I've been reading some human history books recently and, while the ideas and fiction behind them can't be refuted by human society, and they certainly hold up when subjected to current archaeological evidence, I must say that it makes me laugh to no end to hear and see what you think happened.

My main cause for writing these little entries shall be to correct common misconceptions of history such as the belief that evolution spawned you magnificent creatures, the idea that technology came about by human intellectual progress, and that the chicken came before the egg.

CH. 1: How humanity fell. 

Millennia ago, before my family ever heard of earth and its strange single-mooned existence, we lived in the sixth circle. You see, unlike the angels and archangels, we devils have only one god to draw our power from, so we rely mostly on our own strength and power. Because of this, and the eternal game of chess we play against our more blessed brethren, we build layers of defense around our god. Each layer of defense is known as a circle, and we use each circle as a kingdom, stronghold, and recruitment centre. Our last circle was based in the Si'taan realm, the current ruler and guardian is, of course, Si'taan. Devil kings are surprisingly rare, so far only nine have been borne in all seven circles combined. In order to form a new circle, three devil kings must bind the soul of another king to the realm. Because my cousin, Lucifer, had no kingdom we claimed this planet as the seventh circle. This planet is deep in angelic space, however, limiting our power and ability to access our gods strength, leaving us to fight a battle against the mighty angelic hosts as they retain access to multiple gods and the power that comes from them. 

The sixth circle is our most recent circle, this one aside, but even it is almost a trillion years older than your earth, and it has continued to flourish under the power of its kings soul. Because each king's soul is connected to the planet or realm he rules, the planet or realm is able to become nearly indestructible and even able survive their sun's death as they feed on the devil king's soul, using his soul as a pseudo-god to sustain themselves. In order to ensure our ability to fight, even when far from our god, we strengthen ourselves, relying on our own power and abilities instead of those of our god. This has made our race beautiful and powerful in everything we do, not just when we fight. The devil kings are said to be the strongest of our race, which is something I can say is definitely true, from personal experience. 

Now, you are probably saying, yes, lord demonsdred, this is interesting, but you should be explaining how the earth is 'supposedly' the seventh circle of hell. To you, I agree wholeheartedly. Shall we get to it then?

My family consists of the three demon kings that have, or rather, had, no circle to rule. Lucifer Demonsdred, Pande'miic Demonsdred, and myself, Shame Demonsdred. You may be wondering why we were named after such terrible people and things, Devils should want pleasant names to be perceived as good, right? Well you are assuming we gained these names after coming to your world, but we were born long before your world came into physical being. The youngest of us, Lucifer, was born before we claimed the fifth circle, at least a dozen billion years before your universe's 'big bang' event. With this in mind, perhaps you can understand how our names have become synonymous with such terrible, undesirable things. If not, I shall explain in a moment. 

Near a thousand years before mankind 'discovered' fire, Lucifer began to gain a sense of 'Longing'. I add the (') marks to help you understand that I myself have never felt the said sensation of longing, which means I can only describe a facsimile of the sensation my cousin felt. Regardless, this feeling of 'longing' eventually comes to every devil king, or so we assume, and it causes them to seek a realm to tie their soul to. When this feeling came over him, we, his cousins, could only help him fulfill his desire sooner or risk his despairing. So we helped him seek out a realm to become a part of. Our search took us increasingly far from devil controlled realms, until we discovered yours, deep in the heart of the angelically controlled realms. We easily found a planet in this realm suitable to our purposes, your very own earth, and began our work. By tying Lucifers soul to a species, we gave them sentience and began his connection to the realm they inhabited. 

You discovered fire soon after, along with very primitive weaponry and a burgeoning sense of curiosity, and so Lucifer's body became locked with the idea of fire; red skin, black nails, and beauty beyond description. This is abnormal as most devil kings are feminine in appearance and reflect a wonder of the natural world in some way. Lucifer is one of only two devil kings that reflect their peoples first inventions. Unfortunately, your discovering fire so quickly brought the angels attention to the planet. We hid, of-course, but a devil's influence, no matter how slight, is very difficult to disguise. Angels payed much closer attention to the planet after that and we were forced to go about our work far more surreptitiously than any devil had ever worked before. 

