Hunger Games

**Hunger Games**, or **Battle of Bastards**, is a battle-royale between the special children to fuel the Qliphoth with demonic power needed to create a rift in the Ouroboros Barrier, releasing the demons into the world.

## Summary

The Hunger Games is a twisted battle-royale hosted by the Seven Sisters of Istehar as a means to fuel the Qliphoth ritual with the needed demonic power to create the rift within the Ouroboros Barrier that seals the Underworld, allowing the demons to escape and wreak havoc onto the mortal world once more.

The battle involved an entire generation of 72 special children, whose ages greatly vary as there are both adults and teenagers among them, with the youngest special child being the last to enter puberty, and thus, the trigger for the opening of the Games. Upon the night they enter puberty, all special children will immidiately fall asleep not long after and be snatched up in the night and teleported to the Phlegraean Fields where the Games is hosted.

There, they will be forced to fight each other to the death until only a single special child remained, who would then be forced/compelled to consume the flesh and soul of those who were killed to gain their demonic power. Afterward, they would be taken to the underwater temple and be sacrificed by the Sisters to fuel the ritual for the Qliphoth.

In total, there have been 65 Hunger Games, each took place decades from the one before, and had possibly began since the early 11th-century. According to the Seven Sisters' plans, the 66th Hunger Games was supposed to be the last one to be held, as the Qliphoth would already be fully empowered with enough death and misery that by the time the last special child stepped upon the altar, they would not open a rift but rather become the drift itself, transforming into a hellmouth capable of creating portals between Earth and the mortal world.

The Seven Sisters' plans, however, never came to fruition. In the end of the 66th Hunger Games, the seven of them were killed by the combined efforts of Sam and Dean Winchester, while the Qlipphoth ritual was destroyed by the French superhero team called the Umbrella Academy. Their remaining minions and allies were then finished off by the Grigori's agents, who had been investigating the routine disappearance of 72 children and the increasing level of demonic power within the mortal world.

## Locations

Although the Hunger Games is known to take place in the **Phlegraean Fields** (フレグレイ平野, *Furegurei-heiya*), the truth is much more complicated than that, as based on what the 66th-generation special children's description of the landscape, the place they are in is drastically different from what the place looks like in the mortal world, as if the name is only thing shared between the two places.

It's later revealed that while the special children are originally teleported to the Phlegraean Fields in the mortal world, the place where they are teleported to is nothing more than a gateways so that they could be taken to various pocket-dimensions created by the Seven Sisters that are scattered across the Netherworld and the Realm of the Dead, all of which are hidden beneath hundred-thousands of millions of specialized Security Magic that prevent even the gods from noticing

There is a total of 13 pocket-dimensions, each based on specific regions around the world, with the known ones being the American region, the West European region, the South-East Asian region, the East Asian region, the West African region. Each region is guarded by a **Guardian Beast** (守護獣, *Shugo-jū*), a powerful daimon whose strength is greater than that of an Ultimate-class devil.

## Qliphoth

**Qliphoth** (永遠の悪の木クリフォト, *Kurifoto*), also known as the **Tree of Eternal Evils**, is an ancient ritual created by the Seven Sisters of Istehar to create a rift within the Ouroboros Barrier that separates the Underworld from the rest of existence, created by the Four Great Seraphs in the middle of the Great War in order to cripple the increasingly powerful demonic forces.

After the last special child had consumed the flesh and soul of all other special children, they are led back to the mortal world and taken down to an underwater temple complex beneath Lake Avernus