While on vacation I had been thinking about various things (primarily to keep myself from going insane as I was bored out of my mind half of the time).
One of the things I thought about, of all things, was of all the things they could have called Cipher in ACZ, why "Demon Lord of the Round Table"? What's the significance behind the title? Where did it come from? I mean, if they wanted to stick to the Arthurian theme of the game, why not "Mordred" (the illegitimate son of King Arthur and Morgana Le Fay in the legend, who betrayed Arthur and mortally wounded him, leading to his 'sleep' at Avalon)?
The answer came to me when I remembered the line itself: "That kind of pilot, they call a Demon Lord". If one reads between the lines, they realize something:
'Cipher isn't the first pilot to be called "Demon Lord"'.
With this in mind, I decided to look at the history of real military aviation to see if there were any pilots called "Demon". Well, it only took me all of five minutes to remember the nickname of one:
"La Diablo Rouge" ("The Red Devil" in French), just one of many nicknames of Rittmeister Manfred Von Richtoften, better known as "The Red Baron".
This has led me to assume that the title of "Demon Lord" originated in the Osean War (1910-1915), Strangereal's equivalent of World War One.
The project I have in mind would chronicle the events of the Osean War and the subsequent Belkan Civil War, and the role of the mysterious mercenary pilot only known as "Zero" in ending the conflict. This will hopefully give some insight into what might have been, the story of the first "Demon Lord".