Top Ten Clans

The Top 10 Clans within the Tower are the most powerful Clans within the Tower during the course of the Obelisk's Thousands of years of history. Each of the Clans are stated to dominate the Tower due to them possessing the most Members, Military Power, Territory, Wealth, Resources and Power in the 100 Floors of the Tower.

## History & Clans

### Top 10 Clans

The Original Top 10 Clans that ruled the current age of the Tower were;

* All-For-One
* Red Dragon
* Cheonghwado
* Sea of Time
* One-Horned Tribe
* Arthia
* Elohim
* Devil Army
* Blood Land
* Daud Brethren

### All-for-One

Despite technically being one Player, All-for-One is powerful enough to singlehandedly fight and win against entire clans of high rankers all on his own and has reigned supreme as the Obelisk's number 1 ranked ranker since the earliest days of the Tower. His power was so immense that he has even been able to fight off and win against Red Dragon, The One-Horned Tribe and the Sea of Time all on his own and successfully defeat them multiple times without them even coming close to defeating him.

Due to his immense power, All-for-One is considered among the Top Ten Clans due to him essentially having power equivalent to the other 9 clans combined.

### Red Dragon

The first of the Top Clans was Red Dragon, Originally Red Dragon was founded by a group of Rankers who teamed up together in an attempt to overpower and defeat All-For-One after he began inhabiting the 77th Floor of the Tower and barring anyone from rising any higher than that Floor. This group challenged him but was unfortunately defeated and repelled back to the Lower Floors.

Among this Group was the Summer Queen who upon uniting the survivors from the Raid, organized them into a Clan directly under her. This clan would then name themselves "Red Dragon" after her due to her being a Dragon. The Clan would then entrenched themselves into the 76th Floor of the Tower as their Clan Base and make it their main operations hub in their thousand year struggle to overpower and defeat One For All and rise above the 77th Floor. During the Course of which the Summer Queen and her clan would continuously challenge and fight against All for One without ever coming close to defeating him, and although their goal was far from reach, the Clan's military strength, resources, numbers and power continued to grow until eventually the became hailed as the Tower's most powerful clan and its rulers due to them easily surpassing even the other Top Clans in terms of age and power.

In fact in terms of sheer military strength, its been stated that Red Dragon was superior to the other members of the Top Ten, and their military forces were stated to be so vast that they could actually fight several wars on several fronts against at least two to three other members of the Top Clans.

### One-Horned Tribe

The One-Horned Tribe is uniquely to the other Top clans is instead a clan that is genuinely a clan made up of Demi-Humans of the same One-Horned Race and are divide into 51 families and is implied to have all interbreed with each other at some point or another.

The One-Horned Tribe was stated to be one of the very first races to be brought to the Tower by their original founding Ancestor, who had made a pact with the "One-Horned God" and received the gifts of immense Holy Power, Mugong Martial Arts and Psychic Powers that cemented their place as one of the most powerful races within the Tower and making them equals to the Dragon and Giant race's within the Tower in terms of power. In exchange for this, it was stated that the One-Horned Tribe had become the personal apostles of the One-horned God and was given certain responsibilities to it in accordance to their original ancestors agreement with the God.

However some centuries before the current story line, The One-Horned Tribe had willingly chosen to abandon their Holy Power and break off their agreement to their God and willingly leave the Tower and move to the Outer Districts of their own choice. This was done due to them stating that they wanted to forge their own path and destiny through their own efforts and actions instead of relying on their ancestors past agreements. And although they lost their territory within the Tower and the Holy Power they received from their God, the One-Horned Tribe still non-the-less retained their position as one of the most powerful clans within the Tower and their formidable strength. Earning the respect and admiration of many of the Tower's inhabitants.

Currently the One-Horned Tribe is going through what many consider as their "Golden Age" due to the emergence of their current Martial King whose power and natural genius was considered immense even by the One-Horned Tribe's standards.

### Sea of Time

The Sea of Time is one of the most ancient of Clans located within the Tower, having been hypothesized by its fellow Clans to have been operating in the Tower since its creation thousands of years ago.

The Sea of Time is infamously known for their reputation as an incredibly secretive and mysterious clan within the Tower. Virtually any information, Its members identities, numbers, territories, operation and even who is its leader or goal is completely unknown to no one outside the clan.

Normally these types of organization would be ignored by the other Top clans and rankers within the Tower, However it became apparent that when the Sea of Time did make a public move, their contributions and power was undeniable. This first became known during the time that All-For-One was still active in the Tower. Where for some reason or other, the Top Ranker choose to travel down from the Lower Floors to presumably attack someone and cause chaos that then caused the Sea of Time to then intervene. Although the exact specifics are unknown, The Sea of Time had apparently successfully repelled All-For-One's attack and sent him back to the 77th Floor. Causing their fame and infamy to sky rocket and brand them as one of the Top Clans of the Tower that possibly possess power to even compete against Red Dragon.

