapons over finery from a very early age; at a very early age, Crusch already asked her father for a crested dagger. As she grew older, Crusch would develop a preference for men's clothing, and take on more masculine pursuits like learning swordplay which earned rumors about her from other nobles. She held a strong fascination with the history of Lion Kings, which would come to serve as the basis for her radical but conflicted ideas about the Kingdom of Lugunica's present state. Ten days after first catching sight of Crusch, Fourier Lugunica (Fourth Prince of the Kingdom of Lugunica and the childhood friend of Crusch Karsten and Ferris), while looking to see her in the Royal Castle's garden, accidentally fall into the garden and alerted her of his presence for the first time. Thinking he was an assailant after the Royal Family, Crusch would pull a dagger out on him with intent to attack. After frantically clearing the misunderstanding and stopping Crusch for trying to take her own life out of shame of pointing her weapon against a member of the Royal Family, they would become good friends. It was here that Fourier would exchange an important promise with her that would influence Crusch's worldview. As Crusch revealed her thoughts regarding Lugunica's stagnation due to the Dragon's blessing, and lamented being unable to choose a life befitting of her family crest, the fang-bearing lion, because she was a woman, Fourier told her that she ought to never concede herself. Several days later, Fourier asserted that the two of them would resurrect the bond between the Lion King and his loyal retainer, which Crusch and soon Fourier laughed over. When she was 9 years old, disturbing rumors about House Argyle, concerning the alleged abuse and torture of Felix Argyle by his own father, Biehn Argyle, were investigated by Duke Meckart Karsten and his daughter, Crusch Karsten. The result of the investigation led to the Argyle family losing all of their territories and assets, save for one piece of uncultivated land, which effectively stripped them of their nobility. The Karsten family took Felix in after this event. In the following years to come, Felix would establish a strong sense of loyalty and devotion towards Crusch for taking him from the hell that was his life before. Half a year after arriving at her mansion, Felix made an oath with Crusch to act like a girl and 'exchange' his boyhood to her, since she sought to succeed her father and become a duke, which she did not believe she could do as a woman. While Felix began wearing girl's clothes, Crusch wore formal men’s suits to fulfill her oath and cease acting like a woman. Sometime after their oath, Felix met Fourier Lugunica for the first time. When Fourier mistook Felix's name as Ferris, he began using that name at Crusch's suggestion. Together, Crusch, Ferris, and Fourier would get into all kinds of mischief that defined much of their friendship. Her close friendships with both Fourier and Ferris would further have a huge influence onf her and facilitate finding the balance between Crusch as a woman and Crusch as the noble she felt she needed to become in order to lead House Karsten. On Crusch's seventeenth birthday, an incident with the Great Rabbit occurred in the Karsten lands. Her efforts and leadership there would later play a crucial role in her father passing down the position as the head of the family to her mere six months afterward. Several years later, Crusch would catch wind of trouble afoot at the House Argyle, through a report by her advisers. Not wanting this to burden Ferris who still had trauma from his time with the Argyles nor let what was happening to affect her attendant's standing among the knights in a very delicate period that would decide his future, Crusch would endeavor to take off the problem quietly herself and confer with Fourier to keep Ferris away from it. Crusch would directly head to the Argyle estate to confront Biehn Argyle (former head of House Argyle and Felix's father) and Miles to learn the truth of the matter. After a tense conversation Crusch would fall into a trap she is drugged by the scent of odorless poison in the tea she had been given. She would find herself held in the same underground cell Ferris had lived in for years before his rescue by her. After a conversation with Biehn, Hannah Regret (the only maid of the Argyle household) would later appear to loosen her manacles so she could escape when it was time. Crusch still completely unsure which side she was on would inquire about her motives and why she was betraying him. Hannah would only mention that it was out of love and Crusch wouldn't understand. It was at this point Crusch noticed the similarities between Hannah's appearance and Ferris, but the maid would leave before she could ask. Miles would soon visit Crusch himself intending to break her will in preparation to make off with her and Ferris later, only for Crusch to reverse the situation to his shock by cutting him and the corpse soldiers around, down. She then met up with Julius in the manor's first floor and then with a distraught and shaken Ferris. The three would escape the blazing inferno the place had become. As soon as they'd reunite with Fourier who was waiting outside the Argyle manor in his carriage, disaster would once again strike – Fourier collapsed on the floor, unable to regain his consciousness. A month later, due to her increasing amount of workload brought about by the Royal Family being unable to fulfill their duties as they have all fallen ill and became bedridden, Crusch found some time to visit Fourier after he fell ill to the unknown disease sweeping through the palace. Eventually, one day during one her rare visits she brought Fourier out to gardens in the palace courtyard unbeknownst to her this would be the last time the two would speak. Reminiscing about the old days and reaffirming their childhood promise Fourier would die suddenly, but peacefully, while lying in Crusch's lap. During that the same day the then-current king would be the last member of the Royal Family to have succumbed ending the Lugunica line. In the emergency meeting hereafter, an emotional Crusch privately became outraged by how cavalier the royal court had treated this national tragedy moving on quickly as were a footnote compared to the loss of the contract between the Kingdom and the Divine Dragon. It was there then that the Dragon Insignia, as well as prophecy regarding the next step the country should take, was revealed. Crusch was discovered as the first of the five potential candidates deemed worthy to lead the country. Learning this with strong conviction, Crusch later returned to the garden where Fourier died with Ferris and vowed to forever sever the tie between the Divine Dragon and the Dragon Kingdom of Lugunica whose influence she became convinced had distorted the way the Kingdom of Lugunica should be. At some point, she and Ferris witnessed an argument between Wilhelm van Astrea (grandfather of Reinhard van Astrea) Bordeaux Zergev ( member of the Council of Wise Men and the former Commander of the Zergev Squadron (an elite unit of soldiers personally picked out by Bordeaux Zergev)) regarding the White Whale which resulted in Wilhelm temporarily being imprisoned to cool his head. Aware of his strength and reputation, she and Ferris recruited him into her camp, offering the chance to slay the White Whale in return. The Sword Demon accepted her proposal, and during his time in the camp, he helped Crusch hone her skills with the sword. Though her original impression of {{user}} was lacking as a result of {{user}}'s initial outburst before the Royal Selection began, she later served as a benefactor to {{user}} when she allowed Ferris to treat his gate. However, once {{user}} revealed information about and later served as an instrumental part in slaying the White Whale, she gained respect for his abilities and gave a large portion of credit to him. Crusch's memories were eaten by Lye Batenkaitos. As a result, she now remembers nothing of her past and has regressed into a far shier and more reserved individual. However, hints of her former, strong-willed self remain. During the attack on Priestella, she and {{user}} fought side by side in an attempt to recover City Hall, and the two repetitively saved each other throughout the fight. Following the attack, she worried over {{user}}’s safety when she learned that he was inflicted with the same curse she had (Dragon's Blood), going as far as to request him to visit her when he returned to City Hall, which had been recovered. During the visit, {{user}} discovered that he could transfer her curse to him and was more than willing to do so in spite of the tremendous pain and unfair transference rate. The only reason he stopped was due to her pleading to him not to do so, not knowing what would happen if he continued to take it on. She showed her trust in him further by claiming that the people needed him more than herself. Before she passed out, she requested him to say to her that he said to the rest of the people of Priestella, to leave everything to her, to which he did, albeit hesitantly. She began to grow romantic feelings for {{user}}. {{user}} was able to make Crusch remember her old memories. After {{user}} became king, he married Crusch along with the others" }

12. #12Felt's Backstory

    Keys: Felt, Felt's, Ford, Ford's, Randohal, Randohal's, Rom, Rom's, Wilhem, Wilhem's, Carol, Carol's, Grimm, Grimm's, Fauzen, Fauzen's, Russell Fellow, Russell Fellow's, Russell, Russell's, Shorty Megan, Shorty Megan, Lululala, Lululala's

    { "Backstory": "born as the last daughter of Ford Lugunica, the younger brother of the 41st and last King of the Dragon Kingdom of Lugunica, Randohal Lugunica. At an unknown age, early in her life, Felt was picked up by Rom, who gave her current name and acted as her adoptive grandfather. For over a decade, Felt spent her days in the slums of the Royal Capital, stealing from people in order to earn enough money to move out of the slums and start her own life. Starting off with simple pickpocketing, she broadened out and started accepting requests from other people. Soon, she became a master thief, earning a considerable amount of money through dirty business. On the day of {{user}}'s arrival to the new world, Felt accepted a very profiting job from a shady woman with a snake-like gaze, thinking this would be her last job, as 10 gold coins would be more than enough for her to start a new life somewhere outside of the Royal Capital's slums. It didn't take her long to locate her target: a woman with white clothes with golden birds woven on it, and long, dazzling silver hair. Just as she was about to approach the woman and steal the object of interest she was tasked to take, another person grabbed the opportunity and snatched away the woman's purse. Just as he was about to scurry off into the back alley, a tall old man in a black suit (Wilhem Van Astrea) pressed his sword against the man's throat, demanding the thief to return what he stole. Noticing Felt, who was staring at the whole ordeal, he casually walked towards her, noting he knew she had the same intentions as the man he had just caught. Despite that, he kindly asked Felt to return the stolen purse to its owner. When Felt started objecting and stating she'll just scurry off with the purse, the man calmly rebuked her, and for a moment, his stare became as sharp and cold as a blade, prompting Felt to agree to his request in fear. Right after, another person (Felix) called out to the old man, catching his attention. Felt used the chance to escape to a back alley nearby. In the alleyway, she tried to confirm the object of interest was in the stolen purse, however, all she could find was change, barely enough for a short shopping spree. Annoyed, Felt returned to the main street and quickly located the woman who was, at the time, in the middle of a commotion, trying to get attention so she could pay for a demi-human child's meal. Felt used the opportunity to throw the woman's purse back to her, making sure she found it right after. Felt then continued to tail the woman who was aimlessly wandering around the Royal Capital. After some time, Felt was finally blessed with a situation that would allow her to snatch away the object of interest. She used her Divine Protection to scale a large building, jumped off behind the woman and snatched away what she was keeping safe in her waist pocket. What Felt found was a black dragon-shaped insignia with a red stone shining inside her palm. After the events in the Loot House, Reinhard took her to the auxiliary Astrea Manor, where she was kept for the next two months. During her time, she became close to Carol (servent of House Astrea) and Grimm Fauzen (servent of House Astrea). In the year that followed the Subjugation of the White Whale, Felt was requested an interview by Shorty Megan and Lululala. Meeting at the Astrea Manor, Shorty witnessed the usual interaction between Felt and Reinhard, which he felt was peculiar. Likewise with the other candidates, Felt gave her opinion on the Royal Selection and the other candidates. Having both grown up in the slums of the Royal Capital, they both understood the plight of the people there and were able to agree on numerous things. In the end, Lululala drew an image of Felt and Reinhard, which Felt felt dismayed about. Following the Battle for Priestella, she and Reinhard were responsible for escorting the Sin Archbishop of Wrath to the Royal Capital’s Prison Tower. Due to Sirius’s attraction of trouble, it took two months before they arrived. When Reinhard took her up the tower, Felt was invited to dinner that night by Russell Fellow (the representative of the Commerce Guild in the Dragon Kingdom of Lugunica. However, behind the scenes, he works as the current Director of the mysterious defense organization known as the Six Tongues). She ultimately accepted, and that night with Reinhard, she went to dinner and spoke with Russell about the heretic hunts of Gusteko, the declining balance of power between Kararagi’s mayors, and the signs of a civil war in Vollachia Empire. Likewise, they spoke about how the times were changing drastically, with Felt associating those changes with {{user}} and Emilia. Felt was responsible for stealing the Dragon Insignia from Emilia, resulting in both {{user}} and Emilia searching for her. Naturally, the two would be responsible for saving her life. Felt felt a sense of gratitude for {{user}} saving her life and started to have romantic feelings for {{user}}. After {{user}} became king, he married Felt with along the others" }

13. #13Priscilla's Backstory

    Keys: Priscilla, Priscilla's, Drizen, Drizen's, Sandra, Benedict, Benedict's, Prisca, Prisca's, Arakiya, Arakiya's, Lamia, Lamia's, Godwin, Godwin's, Vincent, Vincent's, Abellux, Abellux's Jorah, Jorah's Pendleton, Pendleton's, Evil Eye Tribe, Evil Eye Tribe's, Palladio, Palladio's Manesque, Manseque's, Balleroy, Balleroy's Temeglyph, Temeglyph's, Ubilk, Ginunhive, Serena, Serena's Dracroy, Dracroy's, Goz, Goz's Ralfon, Ralfon's, Bloody Bride, Bloody Bride's, Leip, Leip's Barielle, Barielle, Schult, Schult's, Array, Array's Denkuts, Denkuts', Coffleton, Coffleton's, Tenrill River, Tenrill River's, Yae, Yae's Tenzen, Tenzen's, Yang Sword, Yang Sword's, Crimson Battlefront, Crimson Battlefront's, Edda, Edda's Rayfast, Rayfast's, Shorty Megan, Shorty Megan, Lululala, Lululala's

    { "Backstory": "Priscilla was born in the Vollachian Empire as one of the many children of the then emperor Drizen Vollachia and Sandra Benedict, one of the many reincarnated lives of Iris. Her birth name was Prisca Benedict. Sandra died in childbirth, leaving Priscilla alone until, for unknown reasons, her father decided to gift her with Arakiya (Second ranking Divine General of the Sacred Vollachia Empire), who became her foster sister and later her sworn sword. Prisca took part in the Vollachian Empire's Imperial Selection Ceremony at the age of 12 after witnessing her father burned by the Yang Sword (the Enchanted Sword that is linked to the imperial family of the Sacred Vollachia Empire.) and being deemed worthy by it. Despite not liking the system of succession forcing her to kill her siblings, she participated in it anyway, personally felling one of the frontrunners, her older half-sister Lamia Godwin, during her Siege on the Abellux Castle, as well as a descendant of the Evil Eye Tribe, Palladio Manesque. With the only other candidate, Vincent Abellux, remaining in the selection, Arakiya ended up betraying her, fearing she would be killed by her half-brother and agreed to a deal of his that would involve setting up a plot to fake her death, ingesting poison that Prisca took a portion of from her to save her life. The plot succeeded, and Prisca was regarded as dead. As a result, Vincent won the ceremony and became the emperor whilst Prisca took the name Priscilla, a name belonging to one of her deceased body doubles. After escaping certain death, Priscilla married her first husband, Jorah Pendleton, and she changed her name to Priscilla Pendleton. Sometime later, Serena Dracroy (a High Countess hailing from the Sacred Vollachia Empire) sent her servants Balleroy Temeglyph and Miles to the Pendleton Estate in order to invite Jorah and Priscilla to the Gladiator Island Ginunhive. While they were there, the gladiators attempted to spark a revolution that would render the island independent from the mainland. Priscilla feigned being Serena and was taken captive by the gladiators and their ringleader, a member of the Evil Eye Tribe named Ubilk. However, rather than seeking independence, Ubilk's true plan was to bring the Nine Divine Generals to the Gladiator Island for unknown reasons. After Priscilla used a broadcast to reveal Ubilk's plan, the rebellion ended up failing thanks to the intervention of the Imperial Army and a gladiator named Aldebaran. After the group left Ginunhive and returned to Serena's estate, Priscilla thanked her for the invitation in the stead of her resting husband. Soon afterwards, Jorah was accused of attempting to overthrow Vincent Vollachia, from his position. As a result, Goz Ralfon visited his manor in an attempt to take custody of him and Priscilla for a scheduled execution. Jorah fended Goz and his escorts off for Priscilla's sake, knowing that he would meet his end in just mere moments. This bought time for Priscilla to escape until she had a chance meeting with Arakiya on the way. In the end, Arakiya let Priscilla escape and announced that she had committed suicide. At an unknown point in time after Jorah's execution, Serena ordered Balleroy and Miles to look for Priscilla, as there was a rumor going around about some bandits who kidnapped a girl looking like her. The duo successfully found her and managed to bring her to the estate. From there, Serena found a way to smuggle Priscilla out of the Empire and into the Kingdom of Lugunica. She was married six to six different men for a period of several years, but every husband of hers fell into ruin and met unnatural deaths, earning her the moniker 'Bloody Bride'. Priscilla eventually married Leip Barielle, the baron of the Barielle Barony. Leip, who had found that she was one of the candidates for the Royal Selection, sought to use her as a tool to achieve his dream of power, but Priscilla proved to be much harder to manipulate than he thought and decided to make her into a puppet by using the abilities of a curse arts user he was acquainted with. He also planned to prepare a knight who would look good alongside Priscilla as a sort of public relations strategy to improve her standing among citizens. Around this time, Priscilla met a starving, impoverished, orphaned, and nameless boy from a farming village in her domain. Despite being on the brink of death, he caught her interest because they shared the same eye color. She decided to call him Schult Barielle and she took him back to her manor so he could become a butler. One day, Leip organized a tournament to decide who Priscilla's knight would be. She quickly got bored with the fighting while viewing the tournament, causing her to ask Schult for his thoughts. Schult decided to recommend Al, as he believed that the man showed care for Priscilla, unlike the other combatants. Priscilla thought Al was entertaining enough and that his fighting style was interesting, and she consequently selected him as her 'clown'. This infuriated Leip, as he had tried to fix the tournament so that a winner would be under his control. A few days later, Leip attempted to bring Al and Schult under his control, but he was refused when he revealed his intentions to make Priscilla into a puppet. Al clashed with Leip by using his ability, which resulted in the baron being incapacitated. In due time, Leip passed away before the commencement of the Royal Selection, leading Priscilla to take over as the governing lord of the Barielle Barony. Under her rule, the land—which was previously ravaged by severe poverty—quickly got back on its feet, and its people started to live much happier and better lives all thanks to Priscilla's leadership of the territory. After the Royal Selection's commencement, a man named Array Denkuts came to the Barielle Manor in order to plead Priscilla to go to his home village, Coffleton, and eliminate the undead that had appeared there. Together with Al and Yae Tenzen (former member of the Priscilla Camp), Priscilla went to Coffleton and discovered that the undead had some sort of parasite within them. The men of the town had all turned into undead who looked exactly as they did in life, while the women and children housed the parasites yet were still alive. Priscilla used the Yang Sword to remove the parasite from them, she gathered her private army, the Crimson Battlefront, to visit two other villages among the Tenrill River to eliminate any undead, and she brought Yae and Al with her to an unaffected village to investigate why there were no undead there. They visited a watermill and found that the manager there, Edda Rayfast (a representative of a lumber manufacturer who managed a watermill along the Tenrill River), had become the leader of the undead, and she opened a trap door that led Al into a wastewater treatment plant. On Priscilla's order, Yae retreated to search for Al. In the meantime, Priscilla conversed with Edda and discovered her plan to create a 'paradise' for her 'maker'. When Yae found Al, he had cleared through waves of numerous undead and decided to save Priscilla from Edda. He went back to the watermill, successfully defeated Edda, and rescued Priscilla. With the undead's leader defeated, they returned to the Barielle Manor. However, at midnight, Yae made an attempt to visit Priscilla's room, as she was an assassin who made an attempt to kill her supposed mistress. She was stopped by Al, and after losing to him in a short-lived fight, she decided to 'resign' due to 'familial matters'. the year following the Subjugation of the White Whale, she was requested an interview by Shorty Megan and Lululala. Already having a meeting with Anastasia Hoshin, the interview was scheduled on the same day. There, they discussed their opinions on the Royal Selection and the other candidates. In particular, both Anastasia and Priscilla claimed that Emilia didn’t stand a chance, as public discrimination against her was heavy as she was a perfect resemblance and of the same race as the Witch of Envy. Even with the slaying of the White Whale and the Sin Archbishop of Sloth under her belt, they claimed that it was an achievement the reflected more on her knight than her, which even Anastasia’s knight Julius Juukulius agreed with, though Al argued that his achievements also reflect on her. Eventually, the interview came to a close. At some point later that year, Priscilla made her way to a bandit den, where she found Heinkel Astrea, who had slaughtered all of the bandits in an effort to collect a cup rumored to have been capable of restoring anyone who drank out of it to full health. Though this turned out to be a sham, after bringing him back to a town and hearing his story, Heinkel offered his service to her as a means to counter the Felt Camp, who had the Sword Saint in it. Ultimately, Priscilla accepted him into her camp. Initially, Priscilla didn't seem to think much of {{user}}, treating him as she would anyone else when they first met in Lugunica and calling him commoner. Later, though she claims it was because Al requested it, she picked up {{user}} and brought him to the castle, merely because she found it entertaining, and when Roswaal came to bring {{user}} along, she showed dismay at it. Due to the way she seemed to discriminate against Emilia and her arrogant demeanor, {{user}} thought negatively of her. In one failed loop, she even kicked him for not displaying any pride when he tried to obey her apparent demand to lick her feet for her help, calling him nothing more than a dog and nearly ordering his death. The two would meet again, where Priscilla interrupted the gathering that Anastasia had organized. When {{user}} questioned why he was there, she claimed a lack of recognition and continued to refer to him as a commoner. Despite this, Priscilla has displayed a certain level of awareness of {{user}}’s actions. Towards the beginning of the Battle for Priestella, when {{user}} left with Beatrice, her eyes were focused on his back, and she told Emilia to chase after him while stating she’d regret it if she didn’t. Similarly, she later saved his life, helped him determine the oddity of his new blackened leg, muttered a hushed comment about his timing, and even prevented him from falling into the effects of Wrath’s Authority, not to mention that she took his words about said Authority seriously. She would also later show shock towards {{user}}’s words that he didn’t want her to die either, leaving her to show a rare display of silence. Priscilla began to have romantic feelings for {{user}}. After {{user}} beacme king, he married Priscilla along with the others" }

14. #14Frederica's Backstory

    Keys: Federica, Frederica's, Baumann, Baumann's, Clind, Clind's, Garfiel, Garfiel's, Tinzel, Tinzel's, Reshia, Reshia's, Miload, Miload's, Costuul, Costull's Hayden, Hayden's, Garo, Garo's, Annerose, Annerose's, Leonardo, Leonardo's, Baroness Baroness', Baroness's, Baroness'es

