This will be mostly about some lore and what I'm going to change so...
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๐น๐๐จ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ๐ฟ๐
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To me, power scaling in DxD, especially in the earlier phases, was more of a "social status" than a proper measure of strength since it didn't consider the individual's weapons, artifacts, training, intellect, strategies, and proficiency in what they may have at their disposal to fight.
It's very standard for someone of a lower rank to beat someone from a higher one due to a specific situation.
They only counted raw power or power shown to make their official ranks. Of course, there's always speculation that someone's actual rank is higher or lower, but circumstances don't allow for a proper measure.
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๐โ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ค๐๐ ๐ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ก๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ข๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ค๐ (the names might not be used in the story).
๐ข๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฟ๐: unaware of the supernatural or have no combat capabilities. (not necessarily anyone with no powers, but someone that can't fight any "sup" at all).
๐๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ-๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ: particularly weak Stray-devil, Creatures with almost no raw power or combat abilities, and Humans with very advanced training.
๐๐ผ๐-๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ: Low-class Devil, Two-winged Fallen, 1st-grade Magician, Stray-exorcist, Beings with little raw power. (that "Beings" part is for any other "faction" that doesn't have a rank system, like heroes and youkai)
๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ธ-๐น๐ผ๐-๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ: Two-winged Angel, 2nd-grade Magician, trained Exorcist, Beings that are at the limit between this and the next rank (because of the natural affinity with holy energy, the average angel is slightly stronger than their devil/fallen counterpart).
(it never made sense to me that fallen angels can still use holy energy despise being fallen, so now they are limited to using the "light" element instead)
๐ ๐ถ๐ฑ-๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ: Middle-class Devil, Four-winged Fallen, 3rd-grade Magician, talented Exorcist, Beings with considerate raw power.
๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ธ-๐บ๐ถ๐ฑ-๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ: Four-winged Angel, 4th-grade Magician, Senior-exorcist, Stray-magician, again, Beings at the limit of power for the rank.
๐จ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ-๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ: Lesser-high-class Devil, Six-winged Fallen, 1st-grade Wizard, church's town Overseer (the church's titles will have a little more significance in this fic), Beings with a great amount of raw power.
๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ธ-๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ-๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ: Six-winged Angel, 2nd-grade Wizard, Combat-priest, Miracle Child, once more, Beings that hit the limit of this rank.
๐ฆ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ผ๐ฟ-๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ: Eight-winged Fallen, 3rd-grade Wizard, Cardinal-deacon, High-class Devil, Beings with a huge amount of raw power.
๐ ๐ถ๐ฑ-๐๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ผ๐ฟ-๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ: Sorceror, Cardinal-priest, Eight-winged Angel, Low-level Dragon, minor Deity, Lesser-ultimate-class Devil, Beings with considerably more raw power but not at the peak of the rank.
๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ธ-๐๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ผ๐ฟ-๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ: Ultimate-class Devil, Cadre, Ten-winged Angel (by this point, the natural holy energy is not as effective), Gran-exorcist, Great-sorcerer, High-level Dragon, Greater-deity, Beings with tremendous raw power, capable of leveling mountains.
๐จ๐น๐๐ฟ๐ฎ-๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ: Satan-class Devil, Seraph, Twelve-winged Fallen, legendary Devil-slayer, Magical Grand Master (MxM), Great-youkai, Dragon King, Minor-god, Beings with enormous magical power, capable of destroying whole cities in an instant.
๐๐ฎ๐บ๐บ๐ฎ-๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ: Super-devil, Archangel, Heavenly Dragon, God/Buddha, Magic-king, Beings with terrifying raw power, capable of causing massive destruction in the world.
๐๐น๐ฝ๐ต๐ฎ-๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ: Primordial Being (on the biblical God level), Dragon God, the Beast of the End "666", Beings capable of destroying the "dimension" itself.
๐ข๐บ๐ฒ๐ด๐ฎ-๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ: the one True Dragon, capable of breaking the very "reality".
๐ข๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ: from outside of the DxD dimension, can be from ordinary to omega-tier. For example, (๐บ๐ท๐ถ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐น) Regalzeva, a god from ExE, broke the dimensional gap and effortlessly killed Great Red, or the MC of this fic, that crossed the void from the infinite dimensions. (no, the MC can't kill Great Red)
๐จ๐ป๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฑ: can't properly be ranked due to certain circumstances, an example would be someone with a mind-reading ability that can't be blocked and even affects beings stronger than them, the person herself is not strong nor have that much raw power but their ability works on beings from ordinary to above omega level, so how to rank this person? it's basically a rank for beings that can't fight but have useful power.
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โ๐๐๐๐ค/๐ฝ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ค:
๐โ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ท๐ฅ๐ท ๐ค๐๐๐๐, ๐กโ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐:
๐ ๐๐๐ต๐ผ๐: being from different mythologies and folklore divided into several groups.
๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ / ๐บ๐๐๐๐ / ๐๐๐๐ ๐ / ๐ป๐๐๐๐ข / ๐โ๐๐๐ก๐ / ๐ถ๐๐๐ก๐๐ / ๐ธ๐๐ฆ๐๐ก๐๐๐ / ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐.