### Blood Land

Originally, the Founders of Blood Land were a group of Rankers from a world that was destroyed and they escaped from their world prior to its destruction by entering the Obelisk. Upon entering, this Group made the mandate and goal to "regain" their lost Homeland by conquering and "adding" all the Floors of the Tower as one gigantic Empire.

Although seemingly ridiculous, this goal seemingly cemented itself firmly into the minds of Blood Lands members. Causing a firm philosophy and imperialistic expansionistic mindset to manifest within its members and develop into a firm resolve to conquering the Tower. Causing the Clan to soon evolve into a gigantic empire like organization and develop its own unique society of Rankers.

Due to their one tracked mindset as an actual army instead of an initial crew of mismatched alliances brought together by the shared desire for power and survival like how many of the clans of the Tower typically starts out, Blood Land was able to develop a massive, organized and united military force that soon cemented its place as one of the Tower's Top Clans.

### Elohim

Elohim is seemingly a clan brought together by the notions of blood purity and elitism either by being born into the "Superior Races" or those born into the bloodlines descended from Gods or Both. Elohim is shown to be one of the most prideful and arrogant of the Top Clans due to their lineages and are to also be one of the Clan's most prone to infighting due to the constant state of conflict between members due to their philosophy.

Elohim places a considerable value in racial background and bloodlines due to the immense power naturally born into the "Superior Races" of High Elves, Protogenoi, Dragon Humans and Demi-Gods due to incredibly powerful inherit skills, racial abilities and powers naturally possessed or inherited by these races from their godly ancestors. This is seen where it was stated that the clan has gone into extreme lengths to preserve their races and bloodlines, having been implied to have delved into genetic manipulation and experimentation in order to insure the continued inheritance of their ancestors powers and has even implied to use selective breeding programs and incestuous marriages to close relatives to manipulate their descendants genes. However twisted these methods it was shown that they indeed worked due to the clan having successfully preserved the God level abilities and powers of their ancestors and continued to create outstanding and powerful Rankers to maintain their power and dominance within the Tower.

So far the membership of Elohim was stated to contain the majority of the High Elven Race that had inherited the bloodline of the Goddess Freya and the Protogenoi Race that they themselves were once godly beings before falling and becoming mortal.

### Devil Army

The Devil Army is one of the most infamous top clans within the Tower due to their apparent brutality, power and exclusive acceptance of members who only use demonic energy. The Devil Army themselves are stated and rumored to follow and worship a mysterious Demon King God known as the "Heavenly Demon" and the demon's true identity is unknown to most.

### Cheonghwado

The second youngest clans of the Top Ten Clans, Cheonghwado itself was founded by Sword God, the first disciple of the Martial King,Nayu and was previously aligned with the One-Horned Tribe before leaving to start his own clan. Cheonghwado itself was only established a few decades prior to Arthia and its overall power and influence was all inferior when compared to the much older Top Clans.

### Arthia

Arthia was the youngest and smallest of the Top Ten Clans, Arthia itself despite being the smallest and youngest clan of the Top Clans, it was noted to be one of the fastest to rise to power and its individual members were all each stated to possess immense power and potential that it allowed them to easily contend with and fight the other Top Clans within the Tower despite their inferior numbers and resources.

## Events

### Top 9 Clans

After successfully destroying Arthia, the Hierarchy within the Tower completely changed due to the loss of one of the Top 10 Clans, resulting in the creation of the new title as the Top 9. Due to the loss of Arthia and the changes done by its destruction, the relationships between the other clans was changed completely and not for the better. Due to the battle to kill the Clan's leader, "Heaven Wing", Cha Jeong-woo, the Summer Queen, the Leader of Red Dragon's Dragon Heart was severely damaged and reduced to a irreparable state and causing the gradual loss of her powers and abilities. Causing her and her clan to fall into a secret frenzied panic to find a replacement for her Dragon Heart before news of her condition becomes known to her enemies.

After destruction of Arthia the Top 9 Clans were;

* Red Dragon
* Cheonghwado
* Sea of Time
* One-Horned Tribe
* Elohim
* Devil Army
* Blood Land
* Daud Brethren

Due to Arthia's destruction, there was a massive shift in the Tower's Balance of Power and a Power Vacuum that was created in its wake, with many of the Top Clans, such as Cheonghwado, trying to use the opportunity to further increase their power and influence and overpower their competitors.

