Canon is Matt Wagner's Grendel

[beholdthedevil]

You seek to pit this Tiamat against a legion of Marduks. To give countless 'heroes' a villain to conquer. And in doing so, perhaps illustrate the 'inevitable' triumph of Good over Evil.

Juvenile rubbish. I live for The Game. When the ashes settle, there will be neither Good nor Evil.

There will only be Grendel.

[A ripple of refined yet fiendish laughter.]

Off with you then, whelp. Give the Devil His due.

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[beholdthedevil]

[A bold suggestion. One a lesser man would see as speaking out of turn... but Grendel is not lesser men. He leans on his walking stick. Ruminating. Contemplating.]

The children of the Rising Sun are as shrewd as your people. If there is to be a new order they would profit from, at least some of them would give it due consideration.

[Or be crushed underfoot when the Devil comes for them.]

Very well. Tell their leaders I would see them rise like modern daimyo. Provided I will be their shogun.

[Beat. He knows full well how the tongs and the yakuza don't get along.]

Do give them more time to deliberate. Some of them would sooner disembowel themselves than work with their rivals.

[If he doesn't do it first.]