Guy Maleel Eridanus

“I’m pretty impressive, if I do say so myself.” - Guy Maleel Eridanus

Noble Deeds
At the age of five was able to cast a Magus Level spell in order to save his group of adepts when the Librarium in Everard. The spell is one must know as Blade of the Nimbus or the Sword of Halos. Calling upon the spell he ravaged a lilin beast who had incapacitated the instructor. At the age of thirteen uncovered a plot by Biencien witches to corrupt Librarium students. At age fifteen assisted other Librarium adepts and full fledged mages in their support of the Border Legion and the sealing of a rift in the Forbidding. Slayed the rogue mage, Claver the Wily at the battle of Everards Gate at the age of sixteen. Several classified missions as a Crow of the Cabal.

Won several awards from the Librarium for his craft in wordsmithing spells, allowing more difficult spells to be learned by less talented adepts; though this was seen as troublesome by authorities such as the Raven Knights and the Cabal, he is still recognized for the achievements.

 

Appearance
Guy is a fit, beautiful young lion, who is five feet-six inches tall, with the physique of an athletic woman. He is incredibly feminine in appearance and mannerism, indistinguishable from a woman without effort. His eyes are an odd reddish pink and he has the curly white hair common to his family line, though he tries desperately to keep his ends straight. He is patterned a lot like his mother and sisters, he bares little resemblance to his father, aside sharing the same strange eye color. He is a tawny brown with a dirty orange for his fur color, with the accents of bright orange about his coat, which is typical of the Eridanus family. His nose is smaller than other lions and he is maneless, adding to his feminine appearance.

 

Guy is revered as one of the three beauties of the Eridanus family, despite his gender. He and his sisters are well known and well respected in the nobility. He has no end of suitors both male and female. It is said that the only down side to his beauty and loveliness, is the vanity that comes with it. Guy is incredibly concerned with his appearance and often times will not entertain others if he does not look his best. His salary is mostly spent on the finest clothes and cosmetics, as keeping his fur and hair clean and smelling great is a consistent goal of his. It is rumored that he maintains his physique through rigorous physical training, augmented with his arcane abilities.

 

Personality
Guy is smart, beautiful and of the high nobility. He is very proud of himself and his standing. Though it would be honest to call Guy; vain, pompous and narcissistic, he is not self centered. His inflated sense of self isn’t normally at the expense of belittling or demeaning others, with the exception of his rivals and enemies. With those he does not care for, he can be creatively venomous and petty. Though certainly spoiled, he is no snob. He values the opinions and ideas of others, placing no special importance to the social status of those around him. This is common of most mages, having spent years of their lives studying in the Librarium with all walks of life. Where one would expect a sense of social entitlement to be, Guy carries an aesthetic prejudice. He is a man obsessed with beautiful things and believes that beauty should be the ultimate pursuit in all things. He considers ugly people a shame, but can forgive particularly unattractive people, but not sloppy people. He is always quoted as saying, ‘You can do very little about your face, but your dress, physique and manner are a choice.’ He despise excessively overweight people and often puts them down. He too chides those who can afford to be clean and neat who make a choice to be slovenly. Though he does not hold the underprivileged to the same standard. In contrast, he is very complementary to those who carry themselves well. From those who are not thin, to those who have hard or homely faces, but with well maintained bodies, He respect the pursuit of beauty and isn’t shy with his regard for them.

 

Despite his best attempts at cordiality, the young lion has a tendency to be blunt and critical of others. As a respected noble, he feels it is his duty to be honest and direct with people, especially if he believes them to be behaving in a way that misrepresents their station. Most see his beautiful appearance and narcissism as a wall, feeling that he is unapproachable. This is far from the case as Guy is incredibly friendly and outgoing. He enjoys the attention of others and is a glutton for flattery and niceties. He is also an easy lover, going in and out of relationships on a whim. Because he is a crow for the Cabal and the heir to a noble title, he avoids close intimate relationships, preferring no string attached trysts and dalliances. He is however a romantic and wishes nothing more than to be swept off his feet by someone who would make him feel special. He can also be very persistent when he fancies someone. Like the rest of his siblings, he is enamored with his eldest sister, Aritrea’s childhood friend Adolyn. Guy is not shy about voicing his attraction, desires and intentions to Adolyn; much to the Counts polite amusement. He has a tendency to boldly announce his intentions in a given situation and then pursue them in a direct and dogged manner.

 

Childhood
Guy Maleel Eridanus was born in the warm air of Lioncourt’s magnificent spring bloomage on a the third day of winds in he month of Lunaera, in the city of Holhbein, to a grand show of pomp and circumstance. There was no wind. He was born to Duke Harlem Eridanus and his wife, Dame Porsha, two member of the high nobility and the royal guard in, 236 AC. The entire royal family, the Royal Knights and the Order of the Raven knights attended his naming day celebration. He was expected to do great things. Guy was born the third child of the Eridanus primary family line and it’s only son. Eridanus is a pride that follows the old lines of succession, as such they rewarded the baby the heir to the duchy over his two older sisters. Intelligent, mischievous and precocious, Guy was adored by his older sisters and pampered by his mother. He began to show signs of magical aptitude at the age of two. Later at the age of four his aptitude was confirmed when dream weavers from the Librarium tested the boy for what they called ‘source retention’. Using their skills to manipulate the boys dreams, they guided his unconscious mind to touch a memory within the source. When he awoke, the dream weavers allowed him to sit with a wordsmith to iron out an incantation to recall the subconscious memory, teaching Guy his first spell. Guy not only showed a high ‘source retention’, but also a larger than average level of quintessence, his ‘spirit well’ was said to be enormous. He casted the light spell with ease, nearly blinding the room as he had not gained any control over the flow. The Librarium representatives requested he be placed within their care for proper and guidance in the arcane arts. After a few weeks of reservation, his family was convinced to let him go.

