Red Dragon

**Red Dragon (Clan)** is the strongest and oldest clan in the Tower. It was formed many years ago by rankers that fought against All-For-One who blocked the way up from the 77th floor. Currently, Red Dragon Clan is the only clan capable of opposing All-For-One.

## Structure

True to her name, the Summer Queen, Isemnios is the absolute ruler and leader of the Clan and its center and core. The Summer Queen is the founder of the clan and as the “Last Dragon” of the Obelisk is its strongest member. The Summer Queen herself is the clan’s core due to her empowering numerous members of the clan with fragments of her power, greatly increasing the power and strength of its members.

Underneath her, the Summer Queen has numerous subordinates working under her and maintaining the clan’s infrastructure.

### 81 Eyes

The **81 Eyes** or also known as the **81 Oculus** that make up the upper echelons and leaders of the Clan are all high Ranker with formidable power. With all the members being personally acknowledged by the Summer Queen for their prowess in battle that has allowed the clan to maintain their position as one of the top clans in the Tower for hundreds of years.

The 81 members are all also stated to have a Draconic contract with the Summer Queen that allows her to contact them and sense their emotions that serves that purpose of telling her if something happens to them, as seen where she detected Bahal's death at Yeon's hands immediately.

This connection also allows the Summer Queen to share a psychic connection with them. As seen where she was able to be contacted by Troy and tap into his senses to be able to see, hear, touch and sense what he was seeing, hearing, sensing and touching and even allow her to access and to a degree use the Skills of her subordinates. As seen where the Summer Queen was able to see through Troy's eyes and use his skills to verify the authenticity of Pseudo Philosophers Stone.

As stated by Waltz, each member of the 81 Eyes have been granted fragments of the Summer Queen's immense power, greatly magnifying each of their individuals abilities and empowering them further. With the Queen's "Nine Dragon Sons" being noted to have received the largest bulk of her fragmented power.

The name of the group itself is based on the 81 irises said to make up the eye of a dragon that gives it its immense eye sight.

Members:

* **Bahal** - ("Flame Fist") - ("Flame Beast") - (Leader of "Flame Beast) - (deceased)
* **Raul** - (Leader of the Sub-Unit "Wolf Squad")
* **Amber** - ( Leader of the Sub-Unit "Poison Owl")
* **Natahan** - ("Blood Red Archer") - (Left hand of the Summer Queen) - (deceased)
* **Garavito** - ("Delusional Ghost") - (deceased)
* **Bismarck** - ("Chancellor of Blood and Iron")
* **Hanan** - ("The Old Sword")
* **Richard** - ("The Lionheart") - (deceased)
* **Danghee** - ("The Venomous Butterfly") - (deceased)
* **Jack** - ("Murderer Twins") - (deceased)
* **Ripper** - ("Murderer Twins")- (deceased)
* **Troy** - ("Hawk Eye") - (Eye of the Summer Queen)
* **Warshan** - ("Incapable Ruler")
* **Waltz** - ("Bihee") - (Oldest and first member of the "9 Dragon Sons")
* **Tom** - ("The Beginning") ("Chodo") - (Youngest member of the "9 Dragon Sons") - (deceased)
* **Chimmy** ("Imun") - (Member of the "9 Dragon Sons") - (deceased)
* **Wales** ("Porye") - (Member of the "9 Dragon Son"") - (deceased)
* **Triger** ("Phean") - (Member of the "9 Dragon Sons") - (deceased)
* **Hyall** ("Leeho") - (Member of the "9 Dragon Sons") - (deceased)
* **Leeso** ("Gongbok") - (Member of the "9 Dragon Sons") - (deceased)
* **Bahartan** ("Aeja") - (Member of the "9 Dragon Sons") - (deceased)
* **San** ("Geumye") - (Member of the "9 Dragon Sons") - (deceased)

Due to the sheer members of the group, the 81 Eyes themselves are divided into several sub unit groups or some members even possess their own units made up of High level Rankers inside Red Dragon Clan or even lower ranked Members of the 81 Eyes that serve directly under them.

