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Name: Usually called The Nameless Knight. The knight is canonically nameless, and his lack of name is a major plot point.
Fandom: A Fairytale for the Demon Lord
Age: Unknown and unknowable-he could either be the late teen to mid-twenties he appears or he could be a year old. It’s ambiguous.
Appearance: The Knight is quite tall by human standards, probably about seven foot or a bit shorter, and has a slim athletic build. His face is simultaneously quite masculine and yet quite soft, with a sharp strong chin but with a youthful look to him that softens the angles. Merged to the corner of his jaw are metallic strips that are fused to the flesh-these are in fact the retracted form of his helmet. His face is quite pale. Both his hair and eyes are red.
This is where it gets unusual; he is merged with (or more accurately he is one and the same with) a suit of light weight plate armour. With the exception of his face the vast majority of his skin is red, or he is possibly skinless with exposed muscles. Or he has some sort of thin coating over him that gives that appearance. Since he is never seen out of the armour, it’s near impossible to tell. Since he can disassemble and reassemble his helmet at will, he can likely do the same with the rest of his armour. My current theory is that the areas that are visible even with the armour on are red but the rest is a Caucasian skin tone. Over his armour he wears a red raiment that reaches to the ground and matches his hair. The armour is designed to subtly change based on the situation.
Yeah, just look at this and this.
Abilities:
The knight was originally created as a mass produced biological warfare/cybernetics warfare weapon, called a Doll Knight, but for unknown reasons possesses a number of abilities which are uncommon to the average knight of Asgard. First are the abilities all knights possess, although his capabilities are generally far higher than the norm.
The knight has extremely advanced physical strength and speed. He is capable of physically overpowering Titan Knights, building sized knights, with his bare hands and when wielding a sword can cleave landscapes in two. His blows are described as being capable of shattering mountains. He is fast enough deliver attacks in the blink of an eye and often moves across vast distances, striking fatal blows along the way almost instantly.
He is capable of regenerating, even lost limbs. It is implied throughout that only being scattered into pieces and losing his head could kill him permanently. Despite this, he can apparently survive so long as he has at least half of his head intact. Regeneration restores his armour as well as his features, and he does not scar. Certain characters posses the ability to overload his regeneration with sheer damage or via curses. He doesn’t seem to have any vital organs or weak spots, thus killing him requires seriously smashing him into tiny bits.
Whilst all knights can summon a sword, this knight is different. Rather than a summoning, he creates a new sword from scratch and it is never the same as before, an ability called Charge Sword. His swords come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and he is ridiculously proficient at wielding them all. He can dual wield them. His definition of a ‘sword’ is also very loose, and so long as it has a blade on it he seems to be able to make it. If he loses a limb in and has no time to wait for it to regenerate, he creates a prosthetic that is also a weapon to take its place, he can make sword theme shields and spears, etc. He has also show that he can create swords as projectiles. With a wave of his hand he can created tens of them. He can also alter his swords after their creation. They do not fade away when he is done with them-he just discards them.
All in all, he is a very brutal and excels in combat, out-matching armies and gods entirely by himself.
All knights can speak in binary, and can recognize/receive and transmit codes. He has computer interfacing abilities, and can communicate long distance with other machines.
He makes references to a Response System that allows him to analyze his senses more accurately. It’s implied he can read data on all channels, as he reacts to gossipers talking on a private broadcast wavelength.
Now, his entirely unique abilities.
Firstly, any spell he see’s or is performed on him, he can use himself. At the current canon point he has only shown one spell, copied from the Demon Lord. It creates a series of white rings around the target and then impales them with a series of suddenly appearing swords. This inflicts a curse on cells of the person struck, preventing them from healing from any damage (not just from the swords) unless it is removed. Thanks to this ability, it’s very difficult to capture him in magic bindings, even being able to escape from freezing him in time easily.
He develops his strength super rapidly, and in little more than days he goes from being defeated instantly by a legendary knight to not even breaking stride when murdering said opponent. Fighting and struggling cause him to grow stronger, without using training or delay.
That may be related to his most abstract power, one he has no idea he possess but uses constantly subconsciously, until late into canon. The knight can defy, destroy, create and consume destiny. This power is quite bizarre-it erases him from all predictions of the future as a matter of course, meaning that his actions cannot be predicted via supernatural or even technological means. It’s also a very useful ability in combat, in that even if he destined to lose or die he can still survive and/or win.
