Nefas

## Birth and Childhood

Nefas was born of Mulier and 69's union. Wrath, upon seeing the newborn, decided that Nefas was a suitable vessel for his power. And so, Wrath possessed him for about a week or so, leaving Nefas' mind permanently corrupted but stronger than he would've been without Wrath's takeover. As a child, Nefas had a habit of claiming himself to be better than he was, which brought about some animus between Pride and Wrath: both believed that they had a right to claim him for their own. Eventually, 69 broke up the fight between the two and winded up supporting Wrath because of his involvement with Nefas when Nefas was just a newborn.

However, Pride continued to try and convince Nefas to join him. He fed Nefas' ego and gave him several gifts over the years. By the time this relationship had been discovered by 69 and Wrath, Nefas was already attached to Pride and wouldn't leave his side without a fight. And so, it was in this way that 69 became a puppet for a while. With Nefas at his side, Pride could influence 69's decisions - even if it was only for a small bit. Eventually, 69 grew tired of this and decided that as long as it meant being able to make his own decisions without any influence from others, he would disown Nefas. Pride stopped using Nefas as a tool before this happened, but they continued being friends...in a way.

## Teenage Years

Nefas, as you might imagine, was a very...*fun* teenager to raise. And I don't mean fun as in "Yay! We're gonna have some fun," but I mean fun as in "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIHATETHISGODDAMNKID." He wore 69's patience thin more times than anyone could count, eventually resulting in 69 sending him away to the mortal world. Of course, if Nefas knew what was happening, he would've been insanely angry. And so, 69 told him that he was to extract misery from the humans - a phrase that Nefas took quite literally. Literally enough that Nefas actually found a way to extract emotions and the like from other people. The process is different from Avalon's way of extracting desires from its inhabitants, but both have somewhat similar objectives.

Somewhat shocked by this sudden turn of events, 69 called Nefas back and reviewed what Nefas had discovered. 69 planned to use this to gain more power without having to actively hurt the humans. Sadly for 69, Caelum was already stopping this from happening by the time he realized the potential that extraction had. They had teamed up with the Grim Reaper to prevent the humans from losing their feelings. After all, if the humans lost their emotions, there would no longer be any desires generated by them, and Avalon would lose its main source of power.

## Adulthood

Nefas eventually grew bored of extraction and started to focus on battle. He began to frequent the Colosseum because he loved the roaring of the crowds and the blood that was spilled. Eventually, these visits led up to his eventual meeting with Blixc. The two bonded over their love for action and they sparred frequently whenever they had time to spare. Sadly for Nefas, their friendship was cut short. Blixc winded up disappearing, and even the most fervent of Nefas' searches yielded no results. Eventually, Nefas learned that there wasn't an explanation for his vanishing into thin air.

Having lost his only form of entertainment - and the cause of most of his happiness - Nefas started to attack Caelum daily. Sometimes it would be things like assailing a random Vectio on their way to one of Caelum's portals, and other times Nefas would attack Caelum's border head-on. It wasn't that important, but it was certainly annoying to Floppa - angels would come to him for mental support, and He'd have to replace or fix what was destroyed. At one point, Floppa finally lost His temper and locked Nefas in a pocket dimension. And it was in this way that Nefas accidentally discovered that pocket dimensions changed themselves depending on its inhabitants. (we'll talk about this in a different article.)