Shogun (Demon King's Heir)

Shogun is the main protagonist of the videogame Demon King's Heir. He's a young purple-winged demon who works as an officer of the army of Dämonland and later as its leaders' tactician and advisor. He's also the prophesied "Demon King's Heir", supposed to bring glory back to monsters after the defeat of the ancient Demon King centuries ago.

Appearence
Shogun is a young red-eyed demon with purple wings and red horns, dressed in a military outfit consisting on a long black coat and a hat, and red boots.

Personality
A proud soldier of Dämonland, Shogun has his duty towards his country as top priority, working hard in leading his squad to victory. At first, despite fighting the human country of Heldenland, responsible of many crimes towards his people, he didn't hold a grudge against humans as a whole but rather their ruler, Hero King Titus, who killed his father Kaiser as retaliation for Kaiser killing Titus' father in an ambush, and was even willing to accept rogue humans in his squad. After Titus also killed general Vulkhan, the officer that took him in after Kaiser's death, Shogun's hatred towards the Hero King grew and his fight against him got even more personal. Shogun also didn't think a peaceful way to end the war was possible. When he kidnapped helden princess Nadia to use her as leverage against Titus, he initially cringed at the princess' idealistic ideas about a ceasefire between the nations. However, after Vulkhan's death, Shogun accepted to give the war a quick and peaceful end by disposing of Titus and having the princess take the throne.

Since childhood, due to the prophecy about him bringing glory back to monsters, he's been treated as a savior by many of his peers. In order to prevent him from becoming too cocky, his guardian Vulkhan scolded him every time he talked about the subject, regarding the prophecy as nonsense. That ended up turning Shogun into a humble person who disliked being favored just for being the Demon King's Heir.

After the war against Heldenland, Shogun took on the goal of protecting both his country and the ally Heldenland had become. Being one of the biggest supporters of the friendship between nations.

Early life
Shogun is the son of the former leader of Dämonland, Kaiser, and an unknown dämon woman. When he was a baby, his father tricked helden king Wilhelm into having a peace talk to end the war between Dämonland and Heldenland, and killed him in an ambush. This caused Wilhelm's son Titus to attack Kaiser's camp and slaughter almost everyone in it using the legendary sword Legendia, which had been used by the hero Morded to slay the Demon King. Kaiser had one of his lieutenants, Vulkhan, flee with Shogun while he stood back to face Titus. Kaiser eventually perished at Titus' hands and Shogun was adopted by Vulkhan, who became the new leader of Dämonland. As Shogun grew up, he gained a small group of followers due to his purple wings which, according to a prophecy, made him the Demon King's Heir. Those followers stuck around Shogun and followed his orders despite him not being an officer of their army.

War against Titus
After succeeding on an extraofficial mission to find the fortress where Titus had officer Pyotr captive, Vulkhan forced him to endure the trial to become a full fledged dämon officer partially as punishment for entering helden territory without his permission. After Shogun and his squad passed the trial, they freed Pyotr and used his intel to kidnap helden princess Nadia and her scientist friend Loreena in order to use them as leverage against Titus. However, Shogun and his allies got surprised when Nadia wanted to use that to ask them for a ceasefire, which Vulkhan firmly rejected. However, he accepted Loreena's offer to give him information in exchange of handing the Legendia to her after Heldenland's defeat.

Shortly after Nadia's kidnapping, Titus personally invaded Dämonland and marched towards its capital in Dämonburg. Knowing Nadia had decided to go with the dämons on her own accord to ask for a ceasefire, Titus had decided to execute her daughter for treason before she could trade Heldenland's secrets with the monsters. In the battle, Titus clashed with Vulkhan wielding a sword called Tierfresser, which managed to break Vulkhan's defenses and kill him. However, an enraged Shogun attacked him and managed to injure him enough for his officers to take the Hero King and retreat back to Heldenland.

