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| “ | World Nobles... Slaves... Human shops... Against the "purity" of these "upper classes", the villains of the world look positively humane in comparison. It's because the world's in the hands of scum like them that it's all screwed to hell... I mean, we're not the nicest of guys, but at least we're honest about it. | „ |
| ~ Eustass Kid, commenting on the Celestial Dragons. |
| “ | The Celestial Dragons are the Gods who created this world. To put it simply, the ones living here are the kings of the lower world. So its only natural for a God like him to get everything he wants. | „ |
| ~ Rob Lucci justifying the World Nobles actions. |
The World Nobles, also commonly known as the Celestial Dragons, are the overarching antagonists of the One Piece franchise. As the descendants of the founders of the World Government, they are the highest social class in the world and act as the living embodiment of the corruption and hypocrisy the Government poses.
Because of their untouchable status and wealth, they are effectively above any and all laws that governs the world, allowing them to commit egregious crimes in broad daylight without fear of retribution. Due to this, they are among the most feared and hated groups in the known world, ironically even more so than pirates. They are the natural sworn enemies of those who hold D. in their names.
Culture & Typical Personality[]
| “ | Those who protect trash... will sink even lower...!!! | „ |
| ~ Figarland Garling after executing Donquixote Mjosgard, who defended the Fish-men race. |
Almost all of the Celestial Dragons are shown to be highly egotistical and spoiled which is a result of their collective upbringing and the associated privileges that they enjoy due to the actions of their ancestors creating the World Government.
Due to their lineage, the Celestial Dragons feel no care for almost everyone and everything that isn’t themselves or anything related to them with them looking down on the lower class while threatening them with death should they cross them to the extent where only few people are brave enough to attack a member of the group while not caring about an Admiral being summoned.
It’s shown that Celestial Dragons who change for the better are brutally killed or left to die for supposed treason while being considered a disgrace by their peers which was the case for almost the entire Donquixote Family who are considered the black sheep of the nobles. Despite their claims of godhood, however, most Celestial Dragons lack the ability to fight on their own and mainly resort to getting an Admiral to fight for them or using weapons such as guns although the Five Elders, the leaders of the group are shown to not be as foolish or deluded as their brethren but are still just as cruel and malevolent with it being that the quintet can actually fight and are highly mysterious, hiding many secrets such as the events of the Void Century as well as the existence of an entity named Imu who is essentially the true ruler of the group and the world in general.
The World Nobles are the Nobility of the World Government, given this privledged status as they are the descendants of the founders of the World Government, the organization that rules the One Piece world (which displays increasingly blatant corruption as the series progresses; the Celestial Dragons being the most telling example). They are all obscenely rich aristocrats who live in the Holy Land Marie Geois, where the headquarters of the World Government and the Marine HQ are located, and who all ironically has the epithet "Saint" before their name.
The Celestial Dragons are allowed to do absolutely anything they want without punishment. They can even get away with murder and slavery, making it so that they are not fully abolished for their use. No one can insult them without going to jail for 20 years and no one can even oppose them without getting targeted by one of the Three Marine Admirals, three of the most powerful characters of the entire series.
They indulged in the life of polygamy, regularly stealing married people's wives and making them their pets. In one instance, they executed the husband in broad daylight as they rode on humans like horses. Anyone who is at viewing distance must bow their heads if not risk the guaranteed possibility of imprisonment or worse. They must also not be touched by 'obscene' hands and are never seen walking with their own legs, even if the distance is short, always having a human or two to be their mobility devices.
They are all extremely obnoxious, scornful, rotten to the core, and corrupt people able to shoot anyone who crosses their ways, talks back, or even looks at them without enough deference; they can take anyone who pleases them as their slaves and send back to their "peasant" lives when they have no further need of them; they can spend ludicrous amounts of money to satisfy their whims and they all wear bubbles around their heads to avoid breathing the same air as "lowly commoners".
Although commoners bow in the presence of a Celestial Dragon, this is only out of fear and not out of respect or admiration, for the commoners feel nothing but absolute hatred and contempt for the Celestial Dragons because of their arrogance and cruelty towards humanity. However, they dare not attack for fear of becoming targets of an Admiral. As for the Celestial Dragons, they take this fear for granted and think that they are worth more than everyone else because of the long-past deeds of their distant ancestors. As such they make pretty extreme examples of eugenism and the stereotype of "Old Money".
Whenever any Celestial Dragons renounced their statuses and reduced themselves back to ordinary "humans", the rest would brand the renegade family as traitors. They will never return the family of traitors back as one of them told Homing to never call them again, and called him a "filthy human". Celestial Dragons also has no intentions of allowing those to become one of them such as King Sterry or York.
Most Celestial Dragons are obsessed with slave trades or their entitlement to "Heavenly Tributes". They make their slaves suffer through many unspeakable forms of torture and abuse, relishing in their agony and anguish as they did so to the Pirate Empress Boa Hancock for four long years when she was age 12 to 16 (which was her reason of her hatred towards men and the Government). They could even feed them devil fruits as a sick form of entertainment, showing their ostentatious lifestyle further.
