Demonbane Mythos

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|-|Visual Novels=
|-|Gaiden Novels=
|-|Zanma Taisei Retold=
|-|D.Y.N. FREAKS=
|-|Zanma Taisen Demonbane= 
|-|Dra†Koi= 
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==Summary==
Demonbane Mythos is a franchise series developed by Nitroplus and written by Jin Haganeya, which is famous for combining the Mecha genre with Cthulhu Mythos elements. The series started with the visual novel Zanma Taisei Demonbane in 2003 and since then has spawned a variety of Visual Novels, Anime, Manga, Light Novels, Games, Short Stories, and Video Games.
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|-|Zanma Taisei/Kishin Houkou Demonbane=
Arkham City is a bustling hub of commerce and industry, however, it is also a center of eldritch lore: home to Miskatonic University, an institution of higher learning with one of the most complete libraries of arcane literature in the world. In the span of two generations the town was built up to the status of prestige it now commands, an expansion helmed by the Hadou Group, an industrial complex and family dynasty currently run by the young Hadou Ruri. She pursues the peace and prosperity of Arkham City diligently, against the forces of darkness threatening to plunge the city, and the world, back into a second Dark Age. Among the most sinister threats to Arkham City is the evil Black Lodge syndicate. Led by the charismatic Master Therion, his nihilistic outlook shapes the group's destructive goals: with a circle of powerful sorcerers at his command, the potential for sowing chaos in the city is unmatched.
Former Miskatonic University Magic Academy student Daijuuji Kurou knows little of grimoires, but what he does know terrifies him – enough that he left his university life behind, and now practices a failing detective business in the shelter of an orphanage in a quiet corner of Arkham City. But just when he thought his Academy past was buried, it catches up with him and pulls him back into the dark shadows of the occult: Hadou Ruri herself appears at his door with an offer he can't refuse. The only way to combat the Black Lodge's growing magical power is to find, and retrieve, a grimoire with the power to activate the mightiest Machina of all: Demonbane. The quest to find this forbidden tome will change Kurou's destiny... forever.
|-|Kishin Hishou Demonbane=
Daijuuji Kurou and Al Azif, who thwarted the Evil God's conspiracy with Demonbane, now work as occult detectives in a newly reborn world. However, a new threat looms over them. They are summoned by the enigmatic group known as the [Bloody Monsters], as a sinister mass of blood wreaks havoc throughout the city. Mysterious individuals emerge, including a girl in a red dress and a boy known as [Two-Sword/Two-Gun]. Who are they, and what is their connection to these perplexing cases?
|-|Kishin Taidou Demonbane=
In America, during the year 189X — Azrad, the Avenger and master of the Grimoire Al Azif, pilots the Deus Machina Aeon. He witnesses a shocking event while battling pterosaurs controlled by the magical organization Darkness Dawn. A colossal steel fist pierces through the roof of a freight train, obliterating the pterosaur. To Azrad's surprise, he discovers a younger Hadou Kouzou, carrying a peculiar Grimoire. The epic clash of the steel god, Demonbane, unfolds, revealing the full story of this demonic battle.
|-|Gunshin Kyoushuu Demonbane=
Hadou Kanesada, the son of Hadou Enterprise, is searching for his missing father, Kouzou. However, suddenly, the invasion of planet Earth by the Martians begins, and an army of multi-legged walking tanks advances towards Arkham City. The strongest Grimoire, Al Azif, along with her new Master, Edgar, pilots the Deus Machina Aeon to launch a counterattack, but... Will there be a future for mankind? And what will happen to our hope, Demonbane?
|-|De Maringy's Clock=
In Arkham City, a mechanical rabbit girl runs through the night. The greatest crisis ever faced by Demonbane unfolds as the lost page of the strongest "Grimoire", Al Azif, falls into the hands of Doctor West!? How will Kurou and Al confront the Destroyer Robot, which possesses the power to manipulate time?
|-|Zanma Taisen Demonbane=
All parallel universes have been annihilated from existence.
The Trichiliocosm has been wasted into nothing.
