Guan Yu (關羽) was a Chinese general serving under the warlord Liu Bei in the 3rd century AD. He features as a major character in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. He has since been deified under the names Guāndì (關帝), Guān Gōng (關公), and Guānshèng Dìjūn (關聖帝君); the latter name is the name used in the Japanese versions of installments in the Megami Tensei franchise.
Originally Guan Yu of the Three Kingdoms period, he was deified and worshipped as a war god.
Guan Yu fought alongside his blood brothers Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, helping construct the state of Shu until he died as a result of a ploy by the two rival states, Wu and Wei. Several hundred years after his death, he appeared to Master Zhiyi at Yuquan Hill, from whom he learned to be a guardian and fend off evil spirits.
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According to Kazuma Kaneko Works IV, Guan Yu is known as Kantei Seikun in Devil Summoner rather than Kansei Teikun due to confusion with demons such as Hokuto Seikun.[1]
Kantei Seikun; Japanese reading of Chinese 關帝聖君 (Guāndì Shèngjūn). Kanji spelling of the above. Kansei Teikun; Japanese reading of Chinese 關聖帝君 (Guānshèng Dìjūn).