Founding Demons

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The **Founding Demons** were five, powerful demons that had ruled the state of Runia thousands of years ago after being created by Seléne, the goddess of astrology and cosmics after coming across Damion Halloreen, wanting to turn him into a demon to ensure he would bring stability back, along with four other demons. Once formed, they became a council of their own and managed to ensure stability until their deaths.

After the death of the first five Founding Demons, a second generation had then come along before they too had died under mysterious circumstances, though it is later revealed that they were murdered by Damion after he was accused of murder. Their magic was never passed onto a third generation, and due to the anarchy starting to erupt further, it resulted in the Five Kingdoms being created from those with clan ancestry, leading to the citizens of Runia traveling to either kingdoms.

The Founding Demons also had Demon Gems, which were gems that they possessed that prevented darkness from eating the land. Because of their separation, it resulted in a surge of darkness, awakening the dark entity and black vines consuming Azuren.

## History

### Early History

Over thousands of years ago, Runia, the then capital of Azuren and state, was in anarchy due to having an unstable government and the overthrow of Erothite after multiple rebellions sparked up in order to stage a coup de'tat. One day, a major fire happened with only a handful surviving and a majority dying due to the severity, one of them being Damion. When running away from the fire, he had gotten hit by a tree engulfed in flames, resulting in him falling into a shallow pond and barely surviving because of his severe injuries. Damion had believed that he was going to die after the tree that fell on him had broken several of his bones, Including his back and three of his ribs, rendering him incapable to stand up or walk. After he tried to crawl out of the pond, he soon fell unconscious, believing he was going to die.

Upon waking up, he appeared in the astrologic realm where the Lunar Entity, known as Seléne, had resided and noticed that both of them shared a common trait of wanting a stable government and equality, while also having beliefs about law and order: Since the fall of Erothite, the ruthless dictator who lied about being a descendant to a god, the village had been anarchist and after those thousand years never had a government due to the townspeople having little to no education and heavy restrictions placed on them. Damion had the intention of reforming Runia during its time in anarchy but was afraid to do anything out of fear for his life. She decided to arrange a deal with him where she then created the ten demon powers, which will turn five individuals into a certain type of demon and all five will merge to create a government. Though demons were frowned upon in society after the war between both humans and demons, he accepted reluctantly to help bring back stability.

### Rise to prominence

With all the demon powers together, they were a fully formed government and had managed to gain the support of people despite being demons because of their unique personalities and powers after taking over the Runian court and taking over as the new leaders, promising more freedom and rights for the civilians after the strict dictator from thousands of years ago: The Founding Demons had switched the once unfair laws to be more equal and had started the process of bringing Runia back to stability. Despite being a daunting task, the Founding Demons were determined to help and restore the civilization.

At first, the government was widely supported and stable for the first time and Runia was getting restored into a more stable state, as each demon had a favorable amount of supporters because of their professionalism and laws that were not as controlling unlike when Runia was under the rule of Erothite. For the first time in years, both humans and demons collaborated to help rebuild and restore Runia after the fire that was caused, with most of the townspeople assisting to help their new leaders because of their hard work to make Runia a stable state, the Founding Demons had gotten more support.

The Founding Demons managed to create a democracy via a directorial republic. Their laws were seen as reasonable and flexible, unlike the dictatorship they once had. the government was well organized and had a fair share of laws and equality. All of them had managed to maintain the criminals and crime levels to ensure the village will also have safety so the people could work without having the constant fear of crime, and hunting for people to get food in the high mountains after the fire has severely affected the forest environments where the live-stock had once lived in before running away in the mountains. They were able to find the remainder of clean water in one of the rivers that were not affected in the fire and assisted the citizens in rebuilding the state.

As their power and popularity grew, Runia became a democratic nation where everyone was able to express themselves freely with little to no worry about being harmed. prisons being built and crime rates decreasing very quickly due to the prisons being reinstated, but only those who were notorious criminals were tried and arrested, ensuring that the village would no longer have to live in fear or have to steal for survival, and began opening shops to make a living of their own.