The battle to break through the Infinite Spiral and the wing that transcended the Blood-Colored Nightmare no longer has any meaning.
The story of the sword that smites evil has been swallowed up just by a single nothingness.
---The Vortex Blaster.
The sword that smites evil despises the Evil Gods and brings curses upon the world created by those very gods. It annihilates everything and everywhere it passes through.
This story is the final apocalypse about the remnant of the broken world as it struggles miserably and clumsily---
Welcome to the world of [Zanma Taisen Demonbane], the book is the sequel to [Zanma Taisei (Kishin Houkou) Demonbane] and [Kishin Hishou Demonbane].
The Vortex Destruction God suddenly appeared like a Deus Ex Machina and destroyed all things.
For those who fought against the Vortex Destruction God were all defeated, now the story of Demonbane came to not even a bad ending, it is a dead ending.
[Zanma Taisen Demonbane] is a story that begins for some unknown reasons after the world, where it should have ended.
But in this world, Daijuuji Kurou and Al Azif are no longer here anymore. The sword that smites evil has lost.
Then it needs a new hero. A new one who can wield the sword that smites evil.
The story of [Zanma Taisen Demonbane] features a new world setting, accompanied by new characters who serve as the main protagonists.
The Vortex Destruction God will just reject this new story, they have no choice but to fight against it.
As it is a story that is nothing more than a vain struggle in the defeated world.
And, that means---as always it is.
This book consists of a few stories of [Zanma Taisen Demonbane] set in the setting material.
The story that is told here is only a part of Zanma Taisen Demonbane.
I would like to ask for everyone's help in order to tell the whole story of [Zanma Taisen Demonbane] someday.
Then, let's create a story.
May it be imbued with absurdity, where the nonsensical ones shall prevail while embodying its lunacy.
In the Golden Twilight, a tale reminiscent of the call of courtship---
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==Power of the Verse==
Demonbane Mythos contains a massive cosmological structure, potent abilities, and multitudes of characters and beings that are powerful enough to match the intricate vastness of that cosmological structure.
In Demonbane, Azathoth is a name for magic particles that form the cosmos and shape reality. Magicians, who possess forbidden knowledge, gain immense powers by contacting a magic book called Grimoire. By manipulating Azathoth, magicians can rewrite reality, create new laws, and perform miracles or destroy opponents, also granting them high resistance to physical force and the challenges posed by otherworldly principles within spells.
Even greater than that are the Deus Machina, mechanical imitations of gods from otherworldly universes, surpassing even magicians in power. Summoned by the most powerful Grimoires, they can achieve feats on a grander scale, including destroying planets and fighting cosmic threats that can consume celestial bodies.
However, even a Deus Machina falls short before the Great Old Ones, ancient beings that existed before the Earth. Acquiring a fraction of their power holds the key to controlling all of creation. While it is common for them to demonstrate planet-destroying feats, their power is further revealed in later canonical works, such as two Super Deus Machina engaging in a battle that destroys countless multiverses, described to have power "akin to a god". A failed summoning of Great Old Ones divides one universe into innumerable worlds and shatters time, space, reality, and causality.
Yet, this is not the end, as in most Cthulhu Mythos-inspired works, the Outer Gods come into play. Compared to them, a Great Old One is indistinguishable from a mortal. Although most Outer Gods were sealed away by the Elder Gods in ancient times, Nyarlathotep remains active, showcasing formidable feats that exemplify the unimaginable power of the Outer Gods. Lastly, we have the Elder Gods, humans ascending to the realm of gods. They are equal to the Outer Gods and represent the epitome of goodness in the cosmos. In eons past, the earliest Elder Gods were responsible for creating the Shining Trapezohedron and sealing away the original universe of the Outer Gods (The Court of Azathoth) from the current universe.
Regarding the Cosmology, there is the Infinite Spiral, which is an infinite worldloop that encompasses an entire universe. The mortal universe at the bottom of the hierarchy is infinite with their own parallel worlds, in-between worlds or phases of reality, countless types of universes such as timeless, spaceless, dimensionless, matter-less and energy-less universes, a gigantic universe that universe-destroying forces are akin to collision of particles and countless others spanning across past, present and future.
