Three Factions

The **Three Factions** (三大勢力, *San Daiseiryoku*) are the three groups of Fallen Angels, Devils, and Angels mentioned in the Bible, who are the main focus of *Divineverse*.

## Summary

### Pre Great War

The Three Factions started thousands of years before the start of the story after the Biblical God cast out Angels that opposed his teachings, creating the Fallen Angels who inhabited in the Underworld alongside the Devils. Unlike other supernatural groups (Norse Gods, Hindu Gods, Greco-Roman Gods, etc.) which were apparently more or less independent of each other, these three factions were all interconnected. Together, the Three Factions spawned the Judeo-Christian religion, and became part of the Bible.

### Great War

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The Three Factions of Angels, Devils, and Fallen Angels eventually warred against one another under the leaderships of the Biblical God, the Seven Great Satans, and the Fallen Angel organization; Grigori, led by Azazel, in a conflict which came to be known as the **Great War** which continued for an unknown period of time till it ended hundreds of years prior to the creation of the Kuoh Treaty after the deaths of the Biblical God and Four Great Satans

### Post Great War

Following the deaths of the Biblical God and the Four Great Satans as well as a massive loss in their main forces, the Great War finally ended, but it left the Three Factions in a state of conflict. However, due to a state of extreme exhaustion after the Great War and with all three factions losing their main forces, neither of the three sides wanted to continue battling. So while there was no peace between the factions, outright battles did not occur either.

The factions continued in this state with occasional conflicts between members who crossed paths for centuries.

### Peace Treaty

After the Excalibur event caused by Kokabiel, which nearly destroyed the existing status quo of the Three Factions, the top brass of each faction decides to hold a conference to solve the existing issues among the Three Factions. They eventually reached an agreement by following Azazel's proposal of forming a peace treaty between the Three Factions. The peace treaty known as the **Kuoh Treaty** (駒王協定, *Kuō Kyōtei*), was finally drawn up and ended the disputes between the Three Great Powers as they started to work together to rebuild their religion.

### Khaos Brigade terrorism

However, the Three Factions would encounter the first major threat to their new status quo in the form of the **Khaos Brigade**, which consisted of multiple races: Devils, Fallen Angels, Humans (who are descendants of legendary/mythological heroes), and a few Angels and others who were dissatisfied with the alliance of the Three Factions and sought to plunge the world into chaos.

The Three Factions would learn about the Khaos Brigade's existence during their conference as Azazel revealed their existence to Michael and Sirzechs, with the Khaos Brigade attacking their conference in hopes of assassinating the leaders of the Three Factions, though their attack was foiled.

The first Khaos Brigade faction that sought to destroy the status quo and the Three Factions was the **Old Satan Faction**, a collection of Devils who were descendent from the original Four Great Satans. They were defeated after they launched an attack at the Youth Devil Rating Game Tournament, with the rest of their leaders being killed, which forced them underground.

Seeking to expand their alliances, the Three Factions attempted to form an alliance with Odin of the Norse Gods and the Shinto Gods, but their meeting was interrupted by Loki, who objected to the alliance and attempted to kill Odin. Loki was defeated by the young devils of Kuoh Academy as the Norse Gods and the Shinto Gods became allies of the Three Factions.

With the Old Satan Faction no longer the dominant power in the Khaos Brigade, the **Hero Faction** attempted to increase their power and influence within the Khaos Brigade. They kidnapped the leader of Kyoto's Youkai; Yasaka, whom Serafall Leviathan was hoping to meet to and discuss a alliance between the Kyoto Youkai Faction and the Three Factions. Yasaka was later rescued by members of the Gremory Peerage as the Kyoto Youkai Faction became an ally of the Three Factions.

With Ophis becoming interested in Hyoudou Issei's growth as the Red Dragon Emperor, Azazel had her meet with the Occult Research Club in hopes of getting her to leave the Khaos Brigade which would force the Khaos Brigade to collapse. The Hero Faction betrayed Ophis and stole a portion of her power by using Samael, which they used to create Lilith. Shalba Beelzebub reappeared and used Leonardo's Annihilation Maker to create giant Anti-Monsters in an attempt to destroy the Underworld for rejecting him, instigating the Demonic Beast Riot. The allies of the Three Factions rallied to fight of the Anti-Monsters as the young devils were able to defeat the main members of Hero Faction, causing the collapse of the Hero Faction and Old Satan Faction. Due to violating the Kuoh Treaty by having Ophis meet with the Occult Research Club in secret, Azazel resigned as his position of Governor of the Grigori, with the Cadre Shemhazai becoming his successor.