Units:

* **The Nine Dragon Sons** (Main Leaders to all the members and sub-units consisting the 81 Eyes and the Adoptive Children of the Summer Queen)
* **Flame Beast** (Sub unit and direct Subordinates to Bahal)
* **White Draconian** (Sub Unit and direct Subordinates to Waltz)
* **Blaze**
* **Corona Anaconda**
* **Raven Party**
* **Wolf Squad** (Sub Unit and Direct Subordinates to Raul)
* **Red Ringed Band**
* **Poison Owl** (Sub Unit and Direct Subordinates to Amber)

Tom’s Faction of the 81 Eyes
### Hierarchy

Its been shown that a select few members of the 81 Eyes are more favored by the Summer Queen and are thus granted important duties and higher positions within Red Dragon, with these individuals even being seen and regarded as leaders among the 81 eyes.

This is seen where Natahan was regarded as the Summer Queen's "Left Hand" and Troy was regarded as the Summer Queen's "Eye" and was thus assigned specific assignments and duties by their leader and was highly favored by her.

### The Nine Dragon Sons

The Nine members that consists the Nine Dragon Sons are revered as the most powerful members of the 81 Eyes and the leaders to its sub groups and was highly implied to also be the first members to make up the 81 Eyes.

The Nine are considered the most powerful and unique of all the 81 members due to them being Dragon Humans possessing immense power due to being transformed and thus descended from the bloodline of the Summer Queen, essentially making all nine of them her Apostles. The nine members are also considered the Summer Queen's adoptive sons and daughters and are thus her heirs to the clan's leadership. With each of them being noted to constantly compete against each other in an attempt to buy more favor with their "mother" to be crowned as the next "King" of the Clan, should the queen choose to retire and pass on leadership of the clan or possibly die.

### Members

Red Dragon Clan was stated to possess hundreds upon thousands of members that easily outnumbers the forces available to Cheonghwado, as seen where Sword God himself was fully aware that the forces that they had sent to 11th floor during their war against Cheonghwado was only the tip of the iceberg to their overall military forces and they could easily send more if they desired.

As seen by Shanon's circumstances that due to Red Dragon Clan' age, entire families have been brought up under the Clan's service that have been specifically raised by Red Dragon Clan to become their future members and installed in them their clan's unique culture of always desiring strength and power.

### Affiliated Clans

Similar to the other Top Clans that reign over the Tower, Red Dragon Clan also possess several smaller sub clans that operate as subordinates to them to handle and occupy the Lower Levels or act as additional war forces and resources during conflicts.

Known Subsidiary Clans:

* **Night Watch** (Former Subordinate Group)
* **Red Wolf** (Subordinate Clan)

### Associated Rankers

Red Dragon Clan was also stated to possess thousands of associated Rankers, that while not being necessarily members of their clan, can still be called upon as additional soldiers in times of war due to their close association, alliance, relationship or partnership with Red Dragon Clan.

Known Associated Rankers:

* **Zang Wei** ("Bow God") - Hired by the Summer Queen to infiltrate Cheonghwado as a future advantage and later took him in as a mercenary after the war with Cheonghwado was won. Eventually after he ran afoul with the One-Horned Tribe and being personally pursued by the Martial King himself, The Summer Queen abandoned him.

### Inactive Rankers

As stated by Sword God also possess hundreds of thousands of retired or inactive Players who have achieved the status of Rankers or High Rankers prior to their retirement. Despite their power going down due to their age, these Rankers where still stated to quite powerful. And if push comes to shove, Red Dragon Clan can also call upon them to further bolster their forces if needed.

### Mercenary Rankers

As seen during their war against Cheonghwado, Red Dragon Clan also employs various Mercenary Rankers as additional forces to further bolster their army. Having been known to hire entire squadrons or even legions of outside Mercenary Rankers by offering them substantial rewards or simply large amounts of money. Albeit these Mercenary's have been shown to lack a sense of loyalty towards Red Dragon Clan and a few was shown to even abandon the Clan when the circumstances of survival no longer become favorable for them, as seen where many of them fled the war against Cheonghwado, when the fighting became too intense for them. However this could easily be resolved by offering to pay them with incredibly rare or hard to find rewards to insure their continued service, as seen where a few Ranker stayed in the final stages of the war against Cheonghwado due to their desire for their rewards out stripping their desire to survive.

When they hire enough mercenary Rankers, Red Dragon Clan usually organized them into several **Foreign Legions** usually lead by one of their members.

### Headhunting

Similar to all other clans within the Tower, Red Dragon Clan also frequently head hunts for any Powerful Rankers to officially join their Clan to further consolidate power for themselves. However due to them being one of the oldest and most powerful of the Top 9 Clans, Red Dragon Clan was only noted to recruit and scout out Rankers when they reach the 50th Floor of the Tower as a bare-minimum requirement to join them. With them completely ignoring any potentials who are still in any of the other lower floors.

