Falbium Asmodeus

**Falbium Asmodeus**, formerly **Falbium Glasya-Labolas** and **Falbium Forneus**, is one of the Four Great Satans and is in charge of Military Affairs.

## Appearance

Falbium is a rough-looking man and is noted to be the oldest-looking among his fellow Satans, appearing to be in his late 50s. In general, he is described as being tall, broad-shouldered, and sinewy. He has a receding hairline while his beard and whatever hair remains on his head is jet-black.

He clothed himself in clothing of various shades of black and gray while not wearing full-body armor made out of demonic steel. When he was young, he wore clothes embroidered with the emblem of the Forneus Clan in the Glasya-Labolas Clan's signature red-and-pink.

## Personality

In general, when he isn't sleeping his lengthened life away in his bedroom, Falbium is a cold, hard, serious, stubborn, firm, and rarely-forgiving man, yet he is also brave and possesses an immense sense of duty. Although he isn't as well-loved as Sirzechs or Serafall, much like Ajuka, he is well-respected across the Netherworld.

While lazy, he has a much better control of his emotions than his temperamental colleagues, whereas he always appears calculating and stoic, repressing his emotions and desires for most of his life for the sole objections of the Netherworld's greater good. He also has an unbreakable code of honor and sense of duty and justice which governs his actions. Even when prepared to vent his emotions, he is still able to retain his composure and dignity.

However, he has very little patience for false politeness and generally states his opinions of others or what is on his mind out loud without caring for the consequences, which has earned him the ire of many people, friends and enemies alike. Because of this, he only surrounds himself with advisors whom he trusts to be blunt with the truth, whether he may object to it or not.

He is well-known for his prowess as both a commander and warrior, and was more feared than his fellow leaders in the Devil Civil War because of his keen mind for strategy and warfare. He prefers to fight in the front lines alongside his troops to inspire them on many occasions, and his military record is exemplary and greater than the remaining Satans combined.

However, the world mostly remembers him for his sadistic, merciless, and ruthless side that show itself during the Devil Civil War, in which he had committed many terrible and heinous crimes to prisoners of the Old Satan Faction that were heavily frowned upon by both sides of the war. According to him, while he has many regrets, he considers these actions aren't them as they are necessary for the rebellion and their overall victory later on.

Later on, it is revealed that he also had a much more romantic side to him, especially when it comes to his fiancée, Elenei Bael. He has a deep personal love for her and has never stopped mourning after her since her death, which occurred centuries away, and he had admitted that he would never love anyone else but her. According to Serafall, while Falbium was a generally quiet person as he grew up, his solemn characteristics got worse when his heart died of a heartbreak and her best friend is now a shell of his former self.

## History

### Early Life

Falbium was born to the Heir of the pureblood Glasya-Labolas Clan and the half-devil Akasha Forneus. Because of his mixed-heritage, while he was legitimized by his father per the Glasya-Labolas Clan's traditions, he was sent to live with the Forneus Clan for his entire childhood in order to not taint his father's growing reputation.

As he grew up, he became close friends with Serafall Sitri, whose father, Aegil Sitri, is liege-lord of the Forneus Clan. Because of this, he was trained from an early age to be Serafall's bodyguard and future advisor per request by her father.

When he was 18 years old, his ability to use three hereditary abilities power of his mother's Forneus Clan (Absolute Defense), his father's Glasya-Labolas Clan (Excoriation), and his paternal grandmother's who was formerly a part of the Sabnock Clan (Weapon Creation) was discovered and his training became intensified, which caused Serafall to join in occasionally as she didn't want to fall behind him and became a damsel-in-distress.

### Heir Glasya-Labolas

When Falbium was in his 50s, his grandfather died and his father became Head of the Glasya-Labolas Clan. As he hadn't married and had any trueborn children by then, per traditions, Falbium was taken in as his father's heir until he married and had a trueborn child to become the true heir of the house.

Because of his strength and military prowess, he quickly rose up the ranks and gained the trust and affection of the house's elders, mainly because of their "might-makes-right" belief which overpowered their original disgust of his mixed-heritage. Eventually, after three centuries of being with the noble house, his position as the family's heir became undeniable as he rose above the ranks and became the strongest member of the house due to his tactical skills and his unique ability to wield three hereditary powers.

### Engagement

When news of his stepmother's pregnancy appeared, the elders rushed him to marry a pureblood daughter of a noble house to further establish his position as heir from his soon-to-born half-sibling, who his father and stepmother undoubtedly wanted to make the heir. However, due to his general disinterest in politics, he was half-hearted when it came to his courtings and purposely ensured he wouldn't be considered an eligible bachelor.

However, his hesitation came to an end when he met Elenei Bael, the second-born heiress of the Bael Clan, and the two quickly fell in love with each other. After only three decades of courting, a shockingly short-lived amount of time for devils, the two became engaged when Falbium presented Elenei with his mother's ring, given down to her by her own mother and her mother before her.

While their families originally opposed it, the relationship was quickly accepted when Elenei threatened to elope much like her sister Venelana before her and Falbium threatened to kill all the elders from both houses if they forbid them to come together. According to Serafall, no one had ever seen Falbium as enraged as he was then before, as his image of a quiet and solemn person had become imprinted within their memory of him.

