The Candy Merchant's worries were clearly well-founded, and the Hell Council's aggressive attitude was obviously no exaggeration on the little merchant's part. However, understanding Mimibes's concerns required mentioning two very important matters: one was the Hell Council, an important legendary organization that formed the broader backdrop; the other was the birth of her and Archduke Oakris, the Legendary Twins.
In the Multiverse of this Legendary Island Era, the Hell Council could be said to be one of the very few legendary organizations that still followed ancient traditions. Even though nearly every legendary organization had been forced by the restrictions of the River of Fate to adopt loose, club-like systems, the Hell Council, which had endured since the Netheril era, still had no intention of changing its "strict rules" in the slightest.
Yes, although not even a Bright Moon level Legendary Warlock remained, and although the once-formidable Hell Council was now governed by only several Morningstar Professionals, the nine Morningstar Archdevils who clung to their sole remaining treasures—the Devil Contract and the Hell plane—still unwaveringly enforced their rotten centralized dictatorship... The Hell Council's insistence on such a terrible system could not even be explained by common sense. They would rather endure the blazing scrutiny of the River of Fate than refrain from forcing every devil Warlock about to undergo advancement to Legendary to sign that bizarre contract unique to Hell. Then, they exploited their many "subordinates" to the utmost. Hell Guardians like Oakris, who had no choice but to fight on bloody battlefields year after year, were essentially ordinary Legendary professionals unfortunate enough to suffer under such oppression.
Perhaps by now, the Hell Council's only remaining source of confidence was that "Hell plane, once part of the Abyss and filled with secrets and wonders," along with the "Devil Contract," which seemed