Welcome to Infernus

My little realm of headcanons about Duras and their life in Infernos in the series of Uraboku. Mostly it's just for me finally writing them down so I don't forget them while writing stories. Feel free to add or use them^^ (Oh and don't be confused: The twins Jekyll and Hyde would appear a bit more often, but that's because I like them both really much)

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Imps - Communication devices for Duras

(Disclaimer: I’ve got heavily inspired by the Golems from D. Gray-Man, because I love the concept of more or less conscious devices who follows you around :’D and it fits into Infernus, since most of the Duras have familiars) - Duras have their own way to contact or communicate with each other - either through other Duras (messengers), the classic letters or familiars (who either carries the letter or sending a voice mail)

- There are special little creatures who are breed only for communication purposes. They are named Imps and their looks may differ from each other, only thing they have in common are their strong and long wings. Depending on Imp Rank, they are either small critters or bigger creatures with wings and more ‘functions’. 

- They have antenna like appendages on different part of their furry bodies (on the head like horns, on the back or as a tail) which are used to contact other Imps. To be able to contact an Imp (for example that from a friend) their antennas need to connect and the Imps need to exchange their vital information. This information is similar like a special wave length and only the Imps who saved this information can contact the other specific Imp.

- Almost every Duras have (or should have) an Imp as an familiar. Some have more than one for different purposes. You can either buy them from a breeder or catch them in the wilderness - although wild Imps will cause problems, because they’re not easy to tame.

- Unlike other winged or flying familiars, Imps possess the ability to contact other Imps who are far away without being physically near them (like a phone). High leveled one can even send a videocall. Same goes for prerecorded messages.

- Unfortunately there are some Duras who also love to use their Imps as spies and let them stalk and record their ‘prey’. But there are methods to detect a spying Imp or prevent it.

- Sadly, you can’t text each other. It’s for calling or receiving calls only. If you wanna write someone, you need to send letters.

- Alternatively you can send your own Imp as a mail carrier to someone else or with a friend to protect them.

- Depending on where you are, the connection could either be very good or bad. You can observe a lot of Duras (especially in rural areas of Infernus) who are bending the Imp antennas or climbing very high to get a good signal.

- Sadly their abilities are not working in the human world or are very limited.

- Imps hate cold weather. They like to snuggle beneath your clothes or staying in inactive mode (as a ring, necklace or ear ring). When they’re active, they follow you around or sitting somewhere on your shoulders. - They love eating sweets, but eating too much will make them hyper and there is the possibility that they will ‘buttdial’ someone from your friend/contactlist and send them a lot of gibberish.

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Hello, fellow Uraboku fan! :D I had just read your headcanon about Infernus layouts and I agree with you 100%! I had thought of some things very similar to what you said. That's cool that you're a story writer too. :o If you want to check it out, I made a seperate blog especially for Luze Crosszeria labeled blade-king-luze. I am trying my best to write stories too and still trying to get used to it! For now I have been doing aesthetics and drawings >_< Nice seeing more Uraboku things!

Hello Gale!! Thanks for stopping by <3 I love your Uraboku related content (thanks for keeping this fandom alive!) and especially your beautiful artworks of Luze and Luka (sorry, had a small fangirling moment here :’D) I am so happy, you liked my little headcanon and agreeing with it. So good to know, that I am not the only one thinking about some worldbuilding stuff around Infernus and the duras themselves. Same here with writing the stories out (I love to think about them but writing is a bit difficult ^^*)

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Cadenza - Headcanons

He is heir to one of the oldest duras families, which are considered novelty in Infernos and being famous for their blood red hair (and blood thirst). Their family crest resembles a lion with a blood red mane.

There aren’t many family members. In fact he is currently the only known (and living) one.

He had a sickly little sister.

There was a time so many centuries in the past, where he actually had more empathy (but he still was arrogant af).

He grew up with a very strict and gruesome father, who was a infamous General Class Duras himself serving the king.

His father trained him mercilessly and if Cadenza failed a task or his father wasn’t satisfied with the training results of the day, the punishments were gruesome. He won’t get any food or water and his wounds won’t get treaten. It’s the father’s way to ensure that his bloodline will keep on being famous and strong. Cadenza’s father hoped that his son will follow him in his steps as a General Class Duras.

His mother was the exact opposite. Kind and tender and tried to shield her son from his father a lot. She was also a victim to his violent temper.

Cadenza comes after his father, who had shorter red hair and a beard. He inherited the wild locks from his mom, who had silver blond hair. His sister had the same hair like his mother.