It’s thanks to this that he can defeat or at least survive opponents far stronger than him. The knight cannot simply decide what will happen in his own future, but all of his decisions are free from the effects of fate and thanks to his ridiculous determination this means that his chances of success are never 0%, no matter how hopeless the situation. He isn't unbeatable by a long shot though- sheer power can overwhelm him eventually and he cannot defy the limits of his own body. It just means it will never be a certain thing that he will fail against any obstacle, no matter how great.
Finally, he can consume another person’s destiny and take on their role in fate; however, since he still retains his ability to diverge from destiny this power gets even more abstract. He devours the Demon Lord’s power to take on his powers, some of his appearance and his destiny to kill Odin. And instead then diverges from that to devour Odin’s destiny in order to gain his powers and appearance, and instantly diverges from Odin’s destiny of dying.
As the Demon Lord, he gains the following abilities:
All his knightly abilities are far, far greater, including regeneration. In this form, he is considerably more powerful.
He possesses the ability to generate and control the Snakes of Doom, serpents formed from his malevolent power that cause cursed wounds. They can be fired off at massive speeds and he can create them from nearby surfaces. They can also transform into and spit up swords, and come in all sorts of sizes.
The most badass of his powers is the ability to have sort of four eyed wolf head things come out of him. They're totally boss and eat people, plus if he gets damaged he can turn the wound into a wolf. Which eats the thing that causes the wound.
Personality:
The knight was originally very melancholy and nihilistic. Due to his life on the battlefield being so overwhelming, he saw his life as pointless despite the fact that he had developed a consciousness, considering everything meaningless and seeing the world as an endless expanse of featureless grey. He simply followed orders for no other reason than they were the closest thing to purpose he had, and questioned why he was even doing that silently to himself. Upon meeting the princess he suddenly experienced real emotion for the first time and immediately fell in love, regarding the world as colourful, and possessing a purpose. Because he has experienced both states, he is terrified of returning to the greyness of emptiness and is obsessively dedicated to the princess.
Following his change of heart from meeting the princess, he becomes a far warmer and emotional character. He could possibly even be called quite sensitive. He rarely has small or subtle reactions to anything, showing great concern over minor things. He blushes and shows modesty at compliments, but he does tend to assume things are compliments when they are not. He gets extremely confused at people’s quirks, especially if they are quite unusual. Despite this, he is quite capable of taking things in a light hearted manner. Once he accepts someone as a friend, he plays around with them and will tease them (although he generally gets more than he gives) and takes being teased in his stride. He plays a complicated game with the raven Puginn in which they both attempt to annoy the other as subtly as possible, and even complements Puginn on teaching the princess a word that would get the Knight to react. He also playfully threatens to kill the princess and the pair casually pretend that he means it. He is very obedient to requests, unless it is something he adamantly would not want to do. He is also a little blood thirsty, seeing the option with martial force as generally the best one and rarely being subtle. Despite not caring before meeting her, he yearns to be granted a name by the proper authority and he will only accept a name from the princess.
Whilst he possesses a very tender and emotional personality, occasionally revealing he is a big softy at heart, he has a very dark side to him. He is completely ruled by his heart and ignores the better judgement of his head and advice from other people to do what he feels is best. He has no concerns with things like laws and justice and just moves according to his feelings. If enraged, he will instantly aim to dismember the source. If he decides upon a goal, he goes absolutely insane in his attempts to achieve it with an any means necessary approach. Whilst it is taken to the furthest extreme by his love for the princess, it applies in a lesser sense to everything else he does. He is willing to doom the world just to protect and possess the princess. In general he is a good person with the fatal flaw that he cannot give up on coveting what he cannot have, and will stop at nothing to get it even if the cost is massive.
History:
The setting of the story is a bizarre mix of high-technology and Norse mythology. Details of the world are generally lacking, but the standard Norse features are present; Odin is the king of the gods and lives in Asgard (which is called a holy city rather than a world), Yggdrasil is the giant tree of life and knowledge that is assaulted by dragons, giants roam etc.
