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Welcome to Akuma no Senshi cast and information page! My hopes is that this page will cover all the details that you may have about this theme here on Battle Fantasia. It is an Original Concept Theme and open for people to take up the slots that are available. For those of you who are interested in playing one of the characters. You may speak with me (Hotaka Domen) and we can go over what you have in mind. I love sharing ideas, concepts, and beating around things. So no worries on me biting, I'm a pretty laid back individual!
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Welcome to the Akuma no Senshi cast and information page! We hope that this page will cover all the information you might need to roleplay with or apply for a character within this theme. It is an Original Concept Theme and open for applications to fill in the slots that are available. For those of you who may be interested in playing one of the characters, you may speak with me (Aoi Mitsugi) and we can throw around ideas.  
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The only request I do have is if you have spoken to me already about your idea for a character concept, is for me to see the Application before you send it in. Mostly so I can see how your character plays and make sure everything is riding fine with the theme. Also so that Alastor (Hotaka's Demon), knows who you are and isn't to caught off guard. After all-- we are all one big "happy" ''Family''. ;)
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Still interested? Great!<br>
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Then read on!
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== The Origin Story ==
 
== The Origin Story ==
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=== The Beginning ===
 
=== The Beginning ===
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In a kingdom high on a mountain, hidden amongst the clouds, was a place of beauty and serenity. The chosen were trained in the arts of combat and in the ways of magic. Each child picked had the potential to become a guardian, and each had the ability to one day become what was known as "Solstice Guardian Angels".
 
  
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The Solstice Guardian Angels were an order that watched over the grove of each season. The grove held within it a majestic crystal flower that illuminated brightly and granted the chosen a crystal from its bud. However, the crystal flower would only choose 3: the head of the Grove, the Solstice Guardian Angel, and then two below. One Ascending and One Descending to work with the head of the grove.
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On another world, in another time, an isolated kingdom existed high on a mountain, hidden amongst the clouds. It was a place of beauty and serenity, a place of peace and prosperity. Within this kingdom existed a magical place known as the Grove of Seasons. Here each season, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, was embodied in a crystal flower which bloomed with the spirit of that time of each year. The seasons gave meaning to the flowers, and in turn the flowers gave meaning to the seasons, representing them in the eyes of the people, symbols of the power and the beauty of the natural order.
  
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Though there were those who desired to the powers of the flower for evil means, the guardians never allowed evil to corrupt the grove nor take possession of the flower itself. Many guardians gave their lives in protection of the kingdom and the grove, but the flower always chose a new guardian to take their place. It is perhaps here with the death of one and the rebirth of the next that corruption was at last born in the Kingdom of the Seasons.
 
  
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A brother was picked over his twin and jealousy was soon grown. For not only was his sister a ascending guardian, but now too was his own twin. The two twins who were ever so close, grew further apart in the new guardians training and the twin who had been ignored soon left the Kingdom of the Seasons. Leaving it to allow his brother to the glory of becoming a the head of the Grove chosen; The Grove of Summer. Though the twin was sad to see his brother leave, he did not stop him. Believing that perhaps when his twin returned, his jealousy may be gone and he would find love once more in his heart; love and understanding.
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Such treasures require guardians, for anything with power produces those who would seize and abuse that power. In the case of the Grove of Seasons, those guardians were the Solstice Angels, an order chosen from among the people of the Kingdom of the Seasons, trained in the arts of martial skill and the use of magic. From among this order were chosen three of the most skilled to represent each season: A Guardian Angel, and his right and left hands, the Ascending and Descending Angel of each season. Each of these three was gifted a magic crystal, a seed of the flower of their respective Season, which gave them enhanced powers and abilities.
  
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For many generations the Solstice Angels protected the Grove and its crystal flowers, safeguarding the meaning of the seasons in the hearts of their people. As Guardians died, others rose to replace them, and the system seemed solid and unbreakable. However, much like the seasons themselves, nothing lasts forever.
  
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=== The Start Of The End ===
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=== The Beginning of the End ===
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Though evil had never truly been able to step foot into the Kingdom of Seasons, soon the light would start to be slowly drained from the kingdom of beauty and serenity. Peace would soon to come to know war and pain. Since the twin had left his brother and his sister. Neither have heard of him. What was more concerning was that though some children would explore the world below, many started to not return and shortly to follow this concern was the rise of darkness below. The rise of demonic beings with equal power to some of the guardians in training.
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Yet these demons could easily, thankfully, be dispatched by the guardians. Though with the increased activity rose some of the Solstice Guardian Angels attentions. For what had been easy sway, was starting to become an increasing problem. That if something was not done soon, they could be looking at a potential, true threat to the Kingdom and the people within. Then the fact with it growing closer to the new year. They could not afford an interruption to the ceremony of seasons.
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As with all things, the seeds of destruction begin small. It was as simple as the jealousy of a brother for his siblings that began the cascade of conflict that would end in the utter ruination of the Kingdom of the Seasons.  
  
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An Ascending and Descending Guardian Angel was then chosen to go investigate the source of the growing darkness. They were to then report back any findings at once. One of the Ascending guardians was the sister to the Solstice Guardian Angel of Summer, and they both had a concern. With no contact from their brother-- they grew some concern that he may have been killed. So for them both, this was a chance to see if there was any sign of him at all, and the Solstice Ascending Angel of Winter represented her element well with hope and the believe that they would find him.
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Three children were born to this family. A sister, and twin brothers. The sister was chosen to be a Solstice Angel, and even more honorably, became the Ascending Angel of Summer. Then, the older of the twin brothers was chosen as well. Surprisingly, though all expected him to be, the younger twin was not chosen. No reason was given, as no reason ever is; he was simply passed over.
  
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How right she was, but how wrong she wished. For when they went to investigate, they not only found that magical children had taken to the dark arts, but to gain more power they were slowly being transformed into demonic creatures. All in the name of their lord and master, Demon Lord Equinox. At the arrival of the Solstice Ascending Angel of Winter and Solstice Descending Angel of Spring. He quickly took arms against them personally and a battle broke out between the two and him.
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Jealousy grew in the younger twin, as it would in anyone. He soon left the Kingdom of Seasons, descending the mountain to live amongst the common people of the lower lands. His siblings were sad to see him go, but they understood and hoped that, in time, he would make peace with the decision of the Solstice Angels and return to them. Return he would, but not as they hoped or imagined.
  
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Though the Solstice Descending Angel of Spring was able to escape with barely her life, the Ascending Guardian Angel remained in realizing who the Demon Lord was. She tried to find out why he would turn on them, even speak some common sense into him. However what she quickly found is that he only desired one thing and that was revenge. Revenge upon the Grove and that he would bend the seasons to his will, not of the peoples or of the worlds.
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=== Darkness Below ===
  
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Ascending Winter tried one more time to reach out to him, however in her final attempt, he reached out to her in the hand of corruption and twisted her very will of Hope into Despair in showing her his entire plan and how he would be victorious. With no desire left to continue to the conflict, the Guardian Angel laid down her weapon and submitted to him.
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For many generations, the relations between the people of the Kingdom of the Seasons and those more mundane kingdoms existing below their mountain had been peaceful. Many young people from the Kingdom would descend to explore the world below in their youth, returning to the mountain wiser for their experiences, and they were almost always treated with respect and hospitality by those they encountered. Some years after the departure of the spurned twin, however, this began to change. None had heard from him in those years, and his siblings feared for his safety, especially in light of disturbing events which began to occur, emenating from the lands below.
  
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The very gem given to her became corrupted by her will breaking and she too was then changed with the stone, losing not only her humanity, but soon-- becoming a demon herself; One of the first of the Demon Warriors under Equinox's full command.
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Young people still left the Kingdom of the Seasons to explore below, but now some did not return. They simply vanished. More frightening yet, those that did return spoke of the appearance of terrible creatures in the lands of the other kingdoms. Demons, twisted in form and spirit, who were inflicting terror upon the helpless people. Yet, secure on their mountaintop, those of the Kingdom did not despair. They did not believe that these demons could reach them, and even if they could, they could never overcome the power of the Solstice Angels.
  
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On the news of the new Demon Lord, more guardians were sent out. The Ascending and Descending and each one that went, fewer returned. What soon become an alarming factor was that the very crystal flowers themselves were starting to lose their illumination. The petals were slowly closing up, with the very groves themselves slowly dying.
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However, in time, concerns began to creep into the leadership of the Solstice Angels. The Guardian Angels of each season convened, and decided that something needed to be done. What was a minor threat now could become a greater threat in time if left unchecked. The older twin brother, who by now had risen to become the Guardian Angel of Summer, was particularly concerned. He was worried for his twin, vanished all those years before, somewhere below in a land now ravaged by demonic creatures.
  
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So the Solstice Guardian Angels would send no more, because unlike the past where one of them would fade away and a new would be chosen, no new guardian angel was being selected. It was a mystery of what was happening and all they could speculate on was that whoever the puppet master was behind these attacks was somehow capturing their Ascending and Descending. This now meant that they must let the battle come to them after all and on eve of the New Year-- it would be decided.
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With the New Year, and thus the most important festival and ceremony in the Kingdom of the Seasons fast approaching, a course of action was decided. Two representatives of the Solstice Angels, a Descending and an Ascending Angel, would be sent below to investigate the source of the demonic incursions and put a stop to it. Judging by the power of the creatures observed thus far, it was considered that the power of these two Angels would be more than sufficient. They were incorrect.
  
