Lord of Corruption

Delvin Artanus was an innkeeper in a not-so-typical fantasy setting, he wasn’t an average person, but he was the kind of character that most stories would relegate to background status. That wasn’t to say he wasn’t nice to look at; some would say he had a kind of natural hotness to him reserved for when you are talking about someone in terms of appearance and social presence. He was no warrior or Paladin; Delvin was just someone that adventurers occasionally interacted with and told stories to every now and then.

Delvin’s mother, whose very sexy visage was plastered all over the commons of the inn this story starts in, had been a human woman that a devil impregnated only knew the devil that knocked her up by a moniker. Of course, everyone knew that devils and demons had many monikers, some known while others weren’t; some were even known by similar aliases or even the same moniker as another demon or devil; Delvin was likely intended to be part of a sort of plan or contingency that never came to pass or was part of a long game. The point is that his mother was someone who never knew who his father really was. Still, she was highly devoted to him, to a practically fanatic level at times, likely the result of some sort of fiendish ability or magic, or at least its lingering effects.

Delvin’s mother had been killed in a raid on the nearby town when he was 17, just a month shy of his 18th birthday, so he inherited the inn and everything associated with it, good and bad. Demon-kin, like Delvin, were usually not all that trusted; it was more to do with their origins than who they were as individuals. Adventurers were usually more accepting of his kind, mostly because they really didn’t care one way or another. Delvin had become quite the lore keeper in his time as the owner and proprietor of the inn, not that anyone really cared, except for maybe a few small children every now and then, but those instances were few and far between.

The Adventurer’s Guild was Delvin’s closest neighbor, or at least one of their branches. It meant he had better security when monsters got a bit more aggressive. The head of the branch happened to be mostly retired; she was a mage who specialized in ice magic and had a moniker to match. In fact, most of the guild building, including the adventurers, was staffed by women. In their nation, Ircoet was mostly patriarchal, but females had a few freedoms most wouldn’t expect, even more so as Adventurers. Being just twenty minutes from guild premises, and the inn being the older structure, meant the guild didn’t need to put in dining facilities or a kitchen.

Irocet is ruled by king Alfarn, and regulations with his queen, Ludmila, from the capital city of Epsin. This nation's world is known by its inhabitants as Ibdilinuso; it is a world where things are a bit more openly erotic, especially in the kingdom of Irocet and its neighbors. The nation lies on the continent of Nuibasel, one of the larger, and more tropical continents in a set of 9 continents in total. It’s not uncommon to see social and economic elites walking about in nothing but lingerie in cities; latex was just discovered, and produced, for the first time a little over a decade before the story proper takes place. There is even a minimum legal age of consent, which is partially based on a character's race. Even so, there are still noticeable restrictions, such as potentially deadly kinks being illegal and public sex being restricted to specially designated parts of communities; while isn’t outlawed entirely, there are certain restrictions to help keep things as healthy as possible.

The point is that the story told here is primarily made possible because of how the world is structured, it might go similarly in other Fantasy settings, but it would take a lot more work to get a similar result. Devils and demons partly formed the structure of this world, their influence even affecting the design of the gods, until the gods caused the devils and demons to be more restricted in all but the Hells those fiends called home.

Delvin himself encounters the individual that starts all this during one of the times when business appears to be dead, for the most part, often referred to as “dead time” by quite a few people. What he learns doesn’t surprise him as much as he thought it could, and some of what he learns even falls in with some of his expectations. Even so, Delvin still gets one of the greatest surprises of his life.