### Distaste towards Damion

However, with all the praise that the Founding Demons receive for their assistance and government, some individuals of Runia still displayed a distaste towards the Founding Demons, mainly towards Damion because of how dark magic was heavily disliked among the Runians. Despite Damion being a polite and educated man who had done many things that helped Runia, Some of the civilians tended to dislike him because of his demon species, even though he was the one who made their village livable again without any crime with the help of his other council members.

With the distaste towards the shadow Founding Demon increasing, Damion had started hiding in the courthouse more often and stopped appearing in public because of how some civilians were trying to convince his court to banish him, even though they refused to do so after he appeared in public again he started to ignore the negativity he had been receiving and attempted to improve the lives of the civilians as much as he could to gain more support and likability, but was only seen as dangerous by a favorable portion because of his specie.

While outside when transferring wood to assist in the reconstruction of buildings, a man suddenly approached Damion and started to berate him for his specie, saying how he was not capable to rule because of the demons "vicious" history. Damion had ignored it and was passing wood towards the constructionists before feeling a sharp pain in the stomach. When looking down he saw a knife being put through his stomach, causing him to screech in pain. As an act of defense, Damion had scratched him to prevent him from stabbing him further, but it also resulted in him unintentionally killing the man in a public area.

After he was healed and people witnessed the scene, he was then accused of murdering the man with intent and many spoke out about how he should be banished from the court. Despite the court defending him at first and trying to stay by his side, the claims were starting to become more heinous. Even though Damion had shown his scar from being stabbed, his council turned on him and no one believed him except Kahori, who stayed by his side.

### Damion's downfall

Damion was then banished by the council, with a request he shall never return. Out of both hatred and spite that his council had turned on him, he snuck into the court the next morning to steal all of the Demon Gems, alerting them all instantly. The other members of the council were shocked to have known that Damion had taken all of their gems, but they also realized that he combined all of them to kill them. With the realization that Damion had all the gems, the council attempted to convince him to not kill them as chaos would soon emerge if they died, but Damion refused to listen because of how they refused to listen to his side of the story. As a result, Damion combined all their gems and killed three out of five of the Founding Demons.

Damion started to feel deep regret for his actions later on. To rid the existence of the first generation and to get rid of any reminiscence of his past, Damion had used a spell to scatter them and made them shards, which had spawned many people obtaining the shards and having the abilities of a given demon that the gems had possessed. Thousands of years later, Damion gained his spirit powers because of a defective gene when being turned into a demon. The gene then expanded and he gained new abilities and a new appearance he can use for deception and wandered the forests, leaving Runia without a government once again.

### The Second Generation

Thousands of years after the fall of the first generation, Runia was left without a government. In order to fill in to ensure that anarchy would cease to exist another generation of the Founding Demons was formed, consisting of new elements that were distributed. They managed to follow the legacy of the first generation by quickly resolving issues within the state and managed to bring it back to a relatively peaceful state. The second generation worked similarly to the first generation, with five council members in a parliamentary directorial republic and worked in the same council building the first generation had once worked in.

The Second Generation, despite being slightly weaker than the first generation, were perceived as mighty rulers who had brought peace to the land. With a new council, the people gave them their support and appreciated their assistance in driving Runia back into its peaceful state. The new set of Founding Demons had peaceful elements that correspond with nature as noted by Locaster. Because of their peaceful reign, there was hardly any conflict between the people or the government, allowing the second generation to expand on their state and added protection for the civilians.

However, not much of their reign was known, as Damion had figured out that the second generation had been put into place. Out of both fear and extreme rage from his past, he had killed the second generation as a result of his mistake, scattering the gems and ridding any reminiscence of his past, and making sure the same mistake wouldn't happen once more. The citizens of Runia, tired of being in a state of anarchy, migrated to other kingdoms that were recently being developed.

### Aftermath

After the fall of both generations, many civilians moved out of Runia, and higher ups with blood from a tribe started their own kingdoms in other areas of Azuren to ensure that corruption would cease to exist. Eventually, Five Kingdoms were created and many of the citizens migrated to either kingdom to start new lives instead of living in a state of anarchy for more years to follow.

