Annihilation of the Name

The Annihilation of the Name is a curse that the Creatures of Heaven placed on Raenef IV through sacrificing their own lives. The curse is supposed to go into effect on a scheduled time during the day of prayer, exactly at noon, 150 years after their death, which is called the Third Passing Ceremony.

The curse ties the Raenef-name, from which the demon lord derives his existence, to the flow of time. It is made so that Raenef IV dies prematurely at a scheduled time. His death brings forth the next Raenef, who will be drawn from the future. The travel through time will cause the soul to break (evidence is Raenef V 's two personalities). The split personalities will fight for dominance, and if the two sides are equally strong, this will cause the demon lord in question to go insane, and an insane demon lord will die. Then a new demon lord will be drawn forth from a further distant future. His travel through is longer still, and his soul will therefore be even more crumbled. This goes on, until in the end, the soul is so broken that it cannot finish its journey and is scattered across space, thus eliminating the Raenef-lineage from existence.

Raenef IV counters this curse by killing his physical body prematurely before the curse can take into effect. Raenef V is then drawn to the present earlier, so that Raenef IV can tie his spirit to Raenef V's magic and live on. He is then able to make Raenef V's dark personality go to rest, which allows the kind personality to grow stronger. In the end, when the curse goes into effect on the Third Passing Ceremony and hits Raenef V, who now carries the Raenef name, the kind personality is stronger then the dark personality and wins the fight for dominance. The kind personality can then reabsorb the other half back into itself, so that Raenef V's soul can become whole again.