A history of events that transpired at the hands of Jilixia Worldthrone, the fleshmelting sadist and sole surviving descendant of Dahmunara Worldthrone.
Jilixia worldthrone is born to her mother Lynilla, youngest of the descendents of Dahmunara Worldthrone. She shows great and immense promise from a very young age, far in excess of even her siblings or aunts. However, as she grows she displays a penchant for wanton sadism and discovers enjoyment in the suffering of others, torturing and killing servants and slaves around the castle she grew up in.
Worldthrone Castle, home of Dahmunara Worldthrone and her daughters, is sieged and conquered by the Rasmanthus Guild. All of Dahmunara's daughters are killed, her generals lay slain or fleeing, and Dahmunara herself lies sealed away and her ritual stopped. Only Jilixia, her granddaughter, survives the destruction thanks to the sacrifice of Lysotha, nine-tailed kitsune general of Dahmunara and second mother to her children.
Jilixia Worldthrone, now alone in the wilds of Hyeojiin Island after escaping Worldthrone Castle, refuses to hide and viciously assaults the camps of the forces of The Rasmanthus Guild in brazen frontal assaults that raze their camps to the ground. Though the attacks are brutal and crippling, the leading Oldsoul hero remains alive and escapes Jilixia's wrath, surviving to lead the forces of the guild as they are thrown on the defensive and forced to speed up their retreat from the Island, quickly pressed back to their final camp in Xiaori Village along the Island's east coast in the process.
Led by the Oldsoul Hero, last survivor of the assault on Worldthrone Castle itself, leads the last of The Rasmanthus Guild's surviving forces in a retreat from Hyeojiin Island. However, Jilixia Worldthrone, using intel gathered from captured and tortured adventurers taken from her previous assaults on their camps, discovers their elaborate retreat plan and springs a deadly trap on the retreating guild forces - using her mastery over fire she sends the fleet of the guild up in flames as they sail out of the village. The forces of the guild burn to ash inside their own escape ships - only the Oldsoul Hero survives the encounter and lives to report back to The Rasmanthus Guild, much to Jilixia's fury.
With the forces of the guild dealt with, Jilixia secures passage off Hyeojiin Island on a female-crewed ship and lands in the town of Shakogawa along the coastline of modern-day Narixia. She is welcomed by the lord of the city, who recognized her upon her arrival and extends an offer of asylum in exchange for performing tasks in return.
Jilixia spends a decade working under the radar for the Lord of Shakogawa, who agrees to hide her and gives her resources in exchange for eliminating his political enemies and a host of other unsavory tasks. Jilixia, driven solely by a need to learn more about the world before she enacts her plans at revenge, complies long enough to acquire all the information she needs about the world outside of Hyeojiin Island and Worldthrone Castle. While she spends her time studying in the lord's libraries, she casually keeps herself entertained by abducting men off the streets and sadistically torturing, burning, and breaking them, and eventually killing them once she grows bored of them, forcing the Lord of Shakogawa to cover up her actions to preserve their deal.
The Lord of Shakogawa, who had been covering up her atrocities out of a misguided belief that he could redeem her or eventually turn her in, is callously discarded once Jilixia decided she had gotten all she needed from him and his family. She quickly reduces the lord and his family into masochistic torture-slaves and wrestles control of the city from him, where she quickly enacts a number of short but sadistic policies designed to test her mother Dahmunara Worldthrone's theories and her own ideas on governance and rule in the small scale. She quickly turns Shakogawa into a hellscape, where men are enslaved and leashed at the feet of women, tortured and burned in the streets without remose while the women and men who would not comply with her policies were either killed or forced into compliance.
Jalixia would go on to spend decades as the Lady of Shakogawa, openly brutalizing its men and declaring them animals, and creatures to be owned(and brutally beaten if they disobeyed) - enacting countless sadistic experiments on the populace and putting down any rebellion with brutal and overwhelming force using her masterful control over fire and Kinetic Magic. Her presence was not truly discovered until nearly thirty years had passed with her rule of Shakogawa - her experiments were permitted by the Emperor of Asagawa because the city had remained increasingly profitable, while most of Jilixia's true atrocities were kept quiet.
Finally learning of the atrocities she had been committing in Shakogawa, the The Rasmanthus Guild dispatched an elite strike force to slay the last living heir of Dahmunara Worldthrone. However, due to a variety of factors the least of which was a gross underestimation of how strong Jilixia had become after four decades with her immortal body gifted to her by her mother, the attack force was brutally burned and mutilated. Afterwards, she fled the city after executing every single one of its residents in retaliation for the attack.