It was only during the beginning of their heated tensions against Cheonghwado that eventually lead to their war with them, did Red Dragon Clan begin recruiting low level Rankers in the lower Floors. With their first pick being the mysterious "Hoarder" making name for himself during the Tutorials and the breaking all the previous records within the first 10 Floors of the Tower.

When a particular Player would catch the Summer Queen's attention, she has shown to be not above forcibly subjugating someone and forcibly make them join her clan as her subordinates. This is seen where she had briefly thought of attempting to force Zang Wei, the former Bow God of Cheonghwado join her clan as a member of her 81 Eyes after intriguing her, but due to her crumbling Dragon Heart, she held off in doing so until she could at least regain her full strength.

## Ideology

Due to Red Dragon Clan being one of the oldest and most powerful Clans within the Tower, they themselves had evolved into a country like existence, where entire families have been raised and indoctrinated in their personal philosophy.

Due to the Clan's warlike lifestyle and constant conflicts with the other Clans and Factions within the Tower, its members follow the philosophy of doing anything and everything to become stronger and obtain more power in clearing the Tower's Trials. This is seen during Shanon's defection to Yeon's side without much hesitance due to seeing working under him as the best way to obtain more power and grow in strength.

Another ideological factor keeping the clan united despite its gigantic size is the apparent worship and borderline religion the members of Red Dragon Clan have for the Summer Queen. With many of the Clan's members having more or less deified the Dragon as their Goddess and actively worship her as one despite having yet made it past the 77th Floor.

The heads and leaders of the 81 Eyes, the Nine Dragon Son's in particular are noted to see and worship the Summer Queen as their Mother and their loyalty and fanatic devotion for her was stated to be the strongest of the Clan's.

## Base

### 76th Floor

Unlike the Other Top Clan within the Tower that primarily uses Sub-Spaces bought from the Mysterious Merchants to be their clan bases to protect themselves and insures a level of security of privacy due to the unstable, war zone like state in the Tower's Floor. Red Dragon Clan is the only Clan within the Tower that successful entrenched themselves within a Floor inside the Tower as their main base of operations.

Due to them being lead by the immensely powerful Summer Queen as the undisputed Second most powerful Ranker within the Tower and them successfully fending off any and all opposition that attempted to rise to the 77th Floor where All-For-One resided in, Red Dragon Clan is the only Clan within the Tower to have their clan base within the Tower.

## Resources

Due to Red Dragon Clan's age, its been shown that the Clan itself possess immense resources and riches stored away in their Clan base or their numerous Intrenian's. As seen where it was stated by Yeon-woo that Red Dragon Clan probably had a panlope of A class weapons and jewels and hard to find items stored away in them that they primarily use for purchasing things in the Mysterious Merchant Unions and Auction Houses or use them to entice Mercenary Rankers to work for them.

During the auction for "Trismegistus Tablet", Red Dragon Clan even possessed **Elixirs**, the very same all cure medicine that can cure and heal any mortal malady that Cha Jeong-woo attempted to acquire and was critically injured for in order to obtain, within their possession. With the item itself being so valuable and rare that no one in the Auction, even the other Top Clans within the Tower, had anything to top and outbid it when Red Dragon Clan put it up as payment for the Tablet.

Later after launching their assault against Walpurgisnacht, the Summer Queen released the Quest of rewarding anyone that accomplishes the most in killing and destroying the members and facilities of Walpurgisnacht will receive free access to Red Dragon Clan's Internian Vaults to take up to five items.

The Summer Queen herself personally collected a large number of magic tomes, books and scrolls in her collection inside her Internians.

Some of the reward Items offered by Red Dragon Clan has within their Internians are;

* **Fenghuang's Egg**
* **Prometheus's Fire**
* **King's Festival**
* **Yaltabo's Safe** (10x)

Although their exact abilities and functions are unknown, its been stated that each item is a high class item that van boost the powers and abilities of any ranker who takes them. Further showcasing the sheer resources Red Dragon Clan possess.

Red Dragon Clan was also stated to have a **Intelligence Network** over a thousand years old, making their network of contacts and informants the oldest and perhaps the most extensive in the entire Tower second only to the information gathering abilities given to the Floor Guardian Bureau or the observation rights possessed by the Gods and Demons of the 98th Floor.

