OnS Theories (23S). Fourth Theory (Special Theory) - The Knowledge of Demons by the Vampire Council
Hello everyone, it’s another day and I hope you’re doing alright dear readers, the theory of today is something that popped as a question when the newest chapter was released, therefore let’s proceed!
P.S: Theories are held within a neutral view and ships are excluded
In the latest chapter, Rigr resolved one mystery within the story, what do I mean?
Correct. He revealed the rank of former progenitors that eventually joined Sika Madu who is well known as Shikama Doji:
Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 105
It is now known that Ashera Tepes, Raimeiki, Byakkomaru, Kiseki-O, Gekkouin, and Noya were former 3rd Progenitors that were eventually turned into demons:
Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 105
Though while it’s unkown when exactly they became demons without the deciding factor of disappearing or having the need to possess a human along the very fact they retained their memories of themselves while being followers of Shikama; was it possible for the Progenitors that remained to have knowledge about demons?
For this, let’s analyze a bit of the past, what do I mean?
It’s known that the vampire progenitors that were abandoned by the FIrst Progenitor were forbidden to investigate stuff that was labeled as “taboo”; but nevertheless, there was basic knowledge for them in some aspects, what does this mean?
Reading old chapters, and specially in chapter 50, when Urd, Lest and Ky went to capture Krul, they met up with Ferid, and of course within one panel, Lest removed Ferid’s heart as a torture method, and within this, Lest hinted something:
Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 50
At first glance, it seems like common knowledge due to how the war between humans and vampires was going around, but now that Rigr mentioned that the third progenitors were specifically chosen by the First and most of all, all the third Progenitors that followed him became demons, it makes many wonder how it became knowledge to the remaining Progenitors that a vampire’s heart was the key to turn one into a demon.
But is there a proof to this?
In fact. There is a huge one:
Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 29
Back in chapter 29, when the Nagoya Arc took place, Crowley, Chess and Horn captured several troops of the Moon Company that served Guren with loyalty; and of course, within this, Crowley wondered which was stronger, a demon sword or a vampire’s sword; to his dismay, he noticed there was something unusual BUT he couldn’t point out from where exactly humans gained such power.
This only displays that, among all the vampire Progenitors that started to appear (7th Progenitor and lower ranks) only those who were sired by the First Progenitor have known the truth about vampires and those are:
Krul Tepes, Urd Geales, Rigr Stafford, Lest Karr and Ky Luc
Is there further proof of such knowledge? Indeed there is, and such thing was only revealed to Mikaela:
Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 11
At such time, the concept of demon was something very far from the origins of demons; it could have meant that vampires that wouldn’t drink blood for long time would perish and lose their minds which is something that is often portrayed in anime or manga focused on vampires; but nevertheless, it’s known that demons are born whenever a vampire starves to death or in the latter, they suffer major injuries or their hearts are removed until they turn into one.
But the main question is, how was the Vampire Council, which was limited to accept those with the rank of 6th progenitor or higher ,able to understand such process or transformation from vampire to demon?
Thanks to chapter 105, there was a new insight, what do I mean?
It is sightly hinted by Rigr Stafford (Saito) that he has awareness of why those two weren’t chosen along the fact of something that may involve Krul’s knowledge, what do I mean?
Back in chapter 68, there was a massive cliffhanger about Krul and the Progenitors:
Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 68
In said chapter, Krul began to explain why she wanted to recover her brother from the First, since she stated he did something to both of them, but, what could that “thing” might have been?
NOTE: From this point, the theory might be a bit dark, perhaps it might be a quite concept but it’s up to you dear readers
It’s well known that scientists follow a principle on which it’s required to test first in order to reach the final product, therefore, what does this refer to?
It’s highly possible that, in order to create demons that were capable to stay in a physical form, that could retain their memories without having them lose their sense of self:
Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 102
And be willing to listen like most vampires who have their minds sane to some extend, the first guinea pigs that were used for that might have been Ashera Tepes and Krul Tepes, but why? How can I even reach such conclusion when, among the third progenitors, there were some that looked around their 24 years or so?
As I stated before, for Shikama to reach results, patience and constant experimentation is a primordial mindset within his objectives; once he found humans that were capable to drink Ancient Yuu’s blood and were capable to transform into vampires like Ashera:
Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 79
The next step was the evolution of vampires, what does this mean?
One of his ambitions is to create a dark sun, one to engulf everything in total darkness which was somehow mentioned in chapter 94, but, in order to secure everything, he needed loyal beings or which are well known as his apostles that would obey him without any reward, that they had no hesitation towards him but for this, in order to reach such process, he needed first to find the clues for that, and what best way to do so with experiments that were made on the very first one that gave him results after 600 years along the bloodline said character had, and of course that is Ashera Tepes and of course, Krul Tepes no less.
But now, another question begins, and that is, if Ashera and Krul were the guinea pigs, why was Ashera the one who left with him to the Land of the Raising Sun?
Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 49
For this, we’ll build a small timeline.
Before the First Progenitor took the journey with Ashera Tepes, he first made sure the transformation from vampires to demons was a success or at least the key point to reach such transformation was accurate enough to not affect the memories of the ones who were submitted to said process.
It’s well known that only the 3rd Progenitors were chosen for this matter, and it’s very likely that the reason behind was due to its compatibility with Yuu’s blood from said age; but in order to carry success, he needed to see if all the 3rd Progenitors were capable for that, thus, what else is hiding beneath the secret Krul revealed to the Progenitors that were abandoned?
It’s very possible that, the reason why the First Progenitor did terrible things to Krul and Ashera were for experiments; such experiments might have had as a main focus to see what results would give between a Progenitor sired by Yuu’s blood and one sired with his blood. What does this mean?
In the latest chapter, Rigr stated that Lest lacked something, which is known by Urd, such lacking factor might have been the compatibility between him and Ancient Yuu’s blood which might have been another possible for Krul as well, making him leave them along with the other Progenitors.
Within this, the other possible reason was that the vampire to demon evolution might have not given the results he wished when it came to those sired by his blood and those sired by Ancient Yuu’s blood.
And now, answering the main question, how did it became knowledge for the Vampire Progenitors about the demons?
The very reason might be that, once the results desired were obtained, the First Progenitor, before leaving, might have revealed his results on how demons were made and how it became the next step to progress.
And, when the time came, when the time he saw that Golden chance on which he could finally start setting his plans into motion in the Land of the Rising Sun; the last one to depart was Ashera Tepes.
Within this, it’d be a clear explanation as to why in future events that took place before the Catastrophe, there was knowledge on demons along how they could be eventually locked within cursed gears along with the making of new demons by taking vampires of lower ranks in order to make humans resist vampire invasions and fight against them.
As a side doubt, along it’s possible answer, the very reason why the other 3rd Progenitors such as Byakkomaru, Raimeiki, Kiseki-O, Gekkouin and Noya weren’t seen in chapter 49, might be that at said time, they might have left the Vampire Council under orders of the First Progenitor, and, as his final farewell, he left in presence of the other Progenitors with Ashera Tepes to pursuit his plans and set them into motion, which would actually explain why they were only seen as demons with the First Progenitor before his plan started without the knowledge of the Vampire Council.
What do you think dear readers?
Let me know what you think!
This theory was made with help of my dear friend Wisely from discord, Coffee_ross (she’s a dear friend to me), @roxxy-ll, @mikaisyuudere , @saltysourpatch1 and @aokuro-neko
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