After the initial downfall of the Khaos Brigade, the members of the Three Factions noticed that the scattered factions of the Khaos Brigade were gradually being united under a single banner, with Nilrem attempting to infiltrate Kuoh Town town to kidnap Ravel Phenex in order to perfect their fake Phoenix Tears by analyzing her demonic power.

Later, while attempting to negotiate with the Vampires of the Carmilla Faction, the Three Factions found themselves mixed up in the Vampire Civil War, due to the Occult Research Club's desire to save Gasper Vladi's childhood friend; Valerie Tepes. During the war, they learn that the son of Lucifer; Rizevim Livan Lucifer is alive and the one behind the efforts to rebuild the Khaos Brigade, as he formed his own faction; **Qlippoth**, to invade the *other world* by defeating Great Red, who guards the Dimensional Gap using the 666. After the war was halted, the Vampires become allies of the Three Factions sent aid to help the vampires rebuilt their country.

In order to respond to Qlippoth, the Three Factions created a special anti-terrorist team: **DxD**, to fight against Qlippoth, with them being granted special clearance to move among the faction to fight against Qlippoth.

Qlippoth would continue to perform terroristic acts against the Three Factions, such as attacking Auros and stealing Agreas, invading Heaven and inciting a rebellion of dissatisfied Exorcists.

Team DxD managed to track down the stolen Agreas and defeat Rizevim, though they were unable to prevent Trihexa's awakening. Now lead by the two legendary Evil Dragons; Apophis and Aži Dahāka, the newly released 666 would begin rampaging in the territories of the Three Factions, causing great devastation. The Three Factions and all of their allies were able to defeat the Evil Dragons and defeat Trihexa by sealing it, though it also forced the higher-ups of each faction and the gods of each factions to seal themselves with Trihexa to steadily cut down its combat power.

### Post Evil Dragon War

Following the Evil Dragon War, the strength that the Three Factions have regained was once again exhausted due to the fact the factions lost a majority of their leadership, with 3 of the Four Great Satans and 3 of the Four Great Seraphs along with the former Governor of the Grigori; Azazel being sealed in the Isolation Field Barrier. Due to the loss of leadership, the Three Factions had a change in leadership as Ajuka Beelzebub became the leader of the Devils and Gabriel became the leader of the Angels.

As the number of Satans was reduced, Ajuka planned to implement the **Seven Great Satans** system to increase the number of active Satans in the future, while the higher-ups of Heaven seem want to fill the Seraphs and higher-up’s seats in the future, as they would be asking powerful reincarnated Angels to fill in those roles in the future.

The Three Factions organized the **Azazel Cup**, a international Rating Game tournament that anyone could compete in as way of easing tensions between each of the mythological factions and to cultivate powerful fighters in the future.

During the Cup, Hades assembled his own group; the **Alliance of Hell**, which wanted to eliminate the other mythological leaders, the Three Factions and the Longinus. After several Alliance of Hell attacks such as Nyx's attack on the Occult Research Club and Erebus' attack on Kyoto, the Three Factions managed to convince the other mythological factions to allow them to defeat Hades and his patrons. As Team DxD managed to corner the Alliance of Hell to London, DxD defeated the entirety of the remaining Alliance members, capturing them.

When the Vali Team was scheduled to deliver the defeated Hades and Angra Mainyu, they were attacked by two strange machine creatures: Bebevu Su and Gvardora, who were members of the Evie race from the other world of Evie Etoulde, as the two manage to snatch the defeated Hades and Angra Mainyu from the Vali Team and escape with them. It is revealed that the higher-ups of the Three Factions and the chief-gods are aware of the Evies and their existence due to the knowledge that was given to Azazel by a time-traveling Gasper Vladi, as they know about the existence of the Evil God Melvazoa and the fact that his brother Regalzeva has reached their world and planned on invading.

## Kuoh Treaty

The **Kuoh Treaty** (駒王協定, *Kuō Kyōtei*) is a document signed by each of the leaders of the Three Factions, pledging to cease all hostility and fighting between each of its members, as further fighting between the factions would only lead to more problems for each faction, especially given how much of their populations were lost during the Great War and other conflicts such as the Devil Civil War.

The document was named after Kuoh Town, the location where the Three Factions had their conference and singed the treaty. Due to this, Kuoh Town is considered as an important location to the Three Factions, as each of the factions have some level of representation in it; with the Devil side having the Gremory Peerage and Sitri Peerage who are living in it, the Grigori; who build some bases under Kuoh Town and the Heaven side initially sending Michael's Ace; Shidou Irina as a envoy to live in the town and later building some new headquarters in a neighbouring town near Kuoh Town.