## First Generation

* Shihai
* Ueno
* Damion
* Kahori
* Arlo

## Physical Information

### Age

24-27 (Damion)
26-29 (Ueno)
24-25 (Shihai)
Unknown (Kahori)
24-27 (Arlo)

### Height

5'7 (Shihai)
Around 5'11 (Ueno)
5'11 (Damion)
6'3 (Kahori)
6'0 (Arlo)

### Specie

Control Demon (Shihai)
Spirit Demon (Ueno)
Shadow Demon (Damion)
Flesh Demon (Kahori)
Fire Demon (Arlo)

### Ethnicity

Guatemalan & Japanese 🇯🇵🇬🇹 (Shihai)
South African & Japanese 🇿🇦🇯🇵 (Ueno)
Irish, Scottish & Italian 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇹 (Damion)
Japanese 🇯🇵 (Kahori)
Argentinian 🇦🇷 (Arlo)

## Personal Information

### Alignment

Neutral-Good

The first generation of Founding Demons and gems were sent down by Seléne to bring back Runia's stability. They received great power from the Lunar Goddess after she had split the first five demon powers, and due to them coming first, with or without the gem, they have a higher level of speed, strength, stamina, and endurance, more than the second generation. Despite them being the first demons in their generations, all of them were once humans before being turned into demons by the Lunar entity after Damion had accepted her offer of becoming a demon to form a government to provide stability for Runia. Their elements and species consisted of Shadow, Spirit, Flesh, Control, and Fire.

The first generation of Founding Demons was the first government that had demons, which was formed three days after Damion had secured his deal with the Lunar Entity. Despite them all being a certain type of demon, all of them had human qualities, such as empathy and emotions, and not how the myths depicted demons as, further breaking the stereotyping of demons. Before their transformation into demons, all of them had different names: Though after becoming demons, had changed their names into different ones.

### Tasks

Each founding demon has a job, whether it'd be partner work or not, and has to preserve whatever element they have or have control over Ueno and Damion are tasked to keep a balance between the spiritual and dark magic to make sure that the dark magic does not evolve into bigger conflicts where it could consume people or places, and to also assure that the spiritual side does not cross over to the human side: If both have an imbalance, it could also make the environment around them unstable: With that effect, it can also cause damage to their powers if not at a certain level where it would be considered balanced, and with instability can also affect the minds of the individuals of Runia.

Shihai's main task is to keep control and tranquility among the citizens to a certain extent, as she is the Founding control demon: with her ability, she can use her mind manipulation to an extent to stop certain crimes or conflicts happening the village, or even being able to hold a person completely still without problems: An exception to this was Shadow demons, who have a unique property in their blood to make mind control extremely difficult on them: While maintaining the peace, Shihai's secondary task is to keep the crime levels in Runia as low as possible, meaning she would have to use her abilities to stop crimes as quickly as possible and turn them into the government, whether it would be sentencing them for their crimes or putting them on a trial, where they test to see if they were guilty or innocent with all evidence collected.

Arlo's main task is to stop accidents like house and forest fires to keep the level of fire energy at a certain level, where the world will not over-heat nor will it freeze, and his other task is mainly to give heat to those who need it during times in the winter where fire can be scarce, but also having to make sure there is not an over-flow of heat, and also having to provide the fire for those who require warmth.

Kahori's task is unknown, as it is never stated: But it is implied that she usually has to do hunting tasks, primarily for the villagers to get food in parts of the mountains where air thinness is common and would have to kill the animals quickly and painlessly due to her having control over someone's flesh, animal or human.

## Second Generation

**Thank you to HazyFacade, Theosist, and Kat S for the drawings!**

## Second Generation

* Shizuko
* Yún Wù
* Imai
* Aeris
* Sirena

## Physical Information

### Age

23 (Shizuko)
20-23 (Yún Wù)
27 (Aeris)
28 (Imai)
22 (Sirena)

### Height

6'1 (Shizuko)
5'10 (Yún Wù)
5'6 (Imai)
5'9 (Aeris)
6'4 (Sirena)

### Specie

Flower Demon (Shizuko)
Mist Demon (Yún Wù)
Moon Demon (Imai)
Wind Demon (Aeris)
Insect Demon (Sirena)

### Ethnicity

Japanese 🇯🇵 (Shizuko)
Chinese 🇨🇳 (Yún Wù)
Guatemalan & Aruban 🇬🇹🇦🇼 (Aeris)
Vietnamese🇻🇳 (Imai)
Moroccan, Persian & Bahraini 🇲🇦🇮🇷🇧🇭 (Sirena)

