DPU

## **Overview**

**Demon**
Patron units**,** **most commonly**
known as **DPUs**, were a race of
warrior gods from a previous era in Gamindustri. They haven’t been seen for a
long time period, and have mostly faded from history, leaving much about them
unknown. However, when accidentally stumbling across a new Dungeon, Nico
locates a special crystal deep beneath the dirt called a DPU Core. It
recognized him as a potential candidate and transformed him into a DPU.

Little is known about the DPUs themselves, which is why it is
up to Nico to find out what the history his new species had with Gamindustri,
especially with the events to come.

## **Origins**

The Origins of the DPUs stems from the eternal conflict
between the two forces of light and good, as well as the forces of evil and
darkness. They have had constant clashes since the creation of the universe,
resulting in an endless cycle of carnage and chaos. For millennia, that was all
the universe had truly known. It wasn’t like it was intentional, either for
these two powers merely existed alongside one another, their powers clashing
like two large organisms in a small room.

However, from the ashes of one of their clashes, the darkness
essence devoured that of the light essence, becoming stronger and overcoming it
in a seemingly impossible twist of things, an anomaly in the chaotic system the
universe worked under. The cycle of creation and destruction temporarily got
disrupted when the powers of darkness gained a victory that had never been seen
before.

From that essence, 4 beings emerged, four beings of darkness
whom had powers so unique, so deadly and devastating that in time, they would
be able to rival tat of the primordial forces if given the opportunity. These
beings were born from the chaos of the darkness and Light’s unintentional
conflict, a conflict they did not stop for they just simply ‘existed’ and
whatever their energies did was unstoppable anyways. Nevertheless, these beings
were born from carnage, and carnage became their way of life, their essence, the
blood that flowed through them, the air they breathed.

These were the four original DPUs, Sparda, Mundus, Diadact,
and Carnage.

## **Culture**

The DPU Culture can be summed up in several words: might
makes right. They were warriors, and as warriors born from the chaos of the
universe, they sought to fight to their hearts content. To them, strength was
everything for strength was what brought them into being, and strength was what
empowered them. They believed down to their cores that only those who know strength
can truly survive in the universe, a way of life that is integrated into every
DPU that formed from the Universe’s Chaos afterwards.

To that end, DPUs developed many customs and cultural traits
for their kind on their core Planet of Gamindustri. They created a society
based off of warrior norms, ideals and designs, such as the Death Parade Duels.
They would build massive coliseums and Crucibles all over their planets to
house special fighting tournaments for each other, promoting the idea of chaos
and conflict within their species. It worked as well, as DPUs revelled in
carnage and fighting, their society developing across their era as a warrior
society where only those who were truly powerful got the respect they deserved.
It would not be uncommon to see fights breaking out across the lands, resulting
in lands being destroyed or laid bare from the excessive use of Demonic Power.

To combat the threat off accidentally destroying their own
planet, DPUs could travel through space itself to other Worlds throughout the
entire Devildimension, as well as any other dimension (though this was
restricted to the four original DPUs as they are the only ones strong enough to
break the boundaries between dimensions), where they could fight and conquer.
DPUs met and destroyed many species during their era, earning their rights as
the strongest warrior gods in existence.

While they were primarily a warrior race, there were those
amongst them that specialized in other fields as well, such as magic and
science. There were DPUs whom, while not weak, chose these fields to pursue
instead and contributed to the development of many technologies that were
unique to their species. Technologies that, true to their innermost nature,
were geared towards combat.

## **Ranks of Power**

The DPUs each vary in terms of pure power, however NONE of
them are weak, none at all.

Continent Class (Low) - The lowest Class of DPUs have the
power to destroy an entire continent with a single swing of heir swords at 100%
power. The lowest rank a DPU has is called the ‘Continent Class’ and these DPUs
have similar level reserves. The energy reserves for any DPU rank have to be
able to sustain the DPU’s strikes, thus they are fairly larger than the class
they are announced as,

Multi Continent Class (Mid) – Multi Continent Class DPUs have
the power to destroy, well, multiple continents at once, and can shatter single
continents with much more ease than their lower ranked brethren. Those who are
of mid class however, have one difference between their lower ranked brothers
though, and that is the power of the Archdevil Arms. A single Archdevil Arm
allows the DPU to advance to this power level. The reason this is, is because
of how Archdevil Arms are formed, and also, they are seen as a sort of ‘rite of
passage’ for DPUs. Once they gain an Archdevil Arm, their powers will skyrocket
in potency, lethality and versatility. Mid rank DPUs usually have one or two
Archdevil Arms however, which is why they are on this level. Though, if a
mid-class DPU is able to manifest more than that amount of Archdevil Arms, they
will be one step away from approaching the next class.