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=== The New Year War ===
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One of the Angels chosen to go was the Ascending Angel of Summer, the sister of the missing twin and of the current Guardian Angel of that same season. Both siblings were hoping she could use the opportunity to locate their missing brother and ensure his safety.
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Marching upon the roads to the Kingdom of Seasons came the demonic creatures, with the Demon Warriors moving along side and at the very head was the Demon Lord Equinox himself. The Kingdom of Seasons locked up its doors, moving the citizens inside and readied all who could fight.
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The four Solstice Guardian Angels hovered above the walls, with the trainees at ready, and with the cry of the Demon Lord. The demonic beings and Demon Warriors raced for the very gates of the Kingdom of Season. The battle raged that eve before the New Year. neither made ground and neither would be victorious. Those loses on both sides were heavy and the Solstice Guardian Angel of Summer found himself going toe to toe with the very Demon Lord himself. His own two blades clashing with the Demon Lord's own. The very sky rang with auras of sparks of magic at each of their swords impacted and even they could not gain ground over the other.
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What met the investigation of the Angels was more horrible than they could have imagined. They discovered that the demons were none other than the missing children of the Kingdom of the Seasons, warped and twisted into horrific forms that mocked in strange parody the powers of the Seasons that the Angels guarded. Those they captured and interrogated all spoke of a single source for their power and their corruption- a being called Equinox, the Demon Lord. He Who Brings Truth.
  
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As the bell though rang of the new year. The demonic beings soon left the grounds and the Demon Warriors took those who were to weak to even fight back to be 're-educated'. When the sun started to rise, is when the Solstice Guardian of Summer realized that though they had protected the Kingdom and her people, they had failed in other ways. Many of the trainees had been taken, the ascending and descending were all gone and only he and Autumn remained.
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The Guardian Angels set out to find this Equinox. They succeeded, but they were unprepared for his power. The source of it unknown, he was a match in personal combat for both combined. The Descending Angel of Spring was able to escape, wounded and desperate, to flee back to the Kingdom of the Seasons with the tale of this discovery. The Ascending Angel of Summer, however, was not so fortunate. For she had realized who the Demon Lord was: it was her missing brother, twisted and ravaged, granted immense power from some unknown source. Rather than allowing his jealousy to cool, he had let it consume him, and now he was out to destroy that which he felt had wronged him.
  
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The groves themselves had lost their light, with only his own and Autumns remaining a small bit of their light. Though Autumn felt they can turn this around, Summer could only sense the winds of change upon them. That though the seasons would remain unchanged, with their guardians the meanings of them could suffer, but Autumn's words though spoke true. Though unchanged-- at least they were not corrupted. Because so long as the two of them remained, the seasons would be protected still.
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The Ascending Angel stayed, though wounded, pleaded with her brother to reconsider, to return to them, but he would not. She tried to the very edges of her strength, and there, weakened and in despair, he reached out and claimed her. He took her Crystal and warped it with his corrupting power, and as he did, she changed as well. When her hope gave way, he stepped in and twisted her the way he had twisted the others- transforming her into the first of the Demon Warriors, a step above the paltry demons that had been created so far. Reborn into a mockery of her former self, she swore allegiance to the Demon Lord, and vowed to help in his mission to bring truth to the world- to show the Kingdom of the Seasons for the vile, hateful place that it was. For that is what Equinox believed, in his self-centered and jealous heart.
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When news of this demon lord reached the other Solstice Angels, they were rightly concerned. They sent more against him, larger groups, but each time they did, fewer returned. Only when they saw that the Crystal Flowers were beginning to wilt did they realize what was occurring. Normally, when a Solstice Angel with a crystal died, a new crystal was grown from the flower and given to the one chosen to replace them. This was not happening- the crystals still existed, though now in corrupted form, and so no new ones were spawned. Thus as the Demon Lord grew stronger, capturing and corrupting the Angels sent against him, the Solstice Angels grew weaker, their strength sapped and turned against them.
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This filled the Guardian Angels with fear, as they did not know the identity of the Demon Lord or what he hoped to gain by stealing their adherents. They made the decision to send no more against him, lest they be lost, and to simply hunker down and defend their Kingdom until after the New Year rituals were concluded.
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Alas, it was not to be. On the eve of the New Year, when all the Kingdom was occupied in preparing for the rituals and the festival which accompanied it, the demons attacked the mountain itself. Marching alongside the horde of lesser demons were the Demon Warriors, the corrupted Solstice Angels, and at their head came the Demon Lord himself, Equinox leading his troops personally on what he hoped would be his day of triumph.
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Though weakened, the Solstice Angels rose to the challenge, moving to defend the walls of their capital city, wherein the sacred Grove of Seasons lay. The fighting was fierce, and devastation wrought on both sides. Many fell, and it became clear that the demons could not force their way into the city.
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When day broke and the bells celebrating the coming of a new year began to ring, the demons retreated. They had been staved off, and the Grove still stood. But the cost was terrible- many of the Solstice Angels had fallen, an worse still, many had been captured, taken away by the demons, soon to join their number.
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To his dismay upon his return to the Grove, he found that only he and the Guardian Angel of Autumn remained, along with a handful of trainees. The rest had all been killed or taken captive. The Grove itself had lost its light- only the Crystal Flowers of Summer and Autumn still held a faint glimmer, barely visible. The others had gone dark completely.
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Autumn still held on to hope, proclaiming that the seasons were eternal and could not be destroyed. Summer knew this was true, but he feared for their meaning, their very essence, which could grow dark and corrupted like the flowers themselves. And he feared for the hearts of his people, which reflected the meaning of the seasons that the flowers embodied. In his heart, he feared, but Autumn was instant that as long as they two remained, the situation could be turned around yet.
  
 
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Things have become quiet and with the lack of guardians, a council was formed in its stead. A temporary measure at best in order to continue some form of organization for the Kingdom. Training continued as well, creating now what was known as Seasonal Angels in order to help maintain some sense that everything was still in order, but in truth, all knew it. Things were not the same.
 
  
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However during one of the scouting's, Solstice Guardian Angel of Summer came into contact with one of the Demon Warriors. What was strange on the encounter was she did not desire to fight, but to talk. One of the Season angels expressed concern for this, but Summer ordered them to continue their rounds as he spoke with the Demon Warrior.
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All remained quiet for some time after this. New angels were trained, but without the power of the Crystals, they were not the equal of those who had come before. Still, nothing was seen or heard of the demons, and some began to hope they had vanished for good. Summer knew this could not be the case.
  
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She ended up providing him with information of a future attack, including possible plans. When he asked her why he should believe her. She stated she was growing tired of seeing the pain and that she knows, that in his heart, he knows she speaks the truth. Summer then took the information and investigated further, to only find the truth behind her words was indeed there. With her aid, he was able to stop an invasion, protect several travelers and even chase off one of the Demon Warriors. This contact between the two continued on and for that year, peace was at least felt in the Season of Kingdoms. Yet a growing conflict was starting to happen between Autumn and Summer..
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When on a patrol around the mountain therefore, he was distraught but not surprised to encounter one of the Demon Warriors, a female, though her body was twisted and warped such that he could not recognize who she had once been. He prepared to fight her, but to his surprise, she insisted she wished only to speak. Some of the newer angels with Summer on his patrol expressed doubts, but he sent them on their way and remained to speak to the Demon alone.
  
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Autumn feared that Summer could be making the wrong choices, that he was being tricked, used, and if he was not careful, she feared that they may try to capture him. Like the others. Yet Summer was sure though that would not happen. He felt in his heart that the Demon Warrior '''could''' be turned around. That he could see it in her eyes that she wasn't a monster, there was something in her that could be redeemed and they should at least try before condemning them all.
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She told him that she was tired of seeing the pain and darkness, and she wished to return to being what she had once been. Summer felt some hope rekindle in his heart, for all of these beings had once been his friends, and one his sister. This Demon Warrior gave him information on an upcoming planned attack, telling him it was proof of her goodwill. Then she fled.
  
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Summer investigated her claims, and found them to be true. The information was solid, and the attack was met and prevented, the Demons taken by surprise and destroyed before they could inflict any harm. Again, the female Warrior arrived to meet with Summer. She gave him more information, and over the course of the next few months, many attacks were prevented with her help. Summer began to trust her.
  
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Summer quickly took flight, not even asking for assistance, because he believed with the Demon Warrior's help he had fallen in love with, that she could get him through. Which she did and continued to show her faithfulness to him. Once they arrived, it was already to late for Autumn, but worse, he got to see how the Demon Warriors came to be. How the very gem they were gifted was corrupted into evil. It was here that he realized that each of the Demon Warriors was once his own friends and even meant one of them was his own sister.
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Autumn, however, did not. He did not like what he saw, and he began to argue with Summer, insisting the latter was being tricked. Summer would not listen though- the rogue Warrior had gained his trust, and his hope had returned. He continued to trust her. Autumn, frustrated, finally took a patrol of Angels went went off to see if he could uncover proof of the Demon Warrior's duplicity. He did not return.
  
