Glastheim Incident
After Schmitz Von Walter was crowned king of Rune-Midgarts, his erratic behavior worsened and he soon grew displeased with the Prontera Palace. He ordered his people to erect a giant castle three times larger than his old one in Glastheim, right below Mt. Mjolnir. The Prontera Palace had housed royal families for more than five hundred years and, although it had been recently been rebuilt, the Court was forced to collect more taxes from the people to finance this immensely expensive project. The new Glastheim Palace was completed in five years and King Schmitz immediately moved there, living an isolated life of decadent pleasure that was financed by taxes paid by citizens and adventurers.
Clearly an insane tyrant in his twilight years, King Schmitz sacrificed normans to demons in hopes of attaining immortality. He was finally overthrown in A.W. 529 by his cousin, Grenholm Von Gaebolg, that led a coup d'état against him. Grenholm's rebel troops defeated the royal army and advanced unopposed to Glastheim Palace. Upon entering Glastheim Palace, Grenholm's soldiers encountered a demon army that King Schmitz had summoned from Hel and Muspelheim. Many of Grenholm's soldiers perished in the violent struggle, but they eventually triumphed over their enemies. They saw the extent of King Schimtz's lunacy when they finally captured him in a small tower in Glastheim Palace: his body was mutated and misshapen since he had experimented on it in his quest to attain the immortality enjoyed by demons.
The ward captain entered the captive king's room a few months later and found that Schmitz had vanished. There was a large scale investigation and it was discovered that the king used a mysterious demonic power to hide in his room's mirror. With Schmitz finally deposed, Grenholm claimed the crown, starting the Gaebolg Dynasty.
The mirror, though shattered, remained a portal to Hel and Muspelheim. From it came forth an endless flow of dark energy that twisted the landscape and those who lived in it. Slowly, the Prontera Chivalry and Geffen Tower abandoned their attempts to reclaim the city. Its inhabitants now dwell in the twilight between life and death, surrounded by demons. King Schmitz's ascension to immortality perhaps succeeded. It is said that he is the MVP known as Dark Lord.