The Knight’s first memory (and possibly his first moment of consciousness) is being teleported into battle besides a battalion of identical knights and striding into battle against an unimaginably huge army of dragons. With so many enemies in front of him, he couldn’t even stop to think about concepts such as the ground and the sky. It wasn’t until he killed his thousandth dragon, and became the only survivor on the battlefield, that he even realised there was a difference between up and down. Looking at the sky for the first time, he finally had enough time to recognise the idea of a ‘self’, but found the sky to be an endless grey expanse. For his incredible fear, he earned the right to ride the Chariot of Fate. What that actually is is never explained, but apparently it was enough that Odin personally called him honour him with a name. However, Odin declared that because the Princess was captured by forces of darkness whilst he was away it was the knight’s fault and he must rescue her to redeem himself and receive the honour. The Princess was created by Odin in order to negate a vaguely known ‘Doom’, generally hinted at to be the apocalypse. Although he thought the whole thing was pointless, the knight followed orders anyway, being sent to kill the Demon Lord.
Where countless legions of knights and gods failed, the knight successfully killed the Demon Lord by copying a curse and then decapitating the demon. He lost conciousness for a brief period, in which the raven Puginn broadcast his victory to Asgard and praised him. The knight simply said that the raven could search for the princess himself and that he was going back without bothering, and the Puginn was told about the knight’s emptiness. But before he could leave, the Princess arrived, a small winged child. She flapped up and touched his face, and suddenly the world seemed to be full of colours. He had fallen in love at first sight. Additionally, although the Demon Lord’s curse had begun to destroy him at the cellular level, beyond any form of repair, she completely healed him instantly.
Although he had succeeded in his mission, he did not receive a name because he had accidentally raised his sword to the Princess when she had snuck up on him. Time passed, and he was sent on many missions to protect Asgard, killing more dragons and giants and fiends and what not. In that time, he became well known despite being nameless and was considered a god of war by the lower classes. He continued to be used in battles at at one point defeated a high ranking noble dragon in a giant robot suit, but whose true form was a woman. After he destroyed her suit he suggested and allowed her to retreat.
The Princess (who name was Nir) was kept at a safe location separate from Asgard, and aside from Puginn (who decided to take the form of a sexy young girl despite being a male raven) who was her teacher, the knight was the only one who visited her. They were the best of friends, and the Princess was now in a teenage body (although due to the difficulty in gauging her rate of aging, it makes it hard to work out how much time had passed). On one of his visits, Puginn took him aside and told him all the data referring to the doom the Princess was destined to prevent had been erased even from the files of Puginn, who was tasked with possessing memories of all knowledge of the world.
Shortly afterward a legendary special knight with a hundred knights under his command arrived under orders from Odin to bring Nir to Asgard. After a heart warming moment where he told her that anything in the world was fine by him so long as he could be with her, she prepared to leave. However, just before she was taken, one of the knights, a Titan Knight made by combining a giant’s DNA with a knight, attacked him. He realised it was an attempt to ‘delete’ him as well, and the legendary knight escaped by teleporting away with the princess. Just before she was taken, she told him that the next time they met she would call him by his name and ordered him to wipe out his enemies in a single blow. And so he killed one hundred knights.
Following that, Puginn began to assist him in getting to Asgard in order to rescue the princess. With their codes blocked, any agent of Asgard that could read codes would immediately attack them. In order to avoid Odin’s all seeing eyes they began to travel using an underground tunnel that had been made by a previous demon lord, the Midgard Serpent. There he met a Fallen (a lower class Asgard warrior) who he had previously saved in a battle against giants. Since Fallen are illiterate and can’t read codes, he had no idea the knight was an enemy of Asgard and so was convinced to lead him through the tunnels. From him, he learned that the Princess supposedly had a wedding arranged for her, the reason for being called to Asgard. Upon reaching an orbital elevator that could cut the journey short from 30 days to 3, a number of knights appeared and revealed to the Fallen that THE knight was a blocked code. Even upon seeing the knight murder them, he believe the knight to be on the side of good and promised not to let slip any information regarding him.
Despite this, the knight killed the Fallen in order to make absolutely certain.
Moving on, he continued his ascent towards Asgard and separated from Puginn who hooked himself (herself?) up to a super computer (s?)he had made from the Midgard Serpent’s spine, that connected to Yggdrasil. Using that the raven came up with a plan superior to the knight’s (which was kill everyone), which was to grant him the master code-this meant he wouldn’t need to fight or hide, just walk in and out. Shortly after his communication with Puginn was jammed, he encountered a strange human girl wandering the labyrinth, offering him a doll of the Princess, which he really wanted. Except the little bitch tore it up in front of him and declared it was the Princess’s fate to die. She then froze him in time and explained that he couldn’t stop her fate, because he wasn’t the hero of the story. He broke out of the frozen time and began to throttle her-then revealing he had destroyed the doll instead. She then disappeared.
