Ultimata (Fantasy WIP)

I’m really sorry, but it seems that I have given you the unfinished version of Emilia’s backstory. I hope it’s ok, that I repost the finished backstory.


Emilia comes from an old and venerable family of powerful demons. She is the daughter of Arthur Westcott, the acting Demon King and supreme ruler of the Underworld and Seraphina McAllister, a powerful magic caster with a talent for the four main elements and who is, just like Emilia, a Succubus.

Sadly, even despite being a child of the Demon King, she never was accepted as such. Neither by her father, siblings or the royal servant’s. The reason for this was, that Emilia is the result of a short affair between Arthur and Emilia’s mother Seraphina, who served as a Magic Instructor for Charles Westcott, Arthurs oldest son and future heir to the throne. Almost everyone saw Emilia as nothing more than a mistake or a failure, nothing more than a occurence that brought shame over the royal family, and was treated as such.

Though, in the end she was still the daughter of the Demon King, even despite being a “bastard child”, and Arthur actually supported Emilia and her mother to some extent. She got the most expenisve clothes, the best possible education and the most experienced and renowned instructors for the fields of Magic. Lastly, she even was allowed to live on the royal grounds together with her mother. However, while she might got everything a young girl had wished for there was one certain thing that she almost never got or experienced. The feeling of being loved. Throughout her life Emilia experienced nothing but coldness from the people around her. Her father, her siblings, the servants and even some of her instructors ignored and insulted her.

It went even so far, that some of her instructors refused to teach her. Though the reason for this was actually a little different. It was because Emilia’s point of view on the subject of emotions and feelings. Emilia is a Succubus, a demon who feeds on the emotions of other beings to become stronger and from her earliest childhood on, Emilia was told that emotions have no real value and that they are nothing more than means to gain strength and power. However, Emilia saw this entirely different. For her emotions like joy, happiness, and especially love were something special and extremly valuable and she simply couldn’t bring herself to exploid those special feelings. Of course this kind of view is extremly unsuitable for a demon, especially for a Succubus. This resulted in her being stamped as a failure and a hopeless case by her all of her instructors and teachers, who refused to teach her as long as she won’t change her point of view.

Emilia wasn’t even allowed to leave the royal grounds, since Arthur wanted to avoid, that the denizens of the Underworld would see the “greatest mistake of his life”. Because of this, Emilia never experienced the feeling of friendship, which resulted in her becoming extremly shy and introverted.

However, while almost anyone ignored or insulted her, there was still one person who cared for Emilia and who treated her with love and kindness. This person was Seraphina, Emilia’s mother. Even despite being a Succubus herself she understood and respected the opinion of her daughter and supported her as best as she could. She even took over the role of Emilia’s magic instructors and taught her the principles of the eight magcial elements by herself. Thank’s to her help Emilia even discovered her talent for the element Water, especially in the arts of healing magic.

Ultimately, Seraphina even came up with an idea, to give Emilia the chance for a normal life, far away from the coldness of her family. On Emilia’s twelfth birthday, both Emilia and her mom left the Underworld behind and travelled to Earth to start a entirely new life in “Ashfield”, a large city which is the home of countless other non-humans and where they could live a normal life. Seraphina hoped, that this change could give her daughter finally the life she always deserved.

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