Jilixia would spend the next 150-odd years repeating the cycle displayed at Shakogawa - settling down in new towns as she ventured ever further east and/or south, moving into the Shaoshu Empire and finding new small towns and villages to take refuge in, after which she would quickly depose its leaders and begin a reign of brutality as its new Lord until The Rasmanthus Guild found her new location and chased her out while trying to prevent her from burning the city or village down in her escape. With each subsequent population center she took control of and was pushed out of, she honed her cruel policies into an artform until, by the end of the 150-odd year period she would turn the population centers she reigned over into sadistically efficient territories where men served as pets, women ruled society, and her control over the populace was masterfully excecuted through more than just fear, each time honing her policies and figuring out where it had gone wrong in the previous attempt. The towns she chose were seemingly random, though all were small-scale and out of the way locations in the Shaoshu Empire.
Finally stopping her cycle of attacking and conquering small towns and villages, Jilixia re-entered the public eye as a woman of significant power and renown that openly ruled over her house, her husband little more than a trained dog and puppet at her feet. This, for her, was by far the most high-profile and powerful role she had placed herself in by far, as she usually preferred smaller and more out of the way population centers. Though she was discovered in this role early on by the Rasmanthus Guild, they decided it would lead to unacceptable loss of life if they were to openly attack her, for fear of her killing countless innocents in the conflict that would ensue - as she had previously adopted a 'scorched earth' policy of destroying her 'playthings' each time the guild found her, slaughtering tens of thousands each time.
Continuing her mysterious plan, Jilixia was free to continue advancing her goals as The Rasmanthus Guild sat paralyzed by indecision over how to deal with her - and unfortunately for them, they did not discover her plan until it was far too late, which allowed her to make pets out of most every major noble in the Shaoshu Empire and eventually, even the Shaoshu Regent himself.
With most of the Shaoshu Elite now broken and serving her in secret, Jilixia enacts her plan and brings utter ruination to the Shaoshu Empire after catching The Rasmanthus Guild in a cunning trap, tricking them into sending the very same Oldsoul that escaped her decades prior at Xiaori Village at the helm of the last of their elite 'S' Rank Agents to kill her before she could enact what they believed to be her plans. Killing the S rank agents sent to destroy her and capturing the Oldsoul, Jilixia set the capital ablaze and made her nemesis watch as the country of his birth was brought to ruin - crushing the largest ally The Rasmanthus Guild had on the world stage as the empire burns around her, its nobles enslaved to her sadistic will and unable to stop the empire's collapse into bickering territories.
With the Shaoshu Empire obliterated, Jilixia, now an oldsoul, freely spent the next decade slowly and systematically destroying the Rasmanthus Guild throughout all of central Zheng-Kitar and completing her revenge on those she saw as her mothers' killers - her plan centuries in the making had come to perfect fruition and she proved unstoppable, butchering adventurers in the untold thousands and enslaving just as many more.
Though she had nearly exterminated the guild across the continent, Jilixia's brazen assault on the Rasmanthus Guild came to an end as she personally dueled Osmantha the Indomitable on the Untamed Plains, fighting her to a standstill as the collateral damage from their battle threatened to obliterate the last fragments of the guild Osmantha was protecting. Knowing that Jilixia's defeat would cost an astronomical amount of lives while Jilixia knew that Osmantha would likely kill her if pressed, both women decided to back off, leaving the battle with a mutual loss for them both as they retreated, the guild in shambles and Jilixia nearly dead, her crusade halted before its apex.
Falling off the face of the planet for several decades, Jilixia reemerged from her duel with Osmantha the Indomitable decades later in the Ustanan City of Rhocenza as the residents of the city, in a frenzy after years of unpopular rule and poor government, formed a fanatical cult dedicated to the Jilixia, the Fleshmelting Sadist, inviting her to rule them after overthrowing the existing rulership. The Rasmanthus Guild, still weak from her crusades against them, were too weak and unable to intervene as Jilixia fled to Rhocenza and turned the city into her own personal playhouse.
Gleefully taking the reigns of Rhocenza after it was handed to her on a silver platter by the Fleshmelter cult founded in her name, Jilixia put her centuries of experience ruling townships decades and centuries prior to excellent use as she transformed Rhocenza into her ideal utopia resembling that made by her mother, Dahmunara Worldthrone, centuries ago - a haven for female supremacy, albeit one much more sinister than that her mother had created.