He finally reached Asgard, and saw the Princess make her first public appearance-in the short time they had been apart, she had grown into an adult woman. He held back from charging at her there, but lost it when he saw her betrothed; a man with his face. He charged into the palace, destroying his camouflaging master code’s usefulness. He managed to find the Princess before any knights interfered, but before he could say a word he was intercepted by the groom, who bashed him to the lowest level of the palace.
There he discovered that the man with his face was in fact Odin, who had somehow become youthful, and also discovered the reason why he looked like Odin in the first place. The Princess had been designed from creation to long for Odin, and had unwittingly reformatted the knight into a copy of him. Odin then revealed that the Princess possessed a power that would require her sacrifice to prevent the end of the world, which was Odin’s plan all along. Unable to accept that, the knight vowed to kill Odin. After taking heavy damage, he managed to decapitate the god and moved on to finding the Princess. Along the way, he slaughtered half of all the knights, including the legendary knight from earlier. With one hand, because the other was being used to hold the severed head of a maid, so he could use her code to reach the Princess’s room. Finally reaching Nir, he bowed to her and commented that he was sorry it took so long. And she asked who he was.
Not comprehending the situation, he was cut short by Odin arriving! You know, the guy he killed a couple minutes ago. This fight didn’t go so well, as the next he is seen he is armless and sealed in the lowest levels of the palace. Even sealed away and in a situation where his body would break apart, he continued to howl for the Princess. Eventually Odin came along to talk to him, in an attempt to get him to give up, by explaining that the Princess didn’t recognize him because of how far he had fallen, his noble heart killed by his selfish actions. Odin also explained that the reason he had survived was because of the power the Princess had given him; the power to alter fate, even after the fact. Whilst incomplete, it could still be used to alter one person’s fate and thus made Odin unkillable. The knight fell to his knees and begged Odin to return the Princess to him, claiming he would save the world in her place with no need for a sacrifice. Odin admired his determination and devotion, and so paid the knight the honour of dying with dignity, alone where no one would see his shame.
But then! The girl from earlier reappeared, bearing the mask of the Demon Lord. She revealed to him the nature of his fate killing powers, and informed him he could take on the destiny of the Demon Lord and fight again. He accepted, but before he could complete his transformation, Puginn managed to make a transmission telling him not to do it, since he would still not be able to save the Princess. The girl cut the transmission and rebuked that she had never said he could save the princess, merely that he could ‘have her.’ She revealed that the Princess’s wings were the source of Odin’s power, and that he would have to tear them off. She also revealed that she loved Odin, but unable to be with him, she would rather see him be destroyed to keep him out of the hands of others i.e the Princess. Accepting possessing her as an object was better than letting her die, the knight became a Demon Lord and rose up to fight Odin once more. This time in a battle that could not end. Odin couldn’t defeat the Demon Lord version of the knight, whilst the Demon Lord could not defeat the Princess’s power used by Odin. Thus, the demon planned to just tear out the Princess’s wings-this was made easier by the Princess arriving and declaring she would happily sacrifice herself for her beloved one: Odin. Finally completely broken by that declaration, he tore her wings out, leaving her unconscious. Odin chastised him for his decision, claiming he had fought so hard to escape a fate where he had nothing, but had ended up just destroying everything he got. The Demon Lord simply added he wasn't done yet, and devoured Odin’s fate. Because of this, he gained the last of the power Odin had gained from the Princess, and used it to regrow her wings, restoring that power to full. Taking her away to the ends of the earth, behind a wall of frozen time, he took up a role identical to the Demon Lord he had killed in the first place, every day killing knights and gods who came to try and rescue the princess, supposedly for a very, very long time.
Eventually a knight came along who managed to defeat him; but not just any knight. The living embodiment of the concept of fate had taken the form of his previous identity and stolen his destiny, the destiny of the knight that would kill the Demon Lord and save the Princess. However, shit got weird when the knight of fate attempted to kill the suspended Princess, but failed, claiming it was impossible to kill the Princess whilst bearing the knight’s fate. But he did explain that the Princess was the true ‘demon lord’, using the power over destiny to create a cyclical series of events that left her at the centre of life forever.
