Codex of Meriath

Biography of Lucian

White Shadow

• Name:

  • Lucian

• Age:

  • 531¹Anyone who asked him directly received a different answer. This number comes from your humble historian's extensive research. Somehow... many famous people of Meriath refuse to deal with the question of their age. Weird.

• Species:

  • Beast Folk: Snow Fox

• Element(s):

  • Darkness, Metal

• Level:

  • 7th Tier - Magi Supri²He reached this stage 213 years ago, in 4E124. When taking up the role of Headmaster of the Institution of Eight Elements, he said he reached his full potential. From now on, his focus is nurturing the talents of the Realm.

Lucian was born in a rural village³The village is no longer present. Its supposed name was Sunflower Field. The draw of nearby, new cities emptied out the populace in the long centuries to come. on the western side of Meriath. His birthplace is situated in TriPaw⁴It is a small-sized kingdom. Its population is about 9 million, with 85% beast folks and 15% humans., a kingdom ruled over by a triumvirate of beast folk species. The first half of his life was unremarkable, and very few documents are recorded of his childhood. Later on, historians like myself managed to trace back that Lucian attended a school for magic in the TriPaw capital⁵College of Magic Wisdom. A golden plaque was put up in his honor after reaching the 7th Tier. It has a scholarship program named after him to help mages with poor backgrounds attend school., from where he graduated with an average score and diploma. Yet it was something glorious as he was the first from his village to be able to cast spells. The second part of his life is much more documented, especially after joining the adventurer group named Clawmark⁶By old records, Clawmark was established way back in 3E219. It was made by a group of beast folk mages somewhere in the desert, belonging to House Ro. Their claim to fame came in 3E622 when they grew to more than 1,000 members and won 4 consecutive competitions between Adventure Groups in the middle region of Meriath.. He spent the next 100 years with them, rising through the ranks until having a seat on its council⁷Clawmark operates in groups spread out on the continent. They have multiple "Claws," all with their leaders, acting independently. Those leaders make up their Council. Their numbers are between 10-15. Currently, it is known that Clawmark has 11 council members. That means 11 Claws. The current leader of the Council and Clawmark is a man named Felra, a male snake-like beast folk.. After the death of the previous leader, Lucian was elected as the next head of the group. His campaigns in the following years became even more famous when his group was hired by House Marduk for an expedition into a newly discovered dungeon⁸This event was named Descent into Death by historians. The dungeon turned out to be an old, Undead Brood Lair. A place where unintelligent Undead brought living beings in the Dark Ages. They were then tortured, and their minds were broken by Intelligent variants and sent back to the world as sleeper agents. Many betrayals came from indoctrinated people, and many cities fell because of it. Those who broke under their captors' hands were turned into other Undeads. The remnants of a Brood Lair are still filled with dangerous, foul magic and mind-corrosive, soul-affecting air. Many died in that expedition, and only half of the collected 400 people came back out. The dungeon was destroyed, and the surrounding area was sealed by Lakhmu, leader of House Marduk.. After the incident, the cooperation between Clawmark and House Marduk strengthened, and it also started to include House Nerifit and House Amarin. The built connections made Clawmark into the top group in the Realm, crowned by the fact that Lucian stepped into the 7th Tier, Supri⁹4E124. It was witnessed by three envoys from three Houses: Marduk, Nerifit, and Amarin. They were guarding him, showing to the world that the Houses of Meriath protected him.. Ultimately, he stepped down as leader, abdicating his position and taking up the Headmaster role a decade later¹⁰4E137 in the Institute of Eight Elements. A position he still holds to this day.

Major feats: ¹¹These are only those notable achievements that your humble historian could verify.

3E806 - Supposed birthyear of Lucian. 

3E829 - Graduating from the College of Magic Wisdom.

3E830-912 - Multiple sightings of Lucian around the continent. ¹²The documents indicate that he was traveling and experiencing what the Realm had to offer. No documents surfaced of possible mates or offspring, but I could recognize a pattern. He visited his home village every two years, going by the TriPaw Border Patrol documents in their archives. This pattern stops after 3E912. Your humble historian's guess is that this year is when Lucian's parents passed away.

4E21 - Lucian joins the Clawmark adventurer group.

4E 32 - He is promoted to the second-in-command position of his group.

4E 52 - Becomes the leader of his Claw and also a member of the Clawmark Council.

4E74 - Lucian is elected to be the new leader of Clawmark.¹³Back then, going by the records, there were 14 Claws. The vote came down 9:5 in Lucian's favor.

4E92 - The event of 'Descent into Death' occurs. Three Claws entered, and only one came back.

4E124 - Steps into the Realm of Three Ri by reaching the 7th Tier.

4E137 - Becomes the Headmaster of the Institute of Eight Elements.

Corty

No more character chapters for a month, at least in the Codex! Need some variety after doing 3 of them~

This Codex excerpt was written by Authorya Cortyn, your humble historian.