Dellat

Dellat is a demon marquis in Okullos's faction who competes at auction and joins the mass hunt for Tashmal, then still known as Hashmal. His rivalry with Anastasia fractures the demons' common front and costs him creatures, after which the Cruel Commander's Corps attacks his lightly defended dungeon. Dellat survives by spending nearly all his angel-hunt winnings, delaying the undead, and holding out until Okullos arrives with three dukes to reverse the battle. (Chapters 64–97)

Biography

Auctions and the angel hunt

Dellat first appears as a competitive bidder at the Demon World Auction, then comes to Korea with other demons seeking the enormous reward for killing Hashmal. He analyzes the exhausted angel as the important target and orders his creatures forward rather than waste time threatening the unknown dungeon. Anastasia suspects this decisiveness hides an attempt to monopolize points and attacks him; Dellat answers with rage, and their factional quarrel spreads across the battlefield. Although he later secures one Virtues Angel and a million points, the division helps Randalph's faction remove Hashmal and leaves Dellat with severe creature losses. (Chapters 64–89)

Defending his dungeon

The Cruel Commander's Corps exploits Dellat's weakened and absent force by invading his dungeon. Dellat immediately abandons Korea, warns Okullos, and spends nearly all the 1.5 million points gained from the angel hunt to reinforce the defense. Maxium's disciplined undead still trap and reduce his creatures, so Dellat recognizes the threat to his own life and changes from offense to delaying action. The choice succeeds: Okullos and three dukes arrive before Dellat is killed, and their intervention reverses the battle. (Chapters 94–97)

Appearance and personality

The cited chapters identify Dellat as male and a marquis but do not describe his face, body, clothing, horns, or equipment. His expressions move from scathing amusement and a tactical smile to a scowl, maddened eyes, trembling anger, and relief when Okullos arrives. He can calmly read a battlefield and change tactics when death approaches, yet suspicion and insults from a rival quickly override that discipline. (Chapters 81–97)

Abilities and powers

Demon marquis and field command

Dellat commands a sizable creature force, directs it with hand signals, fends off a mounted death knight's attack, and remains dangerous enough that his reinforced defense can match part of Maxium's skeleton army. No personal status window or named skill is given, so his exact statistics, magic specialty, weapon, range, and rank-relative limits remain unknown. His demonstrated strength depends heavily on purchased creatures and allied rescue. (Chapters 84–97)

Tactical judgment and limits

He correctly recognizes that Hashmal's recovery must be interrupted and later switches to defense when continued offense would get him killed. Those decisions show battlefield awareness, but hostility toward Anastasia fragments the anti-angel coalition, while earlier losses leave his dungeon exposed. Dellat cannot independently defeat the Cruel Commander's Corps; survival requires spending nearly all available points and holding out for Okullos. (Chapters 84–97)

Relationships

• Okullos: Dellat's grand duke and rescuer. Dellat calls for help when Maxium attacks, and Okullos's arrival prevents his likely death.
• Tashmal: The Dominions Angel, then known as Hashmal, whose reward motivates Dellat's Korean campaign and factional conflict.
• Maxium: Commander of the undead force that invades Dellat's dungeon and nearly exhausts his defense.
• Anastasia: A rival demon whose suspicion turns Dellat's argument into an internecine battle during the angel hunt.

Items

Dellat has no canonically named personal item in the supplied corpus. He bids on auction goods, but the cited passages do not establish that he wins or personally uses them.