Chaos Class (High) – The Chaos Class is a ridiculously high
class of power even in DPU standards, a power that only the Chaos Gods have
reached. This is due to them having multiple Archdevil Arms with full mastery
over all of them. It doesn’t matter how many they have, if they have full
control over them their powers will evolve to this class. This is the
difference between them and Mid Class DPUs, as the latter have only partial
control (like say 45% at max) of their Archdevil Arms. Till the current times
only the Chaos Gods have gained this level of power, and it shows. When they
fight, their movements are so fast, their abilities so great that they distort
the fabric of reality around them.

Primal Class (Ultimate) - To this day, there is only one
other class that is above the Chaos Gods, and that’s the Primal Class, which
only the four original DPUs have gained. This is solely because while they have
their own power levels comparable to such a class, they also have the powers of
the four Edicts, the Edicts of Destruction, Life, Death and Fate. Powers which
they have mastered. The reason for this is largely due to the hellishly
difficult conditions required to master these Edicts, for example the Edict of
Destruction requires the user to constantly fight, as in fight a LOT. They also
need to perform a special ritual called the ‘Nirvana Ritual’ which involves
taking a special Pill called the Nirvana Rebirth Pill that destroys the eater
down to their very beings, then reconstructs them with no abnormalities. They
become perfectly balanced, a body that is without any contact with the
imperfections of the normal bodies. A body that is in perfect contact with the
world. Only then, can they learn about the Edicts, learning how to control
their powers.

In a sense, it is a pre-requisite. There are few things that
can match the Edicts, some of which being the primordial elements and the
primordial powers of light as well as darkness. This is why this class is the
‘ultimate’ DPU Class.

## **Powers and Abilities**

DPUs are Gods, beings that are superior to the current
generation of Goddesses in Gamindustri. This is due to them possessing a mybrid
of demonic-based abilities and powers. Such abilities are:

### **Elemental manipulation**

The DPUs
have the ability to manipulate the elements themselves, creating twisted,
demonic variants of them which have been horrendously transformed by their own
negative natures, resulting in some highly dangerous elements coming into existence.

One such element is Hellfire , where DPUs can generate
from within themselves cursed hellish flames, flames that are born from the
chaos and carnage of their volatile energies that can completely destroy
whatever they touch.  In a DPU’s human
form these flames are weakened somewhat but are still deadly to those that
touch them. Their true power only shines when a DPU enters their true forms
however, which is something that most forms of life fear massively. In human
form, these flames take on an orangish red colour, but in DPU Form, these
flames become blacker than the abyss with crimson red outlines. Hellfire is the
first and the easiest element to master, due to the chaotic nature of Demonic
Power. Chaos naturally breeds flames of destruction; thus their nature makes
any Fire based ability exceptionally powerful as well as the easiest to learn.

### **DDD**

The DPUs
process of transformation, the opposite of HDD (Hard Drive Divinity). It is
short for Demon Drive Demonica, and it takes the form of a cocoon of flames
instead of a pillar of light. When a DPU transforms into this state, they do
not possess any Processors like CPUs do, instead they have an armoured form of
varying appearances and a weapon, though this eliminates a weakness to the CPUs
HDD Forms. Something exploited by Mundus when he faces off against the CPUs for
the first time.

### **Devil Arms**

DPUs have
the talent for wielding different Devil Arms, weapons that are the
manifestations of demonic souls. Their original weapons, the ones that they
gain upon activating DDD, are also Devil Arms but are more ‘complete’ than the
others. This gives them additional benefits that the ‘incomplete’ ones lack,
such as soul eating, and gaining additional abilities over time. They can wield
Devil Arms so easily due to their immortal bodies and souls, as well as the
power they command, the two requirements necessary to command a Devil Arm’s
respect. The Devil Arms which come from a DPU’s Soul, unless under special circumstances,
are usually akin to Archdevil Arms with regards to them being more ‘complete’. It has been revealed however, that there are mortals capable of wielding Devil Arms as well, although DPUs are much more efficient than them at doing so.

### **Negative Emotion Sense**

Every DPU is capable of sensing any negative option
within a large radius, as in an entire city’s worth of a radius. They an sense
anger, rage, despair, sorrow, desperation, and any other negative emotion in
existence. They use this ability in a variety of ways, they can use it to
detect whether or not someone was lying by their brief spike in negative
emotions, or they can see where there is the most injustice being committed
judging by how many negative emotions they can feel. However, this ability is
quite literally, a double-edged sword. For there is a chance that inexperienced
DPUs can get overwhelmed by this ability, and allow the negative emotions to
twist them into horrific forms that were considered husks of their former
selves. There is one fact that is unknown to all but the best of their kind,
and that is strongest of DPUs can channel those feelings and convert them into demonic
power, similar to CPUs attaining shares only DPUs have a greater repertoire of
emotions to channel.

### **Monster Generation**

With their energies, thoughts and imagination, DPUs
can channel their energies to create any kind of monster they wished.  These monsters can vary in appearance, power
and scale, depending on the wills of their makers. They also can spawn monsters
by engaging in sexual intercourse with a female body, though this can be
changed depending on the DPU’s desires. These desires are the source of why
there were so many Hybrids of human and Demon running about in the DPU era. There have been several instances of this ability being mentioned by Biko, but Nico has shown a severe distaste for using it due to how his predecessors had abused this ability. The only instance where Nico himself used this ability was his accidental creation of Urthemiel, his Archdemon.