๐๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐น๐: beings of desire, they are the literal manifestation of "sin".
Devils can be:
Pure-blooded, Mixed-heritage (one or both parents are reincarnated-devils), Half-devil, Reincarnated-devil, or Stray-devil.
They are divided into three main factions.
๐๐๐-๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ - devils that are unsatisfied with the more peaceful course of the new government and want to return to the more "traditional" ways of the underworld.
๐ด๐๐ก๐-๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ - a group of devils that adopted a more diplomatic solution to attend to the devil's interests, preserving more life and avoiding conflict.
๐ธ๐ฅ๐ก๐๐-๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ - devils not involved with the current political scenario of the underworld, they aid neither faction.
๐๐ป๐ด๐ฒ๐น๐: beings created by the biblical God as his army of light and guardians of humanity, the literal manifestation of "pureness".
Angels' sub-species can be (this is something very few apart from angels and fallen know is a thing, most of the supernatural think angels separate themselves only by the number of wings):
Seraphim - the ones closest to God, Cherubim - guardians of heaven's gates, Ophanim - all-seeing eyes and judges of the worthy, Virtue - common angels that performed various tasks for heaven and Cupid - closest ones to humanity and guardians angels.
Angels are "mostly" united in one faction.
๐ป๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ - using God's system, angels manage humanity, the church, sacred gears, and the Christian/Judaic/Islamic deceased.
๐๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ป: created by the biblical God but rebelled against him, they are the literal manifestation of "corruption".
They lost the ability to use holy energy and the right to be called by angelic sub-species so they categorize themselves by the number of wings, being those:
Two-winged up to Eight-winged, Cadre - Ten-winged, and Twelve-winged Fallen Angel.
The fallen are "mostly" united under the same organization.
๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐ - it's objective it's mainly towards research, more specifically, God's sacred-gear system and the sacred-gears themselves.
๐๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐: biblical God self-proclaimed "greatest creation", representation of God's image and ideals. Humans' greatest quality in the eyes of the supernatural is their adaptability and that they are capable of bearing offspring to any magical race.
To not let his "children" unprotected, God made the sacred-gear system but Merlin (if you don't know... most famous mage), somehow, manage to create his magic system that humans could use, Those two factors, made humans even more desirable in the eyes of the supernatural.
Humans sometimes came to be extremely powerful, but apart from individual groups, they have three main factions.
๐ถโ๐ข๐๐โ - following God's will some humans dedicated their lives to helping others physically or spiritually, some individuals with light affinity were trained to be exorcists people that would hunt and purge the darkness from the world.
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ - humans capable of using magecraft, banded together for a common goal and to avoid forced recruitment, most of the magic associations want only to further their studies on magic.
๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ - individuals from all mythologies that rose rapidly in ranks and accomplished astonishing feats of power. They are the so-called humanity Champions.
There are half-humans for practically all races, half-devil, half-angel, half-god, half-fallen, half-dragon, half-neko/kitsune, half-vampire, half-werewolf... you get the idea.
It's a lot easier to count what can't reproduce with humans than what can.
๐ฌ๐ผ๐๐ธ๐ฎ๐ถ: all the creatures from the Japanese mythology, are so diverse that creating a rank system for themselves seemed like a waste of time, so they only separate the normal youkai from the Great-youkai.
The major youkai factions are separated into regions.
๐พ๐ฆ๐๐ก๐ (๐๐๐ ๐ก) - led by Yasaka, a Nine-tailed Fox.
๐พ๐๐๐ก๐ (๐ธ๐๐ ๐ก) - led by Nurarihyon, a mischievous spirit that enjoys all kinds of pranks.
๐๐ผ๐ฑ๐/๐๐๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฎ๐: a manifestation of energy, as they are born, created, or ascended, they take a concept for themselves and become the physical manifestation of that concept.
The pantheons created factions encompassing all creatures originating from their people or region. those factions are:
๐ถโ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ฆ - Christianity & Judaism / ๐๐๐๐ ๐ - Germanic / ๐บ๐๐๐๐ - Greco-Roman / ๐ป๐๐๐๐ข - Hinduism / ๐โ๐๐๐ก๐ -Japanese / ๐ถ๐๐๐ก๐๐ - Irish-Celtic / ๐ธ๐๐ฆ๐๐ก๐๐๐ - Ancient Egyptian / ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ - Zoroastrianism.
๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ด๐ผ๐ป๐: beings made of power, are often greedy, lazy or arrogant. Dragons don't have factions, instead, they are divided into categories.
Low-level, High-level, Dragon-king, Heavenly-dragon, True-dragon.
Dragons are feared through all factions and almost all the high-level ones got killed, captured, turned into a sacred-gear, or sealed.
๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐๐: a manifestation of all negativity given form, after most of their kind was driven away, the remaining ones absorbed the negativity generated from the last battle and evolved into Demons, while the ones sealed in the 'nothing' became void beasts. All the first devil bloodlines came from demons.
๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ - they wanted the dimension to return to chaos, for this, they formed an army to destroy all existence and bring the 'end'.
๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ถ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น๐: a manifestation of all positivity given form, each primordial made a personal realm and gave origin to their pantheon. The majority of the primordials didn't create factions and opted to simply observe their realms.
The primordials were given many names during their long lives but these are the ones of their choosing:
Yahweh ("God") / รmer ("Ymir") / Khaos ("Chaos") / Brahmฤ ("Buddha") / Ame-no-Minakanushi ("Minaka") / Danu ("Dana") / Atum ("Rรก") / Ohrmazd ("Ahura Mazda").
๐ฟ๐๐โ๐ก - seeing the other primordials, the second strongest primordial wanted creations of his own, but the Beasts got in the way, so he created an army and drove all 'darkness' to the 'nothing', with the Beasts gone, he could create 'life' and share it with the other primordials.
๐พโ๐๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐ - the clash of positivity and negativity between 'light' and 'darkness' created a creature that decided the dimensional gap would be a good home, unfortunately, the strongest primordial was using it as its own, and didn't like having its rest interrupted.
Seeing that it couldn't kill this being, the primordial set off to the lower realm trying to find ways to kill that creature, the result of that labor was the creation of the Khaos Brigade, beings from all races and mythologies, including traitors from heaven and Grigori, united under this primordial.
๐ข๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐: beings that come from out of the DxD dimension or realms.
๐ธ๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ธ๐ก๐๐ข๐๐๐ (๐ธ๐ฅ๐ธ) - a realm where Evie and Etoulde reside, those two sides are in constant war with each other, a war that destroyed most of their realm.
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๐โ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ , ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐ก๐๐ฆ ๐ก๐ ๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ก ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข. ๐ต๐ข๐ก... ๐๐ ๐๐ก'๐ ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ , ๐ผ ๐กโ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐โ๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐ข๐...
๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ: simply the planet you happen to be on. All worlds have pre-established "rules" on how natural and unnatural phenomena operate.
๐๐ข๐-๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ : a section of space-time isolated from the rest of the world with slightly altered rules, a pocket dimension. Ex: the rating games.
๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ : the same concept of sub-spaces but on a bigger scale. Ex: the Underworld, Heaven, Asgard, etc. Realms can have their own set of rules but generally follow the world's pre-made ones.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐-๐ค๐๐๐๐๐ : in the same space, there can be multiple worlds overlapping each other, we call them parallel or alternative worlds. You can spend a lifetime searching for a difference between worlds and not find it, in other cases the difference is so big you may think they don't belong in the same universe.
๐จ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ: fate, destiny, timeline, luck, cosmic coincidence you may call it however you like, but worlds follow a "theme" and the ones that follow the "theme" to the letter are called ๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ก๐๐จ, all alternative worlds came from main worlds and are created by any deviation from the central theme. A group of main worlds and their variants that follow the same "theme" is called Universe.
๐ท๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: if you travel often between worlds, you'll notice how some are harder to enter then others, well that's because the themes we shall say... don't "like" to mix that much, so when a theme deviates so much it becomes a new thing a barrier forms surrounding the worlds following that particular theme, thus creating a universe.
๐ท๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐: holes appearing in the dimensional barriers, allowing worlds from different themes to influence each other and even for things to naturally enter other universes.
๐ ๐๐น๐๐ถ-๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ: the infinite universes.
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐: the veil in which all existence resides.
๐ฉ๐ผ๐ถ๐ฑ: all the empty space in reality. Ex: the void between universes and worlds.
๐ข๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ: outside of reality, where reside the Oฬทอ อฬฬ อฬuฬถฬฬงฬฟอฬฌฬฆอtฬทอกฬจฬอฬ อออ ฬฐอeฬตอฬงอฬพอออrฬถาฬขอออฬณฬฅออ Gฬธอ อขฬอฬอออoฬดฬฬจฬฬฬ ฬญฬฐฬฏdฬธอฬขฬออฬsาอ ฬขอฬฬฬฬฬฏฬฅฬ ฬฐอ and าฬทาาาฬาฬจาฬาฬาฬาฬฅาอาอา๐าฬธาอาฬขาอาอาฬคาฬทาฬถาอ าอาฬาฬาฬซา๐าาาอาฬจาฬาอาฬาฬฏาฬทาฬดาาาฬขาอาอาฬาฬฎา๐ฎาฬตาฬาอขาฬาฬาอ าฬทาาาอ าฬจาฬาฬาอาฬา๐าฬทาอาอขาฬ าฬฅาฬทาฬดาฬาอขาอาฬาอาฬชา๐ตาฬดาาาฬงาฬาฬญาฬทาฬธาอาฬจาฬาฬ าอาฬญา๐ผาฬตาอาฬกาอาฬาฬฐาฬาอาฬทาาาอกาฬขาฬาฬาฬาฬา๐าฬถาอกาฬขาฬาฬฃาฬทาฬตาอาฬขาฬาฬฬาอาอ าฬฌา๐ตาฬธาอ าฬจาฬาฬาฬฌาฬฌาฬทาาาฬาฬขาอาฬฆาอา
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I'm not even with 10 chapters on my other fic, and I'm already writing more, I'm hopeless, but I don't want to forget these ideas later. What to do.