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Fortune of Phantasia

In the first era that the world came to be, the ancient humans and seraphim lived alongside each other peacefully. The first seraphim, Tiamat, ascends to the earth alongside her four sub lords to facilitate coexistence between races. Another young seraph from a separate tribe takes the responsibility to increase humanity's resonance, lending his powerful domain under Tiamat's orders to enable the humans to see and interact with the seraphim kind.

However, a fatal barrier prevents safe interactions. Tiamat witnesses war and brutality of the human race and is disgusted with their merciless acts as humanity produces malevolence, a deadly spiritual corruption that is poisonous to seraphim. After a council with the seraphim in their heavenly realm, those who never interacted with humans, vote on eradicating humanity, while others who witnessed the good side of humanity and desired coexistence boycott the genocide and wager to prove that cohabitation is possible.

The seraphim who wished for annihilation accepted their bet to overcome the malevolence. Tiamat, on behalf of the heavenly seraphim, imposes a rule upon humanity and the seraphim. Instead of it being a rule, she curses them, making the coexistence nearly impossible. The curse turns humans into murderous daemons and seraphim into dragons upon amassing malevolence in their bodies.

Soon, the land is filled with dragons and daemons. They rampage across nations of descended seraphim and peaceful humanity, bringing only death and chaos. The trust slowly shatters, and many seraphim abandon the dreams of peaceful coexistence and isolate themselves from the humans.

The young and mighty seraphim who amplified humanity's resonance and his name is lost to history, known only as Innominat, decides to make that dream a reality and conspire with four of Tiamat's sub lords to force her to remove the curse. But Tiamat rejects his idea and decides to annihilate humanity. With the world's fate hanging in the balance, Innominat, along with Tiamat's four sub lords, betray her and, after a devastating battle, seal her under the deepest part of the Earthpulses.

However, the curse remains, and malevolence spreads faster than expected. Innominat uses his domain over the earthpulses to release his gift to turn it into the power of suppression and removes the malevolence from the world, devouring the poison into himself. To draw the malevolence, Innominat makes a pact with seven loyal seraphim as his sub lords. The seven seraph twist under the influence of the malevolence and change into daemon hybrids called Therions. The oath of suppressing malevolence turns the Innominat and his sub lords into a golden, eight-headed dragon known as the Eight Serpents. The other four remaining seraphim take control over the four elements to stabilize the earth, giving enough time for humanity and seraphim to rebuild their lost civilizations.

Destiny Dawn

The advent of the five seraphim, which are now known as the Empyreans, begins. After a thousand years, Innominat's mind, under the influence of devouring malevolence, begins to change and deteriorates as he tries to banish the other four Empyreans out of the earthpulses. With the balance of the world in danger, the Empyreans plead to the heavenly realm, which is closed to all until the descended seraphim can prove that coexistence is possible. A young thunder seraph by the name of Susanoo answers their call for help. He and his closest friend, Zenrus, sneak out of the heavenly gate and descend to earth to meet with the Empyreans. The remaining earthly tribes of seraphim and the Empyreans stand together and fight back against the Innominat's hollowed army.

Knowing that the world needs Innominat, Susanoo desperately looks for a solution to keep the balance. Tiamat's voice calls to him from the depths of the earthpulse and offers a solution. Having no other choice, he listens to Tiamat's offer of help to lock up the Empyrean of suppression and awakens him under the control of gifted humans called the Oracles. During the final battle, he cleaves a part of Innominat with his legendary sword, Caliburn, stealing a portion of his purification power and sealing him in a heavily guarded prison. After a selfless act, Susanoo sacrifices his soul to the well of souls in the center of the earthpulses to grant humanity the power of resonance, sharing the ability of Innominat that he stole and leaving his friend Zenrus alone to help the earthly seraphim.

After a thousand years, the malevolence is running uncontrollably, and the first gifted human is born by the name of Siegfried. With the help of two fire seraphs, Brunhild and Rosalia, Siegfried inherits Susanoo's sword, Caliburn, and the power to purify malevolence. He masters the arte of fighting the daemons and dragons and manages to combine his strength with Brunhild creating a new form called armatization. He awakens Innominat and binds it to himself, purifying malevolence and finishing the first phase of the never-ending cycle of birth and rebirth of Innominat.

Temperance of Avarost

With the help of the Empyreans, the first advanced human civilization is born. Armed with the seraphim's knowledge, humanity prospers, and several artifacts are created to battle the dragons and daemons. One such weapon is a pistol, named after the first Oracle Siegfiend, which can separate magic from entities, disrupt pacts, and, if needed, kill the dragons.

Era of Disappearance

The faith in Empyreans and Seraphim deteriorates, and they fall into slumber. Humanity is desperate to reawaken them to save the balance of the world. They come across the ancient tomes of resurrecting the spirits by sacrificing human souls with high resonance as mediators during their search. A tailor who is a single mother of two is forcefully sacrificed to what they think is an ancient Empyrean. But instead, the entity is shown to be Tiamat. The woman's agony and despair rages in her soul, and Tiamat promises her to avenge her unjust death. Devouring her with her dying wish, Tiamat is resurrected with more hatred than before. The spiteful seraph devastates the Avarost kingdom in her draconic form, laying waste and destruction, leaving nothing but ashes and ruins. The remaining human civilizations plunge into war, and the rest disperses around the world.

