Dark Sword Clan

## About

### History

* The Dark Sword Clan was an Exorcist Clan created around three hundred years ago. Which was quite young for an Exorcist Clan, but they had thrived and used their newer traditions to grow in power exponentially and were **almost** considered equal to one of the Four Great Clans. **Ch 1**
* In the days of Ventor's generation, the clan was renowned for their honour as exorcists. They were feeble back then, as reality seldom favoured the honourable. **Ch 155**
* Even if Kon was an incompetent fool, those old, stubborn men would never choose a woman to lead them over him if he put his hat in the ring. **Ch 157**
* The Dark Sword Clan was once known for its honour, with many members being regarded as samurai. **Ch 159**
* The Dark Sword Clan was not always associated with murder but instead upheld an honourable reputation as exorcists, albeit a weaker and more vulnerable clan than they were now. **Ch 185**
* Their name is due to the cursed weapon that created the clan. In the time of Samurai, Kon's ancestor was a samurai with a dark sword. The Dark Sword Clan, was initially a Samurai Clan before becoming an Exorcist Clan, though I guess calling it just a family at the time would be better to say.

### Reputation

* They were an Exorcist Clan that wanted to become one of the four great clans. That family was the perfect representation of the words: shady and suspicious. **Ch 1**
* The Dark Sword Clan was also known for being arrogant; youngsters who came from it always had a rough temper—using the name of their clan to try to take advantage of others and the system. **Ch 1**
* Despite being a clan of degenerate people, they were quite nice to their family members. How could someone who killed people in cold blood on a regular basis be so normal? **Ch 51**
	+ For a house of killers, they seem to trust each other quite a lot. **Ch 116**
* The Dark Sword Clan was a tainted family whose instincts for murder and slaughter ran deep. They enjoyed murder and loved to kill. **Ch 126**
* The advantage of Kon's engagement to one of the royal families brought numerous benefits. As the royal family considered the Dark Sword Clan their protectors and the successors to the "Seimei Clan," they wished to prevent their weakening in the war. **Ch 155**

### Speciality

* They usually prefer Warriors or Creators. **Ch 5**
* Most exorcist clans in the world used their abilities to hunt down and kill demons. But the Dark Sword Clan was an exception, they used their special abilities to hunt down and kill humans. There were stories of them kidnapping and using their target's family and children as bait. **Ch 14**
* Though their clan was called the Dark Sword Clan, the name was more of a symbolism of a sword hiding in the darkness. There were very few swordsmen in their clan. **Ch 104**
* During the Exorcist War they dealt with deserters, traitors, and anyone else with similar affiliations. **Ch 143**

### Rise

* They came to power through shady means in the last decade or so. **Ch 72**
* The two siblings (Leo and Ventor) working together gave the small and weak Dark Sword Clan a dangerous reputation. Before their generation, the Dark Sword Clan was just a tiny exorcist family full of nobodies. **Ch 98**
* Omara promised injured exorcists the restoration of limbs and major organs in exchange for an unbreakable contract to serve the Dark Sword Clan for a few years. **Ch 158**

## Fate

### Original Fate

* In the original story the Dark Sword Clan got eliminated later when they tried to challenge one of the four great clans. They tried kidnapping one of the great clans' heirs and got slaughtered. **Ch 1**

### Kon's changes

* They appear to have survived past the original point when their clan would have been wiped out but their continued scheming puts them in line for clashes with the 4 great clans. **Ch 157**
* Due to a pep talk Kon gave her (**Ch 178**), Delia has decided to take what she wants and this has taken the form of her killing the Clan Elders who opposed her and getting into a violent confrontation with her father (**Ch 185**) and eventually her killing him (**Ch 186**).

## Evil plan

### Ventor's plan

* The clan's plan was to marry Kon into the royal family and turn Kon into a puppet king by killing his new in-laws. Then, they would’ve killed his wife and made Kon marry the third wife candidate to form an alliance with the Raion Clan to take down the Kuro Clan, before eliminating the weakened Raion Clan. Ventor would become a special exorcist, Kon would follow suit, and the clan would rise to greatness. After that Delia don't know the details. **Ch 178**

### Leo's plan

* Leo's original plan was to marry Kon off to as many people as possible and kill the wives when they had a child. That way, the clan's position would be secure with blood relations everywhere. **Ch 178**

## Territory

### Compound

* The place was in a valley between two mountains. It was like a Japanese-styled castle surrounded by walls. It was almost as big as a twenty-story building. There was a lustrous charm about it that wasn't like something that someone could typically build. The place reeked of grass, and the smell was a bit strong, as if it was hiding another scent. **Ch 51**
* It has some kind of barrier technique to confuse any intruders or attackers in the form of a fog that descends as you approach it **Ch 51**.
* The inside of the clan compound was even more extravagant than the outside. There were dozens of statues with numbers on them. Each of them was a clan leader. Though the clan was just a bit older than three hundred years old, the clan heads changed quite often. Being the head of an assassin clan disguised as an exorcist clan wasn’t the safest job around these parts. **Ch 51**
* Every building was very Japanese-themed. **Ch 51**

### Unnamed Town

* The town wasn’t too densely populated. **Ch 51**
* It wasn’t strange for big towns to sprout close to exorcist clans. But people probably didn’t want to live close to known killers like the Dark Sword Clan. Maybe that’s why this town was so small in comparison to others. **Ch 51**

## Notable Members

* Kon
* Delia (Kon's Cousin/Clan Head)
* Leo (Kon's Dad)
* Omara (Kon's Mom)
* ~~Ventor~~ (Kon's Uncle)
* Ventor and Leo's father
	+ he possessed a robust stature, stern features, and many earned scars. He was anything but ordinary, obvious even to those unfamiliar with exorcists. **Ch 185**
	+ *Though our swords are shrouded in darkness, our hearts shall remain untouched.* **Ch 185**
	+ *Though our swords might be covered in darkness, we will never let our hearts touch the dark.* **Ch 185**

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