Demon Scion History

As it is well known, the history of the Demon Scion (known then as the first coalition) begins with the incursions of Lyrean Elves into the cursed lands.

### The rise of the Lyrean Elves

The rise of the lyrean elves is historically when the first mentions of Lyre playing elves from the deep northern forests have been found in texts by demon scion texts and glyphs. The rise was essentially when the elves established several small villages where they perpetuated their culture of music and their cultivation of the heart flower.

### The first proliferation

The first proliferation, which technically debuted when the Lyrean Elves left their forest homes is known among the other races of the cursed lands as the time when widespread deaths of cattle and animals swept across the region. The first proliferation is also when the other races of the lands learned of the existence of Ultrafauna.

### The radiation

The radiation is a period of intense famine which destroyed most of the infrastructure and relations between the sedentary scions of the cursed lands. The heart flower was left to proliferate on the world, and some eventually matured into the quarterhearts and began the reproductive cycle by emitting massive quantities of spores. The spores were ingested by most living organisms who developed lethal growths within months. Suspicion grew wildly at the time which resulted in the nobility of the cursed lands to either flee or to adopt nomadic lifestyles. At some time before the ultrafauna episode, it became public knowledge that Lyrean Elves were growing heart flowers, but its link to the situation wasn’t known.

### The Ultrafauna

Eventually, one quarterheart matured into a fullheart and the fruit was consumed by a lizardanth. The result was the first recorded Ultrafauna, named Barbarcoatl, a gigantic bipedal lizard with a distinctive horn. The Lizardanths fled the destruction of their homes and pleaded with their neighbours for aid. The reaction wasn’t warm from the other races as the Lizardanths were adepts at guile and stealth, and, fearing trickery, were slow to react. When Barbarcoatl destroyed a blin city, emerging dramatically from the bottomless mires was the threat taken seriously by the other races. The blins set to recruiting aid from the Anks, their overlords at the time. The battle was merciless as thousands died under toppled structures and melted in the digestive fluids of the creature. The battle was joined by hilltop cyclopeans who had awoken from their slumber to immobilize the giant, and the polkan centaurs of the region, in a rare exception to their solitary lifestyles used their terrible bow weapons to fight the creature. The creature eventually fell, but only by drowning in the bog. It was revealed that the creature underneath was a Lizardanth, the other races nearly ended the reptiles then and there were it not for a polkan who discovered the fullheart.

On the ruins of the bog, the monsters of the cursed lands allied to eliminate the Lyrean Elves who had declared war on their existence.

### The first war

Coordinating the first coalition was a difficult task for multiple reasons, the famine affected the all carnivore scions. The polkans returned to their solitary lives without a word, the hilltop cyclopeans wanted to go back to sleep and the blins and Anks were still suspicious of the Lizardanths. This distrustful atmosphere would not last as five new Ultrafauna would appear shortly after.

The first heartbreaker coalition successfully raided the Lyrean Elf villages but were quickly beaten back by the sheer destructive potential of their polycardiac warriors and the appearance of more Ultrafauna in the lands. Without options, the first coalition decided that the two sided war wasn’t worth it and opted to imprison the Ultrafauna until they could find a reliable way to kill them.

### The Temple Order

The coalition, now united in their mission to neutralize the ultrafauna and save the cursed lands, constructed vast temples dedicated to immobilizing the creature. A branch of the coalition, the temple order was tasked with building the temples to contain the creatures, another branch, the watch, were tasked with finding and luring the ultrafauna away from settlements and into their prisons. The Watch successfully found and captured the four ultrafauna and contained them within their temples.

For a while there was peace until a new wave of heart flower related cancers were discovered among the animal populations. The watch investigated, and at the cost of lives, discovered that a quarterheart was behind the epidemic and when covered up was neutralized.

The final straw for the coalition came when one of their temples was breached and the ultrafauna killed, by none other than a Lyrean Elf who promptly ate the creatures fullheart,to the horror of the surviving members of the temple order.

### The Incarce

The Coalition wanted to resume their war with the Lyrean Elves, but were always outmatched by their skill and technology. Their solution arrived when the confin regent, the servant of a demon called the Incarce contacted them from. The confin regent showed the coalition leadership the incarce’s size and strength and persuaded them that it was uninfluenced by a fullheart.

The coalition wasn’t persuaded by the confin regent’s proposition, until it pactized with them, granting all members of the demon scion a measure of its power (a resistance to quarterheart growths).

The coalition then decided to obey the demon in return for the destruction of the Lyrean Elves.

After constructing a kilometer long summoning circle and providing hundreds of cattle and other sacrifices the titanic monster came forth to banish the elves. The second coalition, styled the demon scion was born.

### The banishment

The incarce was used to defeat the ultrafauna the second coalition couldn’t defeat, and those it couldn’t were imprisoned. Quarterhearts could be safely put away thanks to the demon’s power.

By exploiting the bottomless mires, the Incarce bored a tunnel to the lyrean elves' great tree and erupted forth from the ground. The demon scion was quick and merciless, burning their flower fields to the ground, putting every elf they could find to the sword.

The elves were eventually saved by their god, a treasure god, who lifted which great masses of earth all over the cursed lands into the air, creating the modern day floating province. The incarce was buried under the earth and presumably killed, but the demon scion wouldn’t back down on their brutal assaults on the elves.

### The second proliferation

After the first proliferation, which ended in the destruction of the Lyrean Elves civilization on the surface of the cursed lands, the demon scion recreated the watch.

As time went on, reports of heart flowers floating to the surface from the floating province became known, and the second proliferation began. The demon scion, now the third coalition, became its modern cosmopolitan form and formed a council government with members of all races present. They reorganized the watch into its modern iteration.

### The raid of the skies

The loss of the Incarce weighed heavily on the coalition as they were no longer immune to the quarterhearts radiation, and were still cursed by the heart flower.

The coalition discovered a species of octopus that was immune to the radiation and possessed a balloon organ that could lift impressive loads. They started raising the creatures en masse in order to create a veritable air force to fight the Lyrean Elves on their turf. This new fighting force was known as the hidden army specialized in fighting in the floating provinces above the cloud barrier separating the province from the cursed lands.