Conspiracy of Evil

"*There isn't just a Son of Evil... there's also a 'Daughter of Evil'... Long ago... and even now... Rin... be careful.*"
―Mariam Avadonia
   The **Conspiracy of Evil** refers to the secret plot by Queen Dowager Prim Marlon and the sorceress Irina Clockworker to place the queen's daughter on the Marlon throne, overthrow the Kingdom of Lucifenia, and establish a new Marlon regime across all Evillious. Spanning decades, the political machinations had a lasting impact on the era.

## History

### Origins

"*Come to think of it I guess I might have put something in her wineglass the last time I saw her. But I'm sure I hadn't left any evidence behind, and I'd already forgotten about something so long ago in the first place.*"
―Prim Marlon[src]
Although openly supportive of the marriage between Arth Swee and Princess Anne Lucifen d'Autriche, Prim Rogzé secretly resented losing out to his close friend and later attempted to poison Anne's wine glass using Gift. After Arth and Anne distanced themselves from her, suspecting she was the culprit, Prim swore vengeance on the king. Afterwards, Prim left Lucifenia and, taking advantage of the King of Marlon's depression over losing his wife, courted and married him; by the age of seventeen, she bore his child.

Following the birth of Princess Germaine Marlon, Prim became obsessed with her, wishing her daughter to become the great queen of a Marlon empire, and began working to achieve this goal as well as get her revenge on Arth. Through her brother Presi, a minister of Lucifenia, Prim kept herself informed on the affairs of the kingdom. At some point, Prim also met the Staff Officer of Beelzenia, Gallerian Clockworker, and was briefly trained in the magical arts before the sorcerer left.

In EC 482, concerned over Gallerian's substantial aid to the Kingdom of Lucifenia, Prim sought out a mage to counter her, meeting Irina Clockworker in the Blood Pool region. Knowing that Queen Anne's children would be born, the sorceress offered Prim use of the Venom Sword in order to seduce Arth and prove her authenticity as a powerful mage. Taking the sword, Prim visited Lucifenia and used the vessel of sin to enter an affair with King Arth.

Months later, Irina approached the queen again and requested that, in exchange for her aid, Prim would give her a child for experimentation and help her collect the vessels of sin. Although initially planning to give over the child of one of her husband's mistresses, Prim eventually handed over her child with Arth, Kyle Marlon, due to the baby's high levels of wrath. With her conditions fulfilled, Irina pledged her support for the creation of a more powerful Marlon nation.

### Political Dealings

"*The Empress Dowager Prim wanted to expand Marlon's territory. For that reason she needed to weaken the might of the country of Elphegort and the Kingdom of Lucifenia, who had equal or greater power to Marlon. So she allied with a sorceress, made preparations behind the scenes, and induced both countries to come to blows.*"
―Keel Freezis[src]
As Prim's court mage, Irina finished the queen's tutelage in sorcery and trained Kyle as her personal agent while conducting her experiments. She also proposed the formation of the Special Maneuvers Task Force as a means to broaden her intelligence network. At some point, the two recruited the aid of Duke Sfarz in their conspiracy, the duke using his information network to discover the Glass of Marlon and the Marlon Spoon.

Focused on making her daughter into the next Marlon queen, Prim took a disliking to Germaine's painting hobby and arranged for the death of her art tutor, Margaret, after she and her husband were jailed as political prisoners. Following this, she bribed several art critics and the painter Nikolay Tolle to harshly criticize Germaine's paintings, breaking her confidence.

Later, planning to kill Queen Anne and her twin children in her bid to ruin Arth's life, Prim had requested Irina's aid. In response, the sorceress released the Gula plague in the Beelzenian Empire during the Lucifenian Expansion War, indirectly murdering Queen Anne as she invaded the country and supposedly became infected with the disease herself. With Queen Anne dead, Prim then acquired the help of Presi in the next stage of her plan to assassinate the twins.

