Executioner World

Blackridge International Execution Academy
Common Names: Blackridge, BIEA, "The Ridge"
Location: Rural Ohio, United States
Founded: 1879
Students: ~2,400
Staff: ~430
Typical Enrollment Age: 14–19
Motto: "Humanity Endures."

Blackridge International Execution Academy is widely considered the greatest Executioner educational institution in the world.
Its graduates include famous demon hunters, clan leaders, military Executioners, researchers, politicians, tournament champions, and several E-Grades.
Getting accepted is an achievement.
Graduating is considerably harder.
And despite its prestige, Blackridge is located approximately in the middle of fucking nowhere.

Students arriving from overseas frequently assume there has been a mistake.

There hasn't.
The isolation is intentional.

The best Executioner school in the world is located in a secluded part of Ohio surrounded by miles of fields and tree. This school is deemed the best in the world so of course students from all across the world arrive to study here.

🇦🇺 Australia

The Irwin Clan
Members: ~7,600
Type: Extremely Progressive
Crown Status: Dormant - 13 years
Crown: Apex

A Body-style Crown allowing the Bearer to temporarily develop biological characteristics from animals they've physically encountered.
Venom.
Echolocation.
Regeneration.
Camouflage.
Extreme strength.
Aquatic respiration.
And combinations are allowed.

Law: "The Bearer must have physically touched a living specimen."

The Walker Clan
Members: ~10,100
Type: Progressive
Crown Status: ACTIVE
Crown: Dreamtime

A terrifying E-Grade Environmental/Ranged Execution capable of partially overlaying physical reality with a supernatural dreamscape.
Distance becomes subjective.
Symbolism becomes physical.
Dream creatures appear.
Normal geography becomes increasingly meaningless.

Law: Unknown.
Even other E-Grades dislike fighting this one.

🇧🇷 Brazil

The Silva Clan
Members:~23,000
Type: Progressive
Crown Status: ACTIVE
Crown: Amazon

An E-Grade Environmental/Elemental Execution granting control over biological plant matter across enormous distances. Trees move. Roots erupt. Forests regenerate. Plants mutate into combat organisms. Inside dense vegetation, the Bearer is borderline impossible to fight.

Law: "Amazon cannot create life where none exists."
Give them one seed, though?
That's enough.

The Santos Clan
Members: ~14,300
Type: Progressive
Crown Status: ACTIVE
Crown: Carnaval

One of the strangest Crowns.
The Bearer converts collective human emotion into supernatural energy.
A stadium of 80,000 screaming people can turn them into an absolute monster. Joy works. Fear works. Anger works. Excitement works.

Law: "The emotion must originate naturally from someone other than the Bearer."

🇫🇷 France

House Beaumont

Members: ~10,700
Type: Traditional
Headquarters: Paris
Crown Status: ACTIVE

The Crown Bearer manifests an enormous extradimensional palace.
Inside Versailles, the Bearer determines the physical architecture. Doors disappear. Hallways become endless. Rooms rotate. Gravity changes direction. Enemies can spend hours running toward an exit that remains ten meters away.
The Bearer essentially fights by trapping people inside the world's most homicidal luxury hotel.

Law: "Versailles cannot directly injure a guest."

The Moreau Clan
Members: ~6,300
Type: Progressive
Crown Status: Dormant - 76 years
Crown: La Révolution

An extraordinarily unusual E-Grade Execution.
The greater the power disparity between the Bearer and their opponent, the stronger the Bearer becomes.
Against someone weaker?
Almost nothing.
Against an equal?
Useful.
Against something vastly stronger?
Enormous enhancement.
The Crown exists specifically to overthrow superior powers.

Law: "The Bearer cannot initiate violence against someone weaker than themselves."

🇮🇹 Italy
House Belladonna
Members: ~9,300
Type: Traditional
Crown Status: Dormant - 107 years
Crown: Last Supper

An incredibly dangerous Companion Execution.
The Bearer can summon twelve humanoid entities, each possessing a different specialized Execution.
Their identities remain consistent between Crown Bearers.
They're called the Apostles. One heals. One protects. One hunts. One predicts. One deceives. One destroys. And so forth.
The twelfth is called Judas.
Nobody likes summoning Judas.

Law: "The bearer must only use their apostsles for the good of humanity."

