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World & Timeline

The story unfolds in the Six-Faced World — a land of sword and sorcery, far removed from Earth, divided among five continents. The Central Continent, split in two by the Red Dragon Mountains, holds a poor and war-torn north, the peaceful and wealthiest west ruled by the Asura Kingdom, and a south where great powers wage endless feuds; humans make up most of its population. On the Demon Continent the land is barren and the monsters ferocious, with power parcelled out among dozens of self-styled Demon Lords. The Millis Continent is the northern forests of the Beast Race and the southern Holy Land of Millis, joined by the Holy Sword Highway. Begaritt is a land of labyrinths and magical anomalies peopled by adventurers of every race. And atop sheer cliffs some three thousand metres high spreads the Heaven (Divine) Continent of the Sky Race.

The world's richest nation is the Asura Kingdom in the west of the Central Continent. It is guarded by four great lord-houses — Notos, Boreas, Euros and Zepiros — who for generations stand first in the path of any foe. Eris belongs to House Boreas, while Paul's own roots lie in House Notos. Asura's stone roads run from one end of the realm to the other; food is plentiful and monsters few, making it the easiest place in the world to live — and so its prosperity rests as much on ruthless court intrigue as on the richness of its soil.

The three great races — human, demon and beast — are bound by old enmity and mutual mistrust, the legacy of the wars with Laplace. The Superd tribe suffers most: four hundred years after the war they are persecuted merely for their emerald-green hair, seen as the embodiment of evil — though they are in truth a proud people of warriors. The Beast Race of the Great Forest, in turn, is preyed upon by slavers who abduct its children, some destined for the Asuran nobility.

Two systems grant power in this world. Magic is graded by rank — Saint, King, Emperor and God class — and a mage's highest art is silent casting, spellwork without incantation that confers an enormous edge in battle. The sword is divided among several styles: the Sword God Style with its light-speed 'Light Sword' technique, the Water God Style that turns an enemy's force back upon him, and the North God Style. The highest masters — Sword Kings and Sword Gods — are true monsters whom no mere political power can outmatch.

Over the whole world looms an ancient feud. The Man-God (Hitogami) is an enigmatic being that appears to the chosen in dreams: it gives vague counsel, quietly bending the course of history to its own profit, and exploits the fact that all living things are inclined to trust it. Its sworn enemy is the Dragon God Orsted, a reincarnation from deepest antiquity who bears a curse of revulsion (all living things dread him) and a secret art that lets him begin his life anew. Every Dragon God from the second onward exists for a single purpose — to slay the Man-God; into this millennia-old war Rudeus is drawn.

Seventh-strongest among the legendary 'Seven Great Powers' — though not yet reborn — is the Demon God Laplace, who launched the Second Human-Demon War four hundred years ago; his soul, cleft in two, became the 'Demon God' and the 'God of Arts,' and the 'Laplace factor' he scattered grants rare individuals — Rudeus and Sylphiette among them — a monstrous reserve of mana. His coming resurrection and the final clash of Orsted against the Man-God form the distant horizon toward which the whole saga slowly moves.

Story Arcs

  1. Chapter 1
    Prologue & Childhood in Fittoa

    A 34-year-old Japanese shut-in dies under a truck saving strangers and is reborn as the infant Rudeus Greyrat in a world of sword and magic, keeping his past-life memories. He vows to live 'in earnest

  2. Chapter 19
    The Teleport Incident

    During a magic demonstration outside Roa the sky floods with sinister colours: a vast mana catastrophe engulfs the whole Fittoa Region. Perugius's servant Almanfi appears to stop the anomaly but arriv

  3. Chapter 21
    The Demon Continent: Eris & Ruijerd

    On the north-east of the Demon Continent, Rudeus and Eris meet a Superd warrior — Ruijerd Superdia, shunned by prejudice yet kind-hearted. Against all their fears he vows to deliver the children home,

  4. Chapter 41
    Great Forest & Millis: Reunion with Paul

    Crossing to the Millis Continent, Rudeus foils the abduction of a Holy Beast and Beast-Race children from Doldia Village, nearly paying for it with prison over a misunderstanding. In the Great Forest