Pax Meliodas

Tiamat weaves a plan to continue the never-ending cycle to control the world's flow until she could resurrect herself to full potential. During this time, she helps King Meliodas to end the war and unite the continents. Tiamat then rests under the largest earthpulse in the far continent, hiding her existence from humanity for another century.

Dark Period

Other continents invade the central continents and wage war against the current kingdom, and once more, the flames of war burn the hopes of humanity for a peaceful solution.

Era of Asgard

A man named Claudin Asgard ends the dark period and is crowned the King, unifying the continent, and the land prospers under his rule. King Claudin establishes the Abbey, gathering all humans with high resonance under a single banner and becomes the head exorcist. He makes an oath not to kill anyone and extends his lifespan to begin searching for an answer to end the source of all corruption; malevolence.

After 300 years, Claudin and his two faithful malakhims, Brunhild and Rosalia, travel to the far continent. Knowing that most ancient knowledge has been taken away by them, he follows the trails to find Hyland's kingdom after they migrated from Midgand 100 years ago. The Hyland king grants him the ancient tomes of the Avarost in goodwill. However, during his time in the far continent, he falls in love with an archaeologist woman who assists him in his travels, but his duty forces him to return to Midgand. Rosalia is left behind to look after his lover and possible child.

After his return, Claudin meets with Artorius Collbrande, an orphaned young man with strong resonance. Claudin accepts him as his student, training Artorius to become the next head exorcist in his place. Together, they travel across the continent, purifying malevolence and spreading the words of the Empyreans. Meanwhile, his son is born in the far continent, but his mother rejects her child, leaving the newborn baby on the altar of an ancient temple above the far continent's largest earthpulse. Rosalia, baffled by her mother's cruelty and unwilling to leave Claudin's child alone to his fate, lures the squires and the Shepherd of the far continent to the location. After they find the child, the Hyland king, Hakkon Diphda, discovers the baby's immense magical potential and calls him "the miracle child" and adopts him as his son, naming him Avernus. The baby displays great power in conversing with unseen spirits, especially Rosalia herself. The King orders her to become his nanny and help them raise Avernus to become the next Shepherd of the Hyland kingdom.

Back in the Midgand, during a battle with a powerful daemon in Lohengrin tower, Artrious is heavily wounded, forcing Claudin to kill the daemon to save his protege's life. In turn, the oath and his ancient sword, Caliburn breaks, and Claudin dies. Devastated, Artorius carries his master's broken sword and continues to spread the word of malakhim and the Empyreans all by himself.

With the news of Claudin's death, Zenrus and Zu Fei travel to the far continent to bring back his child. However, they fail in their mission, but Rosalia promises to take care of his son until he is ready to go back to Midgand. The king gathers masters of different talents from all over the continent to train Avernus with Swordsmanship, martial arts, and magical training.

In Midgand, Artorius is overwhelmed by his duty, and with the people showing disinterest in malakhim's miracles and faith, the Empyreans fall into slumber. Artorius loses hope and travels to the east. Broken, Artorius sinks Caliburn under the Perniya lake near a village called Aball and collapses from exhaustion. He is then found by a village girl named Celica Crowe, and she nurses him back to his health. Artorius falls in love with Celica and decides to abandon his duty and live with his new family as he has found a new reason to live. But on a fateful night, which is later called The Opening, Celica and her unborn child fall into Innominat's prison, and they are both devoured by the Empyrean. Melchior, Claudin's closest advisor, finds the desperate Artorius and offers him to take the Shepherd's mantle to repent for abandoning Claudin's wish. Celica and her unborn child are reincarnated as two malakhim.

In the far continent, Avernus goes on his first mission into the earthpulse on his 14th birthday. He finds a young malak and bestows her a true name, Lailah the pure, forming a close bond as brother and sister during their adventures and travels. One year later, Avernus is sent to make a pact with a powerful malak known as Tiamat and acquire her help in defeating the overgrowing daemon hordes. Successful, as the Shepherd, he manages to defend the capital against armies of daemons. Caught up with fame and spoiled by the attention, he neglects his mother, Rosalia, to the point that he never responds to her mails during the five years that follow. One day, the news reaches him that a horde hit her village. He rides tirelessly day after days and finds no traces of her. Guilt drives him to the brink of despair as he forgoes his duty as the shepherd and pursues the daemon horde responsible for her death. In a long year of waging war upon any daemon that he comes across, his vengeance leaves a trail of destruction across the far continent. In a final confrontation, he mercilessly kills the daemon lord and avenges the only family he knew. However, the people of the Hyland call for justice, and he decides to self-exile himself to search for Claudin Asgard after finding traces of his visit 21 years ago.

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Era of Maotelus

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Death Age

A new and powerful Lord of Calamity surfaces and amasses an army of hellions to challenge Maotelus. During the final battle, the Shepherd is overwhelmed by unknown magic and is killed by the Lord of Calamity. Seeing no other choice, seraph Eizen overwhelms himself with malevolence and transforms into a dragon. He devastates the hellion army and devours the Lord of Calamity, ending the rising threat.

Shortly after the Calamity rise, Rokurou Rangestu, a legendary swordsman, is ambushed by a horde of draconic hellions and is presumably killed. The legendary swords of Stormhowl and Stormquel are lost.

Magilou Mayvin, a famous storyteller, reveals the world's truth to the royal family of Rolance, breaking her 800 years long oath. She presumably passed away, and her body was sealed away in Trizolde Cave's tomb.

The Age of Chaos Begins