This is seen where Bahal implied that the Red Dragon Clan had "Eyes and Ears" everywhere when he revealed that Red Dragon Clan had easily caught wind of Cheonghwado's experiments and activities to make the Philosophers Stone and keep track of the Fellow Top Clans movement when they went to war against them. Further emphasis on their intelligence network's power and ability is seen where the Bow God, one of the Five Martial Gods himself was the spy for Red Dragon Clan, further showing how formidable their network was due to Bow God successfully spying on the clans activities and passing on vital intelligence to them for years without Cheonghwado noticing or suspecting his betrayal or information leaks.

### Relationships

Due to their age and military might, Red Dragon Clan possess a very strong and well respected presence and reputation within the Tower's Clan's hierarchy, Mysterious Merchant Unions and the Floor Guardians Bureau. Due to the immense power, intelligence and Charisma possessed by the clan's leader, The Summer Queen and the long and fortified history of the clan, all the organizations within the Tower have developed a healthy respect for them and caused many, even among the Top Clans, to avoid getting into conflicts with them unless necessary.

However upon the events of the Kelart Auction for the Third Piece of "Trismegistus Tablet" and Red Dragon Clan's attack on the Mysterious Merchant Unions, The Floor Guardians Bureau and even the high ranked clans such as the Magic Tower to acquire the first and second pieces, Red Dragon Clan's reputation has hit an all time low as they had made an enemy of the entire Tower's Hierarchy, This is seen where they had incurred the wrath of all of their fellow Top Clans, the Lesser Clans and even the Floor Guardians. In fact the Floor Guardians themselves even created a quest to the Tower's Rankers that whoever inflicts the most damage to Red Dragon Clan and kill its members and destroy its properties will be given high rewards by the Bureau in retaliation for their attack on them.

## History

Originally Red Dragon Clan was founded by a group of Rankers who had gathered together and formed an alliance in an attempt to overpower and get past All For One on the 77th Floor of Tower many years ago.

Eventually this clan continued to grow and evolve until becoming the gigantic organization it is today and becoming something akin to that of a nation due it seemingly developing its own history and unique culture. Eventually this clan continued to reign supreme over the Tower and was so tightly organized to the point that it was next to impossible to fully destroy or defeat them. with their overall power making them the only clan in the Tower with sufficient strength to fight against All For One.

### **Volume 4**

A few years had passed since the Top 10 Clans allied together to destroy Arthia and the fragile peace that had been gained since then was on the verge of breaking. Finally, the peacetime ended with the conflict between Cheonghwado's Leonte and Red Dragon Clan's Bahal.

### Volume 10

After Bahal's death, The Summer Queen had become all the more desperate to acquire the Philosophers Stone to replace her cracking Dragon Heart. Eventually as word reached her about a mysterious tablet and seeing a demi stone created by the guild "Magic Tower" and the information about the tablet's third piece being auctioned in the Kelart Auction House, The Queen immediately ordered her clan of Red Dragon Clan to do whatever it takes to acquire the Tablet.

This in turn lead to them launching an attack on not only the other clans that had gotten the second and first pieces respectively, but also launch an attack on the Mysterious Merchant Union to acquire the third piece of the tablet before the other clans but also get the information of where the tablet came from. Causing severe upheaval within the Tower's other Top Seven Clans, the Bureau of Floor Managers that protected the Merchant Union and Tower's overall power balance itself.

However despite acquiring the Tablet and creating the Stone and the Summer Queen absorbing it immediately to restore herself, It was later revealed that the Tablet's formula for the Stone also had the formula for Devil Poison mixed into it. Leading to the Queen to become severely poisoned and even weaker than before. Enraged by this, Red Dragon Clan immediately began looking for the ones responsible, after connecting the dots of the "Emerald Tablet's" appearance and where it originally came from and the connection with Cheonghwado, Red Dragon Clan came to the conclusion that the Witch Clan,Walpurgisnacht was responsible for the assassination attempt at the Summer Queen's life and causing them to then declare war on them and invade their sub-space.

#### Fracture

Later after the "Hoarder" and the Martial King of the One-Horned Tribe killed the Summer Queen, Red Dragon Clan soon found themselves bombarded by attacks from all their competitors within the Tower.

Blood Land had voraciously devoured and plundered their weakened army during the Queen's death in the downfall of Walpurgisnacht after they had been weakened fighting the Witches and the One-Horned Tribe. The Devil Army began hunting and picking off members of Red Dragon Clan's **81 Eyes**. While Elohim had chosen to team up together with the Sea of Time in order to lead an assault against Red Dragon Clan's main base within the 76 Floor and invade them with the intent to wipe them out.