  5. Chapter 56
    The Road Home & Orsted

    Having brought Eris home, the companions cross the Central Continent. At the Red Dragon's Jaw the Dragon God Orsted blocks their path: at the name of the Man-God he effortlessly defeats Ruijerd and Er

  6. Chapter 64
    Ranoa Magic University & Sylphiette

    Five years on, famous as the adventurer 'Quagmire' in the north, Rudeus enrolls at the Ranoa Magic University. There he grows close to the mysterious 'Guardian Caster Fitz' — his grown-up childhood fr

  7. Chapter 111
    Begaritt & the Search for Zenith

    On word from Geese, Rudeus and Elinalise teleport via a hidden Magic Circle to Begaritt, to the city of Rapan, where Paul has gathered a party to storm a labyrinth. In the dungeon's depths they find t

  8. Chapter 133
    The Pact with Orsted & the Third Wife

    Back with his family, Rudeus takes his teacher Roxy as his second wife. On the Man-God's counsel he prepares to kill Orsted, but is again utterly defeated — and at the last moment is saved by Eris, re

  9. Chapter 168
    The Asura Succession War

    Orsted's first task is to put the second princess Ariel on Asura's throne. Rudeus escorts Ariel and Sylphie to the capital, wins Perugius to their side, and through a string of deadly clashes with ass

  10. Chapter 232
    Begaritt & the Battle God War

    The search for new allies brings Rudeus back to Begaritt, to the Superd tribe's village, where he at last reunites with Ruijerd. The schemes of Geese, turned traitor to the Man-God, bring a plague and

  11. Chapter 260
    Old Age, Death & Finale

    After the battle come decades of peace: the Man-God stays his hand, Rudeus's children grow up, and he goes on serving Orsted and preparing for Laplace's resurrection. At seventy-four he dies peacefull

Characters 43
Character

Rudeus Greyrat

Rudeus · Рудеус · Руди

The protagonist — reincarnated as the son of the Greyrat household.

Character

Paul Greyrat

Paul · Пол · Paul Notos Greyrat

The eldest son of the high-noble Notos Greyrat house. In his youth, disillusioned with his strict father and the filth of nobility, he ran away from home at the age of twelve and became an adventurer; for this he was struck from the Notos lineage.

Character

Zenith Greyrat

Zenith · Зенит

Born to the noble Millis family Latreia, she left to become an adventurer and trained as a healer. Paul took her in as a youth and brought her into his party; when she became pregnant with Rudeus, the party broke up, and she and Paul settled in Buena Village in the Fittoa region.

Character

Lilia Greyrat

Lilia · Лилия

In her youth, Lilia trained in fencing at the same hall as Paul; it was there that the teenage Paul assaulted her. Later, on learning that Paul was looking for a maid, she took service in his household — partly mindful of that incident.

Character

Aisha Greyrat

Aisha · Аиша

The daughter of Paul and the maid Lilia, born on the same day as her half-sister Norn as the fruit of her father's affair. Lilia, in Rudeus's debt, devoted her upbringing to a single purpose — that Aisha would one day wait upon her brother.

Character

Norn Greyrat

Norn · Норн

The trueborn daughter of Paul and Zenith, born on the same day as Aisha. Her first impression of her brother was a terrible one: as a little girl she saw Rudeus strike their father and came to hate him, convinced he would kill Paul.

Character

Roxy Migurdia

Roxy · Рокси

Born in a village of the Migurd race in the Begoya region of the Demon Continent, the daughter of Rokari and Roin. Alone in her family, she could not use the Migurd's mental speech and so felt out of place from childhood, gaining a reputation as a "good-for-nothing."

Character

Sylphiette

Sylphie · Сильфи · Сильфиетта

The only daughter of a poor hunter from the Asuran backwoods: her father half of the Long-Eared race, her mother with a drop of beast-race blood, a former slave. Because of her green hair — a color that in this world is linked to the Superd race and the Demon King Laplace — the other children cruelly bullied her.

Character

Eris Boreas Greyrat

Eris · Эрис

A daughter of the Boreas Greyrat house, which held the Fittoa region. The seven-year-old Rudeus was invited to be her live-in tutor in magic and etiquette; the wild, unbridled "young lady" gradually grew close to him.

