Leon Kramer

Leon Kramer, known by the world as the wealthy tycoon Lain Kovarro, is the current God of the Inside. As its God, he rules Craveland from Palaeshia, a paradisal realm far above the world. He keeps his existence hidden from the world and its inhabitants, as he does not want to be worshipped, depended on, or potentially overthrown by power hungry mortals.

Having delegated most of the necessary functions of running the world to his Angels, he spends almost all of his time living a double life as Lain Kovarro. As Lain, he is happily married to his wife Cetha Kovarro, and has two kids. He is the wealthiest person in the world as the sole proprietor of Kovarro Enterprises, the money from which he uses to provide for his family and fund charities he operates and others he donates to. To ensure the safety of himself and his family, he brought down some loyal Angels with him to be his servants, body guards, corporate executives, and chauffeurs. To fit in with the mortals, these Angels took on Evalan appearances and pseudonyms. To this day, they dutifully serve Lain and his family.

## Biography

### Early Life

Leon Kraemer was born a human on Earth in the year 1992. He lived a normal life, but was not satisfied with his thin self. He did not like how thin he was, and thought being fat was more appealing. No matter how much he ate, however, his fast metabolism did not let him gain any weight.

On his way to work one day, he took a shortcut through an alleyway. He turned the corner and did not notice a portal on the ground, and fell into it. He woke up in The Inside and tried for years to find a way back to Earth. The World Before was the incarnation that The Inside took during his stay, where disease and starvation were the norm. Resources and food were scarce, so scavenging was a full time job for everyone.

### The Inside

Leon met a man named David and they soon fell deep in love. They lived together, ate together, slept together. The two did not get to enjoy themselves for long, unfortunately. One day, David suddenly awoke from his sleep with large agonizing cysts on his face and body. Leon tried to find anyone or anything to help cure David's ailment, but could not. Not a single person nearby had the knowledge or ability to help, so they instead told him it was inevitable. Angry at the apathy of those around him, he ran back to David's shack only to find him dead on the floor, his face completely blown open from the force of the exploded cysts. All of the anger he felt at that moment faded into nothingness, leaving him feeling empty. He stared at his boyfriend's rotting corpse for hours, unfazed by the maggots who had begun to crawl on his skin. Once he broke out of his shock, he dragged the corpse to the spot he first met David and buried him there, marking his grave with six apple-shaped carvings. It was at that point that he was determined to change the world for the better.

Leon gathered what supplies he could and fashioned a club, a dagger, and a shield out of wood, and set out to travel the world. In his travels, he came across cannibal wanderers who sought to eat him, which he slew with bottled rage. He quickly grew desensitized to murder, not hesitating to kill those who irked him even slightly. After slaughtering a cult who worshiped the God they said created this world, he decided he would find this God and kill him for the suffering his world brought. He studied the carvings of this cult until he could recite them from memory and used the information to find the God of this world.

And he did, after a decade. He found him within a crumbling palace hidden within a sprawling cavern, beneath a cloudy lake. He was surprised to find it completely barren, save for the relatively preserved throne room. Upon the throne he spotted whom he assumed was the God, a thin, black centipede with sleep-deprived eyes and a distant gaze. Leon's rage pushed him to walk up to the throne and slap the God until the distant look left his eyes. He saw the anger and suffering in Leon's eyes and smiled, telling Leon that he was waiting for someone to find him for many years. He told Leon that he had grown tired of godhood and chose to let the world rot and decay.

He further explained that he was the most recent in a long line of gods that had shaped this world to their desires and ruled over it however they saw fit, and that there was no way to leave this world once a person enters it. He then told Leon that, if he killed him and drank his blood, he would become a God and could change this world for the better. Eager to avenge his boyfriend, Leon did so. Curious to see if he was telling the truth, Leon drank his blood.

### Apotheosis

Upon doing so, he screamed in pain as he body was torn apart by blinding light. His scream ended when he opened his eyes and saw that his physical body was no more, replaced with the body of a giant centipede. He experimented with his newfound power by lifting the God's corpse with telekinesis and crushing it into dust.

Full of joy for the first time in months, he transformed the world around him from a world of bleak starvation into bright bounty. He destroyed the palace with telekinesis and rejuvenated the soil worldwide. Trees appeared from which delicious candy-like fruit grew. Sweet grass and carbonated rivers replaced the dead terrain. The smoke-filled sky became a bright blue one with clouds that rained soda. The starved survivors of the former wasteland went insane at the sight of all this food and gorged themselves for days.

With his work done, he wiped the minds of everyone so they could start fresh without the mental scars of The World Before. He keeps his existence a secret, so no mortal would challenge him. To serve him, he created the Angels. He established a reincarnation cycle so that people can die without their souls disappearing into nothing. Unfortunately, David had died before the reincarnation cycle was established, so his soul had faded away completely and could not be restored.

### Depression

The revelation drove Leon to a deep, long depression. He lost interest in the world around him, and spent his days grieving, sleeping, and stress eating. His Angels stood around, concerned, but said nothing and did their jobs.