The Romano Clan
Members: ~15,600
Type: Progressive
Crown Status: ACTIVE
Crown: Imperium

The Bearer can establish supernatural territory.
Anything physically claimed becomes increasingly responsive to the Bearer's will.
Buildings reinforce themselves.
Roads shift.
Doors lock.
Environmental hazards attack intruders.

Law: "Territory must be physically walked before it can be claimed."

🇩🇪 Germany

The Eisenhardt Clan
Members: ~12,400
Type: Progressive
Crown Status: ACTIVE
Crown: Iron Kingdom

Allows complete manipulation of manufactured metals within an enormous radius, including reshaping machinery into gigantic constructs.
Its frightening characteristic is precision.
Millions of individual metallic objects can be controlled simultaneously.

Law: "The metal must have been deliberately shaped by human hands or machinery."

The Adler Clan
Members: ~8,800
Type: Progressive
Crown Status: ACTIVE
Crown: Überblick — Absolute Perspective

A perception-based E-Grade.
The Bearer can observe their surroundings from any perspective simultaneously.
Behind themselves.
Above buildings.
Inside rooms.
Through another person's line of sight.
Eventually across kilometers.
Ambushing them is virtually impossible.

Law: "The Bearer can only observe places currently occupied by a living creature."

🇰🇷 South Korea

The Seo Clan
Members: ~11,800
Type: Progressive
Crown Status: ACTIVE
Crown: Perfect Frame

The Crown Bearer can "edit" the movement of anything they can perceive into discrete frames.
Essentially: They see reality like animation. They can remove frames. Someone throws a punch. Delete the middle twelve frames. Suddenly their fist has moved from their shoulder to full extension.
The Crown Bearer moves? Delete transitional frames. To everyone else it resembles teleportation.

Law: "A beginning and ending state must both be physically possible."

The Han Clan
Members: ~17,000
Type: Traditional/Corporate
Crown Status: Dormant - 48 years
Crown: Five-Star General

Companion-style.
The Bearer summons supernatural soldiers whose numbers increase according to the number of people willingly accepting the Bearer's leadership.
Ten followers?
Ten soldiers.
Ten thousand?
Ten thousand soldiers.

Law: "Loyalty cannot be coerced through the Execution."

🇮🇳 India

The Varma Clan
Members: ~24,000
Type: Progressive
Crown Status: Dormant - 25 years
Crown: Brahmastra

Weapon-style.
The Bearer manifests a supernatural projectile whose destructive output scales according to the strength of its intended target.
Shoot a wall?
Small explosion.
Shoot a City-Grade demon?
Catastrophic.
Shoot a Hell-Grade?
Everyone should probably evacuate.

Law: "Brahmastra may only target something the Bearer genuinely perceives as a threat.

The Kapoor Clan
Members: ~20,000
Type: Traditional transitioning rapidly
Crown Status: ACTIVE
Crown: One Thousand Hands

The Bearer manifests up to one thousand enormous spectral arms.
Every hand can perform independent actions. Punch. Grab. Shield. Carry. Catch. Climb.
The Bearer's brain is supernaturally adapted to control all thousand simultaneously.
No confirmed Law has ever been discovered.

🇨🇳 China

The Zhao Clan
Members: ~25,000
Type: Traditional
Headquarters: Beijing
Crown Status: ACTIVE

One of the largest clans on Earth.
Their Crown is Mandate of Heaven.
An E-Grade Ranged/Companion hybrid centered around authority.
The Bearer establishes a territory known as the Imperial Court.
Within it, spoken commands acquire supernatural force.
Kneel - People are forced downward.
Silence - Sound disappears.
Leave - Targets are physically expelled.

Law: "The Bearer's authority weakens whenever a command is successfully defied."

The Long Clan
Members: ~19,000
Type: Progressive
Headquarters: Shanghai
Crown Status: Dormant — 121 years

Famous for Body and Elemental Executions.
Their Crown is simply:
Dragon
The Bearer becomes a gigantic supernatural Chinese dragon. Flight. Weather manipulation. Regeneration. Energy projection. Extreme physical power. No complicated metaphysics. Sometimes being a several-hundred-meter dragon is enough.

Known Law: None.