There exists the Hyperdimension, encompassing countless multiverses, infinite wheels of times, infinite chains of eternities, yet is still below the Outerverse, a universe consisting solely otherworldly universes of incomprehensible laws and principles of reality. There are also countless "eternities" that have transpired and repeated for an untold amount of times. Each "eternity" is a world, constantly destroyed by the Ouroboros Rondo once their role expired and becoming the corpse for the new world to arise from, all but an insignificant speck of dust to the Infinite Spiral with there being infinite universes coexisting alongside the Infinite Spiral.
From the perspective of the God, they are but foams on the water, compared to a Stage where the entire universe is but backstage and there are indefinitely layered Stages that continue forever. The cosmology extends beyond even this, expanding into the Innerverse and various higher realms that treat all lower worlds as fiction, yet still inferior to the realm of Outer God, the original universe that dwarfs even the boundless. Residing at the center of the universe is Azathoth whose dreams are entire universes. Finally, there exists the Lotus Throne that grants total control of the universe to its user, being the beginning and the end of all creation, it's the ultimate realm in Demonbane verse.
Important threads:
* Tier 0 Revision
* Respect Thread
== Regarding of D.Y.N. Freaks and Nitroplus Blasterz ==
Zanma Taisen has confirmed that D.Y.N. Freaks is a part of Demonbane Mythos’s works, however, many details have been massively retconned in the new book. Originally, it is a direct sequel from fighting game Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroine Infinite Duel. While seemingly set after [Project D2] (now rebranded as Kishin Tairan or Machine God Tempest/Stormbringer with various short stories are retconned), its connection with Blasterz is now in questionable status by the Continuity Section of Zanma Taisen Demonbane.
Firstly, the world of Zanma Taisen is the result from Elder Gods’ last stand against the Vortex Blaster, and much prior of this, [D] killed Azathoth by its Lemuria Impact in What A Beautiful Dead End’s chapter, instead of the [Ouroboros Blaster] that absorbed Glyu-Vho – the realm of Elder Gods told by Mugen in Blasterz. 
Secondly, the world of D.Y.N. Freaks was set after the battle against Elder Gods and is not some sort of “Final Universe”, but a pseudo-universe created by Mugen to nurture the new Azathoth, which is where [D]’s right arm fell into so he come to reclaim that arm. And that's also retconned the entirety [World of Darkness] from existence, because in that short story, Crow was the pilot of Demonbane but [D] can function by itself, even the ability to talk, think and swear (to Doctor West).
And finally, in the『∞』Ending Memo, Chikage and Mugen were destroyed by [D] and only Azana was alive, but Zanma Taisen showed that Chikage is still alive as he’s currently working in Narukamidou’s bookshop and Mugen is Nero of the new Anticross, meanwhile Azana is confirmed by WoG that her role as Azathoth’s substitute has ended but her reincarnation still exist.
These are various examples that put Nitroplus Blasterz in shambles. To avoid any confusion and for the sake of convenience, anything from the manga, be it the characters like Azana, Mugen, Chikage, Crow (of DYN) or the 13 Horrors are canon as well as their abilities. However, we will not use anything from DYN Memo or the PS4 game Nitroplus Blasterz because most of their details are heavily retconned, leaving them ambiguous until it said otherwise.
To get a deeper understanding, please read this post here.
== Continuity Order ==
Zanma Taisei Demonbane: The first Visual Novel of Demonbane, released by Nitroplus in 2003. Main characters are Daijuuji Kurou and Al Azif.
Zanma Taisei Retold: Light Novel’s adaptation of Zanma Taisei Demonbane, which covered Al Azif’s Route and Elder God’s Ending.
Kishin Houkou Demonbane: PS2 All-Ages Remake of Zanma Taisei released in 2004, with additional contents, CG, music and new gameplay system. A PC Ported version is released in 2019.
Zanma Taisei Demonbane – Kishin Taidou: A Spin-off Light Novel that told the story of Al Azif’s former master – Azrad and Hadou Kouzou in his younger days, with August Ada Derleth serving as a new heroine. Cult of Darkness Dawn is the main antagonist.