### The Year of the False Spring

Falbium was considered an original supporter of the Anti-Satan Faction, but quickly turned into one of its leaders in the year of the false spring, when he and Elenei were supposed to get married. Their hopes and dreams were crushed when news of her kidnapping by Prince Alsap Pynar of the Beelzebub Clan arrived and he quickly rode into war, sparking the first sparks of conflict of the Devil Civil War.

Riding with him in his mission were the groups led by Venelana and Zeoticus Gremory, Elenei's older sister and her husband who she eloped with, as well as their son, Sirzechs. Together, they were able to defeat the armies placed around the Beelzebub Fortress where Elenei was trapped, with Falbium himself mercilessly killing Alsap in combat. Instead of using his weapon or his demonic powers, he just repeatedly punched Alsap in his face with his bare hands until his face was utterly destroyed.

However, they were too late, as by the time they arrived, Elenei had already killed herself in shame after delivering a stillborn daughter by herself. According to Venelana, what happened next could only consider a nightmare as Falbium went into shock and unlocked his Devil Trigger right then and there, and would have killed everyone had she, Zeoticus, and Sirzechs been unable to stop him in time.

### Devil Civil War

Ever since the tragedy that was Elenei's death, Falbium became much more solemn and ruthless as he became one of the new leaders of the Anti-Satan Faction alongside Sirzechs Gremory, Ajuka Astaroth, and his old friend, Serafall Sitri. However, unlike them, his moltivation for fighting in the war wasn't because of the future of the devil-kind, but because of revenge against the Satan Clans, especially against the Beelzebub Clan.

He became a crucial part of the revolution from then on, always fighting in the front lines alongside the soldiers during battles, as well as providing the armies with critical strategies and tactics that helped them won one victory after another. Many important battles withing the rebellion, such as the Lesser War of the Boiling Sea, the Battle of Bastards, the Battle of Three-Sister Peaks, Reapers' Revolt, or even the Siege of Lucifaad, all ended victoriously mainly due to Falbium's ingenious planning.

#### Siege of Dreadfort

Most of Falbium's infamy came in the **Siege of Dreadfort**, a battle which happened mid-way through the Devil Civil War, which cemented his reputation as a formidable warlord and gave him many titles, such as the "Bloody Lord", the "Murdering Lord", or the "Flaying Lord". While this was undoubtedly criticized by many, none dared to question him in fear of becoming his next victims.

In this battle, many of Alsap's brothers and sisters tried to siege the Dreadfort, the familial seat of the Glasya-Labolas Clan, with the intention of capturing and even potentially killing him. Their plan, however, quickly came to an end when Falbium captured them instead and threw them into the family's dungeons.

Down there, he would personally torture and multilate them in every ways possible for a total of 244 days and nights - The amount of time his deceased fiancée was trapped within Beelzebub Fortress. According to his half-brother Royce Glasya-Labolas, the screams of the tortured had become such a part of their life that when everything ended, many people of the Dreadfort began to miss it, much to their horror.

Eventually, on the 245th day, he skinned them alive with his bare hands, using flaying knives made out of holy silver he collected from a group of exorcists he captured and killed. The flayed skins of his prisoners, whose faces still bleed and frozen with indescribable horror, were then hung as decorations in the manor. For Alsap's twin brother Rhamuyr, his flayed skin was worn on top of his darkened body for many battles afterward until it was destroyed during combat, much to the relief of everyone, enemies and allies alike.

#### Satan Asmodeus

When the Devil Civil War ended in the Anti-Satan Faction's victory, Falbium was crowned one of the new Four Great Satans as the Satan Asmodeus and became the Head of Military Affairs. As his first mission, he sorted out and harshly punished many of the Old Satan Faction's members and supporters, ending multiple pureblood families in the process. Despite this, however, several families were able to escape into Earth and eventually form the True Satan Faction.

### Modern Events

In the 18th-century, he defeated and made a familiar pact with Kuyutha, the Holy Blue Bull from Islamic mythology, and turned him into a member of his peerage. Several decades later, when investigating a case in the United States, several Clear Sighted people in the area saw him and Kuyutha together and tales of a large man with a blue bull began to appear in America, eventually resulted in the birth of the folk hero, **Paul Bunyan**, and his companion, **Babe the Blue Ox**.

## Equipment

**Widow's Wail** (未亡人の絶望的な叫びウィドウズ・ウェイル, *U~idouzu U~eiru*): Falbium's main weapon of choice, formerly belonged to Alsap Pynar Beelzebub until Falbium killed him in combat and took it as a trophy. It is a Faustian longsword made out of Disir Steel, with a guard in the shape of a crying woman. It is known for its sharpness, which rivals many legendary demonic swords such as Nothung or Tyrfing, and could cut through all Defensive or Security Magic.

## Trivia

* He is a light-sleeper and can feel asleep in 1.24 second.
* He likes seafood stews
* He dislikes being reminded that he's the inspiration behind Paul Bunyan.
* He is a model figure for mixed-heritage devils because of his powers and authority.
* When he was young, Serafall used to make him call her "Big Sister" (お姉さん, *Onēsan*).
* Despite his appearance, he's only the second among the current Four Great Satans, being several centuries younger than Serafall and a couple of decades older than both Sirzechs and Ajuka.
* There used to be a rumor where Elenei's stillborn daughter was Alsap's but it quickly disappeared when all those who spoke of it soon disappeared, only to be found several days later flayed and had their tongues cut out.