And that’s when the series ends.
Fandom: A Fairytale for the Demon Lord
Age: Unknown and unknowable-he could either be the late teen to mid-twenties he appears or he could be a year old. It’s ambiguous.
Appearance: The Knight is quite tall by human standards, probably about seven foot or a bit shorter, and has a slim athletic build. His face is simultaneously quite masculine and yet quite soft, with a sharp strong chin but with a youthful look to him that softens the angles. Merged to the corner of his jaw are metallic strips that are fused to the flesh-these are in fact the retracted form of his helmet. His face is quite pale. Both his hair and eyes are red.
This is where it gets unusual; he is merged with (or more accurately he is one and the same with) a suit of light weight plate armour. With the exception of his face the vast majority of his skin is red, or he is possibly skinless with exposed muscles. Or he has some sort of thin coating over him that gives that appearance. Since he is never seen out of the armour, it’s near impossible to tell. Since he can disassemble and reassemble his helmet at will, he can likely do the same with the rest of his armour. My current theory is that the areas that are visible even with the armour on are red but the rest is a Caucasian skin tone. Over his armour he wears a red raiment that reaches to the ground and matches his hair. The armour is designed to subtly change based on the situation.
Yeah, just look at this and this.
Abilities:
The knight was originally created as a mass produced biological warfare/cybernetics warfare weapon, called a Doll Knight, but for unknown reasons possesses a number of abilities which are uncommon to the average knight of Asgard. First are the abilities all knights possess, although his capabilities are generally far higher than the norm.
The knight has extremely advanced physical strength and speed. He is capable of physically overpowering Titan Knights, building sized knights, with his bare hands and when wielding a sword can cleave landscapes in two. His blows are described as being capable of shattering mountains. He is fast enough deliver attacks in the blink of an eye and often moves across vast distances, striking fatal blows along the way almost instantly.
He is capable of regenerating, even lost limbs. It is implied throughout that only being scattered into pieces and losing his head could kill him permanently. Despite this, he can apparently survive so long as he has at least half of his head intact. Regeneration restores his armour as well as his features, and he does not scar. Certain characters posses the ability to overload his regeneration with sheer damage or via curses. He doesn’t seem to have any vital organs or weak spots, thus killing him requires seriously smashing him into tiny bits.
Whilst all knights can summon a sword, this knight is different. Rather than a summoning, he creates a new sword from scratch and it is never the same as before, an ability called Charge Sword. His swords come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and he is ridiculously proficient at wielding them all. He can dual wield them. His definition of a ‘sword’ is also very loose, and so long as it has a blade on it he seems to be able to make it. If he loses a limb in and has no time to wait for it to regenerate, he creates a prosthetic that is also a weapon to take its place, he can make sword theme shields and spears, etc. He has also show that he can create swords as projectiles. With a wave of his hand he can created tens of them. He can also alter his swords after their creation. They do not fade away when he is done with them-he just discards them.
All in all, he is a very brutal and excels in combat, out-matching armies and gods entirely by himself.
All knights can speak in binary, and can recognize/receive and transmit codes. He has computer interfacing abilities, and can communicate long distance with other machines.
He makes references to a Response System that allows him to analyze his senses more accurately. It’s implied he can read data on all channels, as he reacts to gossipers talking on a private broadcast wavelength.
Now, his entirely unique abilities.
Firstly, any spell he see’s or is performed on him, he can use himself. At the current canon point he has only shown one spell, copied from the Demon Lord. It creates a series of white rings around the target and then impales them with a series of suddenly appearing swords. This inflicts a curse on cells of the person struck, preventing them from healing from any damage (not just from the swords) unless it is removed. Thanks to this ability, it’s very difficult to capture him in magic bindings, even being able to escape from freezing him in time easily.
He develops his strength super rapidly, and in little more than days he goes from being defeated instantly by a legendary knight to not even breaking stride when murdering said opponent. Fighting and struggling cause him to grow stronger, without using training or delay.
That may be related to his most abstract power, one he has no idea he possess but uses constantly subconsciously, until late into canon. The knight can defy, destroy, create and consume destiny. This power is quite bizarre-it erases him from all predictions of the future as a matter of course, meaning that his actions cannot be predicted via supernatural or even technological means. It’s also a very useful ability in combat, in that even if he destined to lose or die he can still survive and/or win.