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It was the first crack in his heart, but one he could ignore. Though as he tried to yell out to Autumn to stop herself from falling and giving himself away. He tried to use the female Demon Warrior he had fallen in love with as an example to her that things could be turned around. Only to hear Equinox laugh from above and clap his hands telling his twin brother a job well done, which is then when Summer realized just who the Demon Lord was, which was another crack in his heart.
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Some time later, the Demon Warrior herself appeared, putting herself in danger to approach the walls of the city itself. She begged Summer to come, saying Autumn had been captured and she had been unable to engineer his escape, but together they might succeed. Still trusting her, Summer took flight with her to the very core of Lord Equinox's territory. However, they were too late.
  
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The two shared their words and then when he asked for the female Demon Warrior to fight with him, that they could end this together, he found out the alarming truth as she slammed her spear right into his shoulder, causing him to drop one of his swords. Slowly pushing him to his knees. The very truth being that he was alone here. There was never any love between them and it was then, looking into her eyes, did he see that Autumn was right. She was using him. Tricked him and while he was here chasing a trap, the Kingdom of Seasons was now not even properly armed. That the other Demon Warriors were taking full advantage of this.
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They arrived just in time to witness the corruption of Autumn. Summer was able to see first hand how the Demon Warriors were made, their Crystals corrupted by the power of the Demon Lord. Though Summer had suspected, had known in his heart, that the Demon Warriors were the corrupted Solstice Angels, seeing it happen before his own eyes was a terrible blow to his soul.
  
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In his rage, he lashed out. Each strike he swung out was not meant with carrying or with love, but sheer hatred, rage, and anger. As he tried to cut down each one of them to make his way to his once twin brother. Bit by bit his own power was being corrupted. For each demonic being he struck down, for even impaling his blade through who was once Autumn and then his final swing at Equinox. His own angelic armor had started to become black and his form was becoming twisted by his rage.
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It was then that the Demon Lord himself appeared before Summer once more. This time though, he did not fight. Instead he spoke. He revealed himself, and Summer's heart suffered another, nearly mortal blow as he realized that Equinox was in fact his own twin brother. Equinox told Summer of his realizations about the world- that it was a terrible place filled with violence and despair, and that they Kingdom of Seasons was wrong to try and cover it up with peace and hope. He would bring truth to the world, he said, by revealing it to be the wretched place it really was.
  
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Summer denied him, pointing to the female Demon Warrior as proof, claiming her desire to return to the side of good was proof that not everything in the world was as terrible as Equinox claimed. Yet he was again betrayed. The Warrior laughed, and as he turned towards her, she struck him with her spear through the shoulder, pinning him to the ground. He saw in her eyes then that she had never truthfully wanted to be redeemed – it had all been a ruse, a trick to lure both him and Autumn out of the city and to their demise. And it had worked.
  
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Soon the Kingdom of Season fell into the decay with the darkness that swept over it. Equinox with his Demon Warriors capturing the citizens that had been there to twist them all and the Demon Lord himself taking each of the flowers carefully into his possession. It was with these very closed crystal flowers that he would take command of the meaning to the seasons for with them and the gems, the Demon Lord knew that now not even time could stop him.
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Despair overcame Summer, though more than that, anger. Rage. Tearing himself from the ground, he lost himself in his desire to end this horror. Swinging his sword madly, he fought his way toward Equinox, and for every demon he cut down from his path using the power of hate and anger, his own corruption grew. When he finally reached his brother, he swung again. Equinox took the blow, allowing the blade to bite in- and with that, the corruption of Summer was complete. It overtook his mind, and like the others, he fell to his knees, his resistance broken and his memories of who and what he had been fading, ebbing like the tide. He became the greatest of his brother's servants in that moment.
  
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From the base of the mountain did the Demon Lord build his new empire under the shadows of the old kingdom he once called and as time progressed and the world grew, so did Equinox. For under the very command of the meaning of seasons. He built his empire on the people's need of merchandise and meaning to events. Corrupting the day of giving to the day of taking. Corrupting the day to be thankful, to the need of greed. It was all a slow process but one that he enjoyed every moment of and for his Demon Warriors-- He contracted them off to a man who was looking for power to protect his family. Making it so his Demon Warriors, though in spirit, could continue to always be by his side-- and at the very use of the very Dark Fall.
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With all of the Solstice Angels destroyed or corrupted, Lord Equinox had no trouble capturing the Kingdom of Seasons. The citizens there fell into despair under his thrall, their hearts darkened as the flowers in the Grove darkened, reflecting each other and the meaning of the Seasons as ever they had. Equinox took the Crystal Flowers and preserved them, though their light had gone out, for with them he could truly control the meaning of the Seasons and through that, the hearts of the people of the Kingdom.
  
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Lord Equinox built a new Kingdom at the base of the mountain, and soon spread his influence over the rest of his world. A Kingdom of Truth, he called it, a land where the wretchedness of the world was not hidden, but plain for all to see. A more honest world, though one of despair and cruelty. This was as it should be, he felt. Everything was reversed, starting with the meaning of the Seasons themselves: Spring, formerly representing Courage, now meant Fear. Summer, which had been Love, became the season of Hate. Autumn, which had been the time of giving, of Charity, became a time of taking, of Greed. And Winter, which had represented Hope, now became Despair, an endless parade of cold nights with no light on the horizon.
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=== What Was The "Solstice Guardian Angels"? ===
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The Solstice Guardian Angels (or simply known as Solstice Angels) were a group who protected the meaning of the four seasons from their home known as the Kingdom of Seasons. They were young boys and girls who were raised understanding the magical properties of the world, the knowledge of what the seasons represented, and taught the ritual of the new year to continue to bring forth the prosperity of those seasons.
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In the order of the Solstice Angels there are 3 tiers of authority. You have the Solstice Guardian Angels themselves at the top, one for each grove that holds the crystal flower of their season. Under the Solstice Guardian Angels is a Solstice Ascending Angel and a Solstice Descending Angel. Those of the Ascending and Descending are like the Guardians' second in command and aid in watching over the grove and the crystal flower.
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Though the Guardian is typically the strongest, neither the Ascending nor the Descending are pushovers either, for they all have had the same training. There has been times, though rare, that the Ascending or Descending have proven stronger than the Guardian. Yet, none are judged on their physical stature or magical power when chosen by the season, but by the inner spirit of the person and how closely they represent the very element of that season.
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Equinox knew that while he himself would not die, his Demon Warriors, his most faithful and powerful servants, had no such protection. So he reached out amongst the stars with his growing power, and sought a way to preserve them. He found it on Earth.
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The groves choose the Solstice Angel by the power of the Crystal Flower. The Crystal Flower creates a small gemstone bead, known as the "Dew Crystal", which finds its new Solstice Angel and bestows its power onto them. This choosing only takes place when a Solstice Angel dies in battle or when they become unable to continue their duty to the Grove and to the Kingdom.
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A man wished for power to protect his family. Equinox offered it to him, playing on the hope which no longer existed on his own world, but which here had fertile ground still. He formed a contract with the man- the man, and the firstborn descendants of his line, would host the soul of one of Equinox's Demon Warriors. In return, they would gain the strength to protect their family.
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The Groves are where the Crystal Flowers were once kept. During the time of Kingdom of Seasons, long in the past, each Grove held the Crystal Flowers of their Season. One of Summer, one for Winter, one for Spring, and one for Autumn. The light of the sun and the moon always reflected upon the crystal flower, illuminating the area with brilliant colored light for their season.
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Flowers bloomed here under this light, along with different types of planet life. The grove was a place of calm for the Solstice Angels, many of whom would visit to reflect, meditate, practice their form, or even spar a friendly fight.  
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It was all a lie, of course. When the Demon Warrior took possession of the man's body, all that he had been was destroyed, and the Demon Warrior was born anew. The man simply ceased to exist, the demon taking over his body. And yet ,the contract was already in place. From this point onwards, each time the body was destroyed, or the heir reached the age of 16, the soul of the Demon Warrior would pass to the next in line, the contract bound into the blood of the family.
  
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Once the Kingdom of Seasons fell and the Solstice Angels were corrupted, the groves became a simple piece of lost history, dead and abandoned along with the Kingdom itself.
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Equinox found such families for all of his Demon Warriors. Now, secure in the immortality of his followers, he set his sights on other worlds, beginning with the Earth itself- wishing to spread his Kingdom of Truth, of Despair, over the entire universe. Knowing that nothing could stop him.
  