### Alliance

As the Three Factions began strengthening their alliance, they assisted each other in strengthening each of their factions so that the Three Factions could regain their former power, especially with the fact that news of the God of the Bible's death was slowly becoming known among the other mythological factions.

To prevent an incursion by a hostile mythological faction, the factions slowly rebuild their numbers; for instance with the assistance of the other scientists of the Three Factions, Heaven was able to create the Brave Saints system; a reincarnation system similar to that of Devils's Evil Pieces. Another way of increasing their power was to locate and try to recruit the possessors of Longinus Sacred Gears; with the possessors being given additional training and focus in order to encourage their growth. An example would be Hyoudou Issei, the Pawn of the Gremory peerage, who was trained personally by Azazel. If a Longinus was found by a member of the Three Factions, they had a duty to report it to the higher-ups of each of the factions. Failure to do so would constitute a breach of the Kuoh Treaty, as was demonstrated when the Great King Faction ordered Sairaorg Bael to hide the identity of his Pawn; Regulus' identity as the avatar of the Regulus Nemea Longinus, causing the Great King Faction to be questioned by the Satan factions with the Grigori and Heaven making a complaint to the Devil side.

As the Three Factions were able to coalesce into a working alliance, they slowly began the process of trying to make alliances with the other mythological factions such as the Norse Gods.

## Leadership

### Heaven

#### Former Leader

 **God of the Bible** | The former leader and creator of the Seven Great Seraphs, Twelve Great Seraphs, and the Angels. He was also the creator of the Holy Swords and the Sacred Gear System. He was killed in the Great War after sealing the Two Heavenly Dragons into Longinus Sacred Gears.

### Underworld

#### Former Leader

 **Lucifer** | The King of Devils and one of the four original Satans, master of the Lucifuge Clan, Lilith's husband and Rizevim's father, who is also known as the **Morning Star**. During the Great War, he lead the original Four Great Satans and Devils against the forces of Heaven and Grigori, being killed during the conflict.

## Members

The Three Factions were originally made up of the forces of Heaven, consisting of the Biblical God and the Angels; the forces of the Underworld, consisting of the Four Great Satans and the Devils; and the Fallen Angels. After the Great War, the overall strength of the Three Factions changed drastically with the Angels losing their God, the Devils losing their forces and their leaders, the Four Great Satans, and the Fallen Angels who lost many of their forces except their leaders.

Following the creation of the Evil Pieces and Brave Saints systems, the Devils and Angels forces have incorporated reincarnated humans and other species into their races. The Fallen Angels, meanwhile, look to repopulate their race by tempting Angels (including reincarnated Angels) into falling to their side, or by mixing their blood and race into hybrid children born from Humans or Devils.

 **Fallen Angels** | The former Angels who have fallen from the Fifth Heaven due to having impure thoughts that divert them from the teachings of God and became residents to the Underworld. The leaders of the Fallen Angels are the Grigori, were tempted by human women and had fallen after having sex with them. Despite being casted out of Heaven, the Fallen Angels retained their ability to light-based weapons.

## Allies

 **Vampires** | While at first neither of the Vampire factions had any intention of negotiating with the Three Factions, the Carmilla Faction later came to the Three Factions to negotiate as they wanted to borrow Gasper Vladi as a means to deal with the Tepes side's Longinus possessor; Valerie Tepes, in exchange for the Carmilla faction being willing to enter a peace agreement with the Three Factions. After the Vampire Civil War was halted because of Qlippoth's actions, both the Carmilla and Tepes factions became allies of the Three Factions, as they requested the aid of the Three Factions in rebuilding the ravaged Vampire country.

## Locations

 **Heaven** | The birthplace of the Angels and the former resident of the late God of the Bible. It’s the place where Humans and the other species go after they died. After the Biblical God’s death, the Seven Great Seraphs became the leaders in order to maintain the Holy System.

## Trivia

* The Three Factions are the only known factions that do not have any backing from a living God.
	+ Regardless of that fact, they appear to be one of the dominant supernatural groups.
* The Three Factions are sometimes called the Bible Factions because of their relationship to the Judeo-Christian religion and the Bible. They are also called the Three Great Powers due to the seeming dominance of the Judeo-Christian religion.
* The possession of 12 wings appears to be a sign of leadership among all three factions, as shown with the Four Great Seraphs, the Fallen Angels' Governor Azazel, and the original Satans and their direct discendants.
* The Three Factions have organized a Sports Day event on a potentially annual basis in order to strengthen the ties with the members of each faction.