## Personal Information

### Alignment

Neutral-Good

The second generation of Founding Demons we're formed after the Lunar Goddess had activated the remaining five demon powers thousands of years after the fall of the first generation: The second generation was the second group of demons to have a government system, with Demons no being seen as a danger or threat anymore because of the myths, but as responsible and extremely skilled governors that were able to bring balance and peace to the world, and along with that saving the lives of many demons and creatures. Though, a portion of the population still had extreme distaste toward demons and still held a grudge against them. Their elements consist of Mist, Flower, Moon, Wind, and Insect, all which Locaster notes to be more "softer" elements, despite their immense power.

Due to the coming thousands of years after the First Generation, they have demonstrated to be slightly weaker with their natural abilities, but still have the utmost strength, stamina, endurance, and magical abilities. Though regardless, they are shown to be weaker than the first generation with or without their gem.

### Tasks

Like the first generation, the second generation Founding Demons had tasks of their own: Sirena and Shizuko were shown to have partner work as their main task was to keep nature in balance and prevent the overpopulation of invasive species or plants that could be a damaging factor to the environment: Imai's main task is to control the tides by night, As there is no sun demon, she solely controls the moon only and therefore controls when the moon rises and sets. Aeris and Yún Wù's tasks are unknown. Though Aeris' task is implied to be keeping the air at a good quality and Yún Wù's having to involve him either increasing or decreasing mist in damper areas.

## Functions

### Organization

The Founding Demons were a parliamentary directorial republic, where instead of having a president, it has around five individuals who enact as a council and make decisions in laws and acts, along with the wellness of the people. However, they were not alone in their decisions as they were required to have an "all in favor" vote, where the act would need to have a majority vote in order to be approved or passed. If four out of five members raise their hand in favor of a law, it would be approved. Though, if less than four of them approve, it would be rejected unless they submit it again modified. As they represent an element, they are each considered a spokes person. As they are representatives, they mainly reside within the Founding Demon National Council building and govern a certain province within Runia.

### Court cases

When settling with cases where one would have to be sentenced to prison, the Founding Demons switch to the Founding Demon Court, where the council would decide if the said person is guilty of the crime and their sentences, working alongside newly appointed judges to justify their sentences in order to distribute power. Damion Halloreen was the main sentencer, with Ueno being appointed as his advisor. In the second generation, Shizuko was the main sentencer and Yún Wù was his advisor who would assist him in making trial decisions. When the trials conclude and the final verdict is given, they could consider on lightening the sentence if it is seen as harsh unless if the sentence is reasonable for the crime committed.

## Gems

*To see more information, please go to Demon Gems.*

The Founding Demon Gems, otherwise known as the Demon Gems, were the ten gems both generations equipped and were created by Seléne via Cetra's. Their gems are utilized in different manners, often enhancing their abilities in order to provide stability. As their gems are elements that help keep Azuren in balance, they often used them with good intent, though after their separation, a wave of imbalance occurred, resulting in the Dark Entity awakening from it's slumber a thousand years later and ensuing chaos through black vines. To restore balance, each gem is placed in a seal that will correspond with it's element in order to revert the black vine's affect on land or water.

## Legacy

The Founding Demons had a legacy that no other ruler lived up to: Statues were made of them in honor of their leadership and shrines were made dedicated to them for worshipping purposes. However, Damion's legacy was tarnished as most statues with his name were often removed in an attempt to erase him from history. As many statues were made in their honor, they were often hidden and secluded in a shrine, known as the Founding Demon garden, which after the murder of the Founding Demons, was sealed away in the Fallen Gates.

## Trivia

* In earlier works of the Founding Demons, a third generation was intended: However, it was scrapped due to a lack of elements to choose from.
* Damion was not supposed to be the shadow Founding Demon and was supposed to remain as an antagonist, but was given the role after Aury Sona saw how he managed to fit the role and to include him within the story.
* The Founding Demons were loosely based off of the Nine Titans from the anime, *Attack on Titan*. The concept was first made during the Secret Archive arc, where Aury sona decided it as an idea in order to set the story up.
* Out of all Founding Demons, Arlo is the only one with short hair.