Archdemons

TIMELINE

This article takes place in the 24 & 26 centuries of Distant Worlds.

Known in their native language as the Davileh, and to Humanity by the title of Archdemons, the Fallen Angels form a segmented, decentralized monarchy ruled under a brutal dictatorial regime.

The founder of the Davileh is widely regarded as Lucifer, a radical revolutionary who challenged the order of the Archangels. Believing the Archangels had lost their way, Lucifer envisioned a new path, one rooted in autonomy, self-rule, and power without elders dictature.

What followed was a devastating civil war among the Archangels and Archdemons. In the end, Lucifer was defeated and sealed away by the combined might of Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel. His loyal followers, refusing to repent, were exiled from Sahuri, the Archangelic name for the Milky Way Galaxy, and cast out through the Bridges, vast intergalactic corridors of unknown origin. Scattered across the cosmos, these exiles found themselves divided among six distant galaxies, where they began to rebuild.

Mammon's Galaxy
Asmodeus' Galaxy
Leviathan's Galaxy
Beelzebub's Galaxy
Satan's Galaxy
Belphegor's Galaxy

Each of these names would become synonymous with power, tyranny, and unrelenting ambition.

While Lucifer himself remained sealed and disgraced, his followers did not fade into oblivion. Stripped of homeland and honor, they instead embraced exile as a crucible—rising again with new civilizations shaped by

Lucifer's original manifesto. Each Feudal Lord interpreted his teachings differently, giving rise to diverse, often conflicting ideologies across the six galaxies.

Though fractured, they remained united in one belief: Lucifer was right.

The Davileh regime, though decentralized, shares a brutal hierarchical structure. Each Feudal Lord holds near-absolute power within their own domain, presiding over vast planetary systems through fear, loyalty, and legacy. Despite being divided by galaxies, their connection through shared origin, and their enduring hatred for the Archangels, remains unbroken.

Lucifer, the missing piece, continues to haunt their collective mythology. His absence is not seen as failure, but as a prophecy yet to be fulfilled. For the Davileh, exile is not the end—it is the prelude to return.

Carrying the sacred knowledge of the Archangels and wielding their forbidden technologies, Archdemons turned their exile into a strategic advantage. If they were to reclaim their lost homeworld and challenge the elders order, they would need more than strength, they would need power unknown even to the Archangels.

To that end, the Archdemons expanded through the Bridges, those ancient corridors across Universe, in search of technologies and civilizations beyond the Archangelic sphere of knowledge. Each Bridge was a step deeper into the unknown. Their mission was clear: to discover what the Archangels had never imagined and to harness it.

One of the most notable events of this expansionist era was the Archdemon invasion of the Fujin Galaxy. Spearheaded by Feudal Lord Asmodeus, the campaign aimed to seize the biomechanical marvels of the Athezians, a highly advanced species whose living machines were unlike anything seen before.

However, the Archdemons had underestimated their enemy.

The Athezians, along with their allies, the Mozj'la and the Ketla-Anea Union, proved to be far more formidable than anticipated. More crucially, the Athezians were no strangers to the hidden meshwork of the Bridges. As the invasion unfolded, they transmitted a universe-wide SOS broadcast, a quantum echo that rippled across the universe.

When the Archangels heard the names of their old foes spoken once more, they answered. Thus began the second chapter of an ancient saga, known in human records as the Great Galactic Rescue.

The next major confrontation occurred in what was then a densely inhabited region: the Edelweiss Galaxy. Tragically, Edelweiss became the battleground for one of the most catastrophic wars ever waged between the Archangels and the Archdemons. In a desperate bid to gain the upper hand, an experimental biochemical superweapon was unleashed. Its effects were horrifying—it did not merely kill; it plagued and sterilized. Entire star systems were left lifeless, their biospheres erased, their histories silenced.

By the time humanity arrived in the late 25th century, Edelweiss had long since become a ghost galaxy. A monument to a forgotten war. A graveyard of civilizations. To human settlers, it was simply called: “The Ruins of a Galaxy.”

Still reeling from the catastrophic toll of their ongoing second civil war, the Archangels were forced to withdraw from many of their strategic pursuits. Among the most significant of these was the Great Library, a monumental data vault containing millenias of encoded wisdom, celestial weapon schematics, and the deepest algorithms of universal law. With heavy hearts and fractured ranks, they sealed the Library indefinitely, halting all operations, including those of their covert decryption agents who had labored to unlock Lucifer's seal knowledge.

In tandem with this shutdown, the Archangels placed the final safeguard on The Bridge in Sahuri, the last surviving Gate to Hell. It was the sole remaining passage to the Tomb of Lucifer, deep in the abyss where the Fallen One remained sealed since the end of the First War.

But in their retreat, the Archangels left behind an ancient interface, a sentient construct from a forgotten era. The humans who would later encounter it called it simply: “Lotus.”

Entrusted with reactivation protocols, Lotus became the silent key, a guardian awaiting only one condition: the arrival of the Destined Child, entrusted by the Trinity's prophecy. And so, the Archdemons waited.

Silent. Patient. Watching from the shadows beyond time, they lay hidden beneath the dark folds of space. For they knew what the Archangels feared most: that Lotus would awaken the Library once more, not for the Archangels, but for the child who would open it for Humanity, and with it, the power to break the Seal.

Full Story can be read in: Remus and Romulus