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=== What Do The Seasons Represent? ===
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Each of the four seasons had meaning in the Kingdom of Seasons. It was these very things that the Solstice Angels attempted to protect and it was these very things that have been (and still are being) corrupted since the fall of the Solstice Angels and the Kingdom of Seasons.
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Spring represents the emotion of Courage, colored Orange. Those who were of Spring proved to have unmatched strength of will in the face of any adversity, even though many were considered too hot-headed, foolishly fearless, or overly ready for battle. In the corrupted form of Fear, they use doubt and inner struggles to break the will of their target beyond the point of no return.
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The Solstice Angels were the group of chosen warriors who protected the Grove of the Seasons, home to the Crystal Flowers which embodied the meaning of the Seasons. They were chosen from among the population of the Kingdom of the Seasons and highly trained in both martial and magical skills. They were schooled in the knowledge of what each Season represented, and raised to embody those ideals.
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Summer represent the emotion of Love, colored Red. Those who were of Summer displayed compassion and leadership, forgiveness and friendship given without a second thought, and was often considered the strongest of the four seasons overall. In the corrupted form of Hatred, they stir the fires of hatred and spite to spark rage in someone's heart.  
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Each Season had 3 Angels gifted with Crystal Seeds from the Flowers themselves. These Crystals gave these chosen Angels powers above and beyond those of their brethren. The head of each Seasonal Order, and the most powerful, was the Guardian Angel. Beneath him were the Ascending and Descending Angels, equal in power and serving as his right and left hands.
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Autumn represents the emotion of Charity, colored Yellow. Those who were of Autumn were generous and selfless, always ready and willing to aid another anytime and anywhere. Their strength was not in offense, but in support. In the corrupted form of Greed, they twist natural wants and desires into envy and covetousness to the point that only the needs of the self matter at the expense of all else.
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Though the Guardian Angels are typically the most powerful, there have been cases where an Ascending or Descending Angel has grown to be the equal or even the better of his superior. Yet they remained loyal, because it was not physical or magical power for which the Angels were chosen, but inner character and how attuned they were to the spirit of each Season.
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Winter represents the emotion of Hope, colored Blue. Those who were of Winter were peaceful, wise, and gentle--the light at the end of a dark path. They mastered magic to bring smiles to those around them, leaving the physical arts to the other Seasons. In the corrupted form of Despair, they instill sorrow and depression in those they meet, fostering apathy and procrastination.
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=== Who Are The Demon Warriors? ===
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These Angels served until death, and only then was a new Crystal Seed produced by the Flower and given to the next Angel, chosen to succeed the previous.
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The Demon Warriors are fallen Solstice Angels, once the protectors of the Kingdom of Seasons and the very Seasons they represented. The Demon Lord Equinox was able to corrupt each of the Solstice Angels, twisting these once magical boys and girls into mockeries of their true power.
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The Demon Warriors themselves have no conscious memory of their past, whatever rare snippets they may catch in moments of rest are hazy and indistinct. The actions of a person around their host, or even their host themselves, may spark such a moment of recollection. They are known for their loyalty to the Dark Fall and to their master, Demon Lord Equinox. Over the generations they have had many bodies they have taken over, many battles they have seen, but only recently have a few become curious about these nostalgic images.
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=== What do the Seasons represent? ===
  
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=== Why Do The Demon Warriors Bind To A Human? ===
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In the tradition of the Kingdom of Seasons, each Season has a traditional meaning which gave strength to the people. It was these meanings, these ideals, that the Solstice Angels sought to protect, more than the physical reality of the seasons. Each has now been corrupted into a twisted form of its original meaning.
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Unlike their Demon Lord, the Demon Warriors still aged and could die from natural causes, and the Demon Lord Equinox sought a means to circumvent this. The answer came long ago, several generations in the past, when a young man wanted to protect his family from the monsters that plagued the land. Equinox sensed the desperation and took advantage of it, creating a contract with the human man by giving him the power of one of his Demon Warriors.
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Once the man's family was safe, Equinox then initiated the next part of the contract, the fine print of which was not adequately read by the desperate man. The man and his four children were immediately and permanently bound to one of the Demon Warriors, and it was written that their entire family line would be cursed for ages to come. This process of binding would take place instantly at the age of 16, as a young teen is neither adult nor child and their vulnerability at this stage of their life makes it easy for the Demon Warriors to take advantage and even take full control.
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-Spring: Spring represented Courage, and its color was Green. Those who were of Spring had unmatched strength of will in the face of adversity, though some were considered to be hotheaded or foolhardy in their bravery. It has been corrupted into Fear, and the demons of Spring use doubt, inner conflict, or outright terror to break the will of their adversaries.
  
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This binding, once evoked, is marked not only by a special tattoo found on the body representing to that Demon Warrior, but also by a piece of jewelry. Some have a black bracer around the wrist, others a black choker around the throat--but both are inscribed with the demon's name etched into it by the demonic language itself. The tattoos and the written words in the jewelry glow gently at times with the Demon Warrior's original Solstice Angel colors.
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-Summer: Summer was the season of Love, colored Red. Those who were of Summer were beings of compassion and selflessness, of leadership, forgiveness, and friendship without reservation. Summer was often considered the strongest of the seasons, for its adherents were the most pure of heart, though they sometimes were called too trusting, as the last Guardian Angel of Summer proved to his undoing.
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Thus the problem was solved for the Demon Lord, as the contract binding this cursed family line ensured that the Demon Warriors could live on and serve their master throughout the ages. Now with their souls moving from one host to the next, they too have become somewhat ageless beings.
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-Autumn: Autumn was the season of Charity, and its color was Orange. Angels of Autumn were generous and selfless, always willing to give aid at any time. They were not the strongest fighters, but were masters of supporting others, giving of themselves to strengthen their allies. In the corrupted form of Greed, they twist the desires of others into envy and covetousness, until the desire to fuel ones own wants subsume all thought of others.
  
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=== Who is Demon Lord Equinox? ===
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-Winter: Winter was the season of Hope, of looking forward to the thaw and the coming of a new year. The Angels of Winter were peaceful and wise, the light at the end of a dark path. They often left combat to the other seasons, mastering magic which helped enlighten, teach, and heal. In its corrupted form of Despair, they now work to instill sorrow and depression, fostering apathy and surrender in their foes.
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Demon Lord Equinox was a young man once of the Kingdom of Seasons who was stronger than nearly all and trained harder than most. But no matter how hard he trained, he watched his twin brother and sister both become a Solstice Angels yet ignore him. His jealousy led him to reject the Kingdom of Seasons and leave, subsequently leading him to study the dark arts. His newfound powers of a Demon Lord also granted him the ability to corrupt the Solstice Angels, thus binding them to his very service.
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The Demon Lord Equinox is a force to be reckoned with. He possesses all of the Dew Crystals and even the Crystal Flowers themselves. He has become ageless and portrays himself as an immortal being. He has had generations upon generations to practice his dark arts and craft himself a place in the human world. Today, he sits easily at the head of a Mega-corporation that produces holiday goods for each season. The corporation’s headquarters is actually built in the shadow of the Kingdom of Season’s mountain, which is part of his private property. No trespassers are allowed.
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Equinox's desire is to corrupt the four seasons completely, utterly, and irrevocably. Turning values into corruption, twisting the hearts of all mankind into darkness to become demons themselves. Yet he plays the long game, as such evil deeds are progressed very slowly as they always have. He has endless supply of time, and he has the patience to wait for the fall of light as the darkness rises. So while his Demon Warriors aid in chaos for the Dark Fall, he enjoys a glass of fine wine, rich dining, and watches the world turn slowly into his dark desire.
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The Demon Warriors are the fallen Solstice Angels who once held Crystal Seeds. There are three for each season: A Guardian, Ascending, and Descending for each. Although they no longer hold those titles in their demonic forms, they still work as a rough indication of the Warrior's relative power and authority. Lord Equinox corrupted the Solstice Angels, and those with Crystals became his chief lieutenants and leaders in his army. Once magical guardians, they are now servants of his will.
  
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=== The Road To Redemption? ===
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The Demon Warriors have no conscious memory of their past as Solstice Angels, those memories subsumed in their corruption, though Equinox of course remembers the whole story. Whatever rare snippets of their past may surface are hazy and indistinct, more like remembering a dream than reality. Many things may spark such a moment of recollection, but they are usually weak and easily dismissed by the Warrior in question.
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The Road to Redemption is traversed with good intentions, though a slippery slope to climb. The Demon Warriors can one day be redeemed, but to do so is not easy and a task that is hard to follow. The strength of their corruption and their memory loss are major hurdles to overcome, and the path of light is hard to find. Most do not desire to change, content or outright enjoying what they have become.  
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Yet if a Demon Warrior is willing and the host still has enough will of their own to reject the darkness, there is a chance that the Demon Warrior could be redeemed. Their soul would be set free and their Solstice Angel powers given to the former host to continue the forgotten legacy. The soul of the redeemed Angel could even desire to remain with the host if the bond is strong enough, granting them the inner teamwork to battle evil together. Thus the former freed Solstice Angel becomes a guiding voice of light, instead of the corrupting whisper of darkness as a Demon Warrior.
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Over the many generations since the Damnation, the Demon Warriors have fought in many battles and inhabited many host bodies. Only recently, however, have some of them begun to question the meaning of these brief flashes of memory they sometimes experience. Although individual motivations may vary, this is largely due to the impending Galactic Solstice.
  
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However, there is always a price to pay and the Demon Lord Equinox will not be blind to one who is attempting to break away. By choosing the path of light once more, even by merely discovering how to do so, the crystal flower of their Season will start to ignite with light and slowly start to open. This provides a warning to Equinox that someone under that season is attempting to return to their original ways, and he is quite capable of tightening his hold over that Demon Warrior even more.
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=== Why do the Demon Warriors bind to a Human host? ===
  
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So if you seek the path to Redemption to become one of light again, remember that you will need friends to help you along your way. The more friends you have to help you walk the path, the greater the likelihood of success when the Demon Lord comes to stop you.
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Lord Equinox is immortal, granted that power by whatever means he gained his original demonic strength. His Demon Warriors however, even in their corrupted forms, were not. They could still die on the battlefield, or even age and die naturally. The Contracts the Warriors have formed with human families is their way around this- now they can fight forever without fear of dying or becoming old.
  
