Velvet Abyss

Hey all here's a list of all future plot events I had planned for Velvet Abyss,  Hopefully this answers any questions

 

Plot Spoilers

Mari kills Seijuro during their fight atop the palace,

All of the Hyogo's are dead with the exception of Setsuna and Mei

Caligula is a clandestine evil society that were pulling the strings behind everything

Mei loses her magic becoming a lackless and lives out her day's quietly with Mirai 

Mari  joins Caligula working as Number VX  The Velvet Knight 

The missing Queen Anna Octavia was actually Caligula's 4th Apostle and the one who saved Lilith and the other traitors from being

slain by Mari during the battle of Edelgard.

Mari gives up her quest on revenge and turns her attention to reuniting with Shinobu

Caligula is lead by Shion Anno the original void mage who was killed but stayed alive by consuming a fraction of the goddess Nero's power.

Caligula's ultimate goal is to revive the goddess into the body of Setsuna Hyogo using the power of the eight crests and the goddesses

eight sacred treasures.

The Goddess Nero is actually Elpheria the goddess who reincarnated Mari in the first place

Elpheria is the final antagonist of the story and the one responsible for the Anno family curse.

Elpheria placed a curse on the original Anno Matriarch that they would be compelled to obey the goddess with abject obedience 

The Anno Clan sought a way to kill Elpheria but they couldn't slay a goddess,  learning of their plan Elpheria personally came to slaughtered all 

Using her dying breath the matriarch cast a spell condensing all the malice of the Anno clan into a tangible form.    

That form was Velvet a being capable of devouring even gods.    Elpheria and Velvet battled each other to a stale mate.   Eventually the goddess weakened enough to trapped by the clans solo surviving member the little sister of the matriarch.   Elpheria was purged from Ascar and trapped in a void.   

While she can't infect the world with her vile cruelty anymore she can influence those who have Anno blood she would drive all of them 

to suicide in petty revenge.   This cycle repeated for centuries.   Until Mari's mother found a way to break the cycle,  she discovered one of the artifacts and used it and her void magic to open a one way portal to earth where she fled.   Free from the goddesses limited influence she fell in love with a man from Japan and eventually had Atsushi.  

The curse only affected woman likely as a factor of the goddesses petty hatred for the Matriarch of the clan and since their child was male the goddess power held no sway over him.    

Atsushi's mother died when he was in his early 30s and his life spiraled out of control eventually leading him to become suicidal and take his own life.    This was the chance Elpheria had been waiting for she used her limited power to snag his spirit and drag him into her prison domain.    

Playing as a nice goddess she reincarnated him and gave him the perfect body, a female body that she could freely influence.   The line about losing her memories upon reincarnation was a lie.   

Caligula's true goal was to revive the goddess in a human vessel and than kill her for good with the help the crests and artifacts.   

Shinobu regains her memories and her and Mari reconcile.    The goddess inhabits Setsuna's body but is too overwhelmingly powerful 

Mari and Shinobu who holds the primordial flame are both devoured by Velvet combining there consciousness.   

They fight and ultimately vanquish Elpheria,  and as a consequence removes all magic from the world as she was it's source

Those who survive begin rebuilding the world. 

 Velvet having lost much of her power and memories is transferred into a homunculus body becoming  Mari and Shinobu's adoptive daughter.

The three girls spend a year travelling around the ruins of Ascar 

Mari, Shinobu and Velvet return to  Shikishima Village and rebuild it.

Velvet having no memories of her time as the void spirit lives out her days as a human falling in loving and adopting her own children . 

The Story Ends with Mari penning a novel called and recounts the true history of Ascar and the Anno family  

Mari dies first of natural causes, with Shinobu following soon after

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Lore Spoilers

The Elemental Lords were offspring of Elpheria that allowed humans to do magic, they had no mind of there own.   They existed

to give humans a tiny slither of power in an experiment by Elpheria to see what they would with such a blessing.

Devils were the souls of humans who died with a lingering sense of regret or spite,  these souls would linger and combine eventually

forming a singular devil. 

 

Unused Characters 

 

Caligula

 

The Grandmaster:    The absolute ruler of Caligula and the daughter of the first void mage plotted the goddesses down fall for centuries while also seeking away to end the Anno curse.

The Apostles: 

Eight powerful individuals who served the Grandmaster carrying out her plans and schemes.

 

Crius Juzelith:   The Terminus Dragon

Crius is the last living primordial a being that was around before Elpheria created Ascar,  he worked alongside the Grandmaster in order to have revenge against Elpheria for slaughtering his siblings.    He was the one responsible for tearing off Yoshiki's arm.    Part of Crius blood was used to coat the nail that would become Shinobu's heart which is why Shinobu can use primordial flame magic.  Which is magic capable of wounding even the goddess.

 

Cocobell Argento:    The Necro Alchemist

A member of the Argento clan, a clan of alchemists who learned ancient magic that could bend live and death to their will.   She was responsible for creating the Zero Maiden series of artificial soldiers and for resurrecting Shinobu.    Like her younger sister Calliope she she has the appearance of a woman in her mid twenties but is actually over 200 years old.

 

Hilda Guiscard:   The Bloody Maiden

A young countess who was murdered by a pure blood vampire,  luckily in the struggle 

she managed to consume some of his blood and in a freak twist was able to become a vampire herself.   Living as a feral monster on the edge

of death for some time she was discovered by the Grandmaster,  healed and given the title of Third Apostle.    Over the decades she has hunted every other vampire into extinction.

 

Satella (Anna Octavia) The Steel Valkyrie   

Anna Octavia was sought out by Caligula at a young and age and after learning about the truth of the world she vowed to do whatever 

it took to end the cycle of death that goddess had created,   she went from showing no interest in the throne to dominating the Dresden Civil war and claiming the throne.   She forced her children to under go a blood oath ceremony to ensure their obedience and to keep them save.   She than disappeared without a word discarding her life as Queen Anna and assuming the title of Satella,  the name taken from a famous female knight who lived 500 years ago.

She was the real one responsible for killing 1 million of her own people,  this was done in order to fuel the crests and ultimately revive 

the Alter of Nero so that the crests could be restored to their full power. 

 

Regalia Ulrich:  The Phantasmal Fang

  A powerful martial artist known as The Phantasmal Fang,  he practices the Skarsa style,  he meets and befriends Mari and becomes a Father figure for her,  helping her come to terms with her trauma.    He was the one who recruited her into Caligula as a member of the Numbers.   Like Mari he too had everything he ever cared about taken from him and was motivated by revenge until joining Caligula gave him a renewed sense of purpose

 

Gremory Queves:   The Thorn Reaper 

A former member of a defunct assassin organization he handles the dirtiest of jobs,  he has a very unique philosophy about life and death

and is by far the biggest wild card out of the eight.   He tends to follow his capricious whims but is ultimately loyal the organization and his comrades.   He fights using a serrated scythe and explosive.

 

Kojiro:   The Blade Emperor 

Born Zenji Zell Zaldivar he was a sword prodigy belonging to a famous clan of knights from the Empire,  one day he murdered his entire 

family with the exception of his little sister Zenith before fleeing,  he eventually travelled the world mastering over a dozen sword schools and proving to be possibly the greatest swordsman in living memory.   Throwing away his family name,  Kojiro was recruited into Caligula after his talents were recognized.     He wields the world breaker sword  Fragarach.  

 

Kaname Anno:  The Ashen Abyss 

A homunculus that was created by the Grandmaster although Kaname can't use void magic he is able to use a unique set of magic 

called Abyss Magic which functions very similar too Void Magic.   He was originally created as test to see if they could attificially created void magic without the need of the void spirit.