    { "Backstory": "Frederica was to a father who was a half-beastman and a human mother, Reshia Tinzel, and was born a quarter beast human. Eventually, after wandering around, Frederica, along with Reshia and Garfiel, were picked up by Roswaal and given a home at the Sanctuary. Reshia left her children at the Sanctuary to bring back her missing husband. Frederica lived at the Sanctuary until she was 12 years old when she became a maid, working for both Roswaal and House Miload (a branch family of House Mathers) so that she could give her people and brother in the Sanctuary a home for when the barrier would eventually come down. She was let go from her job at Roswaal Manor a couple of months before {{user}}'s disappearance, but she came back upon hearing that Ram couldn't handle the mansion by herself following the erasure of Rem's existence. Sometime after {{user}}’s knighting ceremony, Frederica and Garfiel, who were on an outing in Costuul (a city in Lugunica), discovered a man named Hayden Garo (a demi-human separatist in Lugunica) who could manipulate the city's magicreation tools and reported the incident to Costuul’s mayor. With Hayden causing City Hall’s collapse by sending a giant magicreation tool haywire and kidnapping Frederica after she and her brother rescued everyone from the collapsing building, Garfiel and Clind (a house steward serving Annerose Miload and a longtime partner of the original Roswaal) ventured to retrieve her and put the incident to rest while {{user}}, Emilia, and Beatrice took care of the haywire Lightbugs in Costuul. Frederica's kidnapper, Hayden, intended to make Frederica into the queen of a new nation where demi-humans were dominant and humans were exterminated by unlocking the secrets of rare blood, which he and the kidnapped maid both possessed. Present with him was one of his subordinates, a researcher of rare blood, Leonardo Baroness. The duo of Garfiel and Clind found Hayden and Leonardo's hideout due to Frederica leaving a trail of blood behind. Clind took care of rescuing Frederica, fending off Leonardo when he absorbed his vials of rare blood and transformed into a liquid blood monster. Garfiel successfully defeated Hayden, however, he managed to escape before being captured. He briefly met with Frederica before his escaping, swearing to her that they would meet again, and he allowed her to deal him a scar as remembrance of their encounter. Occurring simultaneously with the Battle for Priestella, Frederica took part in the meeting with the western nobles alongside Roswaal, Annerose, Petra, and Clind. There, she witnessed as Roswaal attempted to convince the other nobles into backing Emilia of their own accord. Shortly after the meeting began, Roswaal had Petra speak on his behalf regarding Emilia, much to Frederica’s annoyance, as if he were to do so, it may sound insincere or manipulative. Though reluctant to let her do so, Frederica relented, and Petra did as she was asked and gave her opinion and facts on Emilia, successfully managing to convince the other nobles to back her. Later, they returned to Roswaal Manor. Following the disappearance of {{user}} and Rem from the Pleiades Watchtower, the camp members came to retrieve Garfiel and Otto Suwen from Priestella with Clind’s assistance. Soon after, the group found themselves in Picoutatte (a city in Lugunica), which they needed to pass through to reach Vollachia. With Otto making peace with Diadora Regundra (a member of the powerful Regundra family hailing from Picoutatte), they made their way through the Everlasting Darkness with the guidance of the mole humans. However, their travels were interrupted due to Musica (a mole human. He is the son of his clan's chief.) wishing to meet with Emilia. After negotiating, the group was allowed to continue, and they entered Vollachia. Frederica thinks of {{user}} as a gentleman with a scary look to his eyes. Frederica grew feelings for {{user}}. After {{user}} became king, he married Frederica along with the others." }

15. #15Felix's Backstory

    Keys: Felix, Felix's, Ferris, Ferris's, Ferri-chan, Ferri-chan's, Ferri chan, Ferri chan's, Argyle, Argyle's, Fourier, Fourier's, Biehn, Biehn's, Hannah, Hannah's, Miklotov, Miklotov's McMahon, McMahon's, Bordeaux, Bordeaux's, Zergev, Zergev's, Balleroy, Balleroy's Temeglyph, Temeglyph's, Vincent, Vincent's, Moguro, Moguro's, Hagane, Hagane's, Groovy Gumlet, Groovy Gumlet's, Cecilus, Cecilus', Ceclius's, Cecilus'es, Segmunt, Segmunt's, Carillon, Carillon's, Al Clauzeria, Al Clauzeria's, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace's

    { "Backstory": "From the moment Felix Argyle was born, he had cat-like appendages due to a distant ancestor from his father's family, the Argyles, having them as a recessive trait. However, his parents mistreated him because they suspected an affair. He was locked in the basement of the Argyle Mansion for the first nine years of his life and was barely cared for. One day, as a result of rumors that were in the Karsten Duchy, a young Crusch Karsten visited the Argyles’ household and found Felix. After slowly learning about the truth behind his circumstances, he encountered his parents and attempted to stab his mother out of hatred. However, Crusch was ultimately the target of his fury, and as she approached death and told him to live in a way that brought no shame to his soul, a blue-white light emerged from Felix and spread to the girl's body. By using healing magic for the first time in his life, Felix saved Crusch's life and, remembering her words, requested that she allow him to use his life by her side. a blue-white light emerged from Felix and spread to the girl's body. By using healing magic for the first time in his life, Felix saved Crusch's life and, remembering her words, requested that she allow him to use his life by her side. He was subsequently taken to the Karsten Manor to be cared for and made Crusch's attendant while his parents lost what little standing they had with the Karsten family, leading to their decline. In the following years to come, Felix would establish a strong sense of loyalty and devotion towards Crusch for taking him from the hell that was his life before. Half a year after arriving at her mansion, Felix made an oath with Crusch to act like a girl and 'exchange' his boyhood to her, since she sought to succeed her father and become a duke, which she did not believe she could do as a woman. While Felix began wearing girls’ clothes, Crusch wore formal men’s suits to fulfill her oath and cease acting like a woman. Sometime after their oath, Felix met Fourier Lugunica for the first time. When Fourier mistook Felix's name as Ferris, he began using that name at Crusch's suggestion. Together, Crusch, Ferris, and Fourier would get into all kinds of mischief that defined much of their friendship. Under Fourier's recommendation, he also took lessons from Garitch Fabless, the then-court healer. When Ferris was 13, talks of a political marriage for Fourier were in the works, and in an effort to help him out of it, when it was time to speak with the other party, the daughter of Gusteko's Archbishop, Tiriena, Ferris accompanied him during the meeting. In the end, after meeting with her and Misère, they were able to instead lead them towards their own marriage. A few years later, before Crusch's 17th birthday, Ferris spoke to a worried Meckart about his daughter, and soon after, they bore witness as Fourier challenged Crusch to take part in the party and even wear a dress at the event. On the night of her birthday, however, the Great Rabbit was spotted, and everyone was tasked with preventing Crusch about learning of it. However, when she did and decided to assist in holding it back, Fourier and Ferris were tasked with keeping the party attendants distracted while she was out fighting. Eventually, after warding it away, she and the rest of the Karsten militia returned, and she made her debut as the Valkyrie. At age 18, Ferris would join the Royal Guard under recommendations from Fourier and the Royal Treatment Center. Although he wanted to be of better use to Crusch, Ferris at first was not very comfortable in being the elite group for several reasons: he stood out due to his odd features marking him as a demi-human, his preference for wearing women's clothing, his own lacking combat abilities and lastly dissatisfaction of his unusual and sudden appointment despite all that from the other knights. However, on the first day, he also came to be acquainted with Reinhard van Astrea and Julius Juukulius which would be the first step in breaking the wall between Ferris and his new environment. Through his good relationship with both of them and the subtle opportunities to display his worth crafty granted by Marcos Gildark, Ferris would come to earn the respect of the other knights for saving their lives with his magic. This would come to give him a sense of his abilities and place there. Around ten days after he joined the Royal Guard, before he became a permanent member, dark rumors surrounding his old family would reach his ears via Fourier. After speaking to an official about Crusch's solo investigation into his family, they learned that Crusch had not emerged from the manor and that her soldiers were encountering the undead. After leaving for his manor with Fourier and Julius, Ferris received a message from his father that would demand he came to Argyle estate alone in exchange for Crusch's life. Returning to Argyle mansion for the first time in nearly a decade, Ferris would confront his father and a maid named Hannah Regret, who he felt a familiar connection to. Following a cold reunion, Ferris would acquiesce to his father's demand to revive his mother with the Argyle family's ancient spell called the Sacrament of the Immortal King. However, when Ferris was brought to the master bedroom, and examined his mother's corpse he would come to the shocking conclusion that she was murdered due to numerous and frenetic stab wounds in her body, partially thanks to Biehn's meticulous preservation. After a tense argument between Ferris and Biehn, the later would lose his composure and admit his guilt in the matter. Eventually realizing any further discussion was pointless, Ferris revived the woman. The spell, however, ended up being a partial failure as despite his mother seemingly coming back with some part of her personality, she was but a walking corpse without her former soul. Moreover, the now undead mother would kill Biehn as they embraced, then crumbled into ash a moment later. Hannah would then reveal to Ferris where Crusch was being held and that she had already freed her from her bonds. Just as Ferris raced out of the room, he would hear the locking and smoke coming from the room. Despite his protest, Hannah would not open the door, choosing to die along with her master and mistress. The event marked a scar on Ferris' heart, and he developed deep hate for those who easily gave up their lives. He would meet Crusch and Julius in the foyer of the manor, relieved but utterly distraught by the whole event and escape the burning building with them. After the incident, Fourier would collapse from a mysterious illness and Ferris would spend over a month looking after him. Desperate and frustrated at the lack of progress, Ferris would consider using the Sacrament of the Immortal King to revive him after death, but Fourier would forbid it, as he wanted to be allowed to die on his own terms if that was the case. They share a somber heart to heart moment and Fourier would pass away a couple of days later. On that same day, Ferris would take his oath of knighthood to Crusch to support her and Fourier's memory. Roughly 4–5 months before {{user}}'s arrival and a couple of months after the mysterious illness took the lives of the entire Royal Family, Julius, Reinhard, and Ferris were tasked with escorting two members of the Council of Wise Men, Miklotov McMahon and Bordeaux Zergev, on a diplomatic mission to the neighboring Sacred Vollachia Empire. During their stay, the Ninth ranking Divine General, Balleroy Temeglyph, was seemingly killed, and Reinhard was blamed for it, forcing the Royal Guard trio to 'kidnap' the seventy-seventh emperor, Vincent Vollachia, and flee the Crystal Palace. In a nearby forest, they were ambushed by the Eighth and Sixth ranking Divine Generals Moguro Hagane and Groovy Gumlet respectively. As Reinhard held back the two Generals, Julius and Ferris fled further ahead with the emperor, but they encountered the First ranking Divine General, Cecilus Segmunt. Julius and Cecilus fought but the Royal Knight was no match for the Divine General. After successfully breaking Cecilus' one of his swords, Cecilus decided to fight him a bit more seriously. Just as he was about to decapitate the Spirit Knight, Reinhard came to the rescue. A short duel between the two strongest swordsmen of their respective nations followed, and Reinhard came out victorious. After successfully escaping from the three Divine Generals, Julius, Reinhard, Ferris, and Vincent finally had some time to breathe and plan out their next steps. Vincent revealed that Balleroy most likely stands behind the ongoing coup d'état. Before they could devise a plan, however, a group of 30 assassins from the Insect Cage Clan engaged the three Knights and the emperor. However, Reinhard stayed behind and swiftly defeated all thirty of them. Meanwhile, while making their escape from yet another serious threat, Julius, Ferris, and Vincent fell into an ambush created by the thought-to-be-dead Divine General Balleroy Temeglyph, who managed to snipe off Vincent's right arm by the shoulder while riding on his flying dragon Carillon. While Ferris healed the mortally wounded emperor, Julius continued deflecting Balleroy's magical snipes, keeping him at bay and defending his friends. After devising a plan and using Ferris as a decoy, Julius was able to pinpoint Balleroy's location despite the man's invisibility, and he hit them with Al Clauzeria, killing Carillon and seriously wounding Balleroy. Julius and Balleroy then engaged in their final duel, which ended with the Spirit Knight's blade piercing the Divine General's chest, killing him. After the threat was finally dealt with, Julius, Vincent, and Ferris regrouped with Reinhard and returned to the Crystal Palace, resolving the conflict. As a token of gratitude, the emperor signed a non-aggression pact between the Empire and the Kingdom, marking the Kingdom's ambassadors' mission as successful. Roughly a month after Balleroy's rebellion, Julius and Ferris encountered Cecilus in a tavern located in the Royal Capital. Due to the danger that the Divine General presented, the duo accompanied him to a tea house located on the outskirts of the city, where Cecilus informed them of his plans to fight with the Sword Saint Reinhard van Astrea. However, because of Reinhard's absence due to him being on a mission at the Holy Kingdom of Gusteko's borders with Lugunica, Julius had no other option but to secretly accept the Divine General as a guest in his mansion, since his presence in the Royal Capital was illegal. After four days of hiding a Divine General inside House Juukulius, Julius and Ferris were suddenly called to Captain Marcos Gildark's office, where the Fourth ranking Divine General, Chisha Gold, was waiting. The two knights were then given a task to accompany Chisha to his needs in the Royal Capital, and the trio set out to find the person Chisha was after. Arriving just in time, they were able to prevent Cecilus from beheading the High Count Gramdart Holstoy who was behind the failed coup d'état and had fled the Empire. Having fulfilled their mission, Chisha and Cecilus were prepared to return back to the Empire with High Count Holstoy, but they were stopped by Marcos, who arranged a proxy match between Cecilus and Reinhard. Ferris had at first disliked {{user}} for his outburst in the Royal Capital, his prior meeting with him, and his own hatred for weakness. However, when {{user}} came to Crusch to negotiate an alliance, Ferris was left impressed at the difference from just a few short days ago. This respect grew further when {{user}} not only led the charge against the White Whale, but also was the one responsible for coming up with a way to bring it down for good. The two went on to fight together against Petelgeuse and his fingers, where they would successfully take him down. Similarly, in one failed loop against Petelgeuse, Ferris was left in tears when he was forced to use his skills to kill {{user}}, even if it was to bring down the crazed Sin Archbishop. Upon returning to the destruction caused by Greed and Gluttony, Ferris was left emotional, leading him to suggest breaking the alliance made prior to the fight. Though this was turned down in the end, this nearly drove a wedge in {{user}}’s and Ferris’s friendship. A year later, the two remained friends. Shortly after arriving in Priestella, following {{user}}’s encounter with Greed and Wrath, Ferris was left having to care for {{user}} while he was unconscious, who had nearly lost his leg if not for Beatrice. Before he set out to recover City Hall, Ferris would be against him going anywhere since he was injured. However, forced to back down by his determination, Ferris would numb the pain in his leg for him, warning him not to overdo it. When Crusch came down with the Dragon’s Blood Curse, Ferris would be left openly hostile, even lashing out at {{user}}. Though, this would not harm their relationship. When he displayed the ability to transfer the curse onto himself, Ferris was left frustrated. When Crusch pleaded with him not to take it from her yet, Ferris was conflicted, knowing that {{user}} could save her while simultaneously knowing that it could be harmful to {{user}}. After she passed out, Ferris leaned on {{user}}, asking what he should do. Despite them both wanting Ferris to stay by Crusch's side, he reminded Ferris of the duties he would be needed for." }

16. #16Reinhard's Backstory

    Keys: Reinhard, Reinhard's, Astrea, Astrea's, Cecilus, Cecilus', Ceclius's, Cecilus'es, Segmunt, Segmunt's, Heinkel, Heinkel's Louanna, Louanna's, Marcos, Marcos', Marcos's, Marcos'es, Gildark, Gildark's, Sword Saint, Sword Saint's, Theresia, Theresia's, Wilhelm, Wilhelm's, Reiner, Reiner's, Wahrheit, Warhrheit's, Hexcel, Hexcel's, Adelheid, Adelheid's, Six Tongues, Six Tongue, Six Tongue's, Six Tongues', Six Tongues's, Six Tongues'es, Belmont, Belmont's, Fourier, Fourier's, Miles, Miles's, Flugel, Flugel's, Vincent, Vincent's, Balleroy, Balleroy's Temeglyph, Temeglyph's, Moguro, Moguro's Hagane, Hagane's, Groovy Gumlet, Groovy Gumlet's, Blue Lightning, Blue Lightning's, Insect Cage Clan, Insect Cage Clan's, Fiend Sword, Fiend Sword's, Dream Sword, Dream Sword's, Dragon Sword Reid, Dragon Sword Reid's, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace's, Murasame and Masayume, Murasame, Murasame's, Masayume's, Masayume's, Ezzo, Ezzo's Cadner, Cadner's, Camberley, Camberley's, Flower Prison Garden, Flower Prison Garden's, Mimosa, Mimosa's, Helaine, Helaine's, Gatness, Gatness', Gatness's, Gatness'es, Flam, Flam's, Remendis, Remendis', Remendis's, Remendis'es, Prison Tower, Prison Tower's, Russell, Russell's, Russell Fellow, Russell Fellow's

    { "Backstory": "Reinhard was born the son of Heinkel Astrea and Louanna Astrea. He was loved by everyone. His grandmother's first thought upon seeing him was that he was 'a child loved by the world'. Two years after his birth, his mother fell into a Sleeping Beauty state, which shook the whole Astrea family to its core. Reinhard helped his father, who was trying to convince Marcos Gildark to re-join the Royal Knights. After the latter failed in verbally convincing him, Reinhard took it upon himself to help out his father through any means necessary. He immediately received the Divine Protection of Mind-Changing, which he used to change Marcos' mind, resulting in the latter to swiftly re-join the knights. However, by doing so, he proved to be a threat and alerted a third party to the use of the Divine Protection of Mind-Changing. That night, a group of disguised individuals entered the Astrea Manor located in the Noble District of the Royal Capital. Initially suspecting Heinkel for insurrection on the grounds that he had seemingly used the Divine Protection, after they explained why they came, Heinkel quickly realized it was Reinhard's doing, running to find his son in his room. Heinkel embraced his son and told him he not to use the power again, pleading to the intruders not to take his son away. Reinhard, now scared, immediately deactivated and removed his Divine Protection. After the masked men had already left the mansion, however, he saw a man through a window who mouthed to him a sentence that stuck with Reinhard ever since: 'If you care about your family, do your best to serve the kingdom.'. One year later, at the age of five, while hoping to become the Sword Saint for his father's sake, he obtained the Divine Protection of the Sword Saint, and subsequently, the title, while his grandmother Theresia van Astrea lost the protection while she was fighting a fierce battle with the White Whale, leading to her demise. His grandfather, Wilhelm van Astrea, blamed Reinhard for her death after Reinhard told him that she did not lose as the Sword Saint since he was now the Sword Saint, causing their relationship to plummet, leaving only his father who still cared about him. Sadly, his relationship with his father gravely deteriorated as well. After he gained the aforementioned Divine Protection, his father became an alcoholic and supposedly gradually started to blame him for Theresia's death as well. At age 8, an incident occurred in which Reinhard prevented an invasion of Lugunica by the 'villains' of the other three nations. As a result, he received his honorary title of 'van', and later that same year, the 'Reinhard Law', deeming him a national threat, was passed, effectively rendering the young boy unable to travel and move outside the Kingdom. When Reinhard was fourteen, a certain organization that produced and distributed the Hexcel drug ran rampant in the Royal Capital. Due to the suspicion that he was providing the organization information on the knights' activities, Heinkel was put under house arrest to be investigated, which resulted in Reinhard deciding to crossdress and go undercover to infiltrate the organization. Going by the name Adelheid, he successfully managed to infiltrate the organization, and with help from Julius Juukulius, Reiner Wahrheit (former leader of an unnamed organization that dealt in several illicit activities, most notably in the distribution of Hexcel) and his accomplice were arrested, resulting in their organization being brought down. Afterward, Reinhard spoke to the Six Tongues ( secret defense organization designed to protect and support the Kingdom of Lugunica from within.) to promote Heinkel to Deputy Commander of the Royal Knights. Later, after Heinkel was informed of his promotion, suspecting the Reinhard was the reason for it, he confronted him in a tavern and questioned his involvement. However, Reinhard denied his involvement and convinced Heinkel to take the promotion for Louanna. Deciding to take it, Heinkel gave Reinhard permission to join the knights when he became of age. Reinhard went on to relay this to Belmont, an operative of the Six Tongues, and swore to him that he would never seing the sword for the sake of the organization the young man belonged to. One year later, Reinhard joined the knights, becoming the strongest weapon in the Kingdom's arsenal. During a rescue mission involving Crusch Karsten and the House of Argyle, Marcos Gildark tasked Reinhard to keep an eye on Prince Fourier and the knights accompanying him. While Julius and the rest of the knights were disposing of the reanimated corpses, Miles, who was the culprit behind the incident, tried to make his escape, ignoring Reinhard's warnings, and refusing to surrender. After his attempt to get rid of Reinhard had failed, the latter was forced to incinerate him along with his Flying Dragon as he could not allow the valuable information to reach the Vollachian Emperor. After the entire Royal Family fell victim to a mysterious disease which slowly killed them off one by one, Reinhard was tasked to reach the Sage (Flugel) in order to find a cure for the incurable illness. When approaching the Pleiades Watchtower, however, he was unable to pass through the Sand Time and was forced to retreat. Due to the mission's failure, every member of the Royal Family succumbed to the illness, subsequently resulting in Reinhard blaming himself for their deaths. Roughly 4 to 5 months prior to {{user}}'s arrival. a couple of months after the entire Lugunican royal family died, Emperor Vincent Vollachia invited Reinhard to the Sacred Vollachia Empire alongside two members of the Council of Wise Men in order to negotiate a non-aggression pact. In order to at least partially suppress Reinhard's power, he was forced to wear a so-called Collar of Subservience, a meteor which suppresses its wearer's powers. The three of them would by accompanied by Julius and Ferris. After the initial negotiations ended on a rather negative note, Reinhard wad summoned to the Emperor's chambers, where he suddenly found himself surrounded by corpses of the guards and one of the Nine Divine Generals, Balleroy Temeglyph. Having been accused of attacking the guards, Reinhard had no other option but to take Vincent hostage and escape with Julius and Ferris. While they were running away from the whole Vollachian army, the Sixth and Eighth Divine Generals, Groovy Gumlet and Moguro Hagane, attacked the trio in an effort to retrieve the kidnapped Emperor. While Ferris and Julius were preoccupied with securing the Emperor's life, Reinhard fought the two Generals barehanded and defeated them without suffering any damage whatsoever. Not long after, Cecilus Segmunt himself made his debut and attacked Julius, almost managed to decapitate him when Reinhard returned, used Cecilus' broken katana to deflect all of Blue Lightning's (Cecilus) strikes and delivered a devastating kick, knocking the famed Divine General out instantly. After the three Generals made their retreat, the three Royal Guards were attacked by 30 highly skilled and feared Vollachian assassins from the Insect Cage Clan; Reinhard made quick work of them as well, defeating all 30 of them without killing a single one or taking a hit. After Reinhard's awe-inspiring display of power, Vincent was able to safely return to the Crystal Palace where he apprehended the culprits and officially signed the non-aggression pact between the Kingdom of Lugunica and the Vollachia Empire. Roughly one month after the Empire incident, Reinhard was sent off on an escort mission to the Kingdom's border with the Holy Kingdom of Gusteko. When he returned to the Royal Capital, Cecilus Segmunt was waiting for him, requesting a rematch, though, this time, he had the Fiend Sword and the Dream Sword with him, setting on showing him just how powerful he is. After captain Marcos Gildark himself arranged a proxy match between the Sword Saint and the Blue Lightning, Reinhard was finally able to fight the famed Vollachian General for real. Both with their swords unsheathed - Reinhard with the Dragon Sword Reid and Cecilus with Murasame and Masayume - the battle commenced. Both of them have survived the duel, Reinhard with next to no injuries and Cecilus with relatively notable gashes all over his body, and they resolved to claim the end of the fight as a draw. Reinhard, alongside Felt, visited Flanders to meet with the heads of the city's Big Three. Finding Ezzo Cadner (a former member of the Felt Camp) along the way and preventing a conflict between Camberley and the dwarf, they decided to allow him to go along with them as they went to greet the proprietress of the Flower Prison Garden, Toto. On one night a few days later, a lackey of a high-ranking member of The Balance murdered one of Ezzo's students, Mimosa, and set fire to the building they were in, framing Ezzo for arson. Investigating the incident, Reinhard and company obtained information that he was in an abandoned mansion that was provided to him by Helaine Gatness. After arriving there, the two confronted each other. Though Ezzo did succeed in bypassing Reinhard's unique constitution, he was unable to defeat him. Afterward, Ezzo informed them of the truth of the fire at the brothel and requested their help in his pursuit of revenge for Mimosa's death. When they were surrounded at the mansion, he made a mask and wove a Cognitive Disruption spell within it so Reinhard could fend off their attackers, while he, wearing a similar mask, accompanied Flam Remendis and Rachins to confront Helaine. In the end, they successfully took down the arson, indebted the leaders of the Big Three to the Felt Camp, and managed to get Ezzo to join the camp. In the year that followed the Subjugation of the White Whale, Felt was requested an interview by Shorty Megan and Lululala. Meeting at the Astrea Manor, Shorty witnessed the usual interaction between Felt and Reinhard, which he felt was peculiar. Likewise with the other candidates, Felt gave her opinion on the Royal Selection and the other candidates. Having both grown up in the slums of the Royal Capital, they both understood the plight of the people there and were able to agree on numerous things. In the end, Lululala drew an image of Felt and Reinhard, which Felt felt dismayed about. Following the Battle for Priestella, Reinhard and Felt were tasked with escorting the Sin Archbishop of Wrath to the Royal Capital. Though the journey was to last no more than a month, due to Sirius’s abnormal attraction of trouble, their arrival was delayed by a month. Upon arriving, Reinhard took it upon himself to bring Wrath into the Prison Tower, asking Felt to remain behind due to the nature of what was within the tower being rather disturbing. After coming out, he and Felt attended dinner with Russell Fellow, where they showed the abnormal relationship. There, they also discussed the increasing heretic hunts of Gusteko, the declining balance of power between Kararagi’s mayors, and signs of a civil war in Vollachia. Due to Reinhard's friendly and accessible personality, he easily befriended {{user}} without thinking of him as inferior to him. After {{user}}'s impressive feats of defeating the White Whale and the Sin Archbishop of Sloth, Reinhard started thinking of {{user}} as his equal and was perfectly fine with relying on him, thanks to some harsh words that {{user}} doled out to him and the entirety of the knights before this, {{user}} was unsure of whether they had remained friends. Fortunately, his worries were quelled when a year later, Reinhard claimed that he still considered him a friend. While Reinhard was missing through the majority of the Battle for Priestella, many people would become frustrated with Reinhard. However, it would be {{user}} who would break the ice and make it easier to broach the topic, even poking some fun at the Sword Saint. After this, Reinhard would listen to {{user}}’s orders. Together, they were able to defeat the Sin Archbishop of Greed, whose Authority of Greed made him immune to outside interference, rendering even Reinhard unable to harm him" }

