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.

Demon King Academy
Upon defeating Zepes Indu, Anos is confronted by his older brother Leorg, who immediately kills his brother, to which Anos says that weakness is not a good reason for him to kill his brother, but Leorg argues that losing to one of mixed blood makes him a failure. Leorg then explains that royals hold the Founder's blood and are thereby superior. Anos mocks this mindset, and Leorg asks if he's making light of the Founder, to which Anos explains that he is the Founder. Leorg and his cronies threaten Anos, to which Anos invites all of the royals in the audience to join in the fight, which they do. Ultimately, in the end, he bests each of them with ease. Anos tests Leorg, reviving Zepes as a zombie with Igram. He explains that as a zombie, Zepes is now stronger than Leorg, so he has no reason to hate him. He then tells Leorg to attack his brother, telling Leorg to use their brotherly bond to snap Zepes out of his rage, explaining that the two of them together might be able to damage him. Anos, however, is disappointed when Leorg cannot calm down Zepes, resulting in Zepes killing Leorg. He then revives the two brothers, leaving them behind as he proceeds to the next part of the exam.

Demon Sword Tournament Arc
In an effort to destroy the Unitarians' best hope for a new order of egalitarianism to be birthed, the radical Royalists including Emilia Ludwell allowed Anos to participate in the Demon Sword Tournament, so he would be defeated by a royalist thus finally discrediting his belief that mixed-bloods are no different from pure-bloods. However, this backfired as Anos managed to easily best and humiliate her brother Kurt Ludwell, with an ordinary sword. Leading to Emilia to try and sabotage his chances of victory by violently trying to steal his sword from his mother. In retaliation, Anos brutally tortured her to death before reincarnating her into a mixed-blooded demon. As a back up plan, the Royalists coerced Lay Grandsley, a newfound friend of Anos, into serving the Royalists; by defeating Anos in the tournament in exchange for his mother's treatment. Ultimately, this plan also failed with Anos defeating Lay and becoming the tournament's champion.

Hero Academy Arc
When Azesion declared war against Dilhade, the Royalists and the Demon Lords gathered the Demon King Army, which made it's way towards Azesion as they were being led by their false demon king "Avos Dilhevia" and three of the Seven Demon Elders. As per Anos' orders, his loyal followers crippled several of the army's troops while Anos personally crippled the main attack force before finally confronting Avos, to which he would learn it's actually Hero Kanon's reincarnation Lay Grandsley. The two fought against one another, which led to Anos allowing Lay to slay him to finally bring a final end to the conflict between humans and demons. Elio Ludwell, the Demon Lord of Midhaze, honored the wishes of his demon king and ordered his men to retreat, and yet even with the demon king's death, the conflict was far from over. Diego cuts off his adjutant's arm when he disagreed with Diego. Despite achieving their goal of killing the Demon King of Tyranny and making the Demon Army retreat, Diego called for the continuation of war until their enemies were annihilated. This led to the resurrection of the fallen hero Jerga, who continued on with the war with the intent of wiping out all of the demons as he planned for two thousand years. During the conflict, the Demon King Army finally learned the truth of Avos Dilhevia as they aided in protecting the human soldiers who's hope were being forcibly drained by Jerga. Ultimately, the true Demon King Anos Voldigoad was resurrected as planned and he worked with Lay to finally put an end to Jerga's senseless madness once and for all. Upon returning to Dilhade, Elio and the entire army knelt before their demon king and pleaded for his forgiveness for their negligence towards him, Anos forgave his troops and settled with them serving him for the rest of their lives as a form of redemption.

Great Spirit Arc
Upon the end of the minor conflict with Azesion, the Demon King Academy students and faculties were the first to be informed of the truth of "Avos Dilhevia" and the true identity of the Demon King. The Royalists weren't pleased over the revelation of Anos Voldigoad being their true founding ancestor, but Anos made it clear that he didn't care whether they acknowledged him or not as he being their Demon King is simply a fact, and that he is looking forward to seeing each and every one of his descendants both pure and mixed-blooded demons reach their true potential through struggle and growth in the new egalitarian Dilhade.

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.

Upon the Demon King Reordination Ceremony, Anos abolished the segregation of demons with the support of several high officials and the Seven Demon Elders, a new order of egalitarianism was established between the royal and the mixed-blood demons. As a result, there are no longer distinctions between the two. The royalists were reluctantly supportive of the decision as they used the excuse of being under Avos' control to try to excuse their heinous actions during her short term reign of terror as being done under her influence.

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Selection Judgment Arc
With Anos' abolishment of the previous class system, the royal demons lost the privileges that they previously possessed, they became a faction only in name. However, due to the fact that the Seven Demon Elders and various other high-level executives sided with Anos, they lacked the political power and influence to oppose him, let alone try to fight him directly in open warfare. Due to this, a group of royal demons covertly joined forces to form a secret royalist resistance group. The group was lead by Zerceas Angart, who believe that the true Demon King died 2,000 years ago and never reincarnated, as the Unitarians fabricated the existence of Anos Voldigoad as the Demon King in order to increase their influence.

Silver Water Holy Sea Arc
After the world's rebirth, the royalists and mixed-bloods seem to have become more unified and more civil towards one another than ever before.}}

Leadership

 * Avos Dilhevia
 * Seven Demon Elders
 * Ivis Necron
 * Gaios Anzem
 * Ydol Anzeo
 * Medoin Garsa
 * Zoro Angart
 * Eldora Zaia

Members

 * Elio Ludwell
 * Emilia Ludwell
 * Revest Aynie
 * Lognorth Demon Sword Association
 * Kurt Ludwell
 * Lay Grandsley
 * 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. After the Demon King Reordination Ceremony, their reverence was redirected towards their true Demon King, Anos Voldigoad.
 * According to Anos, the royalist belief that royal pure-blood demons are inherently superior in power to mixed-blood demons is flawed as it only takes one drop of Demon King blood to obtain power.