Dra†Koi: Fandisk Visual Novel from Nitro Amusement Disk, released in February 2006. The story is set in the same universe of Demonbane Mythos and has various references to the aforementioned series.
Kishin Hishou Demonbane: Sequel of Zanma Taisei/Kishin Houkou with a battle gameplay, featuring Kuzaku, Another Blood, Laban Shrewsbury and Hazuki in the main cast. Released in May 2006.
Zanma Taisei Demonbane – Gunshin Kyoushuu: Spin-off Light Novel that continued from Kishin Taidou, following Al Azif’s new master – Edgar and the son of Hadou Kouzou – Hadou Kanesada on their way to fight against invasion of the Martians, Derleth returns as one of the main heroines.
Zanma Taisei Demonbane – De Marigny’s Clock: Spin-off Light Novel that tells stories of Doctor West in present day and his younger days.
Kishin Houkou Demonbane (TV Anime): TV animated adaptation of Kishin Houkou which based on Al Azif’s Route, aired in 2006.
Kishin Houkou Demonbane (Manga): Manga version of Kishin Houkou, adapted Al Azif’s Route and Elder God’s ending, with some parts taken from Leica Crusade’s Route.
Ouroboros Rondo: Special OVA with two episodes narrating the eternal battle between Demonbane trio and Liber Legis in Infinite Spiral.
Project D2: Early drafts and idea proposal for Zanma Taisen by Jin Haganeya, posted on Nitroplus’s 10th Anniversary Magazine. Now is renamed as Kishin Tairan.
Nitroplus Blasterz – Heroine Infinite Duel: Console fighting game with crossover of various characters from Nitroplus’s works. Another Story’s mode is serving as the prequel of manga D.Y.N. Freaks with D2 as the base, however many references have been retconned in Zanma Taisen.
D.Y.N. Freaks: Manga series published on Dragon Age Comics. Setting in Modern Japan, the story follows Azana Hatsumi, Narukami Chikage and Yoguruma Mugen in Y City, where humans infected by the “Color” of Evil Gods become a superhuman existence known as Majin. Released in May 2013 and finished on Jun 2014 in a total of three volumes. Continued after the ending of Another Story from Nitroplus Blasterz with DYN Memo posted on Jin Haganeya's Twitter as supplement materials. However, the status of Blasterz and DYN Memo is now in doubts due to the retcon from Zanma Taisen.
Zanma Taisen Demonbane: The latest installment of Demonbane Mythos's franchise, released in December 2022. Take place in a newly patched world formed from infinite fragments of the destroyed Trichiliocosm, the main characters included Grand Master Boku and Necronomicon the Ash, accompanied with them is Demonbane Darkness. Together they set on a new journey to reclaim the name of the sword that smites evil from enemy of the world – Vortex Blaster Demonbane. The book is a collection of setting materials with story.
For full translation of Parallel World Causal Sequence, see this link.
