Elenei Bael

"Everytime he looked at that child's eyes, he could feel Elenei's haunting purple eyes looking back at him, judging him for his failure and sins."

- Argilac Bael

Elenei Bael was the former heiress of the Bael Clan, sister of Venelana Gremory and Argilac Bael. She committed suicide shortly after delivering a stillborn son, a result of Bidleid Bashalun Beelzebub's abduction and rape.

Appearance
Elenei was a young, beautiful, tall and fair girl, barely in her 90s. She had long dark hair tumbled around her shoulders and haunting violet eyes. The portrait of her in Bael Castle depicted her wearing a golden circlet and a low-cut gown of deep-blue velvet with gold jaspers sown into the bodice.

Personality
Elenei is remembered by the devil nobility as an image of a tragic beauty, a princess kidnapped and raped by a twisted man, and a symbol of soiled innocence. According to Sona, she had heard of Elenei's virtues being sung by bards and singers alike, and her courtesy is said to be an example of young devil noble ladies everywhere.

Her family members, however, remember a version of her that is much different from the one envisioned by the people, which Venelana called "a mummer princess with [Elenei]'s name."

She was said to be a kind-hearted and compassionate person, with a very straightforward personality. She showed an unconditional kindness to everyone, even to her bastard half-sister Ellyn who she rescued from the slums and made her handmaiden. Like all Baels, she possessed a great deal of pride and honor, though she lacked the arrogance that her house has.

According to Argilac, Sairaorg is so much like her that it was painful to even look at him at times.

History
Elenei was born as the second child of Lord and Lady Bael and the younger sister of Venelana Bael. When her mother died delivering her younger brother Argilac, she took on a maternal role and showed him the affection that neither their father nor Venelana would give.

Despite this, she still managed to be a wild and completely rambunctious child growing up, a stark contrast to her proper older sister or her meek little brother, which earned her the nickname "Elenei Wildling" from Venelana. According to Argilac, once she somehow got her hands on a bottle of century-old firewhiskey and got wasted, and accidentally burnt down the house's armory in the process.

She was said to have wished to remain unmarried her entire life, but this wish of hers was quickly crushed when news of her older sister eloping to marry a bastard from the Gremory Clan arrived the morning after Venelana's 16th birthday. Because of this, Venelana Bael was disowned from the family and she was elevated from secondary heir to the true heiress of the Bael Clan, much to her dismay.

When the Devil Civil War ignited, she and the Bael Clan stood in the side of the Old Satan Faction in order to preserve their house's power and influence, swearing fealty to the Beelzebub Clan. This, however, was a choice that the family would soon deeply regret.

During the "Year of the False Spring", the possibly most peaceful period within the Devil Civil War, she encountered Bidleid Bashalun Beelzebub, the Lord of the Beelzebub Clan and a cardinal devil created by the original Beelzebub himself. Upon seeing her, he was "charmed by her wild beauty" and kidnapped her on his horse and brought her back to his palace, where he would imprison and rape her for three months straight before she was rescued by her sister Venelana and Lord Jordayne Sitri. However, the damage had already been caused and she was "broken by the beast of the flies" and was then carrying his bastard child.

Because of this event, the Bael Clan switched their side to the Anti-Satan Faction, or more specifically, to the Gremory Clan and its matriarch, who was the Bael Clan's intended leader. Elenei was taken to the Gremory Castle to live under her older sister's and the Gremory Clan's protection. Several months later, during the final battle between the forces of the Beelzebub Clan and the Anti-Satan Faction, Elenei finally went into labor and gave birth to a stillborn boy.

Heartbroken, she flung herself down from the Gremory Castle into the Boiling Sea beneath the cliff and her body was never found. The cliff was later dubbed the "Elenei Cliff" by the smallfolk because of this tragic event.

Relationships

 * Argilac Bael: As a young child, Argilac was primarily raised by Elenei and his wetnurse Wylla, and as a result, he came to see her as his only mother figure. He is constantly haunted by her abduction and rape and had been blaming himself for her death ever since. Because of his personality, he saw her in his eldest son, something that he felt ashamed about.
 * Ellyn Bael: She was a bastard daughter of the previous Lord Bael and a common whore that was rescued by Elenei from the slums near Bael Castle and took in to be her handmaiden. Venelana partially blamed her for Elenei's abduction.
 * Venelana Gremory: According to Venelana, while the two hadn't been the closest growing up due to their different personalities, she still deeply loves her younger sister. She blames her abduction, rape, and subsequent death on Argilac's head, similar to how she had seen him as the cause for their mother's death in childbirth. She herself stated that there have never been a day that she didn't wish that he was the one who died instead of Elenei, as "one is [Venelana]'s little sister, the other is a mother-killing imp."

Powers & Abilities
Demonic Power: Being a pureblood devil of the Bael Clan, it can be assumed that Elenei possessed a large amount of demonic power and all the standard powers and abilities of a devil, including the power to perform magic.
 * Power of Destruction ( 滅びの力, Horobi no Chikara ): The signature hereditary power of the Bael Clan, which released demonic energies that allowed her to disintegrate matter of both living and inanimate with ease.. As the house's heiress, it can be assumed that she held a great mastery over this ability before her death.

Expert Horseman: According to Venelana, Elenei was an expert horsewoman and spent the majority of her freetime riding her favorite horse across the Bael territory. Zekram once described her as a centaur, while Ellyn has stated that she was half a horse herself.

Quotes
"Your aunt, my sister Elenei, she was beautiful and willful and dead before her time."

- Argilac Bael

"The world never knew her like we did. They only saw her beauty and her grace, but not the iron underneath."

- Venelana Gremory

"Don't ever let me see her name coming out of your mouth again! You don't deserve saying her name! You don't deserve remembering her face! You don't deserve to be a part of her life! She cared for you. She raised you. And how do you repaid her? You failed her when she needed you the most and now she is dead. You've killed her. Just like how you've killed my mother."

- Venelana Gremory to Argilac Bael

Trivia

 * The Ba'alah apples were created by her mother as a gift for her 7th birthday.
 * Because of her beauty and noble bloodline, she was an object of infatuation for many noblemen.
 * On the anniversary of her death, numerous flying lanterns are released across the Bael territory.
 * The "Elenei Program", a charity program formed by the Bael Clan and the Gremory Clan that helps and supports victims of sexual assault and/or sexual abuse, was founded and named in her honor.