Character

Ruijerd Superdia

Ruijerd · Руйджерд

Ruijerd is a warrior of the Superd race, once a proud people of the Demon Continent. During Laplace's campaign he, like many Superd, was subjugated by deceit: he was given a spear that turns its bearer into a beast, and under its influence he disgraced his family's honor and killed his own kin.

Character

Zanoba Shirone

Zanoba · Заноба

Zanoba is the third prince of the Kingdom of Shirone (Pax's elder brother) and a Divine Child: he is endowed with superhuman strength. This uncontrollable power turned to tragedy — through carelessness he killed his own younger brother Julius.

Character

Julie

Julie · Юли

Julie is a girl of the miner race (dwarves), who lived for several years with her parents on the Central Continent before falling into slavery. Zanoba buys her at the slave market as "hands" for his doll business.

Character

Cliff Grimoire

Cliff · Клифф

Cliff is a relative (grandson) of the Pope of the Church of Millis and a gifted mage with a considerable store of mana. He enters the Ranoa Magic University as a specially admitted student and becomes one of Rudeus's closest friends.

Character

Elinalise Dragonroad

Elinalise · Элиналис

Elinalise is a long-lived elf adventurer, in the past a companion of Paul, Talhand, and others. A curse lies upon her womb: she must regularly be intimate with men, or else the curse activates to her harm. This is precisely why on the road she is forced to seek partners.

Character

Orsted

Orsted · Орстед

Orsted is the Dragon God, heir to the secret art of the First Dragon God, forged to guarantee victory over the Man-God. He bears several curses, including one that makes everyone around him hate and fear him.

Character

Man-God (Hitogami)

Hitogami · Хитогами · Man-God

By Orsted's account, the Man-God once killed the First Dragon God. Since then every Dragon God from the second onward exists for one purpose — to destroy the Man-God; this is the cherished aim of the

Character

Nanahoshi

Nanahoshi · Нанахоси

Nanahoshi is another Japanese girl, transported against her will into this world as a result of the Teleport Incident; at the moment of the catastrophe she, along with others, was struck by a car. Who arranged the transfer, and why, no one knows.

Character

Lucy Greyrat

The eldest child in the family and the most level-headed of the children: long before she came of age, Rudeus already regarded her as a grown person with sound judgment. Unlike the reserved Lara, little Lucy openly told her father that she loved him very much.

Character

Lara Greyrat

Usually silent and sullen, almost angelically quiet in sleep; as an infant she hardly cried at all. Behind her outward dryness hides a deep attachment to her mother. Raised by her father, she learned that one must apologize for a wrongdoing.

Character

Ars Greyrat

As an infant, the noisiest of Rudeus's children: pick him up and he would start screaming at the top of his lungs, befitting the wild temperament of his mother Eris.

Character

Sieghart Saladin Greyrat

Unlike Lara, who almost never cried, and the loud Ars, Sieg grew up as a perfectly ordinary infant: he cried often and slept often. More than once Rudeus noted with relief that there was nothing unusual about him.

Character

Christina Greyrat

Christina is Rudeus's fourth daughter and the second child of his third wife Eris, born after the family's first four children. In the records of the Kingdom of Asura she is listed among Rudeus's six children as his fourth daughter; she has few episodes of her own in the source.

Character

Lily Greyrat

Lily is Rudeus's third daughter and the second child of his second wife Roxy, born after the family's first four children. She should not be confused with Lilia — the maid and Aisha's mother: they are different people. In the records of the Kingdom of Asura, Lily is listed among Rudeus's six children as his third daughter.

Character

Ghislaine Dedoldia

Ghislaine is of the Dedoldia clan, a special people among the beast races of the Great Forest; in her generation she was the clan's “princess” (alongside the “prince,” Gyes). Failing to find her place in her homeland, she set out into the wider world and

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Locations 9
Location

Buena Village

Buena · Буэна

Rudeus's entire childhood — the first ten years of his new life — passed in Buena Village. Here Roxy Migurdia taught him magic, here Paul gave him swordsmanship lessons, here he befriended Sylphiette.