In the years following her conquest of Rhocenza, The Rasmanthus Guild, after rebuilding their strength, formed a killsquad to take down Jilixia made up of a large number of the guild's remaining high ranking members at the behest of Osmantha the Indomitable. Unfortunately, the attack would lead to ruin as Jilixia, now an oldsoul, was so astronomically powerful that only legendary beings stood a chance at resisting her power - she easily beat, enslaved, and humiliated the strike force in an act that would earn her the first global bounty issued by The Rasmanthus Guild for her defeat.
Jilixia, so targeted and made a public enemy of the entire world, spent much of the next centuries ruling over Rhocenza as its cruel queen - she would make regular voyages outside the country which went undocumented at the time, but were later discovered at her own taunting boasts to involve the capture and sadistic torture of men in positions of power in foreign countries, whom she would brazenly torment for years at a time only to eventually take them as her own when they had become utterly hopeless and thus would not resist her abducting them. During this time, she is said to have abducted thousands of powerful men from across Zheng-Kitar, while killing, burning, torturing, and maiming others in the streets at night across the continent. Rhocenza remained a staunch isolationist power for the next century and a half - no word came from within or without its borders, and all word on Jilixia's actions went strangely quiet, which was unusual for her and worried many about her plans.
Jilixia's mother Lynnila, whom she had long thought perished so many centuries ago during the assault on Worldthrone Castle, is discovered and imprisoned by The Rasmanthus Guild, who manages to do so without alerting Jilixia herself.
Jilixia, learning of her mothers' survival and subsequent capture at the hands of The Rasmanthus Guild, is enraged after being alerted to her mothers' existence and location by a guild insider wracked with guilt at the horrific experiments done on her mother for the sake of killing her child. Jilixia promptly goes on the warpath and attacks the secret base of The Rasmanthus Guild where her mother is being stored, waging a one-woman war on the guild once more.
Though she tears through the base of The Rasmanthus Guild with ease, Jilixia is too late to save her mother as the guildmembers leading the operation, fearing for a mother-daughter pairing should Jilixia free her mother, butcher Lynnila Worldthrone and obliterate the body to prevent any hope of resurrection. Jilixia, forced to watch her mother's death for a second time, is sent into a spiral of rage that would see her seek out every member involved in the experiment save the one who alerted her of its existence and capturing them...and, many say, torturing them daily to this very day, unable to die.
A group of a dozen male students from the Ustanan Royal Academy ignore the warnings and forbiddance of their peers and teachers and sail to Rhocenza to prostrate themselves before Jilixia to ask for permission to study her and her city for their final graduating Academic Thesis. Jilixia, in a rare display of mercy, gives the brave students the right to study her and her city under a few restrictions. This report, once written brings many shocking things to light about Rhocenza and its ruler, from its vast economy to shockingly solid government, and more. The Students, once done, are shockingly allowed to freely leave Rhocenza to return to the mainland to deliver their report to the Academy.
Four months after the students return, 4 of the original 12 students that went to Rhocenza to write the Campagna Report commit treason and abduct two professors from the Ustanan Academy, sailing back to Rhocenza under cover of night and giving their professors and themselves to Jilixia - who accepts the students' bid to enter her service and their professors as gifts. However, when Ustana calls for their return, Jilixia returns the whipped, burned, and beaten professors to Ustana who, while intact, retire not long after their return and name their daughters as successors to their teaching positions, much to the astonishment of the Ustanan people who suspect Jilixia's hand in these matters. The four students who commited the betrayal are made permanent citizens of Rhocenza, and are later seen serving her as her personal whipping-boys as reward for their actions.
After the Campagna Report and Student Revolt, Jilixia found herself too busy with governance to leave the city for nearly thirty years - thanks to the report, a suprising number of men and women flocked to Rhocenza to live beneath her heel, sending her city into an unprecedented golden age built on the backs of brazenly stolen technology from rival powers and foreign leaders who Jilixia abducted and beat into slavery, much to the dismay of her many enemies.
Jilixia, laying the groundwork for the city of Rhocenza to continue in her absence, grew bored of her city of toys and abandoned them, flippantly leaving a female "High Priest" in charge in her absence to run the city according to her will. She leaves Rhocenza behind of her own will, and secures passage across the ocean to Ustana.