After tricking her brother into believing the plan was to have Anne's heir Princess Riliane possessed by the Demon of Pride in order to advance his ambitions, she sent Irina to Lucifenia that December. Unbeknownst to her, Irina deviated from her plan and planned to have the Demon of Gluttony possess Riliane; to that end, Irina came to the Lucifenian Royal Palace with the demon sealed in one of the Four Mirrors of Lucifenia, telling Presi it was the Demon of Pride, and set a trap for the twins.

When Prince Alexiel was the one possessed by the Demon instead, Presi faked a claim that the prince was Anne's named heir. In the ensuing political struggle, Presi was killed, Riliane was declared dead, and Gallerian was tricked into believing he had sealed a demon away. Kyle was sent into Lucifenia to be adopted by Leonhart Phutapie and begin his infiltration. Soon after, Irina summoned another Gula strain to kill Arth and sent Kyle in as a spy to Lucifenia, also unbeknownst to Prim, making plans to transplant the true Demon of Pride into Alexiel.

In EC 492, Prim went in disguise to Yatski and met the struggling Mikina Freezis, Duke Sfarz's daughter. After helping her recover from an injury, she gave the merchant's wife the Marlon Spoon. Later, following the death of the Marlon King, Prim began systematically murdering his illegitimate children to reassure no one would challenge Germaine's legitimacy to the throne, and her daughter was crowned in EC 494.

When the queen was later approached by Mikina Freezis, having unintentionally used the spoon to kill her father, Prim coerced her into providing aid to her conspiracy, asking Mikina into her agent as well as appropriating funds from the Freezis Firm.

### Reign of Evil

*Main Article: Reign of Evil*

"*With his absolute power he'll create a world suited to his own satisfaction... He is surely the 'Son of Evil'. Like a villainous sorcerer.*"
―Mariam Avadonia's thoughts of Prince Alexiel

With the death of Lucifenia's King Arth in EC 499, Prince Alexiel succeeded him and Kyle successfully transplanted the demon from the mirror given to the prince to him. Not expecting Arth's death, the distraught Prim planned to make the son of her hated enemy miserable in his stead. Under the demon's influence, Alexiel's arrogant and and selfish behavior intensified over the years, imposing heavy taxes on the populace and wantonly executing citizens for menial reasons.

Again deviating from Prim's wishes, Irina planned to have Germaine possessed by the Demon of Lust; to this end, the Venom Sword was delivered to Keel Freezis via his wife and, shortly afterward, shown to Germaine. As a result, the Marlon Queen fell under the Demon of Lust's influence. Popular support for "The Son of Evil" continued to plummet after a famine left the people starving while the prince opposed sharing the palace's abundantfood stores. Mariam Avadonia became increasingly resilient to Alexiel's policies and constantly opposed him.

After Kyle informed Alexiel that Mariam was secretly stealing food from the palace stores to feed the hungry citizens, Alexiel collaborated with his servant, Rin, to assassinate the woman. Kyle then told Rin he overheard Mariam plan to kill Alexiel, assuring she would accomplish the mission. Mariam was successfully assassinated the next night.

Shortly after, Queen Germaine met with King Thorny Elphen and Keel to organize a relief effort for Lucifenia's starvating populace. The day after, having become impulsively enamored with one of Keel's maids, Clarith, thanks to the Demon of Lust's influence, Germaine planned to leave her duties behind to run away with her. Following her return to Marlon, Germaine hastily rejected her engagement to Alexiel.

In a letter addressed to the young ruler, she explained her reasoning and gave it to Lucifenia's prime minister, Minis Stoup, during his visit to thank Marlon for its support with the famine. Soon after receiving the rejection letter, Alexiel demanded that Leonhart and Kyle discover the identity of Germaine’s lover, and Kyle visited the Freezis Mansion, learning about Clarith. Although discovering Clarith's identity, Kyle reported that he only knew that the girl had white hair, prompting Alexiel to commence the White Hunting.

After it was discovered that Clarith was an associate of Gallerian Clockworker, Prim ordered Kyle to kill her, imprisoning Germaine until she could learn the whereabouts of her hideout from Mikina. After informing Alexiel that the girl was still alive, Kyle impersonated Rin and killed Clarith in Keel Freezis' hiding place, eliminating one of Gallerian's allies and instigating further conflict between Elphegort, Lucifenia, and Marlon.