### Top 8 Clans

Due to the injuty to their Queen's dragon heart and the gradual loss of her powers, Red Dragon began taking more and more controversial actions to save their Queen, resulting in them declaring War against another Top Clan Cheonghwado after learning that they were in the middle of constructing the Philosophers Stone, a item that can produce infinite mana and can therefore be a suitable replacement for the Queen dragon heart. Resulting in Cheonghwado's complete annihilation and another power vacuum to emerge in its wake and reducing the Top 9 Clans to a mere 8.

However after this conflict, despite being victorious and winning against Cheonghwado and annihilating and plundering their former rivals holdings, the Philosophers stone itself had gone missing during the confusion of the war and the only two individuals with its information were both killed. Causing the Clan to once again become frenzied and even more panicked to search for a replacement.

This eventually lead Red Dragon to undergo a reckless rampage to find a replacement after a clue to the Philosophers Stone came out in the form of the so called "Emerald Tablet" appearing in the Auction Market, leading to Red Dragon attacking several of the Tower's high level Clans, the Mysterious Merchant Union and even the Bureau of Floor Guardians themselves to acquire the Tablet for themselves. However this instead ended up resulting in the queen being placed into an even greater cliff, as it was revealed that the formula for the Philosophers Stone was in fact laced with Devil Poison. Placing her in an even greater critical situation then before and leading to the accelerated destruction of her body.

Eventually upon the Summer Queen death, her clan Red Dragon soon fragmented due to infighting amongst her 81 Eyes and the Nine Dragon Sons that ended up cutting up the clan into three major blocks, two of whom would then replace both Red Dragon and Cheonghwado as the Top Clans within the Tower.

The Current line up of the Top 8 Clans are;

* White Dragon - (Originally part of Red Dragon)
* Black Dragon - (Originally part of Red Dragon)
* Sea of Time
* One-Horned Tribe
* Elohim
* Devil Army
* Blood Land
* Daud Brethren

### "Four Emerging Clans"

After the destruction and fall of Cheonghwado and the internal strife of Red Dragon and the death of the Summer Queen, Four new clans from the bottom of the Tower's hierarchy had managed to rise to power by taking advantage of the chaos caused by the collapse of three of the formerly ten top clans of the Tower.

Although these four new clans are still relatively new, its been stated that their overall numbers puts them at the same level of manpower as the remaining top eight clans.

The Four Clans are;

* Fantasy Regiment
* Triton (formerly)
* Necropolis (formerly)
* Chest of Souls

### New Top Clans

Later after the machinations of the infamous "Hoarder" Cain and the revelation of him being the revived "Heaven Wing", the order and hierarchy of the Top Clans were again altered and the balanced of power tipped. After killing their leaders, Cain sent his most powerful familiars after Blood Land and Elohim, completely destroying the first and rendering the latter in near total collapse during his attack. Waltz was also severely injured and her forces depleted during the raid on the Dragon Labyrinth, causing White Dragon to willingly cut itself off from the rest of the Tower and cease all of its activities in order to focus on recuperating their strength in their sub-space, Black Dragon has fallen into internal struggle after their leader Tom's death, and Green Dragon has been successfully defeated and absorbed by the Fantasy Regiment, expanding its power to the Upper Floors.

Currently the new hierarchy is;

* All-for-One
* One-Horned Tribe
* White Dragon
* The Devil Army
* Elohim
* Daud Brethren
* Sea of Time
* Fantasy Regiment
* Arthia

## All-For-One

Despite him technically not being a clan, Bivasbat is the current strongest reigning Ranker within the Tower with absurd amounts of power and has continued to reign as the number 1 Ranker in the Tower's history with power superior to even the other members of the Nine Kings. Due to his immense power, All-For-One is considered by the other Top Clans within the tower as an unofficial clan in himself due to him possessing enough power to literally go to war and defeat an entire clan all by himself.

This is seen where he managed to literally fight against the entire clan of Red Dragon, having been stated to have fought against its armies, the 81 Eyes and even the Summer Queen herself and defeated all of them single handedly numerous times for over the last thousand years the clan has existed. Its been implied that he had also similarly waged similar "wars" against the One-Horned Tribe and the Sea of Time and managed to similarly defeat them despite being on his own.

Because of that the actual Hierarchy between the Top Ten Clans were;

* All-For-One
* Red Dragon
* One-Horned Tribe
* Sea of Time
* Blood Land
* Devil Army
* Elohim
* Daud Brethren
* Cheonghwado
* Arthia

After destruction of Arthia being reduced to Top 9 Clans;

* All-For-One
* Red Dragon
* Cheonghwado
* Sea of Time
* One-Horned Tribe
* Elohim
* Devil Army
* Blood Land
* Daud Brethren

Upon the Clan's being reduced to Eight;

* All-For-One
* White Dragon
* Black Dragon
* One-Horned Tribe
* Sea of Time
* Blood Land
* Devil Army
* Elohim
* Daud Brethren