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=== What is the Process to be Redeemed? ===
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Normally the Binding of a new host takes place either when the previous host dies, or when the new host (usually the first-born of the Contracted family) turns 16. Teenage is the best time, as generally the host is old enough to serve without being strong enough of will to resist. Generally, the Demon Warrior completely wipes out the human soul inhabiting the body, replacing it so that no trace of the original host remains. This does not need to be the case, however- if for some reason the demon is unwilling or unable to destroy the original inhabitant of the body, they can coexist, though the demon is usually the dominant force.
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The Process of Redemption is a long one. The Demon Warrior has to eventually realize that the hazy images of dreams are not dreams at all, but their own memories. Their host must still have enough will and awareness to be separate from their Demon Warrior, and both host and demon need to have decent enough relationship to work together. Lacking that, the human host must have a strong desire to just be rid of the demon within and thus be freed of the contract. This must be stronger than the will of the Demon Warrior.
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This process is done by roleplay, participating in scenes no matter how large or small. It is not something that can be done within a set timeframe, but requires time and interaction with others. You must remember while trying to redeem yourself, that the Demon Warrior is evil and thus it will easily fall back into natural habits. You could say that this evil nature is what drags one back down and why they must climb ever harder. This is why friendship with those of light is very important, because it is the nature of good that can be the helping hand to get over some of the hard parts of the path. It is by the act of kindness and the memory of what their original season was-- those feelings-- that can reignite the old spark.
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Once the Binding has taken place, the host is marked by a special tattoo found somewhere on their body which represents the Demon Warrior they contain. They also receive a piece of jewelry, either a bracer or a choker, made of black or golden metal and inscribed with arcane runes which are in fact the name of the Demon Warrior in the native language of the Kingdom of the Seasons. Both the tattoo and the etchings on the jewelry glow with the original color of the Solstice Angel's season when power is invoked.
  
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For instance, those of Winter would need to experience hope again, where they want to believe in the light at the end of the darkness. Or one of Summer need to express true compassion for another that cannot be hand-waved away by a whim.
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Demon Warriors are able to appear as either their host or their original demonic form, and often switch at will depending on what best suits the situation.
  
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=== Who is Lord Equinox? ===
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The Demon Lord Equinox was once a young man of the Kingdom of the Seasons. Though both his sister and his twin brother were chosen to be Solstice Angels, he was passed over. This was not because of his lack of strength, but because of the darkness in his heart which was present even then in nascent form. The Flowers could sense it, even if he himself could not. His jealousy for being passed over led him to abandon the Kingdom and descend below, where he came upon the secret source of dark power which transformed him into the Demon Lord and gave him the means to corrupt others into his service.
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Lord Equinox is a powerful figure, as he has had generations to hone and grow his strength. He possesses the loyalty of all the Crystal-Bearing Angels, now his Demon Warriors, and is very powerful personally as well. Above all, he is charismatic and persuasive even beyond any magical means. Over the generations he has forged a place for himself on Earth while he slowly works to corrupt it even as he did his own world. Today he poses as the head of a large corporation, Equinox Enterprises, which got its start producing holiday goods, of all things. He is nothing if not fond of irony.
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His ultimate goal is to spread his 'truth' across the entire universe. He has corrupted the meaning and the ideals of the Seasons on his own world, but there are many other worlds where those ideals persist, and he will not be satisfied until he has turned each of them to darkness even as he did his own. He views this as a noble task, for he thinks the universe is a naturally vile place and that sentient beings are lying to themselves, deluding themselves with hope, love and compassion. He claims he is a bringer of truth, showing everyone and everything for the terrible creatures they really are. This has proven to be a very lengthy process, but he is nothing if not patient. He knows in the end, he will be victorious.
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=== The Road to Redemption ===
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What once was can be again. Each of the Demon Warriors possesses the ability to be redeemed, though the mechanisms and motivations behind that redemption will likely be different for each. The one thing they all have in common is that it will be a lengthy and difficult process- these characters are meant to be villains for a long time before they make the jump to hero (or anti-hero, depending on the character). The corruption inflicted on them is strong, and their memory loss is a major hurdle to overcome. Most of them currently do not desire to change, either content or even enjoying what they have become, ignorant that they could be anything else.
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It is likely that any redemption would come by way of interactions with a host- traditionally, the Demon Warriors have wiped away their host completely upon taking control of a body, but in recent times that has begun to change. Many have begun to let their hosts linger, for 'amusement' or simple curiosity, though perhaps those impulses are driven by a deeper subconscious need. If these hosts are of sufficient will or purity, it is possible they could begin to effect the Demon Warrior and tap into the hidden desire to be redeemed.
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A redeemed Solstice Angel would either move on, bequeathing the powers and legacy of their position to the host who saved them, or remain as a sort of spiritual guardian to work together with their former host to fight the forces of darkness. Either path is equally valid.
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There are always stumbling blocks though, and aside from each Warrior's own inherent corruption and unwillingness to change, there is always Lord Equinox. The Demon Lord is jealous of his servants and is a cunning creature: he will not sit idly by and watch while his servants are stolen from him.
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As with the planets, the entire galaxy goes through cycles and patterns- though not the same as seasons as we might think of them, they carry great weight nonetheless. One of the most important of these large-scale seasonal events is known as the Galactic Solstice. This event, which marks one of the mid-points of the great galactic cycle, is notable more for what it represented in the Kingdom of Seasons than for any actual galactic significance- this was the time, every thousand years or so, when the Crystal Flowers would die. Each in turn would shrivel, only to be reborn from a seed spawned from their falling husk. Though this did not effect the powers of the Solstice Angels, they considered it a great time of renewal and celebration, signifying the ever-lasting strength of the Seasons and the ideals they represent.
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This time is now approaching, for the first time since the rise of Lord Equinox and the Damnation of the Solstice Angels. Although they do not consciously remember it, many are feeling the tug of forces beyond their knowledge, and it is acting as a catalyst to their hidden memories. The approach of this celebration, this great renewal, could very well be the impetus for some of the Demon Warriors to begin questioning their motives for serving Lord Equinox, and perhaps feeling a curious sympathy toward their hosts which had not been present before.
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Lord Equinox himself is not oblivious to the approach of the Galactic Solstice, though he is hoping for quite a different outcome. He believes that when the Crystal Flowers die, he can force them to re-grow in a twisted and corrupted form, symbols of his own beliefs instead of those of the Solstice Angels. If this occurs, it will truly be the end for any hope of redemption for the Demon Warriors, but there is still time. If enough of them can regain their memories and their sense of self before the event itself, that tragedy may yet be prevented.
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As stated above, any redemption of a Demon Warrior will be a long and difficult one. The Demon Warrior must realize that his memories are just that, memories, not dreams or hallucinations. The host must have the will and the awareness to act, and both the Warrior and the host must have enough of a relationship to work together. Failing that, the human host must have a strong enough desire to be rid of the demon that he is able to overcome the willpower of the demon itself, which is no small task.
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This is a process that will be done through roleplay, and there should be no set timeframe for it. It is not something you can succeed at on your own, but should be worked towards through building relationships with other characters and relying on them/involving them in your struggle. It is important to remember that the Demon Warrior is thoroughly corrupt and will not /want/ to be redeemed, at least at first, and will easily fall back into what is comfortingly familiar unless driven on by external forces- forces such as friends, their own host, etc.
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Long ago there was a place hidden high on a mountain, in the clouds, known as the Kingdom of Seasons. The Grove, a field of mystical crystal flowers that was the heart of the land’s power, chose its guardians of the seasons from the children of this land and bestowed upon them the titles of Solstice Guardian Angels. The peaceful land was blind to the growing darkness beyond its borders, unaware of the Demon Lord’s corruption that entered the groves and twisted the guardians into mockeries of their strengths and virtues, until it was far too late. Once the corruption was complete, the Demon Lord turned his corrupting influence into the world at large, beginning with the fall of a specific family line into vessels for his Demon Warriors and branching out from there in the subsequent generations. However, hope may still yet bloom as what has fallen into corruption could yet be redeemed.
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Long ago on another world  there was a place known as the Kingdom of the Seasons. This land was guarded by the Solstice Angels. They were blind to a darkness growing beyond their borders, unaware of the Demon Lord Equinox as he slowly began to steal away the Solstice Angels, transforming them into his own Demon Warriors in mockery of their former roles. Eventually the corruption overtook the Kingdom, and the Demon Lord turned his attention outwards, to other lands, seeking to force the same fate upon them.  
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Demon Lord Equinox is loyal to the Dark Fall. He desires to corrupt humanity and ensure their eventual destruction from within their own society. Devious, deceptive, and with all the time in the world, he lends his Demon Warriors as assistance to the wills and desires of the Dark Fall. While he remains in the background to oversee his own agenda and games, the Demon Warriors have proven to be loyal servants to the Dark Fall and their leaders. Thus, unless Equinox issues specific orders to his loyal minions, he allows them to do as they see fit and to be used however necessary for the deeds of Dark Fall.
 
  
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Demon Lord Equinox has sworn loyalty to Dark Fall. However, like all such beings, his loyalty is out of personal motivation rather than belief in any common cause. He views Dark Fall as convinient allies in order to spread his vision of corruption and darkness across the universe. As such, he lends the assistance of his Demon Warriors to the other members of Dark Fall, and requests assistance in kind when he needs it. While Equinox himself plays his own games, the Demon Warriors have proven to be capable and loyal servants to those Equinox directs them to assist. When not under specific orders from him directly, the Demon Warriors have standing orders to assist Dark Fall however they see fit.
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There is currently only NPC'ed cast member. This is Demon Lord Equinox (Haruko Warden) himself. He is used for plot points, when someone decides to be "naughty", and for use during seasonal events (due to his corporation's nature). If you are interested in using Equinox for something, please contact me (Aoi Mitsugi) and we can discuss what you would like to have him do.
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Latest revision as of 19:38, 22 August 2014

Welcome to the Akuma no Senshi cast and information page! We hope that this page will cover all the information you might need to roleplay with or apply for a character within this theme. It is an Original Concept Theme and open for applications to fill in the slots that are available. For those of you who may be interested in playing one of the characters, you may speak with me (Aoi Mitsugi) and we can throw around ideas.

The Origin Story

The Beginning

On another world, in another time, an isolated kingdom existed high on a mountain, hidden amongst the clouds. It was a place of beauty and serenity, a place of peace and prosperity. Within this kingdom existed a magical place known as the Grove of Seasons. Here each season, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, was embodied in a crystal flower which bloomed with the spirit of that time of each year. The seasons gave meaning to the flowers, and in turn the flowers gave meaning to the seasons, representing them in the eyes of the people, symbols of the power and the beauty of the natural order.


Such treasures require guardians, for anything with power produces those who would seize and abuse that power. In the case of the Grove of Seasons, those guardians were the Solstice Angels, an order chosen from among the people of the Kingdom of the Seasons, trained in the arts of martial skill and the use of magic. From among this order were chosen three of the most skilled to represent each season: A Guardian Angel, and his right and left hands, the Ascending and Descending Angel of each season. Each of these three was gifted a magic crystal, a seed of the flower of their respective Season, which gave them enhanced powers and abilities.

For many generations the Solstice Angels protected the Grove and its crystal flowers, safeguarding the meaning of the seasons in the hearts of their people. As Guardians died, others rose to replace them, and the system seemed solid and unbreakable. However, much like the seasons themselves, nothing lasts forever.

The Beginning of the End

As with all things, the seeds of destruction begin small. It was as simple as the jealousy of a brother for his siblings that began the cascade of conflict that would end in the utter ruination of the Kingdom of the Seasons.

Three children were born to this family. A sister, and twin brothers. The sister was chosen to be a Solstice Angel, and even more honorably, became the Ascending Angel of Summer. Then, the older of the twin brothers was chosen as well. Surprisingly, though all expected him to be, the younger twin was not chosen. No reason was given, as no reason ever is; he was simply passed over.

Jealousy grew in the younger twin, as it would in anyone. He soon left the Kingdom of Seasons, descending the mountain to live amongst the common people of the lower lands. His siblings were sad to see him go, but they understood and hoped that, in time, he would make peace with the decision of the Solstice Angels and return to them. Return he would, but not as they hoped or imagined.

Darkness Below

For many generations, the relations between the people of the Kingdom of the Seasons and those more mundane kingdoms existing below their mountain had been peaceful. Many young people from the Kingdom would descend to explore the world below in their youth, returning to the mountain wiser for their experiences, and they were almost always treated with respect and hospitality by those they encountered. Some years after the departure of the spurned twin, however, this began to change. None had heard from him in those years, and his siblings feared for his safety, especially in light of disturbing events which began to occur, emenating from the lands below.

Young people still left the Kingdom of the Seasons to explore below, but now some did not return. They simply vanished. More frightening yet, those that did return spoke of the appearance of terrible creatures in the lands of the other kingdoms. Demons, twisted in form and spirit, who were inflicting terror upon the helpless people. Yet, secure on their mountaintop, those of the Kingdom did not despair. They did not believe that these demons could reach them, and even if they could, they could never overcome the power of the Solstice Angels.

However, in time, concerns began to creep into the leadership of the Solstice Angels. The Guardian Angels of each season convened, and decided that something needed to be done. What was a minor threat now could become a greater threat in time if left unchecked. The older twin brother, who by now had risen to become the Guardian Angel of Summer, was particularly concerned. He was worried for his twin, vanished all those years before, somewhere below in a land now ravaged by demonic creatures.

With the New Year, and thus the most important festival and ceremony in the Kingdom of the Seasons fast approaching, a course of action was decided. Two representatives of the Solstice Angels, a Descending and an Ascending Angel, would be sent below to investigate the source of the demonic incursions and put a stop to it. Judging by the power of the creatures observed thus far, it was considered that the power of these two Angels would be more than sufficient. They were incorrect.

One of the Angels chosen to go was the Ascending Angel of Summer, the sister of the missing twin and of the current Guardian Angel of that same season. Both siblings were hoping she could use the opportunity to locate their missing brother and ensure his safety.

What met the investigation of the Angels was more horrible than they could have imagined. They discovered that the demons were none other than the missing children of the Kingdom of the Seasons, warped and twisted into horrific forms that mocked in strange parody the powers of the Seasons that the Angels guarded. Those they captured and interrogated all spoke of a single source for their power and their corruption- a being called Equinox, the Demon Lord. He Who Brings Truth.

The Guardian Angels set out to find this Equinox. They succeeded, but they were unprepared for his power. The source of it unknown, he was a match in personal combat for both combined. The Descending Angel of Spring was able to escape, wounded and desperate, to flee back to the Kingdom of the Seasons with the tale of this discovery. The Ascending Angel of Summer, however, was not so fortunate. For she had realized who the Demon Lord was: it was her missing brother, twisted and ravaged, granted immense power from some unknown source. Rather than allowing his jealousy to cool, he had let it consume him, and now he was out to destroy that which he felt had wronged him.

The Ascending Angel stayed, though wounded, pleaded with her brother to reconsider, to return to them, but he would not. She tried to the very edges of her strength, and there, weakened and in despair, he reached out and claimed her. He took her Crystal and warped it with his corrupting power, and as he did, she changed as well. When her hope gave way, he stepped in and twisted her the way he had twisted the others- transforming her into the first of the Demon Warriors, a step above the paltry demons that had been created so far. Reborn into a mockery of her former self, she swore allegiance to the Demon Lord, and vowed to help in his mission to bring truth to the world- to show the Kingdom of the Seasons for the vile, hateful place that it was. For that is what Equinox believed, in his self-centered and jealous heart.

When news of this demon lord reached the other Solstice Angels, they were rightly concerned. They sent more against him, larger groups, but each time they did, fewer returned. Only when they saw that the Crystal Flowers were beginning to wilt did they realize what was occurring. Normally, when a Solstice Angel with a crystal died, a new crystal was grown from the flower and given to the one chosen to replace them. This was not happening- the crystals still existed, though now in corrupted form, and so no new ones were spawned. Thus as the Demon Lord grew stronger, capturing and corrupting the Angels sent against him, the Solstice Angels grew weaker, their strength sapped and turned against them.


This filled the Guardian Angels with fear, as they did not know the identity of the Demon Lord or what he hoped to gain by stealing their adherents. They made the decision to send no more against him, lest they be lost, and to simply hunker down and defend their Kingdom until after the New Year rituals were concluded.

The New Year's War

Alas, it was not to be. On the eve of the New Year, when all the Kingdom was occupied in preparing for the rituals and the festival which accompanied it, the demons attacked the mountain itself. Marching alongside the horde of lesser demons were the Demon Warriors, the corrupted Solstice Angels, and at their head came the Demon Lord himself, Equinox leading his troops personally on what he hoped would be his day of triumph.


Though weakened, the Solstice Angels rose to the challenge, moving to defend the walls of their capital city, wherein the sacred Grove of Seasons lay. The fighting was fierce, and devastation wrought on both sides. Many fell, and it became clear that the demons could not force their way into the city.

When day broke and the bells celebrating the coming of a new year began to ring, the demons retreated. They had been staved off, and the Grove still stood. But the cost was terrible- many of the Solstice Angels had fallen, an worse still, many had been captured, taken away by the demons, soon to join their number.

The Guardian Angel of Summer, the older twin brother of Lord Equinox though he knew it not, had fought with the Demon Lord personally. They had proven equally matched, neither gaining an advantage, and had finally parted, the Angel still in ignorance.

To his dismay upon his return to the Grove, he found that only he and the Guardian Angel of Autumn remained, along with a handful of trainees. The rest had all been killed or taken captive. The Grove itself had lost its light- only the Crystal Flowers of Summer and Autumn still held a faint glimmer, barely visible. The others had gone dark completely.

Autumn still held on to hope, proclaiming that the seasons were eternal and could not be destroyed. Summer knew this was true, but he feared for their meaning, their very essence, which could grow dark and corrupted like the flowers themselves. And he feared for the hearts of his people, which reflected the meaning of the seasons that the flowers embodied. In his heart, he feared, but Autumn was instant that as long as they two remained, the situation could be turned around yet.

