Nether

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## Nether

* Names
* Status

### Aliases

* Last child of the -unknown-
* Prince of the Underworld

### Titles

* Demon of Destiny
* Demon of Choice

## Relationships & Affiliation

* Relatsh
* Occ

### Relatives

Weaver *(Oldest Sibling)*
Hope *(Older Sibling)*
Ariel *(Older Sibling)*
Demon of Oblivion *(Older Sibling)*
Demon of Imagination *(Older Sibling)*
Demon of Repose *(Older Sibling)*

### Occupation

* Ruler of the Underworld
* Divine Smith

## First Appearance

### Novel

Chapter 105 Living Stone *(Mentioned)*

**Nether** is the last child of the -unknown-, one of the seven daemons, Ruler of the Underworld, and a sibling of Weaver. He was also a builder of things but a practical one.

## Appearance

His reflection in the waters inside the eye of the Time Storm is a pale figure, shrouded in darkness, moving across the water with a calamitous killing intent. The darkness is boundless and unfathomable, containing infinite choices. The figure's features are vague and obscured, and all one can see are two terrible wings with black feathers. These wings spread, devouring the sky and drowning the world in howling mist.

Sunny saw Nether in full war mode, shrouded in darkness. He believed it was the **Prince of the Underworld**, Nether, the **Demon of Destiny**, and the **Demon of Choice**. Sunny felt an infinite number of choices within the darkness, which originated from the mists of the Hollow Mountains. Sunny had seen a daemon before, but not since meeting Hope face-to-face. He felt an echo of Nether's killing intent, which made him feel a different state.

## Ability

The Prince of the Underworld was somewhat of a divine smith. A builder of things but also of the practical sort. He would have used whatever was at hand, going for the simplest solution. To create a whole race of living beings from nothing, was something only a god would be able to do but the Prince of the Underworld was a daemon, a lesser deity. Daemons are described as terrible beings that inspired fear because of their unknown origins and strange powers. The living stone creatures were designed to bring peace but were born into an endless war instead.

## Volume 2: Demon of Change

### Stone Saint

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>  | *[Deep in the cavernous halls of his dark domain, the last child of the -unknown- had created them from stone to quell the fire burning in his resentful heart. However, that fire only grew hotter. Designed to bring peace, they were instead born into an endless war.]* | ”
> |  ― Rune description of Stone Saint,Chapter 105 Living Stone
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Sunny once again received an echo when he slew a living stone nightmare creature. Just like seeing the inner weave of memories, he can do the same to echoes. However, what interested him more was the fact there are *traces of divinity* that the stone warrior bore. It had to have come from their original creator, who was at least partially one of the Unknown. This meant that the Unknown, indeed, were closely related to the gods and to divinity itself. Just like mysterious Weaver. The Memories and the Echoes were created by the Spell. They were *artificial*. The Stone Saint, too, was artificial. She was made by a *child of the Unknown*, just like her Echo was made by the Spell. The technique that had been used to create the Stone Saint was eerily similar to the technique that the Spell used but look extremely *primitive* in comparison. He then come up with a theory that the Spell itself had come from the Unknown. But there was too little information to actually consider it substantiated or even remotely believable. He needed to find out more, learn more, and uncover more before even beginning to understand the true story that connected the Spell, the gods, the Unknown, and his own life into one nightmarish tapestry.

See also: Shadow Saint

## Volume 3: Prince of Nothing

* Mantle of the Underworld
* Ebony Tower
* Map

### Mantle of the Underworld

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>  | *[Vowing to never look upon the Goddess of the Black Skies again, the prideful demon retreated into the darkness beneath an unassailable mountain chain. He wasn't the first to lead his army against the gods. However, he was the first to shed their blood, as well as learn the secrets of his own.]* | ”
> |  ― Rune description for Mantle of the Underworld,Chapter 377 Mantle of the Underworld
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Sunny was able to fix the damaged onyx armor after being an Awakened. Both Marble Saint and her armaments had a common origin with the onyx armor, they were both made out of strange living stone. When imbued with soul energy, the taciturn demon's body turned from stone to bizarre stone-like flesh, while her weapons turned to stone-like steel. The Memory was called "Mantle of the Underworld", and the word "Underworld" was also present in one of Saint's Abilities called [Underworld Armament]. Her own runes also described the creator of the living statues as residing in the cavernous halls of a dark domain, as well as being the *last child of the "unknown"*. This led Sunny to have a notion that Saint was made by the *Ruler of the Underworld*, one of the *seven daemons* and a sibling to Weaver, the *Demon of Fate*.

