Demon's Counsel

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The Demon Counsel is the ruling body of the Demons. They rule with an iron fist and dole out harsh punishment for infractions against Demon Law and heresy against the official history of Demon kind.
The accepted history of Demon kind is that Demons are the rightful rulers and owner of the world of Rit even though both Gods and Demons come from someplace beyond the existence of the reality of Rit. The world and universe in which Rit and the mortals exist are there solely for the use of Demons and that Gods came to this world to take it from them. The power of the world of Rit is the Demon's by universal law and that means that the mortals that live in this world are there for the Demon's use and pleasure.
The truth of the matter is, Gods and Demons both came here to the world of Rit in search of power to defeat the other in their eons long war, and that indeed, both Gods and Demons are the same people, divided against themselves in a vicious civil war, brother against brother, family against family, but the same despite looking different. This is a closely held secret, lost to time and known only to a very few of the Demons on the Demon Counsel.
The origin of the war and the ancestry of both Demons and Gods is so old it has become lost to time and no written record exists. This knowledge is held only in the minds of four Demons and by agreement, must never be reveled to any other Demon, God, or Mortal. Even a guess at this information results in the absolute destruction of anyone hearing or expressing the possibility that this be truth. The Gods can't know this as their single historian was destroyed, body, mind and soul thousands of turns ago during a Demon raid on the God's home turf, well before any apprentice could be chosen. All written records were also destroyed in the burning of the God's Great Library.
The true genealogy of Gods and Demons must never be allowed to become common knowledge.