The Damnation

All remained quiet for some time after this. New angels were trained, but without the power of the Crystals, they were not the equal of those who had come before. Still, nothing was seen or heard of the demons, and some began to hope they had vanished for good. Summer knew this could not be the case.

When on a patrol around the mountain therefore, he was distraught but not surprised to encounter one of the Demon Warriors, a female, though her body was twisted and warped such that he could not recognize who she had once been. He prepared to fight her, but to his surprise, she insisted she wished only to speak. Some of the newer angels with Summer on his patrol expressed doubts, but he sent them on their way and remained to speak to the Demon alone.

She told him that she was tired of seeing the pain and darkness, and she wished to return to being what she had once been. Summer felt some hope rekindle in his heart, for all of these beings had once been his friends, and one his sister. This Demon Warrior gave him information on an upcoming planned attack, telling him it was proof of her goodwill. Then she fled.

Summer investigated her claims, and found them to be true. The information was solid, and the attack was met and prevented, the Demons taken by surprise and destroyed before they could inflict any harm. Again, the female Warrior arrived to meet with Summer. She gave him more information, and over the course of the next few months, many attacks were prevented with her help. Summer began to trust her.

Autumn, however, did not. He did not like what he saw, and he began to argue with Summer, insisting the latter was being tricked. Summer would not listen though- the rogue Warrior had gained his trust, and his hope had returned. He continued to trust her. Autumn, frustrated, finally took a patrol of Angels went went off to see if he could uncover proof of the Demon Warrior's duplicity. He did not return.

Some time later, the Demon Warrior herself appeared, putting herself in danger to approach the walls of the city itself. She begged Summer to come, saying Autumn had been captured and she had been unable to engineer his escape, but together they might succeed. Still trusting her, Summer took flight with her to the very core of Lord Equinox's territory. However, they were too late.

They arrived just in time to witness the corruption of Autumn. Summer was able to see first hand how the Demon Warriors were made, their Crystals corrupted by the power of the Demon Lord. Though Summer had suspected, had known in his heart, that the Demon Warriors were the corrupted Solstice Angels, seeing it happen before his own eyes was a terrible blow to his soul.

It was then that the Demon Lord himself appeared before Summer once more. This time though, he did not fight. Instead he spoke. He revealed himself, and Summer's heart suffered another, nearly mortal blow as he realized that Equinox was in fact his own twin brother. Equinox told Summer of his realizations about the world- that it was a terrible place filled with violence and despair, and that they Kingdom of Seasons was wrong to try and cover it up with peace and hope. He would bring truth to the world, he said, by revealing it to be the wretched place it really was.

Summer denied him, pointing to the female Demon Warrior as proof, claiming her desire to return to the side of good was proof that not everything in the world was as terrible as Equinox claimed. Yet he was again betrayed. The Warrior laughed, and as he turned towards her, she struck him with her spear through the shoulder, pinning him to the ground. He saw in her eyes then that she had never truthfully wanted to be redeemed – it had all been a ruse, a trick to lure both him and Autumn out of the city and to their demise. And it had worked.

Despair overcame Summer, though more than that, anger. Rage. Tearing himself from the ground, he lost himself in his desire to end this horror. Swinging his sword madly, he fought his way toward Equinox, and for every demon he cut down from his path using the power of hate and anger, his own corruption grew. When he finally reached his brother, he swung again. Equinox took the blow, allowing the blade to bite in- and with that, the corruption of Summer was complete. It overtook his mind, and like the others, he fell to his knees, his resistance broken and his memories of who and what he had been fading, ebbing like the tide. He became the greatest of his brother's servants in that moment.

With all of the Solstice Angels destroyed or corrupted, Lord Equinox had no trouble capturing the Kingdom of Seasons. The citizens there fell into despair under his thrall, their hearts darkened as the flowers in the Grove darkened, reflecting each other and the meaning of the Seasons as ever they had. Equinox took the Crystal Flowers and preserved them, though their light had gone out, for with them he could truly control the meaning of the Seasons and through that, the hearts of the people of the Kingdom.

Lord Equinox built a new Kingdom at the base of the mountain, and soon spread his influence over the rest of his world. A Kingdom of Truth, he called it, a land where the wretchedness of the world was not hidden, but plain for all to see. A more honest world, though one of despair and cruelty. This was as it should be, he felt. Everything was reversed, starting with the meaning of the Seasons themselves: Spring, formerly representing Courage, now meant Fear. Summer, which had been Love, became the season of Hate. Autumn, which had been the time of giving, of Charity, became a time of taking, of Greed. And Winter, which had represented Hope, now became Despair, an endless parade of cold nights with no light on the horizon.

And yet still, Equinox was not satisfied.

The Bestowing

Equinox knew that while he himself would not die, his Demon Warriors, his most faithful and powerful servants, had no such protection. So he reached out amongst the stars with his growing power, and sought a way to preserve them. He found it on Earth.

A man wished for power to protect his family. Equinox offered it to him, playing on the hope which no longer existed on his own world, but which here had fertile ground still. He formed a contract with the man- the man, and the firstborn descendants of his line, would host the soul of one of Equinox's Demon Warriors. In return, they would gain the strength to protect their family.

It was all a lie, of course. When the Demon Warrior took possession of the man's body, all that he had been was destroyed, and the Demon Warrior was born anew. The man simply ceased to exist, the demon taking over his body. And yet ,the contract was already in place. From this point onwards, each time the body was destroyed, or the heir reached the age of 16, the soul of the Demon Warrior would pass to the next in line, the contract bound into the blood of the family.

Equinox found such families for all of his Demon Warriors. Now, secure in the immortality of his followers, he set his sights on other worlds, beginning with the Earth itself- wishing to spread his Kingdom of Truth, of Despair, over the entire universe. Knowing that nothing could stop him.

Infomation Database (FAQ)

What were the Solstice Angels?

The Solstice Angels were the group of chosen warriors who protected the Grove of the Seasons, home to the Crystal Flowers which embodied the meaning of the Seasons. They were chosen from among the population of the Kingdom of the Seasons and highly trained in both martial and magical skills. They were schooled in the knowledge of what each Season represented, and raised to embody those ideals.

Each Season had 3 Angels gifted with Crystal Seeds from the Flowers themselves. These Crystals gave these chosen Angels powers above and beyond those of their brethren. The head of each Seasonal Order, and the most powerful, was the Guardian Angel. Beneath him were the Ascending and Descending Angels, equal in power and serving as his right and left hands.

Though the Guardian Angels are typically the most powerful, there have been cases where an Ascending or Descending Angel has grown to be the equal or even the better of his superior. Yet they remained loyal, because it was not physical or magical power for which the Angels were chosen, but inner character and how attuned they were to the spirit of each Season.

These Angels served until death, and only then was a new Crystal Seed produced by the Flower and given to the next Angel, chosen to succeed the previous.

What do the Seasons represent?

In the tradition of the Kingdom of Seasons, each Season has a traditional meaning which gave strength to the people. It was these meanings, these ideals, that the Solstice Angels sought to protect, more than the physical reality of the seasons. Each has now been corrupted into a twisted form of its original meaning.

-Spring: Spring represented Courage, and its color was Green. Those who were of Spring had unmatched strength of will in the face of adversity, though some were considered to be hotheaded or foolhardy in their bravery. It has been corrupted into Fear, and the demons of Spring use doubt, inner conflict, or outright terror to break the will of their adversaries.

-Summer: Summer was the season of Love, colored Red. Those who were of Summer were beings of compassion and selflessness, of leadership, forgiveness, and friendship without reservation. Summer was often considered the strongest of the seasons, for its adherents were the most pure of heart, though they sometimes were called too trusting, as the last Guardian Angel of Summer proved to his undoing. In its corrupted form of Hate, demons of Summer fight fueled by rage and violence, and seek to stir the fires of mistrust and jealousy in others to drive them to do similar.

-Autumn: Autumn was the season of Charity, and its color was Orange. Angels of Autumn were generous and selfless, always willing to give aid at any time. They were not the strongest fighters, but were masters of supporting others, giving of themselves to strengthen their allies. In the corrupted form of Greed, they twist the desires of others into envy and covetousness, until the desire to fuel ones own wants subsume all thought of others.

-Winter: Winter was the season of Hope, of looking forward to the thaw and the coming of a new year. The Angels of Winter were peaceful and wise, the light at the end of a dark path. They often left combat to the other seasons, mastering magic which helped enlighten, teach, and heal. In its corrupted form of Despair, they now work to instill sorrow and depression, fostering apathy and surrender in their foes.

Who are the Demon Warriors?

The Demon Warriors are the fallen Solstice Angels who once held Crystal Seeds. There are three for each season: A Guardian, Ascending, and Descending for each. Although they no longer hold those titles in their demonic forms, they still work as a rough indication of the Warrior's relative power and authority. Lord Equinox corrupted the Solstice Angels, and those with Crystals became his chief lieutenants and leaders in his army. Once magical guardians, they are now servants of his will.

The Demon Warriors have no conscious memory of their past as Solstice Angels, those memories subsumed in their corruption, though Equinox of course remembers the whole story. Whatever rare snippets of their past may surface are hazy and indistinct, more like remembering a dream than reality. Many things may spark such a moment of recollection, but they are usually weak and easily dismissed by the Warrior in question.

