Elenei Bael

**Elenei Bael** was the former heiress of the Bael Clan and Falbium Asmodeus' late fiancée. Her abduction and eventual death was the final catalyst that led to the Devil Civil War.

## Appearance

Elenei was a young, beautiful, tall and fair girl, barely in her 90s. She had long dark hair tumbled around her shoulders and haunting violet eyes. The portrait of her in Bael Castle depicted her wearing a golden circlet and a low-cut gown of deep-blue velvet with gold jaspers sown into the bodice.

## Personality

Elenei is remembered by the devil nobility as an image of a tragic beauty, a princess kidnapped and raped by a twisted man, and a symbol of soiled innocence. According to Sona, she had heard of Elenei's virtues being sung by bards and singers alike, and her courtesy is said to be an example of young devil noble ladies everywhere.

Her family members, however, remember a version of her that is much different from the one envisioned by the people, which Venelana called "a mummer princess with [Elenei]'s name."

She was said to be a kind-hearted and compassionate person, with a very straightforward personality. She showed unconditional kindness to everyone, even to her bastard half-sister Ellyn who she rescued from the slums and made her handmaiden. Like all Baels, she possessed a great deal of pride and honor, though she lacked the arrogance that her house has.

According to Argilac, Sairaorg is so much like her that it was painful to even look at him at times.

## History

### Early Life

Elenei was born as the second child of Lord and Lady Bael and the younger sister of Venelana Bael. When her mother died delivering her younger brother Argilac, she took on a maternal role and showed him the affection that neither their father nor Venelana would give.

Despite this responsibility, however, she still managed to be a wild and rambunctious child growing up, a stark constrast to her proper older sister or her meek little brother, which earned her the nickname "Elenei Wildling" from Venelana. On a trip to the Bael Territory, she found and took in her bastard sister Ellyn from the slums near Bael Castle as her handmaiden, much to their older sister's disaproval.

### New Heiress

As the second daughter, Elenei didn't have much hope for the future other than marrying a firstborn or forming her own cadet house of the Bael Clan somewhere in their territory. Because of this, she fully intended to remain unmarry for her entire life, but this wish of her was quickly crushed when news of her older sister's elopement with a bastard from the Gremory Clan arrived, and she was made their new heiress of the Bael Clan, much to her dismay.

Due to her new duties as the Bael Clan's heiress, being unmarried for the rest of her life was now an option she couldn't take and she was now forced to marry a man of noble standings, something she was *not* looking forward to. And thus, she had her servants sabotage one meeting after another in an attempt to present herself as "un-marriable" to her would-be suitors.

However, on the eve of her 193rd birthday, she would meet the love of her life, Falbium Glasya-Labolas - the mixed-heritage heir of the Presidential Glasya-Labolas Clan. After only three decades of courting, a shockingly short-lived amount of time for devils, the two became engaged when Falbium presented Elenei with his mother's ring, given down to her by her own mother and her mother before her. While their families originally opposed it, the relationship was quickly accepted when Elenei threatened to elope much like her sister Venelana before her and Falbium threatened to kill all the elders from both houses if they forbid them to come together.

### The Year of the False Spring

In the year of the false spring, upon Elenei's suggestion, Falbium moved their wedding forward due to reasons unknown to him at that time, as she had recently discovered she was pregnant with their child. However, before she could tell him about the good news, she was raped by Alsap Pydar Beelzebub, the second-heir of the Beelzebub Clan and Satan Bidleid Beelzebub's oldest son, before being kidnapped back to the Beelzebub Fortress in the Valley of Thorns.

She was kept there in Beelzebub Fortress for a total of 245 days, which on the eve of the 244th, she gave birth to her daughter who died shortly after her birth which broke whatever will left inside of her. Taking all the sheets inside the chamber where she was imprisoned, she hung herself hours before her fiancée, her older sister and brother-in-law, and her nephew arrived to save her.

## Relationships

* **Venelana Gremory**: Elenei's older sister. According to Venelana, while the two hadn't been the closest growing up due to their different personalities, she still deeply loves her younger sister. She blames her abduction, rape, and subsequent death on Argilac's head, similar to how she had seen him as the cause for their mother's death in childbirth. She herself stated that there have never been a day that she didn't wish that he was the one who died instead of Elenei, as "one is [Venelana]'s little sister, the other is a mother-killing imp."
* **Argilac Bael**: Elenei's younger brother. As a young child, Argilac was primarily raised by her and his wetnurse Wylla, and as a result, he came to see her as his only mother figure. He is constantly haunted by her abduction and rape and had been blaming himself for her death ever since. Because of his personality, he saw her in his eldest son, something that he felt ashamed about.
* **Ellyn Bael**: Elenei's half-sister, daughter of the previous Lord Bael and a common whore that was rescued by Elenei from the slums near Bael Castle and took in to be her handmaiden. Venelana partially blamed her for Elenei's abduction.
* **Falbium Asmodeus**: Elenei's fiancé. The two were madly in love with one another to the point where none would disagree that they weren't soulmates. They were perfect for each other, not only that they kept the other's worst qualities in check, they enhanced their own virtues, as Serafall had noted that Falbium was much less serious and could even be said to be humorous, while Elenei was less rebellious and began to act much more like a proper Lady of the Bael Clan. Because of this, when Elenei died, a part of Falbium died alongside her as everyone could clearly see that he hadn't been the same, and would never be the same, as the man he could be when he was with Elenei.

## Abilities

**Demonic Power**: As a pureblood devil, Elenei possessed a large amount of demonic powers and all the standard powers and abilities of a regular devil, including the power to perform spells using the Bael Clan's magic circle.

* **Power of Destruction** (滅びの力, *Horobi no Chikara*): The signature hereditary power of the Bael Clan, which released demonic energies that allowed her to disintegrate matter of both living and inanimate with ease. As the family heiress, it can be assumed that she held a great mastery over her house's hereditary power before her death.

**Expert Horseman**: According to Venelana, Elenei was an expert horsewoman and spent the majority of her freetime riding her favorite horse across the Bael Territory. Zekram once described her as a centaur, while Ellyn has stated that she was half a horse herself.

## Trivia

* The Ba'alah apples were created by her mother as a gift for her 7th birthday.
	+ Ba'alah apples roughly translated to "Mistress' apples".
* Because of her beauty and noble bloodline, she was an object of infatuation for many noblemen.
* On the anniversary of her death, numerous flying lanterns are released across the Bael territory.
* Multiple gardens, parks, and buildings within the Glasya-Labolas Territory were built and named after her by Falbium.
	+ A life-like statue of her is placed before Gehenna Stadium in Lilith.
* The "Elenei Program", a charity program formed by the Bael Clan and the Gremory Clan that helps and supports victims of sexual assault and/or sexual abuse, was founded and named in her honor.
* There used to be a rumor where Elenei's stillborn daughter was Alsap's but it quickly disappeared when all those who spoke of it soon disappeared, only to be found several days later flayed and had their tongues cut out.