Lorian/History

{{Article| {{ExtraHeader|Past Life}} Lorian was born into the flourishing era of Angelou as a single child, growing up sheltered and with wide access to nature. On a trip through the forest at the age of seven, he discovered his affinity with magic as sparks flickered from his fingertips, making him aware of the essences in so many living things. This was the day he was blessed by the Shade Tail, a Celestial he does not seem to remember meeting. However, instead of celebrating his new gift, Lorian's parents were quick to abandon the boy, wanting to know no association with a child cursed by Celestials, the terrifying grim reminders wandering their world.

Following his abandonment, Lorian was sent to Palinoia in order to become a sacrifice for they phylactery experiments that used the soul of mages to cure fatal illnesses of people enjoying greater wealth than himself. On this phylactery farm, he was put into foster care with the intention of raising him with love and blissful ignorance until his magic would grow powerful enough to serve as a catalyst for a phylactery. Along with some other children, he was assigned to the caretaker duo of Iglas and Charlotte, who acted as loving parents for him for the coming years.

Over the years, Lorian grew close to his new parents and siblings, lacking nothing and experiencing genuine happiness. The person he grew closest to, however, was Kyrill, a royal resident that visited frequently between her lessons to become a sacrosanct. This friendship would blossom into romance the older the two grew, until inseparable like two peas in a pot. At the age of thirteen, however, the day of being sacrificed would finally come when a member of the royal family fell ill to a mysterious sickness befalling infants. Dragged away by the people in charge, Lorian faced betrayal by Iglas when the latter did nothing to prevent the incoming harvest, watching the forceful removal wordlessly. Lorian was then locked away into a cage-like construction near the sacrificing altar in order to prevent him from using his magic to escape, though had previously brainstormed ways to overthrow the cruel traditions of Angelou with his beloved Kyrill, who had warned him of the kingdom's real intentions ahead of his fate. With Kyrill as the queen of Angelou and Lorian as a wielder of powerful magic, the two found confidence in their plans to reshape Angelou into a place in which mages would no longer be tortured.

However, as Iglas had caught on to what the two had planned, their escape was foiled when Lorian's foster father betrayed him once again by summoning the Mistwalker Cudeiya to descend onto Palinoia's premises with the intention of killing his foster son through the creature's deadly kiss. Iglas, who possessed an utter hatred for mages as a result of losing both his parents to a curse, could not bear the idea of having his two favorite children enable a world in where Celestials and their cursed victims had any future. Cudeiya's kiss on impact with the powerful mage, however, would be affected by Lorian's magic of stealing essences, resulting in turning the reality-altering ability on itself. The collision of two layers of altered reality created a shockwave that washed over the people involved in the scene and went rampant on the farm, killing all remaining inhabitants, including Lorian's foster mother Charlotte. If this death would not have been traumatic enough, the effects of Cudeiya's ability mutated Kyrill's body to repel all magic, causing her skin to burn from Lorian's touch. Following this chain of events, Cudeiya's reality altering presence merged Lacuna with the continent of Kalon, transporting Lorian several years into the future, without aging him a day.

Gaining Power
Arriving in Kalon, Lorian faced not only a culture shock, but knew no word of the foreign language spoken in this new land. With good luck and charisma, he managed to live on the streets of Oriflamme, a city that hosted many street rats such as him. While building his life there, he was later joined by Kyrill and her younger sister Eponine, and the three began building a life for themselves while him and Kyrill continued their love affair. Learning that this world made use of a different form of phylactery, Lorian would join so called "phylactery races" that rewarded this valuable artifact, ignoring Kyrill's pleas not to try and cure her condition, regardless of their inability to touch. These pleas fell on deaf ears as Lorian began to obsessively pursue the idea of returning the body of his beloved to normal, which only drove her away two years later, as she could no longer bear watching him destroy his own life over something she had not even wanted. Unaware of the hurt he had caused, Lorian found his home empty one day, not knowing where his only family had ran off to.

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Aislin's Tournament
Lorian joins the tournament as the third member of Feyrith's and Azariah's team. Due to arriving on late schedule, he drags the two through the door without preparation, causing them to tumble down a sand dune once entering their designated area - a desert. Lorian occasionally asks questions and drops implications of knowing more about the tournament than the average person, but is forced to rush into nearby ruins when being chased by an aggravated creature.