Clevatess: Season 1, Episode 1 - The Lord of Dark Beasts (2025)

A young Alicia grows up hearing her father Margo's stories about the dangerous Dark Lands, and those stories ignite her wish to become an adventurer. When Margo is later killed in a monster attack, Alicia is left with a fierce desire to protect people and to follow the heroic path he once described.

Years later, Alicia is part of a company of thirteen heroes chosen by the king for a crusade against Clevatess, the Lord of Dark Beasts. The group carries legendary weapons and sets out confident that they can complete the mission and subjugate him. On the journey, monsters ambush them, and the party fights through the attack as they push onward toward Clevatess's lair.

When they finally reach him, Clevatess appears overwhelming and immediately turns the battle into a massacre. He kills the heroes one after another with effortless speed and brutality, wiping out nearly the entire force. Alicia is killed in the slaughter, and the attack on Clevatess's lands is answered with complete destruction.

After the battle, Clevatess storms the kingdom of Hiden in retaliation. He attacks the capital and slaughters the inhabitants he encounters, reducing the city to ruin in his rage. In the middle of that destruction, he comes across a dying woman holding a baby, and she pleads for the child's life as everything collapses around her. Clevatess, despite his hatred of humans, takes the baby instead of killing it.

He then decides to keep the child as an experiment, intending to see whether humanity is truly worth anything. He names the baby Luna. To care for the infant, he resurrects Alicia, one of the heroes he killed, and binds her to him as a servant. Alicia wakes in fury, horrified to find that she has been brought back to life only to obey the Dark Beast Lord who killed her.

Clevatess then changes his own appearance into that of a human boy so he can move among people in disguise. In this weakened human form, he intends to remain hidden until Luna grows into a king. He explains this plan to Alicia, making it clear that he is not merely traveling with the child out of mercy, but to test humanity through the child's upbringing.

As Alicia and the disguised Clevatess travel with Luna, Alicia learns that they have been captured by slave traders known as the Crows. Their group is taken to the Crows' hideout, and Alicia is brought before the boss, while Clevatess is separated and forced into labor in the kitchen. There he meets Nell, a slave girl, and Carme, the person in charge of the kitchen.

While Clevatess remains in his disguised, weakened state, Alicia and the baby are trapped among criminals, and the episode closes with their situation unresolved as the child's fate and their escape remain unknown.

Clevatess episode 1 ends with Alicia and the dark beast lord leaving the ruined kingdom behind while carrying the royal baby, Luna. Alicia is alive, but she is no longer free; she has been resurrected and bound to Clevatess's will, and Luna remains in their care.

Scene by scene, the ending unfolds this way: after Clevatess destroys the kingdom and wipes out the heroes, one of the few surviving threads of the story is the baby he has taken from the royal line. He revives Alicia with dark ichor so she can help him deal with the child, and she is forced into obedience by the curse placed on her. Alicia learns that the baby needs to be cared for, not simply protected, and the situation becomes less like a battlefield and more like a grim, uneasy journey. The episode then closes with the three of them setting out together, and the final note is that they have become an unwilling group bound together by violence, duty, and the baby's survival.

The fate of each main participant at the end is straightforward: Clevatess survives and leaves with Luna; Alicia survives, but as an enslaved undead servant; and Luna survives as the child they are now carrying forward into the world.

Yes. Episode 1 does have a post-credit scene, and it is a short follow-up that shows Clevatess, Alicia, and the baby still alive after the bandit ambush, now being transported in the back of a wagon that appears to be meant for prisoners or hostages.

The scene is described as a brief teaser rather than a major plot reveal: after the episode's main action ends with the group being knocked out by bandits, the post-credit moment confirms they were not killed and shifts the tone by revealing their situation has turned into captivity or forced transport.

Alicia is chosen as one of the heroes sent to fight Clevatess, but the battle goes badly and she ends up as the only surviving hero. Clevatess then revives her and forces her into servitude so she can help care for the baby he has taken in, turning her from enemy to unwilling servant.

After destroying the kingdom in retaliation, Clevatess finds a helpless baby and is asked to spare and raise the child. He agrees, taking the baby with him as an experiment to see whether humanity can be redeemed, despite his hatred of humans.

The heroes launch a coordinated assault, but Clevatess overwhelms them almost immediately. He kills the leader first and wipes out nearly all of the group, leaving Alicia as the only one still alive at the end of the clash.

Yes. Clevatess later takes on a human form, presenting himself as a young boy named Klen. He does this so he can stay closer to the baby and move through the human world more easily while his experiment continues.

By the end of the episode, Alicia is bound to Clevatess and forced into the role of caregiver, while the baby becomes the central reason the two are now tied together. Alicia is angry and humiliated by her position, but she is trapped into helping protect and feed the child.

No--this episode is not family friendly. It is a dark fantasy premiere with graphic violence, blood, and emotionally intense material, and multiple sources also describe sexualized or coercive nudity/undressing content that would be upsetting for children or sensitive viewers.

Potentially objectionable or upsetting elements include:

• Graphic gore and deaths in battle, including very brutal fantasy violence.
• Decapitation / dismemberment-type violence is specifically mentioned by a reviewer.
• Forced undressing / coerced nudity involving a female character, described as uncomfortable and potentially triggering.
• Threatening, degrading, or humiliating treatment of a character under supernatural compulsion.
• Bleak tone and emotional distress, with a generally dark, low-hope atmosphere.
• Possible sexual assault-adjacent implications are raised by viewers and reviewers, even where no explicit rape is shown in the episode itself.

If you want, I can also give you a stricter parent-guide style rating such as "safe for older teens only" versus "avoid for kids under 16."