Corvus (Dragon Quest IX)

"It is time... The end of all things begins!"

- Corvus

Corvus is the main antagonist of the Nintendo DS videogame ''Dragon Quest IX. ''He is the forgotten Celestrian that resided in the Gittingham Palace dungeons for 300 years ever since he was captured by the Gittish empire. Given his situation; he managed to cast the hatred and wrath he had accumulated towards mortals, Celestrians, his lover whom he thought had betrayed him, and even the Almighty himself as powerful lightning spell that derailed the Starlight Express and caused major damage to the Observatory, the Celestrians' place. He also was the one who brought the empire back to life, many of its members as beasts or living corpses.

History
At the time the Gittish Empire reigned over the world, Corvus became injured due to enemy fire. Serena, a woman from Wyrmwood's Creek, hid him in a cave to prevent the Celestrian from being captured and taken to King Godwyn, who desired the magical Yggdrasil fruit, the Fyggs, to obtain eternal life. Serena and Corvus began developing a special relationship and eventually fell in love. Corvus did not want to leave Serena but she knew he had to, for her lover's own good, so she and her father devised a plan: To put him to sleep and take him somewhere safe, her father, however, had other plans: He informed the Empire troops in exchange of protection for him and his daughter. Nonetheless the Empire's soldiers did not kept their word and took them all for prisoners. Since Corvus was asleep, he misunderstood the situation, thinking Serena had betrayed him. This was the seed that gave birth to his hatred towards everyone. After 300 years, during the events of the game, he resurrected the Gittish Empire to lay destruction over the mortals' world, and casted a massive energy bolt towards the Realm of the Almighty.

After being released by the hero/heroine, Corvus ascends to the Realm of the Almighty and turns it into the dreaded "Realm of the Mighty", the final dungeon the player must conquer in order to stop the destruction he plans to unleash.

Trivia

 * "Corvus" is the name of a crow-shaped constellation.
 * At the start of the game, the player cannot name the hero Corvus.
 * Corvus could be loosely based on The Devil (Lucifer or Satan), God's archenemy from the Holy Bible. His name in Spanish, Luzbel, supports this.
 * According to Christianity, Lucifer was once God's most trusted Angel before he rebelled. This fits with Corvus realizing how tainted humans are and wished to rid the world of them.