🇷🇺 Russia

House Volkov
Members: ~22,000
Type: Traditional
Headquarters: Moscow
Primary influence: Military, energy, government
Crown Status: ACTIVE

The Volkov family philosophy can roughly be summarized as:
"If our Crown Bearer isn't terrifying, something has gone wrong."

Their Crown is Perun, an E-Grade Elemental/Body Execution.
The Bearer becomes a living manifestation of atmospheric violence. Lightning. Thunder. Electromagnetic phenomena. Storm generation. Flight. Extreme physical enhancement.
The Crown Bearer becomes progressively less physically human as output increases.

Law: "Perun cannot exist beneath a roof."

The Morozov Clan
Members: ~16,000
Type: Progressive-ish
Headquarters: Saint Petersburg
Primary influence: Science, medicine, northern demon operations
Crown Status: Dormant — 72 years

Historic rivals of the Volkovs.
Their Crown is White Death, a Ranged Execution based around stillness.
Anything the Bearer successfully observes remaining completely motionless can be marked.
Once marked, the Bearer may instantly "kill its motion."
People collapse.
Bullets stop.
Vehicles halt.
Even physical processes can eventually be targeted.

Law: "The target must first become completely still."

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

House Blackthorne
Members: ~13,500
Type: Traditional
Headquarters: England
Primary influence: Aristocracy, government, military
Crown Status: Dormant — 49 years

Technically they're an aristocratic house rather than a clan.
Mention that distinction around them.
They'll appreciate it.
Blackthorne history stretches back nearly a millennium, with multiple knights and generals retrospectively identified as Executioners.

Their Crown: Excalibur
Not "the" Excalibur.
Probably.
Nobody is entirely sure.
It is an E-Grade Weapon Execution manifesting as a sword whose cutting power is determined by the Bearer's conviction that something should be severed. Armor becomes irrelevant. Distance becomes increasingly irrelevant. At maximum output, even abstract supernatural connections can theoretically be "cut."

Law: "The Bearer must sincerely believe the target deserves the blade."
Thus moral uncertainty literally weakens Excalibur.

The Ashdown Clan
Members: ~7,900
Type: Progressive
Headquarters: London
Primary influence: Intelligence, diplomacy, demon investigation
Crown Status: ACTIVE

They're spies.
Everyone knows they're spies.
They know everyone knows they're spies.
Nobody can prove anything.

Their Crown is Her Majesty's Secret, a frankly ridiculous Ranged Execution.
The Bearer can designate information as Secret.
Once designated, anyone except approved individuals becomes supernaturally incapable of communicating that information.
Speaking. Writing. Sign language. Recording it. Drawing it. Trying to creatively circumvent the restriction. Nothing works.

Law: The Bearer must personally know the information they suppress.

🇯🇵 Japan

The Kurokawa Clan
Members: ~24,000
Type: Extremely Traditional
Headquarters: Kyoto
Primary influence: Politics, Execution Academies, religious institutions
Crown Status: ACTIVE

When people imagine a stereotypical Executioner clan, they're probably imagining the Kurokawa.
Massive ancestral estate. Branch families. Arranged marriages. Internal hierarchy. Servants. Traditional clothing.
Elders who haven't experienced joy since 1947.
They're also enormously powerful.

Their Crown is Eightfold Heaven, an E-Grade Weapon-style Execution.
The Bearer possesses eight supernatural weapons:
Sword — Severance
Spear — Penetration
Bow — Pursuit
Shield — Rejection
Chain — Binding
Mirror — Reflection
Bell — Suppression
Crown — Dominion
Each possesses its own ability.
The Bearer can normally manifest only one.

Law: "Only one treasure may occupy Heaven."
But exceptionally skilled Bearers can switch between them in fractions of a second.

The Arakawa Clan
Members: ~9,600
Type: Progressive
Headquarters: Tokyo
Primary influence: Technology, media, Execution research
Crown Status: Dormant — 104 years

The Kurokawa absolutely hate these people.
Which makes the Arakawa like them considerably more.
They've largely abandoned traditional clan hierarchy. Same-sex relationships, marriages outside the clan, foreign spouses and refusing clan duties are essentially nonissues.

Their Crown is Mugen — Infinity Engine
An E-Grade Ranged Execution allowing the Bearer to repeat physical events.
Someone punches?
Repeat the punch.
A bullet travels across a room?
Repeat its trajectory.
An explosion occurs?
Repeat the explosion.

