Royalists

The Royalists (皇族一派) is a faction of demons who push for royal supremacy and demand privileges for pure-blooded demons.

Overview
The movement consists of royal pureblood demons who directly descended from the Seven Demon Elders, the creations of the Demon King of Tyranny. Due to misunderstanding the founder's words that he will reincarnate as a pureblood demon, they believe that all royal pureblood demons are superior to commoner demons or mixed-blood demons. The Royalists used this as evidence of their own superiority and make themselves the ruling class of Dilhade. They maintain that blood purity, not power or ability, is the main measure of judging a demon's worth, and pride themselves on being strong solely due to inheriting the founder's blood.

The Royalists worship and revere the Demon King of Tyranny Avos Dilhevia. They place the founder's words above all else and will obey his orders without question, as demonstrated when "Avos Dilhevia" told his followers not to seek revenge against humans for his death and await his reincarnation, despite their own anger and eagerness to seek retaliation. Others like Leorg Indu and Revest Aynie will become furious when a mixed-blood claims to be the founder, as they consider it inconceivable and an insult to the Demon King.

To prevent the Royalists from going too far, the Seven Demon Elders assumed leadership of the group. Without them, there would be more extremists like Emilia Ludwell, who will abuse and kill the mixed-blood demons at any perceived offense. As a result, a superficial peaceful balance was struck between the Royalists and the Unitarians, a movement of mixed-bloods who sought equality amongst all demons.

History
After the Great War ended two thousand years ago, Hero Kanon approached the Seven Demon Elders to inform them of humanity's plot to destroy their master, the Demon King Anos. The Demon Elders supported Kanon's proposal to create a fictional Demon King for Azesion to take revenge on, and even let him fuse his extra sources with theirs so he could act with their authority. Since he had also used Evansmana to erase Anos' name from history, Kanon became the de-facto ruler of Dilhade and created the identity of Avos Dilhevia. Before leaving to reincarnate, he told the demons that the Demon King would reincarnate as a pureblood demon. However, the royals misunderstood this and restructured demon society to value blood purity over ability, as they awaited the reincarnation of Avos Dilhevia.

Great Spirit Arc
After the Great Spirit Avos Dilhevia awakened, her spirit powers allowed her to exert influence over anything associated with the Demon King of Tyranny. However, since the royalists were from the Magical Age and thus weren't included in the legends of the Demon King, Avos used her newly-developed spell, Demera, to gain control over them. The royalists became more radical and started attacking mixed-bloods to drain their magic power, just as Avos Dilhevia commanded them to.

Afterward, Avos set about to reshape Dilhade into a nation that practices royal supremacy as the royalist had hoped it would happen, since their beliefs shaped the Great Spirit's own personality. Only very few were immune to her brainwashing spell, for different reasons. Some have already come to believe Anos was their true Demon King while others abhorred her cruelty and began doubting Avos Dilhevia's authenticity, as the true Demon King possessed great strength to protect the weak.

Members

 * Avos Dilhevia
 * Seven Demon Elders
 * Ivis Necron
 * Gaios Anzem
 * Ydol Anzeo
 * Medoin Garsa
 * Zoro Angart
 * Eldora Zaia
 * Lognorth Demon Sword Association
 * Kurt Ludwell
 * Lay Grandsley
 * Elio Ludwell
 * Emilia Ludwell
 * Revest Aynie
 * Zerceas Angart
 * Ramon Aiber
 * Leorg Indu
 * Zepes Indu

Trivia

 * While most royalists joined the faction due to the innate privileges that came from it and look down on mixed-blood demons, some like Revest Aynie only joined due to their worship of the Demon King and do not harbor any malice towards their hybrid kinsmen.