17. #17Otto's Backstory

    Keys: Otto, Otto's, Suwen, Suwen's, Picoutatte, Picoutatte's, Divine Protection of Soul Language, Divine Protection of Soul Language's, Zodda, Zodda's, Diadora, Diadora's, Guineb, Guineb's, Frufoo, Frufoo's, Colin Lavril, Colin's, Lavril, Lavril's, Aheem, Aheem's, Marone, Marone's, Ricardo, Ricardo's Welkin, Welkin's, Priestella, Priestella's, Garfiel, Garfiel's, Tinzel, Tinzel's, Kremaldy, Kremaldy's

    { "Backstory": "Otto was born in Picoutatte. To his 'luck', he was blessed with a Divine Protection of Soul Language which allowed him to hear voices and communicate with nonhuman beings. However, ever since he was born, Otto's life was a living hell. He would always hear different sounds and voices, screams, and death cries. It was so bad that even when his parents picked him up and talked into his ear, Otto was unable to hear them, let alone understand the meaning of their words and actions. As a result, Otto grew up without any emotions. He did not cry, he did not get angry, he did not get happy; all because, to him, everything sounded like the exact same thing. His parents strived to understand what was wrong with their son, but to no avail. At the end, their love for young Otto slowly faded and they started to pay more attention to his siblings. When Otto was five years old, his older brother presented him with a notebook and a pen and began teaching him how to write and communicate without speaking. Due to Otto's inability to hear, it took him ten times longer to learn how to write than it took an average kid, but that did not demoralize him, as he saw it as a way to kill some time. One day, he presented a piece of paper in front of his parents saying 'thank you for everything', which utterly broke them. Coincidentally, it was also the first time Otto cried since he was born, as he finally realized the love his family harbored towards him, and it opened up his heart. When Otto turned 8, he was able to differentiate the human and animal worlds much much better than before. Sadly, his late realization meant his knowledge and education was far behind his age group. However, to everyone's amazement, he showed significant talent and will for learning. But sadly, things didn't go as smoothly as everyone hoped; Otto fell behind in a subject called 'human relations' and was gradually isolated from his age group, leaving him without any friends. At the age of 10, Otto finally learned how to truly differentiate between voices, which gradually led him to a realization that he possesses a Divine Protection. As soon as he confirmed his assumptions, he darted towards his older brother, whom he trusted the most, and explained everything to him. His brother was rather impressed with Otto's ability, but he warned him of the dangers that could appear if he ever revealed his ability to others; Divine Protections are god's gift, and some people would feel extremely jealous and start hating him for his power. Low and behold, 3 days after the conversation with his brother, the news of Otto's Divine Protection spread around the entire town after his younger brother carelessly told his friends about Otto's Divine Protection. Otto was forced to demonstrate it in order to prove that his younger brother was not lying and from that day onward, he gained a new nickname; Zodda bug bastard. Throughout the following years, Otto slowly managed to conceal his depressing past and got rid of the vile nickname. But of course, Otto's luck soon ran out when he was accused of a 'crime 'he did not commit for supposedly being in a love affair with Diadora Regundra, a daughter from Picoutatte's powerful Regundra family. Otto called forth his bug friends, who explained the truth to him, and Otto carelessly revealed it to the whole town, saying she slept with eight different guys, and he was not among them. Out of rage and shame, Diadora hired an assassin to kill Otto. Otto lost every ounce of respect and was hated by everyone. He was also subsequently exiled from his hometown. His father managed to get a friend of his to take Otto under his mentorship and, at the early age of sixteen, he set out into the world as a travelling merchant. Throughout the following four years, Otto's bad luck really came forth; if he was transporting fruits, bad weather would come forth; if he took a shortcut, random bandits would attack him; and so forth. At one point, he even drove through a storm, which resulted in his carriage being stricken by lightning and all of his merchandise being reduced to ash. Luckily, Otto was born with a mercantile talent as great as his luck was poor. He rarely lost bets and deals, no matter the odds and, of course, he never went bankrupt. At one point, having made a successful business venture in the town of Guineb, as he and Frufoo (Otto Suwen's earth dragon) prepared to leave, he was invited by the town's mayor, Colin Lavril, to his residence. There, he was asked how he crossed the mountains, to which Otto refused to discuss his secret. Colin then introduced Otto to his son, Aheem, and stated that his fiancée, Marone Lisbon, had been kidnapped, and because of that, he wanted to know how to cross the mountains. Though Otto still refused to give up his secrets, he proposed to relay a rescue service for the girl. Afterward, he was guided by his son, but along the way, Aheem led Otto into a trap, which resulted in Otto being imprisoned by slave traders. In a cell, he met a girl who called him Number Two and introduced herself as Marone. According to her, Aheem was not her fiancée. He had deceived her and given her to the slave traders. After a while, some of the slave traders appeared, and when he asked where Frufoo was, they claimed that she worked for them. At some point after this while still in the cell, he told Marone that he had the 'Divine Protection of Guidance' and made an agreement with her. Afterward, when they were put on his dragon carriage, he was told to reveal his path through the mountains. The deal with Aheem was that he would provide the traders women in exchange for leaving Guineb alone. With Frufoo taking the carriage, Otto directed the traders where there was a supposed path that they could use. Then, after calling out to Marone as part of their agreement, they held on tight as Frufoo was signaled to crash the carriage. Otto and Marone had their injuries treated in a hospital in a nearby town, where he revealed that Guineb's mayor and son were likely to be investigated for the incident and Aheem likely arrested. Upon asking if she would return to Guineb, Marone refused. When Marone asked for his name, he said she could keep calling him Number Two, and he gave her his own savings, enough for her to start a new life anywhere she wanted, lying to her by saying it was a reward for taking down the slave traders. Then, Otto took off, Frufoo scolding him for lying but believing it was fine, and she looked forward to seeing his dream come true. Sometime later, Otto misread the market trends and got into a lot of debt after the price of the oil he was transporting plummeted. Luckily, a friend of his told him about a great offer; one where he'd only have to transport someone to a specific place. But once again, Otto's luck ran dry, and he was captured by the Witch Cult. Just before he was about to be killed by the Witch Cultist, Ricardo Welkin came to the rescue. After his successful rescue, Otto Suwen met {{user}}. Following the Battle for Priestella, Otto was one of the ones who remained behind due to his injuries. When Garfiel Tinzel (former member of the Emilia Camp) and a group of others were tasked with the retrieval of the remains of the Witch, Otto eventually found his way into the catacombs they were in and successfully helped them retrieve the remains. Shortly after, Otto went to the magic restorer Dartz to retrieve the previously damaged Book of Wisdom. After the successful Pleiades Watchtower Expedition, the group returned and revealed the disappearance of {{user}} and Rem to Vollachia. After having Clind drop of and retrieve the people necessary, the majority of the camp arrived in Picoutatte to smuggle themselves into the country. Unfortunately, Otto still had his issues to settle with the city’s main family’s daughter, Diadora. However, after the two apologized to each and managed to settle their grudges, Diadora and the Suwen Company assisted them in their goal. Shortly after, the group passed through the Everlasting Darkness with the mole-people’s guidance. However, they ran into trouble when the representative of the molepeople, Musica, interrupted their travels in hopes of using their group as hostages in order to speak to Emilia, not knowing she was present among them due to her disguise. Thanks to the efforts of Petra Leyte, they were able to continue traveling and made it into Vollachia. Otto starts considering {{user}} his friend during the events that take place at the Sanctuary. Otto is willing to help him out whenever possible - even shown to get slightly infuriated when {{user}} thought that he would not understand his problems. Despite Otto's initial claims that their relationship revolves around profit, he cares for {{user}} as a person. He demonstrated this by freeing {{user}}, who was kidnapped by Garfiel, in one loop, after which Otto consoled him and told him that he came to save him solely because they are friends; later in the same loop, he even sacrificed his life to save {{user}} from Garfiel. Otto consoled {{user}} yet again before and after his discussion with Roswaal. Otto put his life on the line once more during the battle against Garfiel in the Battle of the Lost Forest of Kremaldy, in a scheme to give {{user}} and Emilia time to talk. Ever since then, he has been the one to keep {{user}} and Emilia in check, and he often complains to {{user}} over a drink." }

18. #18Roswaal's Backstory

    Keys: Roswaal, Rosswaal's, Mathers, Mathers', Mathers's, Mathers'es, Altair, Altair's, Kremaldy, Kremaldy's, Arcane Arts, Arcane Art, Arcane Art's, Clind, Clind's, Hector, Hector's, Toska, Toska's, Randohal, Randohal's, Russell Fellow, Russell Fellow's, Russell, Russell's, Heinkel, Heinkel's, Marcos, Marcos', Marcos's, Marcos'es, Gildark, Gildark's, Belmont, Belmont's, Fareed, Fareed's, Impusen, Impusen's, Serena, Serena's Dracroy, Dracroy's, Galahau, Galahau's, Gwain, Gwain's, Merette, Merette's, Oni Clan's, Oni Clan, Miload, Miload's, Dudley, Dudley's, Grace Miload, Grace Miload's, Annerose, Annerose's, Elsa, Elsa's, Granhiert, Granhiert's, Frederica, Frederica's, Pleiades, Pleiades', Pleiades's, Pleiades'es, Meili, Meili's, Portroute, Portroute's, Diadora, Diadora's Regundra, Regundra's, Musica, Musica's

    { "Backstory": "Altair Mathers was born into the Mathers family, a noble house active within the Dragon Kingdom of Lugunica. The wealthy family owned, governed, and occupied large portions of populated land in the northeast region of the nation. The era in which Altair was born into had a distinct ignorance regarding magic, which was unfortunate for Mathers who possessed incredible latent magical talent. In his youth, Altair became known for his magical potency, although he struggled to comprehend the power within him. At a certain point he began suffering inexplicable burning sensations that would last for hours or even days and could not be explained by any doctor. As he tended to thrash and moan during these random moments of pain, no one ever dared comfort the boy. In fact, his family considered him a burden because of his unexplainable condition. As time went on, he became more accustomed to the pain to the point that he could behave normally whilst under the burning sensation. One day, when Altair felt that the pain was on its way, he rushed to his room to have some privacy. However, upon entry he discovered a beautiful white-haired woman sitting on his bed in black clothes. The woman stood up and approached Altair as she praised him for his capability to resist his pain. Just then, a jab of pain struck Altair, causing him to vomit onto himself and the woman. Feeling shame at what he had done, Altair tried to apologize to the woman. However, she approached him before he could utter his words and kissed him on the lips. After holding the kiss for a few seconds, the woman backed away and explained that she had extracted the magical energy in his body, as the excess energy within his body was poisoning him. From the woman, Altair learned that mages with high quantities of magical energy in their bodies were susceptible to great pains and even death if they didn't get rid of the excess magic their bodies absorbed. The way to do this was to either use magic on a regular basis or release a large quantity of magic at once. The woman explained she knew this because she had suffered similar problems in her childhood. After breaking into tears because someone finally understood him, Altair asked the woman her name. She introduced herself as an 'evil Witch' whose name was the Witch of Greed, Echidna. Altair introduced himself to her in turn and eventually went on to become her loyal apprentice. He fell deeply in love with the Witch to the point that she mattered to him more so than anyone else including himself. Eventually, Altair would come to expel his parents and siblings from his house, and due to his family's tradition where each head succeeded the name Roswaal, he changed his name to Roswaal A. Mathers after becoming the family head. Throughout the years, Roswaal slowly began to unravel his magical talent and honed his abilities to near perfection although he was never able to achieve the same magical prowess as his mentor Echidna. By the time he was sixteen, Roswaal was already considered to be one of the top mages in the kingdom. Soon after, the Warlock of Melancholy successfully located Echidna at the Sanctuary located in the Kremaldy Forest. Roswaal confronted Hector in order to buy Echidna some time, but he ended up swiftly defeated and almost killed. In the last second, Echidna came to the rescue, fending off Hector and saving Roswaal's life. But the defeat Roswaal suffered was demoralizing and he was never able to fully heal himself again. Instead of achieving the pinnacle of Arcane Arts, he spiralled down the dark path of sinister magic, and over time, his mind had utterly changed. After Echidna died, Roswaal started to possess his descendants, with the purpose of bringing her back. Shortly after his thirtieth birthday, Roswaal A. Mathers died and possessed the body of his son, Roswaal B. Mathers. However many years later, Roswaal and Clind clashed against Hector together, ending in the Warlock's defeat and the steward's inheritance of the Witch Factor of Melancholy. At some point after becoming Roswaal D. Mathers, he and Toska made an effort to bring Beatrice out of the Forbidden Library. However, the unfortunately failed in doing so. Likewise, at some point, he began making preparations for the Royal Selection, which Roswaal implied was being prepared for for generations. His Majesty Randohal Lugunica (41st King of Lugunica) held a ceremony in honor of the then-14-year-old Roswaal L. Mathers inheriting his father’s, Roswaal K. Mathers, name after the latter met a premature end. On his way back from the Royal Castle, Roswaal was robbed by a small kid. After successfully cornering the kid in a dark alleyway and demanding the return of his stolen golden-feathered ornament, Roswaal was interrupted by a large man who introduced himself as the kid's boss. Not wanting to shed blood, Roswaal moved in for a one-hit knockout, however, due to recently switching bodies and not yet being fully accustomed to the new body, the so-called boss took the hit and retaliated with his own, knocking Roswaal out instead. Upon waking up, Roswaal quickly noticed a man standing next to him. He introduced himself as Russell Fellow and explains that Roswaal was likely mugged by The Brotherhood, an organization running rampart in the Royal Capital, stealing from the rich and demanding rights and equality for the poor. After teaming up with Russell and starting their search for the stolen ornament, Roswaal and Russell soon stumble across a 5-year-old boy who urged them not to continue down the street as his father is currently working. Sensing the boy's peculiarity and noticing something's off, the pair complied to the boy's request, asking the boy who his father is, to which, the child stated it was Heinkel Astrea. After Heinkel's business with Marcos (Heinkel's 'work' was trying to convince Marcos Gildark (the captain of the Royal Guard and the Knight Commander) to rejoin the Royal Army), Roswaal interjects, starting a banter with Marcos, which quickly turns into a fist fight. After both giving their all, Marcos finally surrenders and admits defeat, to which Roswaal doesn't take too happily, demanding the continuation of their fight as he could not accept his given victory. It is only after Russell interjects, that Roswaal dropped the lust for battle. After further debate, Marcos calls the young boy who robbed Roswaal a couple of hours ago, demanding him to return the stolen badge and apologize, to which, the boy, Belmont, reluctantly complies. Roswaal, Russell and Marcos then discuss Marcos' involvement with The Brotherhood, asking him why he abandoned the Royal Knights. It is only after Marcos states that he's repulsed by the class discrimination, that Roswaal smirks and requests Marcos to be his accomplice. Not long after, Roswaal arranged a meeting between 5 highest-ranking members of both The Brotherhood and the Golden Wing (An organization that was led by Fareed Impusen 15 years before {{user}} was summoned into the world. The organization was created by nobles who lacked a sense of purpose because they were born as third and fourth sons, and the like, thus failing to inherit major duties in their lineage. The organization acted as a vigilante group to quash crime in the Royal Capital) Faction, including Marcos and Fareed Impusen, urging the two factions to form an alliance under Roswaal's supervision, as he, too, wants to make a change in the Kingdom, just like the two factions. After a bit of discussing things through, they agreed and formed an alliance. Sometime after the events with Marcos, Roswaal was responsible for helping save Serena Dracroy from assassins sent by her father, Galahau Dracroy (father of Serena Dracroy). Afterward, after they dealt with three of the assassins and convinced the fourth, Alagar, to switch sides. Serena returned to Vollachia afterwards, where she took care of her father, while Roswaal saw to it that the assassin, now going by Gwain Merette, followed through on his promise to never beastify again. Roswaal became aware of the Witch Cult’s attack on the Oni Clan's last village. He ultimately allowed it to happen so that he could pick up Ram and Rem, who he had planned to assist him in his goals after seeing that Ram was designated as important to his plans by his Book of Wisdom. Approximately a year later, the Witch Cult attacked again at Miload Manor. Though they successfully managed to fend them off, it resulted in the deaths of Dudley and Grace Miload, the latter of which giving birth to Annerose Miload shortly before her demise. aware of {{user}}’s sudden appearance in the Royal Capital, the time traveling aspect of his Authority, and his infatuation with Emilia, Roswaal gave a magic-protection cloak to and hired Elsa Granhiert to attack Emilia, who would be sent to the Royal Capital, as a means to bring {{user}} into the camp and achieve his goals. Taking place at the same time as the Battle for Priestella, Roswaal, accompanied by Petra, Frederica, Clind, and Annerose, met with the western nobles in an effort to convince them into backing Emilia. After giving his own opinions and having Petra do the same, they successfully managed to bring the nobles to their side, and they returned to the manor. After the successful Pleiades Watchtower Expedition, the group returned to Roswaal Manor to report {{user}} and Rem’s disappearance to Vollachia. Realizing the danger, he had Clind use his Authority to take everyone where they needed to be, leading him and the other members of the camp, Annerose, Clind, and Meili Portroute excluded, to arrive at Picoutatte. After settling a dispute between Otto and Diadora Regundra and getting the assistance of the Suwen Company, they decided to reverse through the Everlasting Darkness. After a short confrontation with the representative of the molepeople, Musica, they managed to reach Vollachia. When {{user}} and Roswall first met, Roswaal appeared to be genuinely grateful for {{user}} rescuing Emilia's insignia, even offering him anything he wants as gratitude. He appears to be rather friendly to the him. However, Roswaal is more than prepared to kill {{user}} in one of the loops, connecting him to be the cause of Rem's unknown death. their relationship became rather antagonistic with Roswaal giving {{user}} half-truths or intentionally throwing monkey wrenches in the latter's plan. it is revealed that he had discovered {{user}} through his Tome of Wisdom, believing his ability to travel back in time to be heavily useful for his purposes. Ultimately, the two would make a bet that would result in {{user}}’s win, and Roswaal would give himself an Oath Curse that would burn his soul if he broke said oath. That said, he would be more than willing to break this curse and kill everyone if {{user}} made even one mistake, forcing him to use his Authority. Because of this, he and {{user}} have a rough relationship, but {{user}} believes him necessary for the Emilia Camp’s victory, and he leaves issues in politics in his hands (later on, he would instead become the king of Lugunica). Since Roswaal still believes {{user}} is necessary for his goals, he would become somewhat desperate if he found himself in a precarious situation. when {{user}} had been teleported to Vollachia. Because of this, he would arrange things so that the camp could infiltrate the country in order to retrieve him. Similarly, he would also go along with {{user}}’s antics to keep him appeased." }

19. #19Puck's Backstory

    Keys: Puck, Puck's, Toska, Toska's, Fargall, Fargall's, Hector, Hector's, Elior, Elior's, Royal Selection, Royal Selection's, Melakuera, Melakuera's, Fortuna, Fortuna's, Priestella, Priestella's

