A/N: On with the new Arcreus story, for those of you who aren't familiar with this story, read the previous two instalments in this series, 'Messiah' and 'Leviathan'. Please remember to review after reading each chapter so I can see your feedback.
23rd October 3166- 4 days after resurrection:
Theodore Arcreus arrives in Soleanna, and heads into the New Town area and rents a room in a cheap motel. It is reported that Arcreus gave the owner $30,000 to ignore anything that would happen in his room. The money is from an undefined source.
15th November 3166- 23 days after resurrection:
Theo Arcreus hires a group of infamous mercenaries known as The Destructix, to detonate several roadside bombs throughout several areas within Soleanna, presumably to stir up the police force and military, although his true agenda was unknown.
21st November 3166- 29 days after resurrection:
More bombs are detonated throughout the city, killing 28 people; after each attack, a message was left behind, scratched into the walls and pavement; DUKE THERIAS XI MUST DIE.
25th December 3166- 43 days after resurrection:
Arcreus now has an estimated following of over 60 people, mostly ex-mercenaries and vigilantes. The Cathedral of Soleanna, which was packed with worshippers, was destroyed by Theo himself, armed with his mutated powers and his scythe both of which were given to him by Dimitri, Knuckles' ancestor. The same message DUKE THERIAS XI MUST DIE was written by Arcreus in the dead people's blood.
19th June 3167- 8 months after resurrection:
Theo Arcreus now has contacts though the lower ranks of the Soleannan Government. A plot is being made for the assassination of Duke Therias XI, which involves Arcreus and other government officals.
14th August 3167-10 months after resurrection:
Disguised as a guard, Theo enters the Soleanna castle and kills the duke by pinning him down with his demonic tendrils and performing a vivisection on him, and strewing his blood and entrails on the floor in grotesque patterns. Power was offered to Theo, but he declined, demanding instead that the government gives him $100,000 to set up his own private detective agency specialising in supernatural cases. The government accepts his offer.
3rd October 3167- 11 months after resurrection:
Duke Perias II is placed in power, Arcreus now has some influence over the government and the decisions made, but he mainly doesn't intervene in the governments affairs. The rich areas of Soleanna are now being vandalised, with numerous assault and arson attacks being carried out, unknown to the government, these attacks were orchestrated by Theo Arcreus along with the local Mafia, Theo claims these attacks on the rich are due to the fact that the rich take no interest in the affairs of the poor.
24th October 3167- 1 year after resurrection:
Theos business 'Demons Bane' opens in downtown Soleanna, the riots still continue in the rich areas of Soleanna, Soleanna goes into lockdown due to the riots, the government goes into seclusion, apparently to come up with a solution to the riots but actually, because Theo 'advised' them to.
30th June 3168- 1 ½ years after resurrection:
The Government activates Emergency Sanction 12, entitling a suspension of democracy due to a plague spreading around the city, which Arcreus custom made himself with the help of captured microbiologists from surrounding areas. Theo is reported to have told members of his closest circle that this was to eliminate the government who have betrayed him and are trying to contact surrounding districts for help with the dystopia that the city had become. Theo gives the members of his closest circle the vaccination for the disease.
13th November 3168- 2 years after resurrection:
The Government has been wiped out along with 49% of the population of Soleanna thanks to the plague, Theo instates members of his closest circle into the government, therefore allowing him control of the government and the laws that are passed.
23rd Febuary 3169- 2 ½ years after resurrection:
Soleannan government activates Emergency Sanction 8, which keeps Soleanna in lockdown for the foreseeable future, giving the government control of the food and medical supplies coming into the city, which in turn are controlled by Arcreus, from this he could suspend food and medical supplies to people who had crossed him, causing them to either die of numerous diseases or of starvation. Visitors to the city must be searched, scanned and inoculated against the numerous infections that polluted the streets. This process must be repeated to anyone leaving the city as well.
4th July 3169- 2 ½ years after the resurrection:
Arcreus removes his control from the government, he now entrusts control of the city to the government, now that the opposition has been annihilated. His final order is that the military won't attack surrounding areas, due to some form of respect for King Elias Acorn.
Theo now lives out his life in 'Demons Bane'
2nd September 3171- 5 years after resurrection:
Present Day. Lockdown has been removed from the city and life has mostly returned to normal, despite the city now being an independent, communist state instead of a democratic one. Theo's business brings Theo a steady profit, and gives him satisfaction at being able to do some good for the world. But despite all his contacts and his power. Something is waiting in the dark for him…