Law: "An event must first occur naturally before it can be repeated."
The Crown hasn't appeared in over a century.
The Kurokawa would strongly prefer it stay that way.

🇲🇽 Mexico

The de la Cruz Clan
Members: ~18,500
Type: Traditional
Headquarters: Mexico City
Primary influence: Politics, banking, demon-extermination contracts
Crown Status: ACTIVE

Old money.
Very old money.
The de la Cruz are elegant, intensely hierarchical and notorious for maintaining traditional expectations well into the modern era.

Their Crown is: Día de los Muertos
An E-Grade Companion Execution.
The Bearer can temporarily summon supernatural representations of deceased members of the clan.
And those ancestors retain their Executions. Not at full strength—but enough.
A de la Cruz Crown Bearer doesn't fight alone.
They arrive accompanied by several centuries of extremely irritated relatives.

Law: "The dead must willingly answer."
This makes being hated by your ancestors a legitimate combat disadvantage.

The Reyes Clan
Members: ~11,200
Type: Progressive
Headquarters: Guadalajara
Primary influence: Entertainment, professional Execution fighting
Crown Status: Dormant — 83 years

Flashy.
Celebrity-heavy.
Absolutely insufferable on social media.
The Reyes practically invented modern televised Execution tournaments.

Their Crown is El Sol.
The Bearer creates a miniature artificial sun.
That's basically the entire ability.

The Laws are unusually minimal:
Law: "The Sun must remain above the Bearer."
Previous manifestations have produced temperatures sufficient to glass several square kilometers.

🇨🇦 Canada

The Laurent Clan
Members: ~14,000
Type: Progressive
Headquarters: Montréal, Québec
Primary influence: Government, medicine, education
Crown Status: Dormant — 38 years

Cultured, wealthy, bilingual and famous for producing unusually sophisticated Executions.
Laurents emphasize education heavily. Even non-Executioner family members frequently become physicians, lawyers, scientists or diplomats.

Their Crown is Still Winter, an E-Grade Elemental Execution.
It doesn't simply create ice. It removes thermal energy.
The Crown Bearer can designate regions where molecular movement progressively approaches zero. Previous wielders have frozen lakes almost instantly and created kilometer-wide zones where engines, firearms and living organisms simply stop functioning.

Law: "Cold cannot be created. Heat must be taken."

The Nanook Clan
Members: ~6,700
Type: Progressive/Traditional mixture
Headquarters: Nunavut, with branches throughout Canada
Primary influence: Northern demon containment, wilderness operations
Crown Status: ACTIVE

An Indigenous-majority extended clan whose organizational structure predates modern Executioner clan law and doesn't map neatly onto southern ideas of clan hierarchy.

Their Crown, Great White, is a Companion/Body hybrid.
The Bearer summons an enormous supernatural white beast whose form changes depending on environmental conditions and threat.
Against something fast?
Predator.
Against something huge?
Something bigger.
Underwater?
Aquatic.
Against flying demons?
Wings.
The creature adapts.

Law: "Great White may only adapt in response to a genuine environmental or hostile pressure.

🇺🇸 United States

The Vanderbilt Clan

Members: ~21,000
Type: Progressive
Headquarters: New York City
Primary influence: Finance, Execution technology, academia
Crown Status: ACTIVE

One of America's wealthiest Executioner families, although they're considerably younger than many European or Asian clans. They emerged prominently during the 19th century and embraced modern capitalism enthusiastically.
The Vanderbilts barely resemble a traditional clan anymore. They operate through family trusts, companies, scholarships, research institutions, and enormous family gatherings.

Their philosophy is essentially:
"Power should make money. Money should create more power."

Their Crown is King's Treasury, an E-Grade Companion/Ranged Execution.
The Crown Bearer possesses an extradimensional "Treasury" in which anything they legally own can be stored regardless of size.
Cars. Weapons. Buildings' contents. Aircraft.
The Crown Bearer can open golden portals anywhere within sight and deploy possessions through them.
The Crown's terrifying component is that ownership, rather than physical possession, determines eligibility.

Law: "Only that which legitimately belongs to the Crown Bearer may enter the Treasury."

The current bearer owns a lot.