Location

Ranoa Magic University

Ranoa · Раноа

The university is Roxy's alma mater, and it is in her footsteps that Rudeus arrives. Vice-Principal Jinas Halfas invites the famous 'Quagmire Rudeus,' master of silent casting, as a special auditor: e

Location

Asura Kingdom

Asura · Асура

In the decisive battle of the Laplace War it was the Asura Kingdom that committed its full might to halt the Demon God. As the last surviving human state at that time, it became humanity's bastion. As

Location

Central Continent

In ancient times the Central Continent was joined by land to the present Demon Continent and was called the Giant Continent. During the Second Human-Demon War, some 4,200 years ago, a colossal blow fr

Location

Demon Continent

The Demon Continent was once part of the single Giant Continent, separated from human lands only after the Second Human-Demon War. For centuries humans used diplomacy to slowly herd the despised demon

Location

Millis Continent

The Millis Continent is split in two: the Great Forest spreads across the north, home to the Beast Race, while the Holy Country of Millis lies in the south. The Great Forest is known for its three-mon

Location

Begaritt Continent

The Begaritt Continent became the goal of the Greyrat family's great journey: here, in a Teleportation Labyrinth, the long-lost Zenith was found after the Teleport Incident. Rudeus, Paul, Roxy and the

Location

Fittoa Region

Fittoa's fate changed in an instant: during the Teleport Incident a massive Mana Catastrophe scattered all the region's inhabitants across the world, while buildings, trees and even the paved roads si

Location

Holy Land of Swords

Here the Sword God Style reigns above all, headed by Sword God Gal Farion. In its assembly hall new masters are anointed: a Sword King who stands beside Ghislaine is awarded one of the seven sacred sw

Organizations 2
Terms 5
Events 11
Event

Prologue & Childhood in Fittoa

A 34-year-old Japanese shut-in dies under a truck saving strangers and is reborn as the infant Rudeus Greyrat in a world of sword and magic, keeping his past-life memories. He vows to live 'in earnest

Event

The Teleport Incident

During a magic demonstration outside Roa the sky floods with sinister colours: a vast mana catastrophe engulfs the whole Fittoa Region. Perugius's servant Almanfi appears to stop the anomaly but arriv

Event

The Demon Continent: Eris & Ruijerd

On the north-east of the Demon Continent, Rudeus and Eris meet a Superd warrior — Ruijerd Superdia, shunned by prejudice yet kind-hearted. Against all their fears he vows to deliver the children home,

Event

Great Forest & Millis: Reunion with Paul

Crossing to the Millis Continent, Rudeus foils the abduction of a Holy Beast and Beast-Race children from Doldia Village, nearly paying for it with prison over a misunderstanding. In the Great Forest

Event

The Road Home & Orsted

Having brought Eris home, the companions cross the Central Continent. At the Red Dragon's Jaw the Dragon God Orsted blocks their path: at the name of the Man-God he effortlessly defeats Ruijerd and Er

Event

Ranoa Magic University & Sylphiette

Five years on, famous as the adventurer 'Quagmire' in the north, Rudeus enrolls at the Ranoa Magic University. There he grows close to the mysterious 'Guardian Caster Fitz' — his grown-up childhood fr

Event

Begaritt & the Search for Zenith

On word from Geese, Rudeus and Elinalise teleport via a hidden Magic Circle to Begaritt, to the city of Rapan, where Paul has gathered a party to storm a labyrinth. In the dungeon's depths they find t

Event

The Pact with Orsted & the Third Wife

Back with his family, Rudeus takes his teacher Roxy as his second wife. On the Man-God's counsel he prepares to kill Orsted, but is again utterly defeated — and at the last moment is saved by Eris, re

Event

The Asura Succession War

Orsted's first task is to put the second princess Ariel on Asura's throne. Rudeus escorts Ariel and Sylphie to the capital, wins Perugius to their side, and through a string of deadly clashes with ass

Event

Begaritt & the Battle God War

The search for new allies brings Rudeus back to Begaritt, to the Superd tribe's village, where he at last reunites with Ruijerd. The schemes of Geese, turned traitor to the Man-God, bring a plague and

Event

Old Age, Death & Finale

After the battle come decades of peace: the Man-God stays his hand, Rudeus's children grow up, and he goes on serving Orsted and preparing for Laplace's resurrection. At seventy-four he dies peacefull