==Supporters/Opponents/Neutrals==
===Supporters===
* Mugen no Setsuna
* ZwartD
* Orion
* ProfectusInfinity
* MarwanFujii
===Opponents===
===Neutrals===
==Characters==
===Zanma Taisei/Kishin Houkou Demonbane===
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|-|Main Characters=
Daijuuji Kurou.png|Daijuuji Kurou|link=Daijuuji Kurou
Al Azif Fixed.png|Al Azif|link=Al Azif (Demonbane Mythos)
Leica Crusade Demonbane.png|Leica Crusade|link=Leica Crusade
|-|Hadou Empire=
Hadou Ruri.png|Hadou Ruri|link=Hadou Ruri
Winfield.png|Winfield|link=Winfield
|-|Black Lodge=
Master Therion Crop.png|Master Therion|link=Master Therion
Etheldreda.png|Etheldreda|link=Etheldreda
Doctor West.png|Doctor West|link=Doctor West
Elsa Demonbane.png|Elsa|link=Elsa (Demonbane Mythos)
Sandalphon Demonbane.png|Sandalphon|link=Ryuuga Crusade
|-|Anticross=
Nero Ennea.png|Nero|link=Nero (Demonbane)
Augustus Demonbane.png|Augustus|link=Augustus (Demonbane Mythos)
Vespasianus.png|Vespasianus|link=Vespasianus (Demonbane Mythos)
Titus Demonbane.png|Titus|link=Titus (Demonbane Mythos)
Tiberius Demonbane.png|Tiberius|link=Tiberius (Demonbane Mythos)
Claudius Demonbane.png|Claudius|link=Claudius (Demonbane Mythos)
Caligula Demonbane.png|Caligula|link=Caligula (Demonbane Mythos)
|-|Deus Machina=
Deus Machina Demonbane Kishin Houkou.png|Demonbane|link=Demonbane (Kishin Houkou)
Liber Legis Demonbane.png|Liber Legis|link=Liber Legis (Kishin Houkou)
Nameless One Demonbane.png|Nameless One|link=Nameless One (Demonbane Mythos)
Legacy of Gold.png|Legacy of Gold|link=Legacy of Gold
Cykranosh Demonbane.png|Cykranosh|link=Cykranosh
Ogre Demonbane.png|Ogre|link=Ogre (Demonbane Mythos)
Belzebuth Demonbane.png|Belzebuth|link=Belzebuth
Lord Byakhee.png|Lord Byakhee|link=Lord Byakhee
Kraken Demonbane.png|Kraken|link=Kraken (Demonbane Mythos)
Houkou Aeon.png|Aeon|link=Aeon (Kishin Houkou)
|-|Doctor West's Destroyer Robot Series=
Destroyer Robot.png|Destroyer Robot|link=Destroyer Robot (Demonbane Mythos)
Demonpain.png|Demonpain|link=Demonpain
Mass-Produced Destroyer Robots.png|Mass-Produced Destroyer Robots|link=Mass-Produced Destroyer Robots
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===Kishin Hishou Demonbane===
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|-|Main Characters=
Another Blood Demonbane.png|Another Blood|link=Another Blood
Daijuuji Kuzaku.png|Daijuuji Kuzaku|link=Daijuuji Kuzaku
Laban Shrewsbury.png|Laban Shrewsbury|link=Laban Shrewsbury
Hazuki.png|Hazuki|link=Hazuki
Azrad Kishin Hishou.png|Azrad|link=Azrad (Kishin Hishou)
|-|Deus Machina=
Demonbane Kishin Hishou.png|Demonbane|link=Demonbane (Kishin Hishou)
Demonbane Two-Sword.png|D. Two-Sword|link=Demonbane Two-Sword
Demonbane Blood Gallery.png|Demonbane Blood|link=Demonbane Blood
Ambrose Demonbane.png|Ambrose|link=Ambrose
Aeon Kishin Hishou.png|Aeon|link=Aeon (Kishin Hishou)
Liber Legis Kishin Hishou.png|Liber Legis|link=Liber Legis (Kishin Hishou)
|-|Others=
Demonbane Aionion Athletes Fixed.png|Demonbane Aionion Athletes|link=Demonbane Aionion Athletes
Clockwork Phantom Final Lot.png|Clockwork Phantom|link=Clockwork Phantom
Whateley Demonbane.png|Whateley|link=Whateley (Demonbane Mythos)
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===Lovecraftian Gods===
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|-|Outer Gods=
Azathoth Demonbane.png|Azathoth|link=Azathoth (Demonbane Mythos)
Nyarlathotep Demonbane.png|Nyarlathotep|link=Nyarlathotep (Demonbane Mythos)