On her voyage from Rhocenza to Ustana, Jilixia is stopped and captured by the Southern Migrant Fleet, who hauls her in on cruelty charges and demands her pay reparations to the sailors and families she inflicted so much suffering on. This move is backed by the Rasmanthus Guild, who had already sent adventurers to support this effort. However, in another display of her power, she brutalizes the fleet of six ships with ease and kills every last member of the crew sent to participate save one, who is spared to spread word of her power and deeds.
Arriving in Ustana after being stopped by the Gāngtao Migrant Fleet, Jilixia is greeted by the Ustanan Guard, who attempt to arrest her for her crimes but are instead beaten, brutalized, and made to debase and humiliate themselves for her amusement - they are left as burned, tortured husks on the docks in little time. The city has no choice but to stand down and give her passage through the city, which she repays them for by mockingly setting governmental buildings aflame as she passes them.
After her arrest and arrival in Ustana, Jilixia vanishes for nearly a decade and a half after leaving Ustana on a journey of unchecked debauchery, destruction, and death with seemingly no rhyme, reason, or purpose that would last for nearly a decade a half, ending only when she finally stumbled into the Kingdom of Seoghar and settled down to start a family.
After leaving Sakhrad, Jilixia soon makes her way to the Kingdom of Seoghar, where she stays for several decades. Upon her arrival, the Jade Emperor, well-aware of her reputation after her actions in Sakhrad and beyond the past decade and a half, and wishing to avoid a conflict that would spell death for his people, makes the wise decision to have his daughter approach her and negotitate her safe passage through his lands - and in the process, accomplishes the miraculous task and ends the Fleshmelting Sadist's decade a half spree of debauchery. Her mind finally clear of the constant haze she had put herself under for well over a decade, Jilixiaeventually demands the right to take a husband from Seoghar's finest stock of men, a manor fit for a queen overlooking a beautiful countryside, and to be made a noble in exchange for his people's safety - a strange but welcome request to Seoghar. The Jade Emperor agreed to this demands, on the condition she spare his people from death and suffering, to which she agrees.
Settling down in the Kingdom of Seoghar after its Jade Emperor gave into her demands in exchange for promises to spare his citizens from death and suffering, Jilixia spends the next decades living a strangely reclusive life in her countryside estate. Going through 7 husbands, she discards them all for various reasons(Keeping them as broken pets afterwards) as if growing bored or finding them lacking.
Causing a scandal all across the Kingdom of Seoghar, Jilixia either knowingly or otherwise seduces the close and beloved wife of the Jade Emperor, ruler of the Kingdom of Seoghar's son, who flees her husband, smitten with the Fleshmelting Sadist, into her arms as her new betrothed. Enraged, the Jade Emperor's Son storms off to Jilixia's manor only to fall victim to her sadistic wiles and ends up a mere trophy or pet to the two women, now madly in love. Jilixia, deeming the son worthwhile, has a beautiful daughter with him whom she names Orielle.
Jilixia is confronted by a powerful hero who engages her in combat in her Seogharan estate, fighting her to a standstill and displaying a suprising degree of combat effectiveness. This mysterious hero shows no hesitation in accepting collateral damage if it means destroying her - however, with the help of her daughter, Jilixia overpowers her assailant and leaves him maimed but alive, fleeing with her daughter to parts unknown and callously discarding her wife and 8 broken husband-pets.
Jilixia is granted asylum by the Kassau Matriarchy, who welcomes her happily into the country as an honored guest. This enrages The Rasmanthus Guild, who declares Kassau cut off from the guild's support as Kassau's actions enflame hostility among their neighboring nations.
Jilixia gives birth to a second child, whom she names Zellvienne. The father is unknown, but many suspect it to be the powerful assailant she left maimed in her escape from the Kingdom of Seoghar.
Jilixia, working from within the Kassau Matriarchy, raises her daughters and works to further the goals of Kassau, who she serves as an advisor and honored guest. She is believed to be at least partially responsible for their constant outward expansion, if only by implanting the ideas in the head of Kassau's rulers, and has actively supported Kassau efforts by personally wiping out towns and outposts of The Rasmanthus Guild at her whims. She remains public enemy number one on Zheng-Kitar - one that seems all but unbeatable. However, many speak of the hero who drove her out of the Kingdom of Seoghar, and their eventual return - that Jilixia is running scared of the one who fought her to a standstill...