Eward Lionheart/History

**SPOILER WARNING!**

**Eward Lionheart** is the oldest and firstborn son of Gilead Lionheart, the current Patriarch of the Lionheart Family and the only son of his first wife Tanis Lionheart.

Even though he loved magic more than physical training, he abandoned his magical exercises due to the pressure given by his mother, Tanis Lionheart.

During the Blood Continuation Ceremony his father asked the Head Wizard of the Red Magic Tower, Lovellian to take him as his disciple. Lovellian said he will only accept Eward as a disciple if he can prove his talent.

Although Eward went to Aroth with great excitement, he couldn't get any good results for two years and failed to become Lovellian's disciple. With great despair he began to seek pleasure from Succubi, giving his life force in exchange, tarnishing the family name.

When his adopted brother Eugene came to Aroth to study magic and heard some nasty rumors about Eward. He followed Eward into a drug den used by members of all kinds of species. There, he saw that Eward was trying to make a pact with a Baron Olpher, to become a black magician.

With great rage Eugene beat both Eward and the Black Wizard that supported him. In the heat of the moment Eward claimed that his father never supported him as much as Eugene, which Eugene strongly denied.

After this incident Tanis took Eward to her father's estate in the Bossar Fief. Eward has been banned from ever contacting a black wizard again.

As noted by the high council of Aroth and the council of elders of the Lionheart Family, due to Eward’s attempted involvement with Black Magic, alongside his sub-par abilities and numerous other failures, they now fully expect Eward to lose the race to become the next Patriarch and now fully expect Cyan, his younger half-Brother, to take the position over him.

As stated by Carmen, due to the incident, Eward will likely now be under constant surveillance by the Black Lions for the rest of his life.

After his 'exile', Tanis’ treatment of him was implied to have worsened. As seen during Eward’s memories and admitted in his diary, Tanis was shown to have begun berating him for his mistakes and of how he turned out, with her saying that she wished that he was more like his younger half siblings or even like his adoptive brother and lamanated to him her original hope to raise him as a capable individual rather than the failure of a person he was now. Tanis was not alone in this treatment of him. Her father was stated to have come to despise him and its been implied that her other relatives and even their servants treated Eward in the same manner.

This in the end only worsened Eward’s mental state and rendered him susceptible to the corruption of the Demon King Remnants within The Demon Spear and the Annihilation Hammer, resulting in him finally snapping and killing his mother, grandfather, their relatives and servants within the Bossar Fief.

After killing them, Eward would use Black Magic Necromancy in order to animate their corpses and 'play house' with them. This allowed him to make them act like the family he always wanted, giving him nothing but their 'unconditional' love and support. This also allowed him to make it seem like the populace of the Bossar Fief was still alive and allow Eward to move unnoticed without suspicion.

Afterwards, he would join the Lionheart family's hunting contest. There, he intended to sacrifice the other participants in order to summon and contract a Demon King. He was supported in this endeavor by Hector and Dominic. With their help, he assaulted Doynes, Dominic's grandfather. Dominic used the 'Demon Spear' Luentos to blast a hole in Doynes' chest. Eward also killed Deacon Lionheart and sacrificed him to the Demon King. He even captured Ciel and Cyan with the help of his accomplices and tried to sacrifice them as well. He sent Hector to capture Eugene but soon realized that Hector's ambush failed. Eugene then fights the three of them and kills Dominic and Eward with the Moonlight Blade and Holy Sword. As a result, Eward's corpse turns to ashes.