"
Ares, the god of destruction, desired
Soul Edge to dethrone his father,
Zeus, so he ordered
Kunpaetku, the grand priest of the cult order
Fygul Cestemus, to seek it out. Astaroth, a golem, was created in hellish heat under the divine protection of Ares to head up the quest. Kunpaetku ordered his creation, Astaroth, to find the demonic blade. As he watched Astaroth depart from the shrine, the grand priest laughed to himself as he planned to keep the Soul Edge and become a god himself. Unknown to Kunpaetku, however, Ares had possessed Astaroth with his servants, the Keres, to ensure that Kunpaetku would not betray him. When Astaroth finally found
Soul Edge, he had lost half of himself during the battle with
Sophitia."
this according to the wiki, unless they're changing his backstory for the reboot it doesn't sound like it. Have we gotten any info on the Aval society?