It’s thanks to this that he can defeat or at least survive opponents far stronger than him. The knight cannot simply decide what will happen in his own future, but all of his decisions are free from the effects of fate and thanks to his ridiculous determination this means that his chances of success are never 0%, no matter how hopeless the situation. He isn't unbeatable by a long shot though- sheer power can overwhelm him eventually and he cannot defy the limits of his own body. It just means it will never be a certain thing that he will fail against any obstacle, no matter how great.
Finally, he can consume another person’s destiny and take on their role in fate; however, since he still retains his ability to diverge from destiny this power gets even more abstract. He devours the Demon Lord’s power to take on his powers, some of his appearance and his destiny to kill Odin. And instead then diverges from that to devour Odin’s destiny in order to gain his powers and appearance, and instantly diverges from Odin’s destiny of dying.
As the Demon Lord, he gains the following abilities:
All his knightly abilities are far, far greater, including regeneration. In this form, he is considerably more powerful.
He possesses the ability to generate and control the Snakes of Doom, serpents formed from his malevolent power that cause cursed wounds. They can be fired off at massive speeds and he can create them from nearby surfaces. They can also transform into and spit up swords, and come in all sorts of sizes.
The most badass of his powers is the ability to have sort of four eyed wolf head things come out of him. They're totally boss and eat people, plus if he gets damaged he can turn the wound into a wolf. Which eats the thing that causes the wound.
Personality:
The knight was originally very melancholy and nihilistic. Due to his life on the battlefield being so overwhelming, he saw his life as pointless despite the fact that he had developed a consciousness, considering everything meaningless and seeing the world as an endless expanse of featureless grey. He simply followed orders for no other reason than they were the closest thing to purpose he had, and questioned why he was even doing that silently to himself. Upon meeting the princess he suddenly experienced real emotion for the first time and immediately fell in love, regarding the world as colourful, and possessing a purpose. Because he has experienced both states, he is terrified of returning to the greyness of emptiness and is obsessively dedicated to the princess.
Following his change of heart from meeting the princess, he becomes a far warmer and emotional character. He could possibly even be called quite sensitive. He rarely has small or subtle reactions to anything, showing great concern over minor things. He blushes and shows modesty at compliments, but he does tend to assume things are compliments when they are not. He gets extremely confused at people’s quirks, especially if they are quite unusual. Despite this, he is quite capable of taking things in a light hearted manner. Once he accepts someone as a friend, he plays around with them and will tease them (although he generally gets more than he gives) and takes being teased in his stride. He plays a complicated game with the raven Puginn in which they both attempt to annoy the other as subtly as possible, and even complements Puginn on teaching the princess a word that would get the Knight to react. He also playfully threatens to kill the princess and the pair casually pretend that he means it. He is very obedient to requests, unless it is something he adamantly would not want to do. He is also a little blood thirsty, seeing the option with martial force as generally the best one and rarely being subtle. Despite not caring before meeting her, he yearns to be granted a name by the proper authority and he will only accept a name from the princess.
Whilst he possesses a very tender and emotional personality, occasionally revealing he is a big softy at heart, he has a very dark side to him. He is completely ruled by his heart and ignores the better judgement of his head and advice from other people to do what he feels is best. He has no concerns with things like laws and justice and just moves according to his feelings. If enraged, he will instantly aim to dismember the source. If he decides upon a goal, he goes absolutely insane in his attempts to achieve it with an any means necessary approach. Whilst it is taken to the furthest extreme by his love for the princess, it applies in a lesser sense to everything else he does. He is willing to doom the world just to protect and possess the princess. In general he is a good person with the fatal flaw that he cannot give up on coveting what he cannot have, and will stop at nothing to get it even if the cost is massive.
History:
The setting of the story is a bizarre mix of high-technology and Norse mythology. Details of the world are generally lacking, but the standard Norse features are present; Odin is the king of the gods and lives in Asgard (which is called a holy city rather than a world), Yggdrasil is the giant tree of life and knowledge that is assaulted by dragons, giants roam etc.
