Slash’s genealogy begins with the creator of Arc, Cassandra Fusallo. In the beginning of the creation, Vulcan, the ruler of an ancient universe empire, came to her. His multibillion-year-old universe had collapsed, together with the death of its creator. He, the remaining soul, had been looking for a new universe to rule over and call home.
Cassandra, needing a star for her Arc and Nyx universes, let him in and tasked him to help her develop the universe. Eventually, Cassandra and Vulcan married, eventually having 17 demigod children, 7 males and 10 females, in each of the two universes. Vulcan, having finished his job, became the center star to the eventual Arc planet.
The 17 demigods worked together with the three divinities (Guinevere, Ruby and Aeolus which are the divinity of water, earth and wind) made by Cassandra to finish developing Arc Planet.
At the end, the 17 demigods were to mingle with the local population and leave their genes in some of the population.
This type of genetic mark is typical in any universe creation; if the universe gets lost, multiverse citizens can trace the genetic lineage back to the creator and return it.
Eventually, those who inherited the genes from the original 17 demigods rose to power against the three divinities as they were seen as chosen by the creator to stand up to the divine tyranny, mostly ending up as guild and tribal leaders.
One man, the descendant of Zorellia Vulca, one of the seventeen demigods, named Magnya Ullisca, managed to wipe out the divinities, setting a new path for humanity on Arc.
Slash is descended from Alexander Kosmos, one of the seventeen demigods. Alexander was the 11th child of Cassandra and Vulcan. He was the pioneer of introducing human evolution from animals into the anthropomorphic ones today.
Notable descended lines from him include the monarchy of Murkatinnya and Sirius Konstellius Nebulae, Slash’s distant cousin who now rules over the Sirius Star system in the Hubble universe (separate from Arc-Nyx. The story will be explained in Arc-Nyx: Hubble, which is a lore continuation after the entire story of Arc-Nyx)
In the Howt Monarchy (the House of Fluffian Horde), rule of the nation was changed from Magnya Ullisca after his death, to the Alexander line (as Magnya did not have any children, and was the last child in the Zorellia line). The first monarch to rule Bark-Howt was initially a regent, who was then made into the first Kaiser, Emperor Zeisberg I in year 27. He is the first German ruler of the Howts, which occurred as they were undergoing a demographic shift from purebred Howts to Germanic Howts.
His lineage continued into the separation of the Howts from Bark-Howt under Emperor Heimlich in 127CE. In that year, he had to make a decision whether to split the monarchy into two with Howt lineage and Bark lineage, or stay in either one. Ultimately, he sided with the Howts, opposing Barkand’s government and citing his Howt ethnicity. Hence, he shifted the monarchy and became the Kaiser of Fluffian Horde. His son, Emperor Wolfgang I, born in 122CE, became one of the most renowned Kaisers to rule the early nation, implementing sweeping national reforms and founded the city which would become the capital of Howlton today, Howlington City. His success in early development of the Howt nation successfully prevented Barkand from fully taking over Fluffian Horde, despite major losses.
A few generations later, Empress Zacia I, was made the first female monarch of the Howt nation. At this point, the population of the people with the genetics from the original 17 demigods was dwindling quickly, as humanity had stopped facing existential threats. Hence, the male-only requirement to continue the line for the throne was unanimously removed by the Horde Government. Another legendary figure, Zacia constructed the federal government building in Howlington, essentially shifting the capital from Kyiv to Howlington.
The line continues, eventually being the only line remaining under Alexander. In 1866, Adrian Fischer was born. By this point, the Royal Family has had the Fischer family name for five centuries.
Adrian Fischer would be the oldest monarch to watch the collapse of the Howt Monarchy in 1899.
In Nyx, the alternate version of Arc, Adrian Fischer was a valkyrie still fighting against the divine. There, he had a daughter named Theresa Le in 1884, who would eventually become one of the first two human Divinities, the Divinity of Reason, becoming an immortal in the process. She would then eventually be exiled to Arc together with Kenzo Siegfried, a descendent of another of the 17 demigods.
Genetically, this makes Theresa Le, Slash’s alternate universe first cousin, 4 times removed.
Back to Arc, Freudlich Fischer VII, born in 1899, was appointed the Emperor title just before the end of the Monarchy, making him the youngest ever Kaiser, at just one month old. His family went into hiding from the revolutionaries of the new Flufflesian Republic. In 1927, he managed to fool 3 Flufflesian soldiers posing as a commoner buying a loaf of bread from a bakery. Since no one knew how he grew up to look like, he was able to get away much easier unlike his father. Adrian Fischer died after a bombing campaign from Murkatinnya in Roulase during the 3rd Arc War in 1936.
Freudlich, distrusting the Murks, rejected their protection offer during the subsequent occupation of Flufflesia, and was made to work hard labour under Bark occupation of the eastern half of Flufflesia.
In 1945, he had to go into hiding again with his now 17 year old son, Ilyas Fischer. Flufflesia was on the brink of civil war after Barkand’s illegal occupation. The new, fascist government of Flufflesia, made an ultimatum to the remaining monarch lineage to turn themselves in to be jailed, or be brutally manhunted and killed.
Now fearing for their lives, they quickly escaped to Howlington (now Howlton) City where pro-democratic revolutionaries took place. Eventually, the pro-democracy Howlton Union took control of the capital city, as well as establishing a “Western Howt state with western ideology”. Freudlich’s family settled into the capital city, making agreements with the Government of the now-established Howlton Federation to formally recognise the preservation of the monarch lineage. The Howt government reamended the constitution, removing the ban of the Howt Monarchy, but did not restore the title. However, they formally reestablished the House of Fluffian Horde with Ilyas and his son, Ilyas II, the next heir to the house. The three generations would, with the help of the Federal Government eventually reinstate the former Royal Palaces in the west, and in the east after 1969. Slash’s mother, Fillian Fischer, was born in 1971. She eventually became a researcher of Boston Labs, and a Valkyrie together with Kenzo and Theresa who came from Arc. In 1997, Fillian and her future husband, Alexis Barker managed to ward off Nyx invaders, earning them the title of global saviours. They had Slash in 1999 following their marriage.