### Ebony Tower

Out in the empty darkness of the void, there was a small dark island where an Obsidian tower stood, hidden from the radiant light of the ocean of flames above. It was the perfect replica of the Ivory Tower but also its opposite. Beneath the obsidian surface of the tower's gate was the weave, which was a much cruder and more primitive version of the weave of ethereal threads he was used to seeing. Sunny had only seen this type of weave inside Saint.

Back when she was just an Echo, he had noticed it hidden behind the radiant pattern of the spell weave. He had thought that it was what made the stone warriors alive, created by the last child of the Unknown in the cavernous halls of his dark domain. It might have been the precursor of the Spell itself or an imitation of it. The last child of the Unknown had clearly spent some time in the Obsidian Tower. He was the one who had created the black pagoda for some mysterious purpose.

According to Mordret, a powerful being came to the Sky below to harvest some of the divine fire. He was the *creator* of Ebony Tower, a builder of things and a genius artifex, but a practical sort. He most probably used whatever was at hand and went for the simplest solution.

See also: Ebony Tower

### Map

The fifth level of Ebony Tower was completely empty. However, there were countless runes carved into the walls. The same mysterious runes that the Spell used to describe the Unknown, and was seen written on the floor by the prisoner of the small cell that was hidden under the ruined cathedral in the Dark City. But there were much more of the terrible runes and most of them seemed far more intense, more powerful. Sunny didn't know their language and the Spell either refused or failed to translate them. While slowly moving around the dark hall, he discovered a strange resemblance of a map cut into the indestructible stone that even divine fire couldn't destroy. It somewhat fit with the geography of the Dream Realm from what he knew. There are seven images on the map that might be the representation of the domains of seven daemons. Further north of the map, a fearsome mask crowned with three horns was depicted. Based on the inscription that said "Fate?", even the Prince of the Underworld had no idea where his eldest sibling lived.

See also: Map from Ebony Tower
## Volume 4: Chain Breaker

### Heresy

According to Noctis, the youngest, Nether — the Demon of Destiny was said to have secluded himself in the darkness of the Underworld.

## Volume 5: Dread Night

### Marble Shell

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Nether actually forged seven splendid suits of armor (Mantle of the Underworld) for his favored creations. Although Saint's armor bore a strong resemblance to the Mantle of the Underworld, it was not quite as impressive as the seven Mantles gifted to high-ranking officers of the stone legion by the Prince of the Underworld.

## Volume 7: The Tomb of Ariel

### Hollow Mountains

According to Nephis, her Second Nightmare was after Nether wage a war against the Storm God. The details of Nether's relationship with Storm God and why it ended in resentment is unknown. But he must have taken it to heart, enough that he assembled an army and stormed the divine realm. But he lost and most of his army was decimated.

He then secluded himself in the Underworld, becoming its ruler and focusing on creating the Stone Saints. Nether must have been lonely and heartbroken to create a whole race of living beings to keep him company, or his defiant prideful way of challenging the gods because, only gods could create living beings. But despite his many failures he succeeded.

## Trivia

* Nether was described as having been close with the Goddess of the Black Skies once. There was the shrine of the Storm God on the fourth level of his Ebony Tower, which implied their relationship is not simple.
* The rune for destiny can also mean choice. Nether can be the Demon of Choice or Destiny depending on how one decided to translate the runes.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 105 Living Stone
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Chapter 377 Mantle of the Underworld
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Chapter 691 Heresy
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 455 Doorway to Heaven
5. ↑ Chapter 451 Bone Weave
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Chapter 453 Shrine of Stars
7. ↑ Chapter 1326 Eye of the Storm
8. ↑ Chapter 1327 Frozen Reflections
9. ↑ Chapter 443 Secrets of the Void
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 444 Obsidian Tower
11. ↑ Chapter 446 Relentless Destroyer
12. ↑ Chapter 452 Above and Beyond
13. ↑ Chapter 454 Hope
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Chapter 975 Marble Shell
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chapter 1257 In the Darkness