### Marlon Occupation

"*The country of Lucifenia will henceforth be taken under the rule of the country of Marlon.*"
―Germaine to the peace assembly
As a result of Clarith's death, Germaine acted to overthrow Alexiel and achieve vengeance. To that end, in the run up to the Lucifenian Revolution, Germaine went in disguise and offered her aid to the Resistance, bringing an army of Marlon soldiers into the country to stand against the opposing Lucifenian military. Kyle was sent to the battle at the Lucifenian Royal Palace and killed Leonhart Phutapie in the midst of the chaos.

After the capital was taken, Prim sent a letter giving her support for Germaine's actions, but with a list of conditions for her to follow; among them was an order for Marlon's occupation of Lucifenia and integration of the country into one of its territories. Around this time, Prim arranged for Germaine to be possessed by the Demon of Pride after Irina removed the Demon of Lust, wishing to retain her obedience. Agreeing to her conditions, Germaine announced the annexation of Lucifenia during the ensuing peace talks. As Leonhart's death was announced, as well, the Three Heroes were officially disbanded.

With Lucifenia brought under Marlon rule, Germaine took up administration of the country and control of Marlon was given over to Prim. Later, Kyle told her that Ney Avadonia was the one responsible for Clarith's death, prompting her to call up a Sorcerer Hunt against her. In EC 501, Lucifenia was incorporated into Marlon completely, despite Germaine facing opposition from the Lucifenian Resistance. At some point, Gallerian and Lemy were added to Germaine's Sorcerer Hunt after they were discovered spying on Lucifenia.

The following year, Irina discovered Gallerian and Lemy infiltrating the Marlon Castle and fought Gallerian, leaving him weakened while the sorcerer's apprentice escaped. During this time, Irina discovered that Alexiel was alive, working in a monastery. She soon dispatched Mikina to go spy on the boy under the guise of visiting Michaela.

Around the same time, Germaine imposed a trade block with Elphegort to promote trade within Marlon's borders and strengthen its economy. By EC 505, Queen Germaine requested the use of the Special Maneuvers Task Force to go hunt down the fugitives under the Sorcerer Hunt, and Prim conditioned that they have total freedom in their activities and had Irina select Kyle as its head. Kyle was given use of Grim the End for their purposes.

### Conquest

*Main Article: War of 505*

"*That's why! I came here to pronounce an end to the armistice!*"
―Head of Espionage Kyle Phutapie
Equipped with Grim the End, Kyle and the Special Maneuvers Task Force were sent to Retasan Fortress. With Kyle replacing Riliane Mouchet as the city's commander, the blue-haired spy then infiltrated Beelzenia itself, starting the initial invasion by raising the dead Gula victims killed in the previous decades. Kyle declared war on Beelzenia for the Kingdom of Marlon and directed the undead army on assaults throughout the empire. Over a month into the campaign, Asmodean invaded the Lucifenia territory and the forces led by General George Ausdin suppressed the assault in the ensuing week.

During the same period on the Beelzenian front, the Special Maneuvers Task Force ascertained that Ney Avadonia was working for Beelzenia, although both she and Lemy had left by the time the fighting was over. After Beelzenia captured Retasan Fortress in a crippling counter-attack, Kyle returned to Lucifenia and then to Marlon to receive further instruction from Irina. In addition, the Marlon army also worked to suppress an assault from Asmodean forces. Under the influence of the demon of Pride, Queen Germaine made plans to conquer all of the Evillious region with renewed attacks on Beelzenia and Asmodean and then a sweep through the rest of the western states.

### Civil Dispute

*Main Article: Hedgehog Upheaval*

Later, due to the intervention of Ney, Lemy, and Yukina, Germaine was broken of her demonic possession and the fighting remained at a standstill as the group began returning to Marlon to move against Prim's conspiracy. In response, Prim moved her residence to Castle Hedgehog in the north, while Irina sent out a gigantic Ziz Tiama against their ship and retreated to the capital with Kyle. Kyle then moved to Castle Hedgehog with Grim the End to bolster Prim's defenses, creating an army of undead to engage the Marlon military.