Over the many generations since the Damnation, the Demon Warriors have fought in many battles and inhabited many host bodies. Only recently, however, have some of them begun to question the meaning of these brief flashes of memory they sometimes experience. Although individual motivations may vary, this is largely due to the impending Galactic Solstice.

Why do the Demon Warriors bind to a Human host?

Lord Equinox is immortal, granted that power by whatever means he gained his original demonic strength. His Demon Warriors however, even in their corrupted forms, were not. They could still die on the battlefield, or even age and die naturally. The Contracts the Warriors have formed with human families is their way around this- now they can fight forever without fear of dying or becoming old.

Normally the Binding of a new host takes place either when the previous host dies, or when the new host (usually the first-born of the Contracted family) turns 16. Teenage is the best time, as generally the host is old enough to serve without being strong enough of will to resist. Generally, the Demon Warrior completely wipes out the human soul inhabiting the body, replacing it so that no trace of the original host remains. This does not need to be the case, however- if for some reason the demon is unwilling or unable to destroy the original inhabitant of the body, they can coexist, though the demon is usually the dominant force.

Once the Binding has taken place, the host is marked by a special tattoo found somewhere on their body which represents the Demon Warrior they contain. They also receive a piece of jewelry, either a bracer or a choker, made of black or golden metal and inscribed with arcane runes which are in fact the name of the Demon Warrior in the native language of the Kingdom of the Seasons. Both the tattoo and the etchings on the jewelry glow with the original color of the Solstice Angel's season when power is invoked.

Demon Warriors are able to appear as either their host or their original demonic form, and often switch at will depending on what best suits the situation.

Who is Lord Equinox?

The Demon Lord Equinox was once a young man of the Kingdom of the Seasons. Though both his sister and his twin brother were chosen to be Solstice Angels, he was passed over. This was not because of his lack of strength, but because of the darkness in his heart which was present even then in nascent form. The Flowers could sense it, even if he himself could not. His jealousy for being passed over led him to abandon the Kingdom and descend below, where he came upon the secret source of dark power which transformed him into the Demon Lord and gave him the means to corrupt others into his service.

Lord Equinox is a powerful figure, as he has had generations to hone and grow his strength. He possesses the loyalty of all the Crystal-Bearing Angels, now his Demon Warriors, and is very powerful personally as well. Above all, he is charismatic and persuasive even beyond any magical means. Over the generations he has forged a place for himself on Earth while he slowly works to corrupt it even as he did his own world. Today he poses as the head of a large corporation, Equinox Enterprises, which got its start producing holiday goods, of all things. He is nothing if not fond of irony.

His ultimate goal is to spread his 'truth' across the entire universe. He has corrupted the meaning and the ideals of the Seasons on his own world, but there are many other worlds where those ideals persist, and he will not be satisfied until he has turned each of them to darkness even as he did his own. He views this as a noble task, for he thinks the universe is a naturally vile place and that sentient beings are lying to themselves, deluding themselves with hope, love and compassion. He claims he is a bringer of truth, showing everyone and everything for the terrible creatures they really are. This has proven to be a very lengthy process, but he is nothing if not patient. He knows in the end, he will be victorious.


The Road to Redemption

What once was can be again. Each of the Demon Warriors possesses the ability to be redeemed, though the mechanisms and motivations behind that redemption will likely be different for each. The one thing they all have in common is that it will be a lengthy and difficult process- these characters are meant to be villains for a long time before they make the jump to hero (or anti-hero, depending on the character). The corruption inflicted on them is strong, and their memory loss is a major hurdle to overcome. Most of them currently do not desire to change, either content or even enjoying what they have become, ignorant that they could be anything else.

It is likely that any redemption would come by way of interactions with a host- traditionally, the Demon Warriors have wiped away their host completely upon taking control of a body, but in recent times that has begun to change. Many have begun to let their hosts linger, for 'amusement' or simple curiosity, though perhaps those impulses are driven by a deeper subconscious need. If these hosts are of sufficient will or purity, it is possible they could begin to effect the Demon Warrior and tap into the hidden desire to be redeemed.

A redeemed Solstice Angel would either move on, bequeathing the powers and legacy of their position to the host who saved them, or remain as a sort of spiritual guardian to work together with their former host to fight the forces of darkness. Either path is equally valid.

There are always stumbling blocks though, and aside from each Warrior's own inherent corruption and unwillingness to change, there is always Lord Equinox. The Demon Lord is jealous of his servants and is a cunning creature: he will not sit idly by and watch while his servants are stolen from him.

Only through the finding of allies and friendship among the people surrounding them do the Demon Warriors have any hope of succeeding in this most difficult task. But with support, willpower, and love, they can once again return to the light.

The Galactic Solstice

As with the planets, the entire galaxy goes through cycles and patterns- though not the same as seasons as we might think of them, they carry great weight nonetheless. One of the most important of these large-scale seasonal events is known as the Galactic Solstice. This event, which marks one of the mid-points of the great galactic cycle, is notable more for what it represented in the Kingdom of Seasons than for any actual galactic significance- this was the time, every thousand years or so, when the Crystal Flowers would die. Each in turn would shrivel, only to be reborn from a seed spawned from their falling husk. Though this did not effect the powers of the Solstice Angels, they considered it a great time of renewal and celebration, signifying the ever-lasting strength of the Seasons and the ideals they represent.

This time is now approaching, for the first time since the rise of Lord Equinox and the Damnation of the Solstice Angels. Although they do not consciously remember it, many are feeling the tug of forces beyond their knowledge, and it is acting as a catalyst to their hidden memories. The approach of this celebration, this great renewal, could very well be the impetus for some of the Demon Warriors to begin questioning their motives for serving Lord Equinox, and perhaps feeling a curious sympathy toward their hosts which had not been present before.

Lord Equinox himself is not oblivious to the approach of the Galactic Solstice, though he is hoping for quite a different outcome. He believes that when the Crystal Flowers die, he can force them to re-grow in a twisted and corrupted form, symbols of his own beliefs instead of those of the Solstice Angels. If this occurs, it will truly be the end for any hope of redemption for the Demon Warriors, but there is still time. If enough of them can regain their memories and their sense of self before the event itself, that tragedy may yet be prevented.


The Process of Redemption

As stated above, any redemption of a Demon Warrior will be a long and difficult one. The Demon Warrior must realize that his memories are just that, memories, not dreams or hallucinations. The host must have the will and the awareness to act, and both the Warrior and the host must have enough of a relationship to work together. Failing that, the human host must have a strong enough desire to be rid of the demon that he is able to overcome the willpower of the demon itself, which is no small task.

This is a process that will be done through roleplay, and there should be no set timeframe for it. It is not something you can succeed at on your own, but should be worked towards through building relationships with other characters and relying on them/involving them in your struggle. It is important to remember that the Demon Warrior is thoroughly corrupt and will not /want/ to be redeemed, at least at first, and will easily fall back into what is comfortingly familiar unless driven on by external forces- forces such as friends, their own host, etc.

The original emotion associated with their Season can also play an important role- for example, a demon of Winter could be made to feel true hope again, or a demon of Summer brought to feel true compassion.

And remember above all, Equinox always stands in the way- the final hurdle any Demon Warrior wishing to be redeemed must overcome. He will not make it easy.

Theme Information

The Primer

Long ago on another world there was a place known as the Kingdom of the Seasons. This land was guarded by the Solstice Angels. They were blind to a darkness growing beyond their borders, unaware of the Demon Lord Equinox as he slowly began to steal away the Solstice Angels, transforming them into his own Demon Warriors in mockery of their former roles. Eventually the corruption overtook the Kingdom, and the Demon Lord turned his attention outwards, to other lands, seeking to force the same fate upon them.


Organization Connections: Dark Fall

Demon Lord Equinox has sworn loyalty to Dark Fall. However, like all such beings, his loyalty is out of personal motivation rather than belief in any common cause. He views Dark Fall as convinient allies in order to spread his vision of corruption and darkness across the universe. As such, he lends the assistance of his Demon Warriors to the other members of Dark Fall, and requests assistance in kind when he needs it. While Equinox himself plays his own games, the Demon Warriors have proven to be capable and loyal servants to those Equinox directs them to assist. When not under specific orders from him directly, the Demon Warriors have standing orders to assist Dark Fall however they see fit.

PoP: Artifact (Transformation Jewelry)

PoP: Legacy (Family Lineage)

PoP: Contract (Demonic Pact)

Available Cast

Please remember that all Solstice Guardian Angels have been turned into Demon Warriors. The name they have taken out as a Demon Warrior is open for the player to choose. Also who they were as Solstice Angels is OOC knowledge only, provided for reference.

Spring:
  • Guardian Angel
  • Ascending Angel
  • Descending Angel
Summer:
  • Ascending Angel
  • Descending Angel
Autumn:
  • Guardian Angel
  • Ascending Angel
  • Descending Angel
Winter:
  • Ascending Angel
  • Descending Angel

Taken Cast

Summer:
Winter:

NPC'ed Cast

There is currently only NPC'ed cast member. This is Demon Lord Equinox (Haruko Warden) himself. He is used for plot points, when someone decides to be "naughty", and for use during seasonal events (due to his corporation's nature). If you are interested in using Equinox for something, please contact me (Aoi Mitsugi) and we can discuss what you would like to have him do.

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