Orthos

"Do you get it now? I'm an artificially created Hero and the power of the people's voices is mine to command. It's that power that granted me my Name. I have become "Named" through my own power. Yes, just like that personage at the apex of my lineage."

- Orthos to Shizu

Orthos (オルトス) was the true ruler of the Kingdom of Filtwood and the villain of the Black and Mask Side-Story. He was a Daemon thought to be sealed away by the Hero Orthos, but was in-fact Orthos himself and fabricated the entire tale.

Appearance
Orthos had the appearance of a youthful and handsome man with long golden hair and blue eyes. He was seen wearing a purple knight uniform with a striking pauldron on his left shoulder.

When he revealed his true nature, his sclera donned a deep red glow, and he also sprouted large bat-like wings and curved goat-like horns.

Personality
Orthos was a man who was filled with an ambition to conquer from the moment he gained a firm will. Every action that he took was in service to his desires to gain power and rule over others, being the perfect archetypal Red Daemon that closely followed in the footsteps of Rouge, a being that Orthos held in great reverence and respect.

Background
When he first arrived at the Central World, Orthos was a mere Lesser Daemon, a fragile existence without a firm sense of self. However this changed when he managed to incarnate into physical flesh and gain a firm will.

Blessed with opportunity, the Lesser Daemon sought to pursue the desires that welled up within his newly-born mind. Working alongside Monster-Kind, he gained power and experience, evolving into a Greater Daemon with time. However this was not enough to quell the raging ambition distinct to those with red Souls. The Daemon set his sights on the Kingdom of Filtwood–a relatively small kingdom–and infiltrated it by posing as an ordinary Human.

Cooperating with his allies, the Daemon managed to take control over the small kingdom and forged the false narrative of "Orthos the Hero". The story goes that a man named Orthos–a soldier of no background or prior achievement–rose up and sealed an evil Daemon that was loose within the kingdom underneath the castle, with the seal said to come undone in a hundred-years time. The reality is that both the Rampaging Daemon and the Knight Orthos were in-fact the same person, with the Daemon using the collective will of the people that believed in the story to inscribe the name 'Orthos' onto his Soul.

Now a named individual, Orthos spent the next hundred years biding his time and gaining strength, evolving into an Arch Daemon and posing as the Commander of the nation's Knights. With the King and Prime Minister similarly replaced with his allies, Orthos hatched a plot to further increase his strength. Using the authority of the king, he called upon various adventurers from the Mutual-Aid Association to gather in Filtwood in order to "slay the resurrected Daemon", where he then planned to consume their flesh and steal their possessions.

This plan was–unfortunately for Orthos–a complete and total failure. Due to his own arrogance, he underestimated the Silver Wings and allowed them to escape. The woman was a powerful mage, one that was willing to break any and all taboos to get revenge on the man who fatally wounded her fiancé. Using the last of her strength, she managed to call upon Noir and he agreed to a contract to kill Orthos. It was at the hands of this most ancient and regal Daemon that Orthos met his end, his Soul shattered by Noir to the point of being incapable of reincarnation.