Our first necessity was shelter. Now that my brothers soul was tied to your people, we couldn't afford for them to go extinct. We lessened the lethality of many diseases as far as we dared, but it wasn't anywhere close to enough to save your people, so we placed an idea in a few dozen people's minds. Caves could keep fire safe from rain, and kept people dry and warm at night. This was considered subtle as we would normally, and had in all previous realms, put ideas into hundreds of minds at once; we couldn't do that here for fear an angel would notice that hundreds of thousands of you suddenly flocked from trees to caves. Still, this subtle technique was surprisingly effective, even leading some of you to create actual temporary structures. We discovered, at this point, that humanity was impressively versatile and creative, using minor hints or suggestions to reach a goal  completely unrelated. When we suggested caves as shelter and you people took less than an hundred years after to build actual houses, albeit fairly primitive ones.

Your people's 'mastery' of fire then led to cooked food and basic villages. This extremely quick development shocked us to say the least, and we reveled in the glory of Lucifer's people. Of-course, the angels had noticed the quick development, but they couldn't understand how it was happening. Humans, you see, have the shortest life-span of any devil-controlled species. Because of this, the people to whom we gave the idea had long-since died by the time the angels noticed; meaning they had no way to notice our involvement. Regardless, they posted lesser angels to watch the planet, restricting our ability to give ideas to you even further. That wasn't needed, however. Soon after you developed communities, you developed hunting as another way to gather food, which increased your protein intake and decrease your hunger, allowing more time to practice other pursuits. Some took to carving, making small gods and playthings for children, others took to weaving the grasses and vines common wherever they happened to live. 

Weaving created baskets to keep food clean and fresher, keeping sickness even further at bay, and the gods created by the carvers brought religion and began the development of cultures. Language was your only barrier against further advancement, so we took a risk. We waited until a village formed in a secluded valley, in the most easily defended place we could risk waiting for, and then we planted two ideas in the head of the tribe's chief. We made him curious about how he communicated things to his people, and we made him notice how the mountains were large piles of dirt. This led to the creation of walls and, after who knows how long it took, a basic language. This village lasted more than two centuries, what with how easily it could be defended, and that was plenty of time for the ideas held within to spread. 

Hundreds of languages formed, each one unique, and countless unique designs of the dirt wall began to come into play. The angels noticed this, but this time they had watched. They knew that something had interfered with human society, and they were determined to discover what. So they called in an archangel, the generals of the angel race, and the only ones among them equal to a devil king, to search the planet, scouring the land to try and find us. We managed to hide for another three millennia, not touching humanity once in that time, but the angels eventually found us. Lucifer now had a physical form that was unchangeable in the minds of humanity, or should have been unchangeable. Over time he'd gained various animal attributes, goats legs, rams horns, a snake's tongue, etc... 

These changes were reflected all over the globe as their gods began to be patterned after his basic design, changing from the original goddesses created by the carvers of old, into the gods that you might recognize. They found us around the time humanity was developing bronze and copper as a commonly used material. Two devil kings and a third in a weakened state of demi-godhood. Of-course, as could only be expected from such a group, they ran in terror. They had only one Archangel, and that being would have died very quickly when faced against two equals, no matter how many lesser angels she'd had with her. We knew we had little time, so we chose three peoples and manifested to them, one each, hoping beyond hope that they're natural inclination to devilry would get them to worship us. Lucifer chose egypt, and Pande' miic chose greece. Each took their job further than I chose to. they mated with humans, trying to create demonic bloodlines that would help keep their people going. Both made huge advancements, both peoples lasted longer than almost any other civilization has to date. 