Yog-Sothoth Demonbane.png|Yog-Sothoth|link=Yog-Sothoth (Demonbane Mythos)
|-|Elder Gods=
Elder God Daijuuji Kurou.png|Elder God Daijuuji Kurou|link=Elder God Daijuuji Kurou
Elder God Al Azif.png|Elder God Al Azif|link=Elder God Al Azif
Elder God Kuzaku.png|Elder God Daijuuji Kuzaku|link=Elder God Daijuuji Kuzaku
Elder God Another Blood.png|Elder God Another Blood|link=Elder God Another Blood
Elder God Demonbane Kishin Hishou.png|Elder God Demonbane|link=Elder God Demonbane
Elder God Demonbane Two-Sword.png|Elder God D. Two-Sword|link=Elder God Demonbane Two-Sword
|-|Great Old Ones=
Cthulhu Demonbane.png|Cthulhu|link=Cthulhu (Demonbane Mythos)
Cthugha Demonbane.png|Cthugha|link=Cthugha (Demonbane Mythos)
Ithaqua Demonbane.png|Ithaqua|link=Ithaqua (Demonbane Mythos)
|-|Lesser Gods=
Dagon Demonbane.png|Dagon & Hydra|link=Dagon & Hydra (Demonbane Mythos)
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===Kishin Taidou Demonbane===
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|-|Main Characters=
Azrad Kishin Taidou.png|Azrad|link=Azrad (Kishin Taidou)
August Ada Derleth.png|Ada Derleth|link=Ada Derleth
|-|Deus Machina=
Aeon Kishin Taidou.png|Aeon|link=Aeon (Kishin Taidou)
Proto-Demonbane.png|Proto-Demonbane|link=Proto-Demonbane
|-|Cult of Darkness Dawn=
Raal Rovdy.png|Raal Rovdy|link=Raal Rovdy
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===Gunshin Kyoushuu Demonbane===
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|-|Main Characters=
Edgar Demonbane.png|Edgar|link=Edgar (Demonbane Mythos)
Little Ada.png|Little Ada|link=Little Ada
|-|Deus Machina=
Demonbane Gunshin Kyoushuu.png|Demonbane|link=Demonbane (Gunshin Kyoushuu)
Aeon Gunshin Kyoushuu.png|Aeon|link=Aeon (Gunshin Kyoushuu)
|-|Others=
Goliath (Gunshin Kyoushuu).png|Goliath|link=Goliath (Gunshin Kyoushuu)
Martians (Gunshin Kyoushuu).png|Martians|link=Martians (Demonbane Mythos)
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===Sacred Relic===
Shining Trapezohedron Crystal.png|The Shining Trapezohedron|link=Shining Trapezohedron
===D.Y.N. FREAKS===
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|-|Main Characters=
Azana Hatsumi.png|Azana Hatsumi|link=Azana Hatsumi
Narukami Chikage.png|Narukami Chikage|link=Narukami Chikage
Yoguruma Mugen.png|Yoguruma Mugen|link=Yoguruma Mugen
Crow DYN.png|Crow|link=Crow (D.Y.N. FREAKS)
|-|13 Horrors=
Sphinx DYN.png|Sphinx|link=Sphinx (D.Y.N. FREAKS)
Kurumi Kuruya.png|Kurumi Kuruya|link=Kurumi Kuruya
Bandaged Woman.png|Bandaged Woman|link=Bandaged Woman
Forgotten Dragon.png|Forgotten Dragon|link=Forgotten Dragon
Halloween DYN.png|Halloween|link=Halloween (D.Y.N. FREAKS)
Nemesis Hastur.png|Nemesis|link=Nemesis (D.Y.N. FREAKS)
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===Zanma Taisen Demonbane===
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|-|The Vortex Blaster=
Demonbane Dead End.png|Demonbane Dead End|link=Demonbane Dead End
|-|Spacecorp of Dreamland=
Nodens Demonbane.png|Nodens|link=Nodens (Demonbane)
Star Warriors Demonbane.png|Star Warriors|link=Star Warriors (Demonbane Mythos)
Silver Question Mark.png|King of Ilek-Vad|link=King of Ilek-Vad
Silver Question Mark.png|Odin|link=Odin (Demonbane Mythos)
|-|Neo Black Lodge=
|-|Hadou Empire=
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===Dra†Koi===
Heroine DraKoi.png|Heroine|link=Heroine (Dra†Koi)
Dragon Slayer DraKoi.png|Dragon Slayer|link=Dragon Slayer (Dra†Koi)
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