Cadmus Freewild, drunk and lost, once stumbled into the Forbidden Grounds by mistake. Malachar killed him where he stood, then led his demon army into the Celestial Realm and slaughtered until rivers ran red with blood.
To end the war, the Celestial Emperor had no choice but to offer the most beautiful immortal in all the Six Realms, Seraphina Abbott Crystalis, as a consort to the Demon Sovereign.
Seraphina, emboldened by her status as the Celestial Emperor's daughter, answered to no one. She forced her way into the Forbidden Grounds with an entourage at her back:
"What filthy mortal dares hide in the Forbidden Grounds? Bedding demon guards and getting herself pregnant?"
"Today, I'll clean house for the Demon Sovereign myself!"
She ordered her people to hack off my limbs, then tore open my belly with bare hands and ripped the demon child from my womb.
As I lay dying, Malachar arrived with the mightiest beings of the Six Realms to witness the birth of their future sovereign.
Seraphina dragged me before him and held up the infant she had tortured to death, her face bright with triumph: