Everything we know about Barbatos so far, lore wise.
WARNING: SPOILERS FOR ALL SEASONS
He lives in the Demon Lord's Castle with Diavolo and works as his loyal butler. (omswd: 2-13)
He's one of the demons who share a pact with Solomon. (omswd: 2-A)
According to Mammon, he has a secret torture room beneath the castle from where you can hear the screaming of his victims at night. The other brothers and Diavolo were in the room when he told this to MC but none of them batted an eye or tried to deny it. (omswd: 6-19)
Before, citizens of the Devildom were allowed to easily travel to the Human World whenever they wished through passages placed in certain locations in the kingdom, but now those passages are blocked and the only way demons can use them is by getting permission from the few other demons who are still allowed to use them freely first. Barbatos is one of said demons. (omswd: 11-4)
He has the ability to time travel thanks to his powers that allow him to create a portal to any place, time and reality he wants. (omswd: 15-17 and 53-11 )
In response to MC asking him if he knew everything that would happen with Belphegor getting out of the attic before it occurred Barbatos said that no, he didn't know, and even further said: "Imagine for a moment what it would be like to know everything that will happen from now until the end of time. Why nothing could possibly be more boring, wouldn't you agree?" (omswd: 15-17)
His main way to use his powers to "space travel" is through the many doors in his room in the Demon Lord's Castle. (omswd: 15-17)
He was never a child. (omswd chat: The Royals, “That's What I Mean”)
He met Solomon a long time ago when the sorcerer risked death to summon him (omswd: 53-16), desperately needing his powers to control time for reasons that are still unknown. (omswd: 49-A)
He gave Solomon his grimoire out of trust and respect for him. (omswd: 53-16)
It's a big rumor around the kingdom that he's powerful enough to rival even the Demon King himself. (omswd: 54-1)
He met Diavolo when the prince was still a child and Diavolo got Barbatos to work for him by luring him into the castle with the promise of very rare tea and then telling him that he wouldn't let him leave unless he agreed to be his butler, getting to the point of even threatening to not assume his position of king in the future if the older demon refused to. And telling this story to Thirteen, Barbatos confessed to having found the whole thing very cute. (omswd: 58-A and omnb: 15-A)
When it hit the news that he had sworn allegiance to Diavolo the whole kingdom was in shock and it was THE THING everyone was talking about. (omswd: 54-1 and omnb: 15-1)
He has been around for a long time and shows up in historical records under multiple different names. Rumor has it he was alive even before the Devildom took shape. (omnb: 15-1)
When asked about Diavolo in a conversation with MC, he told them that the prince is the very reason for his current existence. (omswd: 54-5)
Narrated by Solomon in the Nightbringer Prologue Movie we hear the story of a certain demon, it goes: “Once upon a time, there was a demon who could see both past and future. With a flurry of trumpets from his king, the demon appeared. Finding a lost human the demon whispered: 'I can take you to where you'll be happy.' Through their tears, the human spoke: 'Thank you, o kind one. If you save me from this dark path, I will pray to you every night. Please, tell me what they call you!'" But before any reply can be said Barbatos is shown making a shushing sound, which was largely perceived as him not wanting the viewers to know that he was the demon from the story. Later, the human was revealed to be Adam, a man who came to the Devildom looking for his lover and met a demon named Nightbringer, who he immediately went to begging for help. (omnb: 8-16)
He was the one to give Solomon the title of “the Witty Sorcerer” when he brought him to the Fountain of Knowledge for the first time while Solomon was on the verge of death. Barbatos attended the sorcerer's wounds there and declared him the new protector of the spring. (omnb: 11-10)
He's to blame for how much Solomon has changed, according to Thirteen. The reaper told MC that Solomon used to be very loveably innocent when he was younger, but that Barbatos let him experience whatever he wanted and now nothing scares or fazes him anymore. (omnb: 11-10)
The reason he had been so irritable towards Solomon in the past was because when visiting the sorcerers' home he found a list of demons he wanted to make pacts with and noticed his name was placed 8th. (omnb: 25-1)
Before meeting Diavolo he used to use his powers freely to travel through time and space whenever he wanted without a care for how his actions could affect others, and they ended up terribly affecting Diavolo and Solomon, and Barbatos sees his devout servitude to the prince as a way to atone for those past actions, but Diavolo doesn't know that. (omnb card: Tea With You)
Although he accepted to work for the prince for the sake of atonement, he ended up enjoying his time with him and found that he felt a sense of belonging working for him. (omnb card: Tea With You)
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