Cadenza hated his father, but loved his mother dearly. His hatred peaked, when his father killed his mother one night. He was still young, just reached the Opast level recently and came back from a journey to witness her murder. He killed his father in a peak of rage, earned and inherited the nickname “Bloodhound” from his father.

He hated the nickname, but endured it since the king became aware of him after the tragedy. He started to serve under the king with this nickname and evolved to General Class.

He didn’t want to follow his fathers steps, serving under the king, but he needed the income to care for his sister.

Since the king allows certain members of his peers to get summoned Cadenza worked on another nickname for himself, starting to kill his masters, until he was known as the ‘Master Killer’.

He lost the last part of his heart when his sister died from her condition. Since then he views the bonds of others as something ridiculous and unnecessary and loves to destroy them by killing one of the people and playing with the remaining other half.

He is even for Duras standards beautiful, therefore a cunning ladies man. The women and men love the bloodthirsty and wild, but yet elegant aura around him. He never stays long around one partner and certainly has no thoughts of bonding to one and have a mate (Duras equivalent of marriage). In fact, he doesn’t even care to preserve his bloodline, since everyone he ever cared in his family is no more.

________________________________________ Yeah, I headcanon Cadenza as novelty, although Hotaru Odagiri once wrote in a chart, that he is only an Opast of Rank S and therefore ‘just’ an officer. But whenever I see him appearing in the series, he gave me elegant and noble vibes, similar to Dracula. I could imagine him living actually in a castle, surrounded by servants, while drinking the blood of the last poor guy who dared to summon him :’D

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Living in Infernos - Part 1

The cities/the Castle - a little overview

In my headcanon Infernos is not only a small place, but in fact (as more or less implied in the series) a whole new world with it’s own culture and people next to ours. As in every other world Infernos has rural parts and cities. Only difference is that this whole world is ruled by an one true king (and their partner), who resides in a castle in the capital city. The buildings have an medieval traditional touch and being less modern. I imagine the capital a bit like this:

The impressive and huge castle of the Duras king is built on a higher level than the rest of the city, surrounded by the housings of other duras.

Behind the mighty walls of the castle are also barracks and living spaces for the many soldiers and officers the king has, ranked from the lowest up until the very highest.

I also headcanon that the few high class Duras from nobelty lives near the king, too (although they have their own residences spread across the country). I had this headcanon inspired by our own world history, where nobelty likes to stay around royalty a lot and royalty likes to keep them close vice versa, to have an eye on them.

Since shown by Luka (who needed a bit teaching of how to use a phone) they don’t have advanced technology like phones or laptops as us, most of the things are either done or made by magic or with physical strength. To call each other or send messages, they have other devices, most of them either powered by magic or carried by familiars (I’ll talk about that in another post).

Depending on where the duras live (rural village or city) their living comfort varies greatly from each other. Duras who live in villages tend to be from lower class and poor, while city Duras have more chances to move up in rank and society and getting the chance to have better lives.

But living in a city doesn’t mean being free from poverty. Each city has its own outcast districts, similar to a slum on the outskirts of it, where the poor lives and crime and gangs flourish.

Being in service of the king (either as servant or soldier) is a great honor and privilege, since they only choose the best among their people. Serving the king comes with a very good income and reputation, but with a huge price (basically, the king owns your live through the contract and it’s impossible to get out of it).

to be continued...

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This turned out longer than I thought...(sorry!) I kept it short since it’s just an overview as a starter. I will go into detail (about the city, the living, and so on) in upcoming posts^^If you wanna know something specific, feel free to send an ask :)

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Uhm yeah...well...Welcome to my new blog, I guess?

I had this thought of making a Duras only blog for a while now (after loving these series passionately for almost ten years), especially with the lack of any information we have about the mysterious Infernos and the lives of Duras, which was sadly never have been discussed in the series or by Hotaru Odagiri. Since I started writing some fanfictions about Cadenza, Luka, Luze, Jekyll and Hyde, Elegy, ... I thought up own headcanons about their home and life before being called by a necromancer to fill in the gap and after years I realised I ... simply had too much. Too much to remember actually :’D So I make this block to mainly use it as a little note book to write them down. Feel free to add your own thoughts and headcanons or use mine ^^ Let’s keep this beautiful series alive (and keep on hoping that it will be maybe continued one day)

(also thanks to @uraboku-fan-club for encouraging me sharing them either on a blog or on their blog <3)