Freezis Foundation

The Freesis Foundation, originally called the Freesis Firm, is a merchant guild founded by Keel Freesis and later reorganized as a massive business conglomerate by his son, Shaw. Its influence stretches across the majority of Evillious, maintaining a branch in nearly every major nation across the region.

Foundation
Following the Asmo-Beelzenian War, Keel Freesis expanded his growing business and created the firm, developing a chamber of commerce to control and dominate trade between different nations. Eventually expanding into the Kingdoms of Lucifenia, Marlon, Elphegort, and Divine Levianta, the company absorbed the assets of preexisting trade associations, constructing a trade network of information; easily controlling the market with its communication, the firm became the richest conglomerate at the turn of the 6th century EC. With their enormous assets, part of the firm's wealth secretly funded the ambitions of Queen Prim Marlon.

Reign of Evil
With the company financially secure, its leading members kept in contact through Keel's monthly banquets; the gatherings allowed the separate branches of the organization to exchange information, make transactions, or advance their own authority. At the start of the Green Hunting in EC 500, Keel was imprisoned by Princess Riliane and held captive. Reaching out to its Lucifenian branch, the firm liberated Keel and gave him residence at Koopa's mansion.

Shortly after, the company secretly funded the Lucifenian Resistance and collaborated with them for the Lucifenian government and Riliane's rule to be overthrown. Following the outbreak of the Lucifenian Revolution, the foundation's Rollam merchant commanded the city's middle class into a frenzy when the revolutionary army's battle at Rollam became dire. The Foundation provided needed weapons and turned the tide to the Resistance's favor. After Luo Lamu was captured in the ensuing week, Keel fled and allowed the revolution to take its course.

Reorganization
With the revolution's success, Keel attended the peace talks concerning Lucifenia before relocating to Marlon and changing the company's nerve center. Five years later, Keel retired after suffering from a major concussion, handing the organization over to his son, Shaw. With his his father's guidance, Shaw gradually garnered business acumen and the firm grew under his leadership. The company was later reorganized as the Freesis Foundation; after its creation, a business contract was agreed upon between the foundation and Elluka Clockworker, permitting her to freely use the foundation's power and resources.

Père Noël
As the incident in Toragay gradually sent the city into a panic, the Elphegort government entrusted the Freesis house with the investigation into the event in EC 609. Shortly after, traffic between Aceid and Toragay was halted and a team was sent in. By the time the foundation's investigation team arrived, Toragay had become a ghost town. At some point, early suspicions of Père Noël's involvement were confirmed at the scene.

In early EC 610, following a string of serial murders by Lemy the Ripper, the foundation sent a team to investigate an assassination in the streets. That following winter nearly a year later, the case of Lemy the Ripper ended with his body discovered dead. Later that month, one of its members was killed by the same assassin, VIII. the Sniper.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * In business, a foundation tends to be an organization run for philanthropic or legal economic reasons and kept afloat by the finances of a family or individual, versus a private firm or company that works for the purpose of economical profit.

Curiosities

 * While the exact purpose of the foundation is unknown, its appearances in the Evillious Chronicles indicate it functions more as an interpol or police organization rather than a simple business.
 * One of its members held the Venom Sword, which was given to the Freesis family by Elluka after she discovered the Demon of Lust had vacated the vessel; it is unknown if he is a Freesis.