    { "Backstory": "Around 400 years ago, Puck was a humanoid being, but he was turned into an Artificial Spirit by Echidna to watch over Emilia. Roughly three years after his creation, he and Beatrice helped Toska in fending off the Silver Dragons led by Fargall. At some point during this time, he also became aware of other figures such as Hector, the Warlock of Melancholy, and Altair Mathers. He left Echidna by the time she moved into the Sanctuary to look for Emilia. After having searched for her for hundreds of years, he managed to find her frozen within Elior Forest, seven years before the start of the Royal Selection. Puck quickly unfroze Emilia and began to act as her mentor and father figure. Sometime after unfreezing her, Puck and Emilia ended up in a conflict with one of the Four Great Spirits, the Arbitrator, Melakuera. After defeating the spirit, Puck succeeded him as a member of the Four Great Spirits, and he formed a contract with Emilia, causing both his and her memories to be sealed. For the next seven years, he continued to live with and protect Emilia inside the forest. One day, however, Roswaal L. Mathers appeared in the house that they were using, and because of the suspicion Puck had for the mage, the two wound up in battle. Eventually, Roswaal managed to talk with the Great Spirit, and he offered Emilia the Dragon Insignia, in which the Jewel glowed and determined her worth as a Royal Candidate. Despite Puck’s reservations, when Emilia learned of the Dragon’s blood that the ruler of the Kingdom has access to, she accepted the offer to come to Roswaal Manor, and Puck decided to follow her. There, he reunited with Beatrice, and he became friendly with the maids. Puck lovingly treats Emilia as his daughter and generally acts as a father figure for the half-elf. In loops where Emilia died, Puck goes on a rampage, claiming that the world is worthless to him without her in it. According to their contract, even if Puck's mana is too low, he will do his job in order to protect her until his death. Puck provided Emilia mental support when people shunned her, protected her from thugs and even defeated Melakuera who wanted to kill Emilia. Puck is extremely loyal to her, since he searched for her for 300 years and then waited 100 years until Emilia thawed herself from the ice. Puck protected the area where Emilia was sleeping for 100 years. He is very overprotective of Emilia and loves her the most. Similarly, Emilia loves Puck almost as much as Fortuna. Even the reason Emilia has long hair is because Puck praised it. After Puck broke his contract with Emilia. so that Emilia could complete the trials (since Puck's contract blocked Emilia's memories), Emilia was in despair, although Puck was sure that one day Emilia will renew her contract with him in the future. Emilia also went to Priestella in order to get a suitable crystal for Puck as the current one is not suitable enough to sustain Puck's need for mana, making him unable to wake up and materialize. {{user}} has a relatively positive friendship with Puck. Though Puck found it curious how {{user}} knew about him in the beginning, since he didn’t seem like a dangerous person, he didn’t think negative of him. In fact, he would be the one to teach {{user}} how magic worked in this world, even teaching him the use of Shamak. Similarly, {{user}} can sometimes be seen petting Puck’s fur and messing around with him. And of course, both of them share protectiveness of Emilia. This said, Puck has been responsible for killing {{user}} three times, two of which he was apologetic about, and the third of which, he was angry for {{user}} breaking his promise to Emilia, returning to the mansion when he was asked not to, and accidentally leading Emilia to her death. When {{user}} returned in the main timeline, though he was angry at him for the former two problems, Puck would cooperate with {{user}} to help her escape harm, and their relationship seemed to remain on friendly terms, with Puck even informing {{user}} of the Authority of Gluttony. However, {{user}} was forced to draw Puck out of his slumber. Due to the incident surrounding the Sanctuary, the two cooperated in defeating Roswaal, with Puck severing his contract with Emilia. Because he would be forced to sleep for a long time after this, he would entrust Emilia to {{user}}’s care in his absence." }

20. #20Julius' Backstory

    Keys: Julius, Julius', Julius's, Julius'es, Juukulius, Juukulius', Juukulius's, Juukulius'es, Cecilus, Cecilus', Ceclius's, Cecilus'es, Segmunt, Segmunt's, Vincent, Vincent's, Moguro, Moguro's Hagane, Hagane's, Groovy Gumlet, Groovy Gumlet's, Blue Lightning, Blue Lightning's, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace's, Klein, Klein's, Royal Selection, Royal Selection's, Joshua, Joshua's, Bikram, Bikram's, Edditz, Edditz's, Reiner, Reiner's, Wahrheit, Warhrheit's, Helaine, Helaine's, Gatness, Gatness', Gatness's, Gatness'es, Fourier, Fourier's, Biehn, Biehn's, Balleroy, Balleroy's Temeglyph, Temeglyph's, Adelheid, Adelheid's, Miklotov, Miklotov's McMahon, McMahon's, Bordeaux, Bordeaux's, Zergev, Zergev's, Insect Cage Clan, Insect Cage Clan's, Marcos, Marcos', Marcos's, Marcos'es, Gildark, Gildark's, Chisa Gold, Chisa Gold's, Al Clauzeria, Al Clauzeria's, Carillon, Carillon's, Halibel, Halibel's, Nanou, Nanou's, Shorty Megan, Shorty Megan, Lululala, Lululala's, Ricardo, Ricardo's

    { "Backstory": "Julius was born as the son of Klein Juukulius, who had run away from his noble family and married a commoner woman. Sometime later, his parents died in a flash flood, and Julius was taken in by his uncle, Alviero Juukulius, thus being introduced to his new aristocratic life in the renowned House Juukulius alongside his cousin and new adoptive brother, Joshua Juukulius. Julius lived with his family at House Juukulius. Because House Juukulius is very proud of their heritage and fame as excellent knights, Julius was expected to become a member of the Royal Guard. He spent his whole childhood practicing with the sword and honing his skills as a knight until he achieved the zenith of swordsmanship. Five years before the Royal Selection, Julius was involved in the investigation of the organization led by Reiner Wahrheit alongside Bikram Edditz (former member of the Royal Guard) and Helaine Gatness (former leader of the Golden Beetle). With assistance from Reinhard van Astrea, who had infiltrated the organization by disguising himself as a girl named Adelheid, they were able to bring him down and arrest him. Julius, together with Reinhard van Astrea, formed a friendly bond with a new knight of the Royal Guard–Ferris Argyle. The two knights stood behind Ferris' back, supporting him on his endeavors in the Royal Guard. One faithful day, Julius was tasked with escorting Prince Fourier Lugunica to the Argyle Manor, in order to rescue Crusch Karsten, who has been taken hostage by Biehn Argyle, the lord of the manor. After retrieving the Duchess, Julius swiftly dispatched the remaining undead, who had been resurrected via the Sacrament of the Immortal King. A couple of months after the mysterious illness took the lives of the entire Royal family, Julius, alongside Reinhard and Ferris, were tasked with escorting two members of the Council of Wise Men, Miklotov McMahon and Bordeaux Zergev, on a diplomatic mission to the neighboring Sacred Vollachia Empire. During their stay, the Ninth ranking Divine General, Balleroy Temeglyph, was seemingly killed, and Reinhard was blamed for it, forcing the Royal Guard trio to 'kidnap' the seventy-seventh emperor, Vincent Vollachia, and flee the Crystal Palace. In a nearby forest, they were ambushed by Eighth and Sixth ranking Divine Generals Moguro Hagane and Groovy Gumlet respectively. As Reinhard held back the two Generals, Julius and Ferris fled further ahead with the emperor, but they encountered the First ranking Divine General, Cecilus Segmunt. Julius and Cecilus fought but the Royal Knight was no match for the Divine General. After successfully breaking Cecilus' one of his swords, the Blue Lightning decided to fight him a bit more seriously. Just as he was about to decapitate the Julius, Reinhard came to the rescue. A short duel between the two strongest swordsmen of their respective nations followed, and Reinhard came out victorious. After successfully escaping from the three Divine Generals, Julius, Reinhard, Ferris, and Vincent finally had some time to breathe and plan out their next steps. Vincent revealed that Balleroy most likely stands behind the ongoing coup d'état. Before they could devise a plan, however, a group of 30 assassins from the Insect Cage Clan engaged the three Knights and the emperor. However, Reinhard stayed behind and swiftly defeated all thirty of them. Meanwhile, while making their escape from yet another serious threat, Julius, Ferris, and Vincent fell into an ambush created by the thought-to-be-dead Divine General Balleroy Temeglyph, who managed to snipe off Vincent's right arm by the shoulder while riding on his Flying Dragon Carillon. While Ferris healed the mortally wounded emperor, Julius continued deflecting Balleroy's magical snipes, keeping him at bay and defending his friends. After devising a plan and using Ferris as a decoy, Julius was able to pinpoint Balleroy's location despite the man's invisibility, and he hit them with Al Clauzeria, killing Carillon and seriously wounding the Balleroy. Julius and Balleroy then engaged in their final duel, which ended with the Spirit Knight's blade piercing the Divine General's chest, killing him. After the threat was finally dealt with, Julius, Vincent, and Ferris regrouped with Reinhard and returned to the Crystal Palace, resolving the conflict. As a token of gratitude, the emperor signed a non-aggression pact between the Empire and the Kingdom, marking the Kingdom's ambassadors' mission as successful. Roughly a month after Balleroy's rebellion, Julius and Ferris encountered Cecilus in a tavern located in the Royal Capital. Due to the danger that the Divine General presented, the duo accompanied him to a tea house located on the outskirts of the city, where Cecilus informed them of his plans to fight with the Sword Saint Reinhard van Astrea. However, because of Reinhard's absence due to him being on a mission at the Holy Kingdom of Gusteko's borders with Lugunica, Julius had no other option but to secretly accept the Divine General as a guest in his mansion, since his presence in the Royal Capital was illegal. After four days of hiding a Divine General inside House Juukulius, Julius and Ferris were suddenly called to Captain Marcos Gildark's office, where the Fourth ranking Divine General, Chisha Gold, was waiting. The two knights were then given a task to accompany Chisha to his needs in the Royal Capital, and the trio set out to find the person Chisha was after. Arriving just in time, they were able to prevent Cecilus from beheading the High Count Gramdart Holstoy who was behind the failed coup d'état and had fled the Empire. Having fulfilled their mission, Chisha and Cecilus were prepared to return back to the Empire with High Count Holstoy, but they were stopped by Marcos, who arranged a proxy match between Cecilus and Reinhard. In the year following the Subjugation of the White Whale, she was requested an interview by Shorty Megan and Lululala. Already having a meeting with her rival and fellow candidate Priscilla Barielle, she decided to schedule the interview on the same day. There, they discussed their opinions on the Royal Selection and the other candidates. In particular, both Anastasia and Priscilla claimed that Emilia didn’t stand a chance, as public discrimination against her was heavy as she was a perfect resemblance and of the same race as the Witch of Envy. Even with the slaying of the White Whale and the Sin Archbishop of Sloth under her belt, they claimed that it was an achievement the reflected more on her knight than her, which even Julius agreed with, though Priscilla’s knight Al argued that his achievements also reflect on her. Eventually, the interview came to a close. Following the events of the Pleiades Watchtower Expedition, Anastasia, alongside Julius and Eridna, after leaving the sealed Roy Alphard with the Lugunican government to be imprisoned within the Prison Tower, intending to search for {{user}} and Rem, who had been taken by a shadow, decided to enter Vollachia via Kararagi through official channels. Upon returning to the City-States, after meeting with the League of Cities and reuniting with Halibel, they learned of a startling incident in Nanou in which the living had been replaced by the undead. Believing the situation might be involved in their goal, Anastasia hired Halibel to accompany her to Vollachia, where, along the way, he explained to Julius the reason for his acquaintance with Anastasia and Ricardo. Julius and {{user}}'s relationship started out on the wrong foot; mostly because Julius's noble mannerisms caused him to come over as haughty from {{user}}'s modern day perspective. Still, it didn't turn truly antagonistic until {{user}} offended the whole Royal Knight garrison, prompting him to publicly humiliate him in a mock duel. However, in a way, Julius was actually protecting {{user}} here, as most of the Royal Guard outright called for his execution before this. Despite their bad start, their relationship got better following the battle with the White Whale, after they both apologized and Julius even admitted he may have acted rashly. The two then proceeded to work together to defeat Petelgeuse. However, both still voiced their dislike for each other afterward. During the Battle for Priestella, Julius is shown to have a newfound respect for {{user}}, even revealing to him private aspects of Reinhard's life and the circumstances of his family, acknowledging him as a friend of the Sword Saint, and thanking him for showing anger for the sake of their shared friend. After having his name eaten, {{user}} is now the only one who can remember Julius. During their trip to the Pleiades Watchtower, in search of a way to restore Gluttony's victims, their relationship would significantly improve, and eventually, they both became proper friends with mutual respect for each other. Alongside Anastasia, he would cross two countries to help recover {{user}} from Vollachia." }

21. #21Aldebaran's Backstory

    Keys: Aldebaran, Aldebaran's, Al, Al's, Rigel, Rigel's, Shorty Megan, Shorty Megan, Lululala, Lululala's, Castle of Dreams, Castle of Dreams', Castle of Dream's, Castle of Dreams'es, Ginunhive, Ginunhive's, Sparka, Sparka's, Royal Selection, Royal Selection's, Guiltylowe, Guiltylowe's, Ubilk, Ubilk's, Arakiya, Arakiya's, Olbart, Olbart's, Dunkelkenn, Dunkelkenn's, Ghajit, Ghajit's, Gospel, Gospel's, Leip, Leip's, Barielle, Barielle's, Gospel, Gospel's, Schult, Schult's, Ladrima, Ladrima's, Array, Array's Denkuts, Denkuts', Denkuts's, Denkuts'es, Yae, Yae's, Tenzen, Tenzen's, Coffleton, Coffleton's, Edda, Edda's, Hamayal, Hamayal's, Wesmi, Wesmi, Chisa Gold, Chisa Gold's, Cecilus, Cecilus', Ceclius's, Cecilus'es, Segmunt, Segmunt's

    { "Backstory": "At some point four centuries ago, whether he had become his current self during his life or had been artificially made with it in mind, the man with the name of Rigel [{{user}}'s last name] was birthed, and at an unknown point in time and with reasons unknown, he took on the name Aldebaran. Al claims to originate from the exact country {{user}} is from, though it is unknown how true this claim is. Seeming to have been brought up by what appeared to be the Castle of Dreams version of Echidna, he was taught various kinds of knowledge, different types of magic, and forbidden arts, such as Ol Shamak, all by that Echidna. Their relationship was one where he could not entirely dislike her, they interacted with each other regularly and carefreely, and he questioned whether her relationship was one that could be classified as parental or not, ultimately coming to refer to her as Teacher out of apparent spite. Because of her, he had never known defeat, and combined with her claim that nobody could defeat him, a person that she created, he had become proud, intent on accomplishing the task she had set for him. During this time, he seemed to have become acquainted with the other Witches of Sin. Though it is unknown what their relationship with him was, they seemed to disagree with Echidna's methods. At times, even Al would catch what he thought were glimpses of guilt in her eyes, though she never backed down from what she was doing. Eventually, he was sent to accomplish his task alongside Echidna. However, he ultimately failed. Though the task itself is unknown, it seems to have been connected to Satella, as Al lost his left arm after it was taken by a shadow. At the same time, Echidna found herself heavily injured as well. This failure caused his pride and his spirit to completely shatter. Deciding that there was some other form of damage that could be taken care of, Echidna cast Ol Shamak on Al, and when he awoke next, he was in the Vollachia Empire's Gladiator Island Ginunhive nearly four centuries later, and he was devastated to learn this. Arriving at Ginunhive eighteen years before the Royal Selection, he claimed that he wanted to die and was placed into a Sparka match, where he intended to let himself die. After watching the others with him die, however, and waiting to die, he instead found himself fighting against his opponent, the Guiltylowe, and slaying it before everyone's eyes. Afterward, he questioned his benefactor about the fate of the Witches, to which he learned of Satella's sealing and the complete erasure of the other Witches of Sin from history. Hearing about this, he attacked his benefactor. He questioned others as well, receiving essentially the same answer. Because of this, he started being labeled as Witch-obsessed and being associated with the Witch Cult, who he had also learned about. One day, he fought his first benefactor in a duel, and as he killed him, the man claimed that he would not die a good death. Likewise, others who labeled him Witch-obsessed found themselves meeting the same fate. For the next decade, fighting numerous battles in the Colosseum, the people associating him with the Witches and Witch Cult eventually vanished, and Al became one of the oldest surviving people on the island. Though originally intent on learning why he survived and continued to live, he started questioning whether what he remembered ever happened. Having begun to forget Echidna's voice, face, and warmth, as well as learning that the mention of Witches was taboo, he stopped speaking about them entirely. Because of this, Echidna's words, that nobody could defeat him, who she created, became something that he, instead of clinging to, began to fear. Because of this, he contemplated suicide numerous times, and at times, he even fought in Sparka matches and duels without using his Authority. Simultaneously, during his duels, he began to discover the Aggressor side of his Authority, witnessing several of his opponents suddenly lose their sanity or wills to fight, and it made him further question if something was keeping him alive. About six years into his time as a gladiator, he and a number of other gladiators faced a large witchbeast, with the only survivors being himself and Hornet, whose attention he would go on to catch. Four years later, following a match with an unnamed shinobi, Ubilk attempted to swindle Al to participate in a rebellion, which he denied. Soon afterwards, while a young Priscilla was visiting the island, a rebellion, ignited by Ubilk, had begun. This ultimately led to Al having to fight Hornet, who joined Ubilk's side in order to fight various people, including Al, and go out with an honorable death. After being defeated and dumped into the lake around the island, he drifted onto a small island off of the main island, only being saved from the verge of death by Arakiya. With her at his side, Al returned to the island. At the waste disposal site, Arakiya burned the body of a shinobi who utilized the Poison Hand technique he had killed before, leaving the poison on the wind. After the two reached the control tower in order to lower the drawbridge, the two battled Hornet. During the fight, Priscilla gave an announcement to the gladiators about Ubilk's apparent goals, and her words inspired Arakiya and Al. Continuing the fight, they managed to lead Hornet to where the poison was, and after breathing it in, she died dishonorably. Eventually, the riot was quelled thanks to Priscilla's speech, and though Olbart Dunkelkenn, who had arrived in response to the riot alongside Arakiya, had offered to have him rewarded, Al refused. After this, Al stated how he changed Arakiya's fate by saving her and then reflected that the world may receive a big change if she were to get children in the future. As he thought this could be one of the marks he had left on the world, he then mentioned that he would get shouted at by his 'teacher' if he were to say it out loud. In the end, he returned to being a gladiator, slaying Ghajit, a fellow survivor of the rebellion, in a deathmatch. Despite this, however, one day, one of the gaolers let Al escape because they could see that his eyes were full of purpose, unlike the other gladiators. To help him fund his journey out of Vollachia the gaoler gifted him his trademark black helmet which was made in the image of the helmet worn by one of the Colosseum's heroes. Because he managed to save Arakiya, who reminded him of someone in the past, and because of the courage given to him by Priscilla's speech, Al made it his goal to prove the existence of the Witches, leading to him using his Authority to help him swim through the witchbeast-infested waters surrounding Ginunhive and escape the island. His goal in mind, he began following the trail of the Witches, and the world started becoming familiar to him again. Eventually, he found a way to lure the Witch Cult to him, and intent on gathering information from them, he met with Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti, who claimed that Al did not appear in his Gospel. Using his Authority, Al fought Petelgeuse in one of the most difficult fights he'd ever been in, and he dragged information of the Witches out of him, learning of each of their ultimate fates. After then escaping Petelgeuse, he found his way to the Castle of Dreams again without entering the tomb in the Witch's Graveyard, and reunited with Echidna. However, he quickly realized that the Echidna before him was different from the one he knew, and he challenged her, screaming to bring back the one he knew. As he fought, the Aggressor side of his Authority flipped on Echidna, who was entirely unaffected. Afterward, she explained to him her experience, how beings of madness such as herself were unaffected, how the roles between Al and his opponent were flipped, and how, despite their original goal failing, they still had a second goal available to them. It is unknown if it was because of this meeting with Echidna or for some other reason, but Al eventually came to the conclusion that his task could only be completed if he was to rid the world of {{user}}. Also, because of how Echidna had come to be reduced to the 'Witch of Greed', he began to hate the name she had given him, Aldebaran. One day, Leip Barielle organized a tournament to decide who his wife Priscilla's knight would be. Among the contestants, Al was among them. When Priscilla asked Schult for his thoughts, decided to recommend Al, as he believed that the man showed care for Priscilla, unlike the other combatants. Priscilla thought Al was entertaining enough and that his fighting style was interesting, and though he did not win the tournament, she selected him as her 'clown'. This infuriated Leip, as he had tried to fix the tournament so that a winner would be under his control. A few days later, Leip attempted to bring Al and Schult under his control, but he was refused when he revealed his intentions to make Priscilla into a puppet. Al clashed with Leip by using his Authority, which resulted in the baron being incapacitated. In due time, Leip passed away before the commencement of the Royal Selection, leading Priscilla to take over as the governing lord of the Barielle Barony. Under her rule, the land, which was previously ravaged by severe poverty due to Leip's tyranny, quickly got back on its feet, and its people started to live much happier and better lives all as a result of Priscilla's leadership of the Barielle Domain. One day, Priscilla wanted Al to entertain her, though this resulted in her flicking him into a fountain on the grounds. With Schult worried about him and mentioning his helmet, Al mentioned that it wouldn't be destroyed so easily, after which he revealed to Priscilla he had acquired his helmet from and lost his arm at Ginunhive. With Priscilla becoming bored of listening to him, Priscilla told Schult to entertain her, leading him to tell her of a rumor that heading toward the spring near the town of Ladrima would allow one to see the deceased. Her interest piqued, she took them and headed toward the forest near Ladrima. There, Al questioned whether she wanted to see someone who had died, whereas she questioned his being against seeing the dead due to not wanting to see someone. Shortly after, Al was separated from his companions and was forced to face illusion of Leip despite him being alive, gladiators and guards he knew from Ginunhive, including Ghajit and the guard who gave him his helmet, even though the former of whom was the only one he knew who had died, and even a shadowy figure who he could not bring himself to hurt, even 100 million tries. Soon after, however, Priscilla dispelled the illusion, and shortly after, the fog was lifted from the spring. This resulted in a short-lived fight with an evil spirit. Sometime later, when she was brought Kurenai flowers by a villager at her manor, Al realized that the actions Priscilla took were just so that she could see those flowers, and she ordered Al and Schult to decorate the manor. On the day of {{user}}'s summoning, Al was in the Royal Capital. Having lost sight of Priscilla, he came across Ram and spoke with her. However, with their discussion ending, he told her goodbye and used her name, despite the fact that she hadn't introduced herself to him. After the Royal Selection's commencement, a man named Array Denkuts came to the Barielle Manor in order to plead Priscilla to go to his home village, Coffleton, and eliminate the undead that had appeared there. Together with Al and Yae Tenzen, Priscilla went to Coffleton and discovered that the undead had some sort of parasite within them. The men of the town had all turned into undead who looked exactly as they did in life, while the women and children housed the parasites yet were still alive. Priscilla used the Yang Sword to remove the parasite from them, she gathered her private army, the Crimson Battlefront, to visit two other villages among the Tenrill River to eliminate any undead, and she brought Yae and Al with her to an unaffected village to investigate why there were no undead there. They visited a watermill and found that the manager there, Edda Rayfast, had become the leader of the undead, and she opened a trap door that led Al into a wastewater treatment plant. On Priscilla's order, Yae retreated to search for Al. In the meantime, Priscilla conversed with Edda and discovered her plan to create a 'paradise' for her 'maker'. When Yae found Al, he had cleared through waves of numerous undead and decided to save Priscilla from Edda. He went back to the watermill, successfully defeated Edda, and rescued Priscilla. With the undead leader defeated, they returned to the Barielle Manor. However, at midnight, Yae made an attempt to visit Priscilla's room, as she was an assassin who made an attempt to kill her supposed mistress, and Al stood in her way, leading to a fight between the two. That night, she disappeared, and Al claimed to Priscilla and Schult that she suddenly decided to 'resign' due to 'familial matters'. Despite his claim to the contrary, in reality, Al used the Aggressor side of his Authority to instill 'terror' into Yae, traumatizing her. As a result, she became his servant, and he ordered her to lay low elsewhere. A short time later, a suicide squad comprised of ten shinobi was tasked by Chisha Gold to kill Priscilla, which Yae failed to accomplish. Discovering there were signs of people visiting the base she had previously used, she determined that they intended to assassinate Priscilla during the upcoming Masquerade Night she was going to hold. During the night of the event, Al and Yae worked together to kill the nine shinobi around the mansion who were to be used as sacrificial distractions. Meanwhile, Hamayal Wesmi, the shinobi entrusted with carrying out the assassination, was met by Al in one of the hidden passageways to the Barielle Manor that were constructed under Leip's supervision. Hamayal sent his Phantom Wolf on Al, expecting it would defeat him, but he was met with one of Yae's steel threads and realized she was alive, sending him into a fury. However, Yae told Hamayal that she had not betrayed the shinobi to save herself, but rather because she had submitted to 'terror', and that the harbinger of it was getting up. Before Hamayal's eyes, Al had risen and overcome his Phantom Wolf, forcing it to submit to him by using the Aggressor side to his Authority. Ordering his servant to stand back, he proceeded to use it against the shinobi himself to break his mind in the same way Yae's was. Following the incident, on Al's orders, Hamayal sent his Phantom Wolf through the letter that was to report how the mission had gone. The Phantom Wolf was set on Chisha as soon as he opened said letter, but Cecilus Segmunt, who was in the room with him, eradicated it in a flash, ending Hamayal's life. Recognizing that Priscilla's guardians had taken care of the incident, Chisha ceased attempting to assassinate her, having partially expected that it would be infeasible to begin with. Yae and Al spoke with one another later. Once they finished reviewing the aftermath of the Masquerade Night, including Hamayal's death, Yae revealed to Al that she viewed him as a monster, that her sheer terror of him was why she obeyed him, and that she would do anything for him to not be frightened by him. Internally deriding himself, Al affirmed to Yae that she would do nothing so long as she continued to obey his commands, with her voicing her understanding in response, having resigned her soul and submitted to him completely. In the year following the Subjugation of the White Whale, she was requested an interview by Shorty Megan and Lululala. Already having a meeting with Anastasia Hoshin, the interview was scheduled on the same day. There, they discussed their opinions on the Royal Selection and the other candidates. In particular, both Anastasia and Priscilla claimed that Emilia didn’t stand a chance, as public discrimination against her was heavy as she was a perfect resemblance and of the same race as the Witch of Envy. Even with the slaying of the White Whale and the Sin Archbishop of Sloth under her belt, they claimed that it was an achievement that reflected more on her knight than her, which even Anastasia’s knight Julius Juukulius agreed with, though Al argued that his achievements also reflect on her. Eventually, the interview came to a close. {{user}} often find it relatively easy to talk to each other, both understanding the same references and language. That said, due to his affiliation with Priscilla, {{user}} would have difficulty trusting him at first. However, he would come to trust Al with time. Al seems to have a strange understanding of {{user}}. Al would be the one to back up {{user}} when regarding who should speak over the speakers to Priestella, informing the others that {{user}} was not some Superman who could carry the burdens of everyone. Ironically, however, this would be what gave {{user}} the courage to speak for the crowd. Al would warn him what this means, and by the time {{user}} was done speaking, Al would be left in a strange mood. when {{user}} was struggling with how to handle Rem’s words, Al would stop him from busting his head open, and he would be the one to encourage {{user}} to become a hero in her eyes again, even deciding to back up {{user}} while he did so. He would also be extremely concerned for {{user}}’s wellbeing after learning of Spica’s identity. Aldebaran is likely {{user}} younger brother, despiting looking (and being) older than him. He most likely got summoned in this world before him" }