Additionally, Red Dragon Clan's other territories and locations were also seen being besieged by the smaller and mid level clans in order to take advantage of the chaos. Causing the badly cornered Red Dragon Clan into a deeper ledge. However despite this dire situation, Red Dragon Clan had successfully preserved due to its firm history. Waltz one of the nine dragon sons and the Summer Queen's eldest daughter took command over the clan and successfully fended off the other Top Clans and maintained their position within the 76th Floor and successfully kept the clan together due to her overwhelming power as a descendant of both the Dragons and the One-Horned Tribe.

However after suppressing the attacks from outside forces, the real problems became apparent internally. Soon after stabilizing the clan after the constant invasions from their competitors, Waltz soon found herself opposed by members of her own clan, specifically the other members of the "Nine Dragon Sons", who wanted to take her position as "King" now that the Summer Queen was gone. With the members of the 81 Eyes now dividing themselves up between the nine as their supporters or possibly trying to establish their own power bases. Resulting in the Clan now being divided into three major blocks.

* **White Draconian/White Dragon:** After barely fending off her "siblings" after being thoroughly exhausted from fighting the other Top Clans, Waltz managed to escape with a handful of her followers after being ambushed by her "brothers" after returning to the 76th Floor. Waltz then took up the title, "**Spring Queen**" as the new ruler to this faction of Red Dragon Clan.
* **Black Dragon:** After successfully attacking and eating his other "brothers" from the Nine Dragon Sons and taking their inherited power from the Summer Queen, Tom had then successfully lead his own faction of Red Dragon Clan and taking up the title "**Autumn Lord**".
* **Green Dragon:** With the other sons killed in the battle against the One-Horned Tribe or killed during the infighting, The weakest three of the Nine, Hyall, Leeso, and Bahratan, then teamed up together and made their own faction of Red Dragon Clan.

These events have effectively transformed the 76th Floor into a virtual war-zone as all three factions are attempting to establish themselves as the "true" Red Dragon Clan.

### Reformation

Later after Tom, Bahartan, Hyall and Leeso's death during the failed raid on the [Dragon Labyrinth] on the 50th Floor, Green Dragon and Black Dragon were thus then left leaderless, eventually causing their two clans to fall into Chaos.

Due to Tom's death, Black Dragon soon fell into disorganization as his clan began fighting amongst themselves, upon the Death's of their three leaders, Green Dragon began coming under siege by the Fantasy Regiment and losing significant territory as they begun to gradually be assimilated by them.

Seeing the opportunity, Waltz thus then began refocusing her clan's resources in attacking and assimilating Black Dragon and Green Dragon into her own clan of White Dragon in order to finally reform Red Dragon as a whole and fully succeed her "Mother", the Summer Queen, as her true and sole heir.

### Downfall

Despite Waltz's best attempts to rebuild the clan, Red Dragon had already suffered massive damage to its infrastructure. Due to the deaths of Tom, Bahartan, Hyall and Leeso their factions of Black Dragon and Green Dragon was left in disarray as they began to collapse from infighting and attacks from other enemy clans. And despite Waltz successfully assimilating them into her clan eventually and uniting them under the banner of White Dragon as Red Dragon's newest incarnation, they were nothing more than shadows of what they once were.

And due to the troops having lost moral, a majority of Red Dragon's soldiers had already abandoned the clan and left and the higher ups of the clan, the 81 Oculus, had either abandoned the clan and gone into hiding or been assassinated by Red Dragon's rivals such as the Devil Army. And due to the constant attacks and blows by the recently revived Arthia, White Dragon was barely able to fend them off and maintain their position on the 76th floor and was only able to barricade the 75th floor from Arthia's constant invasions. This inevitably lead to the gradual loss of power of White Dragon and the start of its collapse.

Eventually, after teaming up with Faceless and the Sea of Time to make one last desperate attack on the One-Horned Tribe's village to abduct the Shadow King's precious individuals, Waltz and White Dragon's remaining High Rankers would be completely annihilated by the Shadow King and the corpse dragon of the Summer Queen herself, while White Dragon's base would be invaded and conquered by Arthia while all of White Dragon's most powerful fighters were out. Leading to the complete collapse of White Dragon and the end of Red Dragon's legacy.

## Trivia

* Red Dragon Clan is the oldest clan operating the Tower and the largest by far, with it having multiple subdivision, units, sub-clans, subordinate organizations and departments far exceeding what its fellow Competitor's possess.