The Knight’s first memory (and possibly his first moment of consciousness) is being teleported into battle besides a battalion of identical knights and striding into battle against an unimaginably huge army of dragons. With so many enemies in front of him, he couldn’t even stop to think about concepts such as the ground and the sky. It wasn’t until he killed his thousandth dragon, and became the only survivor on the battlefield, that he even realised there was a difference between up and down. Looking at the sky for the first time, he finally had enough time to recognise the idea of a ‘self’, but found the sky to be an endless grey expanse. For his incredible fear, he earned the right to ride the Chariot of Fate. What that actually is is never explained, but apparently it was enough that Odin personally called him honour him with a name. However, Odin declared that because the Princess was captured by forces of darkness whilst he was away it was the knight’s fault and he must rescue her to redeem himself and receive the honour. The Princess was created by Odin in order to negate a vaguely known ‘Doom’, generally hinted at to be the apocalypse. Although he thought the whole thing was pointless, the knight followed orders anyway, being sent to kill the Demon Lord.
Where countless legions of knights and gods failed, the knight successfully killed the Demon Lord by copying a curse and then decapitating the demon. He lost conciousness for a brief period, in which the raven Puginn broadcast his victory to Asgard and praised him. The knight simply said that the raven could search for the princess himself and that he was going back without bothering, and the Puginn was told about the knight’s emptiness. But before he could leave, the Princess arrived, a small winged child. She flapped up and touched his face, and suddenly the world seemed to be full of colours. He had fallen in love at first sight. Additionally, although the Demon Lord’s curse had begun to destroy him at the cellular level, beyond any form of repair, she completely healed him instantly.
Although he had succeeded in his mission, he did not receive a name because he had accidentally raised his sword to the Princess when she had snuck up on him. Time passed, and he was sent on many missions to protect Asgard, killing more dragons and giants and fiends and what not. In that time, he became well known despite being nameless and was considered a god of war by the lower classes. He continued to be used in battles at at one point defeated a high ranking noble dragon in a giant robot suit, but whose true form was a woman. After he destroyed her suit he suggested and allowed her to retreat.
The Princess (who name was Nir) was kept at a safe location separate from Asgard, and aside from Puginn (who decided to take the form of a sexy young girl despite being a male raven) who was her teacher, the knight was the only one who visited her. They were the best of friends, and the Princess was now in a teenage body (although due to the difficulty in gauging her rate of aging, it makes it hard to work out how much time had passed). On one of his visits, Puginn took him aside and told him all the data referring to the doom the Princess was destined to prevent had been erased even from the files of Puginn, who was tasked with possessing memories of all knowledge of the world.
Shortly afterward a legendary special knight with a hundred knights under his command arrived under orders from Odin to bring Nir to Asgard. After a heart warming moment where he told her that anything in the world was fine by him so long as he could be with her, she prepared to leave. However, just before she was taken, one of the knights, a Titan Knight made by combining a giant’s DNA with a knight, attacked him. He realised it was an attempt to ‘delete’ him as well, and the legendary knight escaped by teleporting away with the princess. Just before she was taken, she told him that the next time they met she would call him by his name and ordered him to wipe out his enemies in a single blow. And so he killed one hundred knights.
Following that, Puginn began to assist him in getting to Asgard in order to rescue the princess. With their codes blocked, any agent of Asgard that could read codes would immediately attack them. In order to avoid Odin’s all seeing eyes they began to travel using an underground tunnel that had been made by a previous demon lord, the Midgard Serpent. There he met a Fallen (a lower class Asgard warrior) who he had previously saved in a battle against giants. Since Fallen are illiterate and can’t read codes, he had no idea the knight was an enemy of Asgard and so was convinced to lead him through the tunnels. From him, he learned that the Princess supposedly had a wedding arranged for her, the reason for being called to Asgard. Upon reaching an orbital elevator that could cut the journey short from 30 days to 3, a number of knights appeared and revealed to the Fallen that THE knight was a blocked code. Even upon seeing the knight murder them, he believe the knight to be on the side of good and promised not to let slip any information regarding him.
Despite this, the knight killed the Fallen in order to make absolutely certain.
Moving on, he continued his ascent towards Asgard and separated from Puginn who hooked himself (herself?) up to a super computer (s?)he had made from the Midgard Serpent’s spine, that connected to Yggdrasil. Using that the raven came up with a plan superior to the knight’s (which was kill everyone), which was to grant him the master code-this meant he wouldn’t need to fight or hide, just walk in and out. Shortly after his communication with Puginn was jammed, he encountered a strange human girl wandering the labyrinth, offering him a doll of the Princess, which he really wanted. Except the little bitch tore it up in front of him and declared it was the Princess’s fate to die. She then froze him in time and explained that he couldn’t stop her fate, because he wasn’t the hero of the story. He broke out of the frozen time and began to throttle her-then revealing he had destroyed the doll instead. She then disappeared.
