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.

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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. 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. Due to lacking military capabilities, they accepted the aid of a mysterious benefactor who gave them a captured dragon to use for their plans.

While seeking to recruit more members, Zerceas is introduced to Anosh Polticoal by Ramon Aiber, not knowing that it was Anos in disguise. Since Anosh was very knowledgeable about magic, Zerceas asked him to demonize a restrained dragon and have it rampage in Midhaze, but the demonized dragon went out of control and had to be taken down by Anosh. Because Zerceas' plan broke one of Dilhade's three newly installed rules, Anos revealed himself and used Nedonerias on Zerceas and his men. Under the effect of the collars, they would be in a dream where they are killed over and over by Anos, unless they worked for him to convert all the other rebels. After experiencing the effects multiple times, the heavily traumatized sect finally knelt to Anos, and they began tracking and converting all the remaining supremacist rebels who also stood against his will.}}

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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

 * 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.
 * Due to the privileges that the faction provided the royalists with, the pure-blooded demons have become unbearably weak and arrogant that they seem incapable of surpassing their limitations.