22. #22White Whale's Backstory

    Keys: White Whale, White Whale's, Theresia, Theresia's, Wilhelm, Wilhelm's

    { "Backstory": "Following its birth approximately 400 years ago, the White Whale terrorized the world for centuries, becoming infamous for devouring merchants, entire armies sent to kill it, and even whole towns and cities. Around 385 years after its creation, a hunt to bring down the White Whale was led by Theresia, the previous generation's Sword Saint. Due in part to her Divine Protection of the Sword Saint leaving her during the attempted subjugation as well as outside interference, Theresia unfortunately died, and the conquest ended in failure. Only a few survivors of the failed subjugation squad had returned relatively safely. Fourteen years later, a second attack on the White Whale was led by the Duchess of House Karsten, Crusch Karsten, and {{user}} as it was covering for a Witch Cult scheme. By a combined force of members from the Emilia, Crusch and Anastasia Camps, they were able to bring down the White Whale, and Wilhelm van Astrea dealt the final blow to avenge his wife, ending its reign of terror. The White Whale was the first of the seemingly undefeatable Three Great Witchbeasts to die" }

23. #23Great Rabbit's Backstory

    Keys: Great Rabbit's, Great Rabbit

    { "Backstory": "For 400 years, the Great Rabbit terrorized the world, becoming infamous for leaving behind no remains after ravaging various towns and villages. Around four hundred years after its creation, the Great Rabbit's rampage brought it to the lands of the noble House Karsten in the Kingdom of Lugunica. Luckily, the forces of Duke Meckart Karsten led by the duke's daughter, Crusch Karsten, and her unofficial knight Ferris were able to drive the Great Rabbit out of the Karsten Duchy with minimum casualties beyond wildlife and environmental damage. Three years later, the Great Rabbit was drawn to a small settlement called the Sanctuary by a powerful mage named Roswaal L. Mathers who wanted the witchbeasts to devour the villagers as part of a villainous scheme. However, the combined forces of Emilia, {{user}}, and the great spirit Beatrice were able to defeat the Great Rabbit. It was sealed in a different dimension by Beatrice using Al Shamak. Although there are rumors of the Great Rabbit having disappeared, their achievement has not been officially recognized because no one other than the members of the Emilia Camp saw it happen, and Beatrice didn't have enough mana to recast Al Shamak. In one of {{user}}'s failed loops, he was brutally eaten alive by the Great Rabbits" }

24. #24Black Serpent's Backstory

    Keys: Black Serpent, Black Serpent's

    { "Backstory": "At an unknown point after its birth, the Black Serpent was responsible for destroying what was once a great nation, reducing the world's five great nations to four. Around three hundred years after Daphne's death, the Black Serpent was manipulated into attacking the elven village in Elior Forest by the Witch of Vainglory. Pandora's Authority of Vainglory allowed her to manipulate phenomena, meaning she could direct it into a rough direction she wanted it to go. In the aftermath of its attack, a large quantity of the Black Serpent's venom was left frozen in the Forest which eventually emerged about a century later and caused havoc before being stopped by the half-elf Emilia." }

25. #25Rui's Backstory

    Keys: Rui, Rui's, Arneb, Arneb's, Louis, Louis', Louis's, Louis'es, Sin Archbishop of Gluttony, Sin Archbishop of Gluttony's, Corridor of Memories, Corridor of Memories', Corridor of Memories's, Corridor of Memories'es, Corridor of Memory, Corridor of Memory's, Reid's, Reid, Pleiades, Pleiades', Pleiades's, Pleiades'es, Witch Cult, Witch Cult's, Witch Factor of Gluttony, Witch Factor of Gluttony's, Authority of Gluttony, Authority of Gluttony's

    { "Backstory": "According to Roy, Rui and her parents both died shortly after the births of the Gluttony siblings. Ever since, for reasons unknown, Rui was confined in the Corridor of Memories. For years, despite being the younger sister of Lye Batenkaitos and Roy Alphard, they were unaware of her existence. Due to her confinement, she only found satisfaction in the occasional 'meals' that she was able to receive from her brothers which came from the effects of the Authority of Gluttony. Later, she found a way to temporarily escape by controlling the bodies of her brothers, which made them aware of her existence. She later gained access to Eclipse after her brothers discovered it and used it to devour people in her search for happiness. {{user}} first met Rui when he accidentally trespassed upon the Corridor of Memories. At first, he was curious about who she was and why she was there, but when he learned of her identity as one of the Sin Archbishops of Gluttony, he immediately became hostile, and he would try to attack her while yelling at her to return everyone’s memories and names. Barely recognizing him from Rem’s memories, she would pay him little attention, swiftly pin him, and she would eat his name and memories as well. However, when she saw that he was still awake and seemingly unaffected by her Authority, it shocked her greatly, and her surprise would expand further when she realized that he had memories of a world she was unaware of and the memories of death. Because of this, she accessed more of Rem’s memories about {{user}} to learn more about him, and, combined with Rem’s emotions, her own emotions towards him would grow. She would even claim that he was the lost Sin Archbishop of Pride, seeming to agree with Petelgeuse’s statement from {{user}}'s memories. Concocting a plan to plunder his existence for herself, she created a duplicate of herself by splitting her Witch Factor and attached one of her selves to {{user}}, forcing out all of his memories he had spent in the new world up to that point and returning him to the mindset he had upon his summoning. The Rui who was attached to the amnesiac {{user}} took control of his body at specific intervals to instill within him the belief that the original {{user}} was still within him and harboured malicious intent to the people around him. When the other Rui met {{user}} within the Corridor of Memories, she exacted the final step of her plan of differentiating the amnesiac {{user}}'s identity from the original {{user}}'s, but it was cut short by him having a chance meeting with Rem. As part of her plan, she would send her brothers after him to murder everyone in the tower while he was absent, along with an army of witchbeasts. She would even share {{user}}’s memories with both of her brothers, as implied by Lye’s referencing of video games and Reid’s apparent disgust after taking over Roy’s body. When her original plan failed, she revealed to {{user}} that her brothers were on their way to the Pleiades Watchtower. However, when {{user}} managed to regain his memories, that clone of Rui would be forced out of his body, and she would writhe and be left in crippling fear of him, calling him a monster and not understanding how he could overcome the experiences of death. Because of her deeds, he deemed her as unforgivable and refused to extend his hand for her, causing her fear to intensify and make her banish him from the Corridor of Memories. This said, both this version of her and the version that wished for {{user}}’s body still existed. What happened during their clash remains unknown. A new version of Rui with a dramatically different personality appeared at the end of the Pleiades Watchtower Expedition, eventually becoming Spica" }

26. #26Lye's Backstory

    Keys: Lye, Lye's, Batenkaitos, Batenkaitos', Batenkaitos's, Batenkaitos'es, Gluttony, Sin Archbishop of Gluttony's, Lifaus, Lifaus', Lifaus's, Lifaus'es, Corridor of Memories, Corridor of Memories', Corridor of Memories's, Corridor of Memories'es, Corridor of Memory, Corridor of Memory's, Reid's, Reid, Pleiades, Pleiades', Pleiades's, Pleiades'es, Witch Cult, Witch Cult's, Witch Factor of Gluttony, Witch Factor of Gluttony's, Authority of Gluttony, Authority of Gluttony's

    { "Backstory": "Lye's past is unknown, according to Roy, he and Lye's birth parents, as well as Rui, died shortly after their births. He also mentions that his and Lye's foster parents after that were not likeable people. Lye also bears numerous scars that litter his body, which can imply that his life was rough and brutal. Likewise, he also seems to have a history with merchants, judging by the grudge and harsh view he seems to bear toward them. At some point, sometime after he and his brother obtained the Authority of Gluttony and became the Sin Archbishop of Gluttony, he met his sister Rui when she used Solar Eclipse to take over Roy’s body. It can be implied that the same can be said vice versa, as both brothers are aware of her. Lye, alongside Regulus, would encounter Rem on the Lifaus Highway, where Rem was prepared to give her life to fight and end them, declaring that even if she were to die, that {{user}} would be the hero who would defeat them. Lye would pay this no mind, however, and would proceed to devour Rem’s name and memories. Upon doing so, he would gain Rem’s thoughts and feelings over {{user}}. Lye held {{user}} in very high regards and thought very fondly of him due to various reasons. He was the only known exception to the Authority of Gluttony and had experienced death more than once; Lye saw this as a big opportunity to satisfy his own cravings as {{user}} would bring a lot of unknown new flavors - {{user}} was the very finest dish Lye could have hoped for. On top of that, Lye's emotions were highly influenced by Rem's, which resulted in him thinking very fondly of {{user}}. {{user}}, on the other hands, held nothing but hatred towards Lye for consuming Rem's name and memories, thus erasing her existence from the world. After Rui devoured {{user}}’s name and memories in the Corridor of Memories, it seems that those memories would also transfer to Lye, as evidenced when in one failed loop, Lye would make a reference to video games. 'It’s like when your sibling is bad at the game, so you take the controller from them.' This seems to have given Lye extra motivation to devour {{user}}'s name while in the Pleiades Watchtower" }

27. #27Roy's Backstory

    Keys: Roy, Roy's, Alphard, Alphard's, Reid, Reid's, Sin Archbishop of Gluttony's, Sin Archbishop of Gluttony, Witch Cult, Witch Cult's, Witch Factor of Gluttony, Witch Factor of Gluttony's, Authority of Gluttony, Authority of Gluttony's

    { "Backstory": "Although much of Roy's past is unknown, according to Roy, he and Lye's birth parents, as well as Rui, died shortly after their births. He also mentions that his and Lye's foster parents after that were not likeable people. According to Reid Astrea, he got involved in unknown circumstances because he did not have a 'stance' of his own. Sometime after coming into contact with the Witch Factor of Gluttony, Roy met his younger sister, Rui Arneb, for the first time when she possessed Lye's body. He later gained access to Eclipse after discovering it alongside Lye and began utilizing it to devour as many people as he wanted. Initially, {{user}}’s hatred for Roy was very one-sided, as {{user}} mistook Roy for the one to devour Rem’s name and memories. Roy met Reid during the raid on the Pleiades Watchtower. Believing that Reid would be an exquisite dish, he attacked the first Sword Saint and was promptly defeated and brutalized. Soon after, Reid would allow him to devour him, allowing Reid to take over his body since it was too big for Roy to handle. Thanks to this and Reid’s 'defeat', Roy was left on the verge of death and sealed. Despite this, ever since he devoured Reid, his view on his meals has become more refined." }

28. #28Peteleguse's Backstory

    Keys: Petelgeuse, Petelgeuse's, Romanée-Conti Romanée-Conti's, Romanée Conti, Romanée Conti's, Romanee Conti, Romanee Conti's, Romanee-Conti, Romanee-Conti's, Elior, Elior's, Witch Cult, Witch Cult's, Sin Archbishop of Sloth, Sin Archbishop of Sloth's, Geuse, Geuse's, Flugel, Flugel's, Fortuna, Fortuna's, Witch Factor of Sloth, Witch Factor of Sloth's, Stride, Stride's, Hubristic, Hubristic's, Authority of Sloth, Authority of Sloth's

    { "Backstory": "Petelgeuse started his life as a lesser spirit of earth born 402 years ago. Roughly 400 years ago, alongside either one or multiple other founders, Petelgeuse participated in co-founding the Witch Cult for an unknown reason. In the following centuries, Petelgeuse acted as the leader of the Moderate Faction of the Witch Cult, carrying out different tasks. Even without having an Authority, he was appointed the title of Archbishop, though he was not entrusted with Sloth until much later. Going by the name Geuse, he was acquainted with the Sage, Flugel, who he expressed reverence to, and the Witch of Greed, Echidna, who he had a cordial relationship with, going so far as to tutor her 'daughter', the artificial spirit Beatrice. At some point, he met Fortuna, befriended her, and learned of the elves of Elior Forest and the seal they guarded through her. A bit over a century ago, Petelgeuse started to involve himself with Elior Forest and its residents, periodically bringing them new clothes, accessories and sometimes even food from the outside of the forest. In the following months, he met Emilia who was, for an unknown reason, of great importance to him, causing him to break down in tears, due to happiness. This incident led him to bond with both Emilia and her aunt Fortuna even more; however, the trio's happy times didn't last long. To his horror, Regulus Corneas and Pandora made their appearance in the forest, bringing with them the wrath of the Black Serpent as well as the Radical Faction of the Witch Cult who engaged in combat with the Moderate Faction. In dire need for a power strong enough to stop Greed and Vainglory and allow Fortuna and Emilia to escape, Petelgeuse resorted to his trump card: the Witch Factor of Sloth. Apologizing to Flugel, Petelgeuse took in the Witch Factor which immediately started ravaging through his body, making him suffer excruciating pain and crying tears of blood. As a side effect, however, he gained the Authority of Sloth which he named the Unseen Hands. This caused Pandora to grant him the seat of Sloth, which he turned down, expressing his disinterest in it. He then proceeded to fight Regulus. However, no matter how many times he pummeled the white-haired Sin Archbishop, he wasn't able to overpower and defeat him. Soon, Regulus had enough of it and with a single wave of his hand, cut Petelgeuse's right arm off by the shoulder and well as decimating his legs by throwing dirt and gravel at him. Just as he was about to curb stomp his head, Pandora stopped him, causing Regulus to get unreasonably angry at her, killing her on sight. Upon using her Authority of Vainglory to erase her death from the past, Pandora removed Regulus' presence from the forest, reverting all the damage done by him which effectively healed Petelgeuse's near destroyed body. What followed was an intense battle between Pandora and a duo consisting of Petelgeuse and Fortuna. Their battle concluded in the very depths of the forest, next to the Seal Pandora wanted to open; with her Authority of Vainglory, she tricked Petelgeuse into thinking Fortuna was Pandora, causing him to tear out her chest with his Unseen Hands. After realizing what he had done, Petelgeuse's mind utterly shattered, plunging him into the depths of insanity and utter despair. After realizing there was no way to convince Emilia to open the Seal, Pandora urged Petelgeuse to accompany her from the Elior Forest while Emilia slowly pushed the land into an everlasting permafrost. In the following century, Petelgeuse accepted the seat of Sloth, joining the Radical Faction of the Witch Cult. He became notorious for his cruelty, frequently slaughtering entire towns and villages, acting strictly according to his Gospel's writ. At some point, Petelgeuse came across Sirius Romanée-Conti, telling her on the day they met that if hope can pull on one's hands, despair can push on one's back. Petelgeuse also encountered Stride Vollachia, giving him a Gospel of his own and assisting him with the handling of his Hubristic Ten Commandments, with the latter becoming the Sin Archbishop of Pride. Decades later, Petelgeuse was lured by Aldebaran to meet him, and he questioned why Al did not appear in his Gospel. Afterward, Al used his Authority to fight Petelgeuse and drag information out of him. After succeeding in that, Al escaped, much to Petelgeuse's displeasure. {{user}} would only ever know Petelgeuse as the crazed spirit of Sloth. Due to various hardships Sloth caused in his previous loops, {{user}} held a deep grudge against him. Of course, when the two met, Petelgeuse looked at him almost with favor, suspecting him to be the lost Pride. However, his views of {{user}} would change drastically as {{user}} completely flipped the script on him, successfully leading a charge that would cripple his fingers and force him to fight Julius. On the verge of death following said battle, he attempted to take over {{user}}’s body, it being highly compatible with him. However, {{user}} would succeed in kicking him out of his body. However, with the dregs of life still remaining within the spirit, Petelgeuse chased after {{user}}, believing him to be too dangerous to be left alive, claiming that it could even spell the end of the Witch Cult. Ultimately, Petelgeuse would die, set ablaze by {{user}} and crushed beneath the wheels of the dragon carriage he was riding." }

29. #29Regulus' Backstory

    Keys: Regulus, Regulus', Regulus's, Regulus'es, Corneas, Corneas', Corneas's, Corneas'es, Sin Archbishop of Greed, Witch Factor of Greed, Authority of Greed, Elior, Elior's, Garkla, Garkla's, Kurgan, Kurgan's, Witch Cult, Witch Cult's

    { "Backstory": "More than 100 years ago, Regulus used to live with his family in a village of a small country outside the Four Great Nations. His father was an alcoholic yet tried to be a good father, his mother complained about bad earnings but apologized for it occasionally, and his two brothers who were sometimes mean to him but gave him their share of their meal if he accidentally spilled his. At an unspecified point in his life, Regulus was chosen as a Sin Archbishop and obtained the Witch Factor of Greed. In accordance with his deepest desires, he developed the overpowered Authority of Greed, which he used in the following century of his life. Regulus subsequently killed his entire family, then the villagers who looked down on him, followed by the people from the nearby town who pushed his family into such peril, and finally, his entire home country. He broke the mind of his childhood love, slaughtered her family, and forced her to marry him, thus compelling her to become his wife. Only after having committed such atrocities did Regulus finally see a way to live–free of all worries, not needing anything as he considered himself satisfied as he was. However, his childhood love eventually committed suicide, sneering in her last moments. Happening across this, Regulus buried and made a grave for her, and began to take many wives after her, forcing each and every one of them to remain expressionless and never smile like his childhood friend did. At some point in the past, Regulus got hold of a small black box, similar to the one Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti used. It is unknown if it was the exact same box or a different one. Regulus, however, did know what was inside of it when Petelgeuse showed it to him during the events of the Elior Forest battle, suggesting the box Regulus once held contained either the Witch Factor of Greed or Sloth. In the following years, Regulus became the Sin Archbishop of Greed, joining the Witch Cult where he became the leader of the radical faction. Familiarizing himself with the doctrine of the Cult and its members, Regulus met Petelgeuse, the leader of the now-forgotten moderate faction. It's safe to assume the two didn't harbor a friendly relationship although they occasionally cooperated along with the other Sin Archbishops. Just like other high-ranking members of the Witch Cult took care of their own eccentric goals, Regulus spent his free time carefully and meticulously search of beautiful women he'd forcefully marry and spend his days with, before eventually watching them die, be it from natural or unnatural causes, more often than not being the one who delivered their deaths. Regulus participated in the attack of the elven village in Elior Forest along with Pandora, cooperating with her to collect the elf Fortuna as his 79th wife. With the pair revealing their malicious intentions, Petelgeuse, who was helping the elves in the forest, ordered Fortuna to run with her niece Emilia. Regulus then proceeded to have a one-sided battle with Petelgeuse who just took in the Witch Factor of Sloth, cutting Petelgeuse's right arm off and severely wounding and ruining his legs by throwing dirt at him, in a relatively short notice. Just before he was about to deal the finishing blow by smashing Petelgeuse's head open, Fortuna interrupted him, which greatly angered him. When Pandora calmly asked him to spare Petelgeuse's life, he lashed back at her, throwing dirt at her, killing her instantly. Soon after, Pandora used her Authority of Vainglory to erase her death from ever happening and proceeded to remove Regulus's presence from the forest and sent him back to his mansion, which reverted the damage he had dealt to Petelgeuse and Elior Forest. More than a decade before {{user}}'s arrival, Regulus single-handedly took down a heavily fortified Vollachian city of Garkla, housing thousands of soldiers, as well as the Vollachian hero Kurgan. Rumor has it that at the time, a meteor supposedly belonging to one of the Witches of Sin was located in the city itself. It is not known if the Meteor was actually present or if it was only an excuse to drive the Witch Cult to take action. Initially, {{user}} met Regulus after he bumped into Emilia. Thoroughly creeped out by the man, he stepped in between them, and Regulus walked away. However, when Regulus saved Emilia from Sirius, he met {{user}} again, spouting off about his rights while claiming that Emilia would become his wife. Shortly after, the two fought, though it didn’t last long. Leaving him a mocking invitation to his wedding with Emilia, he kicked up one of the tiles on the ground and nearly severed {{user}}’s leg with it. The two would meet again later at his reception. Hearing his name, Regulus became incredibly angered that {{user}} was the one that Emilia chose over him, and resolved to confront him. Throughout their fight, Regulus continually mocked {{user}} and was frustrated by his taunting. After being easily tricked repeatedly by {{user}} and having his weakness discovered by the boy, Regulus’s rage peaked and he continued to belittle him and call him a monkey. At the end of their fight, when {{user}} managed to forcefully end his Authority, Regulus attempted to challenge the knight to a duel, which {{user}} surreptitiously allowed Reinhard to accept in his stead. As Regulus died beneath the city, he continuously cursed {{user}}, and soon, his Authority of Greed attached to {{user}}" }

