Hope's Shackles

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**Hope's Shackles**, the eternal shackles mentioned in the description of the *Undying chain*, are the *seven lords* that led the Kingdom of Hope. They are the Immortal jailers created by Sun God to keep Hope imprisoned in her tower, chained forever. Each of the immortals embodies one of Hope's eternal shackles. They can only be destroyed by one of the Sun God's knives.

## Chain Lords

There were seven immortals created by the Lord of Light to contain Hope. Their strings were torn out of the tapestry of fate, made to loop endlessly onto themselves, and placed into seven strange knives. The knives were both what made the Chain Lords eternal, and the only thing that could kill them. Each of Hope's wardens was entrusted with the key to another's death. This was what kept the balance between them.

Here are the list of lords their faith, domain, and what knife entrusted to them by *Lord of Light* and one that contains their string of fate:

### Knives

Using the knives would only make the lords mortal.

## Background

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The Lord of Light bound *Hope* with seven brilliant shackles, and made those shackles eternal, that was the *Chain Lords*. He entrusted each of them with the fate of another, and a solemn duty to never let the Demon escape. For a few centuries, everything was fine but slowly, they grew tired. Doubt found its way into their hearts. After all, eternity is a heavy burden. Under its weight, unnoticed, one of them grew twisted, *Aidre*. So, another one made a choice to uproot the corruption. That was how the first of the Chain Lords died, murdered by Solvane, her beautiful grove burned to the ground.

After that, all of their fates were sealed. Six shackles still remained but *Hope's prison* wasn't perfect anymore. It enabled her will, her insidious influence to sip out, little by little, infecting all of them. Slowly devouring the whole kingdom, every living being in it, from the smallest insect to the mightiest immortal, igniting their desires, twisting them, changing them into something different, something terrible, rampant, and vile.

None of them noticed it for a long time, even after hundreds of years. It seemed that only Shadow realized it earlier and by the time the rest of them understood, at least those who were still sane enough, it was already too late. The whole of the Kingdom of Hope had been driven mad by its former ruler.

## Knives' Whereabouts

### Wooden Knife and Iron Knife

Aidre was entrusted with the *Wooden Knife* by the Lord of Light and Solvane had the *Iron Knife* which could kill her. After Aidre died, Solvane took possession of the *Wooden Knife*, which contained her own fate.

The *Iron Knife* was destroyed when Lady Aidre was murdered.

### Ivory Knife

There were brothers who were both blessed by the Lord of Light and entrusted with a sacred duty. One of them tortured the other, as penitence for the sin his brother committed. The tortured brother was entrusted with the *Ember Knife* by the Lord of Light but was stolen by a Shadow. There's also the *Ivory knife* entrusted to him by his brother but he forgot the location where he hid it. The brothers were the rulers of the Ivory City.

The *Ivory Knife* was entrusted to *Sevras*, the *Sun Lord*, who gave it to his twin brother, the *Sun Prince*. One day the Sun Prince came to Noctis with an unusual request. He wanted Noctis to erase the memories of where he hid had hidden the *Ivory Knife* and make him forget the request. Noctis agreed but instead of destroying the memory, he kept it for himself and eventually retrieved the knife.

However, the *One in the North* was still angry with Noctis and they had a rematch. The stakes were high and Noctis did not win. She got the *Ivory Knife* and threw it into the Sky Below.

### Ember Knife and Glass Knife

The Shadow Lord was entrusted with the *Glass Knife* by the Lord of Light. He had stolen the *Ember Knife* from the Sun Prince. Then, he entrusted the Glass Knife to a *Shadow*, taken to the Temple of the Chalice, and given to a *War Maiden*.

*Ember Knife* was stolen and destroyed when the Shadow took his own life.

### Obsidian Knife

The *Obsidian Knife* had been originally entrusted to the One in the North, but she lost it to Noctis in a game of wit.

Noctis won the *Obsidian Knife* as a prize from the One in the North by playing cards but he sort of lost the knife later on.

The others weren't happy at all that he possessed two knives, so he placed the *Obsidian Knife* on the altar in his Sanctuary and proclaimed that everyone who manages to gather enough of his coins can take it. According to Noctis, the coins are very precious but a very determined and reckless young man managed to collect all of them. The daredevil took the obsidian knife and disappeared. He was probably killed for it, but no one knows where and how. The Obsidian Knife was lost temporarily lost and was back in the possession of Sunny.

### Ruby Knife

The *Ruby Knife* was the one entrusted to Noctis by the *Lord of Light* but due to his concern about his state of mind and frightened what he might do he gave it to a dear friend of sorts for safekeeping. Noctis said to his friend that only give the knife to someone of pure thought and heart.

When Noctis entrusted the knife to the creature centuries ago, the purity of heart and thought meant the ability to remain of clear mind, true to his oath, and loyal to his sacred duty.

## Trivia

* According to Aidre, no matter which one of them falls, the one who remains will no longer be fateless. The balance of power between the seven of them will irrevocably be broken.
* According to Noctis, the knives never really stay lost for long. It was impossible to get rid of one.
* According to Noctis, the **One in the North** is perhaps the craziest of them all except for himself who admitted that he is the maddest person in all of the Kingdom of Hope.
* The immortals spent more than a thousand years bound together and they know the flaws of each other.

## See Also

* Dark Seed
* Divine Miracles

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 611 Immortal Lords
2. ↑ Chapter 681 The Incredible Adventures and Astonishing Deeds of Heroic Dreamer Sunless in the Lonesome Land of Nightmares, Abridged (Volume III)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 646 Familiar Sights
4. ↑ Chapter 520 Deliverance
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 622 Wooden Sword
6. ↑ Chain Breaker
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Chapter 636 Desecration
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Chapter 638 Dream After Dream
9. ↑ Chapter 739 Empty Skies
10. ↑ Chapter 729 Broken Shackles
11. ↑ Chapter 679 Messenger from the North
12. ↑ Chapter 707 Treachery
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Chapter 649 Kingdom of Madness
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 Chapter 658 Seven Knives
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chapter 637 Iron Cage
16. ↑ Chapter 657 Chance of Victory
17. ↑ Chapter 691 Heresy
18. ↑ Chapter 698 Creature of the Lake
19. ↑ Chapter 699 Reverse Scale