Out of this World

There are a lot of rumors running around Obsculithe about Maddox being a demon from another world, and it doesn’t seem to be completely wrong. The story of the Lenoir family is that essentially, they were previously a noble family from the Demon Realm that was banished to Aephiria after Zacharias vanished from Angelheim. Fortunately for the family, they ended up in Obsculithe, which was the best possible region for them to live in, and so for a while, they had a mansion built for themselves after working hard on figuring out how to live in their new world. Surprisingly enough, they enjoyed living in Obsculithe much more than in the Demon Realm.

For a while, the Lenoir Mansion had a lot of power over many of the people in Obsculithe and many of its decisions were greatly supported by them until eventually, each member of the family would pass away mysteriously. And, the only family member that was left was a pretty young demon with the name of Maddox.

Brief glance at his childhood

Unfortunately for Maddox, he did not remember his childhood at the Demon Realm very well, almost as if his memories were wiped out and he only really remembered his time in Aephiria. What he did know was that his family wanted him to become the successor of the Lenoir Mansion and they wanted him to be the best leader ever. And, fully knowing how fortunate he was to be in such a powerful family, Maddox worked his hardest to be worthy of being called its successor.

Growing up, he was very harsh on himself whenever he made a mistake and no one really told him not to do that. While Maddox had managed to become worthy enough of owning the Lenoir Mansion, he wasn’t particularly too happy about his life even if he achieved something a lot of people would see as huge.

Overshadowed by Noctem

On top of that, Maddox didn’t get the power he “wanted” for long before he was pretty quickly overshadowed by a rival mansion that managed to take a lot of Obsculithe’s population as its workforce. Of course, he was very displeased with this, as he had spent years just to be deemed worthy of the Lenoir Mansion…only for the population to not bat an eye on him because a new lord was in town and he clearly seemed to know what he’s doing.

To see what was up with the whole new mansion, Maddox decided he wanted to pretend to side with said mansion to figure out what he can do to regain his power back. And so, with some of the riches his family had kept for him over the years, he tried to make a deal with the lord of the Noctem Mansion…and managed to do so very successfully. And then, for a long time, Maddox and Procyon partnered to screw over other nobles for their own gain, and it doesn’t seem that his business partner is very aware of the trap he fell into.

Taking some of Procyon's subordinates for himself

With Maddox generally spending more time at the Noctem Mansion even outside of business matters due to Procyon seeing him as an esteemed guest, he had the opportunity to chat with some of his subordinates. Some of them were hard to talk to (Helios & Heartbreaker), but others were oddly easy to talk to. There was one in particular that stood out to him: Alastair, Procyon’s masked right-hand who didn’t quite seem to be completely loyal to his lord.

And so, they had many, many deep conversations about life as a whole before they both eventually agreed that ruining Procyon’s plans would be entertaining for Alastair & beneficial for Maddox, which caused them to become partners in crime. At the same time, Maddox noticed that Heartbreaker didn’t particularly like working for Procyon and that she was only really in to gain enough power to take down her enemies.

Even if she really did not want to work for anyone else, Heartbreaker figured that working for Maddox was probably the lesser of two evils, but that she still wanted to stick with Procyon due to the power he held in general. And so, she agreed to work with Maddox as a spy as well, with the main reason that she simply hated Procyon that much.

• Maddox often pretends to drink whatever his business partners serve him. However, he really doesn't enjoy anything alcoholic and would rather drink sweet juices. His favorite happen to be cranberry juice.
• A lot of people assume he's short when looked at from afar, however he is about Procyon's height. Maddox never understands why people assume he's short.
• The Lenoir Mansion is known to be the biggest in Obsculithe, even bigger than Noctem Mansion. However, not a lot of people know about it, probably because Maddox isn't very interesting to them.
• He doesn't seem to be picky with his food either. In fact, he seems to eat whatever he can find, as long as it tastes good enough. Maddox seems to hate ginger with a passion, though.
• Maddox always says he's about 24, however he definitely has been around for a lot longer than that, and there are rumors that he may have originally come from another world.