Demon's Blazon

Demon's Crest, known as Demon's Blazon: Makaimura Monshō hen (デモンズブレイゾン 魔界村 紋章編, which translates to "Demon's Blazon: Demon World Village - Crest Arc") in Japan, is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Capcom in 1994 for the SNES video game console. The game is part of the Gargoyle's Quest sub-series of the Ghosts 'n Goblins franchise.

It is said that the world was once divided into two realms, one belonging to humans and one inhabited by demons. One day six magical crests, each containing power over one of the elements, fell into the Demon Realm (Makai in the Japanese version). The realm erupted into civil war as the demons fought over the crests. Thus, the Crest War raged until Firebrand, the Red Demon (Red Arremer in the Japanese Version), claimed the crests of Earth, Wind, Fire, Water and Time. Not satisfied that possessing that those Crests alone would end the war, he fought Somulo for the prize of the Crest of Heaven, Firebrand emerged victorious. But the cost of victory was high, as he was mortally wounded.

In that moment a cunning demon named Phalanx took advantage of Firebrand’s weakness and ambushed him, stealing the Crests he’d fought so hard to gain and claiming their power as his own. Phalanx used this power to summon the Crest of Infinity but, little did he know, the Crest of Fire had been damaged in the earlier battle, (a shard of it was still in Firebrand’s possession) causing it to shatter. Phalanx was unable to attain ultimate power but still managed to bring an end to the Crest War by setting the Demon Realm ablaze (whether this was intentional or by accident was never explained). Phalanx would go on to blame the catastrophe on Firebrand, rescue all of the victims and use his newfound popularity to crown himself their ruler.

Meanwhile Firebrand was imprisoned within the Coliseum, healing his wounds and biding his time until he could escape. After many years he saw his opportunity and broke free. But his path was blocked by his old foe, Somulo, who had used the remnants of the power he drew from the Crest of Heaven to revive himself. Barely surviving his rematch with the undead dragon, Firebrand emerges into a world now ruled by Phalanx. This is the beginning of his quest to reclaim the power of the Crests and take vengeance upon Phalanx once and for all.

And so the story begins.