The role of the Heart Flower on the history of the Demon Scion

The heart flower has a role in Weltan history that caused several major events whose ramifications are still felt today. The heart flower has had a prominent, if secret, role in the history of Welt with ramifications that can still be seen today. The Lyreans plant spread disease and monstrous beasts unto the lands without being kept in check and this eventually led to a desperate alliance to destroy an insidious enemy. The demon scions historic opposition to the Lyreans when one considers the negative impact that the plant has on their everyday lives is understandable.
== The Lyreans and the demon scion ==
When the demon scion attacked the Lyreans as is stated by the historical records, the reason for this aggression is given as being lust for power. A different interpretation of the time period focuses on the role played by the heart flower. A deeper look into the conditions before and after the Lyrean exile to the floating province that explains the demon scions continued belligerence.
The Lyreans' reliance and symbiosis with the heart plant made them many enemies among the other races. The demon scion suffered greatly from Heart Flower related issues and could explain how tension tensions rose between the factions. The demon scion evened the scales eventually, when they discovered the pseudo-ultrafaunic organism known as the Incarce.
Two leading theories explain the reason the demon scion chose to attack the Lyreans, forcing their exile to the floating province. The first is that the demon scion thought destroying the Lyreans would in turn eliminate the heart flower, justifying their massacre, the second is that the military advantage the heart flower gives the Lyreans was seen as too powerful and the demon scion attacked the Lyreans to restore balance.
===The demon scion correlated the Lyreans with the heart flower, prompting their massacre===
When seen from the demon scions perspective, pre floating province Lyreans were unkillable half plant hybrids whose mere existence is dictated by the needs of a flower. These facts also explain the nature of the demon scions relation to the Lyreans. The demon scion would instinctively despise the Lyreans, who are unaffected by the spores quarterhearts emit, while the demon scion does everything in its power to keep their lands safe by ridding themselves of the heart plant.
It is reasonable to assume the members of the demon scion would be suspicious of the fact that Lyreans can safely consume heart containers. One can only imagine the horror the surface creatures feel when they learn that some Lyreans consume several dozen fullhearts in their lifetime. This would distress the other races to no end because it would lead to the belief that the Lyreans must be doomed to become Ultrafaunic organisms. Lyreans, on the other hand didn’t care however and proudly keep quarterheart out in the open, even sending down quarterheart to the surface in mysterious chests called God Chests.
It is reasonable to assume that the demon scion simply correlated the destruction of the Lyreans to the destruction of the heart flower. It could be argued that the demon scion could have simply destroyed the heart flower wherever it grows, but this is impractical for several reasons. To put into perspective, in order to stamp out the Lyreans advantage linked to heart flowers, the other races would need to do the following:
*Root out and destroy every heart flower.
*Destroy a good deal of the local insect life to stop the Lyreans from making heart flower potions.
*Find a way to neutralize quarterheart in order to prevent the spread of tumors.
*Find a way to keep heart containers from generating so Ultrafauna wouldn’t appear.
*All of this while Lyrean heart technologies such as heart medals and water bottles actively accelerate the growth of the heart flower, probably faster than the demon scion could root it out.
Since eliminating the heart flower was simply not feasible, the demon scion took the simpler option of stamping out the Lyreans.
===The Arms race===
The Lyreans possessed bottling technology, heart potions, dowsing and medal technology. All of these technologies made sure their warriors had countless extra hearts and wouldn’t die on the battlefield as long as they had a single heart container still filled. The fact that the Lyreans can reconvert bottles and simple insects to enhance heart potions gives even more credence to the impossibility of the demon scions’ ability to ensure equal footing in terms of military technology. The Lyreans simply always found a way to one up their enemies, and the Demon scion had to stop them before they became too powerful.
The arms race supposes that the demon scion eliminated the Lyreans not necessarily because of the heart flower, but because they sought to even the scales in terms of armaments, which they couldn't do until they discovered a demonic beast known as the Incarce resembling an armless, eyeless, bipedal saurus that would lead them to battle against the Lyreans.
It can be speculated that the demon scion formed under the Incarce's leadership for one simple fact; the Incarce is an Ultrafaunic organism that wasn’t created from the influence of a heart container. With this knowledge the demon scion finally had a weapon powerful enough to defeat the Ultrafauna. The demon scion found a champion in the Incarce, which they believed could defeat the Ultrafauna that were created from heart containers, and grew bolder. Now that the demon scion had an edge against the Lyreans and a tool to eliminate the Ultrafauna, they were ready. The demon scion mounted a surprise attack, emerging from a crack in the ground, the Lyreans were massacred by the demon scion and forced to retreat to the skies using their god chests. The Lyreans fled, with their god sacrificing itself to imprison the demon scions champion.
===The Demon scion continues to oppose the Lyreans even after their exile===
Ever since the imprisoning of the Incarce by the Lyrean's god, the demon scion oppose the Lyreans on principle, as from their point of view the Lyreans imprisoned the only Ultrafauna that isn't under the influence of the heart container; the Incarce. The fact that the Lyreans sealed the Incarce away meant that the Demon scion had no one to defend them from Ultrafauna. The demon scion had to neutralize the Ultrafauna themselves and built massive prison temples to keep them from rampaging across the lands.
The demon scion post rise of the floating province are from their point of view trying to save Welt from heart containers. So when the cloud barrier broke, and the floating province Lyreans started returning to the surface, for the demon scion, their ancient enemy had returned and the duty to save their homelands was upon them once again. The floating province Lyreans attitude didn’t change in the slightest when they returned to the surface, which confirmed the demon scion's fears and destroyed any hope for peace.
From the perspective of the demon scion, the Floating province Lyreans come down from the place where the heart flower comes from and massacre everything and anything in their way, they steal the parasitic quarterheart the Demon scion hides away specifically because of its cancerous effects, they assault fortified prison complexes built specifically to imprison the creatures the heart flower creates, they kill the prison guards and the Ultrafauna kept within in order to take their heart containers for themselves. The only answer the Demon scion could have to this problem could only be to rally under a leader powerful enough to eliminate the overpowered Lyrean. A leader they know is not motivated by the heart containers, the Incarce. And so, the demon scion joined once again under the Incarce's banner (under its aide, the Confin regent) in order to destroy the rising threat of the Lyreans once more.
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