### **Demonic Power Manipulation**

Demonic Power/energy manipulation is a core ability
amongst the DPU race, and unique to both them and the demons they create. Devil
Arms too, but they are manifestations of demonic souls that were defeated by
someone else. Demonic power has a wide variety of uses, more so than CPUs share
energy. For one, it empowers the user when called upon, it can empower/
desecrate any object in their possession, and it is the power source of all
their other abilities. As such, DPUs have extraordinarily high reserves to
compliment their wide skillset. It is also considered to be very effective
against monsters, as proven with Nico in how he used is demonic energy to
suppress his Ghoul side for the majority of the Leanbox Arc.

### **Shapeshifting Wings**

A DPU’s wings are formed from their own demonic powers
in a sustained manner, thus they can be shapeshifted into any form that the DPU
choses. There are too many forms that the DPUs can chose from, and the only
limits to this is the intelligence of these DPUs. If one doesn’t have as much
intelligence, or isn’t very smart, then they won’t be able to shapeshift their
wings as much as a smarter DPU, as they don’t have the imagination to imagine
the forms visually enough for them to take form in reality. In addition,
natural born DPUs like Mundus and Sparda expend practically an ant’s worth of
power to shapeshift these wings, while non-naturals like Nico expend a greater
amount in comparison.

### **Immortality**

As with any
godly entity, DPUs are immortal, in which that they will live forever. However,
these warriors can be killed on the battlefield, but this is usually due to a
more powerful demonic being, and the longer one lives the stronger they become.
However, even if they ‘die’ it is only their bodies that are killed. Their powerful
souls remain and they float about in the Devildimension until their energies
can be recovered enough to reform their bodies. Essentially the DPUs are
immortal across multiple planes of existence, making truly killing them a
near-impossible task. That is why the older DPUs are terrifically feared and
respected across the Devildimension, for they have had the experience and
combat prowess needed to survive for as long as they have in a dimension where
only the strong survive. There have been times where Items have been made that
can severely weaken a DPU’s power, however most of these items have been lost
to time, their use practically vanishing after the end of the DPU era.

### **Inner World**

Another
advantage that DPUs have over CPUs is that each one has an ‘Inner World’ which
is like a world within their subconscious. Every DPU is supposed to have one,
and those that are able to enter these get access to much longer training
periods which increase their power. This is due to a time dilation within the
inner world, time passes differently in there, seconds in the real world are
actually hours in the Inner World. Interestingly, it is possible for others to
enter the DPUs inner world with them, provided that their trust in these people
is sufficient enough. In many cases, these DPUs take women into their inner
worlds as a show of trust and honor, such as the case was with Sparda and
Odyssey Heart.

### **Warping**

Warping is considered an essential ability for
the DPUs as it involves unleashing their powers in a bright flash and
teleporting to another area. DPUs who don’t have this ability usually don’t
last as long as others would on the battlefield, but those who do earn the
right to use a brilliant tool for ensuring their survival. Warping is fast,
nigh instantaneous, which means hitting a being about to Warp is nigh
impossible unless they are fast enough. Even then, it isn’t easy to tell that
someone is about to Warp aside from just before it happens. In addition, a DPU
can Warp others along with them, but the more they Warp along for the ride, the
more strain it puts on them mentally.

A DPU has a near limitless potential for growth within their
biology, due to how the evolution of carnage brings out their powers to their
fullest potential. It is said that a DPU can destroy entire continents with
ease, and they are known as the WEAKER ones. The middle ground DPUs can destroy
multiple continents with their powers, but they cannot cross into other
dimensions throughout the multiverse. The truly strongest of their kinds (the
original DPUs) can break the foundations of reality to break into other planes
of existence, cross entire dimensions as if playing hop scotch, while merely
agitating them risks destroying entire solar systems.

One of their most powerful abilities is not any of these, but
that they possess what is known as Bio Boost, which constantly increases their
power the more they fight opponents, as well as train in their Inner Worlds. This
Bio Boost activates instantly the moment a DPU is actively fighting or
training, and it will keep increasing the DPU’s power, energy reserves,
strength, speed, other physical attributes and resistances. With their
immortality being how it is, a DPU can become strong enough to destroy entire
galaxies and more with ease. This is the largest reason why the older a DPU is,
the stronger they are, as they have been in constant conflict and evolved to
new levels, gaining abilities and powers along the way.

With their culture being the way, it is, it is to be expected
that this ability would be considered necessary for them. The more stress is
put on the DPU, body or soul, the greater the Bio Boost’s efficiency

DPUs, once transformed, do not get affected by climates allowing
them to fight within outer space, frozen tundra’s or volcanic wastelands.