After that battle, Shogun and the rest of dämon officers decided to accept Nadia's offer for a ceasefire as long as it came after Titus' downfall, after which the princess would take the throne. The princess reluctantly accepted their terms and together they marched towards the Heldenland capital, where they had their final battle with Titus and defeated him. Nadia tried one last time to convince him to accept a peace treaty between their nations but Titus, blind with hate, refused and tried to strike Nadia down, only for Shogun to kill him before he could do so.

With that, Nadia became the new queen of Heldenland and ordered the halt of all hostilities towards Dämonland, starting the path towards peace. However, Nadia's siblings, who were Titus' top generals and had been taken prisoners, were killed by a rogue dämon called Rona. Also, a mysterious android called Beta Lich stole the Legendia from Titus' fortress.

War against the Mech Kingdom
A year after the war, Shogun and Nadia were still the biggest supporters of peace between their nations, which some of the helden ministers, Toadson and Stark, were against to. After stopping Rona's attempt to murder a group of helden soldiers, they celebrated the anniversary of their alliance at Dämonburg. However, the party was crashed by a necromancer, who revived a whole graveyard to attack the dämons. Among the zombies was Vulkhan, who retained his sanity and accepted to join Shogun and Nadia until they found out the identity of the necromancer.

The next day, Shogun's squad stopped a team of androids known as mechanoids from raiding a magic crystal mine and took one of them to be reprogrammed into serving them. That android told them about the Mech Kingdom, ruled by the Tin King Datascos, who had been using the stolen Legendia to power his army in order to invade them.

With that information, Shogun and his allies set sail to Nix Island, where the Mech Kingdom stood. There, they managed to take a harbor from the mechanoids but were forced to flee shortly after when Datascos sent reinforcements from his fortress at Castle Chessgear. The squad hid in a cave, which turned out to be the hideout of the Ashen Preachers, a cult that follows the Demon King and wanted to take them as sacrifices. During the battle, the squad met Qwerty, a ginoid personally made by Datascos but later discarded by him. Wanting to take revenge, Qwerty accepted to assist Shogun in taking down the Tin King and helped him take over the main mechanoid factory, reprogramming a whole new generation of mechanoids to help them take over Castle Chessgear, destroy Datascos and recover the Legendia.

War against the Dark Forces
With the Legendia finally on her hands, Loreena asked Shogun to take her to an ancient temple in order to complete her research. Once there, they where ambushed by the necromancer, who took Nadia hostage and demanded Shogun to hand over the Legendia. Shogun accepted and, just as the necromancer released Nadia, the mage struck Shogun with the sword, but only managed to harm him due to Shogun dodging. The necromancer revealed herself to be Loreena, whose real name was Eleanor, and that the Loreena that had accompanied them to Nix Island was actually Rona's shapeshifting henchman Morty. Eleanor was revealed to be the Demon King's former right-hand woman and, with the Legendia's blade tainted with Shogun's blood, managed to enact the ritual to revive her lord. The Demon King, Eleanor, Rona and Morty left the place while Shogun's squad had to face a group of Ashen Preachers.

After the battle, they returned to Heldenland to find it in the middle of a zombie apocalypse orchestrated by Eleanor, who had also broken the Legendia so that it couldn't be used to kill the Demon King again. Shogun's squad advanced through the Heldenland capital and found Toadson and Stark leading the helden army, having told them Nadia perished on Nix Island. Upon seeing the queen entering the battlefield, the ministers tried to have her killed by claiming she was a zombie but were defeated, although Stark managed to escape with a few loyal soldiers.

Without the Legendia to stop the Demon King, Nadia suggested to go meet its creator, the Forge Dragon Järneld, to ask for a new one. The dragon accepts the request and gives them a replica of the Legendia with spare materials given to him by Mordred back in the day. But before receiving their new weapon, the squad is attacked by Stark, wanting to take the sword and deal with the Demon King himself with his men.

After defeating Stark, Shogun and his allies raid Übelburg, the Demon King's fortress, with the help of the reprogrammed mechanoid army. They get through all the Demon King's subordinates, including his old generals and even Shogun's father, revived by Eleanor's magic. At the top of the fortress, Shogun faces the Demon King and slays him, this time for good after stopping him from giving a new prophecy about another potential return.