The Boone Clan
Members: ~8,400
Type: Traditional-leaning
Headquarters: Kentucky
Primary influence: Military, demon hunting, rural Executioner communities
Crown Status: Dormant — 61 years

The Boones have significantly less money than the Vanderbilts and considerably more guns.
They're an old American frontier Executioner family descended from generations of demon hunters who expanded westward alongside settlers.
They're socially conservative and extremely family-oriented, although younger generations have forced substantial reforms.

Their Crown Execution is Manifest Destiny.
Despite the unfortunate historical name, it's terrifying.
The Bearer selects a destination and becomes progressively more powerful as long as they continue advancing tow

The ranking for Executioners goes: D-Grade, C-Grade, B-Grade, A-Grade, S-Grade, and finally E-Grade. D is the weakest and S is typically the strongest. E-Grade is typically only seen from Crown Executions and very rare extremely powerful abilities. An E-Grade Executioner is estimated to on average be able to fight a whole country's military that's how strong E-Grade is.
Demon power level goes: Low-Grade, Medium-Grade, High-Grade, City-Grade, Special-Grade, and Hell-Grade. Typically, City-Grade and higher is when demons start having special abilities and higher intelligence.
There's also multiple types of Executions. Weapon-styles, Companion-styles, Body-styles, Elemental-styles, and Ranged-Styles.
Every execution has some form of law to follow. E-Grade often doesn't have laws though. For example, a teleporter might need to see the location, a weapon creator might need to have used a weapon prior

Whilst it changes based on area, but Executioners typically wear a uniform that's distinct enough for regular civilians to identify them and ask for help. Those from powerful clans typically wear altered uniforms as well as those that are "E-Grade" also wear altered uniforms. The uniform is typically described as a more formal looking police uniform with various badges or crests on the clothes.

There's a special school for teen Executioners. Not only does the school help train the young fighters, but it also separates regular teens from the danger of an untrained possibly immoral Executioner. The teachers and staff are all Executioners, some more powerful than others. The school has math, history, language, etc.; but it also has sparring, Execution class, tournaments, competitions, and missions where they go out in small groups to take down low-level demons.

Most clans are very influential, rich, and very powerful even without the inherited ability active. Most clans range from 5,000 to 25,000 members globally. Inherited abilities are known as Crown Executions. There're mostly two types of clans; Progressive, and Traditional clans. Traditional clans typically are more like the generic stereotype clan; heavily involved in politics, very possessive over their clan and members, and also very not welcoming. Women are expected to be wives or maids even if they awaken a powerful ability, homosexuality is looked down on because it doesn't help the bloodline. Though in modern years these beliefs are more and more challenged not only by society but by the younger members rebelling. Whilst progressive clans are more uninvolved in politics and less harsh on their members over culture. Typically, clans are led by the wielder of the Crown Execution just by hierarchy of power.

For inheritance abilities it's a bit more complicated than just blood. Two powerful executioners can have a baby but that doesn't even mean the baby will ever get an awakening. However some abilities are just so powerful, so unique, and so outstanding that the ability forces it's way through bloodlines. And strangely enough only one person can wield the ability at once. Two kids from the same clan can't both inherited the inherited ability. One might get the full powerful ability and the other might get an ability that's in the same genre as the special one. Once the wielder of the inherited ability dies it's common for about two generations of the family to pass until another wielder is awakened.

Abilities form in a person as they hit puberty they awaken their ability. There are different types of awakenings; Inheritance, Personality, and Environment.
Inheritance abilities are Executions that have been passed down through bloodlines and through clans.
Personality Executions are abilities that when they awaken are formed by the wielder's personality. For example, a really angry, hot-tempered boy might awaken a destructive fire ability whilst a sad and gloomy girl would awaken some form of water or maybe an emotion-based ability, a boy who loves causing trouble and stealing might get an ability that unlocks any and every dooer he wants.
Environmental Executions are abilities that when awakened are formed around the wielder's environment where they live. For example, a kid who lives in alleys and slums might get an ability to hide in shadows and set up traps whilst some rich privileged kid might get a supernatural butler or something.

The setting takes place in a fictional version of our world where demons exist. To combat the demons humans evolved. Now some humans possess an innate ability known as an "Execution". The name originates from it originally being used to execute demons but as time as progressed an Executions grow more unique and are more commonly used in fights with other Executioners the name has begun to feel out-dated. Not every human possesses an ability, only some do and the ones who do are called Executioners.