He finally reached Asgard, and saw the Princess make her first public appearance-in the short time they had been apart, she had grown into an adult woman. He held back from charging at her there, but lost it when he saw her betrothed; a man with his face. He charged into the palace, destroying his camouflaging master code’s usefulness. He managed to find the Princess before any knights interfered, but before he could say a word he was intercepted by the groom, who bashed him to the lowest level of the palace.
There he discovered that the man with his face was in fact Odin, who had somehow become youthful, and also discovered the reason why he looked like Odin in the first place. The Princess had been designed from creation to long for Odin, and had unwittingly reformatted the knight into a copy of him. Odin then revealed that the Princess possessed a power that would require her sacrifice to prevent the end of the world, which was Odin’s plan all along. Unable to accept that, the knight vowed to kill Odin. After taking heavy damage, he managed to decapitate the god and moved on to finding the Princess. Along the way, he slaughtered half of all the knights, including the legendary knight from earlier. With one hand, because the other was being used to hold the severed head of a maid, so he could use her code to reach the Princess’s room. Finally reaching Nir, he bowed to her and commented that he was sorry it took so long. And she asked who he was.
Not comprehending the situation, he was cut short by Odin arriving! You know, the guy he killed a couple minutes ago. This fight didn’t go so well, as the next he is seen he is armless and sealed in the lowest levels of the palace. Even sealed away and in a situation where his body would break apart, he continued to howl for the Princess. Eventually Odin came along to talk to him, in an attempt to get him to give up, by explaining that the Princess didn’t recognize him because of how far he had fallen, his noble heart killed by his selfish actions. Odin also explained that the reason he had survived was because of the power the Princess had given him; the power to alter fate, even after the fact. Whilst incomplete, it could still be used to alter one person’s fate and thus made Odin unkillable. The knight fell to his knees and begged Odin to return the Princess to him, claiming he would save the world in her place with no need for a sacrifice. Odin admired his determination and devotion, and so paid the knight the honour of dying with dignity, alone where no one would see his shame.
But then! The girl from earlier reappeared, bearing the mask of the Demon Lord. She revealed to him the nature of his fate killing powers, and informed him he could take on the destiny of the Demon Lord and fight again. He accepted, but before he could complete his transformation, Puginn managed to make a transmission telling him not to do it, since he would still not be able to save the Princess. The girl cut the transmission and rebuked that she had never said he could save the princess, merely that he could ‘have her.’ She revealed that the Princess’s wings were the source of Odin’s power, and that he would have to tear them off. She also revealed that she loved Odin, but unable to be with him, she would rather see him be destroyed to keep him out of the hands of others i.e the Princess. Accepting possessing her as an object was better than letting her die, the knight became a Demon Lord and rose up to fight Odin once more. This time in a battle that could not end. Odin couldn’t defeat the Demon Lord version of the knight, whilst the Demon Lord could not defeat the Princess’s power used by Odin. Thus, the demon planned to just tear out the Princess’s wings-this was made easier by the Princess arriving and declaring she would happily sacrifice herself for her beloved one: Odin. Finally completely broken by that declaration, he tore her wings out, leaving her unconscious. Odin chastised him for his decision, claiming he had fought so hard to escape a fate where he had nothing, but had ended up just destroying everything he got. The Demon Lord simply added he wasn't done yet, and devoured Odin’s fate. Because of this, he gained the last of the power Odin had gained from the Princess, and used it to regrow her wings, restoring that power to full. Taking her away to the ends of the earth, behind a wall of frozen time, he took up a role identical to the Demon Lord he had killed in the first place, every day killing knights and gods who came to try and rescue the princess, supposedly for a very, very long time.
Eventually a knight came along who managed to defeat him; but not just any knight. The living embodiment of the concept of fate had taken the form of his previous identity and stolen his destiny, the destiny of the knight that would kill the Demon Lord and save the Princess. However, shit got weird when the knight of fate attempted to kill the suspended Princess, but failed, claiming it was impossible to kill the Princess whilst bearing the knight’s fate. But he did explain that the Princess was the true ‘demon lord’, using the power over destiny to create a cyclical series of events that left her at the centre of life forever.
And that’s when the series ends.