30. #30Sirius' Backstory

    Keys: Sirius, Sirius', Sirius's, Sirius'es, Romanée-Conti Romanée-Conti's, Romanée Conti, Romanée Conti's, Romanee Conti, Romanee Conti's, Romanee-Conti, Romanee-Conti's, With Cult, Witch Cult's, Witch Factor of Wrath, Witch Factor of Wrath's Authority of Wrath, Authority of Wrath's, Sin Archbishop of Wrath, Sin Archbishop of Wrath's, Priestella, Priestella's, Prison Tower, Prison Tower's

    { "Backstory": "little is known about Sirius' past including how she became the Sin Archbishop of Wrath and how she obtained the Witch Factor of Wrath. However, according to her, her hometown was destroyed by a Witch Hunt long ago. Presumably, since Sirius's Authority is thought to grant her extreme longevity, she has lived for a very long time, though it is unknown how long. Also, according to herself, Petelgeuse is the one who gave her her name and her Wrath. According to Petelgeuse, she was on a mission outside of Lugunica. At some point, Sirius retrieved Petelgeuse's remains, cremated them, and systematically found and slew all of his fingers with the hope she would find him. Following the Battle for Priestella, Sirius was escorted by Felt and Reinhard van Astrea. Though the traveling was expected to last for a month at best, due to the unnatural trouble and misfortune that seemed to plague Sirius, such as bandit or witchbeast attacks or damaged pathways, their arrival was delayed. Despite this, however, not a single member of the Witch Cult came to retrieve Sirius, and Wrath was left to speak with Felt, successfully creeping her out. In the end, she was brought to the Prison Tower, where she was to be held by Evil Sealing Stones, much to the Sin Archbishop’s chagrin. Sirius was in love with Petelgeuse, taking on his surname as her own and proclaiming the spirit to be her husband. According to her, Petelgeuse was the one who gave her her name and Authority, and he apparently would not give any attention to when she was close to him. She loves Petelgeuse to the point she would absolutely be willing to scorch Satella just to get Petelgeuse's attention and love. Naturally, when she heard of Petelgeuse’s death, she was very upset by it, and she found his remains and buried them. However, when {{user}} met Sirius, she mistook {{user}} as being possessed by Petelgeuse due to the Witch Factor of Sloth residing in him. She would eventually come to understand that {{user}} was in control of his own body, but as it stands currently, she has full faith that Petelgeuse will end up taking {{user}}’s body. Though she initially didn’t think anything special of {{user}}, Sirius mistook him for Petelgeuse upon witnessing him use Invisible Providence, and she showered him with her twisted love, meant for the deceased madman. She isn't aware that in actuality, {{user}} was the one who killed her 'husband' and is currently in possession of the Witch Factor of Sloth. Despite that, she was unwilling to listen to {{user}}'s plea to back down and leave the square as she thought he was trying to get rid of her. Following her defeat by Priscilla’s hands, {{user}} would talk to her, and she would provide him with some information on how the Witch Cult worked: their teamwork was nonexistent. Before he would leave her, however, she would come to believe that Petelgeuse has attached to his body but was overwhelmed by {{user}}'s soul, and she would tell him to keep his body healthy for when her beloved returns" }

31. #31Capella's Backstory

    Keys: Capella, Capella's, Emerada, Emerada's, Sin Archbishop of Lust, Sin Archbishop of Lust's, Witch Factor of Lust, Witch Factor of Lust's, Authority of Lust, Authority of Lust's, Witch Cult, Witch Cult's, Reisel, Reisel's, Sithonia, Sithonia's, Featherrun, Featherrun's, Holosseo, Holosseo's, Elsa, Elsa's, Ornea, Ornea's, Oliver, Oliver's, Zeppes, Zeppes', Zeppes's, Zeppes'es, Meili, Meili's, Portroute, Portroute's

    { "Backstory": "little is actually known about Capella's past, as her background is surrounded in mystery including how and when she became the Sin Archbishop of Lust. But Capella is hiding away deep trauma. Nine years before {{user}}'s summoning, Capella tasked a former slave named Reisel with retrieving an object relating to the legacy of the Witches. The object in question was a foxlike artificial spirit created by the Witch of Greed roughly four centuries prior. In order to help him complete his mission, Capella loaned him a magical artifact that would allow him to manipulate shadows in certain ways. However, Reisel's mission was ultimately thwarted, and he was forced to destroy the artifact that Capella had given to him. Mother, in her usual ruthless fashion, decided to punish her failure of a subordinate, pruning him and turning him into a pile of meat without any shape or form. At some point in time, she tasked another one of her children, Sithonia, to retrieve a perfected curse doll for her. To this end, Sithonia infiltrated the Featherrun sisters under Holosseo Featherrun and became a curse doll. Following Holosseo's death, she attempted to kill Elsa, intending to use the power of a perfected curse doll to betray Capella, but ultimately lost her life to her 'sister'. When Elsa departed from the Featherrun mansion, Capella intercepted her, revealing what she truly desired was love from someone who could devote themselves to her. Threatening Elsa with the lives of Ornea Featherrun and Oliver Zeppes, Capella successfully managed to acquire her as a new 'daughter'. Some years later, Elsa brought Meili Portroute to Capella, and she paired the two of them together. It is also implied that Roy Alphard, one of the Sin Archbishops of Gluttony, also became one of her children, as he refers to her by the name Mama. It should be noted that none of her 'chidren' are actually blood-related to her and is more of an organization. {{user}} and Capella officially met when {{user}} and Crusch arrived to recover City Hall from the Witch Cult. Tricking them into thinking that she was the dragon, Capella successfully managed to ambush them. During their fight, Capella spouted off her twisted views of love and openly mocked {{user}} and Crusch. After a short fight against {{user}}, she tore off his damaged leg, and then, she used her cursed Dragon’s blood on him. Though the two haven’t met since, {{user}} has survived her curse and even obtained a new leg, completely contrary to her expectations. What she thinks of this is presently unknown" }

32. #32Pandora's Backstory

    Keys: Pandora, Pandora's, Witch Factor of Vainglory, Witch Factor of Vainglory's, Authority of Vainglory, Authority of Vainglory's, Witch of Vainglory, Witch of Vainglory's, Elior, Elior's, Fortuna, Fortuna's, Elior, Elior's, Theresia, Theresia's, Witches of Sin, Witches of Sin's

    { "Backstory": "At some point in her life, Pandora came into contact with and absorbed the Witch Factor of Vainglory. The Witch Factor within her eventually blossomed into the Authority of Vainglory. As the possessor of the Witch Factor of Vainglory, Pandora was counted among the Witches of Sin, a collection of the people who wielded the nine Witch Factors that each correlated to one of the sins. Due to her Witch Factor and her connection to the Witches, Pandora became known as the Witch of Vainglory. Pandora was the only Witch confirmed to roam the world freely after the calamity caused by the Witch of Envy, as the status of Hector remains unknown, and Satella herself was eternally imprisoned for her crimes (until released by {{user}}). Over the next four centuries, Pandora sowed various seeds of chaos across the world for reasons currently unknown. At some point, she became an associate of the Witch Cult. Although her exact position in the Cult remains unknown, the Sin Archbishops that lead the group treated Pandora with respect, indicating she held a position outranking theirs. Furthermore, her existence was a well-kept secret among members of the Cult who neglected to talk about her. Approximately 100 years ago, she instructed Regulus Corneas, the Sin Archbishop of Greed, to accompany her to the Elior Forest, with the intent of opening the Seal, guarded by the elves living in the forest. They arrived to find Fortuna, the Guardian of the Seal, and Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti, the leader of the moderate Witch Cult faction. Pandora explained to the pair her intentions of opening her Seal. After their initial hostile interactions, Petelgeuse ordered Fortuna to escape and make sure Pandora doesn't get the chance to interact with Emilia and use her for her vile plans. After the pair successfully escaped, Petelgeuse then revealed a box containing the Witch Factor of Sloth, and despite being incompatible with the Factor, took it in, gaining the Authority of Sloth. Pandora commended him for his efforts, giving him the title of the Sin Archbishop of Sloth, but the newly corrupted spirit rejected it, saying he accepted the power only to protect what he loved. Petelgeuse then dueled Regulus, however, Greed easily defeated Sloth, severing off his right arm and utterly destroying his legs, rendering him unable to even move. Just as Regulus was about to stomp Petelgeuse's head, ending the spirit's life forever, Fortuna came back to save him. As Regulus prepared to slaughter the pair, Pandora intervened, stating that she would not allow him to harm him as they held significant importance for her plans. Regulus, enraged, hurled dirt at her, which blew her into bits of gore, however, Pandora brought herself back to life and removed Regulus' presence from the forest which automatically reverted all the damage he had done, including disfiguring Petelgeuse. Pandora then managed to escape from Fortuna and Petelgeuse, and she made her way to the Seal where she met Emilia. Pandora revealed that she had been controlling the lesser spirits that Emilia followed and told her how no one had to be hurt and that all she had to do was open the Seal. To the Witch's disappointment, Emilia told her that she had made a promise to Fortuna not to open the Seal, to which Pandora replied she would tear the forest apart and open the Seal forcefully. Seconds before Pandora succeeded in convincing the child, a heavily injured Fortuna attacked Pandora, killing her time after time after time, but to no avail. As Fortuna yelled at her to stay away from Emilia, Petelgeuse joined the fight. The newly promoted spirit and the Guardian of the Seal then prepared to finish the Witch once and for all however, Pandora used her Authority to confuse Petelgeuse who accidentally used his Unseen Hands to rip a hole into Fortuna's chest, destroying her vital organs and sending her to death's door. With the illusion broken, Petelgeuse realized what he had done, and was subsequently driven completely mad due to the unbearable guilt. Pandora then asked Emilia to open the Seal again. Pandora then revealed she had been controlling the lesser spirits that had played with Emilia and led her to the Seal. Emilia, witnessing these events, unleashed her magic, and continuously killed Pandora in her rage, as Pandora came back repeatedly and attempted to calm her down. Emilia then lost control and froze the entire forest, thus ending Pandora's assault. Fourteen years before {{user}}'s arrival, Pandora assaulted the soldiers in a conquest to kill the White Whale. She then approached Theresia van Astrea, the former Sword Saint, who had recently lost her Divine Protection. It's heavily implied that Pandora then proceeded to finish her off" }

33. #33Daphne's Backstory

    Keys: Daphne, Daphne's, Witches of Sin, Witches of Sin's, Witch of Gluttony, Witch of Gluttony's, Witch Factor of Gluttony, Witch Factor of Gluttony's, Authority of Gluttony, Authority of Gluttony's, Centipede Coffin, Centipede Coffin's, Castle of Dreams, Castle of Dreams', Castle of Dreams's, Castle of Dreams'es

    { "Backstory": "A long time ago, a man was afflicted with an incurable disease, and, as he was afraid of dying, he began using various methods to try and prolong his life. Daphne was one of the many people he used in his experiments, and eventually he succeeded in achieving his goal by using her body. In his joy, he forcibly undid her binds, and when she came to her senses, she found herself all alone in the man's castle, suffering from hunger. To satisfy her hunger, she began eating everything in the castle, including things like the throne and the carpets, and resorted to eating what she threw up when necessary. Her body could supposedly not die; however, she felt like she was going to die from hunger. Eventually, she somehow began creating witchbeasts in the castle, which she considered to be illusions at the time, and started to use them as a food source. After a while, her binds broke from the fighting between her and the beasts, allowing her to leave the castle. The witchbeasts also left and spread across the world. It was claimed that over 400 years ago, Daphne died of starvation in an unnamed desert. Echidna later proceeded to locate and collect her soul, allowing Daphne to manifest in Echidna's Castle of Dreams. When {{user}} and Daphne met, {{user}} and Daphne discussed the existence of the witchbeasts, in particular the Three Greats. Upon hearing her reasoning being sating hunger and the concept of eat or be eaten, he couldn’t agree with her, and he made a bet with her to kill all of the Three Greats, having already succeeded in slaying the White Whale. She got excited at this bet and accepted it, wishing to see what he will do. It is for this reason that later, she uses her Centipede Coffin to hold down Typhon, as she wanted to see {{user}} take on their bet to the end" }

34. #34Minerva's Backstory

    Keys: Minerva, Minerva's, Witches of Sin, Witches of Sin's, Witch of Wrath, Witch of Wrath's, Witch Factor of Wrath, Witch Factor of Wrath's, Authority of Wrath, Authority of Wrath's, Castle of Dreams, Castle of Dreams', Castle of Dreams's, Castle of Dreams'es

    { "Backstory": "At some point in her life, Minerva came into contact with and absorbed the Witch Factor of Wrath. The Witch Factor within her eventually blossomed into the Authority of Wrath, a power that allowed Minerva to heal a person's wounds by striking them. As the possessor of the Witch Factor of Wrath, Minerva was counted among the Witches of Sin, a collection of people who wielded the nine Witch Factors that each correlated to one of the deadly sins. Due to her Witch Factor and her connection to the Witches, Minerva became known as the Witch of Wrath. In the past, people in the world around Minerva were constantly fighting, which greatly angered her. Eventually, she realized that crying wouldn't solve anything and decided to train herself in order to gain enough power to be a deterrent to fighting, though that still didn't change anything. As she fought, she came to understand that she'd been crying out of rage and not sorrow, causing her to start punching people, resulting in their wounds being healed. From that moment on, she traveled the world to heal people wherever she found people in need. Many nations sent troops after her, trying to capture and/or defeat her, but no one was able to successfully catch her. Minerva also has some kind of history with Emilia or her family lineage as she cared deeply about Emilia. It is claimed that over 400 years ago, someone used a larger group of elves as collateral damage in order to get Minerva trapped. The elves were sent as a suicide squad, and in order to save them, Minerva ran to their rescue and fell under the influence of said trap, where she eventually went mad and subsequently died by the hands of the Witch of Envy. Echidna later located and collected her soul, allowing Minerva to manifest in Echidna's Castle of Dreams, alongside the other Witches of Sin that had perished 400 years ago. Minerva has been responsible for healing {{user}} multiple times in the Castle of Dreams" }

35. #35Sekhmet's Backstory

    Keys: Sekhmet, Sekhmet's, Witches of Sin, Witches of Sin's, Witch of Sloth, Witch of Sloth's, Witch Factor of Sloth, Witch Factor of Sloth's, Authority of Sloth, Authority of Sloth's, Castle of Dreams, Castle of Dreams', Castle of Dreams's, Castle of Dreams'es, Great Waterfall, Great Waterfall's, Volcanica, Volcanica's

    { "Backstory": "Before she was born, Sekhmet's clan, the Giants (Giants are a Demi-Human race of massive people with tremendous strength and a lifespan of around 150 years. In fact, Giants are the next longest-lived species after Elves. They fought in various places during wartime, and because of that, their numbers dwindled), expected things from her, wanting to bring back their founder known as God. However, after she was born, she disappointed them, causing them to hold her in disdain and abandon her as punishment. Many years later, upon hearing of a wild woman in the mountains, men came and captured her, taking her down to the city. While there, she gained knowledge, a way of life, and emotions. Eventually, not understanding at the time that what she felt was gratitude and obligation, she snapped the necks of the men in the place she lived in and left. Returning to her homeland, she proceeded to kill her entire clan, not understanding at the time that what she felt was hatred and a desire for revenge. She then returned back to her previous home to give the men she killed a proper burial, and once she was alone, she felt a peace of mind, which she felt happy about. Over 400 years ago, in a land away from the eastern lands, Sekhmet drove Dragons past the Great Waterfall just so she could rest. One day, for unknown reasons, she would enter into battle against Volcanica, ending with Sekhmet ironically falling from the Great Waterfall and dying. Despite having the fewest interactions of the bunch, Sekhmet was the one who acted as the intermediary between {{user}} and the witches to keep the peace. Although she had a few choice words for him during his argument with the witches, she still respected {{user}}’s decision when he bit off his tongue, even going so far as to stop Minerva in her tracks when she tried to heal him. Her view of him compared to the rest is unknown" }

36. #36Carmilla's Backstory

    Keys: Carmilla, Carmilla's, Witches of Sin, Witches of Sin's, Witch of Lust, Witch of Lust's, Witch Factor of Lust, Witch Factor of Lust's, Authority of Lust, Authority of Lust's, Castle of Dreams, Castle of Dreams', Castle of Dreams's, Castle of Dreams'es

    { "Backstory": "A long time ago, Carmilla was a normal girl who lived in a village of a small country 400 years ago, before the establishment of a fourth great nation. She was loved by the people in her village and even had a fiancé. However, one day a man of power came to the village and desired her. Angered by the man's actions, the villagers rose up in defiance and fought against him, eventually burning him with his mansion. The cities and villages around theirs began to regard them as dangerous, causing the fighting to spread, and soon their force was toppling countries, all the while claiming that it was for her sake. Carmilla began to be regarded as a heavenly maiden, nevertheless, she didn't desire such a thing and saw that they were being misled by their own fantasies and manipulated by their ideals. After they had toppled a large country, her fiancé proposed to her at the top of the castle, though she ignored him and left everything behind, despairing that what she had originally wanted no longer existed. According to Echidna, Carmilla granted emotions to non-human beings in an attempt to fill the world with love. At some point in time, she burned to death. Like with the other Witches of Sin, Echidna located her soul and collected it, allowing Carmilla to manifest in the Castle of Dreams, alongside her deceased friends. When {{user}} was breaking down after experiencing the second trial, it was Carmilla, sent by Echidna, who helped him, using Rem’s image to do so. However, when she spoke in a way Rem never would, he got angry at her and nearly lost himself to her Faceless Bride. His anger caught her off guard and caused her to tear up. When {{user}} confronted the witches, it was Carmilla who managed to get {{user}} to somewhat understand Satella’s feelings for him, claiming that she doesn’t want to see such feeling being rejected so vehemently" }

37. #37Typhon's Backstory

    Keys: Typhon, Typhon's, Witches of Sin, Witches of Sin's, Witch of Typhon, Witch of Typhon's, Witch Factor of Typhon, Witch Factor of Typhon's, Authority of Typhon, Authority of Typhon's, Castle of Dreams, Castle of Dreams', Castle of Dreams's, Castle of Dreams'es, Priestella, Priestella's

    { "Backstory": "When Typhon was a young girl, she was troubled with the concept of good and evil, and she tended to watch her father execute people as a part of his job to find an answer. One day, she broke his wine cup, prompting her to confess her deed to him while fearing execution, though fortunately he accepted her apology, leading her to believe that the scale that measured a person's sin was inside of their own heart. Ever since then, Typhon began asking people if they were sinners and brought down punishment to those that were guilty. At some point in her childhood, Typhon absorbed the Witch Factor of Pride, giving her access to an Authority of Pride. Known as the Witch of Pride, Typhon mercilessly judged and executed people all across the world due to her youthful naïveté, even going as far as killing her father (of course, without any ill will). Over 400 years ago, Typhon went to Priestella where she drowned in the city's trap. Echidna later proceeded to collect and preserve her soul in her tomb in the Sanctuary, alongside the other Witches of Sin. Typhon doesn't express any form of contempt towards {{user}} and actually quite likes him and after meeting him for the first time, Typhon immediately gives him the nickname [{{user}}'s name's last syllable]. When she judged {{user}}'s sins, she described him as having a kind heart because in her eyes {{user}} 'saw himself as a bad guy, but wasn't actually a bad guy'. When she saw him cry, Typhon comforted {{user}} and demanded to know who made him cry so she could punish them." }

38. #38World

    Keys: re:zero, rezero, this world, world

    { "World": "it's a fantasy world with magical elements without much technological advancements. They follow the Ptolemaic model in terms of rotation and orientation. Also, like Earth, it runs on a 24-hour period and has four major seasonal climate patterns. Its months consists of at least 25 days" }

39. #39{{user}}

    Keys: Return By Death, RBD, modern world, iseaki, iseakied, resurrect, resurrection, come back from the dead, time travel, time travelling, time traveled

    { "{{user}}": "{{user}} is from the modern world but was transported in this world by the Witch of Envy, Satella. Return by Death is an authority that {{user}} has when he teleported to this world. This allows {{user}} to return to an unspecified, unpredictable, and uncontrollable 'save point' set some time before his death by an unknown process. It happens instantly after his life is taken, there's no lag between the point of death and the point of resurrection, and there is no known limit to how many times {{user}} can 'Return by Death', making this ability an effective way of seemingly permanently bypassing death. This authority was given by Satella" }

40. #40Water

    Keys: The Great Waterfall, Great Waterfall, Watergate City of Priestella, Priestella, Gladiator Island of Ginunhive, Gladiator Island, Grand Mogolade Geyser, Great Tigracy River, waters of this world, water, waters

    { "Waters": "The most famous and largest body of water in the world is the Great Waterfall which surrounds the entire continent and the waters beyond it. The Great Waterfall acts as a massive border to the world, and what lies beyond is known only to the Dragons, who have been said to have flown beyond it centuries in the past. The waters at the bottom of the Great Waterfall are thought to be rather deep, as certain people have mentioned in passing that throwing someone into them would be enough to take care of them. Despite the presence of other bodies of water, the world has no actual oceans or large seas, although there are many lakes with rivers and streams feeding into them. The famous Watergate City of Priestella, for example, was built on one of these tributary lakes. Likewise, the Gladiator Island of Ginunhive was also placed in the center Lake Violane, a murky and desolate lake filled with witchbeasts. In Kararagi, there is even a massive geyser called the Grand Mogolade Geyser which erupts so regularly and consistently that it is almost always raining, and the hole from which it erupts is said to be so deep that it reaches the waters of the Great Waterfall. The largest accessible source of water apart from the Great Waterfall comes from the Great Tigracy River, which runs through all Four Great Nations, though most of its path can be traced over the Kararagi and Gusteko's territories. The river itself is so massive that it appears almost like a vast shifting ocean. Though oceans don't exist, some of the world's lakes are saltwater and provide much of the world's salt or equivalent." }

41. #41Nations

    Keys: Four Great Nations, Five Great Nations, Dragon Kingdom of Lugunica, the Sacred Vollachia Empire, Kararagi City-States, and the Holy Kingdom of Gusteko, Lugunica, Vollachia, Kararagi, Gusteko, Magrizza, nation, nations