Their brand on their slaves believe they are considered to be "properties" and "lesser human". When their slaves had successfully escaped from their so-called "masters", the Celestial Dragon will not tolerate until their slaves are found and brought back to their "owners" when send out Marines to find them.
Although the general population does not go against the Celestial Dragons out of fear of the Admirals, there are a small handful of people who are more than willing to ignore the Admirals and attack anyway; Monkey D. Luffy mercilessly punched a Celestial Dragon with all his strength in a room full of witnesses for shooting and mocking one of his friends (is companion, Roronoa Zoro, almost attacked and nearly killed the same World Noble earlier in the same day after he tries to shoot him), Fisher Tiger invaded Mary Geoise alone and freed countless slaves, Monkey D. Dragon is the leader of the Revolutionary Army who wants to change the world by overthrowing all of the Celestial Dragons to end their inhumane tyranny, and Rocks D. Xebec put several World Nobles in danger and potentially killed several of them during the God Valley Incident. If those who struck the Celestial Dragons escaped, the Celestial Dragons will shown their fury towards either the Marines or the Government agents for failing to capture their offends which they considered to be unacceptable.
History[]
800 Years ago twenty kingdoms came together and formed the basis for what would become known as the World Government. While the exact details have not yet been revealed within the narative of One Piece, a few notable details have: namely that the creation of the World Government corresponded with the ending of the Void Century - a hundred year gap in all recorded time - and that the World Government came about due to the Alliance of Twenty Kingdoms managing to defeat an Ancient Kingdom. Dr. Vegapunk, who had secretly been researching the Void Century gave additional tidbits of information in his dying message: that the Ancient Kingdom was led by a man known as Joyboy, the world's first pirate, and that the Sea level rose in the after math of the conflict between the Ancient Kingdom and Alliance of Twenty. When all was said and done, the families of the Twenty original Monarchs migrated to the Holy Land Mariejoa - a place where legend tells that long before their current occupation, a kingdom of Gods once existed - causing the countries to elect new Royal Families. Only one of these families, the Nefertari Family, declined the join their allies in Mariejoa, with the soverign Nefertari D. Lili disappearing before she could return to Alabasta.
It is unknown if all current Celestial Dragons are the descendants of these 19 families as World Nobility can be granted to others of certain accomplishments, though such circumstances are rare.
200 years ago, the Celestial Dragon were attacked by the Iron Giant (a robot created 900 years).
40 years ago, at God's Valley, many of the Celestial Dragons and their slaves were attacked by the infamous and notorious pirate crew known as the Rocks Pirates led by Rocks D. Xebec and his subordinates which includes the likes of a young Charlotte Linlin, Kaido, Shiki and Edward Newgate. They were ultimately saved by the combined efforts of the future Pirate King Gol D Roger and Marine Hero Monkey D Garp.
The admirals and CP-0 are the direct subordinates of the Celestial Dragons. Although there are many members of the World Government who blindly follow them, even among them there are those who hate and despise them strongly; Sengoku explained that Garp hates and despises the Celestial Dragons, just like his son and grandson, and has no real loyalty or respect for them. The only reason Garp never agreed to be promoted to Admiral was because he didn't want to become the Celestial Dragons' direct subordinate. Another example of this is Fujitora. Although he is technically a direct subordinate of the Celestial Dragons due to him being an Admiral, he also hates them for their cruelty and is not truly loyal to them as he intend to call down a meteor disregarding the World Nobles' safety and willingly allowed the Revolutionary Army to flee along with countless freed slaves by destroying all of their slave collars, much to the Celestial Dragons' fury towards Issho.
The Celestial Dragons considers those who holds D. in their names as their nature enemies as they are terrified of the D. family. They will do whatever means to eliminate every people with the surname D. even it meant mass extermination.
One month ago before Big Mom and Kaido's defeats, the Celestial Dragons were attacked by Sabo and the 3 Revolutionary Army Commanders (who destroyed the World Nobles' symbol and their food storage as well cut off their supply line and severals of the Celestial Dragons' slaves were liberated). They summoned many of their forces including Admirals Ryokugyu and Fujitora. However, they've failed to capture any of the Revolutionary commanders (including Chief-in-Staff Sabo) as well Kuma was temporarily freed (until he came back to Mary Geoise for unknown reasons). Fujitora shown defiance towards the Celestial Dragons when he allows their slaves and the Revolutionary escaped due to his hatred towards the World Nobles for their heinous actions, much as their displease. According to Emporio Ivankov, the Celestial Dragons will be living in poverty and starve now that their symbol and food storage are destroyed as well their supply line has been cut off, making the World Government's military power to severely weakened. Their remnant food left are cake. However, their remnant food storage are destroyed due to Bartholomew Kuma's invasion. Kume later punched Jaygarcia Saturn. Luffy punched Saturn rapidly for what he did to his friends, as well sending the Elder flying towards the buildings. Luffy, Dorry and Brogy fights briefly against three of the Five Elders but made their escape. Luffy, Bonney, Franky and Sanji sending Marcus Mars flying far away. Luffy and Bonney defeated Saturn to sending him down to the ocean as well Bonney declared the Celestial Dragons are false gods when real gods and heroes exists. After this failure, Saturn was killed by his master, Imu for disobeying the direct order to dismantle Emet and letting Luffy got away as well replacing him with Figarland Garling.