I chose the peoples of the norselands; you know them as vikings. I didn't mate with them, instead I gave them access to my power, should they call upon it. Only one bloodline carried it though, and they quickly fled to england to escape the other clans rage. From then on, the chiefs called upon me and used omens to channel my power. They spread their seed and became a vast civilization, albeit fairly primitive, very quickly. I left them to their own devices after that, seeking the blood that carried my gifts. They had spread, their gifts tying themselves to their talents. Those that were charismatic became brilliant leaders, those that actually used my power directly were called witches, and those of the witches that focused on healing were called wiccans.

That is where my people originated, and why not everyone has what most humans refer to as "Magic". The angels returned around this time, their reinforcements far outnumbering us and spelling our almost certain doom. I say almost because, as one could imagine, we had been expecting this and had prepared. The angels hadn't realized exactly how fast our peoples had advanced, and so they didn't expect the number of demons and lesser devils we had with us. The battle would still have meant their victory, but at the cost of dozens of archangels, and maybe even the corruption of a god. they couldn't afford for our kind to have two gods as we would then have a being to draw upon in battle, allowing us to overpower them and forcing them to work very hard to match us again. 

Angels, if you had not already realized, were a very lazy race, and the Archangels were only slightly better. So they sent for more reinforcements and challenged us to a religious chess game. They bet the planet and an inability to interfere with our affairs, we bet the same. So we let them choose a people and start a religion. They chose the jewish people and started up Rome. They formed their religion at the same time, using the Jews to form Christianity; and of course they used themselves to help form a demihuman. We shouldn't have allowed that, it gave a mortal being far too much potential, but we gave them the right to do it, and they did. Their Christ helped to finish off egypt, though Lucifer's seed still ran in the bloodlines of the people, and the greeks were long gone by then. When Christ was crucified, he ascended. 

He was extremely strange, though, in that he didn't become an angel, or even an archangel; instead he became a God, a being of power with an essence of love so profound that even the archangels, whom had hoped for this very thing, were shocked. Their moment of surprise was all the time we needed, however, to take advantage of his ascension. Me and pande'miic distracted the the Archangels by causing massive natural disasters on the planet, causing the sun to emit a black light instead of what it was supposed to, changing the earth's shape via earthquakes, and made Insanity afflict almost half of the earth's population. This was violent enough to confuse and distract the Archangels for three days, a blip in the lifetimes of beings such as us, but still plenty of time to reach the new god and speak to him. Three days of talking before the angels noticed, but by then it was too late. The god, Christ as I shall refer to him from now on, had agreed to invest himself in humanity. 

This was a first, and certainly a uniquely brilliant move. Had Christ agreed to serve the Devils, we would have gained temporary strength, but the archangels would have eventually overwhelmed us and taken Christ as their own. By investing in humanity, the angels could not claim him, nor could they turn him to their side. He had chosen, and he already had a deep connection with them, deeper even than he did with the Devils or angels. Lucifer also gained a unique connection to him, a connection that almost allowed him to draw on Christ's power. The angels withdrew temporarily, bitterly reflecting this loss and planning to bring further reinforcements. Angels rarely keep a promise made to a devil, especially when it involves a planet and potential circle. But Mankind was now more unique than any other race ever before seen; connected to both a god and a Devil king. The final strike that perfected you in your uniqueness, however, was yet to come. 

But that's another story. 

For now, you know the true reason behind christianity, human scientific development, and even how you first gained intelligence. As for the chicken and the egg, that was a joke. I knew you would drive yourselves crazy trying to figure it out, so I made chickens to help start that conundrum. The answer is_________. 

Till the next chapter, then, my dear family in waiting. 

Shame Demonsdred.

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(A/N) Hey guys! this is a new little thing I'm trying out. What do you think? Does it sound like a history book? Should I have included more details? Does it sound professional enough? Do you have any advice for how I could make it better? I look forward to seeing you in the comments!

If there are any topics you'd like clarified, want more explanation on, or are interested in me covering next, go ahead and ask! I'll try to cover them all. :)

Your Poet, and Scribe,

~ShadeFinder<(0^0)>