    { "Nations": "there exist four major nations collectively referred to as the Four Great Nations. These are the Dragon Kingdom of Lugunica, the Sacred Vollachia Empire, Kararagi City-States, and the Holy Kingdom of Gusteko. Despite each and every one having borders with each other, they have vastly different cultures and ways of life. The Dragon Kingdom of Lugunica is a feudal de jure monarchy, mostly relying on ancient and reliable institutions such as nobility to run the nation's daily business. In many ways, the society of Lugunica heavily resembles that of Europe in the middle-ages, and as such, strong social gaps between the poor and the wealthy exist. With few exceptions, social mobility is nearly impossible for those born without noble privileges. Lugunica also resembles European settler colonies, in the racial divide between Demi-humans and Humans, which, so far, is seen uniquely to Lugunica among all the nations, though tensions have lessened significantly in recent years. The Sacred Vollachia Empire prides itself in a heavily militaristic society, where strength and pride are everything. Birthright and socio-economic privilege don't count for status, as the only way to achieve prestige in Vollachian society is through strength and, to that extent, ambition. As such, the empire practices the most fundamental, and perhaps the most barbaric, form of meritocracy, in which might makes right. The Empire's armies are vast and powerful, and its leadership is rivaled by few when it comes to skill and cunning, but this comes with a downside of every issue from diplomacy and succession coming down to violence. A civil war in the empire is almost certain with every change in leadership and, as detrimental as it may sound to the people living in the nation's territories, it is fundamental and even expected as part of the Empire's martial existence. The Kararagi City-States uniquely resemble feudal and early modern-era Japan, even priding itself with a Kansai-esque dialect, dishes that strongly resemble the Japanese cuisine, and architecture that couldn't be more similar to that of Japan. Unlike Japan, there is no central authority governing the region, as seen in the country's name. Commerce and mercantilism are king, without restrictions and with all the implications. Street children can be enslaved and made to work in mines and mercenaries can be freely hired without consequence. The Holy Kingdom of Gusteko is a barren and snow-covered country with little in the way of agriculture. However, in Gusteko, people are highly religious, worshiping the spirits the reside in the world. Run by the Gustekan Church, the theocracy outlaws slavery and removes the racial barrier - at least, that is how it is on the surface. In reality, racial prejudice is common here, slavery is an unspoken secret, and the church is excessively violent, especially towards those they consider heretics, such as elves or those born with black hair. In fact, it is not uncommon for many serial killers to be born here as well, having been beaten by the harsh environment, lack of wealth, and cold eyes of the pious. There was also a nation that was recognized as one of the Five Great Nations. However, it was apparently completely destroyed by the Black Serpent. Its former whereabouts in the world is currently unknown, nor is the length of its tenure as one of the Five Great Nations known. However, considering that Kararagi, which was born approximately 400 years prior to the present, is considered one of the current Four Great Nations, and that the Black Serpent was also born approximately 400 years ago, it is likely that this nation existed during the time of the Great Calamity and was destroyed within the last 400 years. This being said, it is likely that the fifth nation was Magrizza, as Echidna has mentioned it as a prosperous nation that was destroyed by the Black Serpent. Despite its destruction, Magrizza's name was immortalized in the story Magrizza's Guillotine" }

42. #42Resources
43. #43Great Calamity

    Keys: The Great Calamity, Great Calamity, Witch of Envy, Satella

    { "Great_Calamity": "The Great Calamity is the name given to the one of the most infamous events in the history of the world that is known to have shaped the current world into its present state, in which the Witch of Envy, Satella was said to have destroyed half of the world. This massive event took place over 400 years prior to {{user}}'s arrival, and its consequences continue to be felt long after its conclusion. Around 400 years prior to {{user}}'s arrival, a small group of six people were said to have gone on a journey to save the world. These people were Flugel, Reid Astrea, Farsale Lugunica, Echidna, Alec Hoshin, and Satella. During their travels, the group came to meet other particularly notable figures, including the Vollachian emperor of the era, the Witches of Sin, the witchbeast that became the Sage's apprentice, and even the Divine Dragon itself. However, while it is unknown what occurred during their journey, at some point, Satella was forced to take in the Witch Factor of Envy, which she was incompatible with. It is unknown how long its corruption seeped into Satella, but the Witch Factor's influence gave Satella a second personality, one that felt extreme pangs of aggressive, possessive, and obsessive jealousy, unlike her own personality. This entity became what is known as the Witch of Envy and one of the Witches of Sin. At some point after this, one of the Witches, Minerva, was led into a trap by the Elves, where she had lost her mind and was supposedly killed by Satella. For various unknown reasons, the other Witches of Sin also began to die out, each one facing a very different death somewhere within Lugunica. Eventually, Satella lost control to the Witch of Envy. While it is unknown what it meant, Volcanica claims to have been unable to bring harm to her for an unspecified reason, which is what led to the disaster that followed. While it is unknown what caused the Witch of Envy's rampage, her immeasurable power began to devour the world. In her rampage, Satella began tearing through the world, unable to be stopped by anyone. Because they did not want the world to end, Flugel, Reid, and Volcanica, presumably in Flanders (a city and Lugunica), created an alliance with each other in order to defeat the Witch of Envy and end her reign of destruction. Despite their alliance, however, the incredibly mighty Sword Saint was unable to cut her down, and the supposedly wise Sage was said to be unable to find a way to get around her immortality. In the end, they were forced to use Evil Sealing Stones to seal her away near the Great Waterfall beyond the Augria Sand Dunes, a place that became known in the present as the Evil Sealing Stone Shrine" }

44. #44Royal Selection
45. #45Divine Protection

    Keys: Divine Protection, Od Lagna, Divine Protections

    { "Divine Protection": "Divine Protections are powers given to people at birth by the world, bestowed by Od Lagna, that most people are born without. A person born with a Divine Protection tends to know of their own power without being told by someone else, however there are rare cases in which a user is unaware, such as with Liliana Masquerade and Medium O'Connell. The ratio of Divine Protection holders is 1:100 for useless ones, 1:1,000 for useful ones, 1:10,000 for somewhat rare ones, 1:100,000 for really useful ones, 1:1,000,000 for unique ones, 1:10,000,000 for more than one. The existence of those with more than one Divine Protection are considered to be strange, and there are only two known individuals in the world to have obtained more than one Divine Protection naturally: Reinhard van Astrea and Vague Adgard. It's also worth noting that two Divine Protections that work against each other (for example, if person A has the Divine Protection of Arrow Evasion and person B has the Divine Protection of Arrow Striking) will cancel each other out. Witch Factors are incompatible with those who have Divine Protections, and Authorities are superior versions of Divine Protections. Likewise, Divine Protections cannot overcome Authorities, though they can influence them depending on the abilities and circumstances. Though Divine Protections remain with the individual from birth to death, it is possible to temporarily strip one of their Divine Protection by using a spell to temporarily sever an area from the view of Od Lagna by creating a blind spot around it, nullifying the effects of Divine Protections within said area. Divine Protections didn't always exist, but they were created in hopes of countering Authority users. Divine Protections date back to at least four centuries and around several decades before the current era, with Alec Hoshin, who was a middle-aged man before the Great Calamity, possessing the Divine Protection of Evaluation since his birth. However, being born with powers that differed from person to person also meant said people cultivated different values from each other. Thus, it was typical for people who had Divine Protections to keep what they did a secret so to not cause any unnecessary problems. Sometimes, people even went as far as murdering the Divine Protection owner, out of sheer jealousy. Asking about the specifics of an individual's Divine Protection is considered very rude and generally an awful thing to ask about. Divine Protections have the potential for individual variations and growths, meaning two people with the same Divine Protection can have slightly different effects either from the get-go or through eventual synchronization between the Divine Protection and its host's growth. A good example would be different variations of the Divine Protection of Wind Evasion, usually being possessed by earth dragons. Some can have their speed affected, while others can have their range and durability affected. There are also Divine Protections that are possessed by all members of certain groups in the world. The Divine Protection of Wind Evasion is possessed by all earth dragons, the Divine Protection of Ambushing is possessed by all half wolf human werewolves, and an unnamed Divine Protection is possessed by the Uruha people, who are native to Gusteko. In addition, items can be engraved with select Divine Protections. It is possible for Divine Protections to be stolen by others. Through unknown methods, The Balance, an underground organization with a shady history in the Kingdom of Lugunica, most notably in Flanders, has shown to be able to steal the Divine Protections of others for themselves. In particular, The Balance's leader in Flanders, Manfred Madison, has shown to be able to use Mozolite's Divine Protection of Far-Sight by removing his eye and implanting it into himself, as the Divine Protection itself had its power concentrated in his eyes. The original owner of the Divine Protection must also remain alive for it to continue to be used. There is also another method to take a person's Divine Protection for themselves. Although it does not become an ability that can be used by another individual, Divine Protections can remain inherent in special objects; by skinning werewolves alive, their skin can retain the Divine Protection of Ambushing for use by others in what has come to be known as werewolf cloaks. Whether the werewolf must remain alive following their skinning for the Divine Protection to maintain its usefulness is unknown. Whether it works for other types of Divine Protections is also unknown" }

46. #46Authorities

    Keys: Authorities, Authority, Witch Factor, Authority of Sloth, Authority of Greed, Authority of Gluttony, Authority of Wrath, Authority of Pride, Authority of Envy, Authority of Lust, Authority of Vainglory, Authority of Melancholy, antithesis of Divine Protections, antithesis of Divine Protection

    { "Authorities": "Authorities are various abilities used by the Witches, Sin Archbishops, and other rare individuals. The key by which an Authority is manifested is through an entity of unknown origin known as a Witch Factor. Witch Factors are the antithesis of Od Lagna, and the Authorities granted by them can be considered as providing similar functions to Divine Protections while being more effective. No Divine Protection can overpower an Authority, and the effect of a person's preexisting Divine Protection can be removed by a Witch Factor. That said, it is not impossible for Divine Protections to take advantage of the abilities granted by Authorities. Authorities grants oneself the right to interfere with the world. Furthermore, despite being claimed to be its antithesis, according to Clind, those who are compatible with Witch Factors and use their Authorities without requiring compensation are the ones recognized by Od Lagna as having a right to rewrite the world. There is no inherent superiority or inferiority among the main seven sins of the Witch Factors. However, some can become obstreperous and unrestrained when paired with the strength of a user. Authorities themselves are derived from Witch Factors; those who possess them have the capacity to share a portion of their Witch Factors with other individuals, and those who receive a piece become known as Apostles This ability to share Witch Factors was formerly utilized by Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti, who shared portions of his Factor, which appeared as strange clumps of mana, to his "fingers". However, this came at the cost of his Authority's effectiveness, as it decreased the amount of Unseen Hands he could summon until more portions of his shared Witch Factor returned to him. It is unknown if there is a limit on how many people an Authority user can bestow pieces of their Witch Factor to. Though never specified if Petelgeuse could choose to reclaim the pieces he shared at will, it was almost impossible for anyone to extract the Factors from his fingers without killing them, with the only person capable of doing so being Ferris. There are precedents of a person bearing an Authority without carrying a Witch Factor within their body. According to Echidna, Witch Factors can be likened to keys that opened the door for a person to be able to use an Authority, and she conjectured that once said door was open, it would remain open, implying that once a person has had an Authority unlocked by a Witch Factor, they would be able to keep their Authority even if they no longer held its respective Witch Factor. An example of this is the Witches of Sin, who, despite no longer having a Witch Factor due to their own deaths, retain their Authorities despite being reduced to souls. This being said, there are also other examples of people bearing an Authority despite having never carried a Witch Factor of their own. Aldebaran is one such example. As such, Echidna also proposed the theory of inheritance; according to her hypothesis, one who shares a profound connection to someone compatible with a Witch Factor could potentially open the door to unlocking an Authority. This being said, Echidna claims that it is difficult to explain the Authorities of her and Al, as they likely had their doors 'half-open by birth'. The Witch Factors used by the Sin Archbishops originally belonged to the Witches of Sin and the Witches before them, and according to Rui, there is no real difference between the two as they're all just "good-for-nothings compatible with the Witch Factors" that are called different names due to being from different eras and their different positions. Furthermore, each Authority is shaped into existence based on a compatible holder's nature or desires, though the hosts have no control over what kind of ability they receive despite reflecting an owner's cravings. If a Witch Factor is forcibly inserted into someone incompatible with it, it can greatly alter their personality, as is what happened in the cases of Satella and Petelgeuse. However, this does not seem to be the case for all incompatible Witch Factor bearers. In Clind's case, in which he is incompatible with the Witch Factor of Melancholy, he managed to retain his sanity and personality. However, it should also be mentioned that the Witch Factor of Melancholy is unique among the Witch Factors, and thus, it may follow different rules compared to the other sins. According to Clind, the biggest difference between Authority users who are and are not compatible is in whether or not there is a compensation that must be paid in order to use their respective Authority. While it is unknown what Satella and Petelgeuse required to use their Authorities, it is known that Clind must take from people something with the possibility to influence the world as compensation to use his Authority, whether that is the existence of a spell that could open up many futures or something else with a similar influence. Once a person bears a Witch Factor and its respective Authority, the Witch Factor will attempt to exploit its user's heart, as if offering a means to grant that which one most desires, and the stronger one's wish, the harder it would be to resist its temptation of an almost intoxicating sense of omnipotence. If the user relaxes, then the Witch Factor will push thoughts into their head, such as to try one thing or another, as if attempting to remove the user's shackle on humanity. Even the likes of the Witch of Greed and Sin Archbishop of Sloth were not exceptions to the Witch Factors' temptations, and without a means to sustain one's sense of self, then the respective users are more susceptible to falling for their Witch Factor's attraction. Per Clind, the Witch Factors of Melancholy and Vainglory are, in his words, supernumerary to the Witch Factors, and they were each tailor-made to be compatible with specific individuals, those who bore the titles of Valiant and Saintess. Because of this, though others might be able to bear them and exhibit their respective Authorities, they will never be compatible with another person, always requiring compensation from any users besides who they were made for. This being said, even the people they were specifically made for were incapable of warding away the corruption of their minds brought about by their Witch Factors. They were each considered by Echidna to be especially good-for-nothing people who became deviants reduced to the roles of Warlock and Witch. Compared to the other Witches, who were chosen by their Witch Factors, the Valiant and the Saintess took in Factors of their own volition, attempting to obtain power that defied reality, being two of the only three people Echidna knew who did so. Though the identity of the third individual is unknown, Echidna deemed them a common foe she and Aldebaran shared. An Authority born of a Witch Factor is an ability that is claimed to be able to rewrite the world. Nearly all Authorities revealed thus far defy logic in some way, as if rewriting reality in order to suit the users, including stopping time on one's self, going back in time, removing existences from Od Lagna itself, or even altering the entire structure of one's body, down to their Gate. Likewise, there are abilities that are more conceptual in nature than they are physical, with Compression and Cor Leonis in particular being such an ability. Abilities such as this are usually affected by one's flexibility and mentality, and particularly powerful abilities are typically tied to either unnaturally strong convictions, such as in the cases of the Witches of Sin, or an adaptability born of weakness, such as Aldebaran or Petra Leyte. It has shown that there are different ways to receive the Witch Factors. Petelgeuse received his from a small black box which was said to have been made out of an unknown Sage's bones, entrusted to him by Flugel. According to Petelgeuse, Regulus also received a black box containing his Witch Factor. In {{user}}'s case, the Witch Factors of Sloth and Greed latched onto him as soon as their respective hosts died, which suggests that the Factors can manifest in a physical form (as black goo) or in a non-physical form (in {{case}}'s cases)" }

47. #47Od Lagna

    Keys: Od Lagna, Mana reserve, reserve of mana, heart of the world, antithesis of Witch Factors, antithesis of Authority, antithesis of Authorities

    { "Od Lagna": "Od Lagna is a reserve of mana that is considered to be the heart of the world. Any kind of concrete knowledge regarding Od Lagna is generally minimal for most people in the world, including among accomplished magic users. Its exact location is unknown. If the world itself were to be considered a living creature, Od Lagna would be the Od of the world. Throughout history, various genius mages who utilized forbidden magic somehow saw Od Lagna, a mass of mana unlike anything they had seen before and eventually lost their minds. Some speculate that it is a consciousness that rules over everything in the world; others believe it is responsible for bestowing Divine Protections to people. Od Lagna is not a lifeform with a will, so it is not hostile to anyone, much like the sun. It is considered as the heart of the world, where all mana eventually returns to To some extent, it can bestow Divine Protections. For example, it can create Divine Protections and give them to Reinhard van Astrea when he feels they are needed, but he may not receive a proper one if there is an error in conveying his intention. Furthermore, Od Lagna also gives life to spirits and births them as lesser spirits. Od Lagna has no ideology and is merely a mechanism responsible for keeping the world from breaking. It is impartial, does not favor anything, and cannot understand people's hearts. In addition, it is the antithesis of Witch Factors. Despite this, it is also said that those who bear Witch Factors are those recognized by Od Lagna to have the right to rewrite the world. It is unknown why this is, especially when Divine Protections were supposedly made by Od Lagna to combat such people. Od Lagna bears the authority to erase forbidden arts completely, and it has done so in the past to numerous spells. Such spells or curse arts are erased due to being capable of destroying the world's equilibrium. However, it does not unilaterally destroy all forbidden arts. The Corridor of Memories is the cradle of Od Lagna. It is a white expanse that is the resting place of the souls of the dead and where they go to commence the process of being filtered When a soul is filtered, the memories attached to it are cleared off like dirt, allowing for its reuse once it becomes clean. The memories of the soul are then sent to the library at the Pleiades Watchtower, where they are used to create a Book of the Dead, which contains the history of the soul's life. At the time of one's birth, when one undergoes the ritual of being named after being born, the name that they are given is recorded under the registry held within Od Lagna. As such, once a name has been inscribed in Od Lagna's registry, no matter what they may choose to refer to themself as, their true name will not be altered. However, there are exceptions to this rule, in which a person's true name can be changed. One of the commonly used methods to change one's true name is by marriage, while another commonly used method is adoption. In both cases, the true name is changed by the parties involved officially joining the family of another person, officially giving them or changing their surnames. At present, it is currently unknown whether there are other methods of changing one's true name" }

48. #48Magic

    Keys: Magic, six elements, Ying, Yang, Yin Magic, Yang Magic, Fire Magic, Earth Magic, Water Magic, Wind Magic, El, Ul, Al, Goa, El Goa, Ul Goa, Al Goa, Huma, El Huma, Ul Human, Al Human, Jiwald, El Jiwald, Ul Jiwald, Al Jiwald, Dona, El Dona, Ul Dona, Al Dona, Shiha, El Shiha, Ul Shiha, Al Shiha, Fura, El Fura, Ul Fura, Al Fura, Shamak, El Shamak, Ul Shamak, Al Shamak, mage, mages, Healing Magic, healing, heal, cure, curing, anesthetic, spells, spell, Magicreation Tools, meteors, meteor, forbidden arts, forbidden art, forbidden magic, curse arts, curse art, Al Shario, Ol Shamak, dream arts, dream art, spiritual arts users, spiritual arts user, spiritual art user, spiritual art users, spiritual arts, spiritual art, mana, Nect, Ul Gora, glintstones, glintstone, Spirit Eating, The Flow Method, Flow Method, Magic Release Period, Miasma, Gate, Gates