Later on, the Celestial Dragons were cheering for Figarland Garling when executing Donquixote Mjosgard for protecting Shirahoshi and allowed Sabo, Leo and Sai escaped.
After the events on Egghead, the Celestial Dragons became angry and frustrated when they are beginning to live poverty and starve due to the previous events by the Revolutionary Army's hunger strategy.
Two of the Holy Knights ranking Celestial Dragons came to Elbaph to recruit Loki but he refused due to his hatred towards the Celestial Dragons as he considered them as trashes. He refused to stoop himself to the level of garbage. Gunko and Figarland Shamrock tries to make Loki submit by torturing him. However, it failed as Loki once again rejected and giving them a tongue out. Failing to recruit Loki, Shamrock and Gunko made their attempt to conquer Elbaph.
The Celestial Dragons ordered Fleet Admiral Sakazuki to eliminate Kuma since they cannot control him anymore. But when Kuma got away by using his powers, the Celestial Dragons shown their intolerance towards Akainu for failing them and insulted him of calling himself a Fleet Admiral for nothing, only for Sakazuki ignored their annoyances.
List of Known World Nobles[]
Leaders[]
- Imu (secret true ruler)
- Five Elders (figurehead rulers)
Figarland Family[]
- Figarland Garling
- Figarland Shamrock
- Shanks (renounced)
Donquixote Family[]
- Donquixote Doflamingo (formerly)
- Donquixote Rosinante (formerly) †
- Donquixote Homing (formerly) †
- Donquixote Matriarch (formerly) †
- Donquixote Mjosgard (executed) †
- Mjosgards Father
Rosward's Family[]
Shepherd Family[]
- Shepherd Ju Peter
- Shepherd Sommers
Rimoshifu Family[]
Others[]
- Saint Jalmack
- Saint Pluming
- Gunko
Slaves[]
- Bartholomew Kuma (slave-to-rent/freed by Revolutionary Army)
- Boa Hancock (Freed by Fisher Tiger)
- Boa Sandersonia (Freed by Fisher Tiger)
- Boa Marigold (Freed by Fisher Tiger)
- Fisher Tiger (Escaped, deceased)
- Devil Dias (Unknown)
- Few Sun Pirates crew members (Freed by Fisher Tiger)
- Jean Bart (Freed by Trafalgar D. Water Law)
- Koala (Freed by Fisher Tiger)
- Keimi (attempted, Saved by the Straw Hat Pirates)
- Aladine (Freed by Fisher Tiger)
- Gild Tesoro (Freed by Fisher Tiger: Non-Canon)
- Stella (Deceased)
- 1000 Slaves (Freed by Fisher Tiger)
- Countless Slaves (Freed by the Revolutionary Army and escaped with the help of Fujitora)
- Emporio Ivankov (escaped)
- Ginny (forced marriage, deceased)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The World Nobles greatly fear "the Will of D", who are their sworn enemies. Though the various things such as the Void Century, the One Piece and the kingdom that the Five Elders refuse to be known heavily imply that those with the initial "D." are descendants of the royal family of the kingdom that was destroyed by 20 Kingdoms that founded the Celestial Dragons. The "D." being tied to royalty was revealed to be partially true with the existence of Nefertari D. Lily as the Nefertari line was apart of the original 20 kingdoms, but refused to be part of the world nobles, however multiple" D.s" don't have blood ties to the Nefertari line making the the possibility of them being members of the "D." being tied to the destroyed kingdom is unknown.
- Those of Admiral rank in the Marines become direct subordinates of the Celestial Dragons. In the Wano Country Arc, it was revealed that Vice Admiral Monkey D. Garp voluntarily refused to become an Admiral due to him being a D. who personally dislike the Celestial Dragons, and Garp's popularity and accomplishments is the the only reason why the Celestial Dragons cannot remove him from his position.
- They are arguably the most hated characters in all of One Piece due to their immense arrogance, atrocities and cowardice as well as most of their appearances which are notoriously ugly and unattractive which is meant to show what terrible people they are. They are so bad that even former members of the group seem to loathe them including Doflamingo (although that’s primarily because he was petty that they refused him to return due to his father’s decision). They are also the reason why Doflamingo’s family is disgraced in the first place.
External Links[]
- Celestial Dragons on the One Piece Wiki
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