After approaching the group and attempting to take Lemy's body for herself, Irina stayed at the Freezis Family estate in her cat form, waiting to possess Mikina. During the assault on Castle Hedgehog, Queen Germaine confronted her mother and learned the whole of the conspiracy while Prim planned to have her again possessed by the Demon of Pride.

Shortly afterwards, Kyle's strained mental state snapped and he killed Prim for failing to praise him, only to succumb to the Demon of Wrath and be subdued by Ney and Germaine. He was later killed by Irina using Mikina as a medium. After stealing the vessels of sin gathered at the estate, Irina fled to the Held Monastery, where her cat body was wounded in a final showdown and the conspiracy was ended once and for all.

### Aftermath

The wars and ravages of disease left in the wake of the conspiracy left countries such as Asmodean and Beelzenia weakened and resentful of Marlon and Lucifenia. Concluding the conspiracy, Marlon restored Lucifenia's former sovereignty and lost much of its gained territory. Following this restoration, Lucifenia was made into a Republic in EC 510.

## Civilian Perception

Although never fully realized by the public, Prim's schemes led to the suffering and death of countless innocents and multiple wars between countries across all Evillious. Her actions to set up Prince Alexiel as monarch turned him into a hated tyrant, despised in posterity for his cruelty throughout Lucifenia and its neighboring countries.

The people of Elphegort became contemptuous of the Lucifenian military as a result of the White Hunting and prolonged conflict within its borders, and Marlon was viewed as a dangerous imperial power that lacked interest in its subjects. Because of the secretive nature of the events and their supernatural elements, the general populace never learned the truth of what transpired.

## Appearances

* That Queen was Born from Mud (indirect mention in PV)
* Twiright Prank
* The Son of Evil (first appearance)
* The Servant of Evil
* Tree Maiden ~Millennium Wiegenlied~
* Regret Message (indirect mention only)
* The Daughter of Green
* Handbeat Clocktower
* Reach for the Stars ~The Letter He Kept Waiting For~ (indirect mention only)
* Genesis Girl Gretel
* The Son of Evil: Clôture of Evil
* The Son of Evil: Wiegenlied of White
* The Son of Evil: Praeludium of Yellow
* The Son of Evil: Praefacio of Red
* Deadly Sins of Evil: Gift from the Prince who Brought Sleep (mentioned only)
* Deadly Sins of Evil: Fifth Pierrot (mentioned only)
* Deadly Sins of Evil: Judgment of Corruption (mentioned only)
* Entr'acte of Evil: The Son of Evil Worldguide
* Epic of Evil: The Son of Evil Fanbook
* The Son of Evil Schedule Book 2013
* Waltz of Evil: The Deadly Sins of Evil Guidebook
* The Adventure of Two Girls
* Twiright Prank (story)
* The Son of Evil: Illustration Story
* The Daughter of Fog (indirect mention only)
* Heavenly Yard (story)
* The Son of Evil: The Doll Festival (non-canon appearance)
* The Son of Evil: Graduation (non-canon appearance)
* Seven Crimes and Punishments (story) (alternate timeline; indirect mention only)
* The Son of Evil: Novelette of Green
* The Son of Evil: Retrouver of Crimson
* His Reason
* Aku Musu (non-canon appearance)
* The Servant of Evil ~Opera Buffa!~ (non-canon appearance)
* Deadly Sins of Evil (manga) (non-canon appearance)
* The Son of Evil (manga)
* Evils Theater
* The Son of Evil ~Gemini of Charm~ Vocal and Soundtrack
* Prelude to Forest
* Evils Forest
* Evils Kingdom
* Evils Court
* Four Melodies of Evil ~The Son of Evil Novel Music Collection~
* The Muzzle of Michelle (album)
* Seven Crimes and Punishments (album)
* Evils Extra