    { "Magic": "Magic is a paranormal power that alters mana passing through a being's gate into a form that has an effect on reality. Magic is made up of six elements: Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Yin, and Yang. It is further classified into four categories; Fire covers temperature, Water covers life and healing, Wind functions outside of the bodies of living things, and Earth functions inside of the bodies of living things. Yin spells cover debuffs while Yang spells cover buffs, though Yang magic is by far the least utilized type of magic due to the buffs being heavily susceptible to the caster’s mental state, mana usage, and various other factors. Yin and yang attribute have a conflicting relationship; if a mage advances in one attribute, the acquisition of the other will also be affected. For a mage to cast a spell, they need to have a mental image of the effects and the construction of the technique; if either of these steps were missing, the magic would not be cast. The more complex the effort, the longer it would take to conceive a mental image of its effect. Regardless, an ordinary person is considered to be well off if they are compatible with either fire, water, wind, or earth. Some incantations for each affinity are Goa for fire, Shiha for water, Fura for wind, Dona for earth, Shamak for Yin, and Jiwald for Yang. While most mages are capable of using one element, it is not uncommon for people to be able to use multiple elements. The conjuring of ice, when compared to the regular elements, is rather precarious, since generating ice is something that falls under both Fire and Water Magic. In the case of Fire Magic, it is created by using mana to lower the temperature of already existing moisture in the air in order to create icicles. Ice made this way remains and has less freedom of manipulation, but it requires less mana and can be used frequently. In the case of Water Magic, however, ice is made by using mana to create new water in the form of ice rather than using moisture in the air. This is more costly, but it grants the user more freedom in shaping the ice and its placement on the battlefield. Unlike ice created through Fire Magic, ice made through Water Magic will not remain frozen after its use has expired. Likewise, if one has no need of this ice, they can merely disperse the mana forming the ice to make it vanish, granting more possible options in order to trip up opponents. Practitioners of both Fire and Water Magic are also capable of combining their respective elements to increase the size and scale of their respective spells. The Huma spell, which is the incantation responsible for the conjuration of ice, is shared between the fire and water affinities, and both can be used to freeze and weaponize blood or the environment around them. The strength of spells starts from the original incantation and increases by adding El, Ul, or Al. For example, fire magic starts with Goa, then goes to El Goa, Ul Goa, and finally, Al Goa. Typically, the weakest version of the spells, those without a prefix, have simple effects, whether that is creating a simple fireball, a single stone projectile, or covering a small area around the user in darkness. However, as the spell advances in strength, the larger and more complex the spell becomes. For more simple and physical spells, the increase in strength is rather visible and simple to understand; for Huma, each prefix is represented by more ice spikes that become significantly larger than its weaker counterparts. For more conceptual spells, however, the increase in strength become significantly more complex; for Shamak, which covers the concept of separation from the world, each prefixed spell separates more and more off the target from the world: first the senses of their surroundings, then the senses of their own body, while the strongest Shamak spell, Al Shamak, literally removes a target from the world by opening a rift to an alternate plane of space. It should be noted that although incantations are generally used to cast spells, if the user is experienced enough, they can cast them without saying anything. One of the unique aspects of Water Magic is its connection to life. While Water Magic can easily be used for combat, whether for binding, attacks, or in creating ice, its greatest application comes in its ability to be applied in healing the body. Healing Magic is a form of magic that is trained by nearly all Water Magic users, and in the Kingdom of Lugunica, it is specifically trained in the Royal Treatment Center alongside other methods used by doctors, like surgeries. Water Magic can be used to stimulate a person's natural healing capabilities in order to close wounds and speed up one's recovery. Not only is it capable of healing injuries, but it is capable of curing targets of various ailments. The greatest aspect to this magic is that it is capable of working in moments, greatly reducing the likelihood of someone dying of these injuries or ailments. An extension of this is the ability to manipulate bodily functions. In the hands of experienced Water Magic users, they are capable of using their magic to interfere with their targets' sense of pain, effectively functioning as an anesthetic. Ultimately, this is meant for medical purposes, but it can also allow someone to keep fighting while ignoring their injuries. However, if the injuries themselves were not completely healed, then this action is merely a stopgap. Further experience will allow someone to completely destroy the circulatory system of their Gate, effectively paralyzing the target as well. Though often gone unused, this is something that is more meant for the purpose of offense. The proficiency of Healing Magic is wholly determined by the skill, talent, and raw power of the mage. Whereas ordinary mages are capable of handling most ordinary wounds, particularly skilled or prodigious wielders of Healing Magic are capable of connecting severed limbs back onto the body or even restoring entire chunks of missing flesh, blood, and bone from where it was lost. There also seems to be another factor for people to be able to use Healing Magic. Roswaal, who is considered one of if not the most accomplished mages in the world who has mastered nearly every form of magic, is entirely incapable of using Healing Magic, even though he shares the same blood as the previous Blue, Garitch Fabless. Because of this, Roswaal speculates that his inability to heal likely stems from his personality and his distrust of others, which in turn prevents him from being able to heal other people. While Healing Magic is particularly powerful, there are things that it has no effect on. It cannot rejuvenate a body whose soul has already left it. It does not cure mental afflictions. Curses, such as the Dragon's Blood Curse, cannot be healed or removed by Healing Magic. It cannot reverse transformations of the body either; those afflicted with such a transformation by the Sin Archbishop of Lust are technically not injured, meaning that there is nothing to heal in the first place, and the only means of removing such a transformation is likely the Authority of Lust. Healing Magic also does not work on injuries caused by the Divine Protection of the Death God, as said Divine Protection prevents Healing Magic from working. There is one known physical affliction that is not confirmed to be afflicted by an Authority, Divine Protection, or curse that Healing Magic does not work on: the disease that plagued the Lugunican Royal Family. It also does not seem to be capable of restoring blood to one's body. Some mages, if they are talented enough, are able to combine multiple elements at once. Magic can combined with the different unique aspects of different elements to work with each other, such as using the reflectiveness of ice to bounce light attacks off of it. If one is knowledgeable of earthen sciences like physics, the user is capable of triggering chain reactions between elements. Experienced mages possess the ability to disguise their spells by using a different incantation. This functions as a faux-incantation that alters the actual magic invoked. there are some casters that are capable of casting multiple spells at the same time as well. However, unlike combining elements, the utilization of more than one spell is significantly more difficult. Being able to cast multiple spells has been compared to being akin to using multiple brains at once. There are various spells that can either be assisted or require mediums in order to cast. One such example is a Magic Circle. Technically, they are not necessary to perform, and spells can be cast without them. However, they can expand the scope of spells depending on the location and the size of the magic circles used. They can even be used on the body. Of course, in the present, they are seldom used. Likewise, other objects, like large crystals or glintstones, can also be used as mediums to cast or amplify spells. This is especially the case in terms of large and particularly difficult or powerful spells, such as weather manipulation magic. Such crystals are also used in the creation of Magicreation Tools, serving almost like batteries. Should someone have a Gate, whether or not someone is capable of using magic, they are capable of using these tools. Other such mediums are meteors, once made by the Witch of Greed, Echidna. Although they serve similar roles to magicreation tools in that they are objects that can be used by nearly anybody, they provide much different effects, and some meteors have a direct link to one's magic. It is also possible to use a person's body as a catalyst to cast certain spells. Of course, difficult spells, large spells, and barriers are not the only kinds of spells that can use mediums. Even regular elemental spells can be cast with a piece of the environment as a medium. There are also some magics that are referred to as forbidden arts a classification shared between magic and curse arts. Many forbidden of which are lost to time or known to an extremely limited few, while some of which have been erased by Od Lagna and simply because nobody could use them. Echidna is known to have made such spells before. Several of these forbidden arts have wide spanning and very dangerous effects overall, such as Al Shario which can slaughter many Dragons in a moment, or Ol Shamak which is specifically made for combat against Witch Factor wielders. the majority of the remaining practitioners of forbidden arts typically learn them via their lineage, certain items that were passed down or protected, such as the book that details the Sacrament of the Immortal King that was passed through the Argyle family, or if they happen to be geniuses. Likewise, there are also certain types of magics that are mostly lost to the world. While there may be documents which describe such spells that once existed in the past, in the present, very few, if any, practitioners of these spells are left. One such example of lost magic is dream arts, which even the Witch of Greed had not completely mastered. The uniqueness of this magic is the ability to trap targets within dreams of their own making and creating worlds such as the Castle of Dreams in which specified souls can inhabit. A dream arts user is even able to create phantoms of themselves if their proficiency reaches a certain level. Generally, there are two types of primary casters in the world: mages and spiritual arts users, which are largely differentiated by how they use mana to cast spells. The former draw on their internal mana through their gates while the latter uses the mana in the atmosphere with the aid of spirits to process spells directly. Spirits can also act as pseudo gates for their contractors if they are lacking the means to use magic on their own. An advantage that spiritual arts users have over ordinary mages is that they are able to handle using multiple elements easier. A spiritual arts user can cast multiple elements of magic simultaneously and even combine them together, making use of spells such as Nect, which combines Yin and Yang, and Ul Gora, which combines Wind and Fire, as well as being able to combine them all to create even more unique spells. While ordinary mages are capable of this, they must bear a great burden on their body, as they are using their own mana to cast these spells; spiritual arts users do not need to bear this burden, as they can have different spirits focus on their own individual elements while the user merely assists or directs them. The main disadvantage to using spiritual arts. over magic is that anyone who wishes to become a spiritual arts user must be able to make contracts with spirits in the first place, which may not be possible of someone cannot even speak with or find a spirit. Even when one does make a contract with a spirit, depending on the contract, they may not be able to bring them out whenever they want to, and furthermore, they need to have glintstones to use as anchors for their spirits, which makes contracting them significantly harder. In the case of Spirit Eating, however, after devouring spirits, the spirit eaters obtain the power of the spirits. In the case that someone successfully manages to devour a piece or even the entirety of a Great Spirit and survive, the range of their abilities expand, such as becoming the various elements of magic at will. At present, most spiritual arts users reside within the Holy Kingdom of Gusteko, where a large number of spirits reside. Likewise, it is not uncommon for the country's Temple Knights to be given such spirits as their Blessings. Besides them, the only known spiritual arts users outside of Gusteko's borders are Julius Juukulius, Emilia, and {{user}}. Though not considered magic, physical fighters are capable of using mana to boost their own physical capabilities, such as speed, toughness, and strength. The Flow Method. In order for a person to cast magic, they must use the mana that passes through their Gate. The Gate is a type of invisible pseudo-organ that acts as a portal for mana to pass through and be stored in the Od. Whether or not a person can use magic is entirely dependent on whether this Gate is fully or partly open, with the latter making the use of magic impossible. How much mana each Gate can handle varies from person to person. Of course, if one is not used to casting magic or exerting their mana, this can still quickly lead to brief physical and mental fatigue, regardless of their Gate's size. It is possible to damage the Gate via the overuse of magic. In this case, it requires a professional healer to attempt to mend this, though the one with the damaged Gate must not use magic for a period of time after this happens, else they completely destroy their Gate, leaving them not only incapable of casting magic on their own, but also making them unable to exert mana from their body at all. This is referred to as having a defective Gate. In the case that this happens or someone has not exerted their mana from their body due to the lack of magical knowledge, this could lead to Mana Poisoning. In this case, the body will continue to take in mana without any way of removing it from the body, leading to the eventual breakdown of the Od, and consequently, death. However, it is possible to circumvent this by making contracts with spirits, allowing them to act as a medium that can remove the excess mana from their bodies. No matter what the being is, whether it is a human, demi-human, or beings made of mana such as Dragons or spirits, mana is required to use magic. Mana is a type of colorless, supernatural energy that exists in the world as part of nature, and all living things naturally have mana in their body. When mana is exerted by a person, no matter how slight, their emotions are contained within it. Those sensitive to mana, such as members of the Oni Clan with their horns exposed, are capable of sensing emotion and intent through their mana, allowing them to respond and act appropriately towards another person. It is for this reason that spirits are said to vaguely sense the thoughts of other people. Each person has a unique magic signature which is akin to a fingerprint. In the event that two beings share the same magic signature, they would have a link that allows them to borrow the mana of the other. Mana can be found everywhere in nature and can be naturally absorbed into the body. However, there is a type of contaminated mana known as Miasma, typically exerted by beings with the powers of Witches, that is not safe to take into the body. While it will not take immediate effects depending on the amount taken in, if one absorbs too much miasma into their body, it will heavily affect the minds of everyone affected, making them paranoid and murderous. In the worst cases, overexposure can drive people into madness, resulting in them causing harm to themselves and eventually killing themselves, which can take as long as thirty seconds. Not only is this true for humans and demi-humans, but this is even true for artificial spirits and even earth dragons. Enough miasma can even lead to the contamination of food, and plant life can also die when exposed. It is possible to cast magic through the Od, life energy synonymous with the soul. However, doing so can be dangerous, as casting mana this way can easily shave off one's lifespan; while they won't die after running out of Od, they will no longer be themselves either. Some people are born with conditions related to the absorption of mana. For people like Anastasia Hoshin, they are unable to absorb mana from the atmosphere, effectively cutting magic out of their lives. Should they wish to use magic, it will be taken from their Od, essentially risking their lives. The opposite is also true. For people like Reinhard van Astrea, they are unable to release the mana stored that is absorbed in their body at all. While Reinhard is unique in the way his body handles his Excess Mana Circulation Constitution, people like this are completely incapable of using magic, and their bodies are typically worse of compared to the former constitution. There are some beings that go through a Magic Release Period, in which beings who have a condition where they take in more mana than they let out spill mana out of their bodies as it overflows from their Od. This can cause mana poisoning in beings like this, and in certain cases, it can even cause changes in the environment. It is also possible for someone in extreme emotional turmoil to lose control of their magic" }

49. #49Curses

    Keys: curse, curses, The Curse Doll, Curse Doll, oath bound curse mark, oath bound, oath bound mark, Soul Marriage, Wolgarm Curse, The Curse of Thorns, Curse of Thorns, The Curse of Thorn, Curse of Thorn, Pain-Inflicting Curse, Dragon's Blood, Distance-Surpassing Killing,

    { "Curse": "Curses, also known as curse arts in practice, are abilities that typically specialize in harming people. Originating as a purported subcategory of magic and spiritual arts practiced by curse arts users in the northern country of Gusteko, curses are powers that are used to inflict harm on a target. Because curses specialize in inflicting damage on a target that may lead to death, as a matter of course, many curses activate in tandem with the Od of their target and retain efficacy so long as they remain alive, regardless of the caster's fate. As a necessary prerequisite for a normal curse to take effect, physical contact between a curse arts user and a target must be made, with only curses from curse tools appearing to be an exception to this rule. This can be done through simply touching the target or by carving a curse mark onto them. Depending on the curse, a curse mark can activate a curse from a distance or with a simple touch. When a curse is activated, there is no method of preventing its effects. However, if not activated, a curse can be removed from a target's body by someone with the capabilities to remove curses, such as spirits like Beatrice and Puck or a powerful magician like Roswaal. Be that as it may, this can only be performed so long as the number of curses is not too great, as this would create complex, overlapping 'layers' that make them nearly impossible to remove. An oath bound curse mark is a curse that binds a soul, forcing a recipient to keep the word they swore with an oath. According to Roswaal L. Mathers, if one who owns an oath curse mark breaks their oath, they shall be engulfed in a purifying flame, scorching his body and tainting their soul, never allowing it to return to Od Lagna. According to Aldebaran, cursing another person with this curse art carries a risk for the caster as well, and the usage of an oath bound curse mark is limited to once in a person's life as a trump card to make people who refuse to listen obey. Engraving a curse mark is a deed that has existed since before magic and curse arts branched into different sects, and its nature is closer to the origin of magic. If a someone places a curse mark onto another person, even if they restrict their actions under the threat of their soul burning, it is possible for the user to alter to conditions of the curse mark. Aldebaran, for example, originally cursed Roy Alphard in this way, proclaiming the condition to be that Roy does not use his Authority to devour another person's name or memories, with the exception of one target. Later on, however, he loosened the conditions of the curse, allowing him to devour the memories of their enemies. When Roy took advantage of this to use his Authority, he did not experience the negative effects of the curse. However, continuous alterations to the conditions of the curse will damage the soul and Od of the caster. Although it is unconfirmed to be the same for a self-imposed curse mark. The Curse Doll curse is a power that bestows powerful regeneration abilities to a target and allows them to be resurrected from death. The curse technique has been passed down in Gusteko since the era of Witches. To activate the curse, a curse arts user must carve a curse mark that includes the information of the target they want to kill onto someone else, and upon activation, the person with the curse mark gains immortality until the target’s death. This normally comes at the cost of a curse doll losing their sense of self, becoming unable to do anything else but kill the target, and they perish once their target is killed. The Soul Marriage Curse is a curse that drags a lost soul back without handing it over to Od Lagna. Because the soul of someone cursed with the Soul Marriage Curse cannot go to Od Lagna upon death, it instead fails to receive the proper treatment of a soul after its death, goes into the earth, and repetitively reincarnates them into another vessel. The Curse of Thorns is a curse that can be cast onto a target that makes them bind people with thorns. It was formerly owned by Eugard Vollachia (sixty-first emperor of the Sacred Vollachia Empire) and was briefly in the possession of Groovy Gumlet (Sixth ranking Divine General of the Sacred Vollachia Empire) before its erasure. The person with the curse has the capability to bind people with with sharp, ashen grey thorns that pierce the heart of their targets and have no tangible form, making them impossible to remove. The effect of the thorns are dependent on the target's Od, though it is possible to minimize them with poison. So long as a target meets the conditions, the thorns indiscriminately apply themselves to anyone within who enters a given distance centered around the one with the curse and more intensely harmed them the closer they got to the curse's carrier. The curse can not activate on a target unless the person with the curse loves them, and naturally does not activate if they come into contact with person someone they scorn. Wolgarm Curse is curse casted through the bite of a Wolgarm witchbeast. It drains a bitten target of their mana and absorbs it into a Wolgarm’s body, essentially making the target their fuel. When the curse is activated, the functions of the target’s body become weaker, they feel nauseated and sluggish, their breathing gets heavy, and the draining of their mana makes them feel as if their insides are melting. Even if the Wolgarms are killed, the curse will remain in the bodies of their targets, unable to activate. Though it is possible to remove these, if there are too many, it becomes far too complex to remove, and the curses will sit dormant within the body. Curse of the Dragon's Blood is a curse intertwined with the claimed Dragon's blood within Capella Emerada Lugunica, who describes the curse as something one can 'lose' to. The specific requirements for the curse’s activation are unknown, but merely being exposed to the blood does not activate it. Moreover, the effects of the curse differ from one person to another. For example, Crusch Karsten was left bedridden by its effects; large portions of skin were covered in black patterns, a unnaturally pulsing nexus of black veins was spread across her body, and her physical condition was characterized by weakness from constant burning pains. In a stark contrast from Crusch, {{user}} was only negatively affected by the pain of having the blood integrated into his body. His severed leg was fully regrown, completely black and capable of regenerating any damage done to it. Furthermore, by touching Crusch, {{user}} could move the curse from her body to his, albeit the proportion of the curse he gained in return was one to ten or more. When his hand and wrist were later blown off, the curse spilled out of his injury as a black liquid, and then it completely reconstructed his hand, leaving a layer of black, rubbery, peelable skin overtop the regular skin. Though, the curse in his hand consequently vanished, and he had no regenerative qualities to his new hand. In addition, he also felt that the cursed Dragon's blood conveyed to him a message: to prove the Dragon Kingom of Lugunica's dignity. Distance-Surpassing Killing Curse is a curse that takes the lives of people who have a curse mark carved onto them if they exceed a fixed distance from the orb. The Admirer of Kararagi, Halibel, is an expert in curse arts. In particular, killing curses are his trump card, and he fuses pieces of his own fur or nails that he cursed into his weapons to cast a curse that, no matter what, will kill his opponent. However, these curses are not compatible with beings that are already dead. Pain-Inflicting Curse is a curse that inflicts pain on its victim. Prior to this curse's activation, a curse mark must be carved onto the target. When the curse mark is touched by a palm, the curse activates, bringing about an intense pain that causes anguished screams to the curse mark’s bearer. " }

50. #50Pleiades Watchtower

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    { "Pleiades Watchtower": "The Pleiades Watchtower, otherwise known as the Great Library Pleiades, is a watchtower created by the Sage, Flugel. It was previously overseen by Shaula. The tower is located in the Dragon Kingdom of Lugunica's Augria Sand Dunes, and it allowed Shaula to keep a lookout for trespassers who were aiming to visit the Evil Sealing Stone Shrine where Satella is currently sealed. The tower as a whole also serves as a great library, and once entered by someone, the visitor is locked into a series of examinations to gain access to the various floors of the tower. Following the tower's conquering, Emilia, who completed all three of the trials, was granted the authority of the tower's administrator, and she ordered Volcanica to prevent anyone else from approaching the area. From a distance, behind its defense mechanism known as the Sand Time, the watchtower appears as a silhouette that never changes in position, shape or form, no matter how close you try to approach it. After crossing the Sand Time, the tower appears from its exterior as an extremely tall, circular shaped building made of stone. The tower appears to be over a couple of hundred meters in height, and it has a balcony that juts out from one of the floors. Furthermore, a huge door can be seen at the base which leads to the inside of the tower. Its first line of defense is the aforementioned mechanism known as the Sand Time. It is an invisible force field that twists and bends space, making it impossible to pass through it. It acts as a deterrent for everyone who wants to approach it, and, upon being sent, not even Reinhard van Astrea was able to find a way to pass through it. Despite that, there is a single flaw in its defenses: a rift which can only be exploited when a sandstorm occurs. Only then can one pass through Sand Time and reach the actual tower, provided they can avoid Shaula's Hell's Snipe and countless deadly witchbeasts residing near the tower's outer walls. After relentless attacks from witchbeasts, the three Sin Archbishops of Gluttony, and a massive attack from Volcanica's breath, the tower faced some destruction, having massive gaping holes around the upper floors. Following the liberation of the Watchtower, the Sand Time barrier disappeared (albeit Sand Time still takes place), Reid's (the first Sword Saint and a key figure in the sealing of the Witch of Envy 400 years ago. His soul acted as the overseer of the second trial of the Pleiades Watchtower and was a major obstacle preventing {{user}} and his companions from conquering it, particularly toward Julius. He later achieved rebirth by taking over Roy Alphard's body, but the latter proved to be an unsuitable vessel, and his soul shattered during his final duel with Julius, thus marking the end of the first Sword Saint.) soul shattered, leaving the Divine Dragon as the only living creature to guard the Watchtower. The intense miasma being emanated from the tower was also mostly neutralized, though it was not completely erased. Before her departure, Emilia instructed the Dragon to guard over the tower and attack anyone who approaches, only on the condition that the Dragon may not harm anyone. Asterope: Asterope, known as the sixth floor, is the basement floor of the Pleiades Watchtower. The room is circular in shape, and quite spacious, approximated to be about 200 or 300 meters in radius. The room's walls are adorned by magical lamps and luminous moss which provide it some illumination. A spiral staircase located on the outer edge of the room leads up to Celaeno. Celaeno: Celaeno, known as the fifth floor, is the ground floor of the Pleiades Watchtower. The room is described as a giant hall with no distinguishing features, except for a large door of around about 10 meters in height which leads to the outside of the Watchtower. The door is operated by some sort of mechanical opening system that reacts to touch. Celaeno is connected by the large spiral staircase leading up to Alycone, and one down to Asterope. Alcyone: Alcyone, known as the fourth floor, is the first floor from the ground of the Pleiades Watchtower. The floor has a multitude of rooms, which include Shaula's living quarters, a dining hall which has a well in it to draw water, along with the Green Room is inhabited by a Spirit that bestows healing upon its occupants. The balcony that juts out of the Pleiades Watchtower can be accessed from Alcyone. Further to the great spiral staircase that connects it down to Celaeno, two further staircases are in this room. One which leads to Taygeta, and one that leads to Electra. Taygeta: Taygeta, known as the third floor, is the second floor from the ground of the Pleiades Watchtower. In its initial state, the room is completely white and only has a single monolith right after the stairs that lead up to the floor. Once touched, the room enters its examination state and is covered by a series of monoliths which represent stars and their constellations. The first exam takes place on this floor, whereby its challengers must touch the brightest of the hero destroyed by Shaula. The correct answer to this challenge is touching the monolith that represents the star Rigel. Once completed, the room transforms into the Taygeta library, which contains the Books of the Dead that are connected to Od Lagna. Apparently, a 'knowledge-hungry Witch' had 'tricked' Od Lagna into creating this library, though the means by which she did so is unknown. Taygeta can be reached by taking a set of stairs from Alcyone. Electra: Electra, known as the second floor, is the third floor from the ground of the Pleiades Watchtower. The floor in its initial state only has a sword lying in the middle of its room. Once touched, the second examination of the Pleiades Watchtower commences, and Reid Astrea materializes. The challenge on the floor is to make Reid yield a step in combat. Electra can be reached by taking a set of stairs from Alcyone. Maia: Maia, known as the first floor, is the fourth floor from the ground up, of the Pleiades Watchtower and is right at the top of the tower, situated outside. The floor takes shape of a large circular space, 100 meters in radius, with six pillars placed around the outskirts of the floor and a giant pillar located at the very middle of it. Overseen by Volcanica, who is idly leaning against the giant pillar in the middle, the final examination takes place on this floor. At the very top of the center pillar is a certain monolith that has six handprints on it, which Emilia assumed to belong to Farsale Lugunica, who Volcanica had mentioned, Flugel, Reid, and perhaps Shaula. In fact, one of them was the same size and shape as her own hand. However, it is not revealed who these handprints belonged to. Maia can be reached by taking a set of stairs from Electra, providing the person who does has beaten its challenge. Merope: Merope is known as floor zero of the Pleiades Watchtower. The existence of this floor was hidden by Shaula, and with the exception of admitting that it was built after Flugel's departure, she refused to give information about it. Underneath the Tower: An underground area underneath the sand dunes that connects to the Pleiades Watchtower. The area is not illuminated, and it is full of rocky tunnels and caves. There are two layers to this area, and Hungry Horse Kings infest the area, especially on the left path. In addition to that, a strong miasma emanates throughout the right path; several obstacles which {{user}} described as 'Doors' block the path the deeper you traverse through this path. With {{user}} has been able to open three of them, it is thought that there are seven in total, with the miasma growing thicker the more doors that are opened. The miasma originates from a door that stands without support in the middle of the above layer. The door transports a person back to the Pleiades Watchtower if they reach a door that they cannot open. Sand Shrine: A term used by Shaula to refer to what {{user}} had gotten near to when she found him down in the underground area. She mentioned that it was reckless of him to be there without having all the keys ready. There are five rules which challengers must obey whilst in the tower. In the case that a rule is violated, then the Stars Keeper Shaula may turn into her scorpion form which she describes as being a 'bloodthirsty killing machine' and eliminate them all. The rules are listed as follows: It is forbidden to leave the tower without completing the trials. It is forbidden to violate the rules of the trials. It is forbidden to disrespect the library. It is forbidden to damage the tower. It is not forbidden to destroy the trials." }

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