 

After his fifth naming day he was accepted as an adept within the Magus Librarium’s campus in Everard. Though his father and mother served the King as Commander and Lieutenant Commander of the Royal Guard, they still found time to write their child and visited him monthly. Likewise he spent a great deal of his free time corresponding with his sisters via carrier crow, detailing every little detail about his courses and studies, including his habit of sneaking into the classes of higher level adepts and trying to pick up on their lessons.

 

Though he wasn’t the only noble adept in Everard, he had been the highest ranking of the nobility being trained on campus. This notoriety came with a lot of attention from students and teachers alike, Guy reveled in the attention. His popularity would soon grow after an accident involving a ‘demon’. While out to the market with his class, an elderian lilin of great power ambushed his wizardry teacher, nearly killing the old badger. While the demon was busy trying to drain the wizard of his quintessence, Guy decided to try to touch a dream he could barely remember. Smithing an incantation on the spot, he unleashed a devstating lightning attack that parted the skies and blackened the ground. His teacher was barely able to shield himself, weakened as he was and suffered grave injures as a result of Guy’s attack on the lilin. Though he was commended for his skill and quick thinking, he earned the notice of his betters, who considered the boys natural affinity to be dangerous.

 

Guy had always been rather effeminate as a young child, but as he grew within the halls of the Librarium, this trait became more pronounced. His closest friends and classmates often forgot his gender and his beauty earned him either the infatuation or animity of the girls in school. By the time he was thirteen, he was already the most popular adept on campus. Many of the other nobles often vied for his attention and favor. Likewise, many of the mages had worked to build friendly relationships with him, knowing who he chose to apprentice under would be a sign of prestige. His notoriety and popularity gained the attention of outliers within the Librarium, mages who were privately witches of the Biencien Order. When an instructor Claver Danems began seducing peers with promises of power and knowledge of ancient secret arts, subversive magic, Guy took notice. Using his popularity he was able to get other students to open up about some of the secret meetings and gatherings held by mages aligned with Claver. When his friend and classmate Malrio began to practice subversive arts, Guy made it his personal mission to convince the wizard’s council of the danger. He eventually found himself in the fight of his life with students and faculty loyal to Clavers. If not for one of the senior students, Avelina Mercurius, he would not have made it out alive. With her help and that of her sister, a junior member of the council, they were able to thwart Claver’s plot and have him and his small cabal arrested.

 

The experience shook Guy to his core, changing his outlook on his time within the Libarium. From that point on, though he had pursued the profession of a wordsmith and black mage, he decided to train to become a battlemage. He took up training in the long staff, taking lessons from anyone who would teach him. His sister, mother and the only battlemage within Everard, Bol Tucker, were his primary teachers. Focusing his dream weaving on combat, he became the school’s most talented battlemage in decades. These skills would serve him well just two years later.

 

Because of his prowess, at the age of fifteen, Guy was selected with other exceptional mages of his class; to assist members of the Border Legion with issues arising from an apparent rift in the forbidding. He lead his young team, himself, a benedict named Toly and a conjurer named Lyken. Together they support more established mages as feral elderian beast tried to escape the blockade set up by the legionnaries. Here he met a young Count Adolyn Valenrow for the first time.

 

Adult Life
By the age of Sixteen he was an experienced Borderman. His Academy friends, Cress, Aritrea and surprisingly even Jo had become Border Knights as well, each taking apprenticeship under a Knight within the Legion. Though most Knight’s tended to keep their apprentices close by, Adolyn in his friends were given an autonomy that even seasoned Knights would envy. With Jo as the de facto leader of the group, they had many adventures in the Borderlands and proved to be an invaluable asset to the Legion. This was no more apparent as when Prince Eriol’s daughter was kidnapped by Eternian Cultist.

 

Out late one spring night bird hunting, the eagle eyed Cress noticed a large creature flying from the lands toward the Moorlands to the North. When the princess’ bracelet fell to the ground from the creature, he alerted his fellows and they gave chase. Adolyn and his fellow Knight Apprentices braved the ruins of the Kingdom of Garman in the Moorlands to the heart of the former nation. There they found cultist who worshipped the Eternian Gods of old, these cultist wished to use the blood the princess, in a ritual that would break the seal on a Eternian creature known as the Baldimorg. With serious help from his friends, Adolyn defeated the cultist leader and slayed the Shade of the Baldimorg, preventing it’s true form from being unsealed. This earned him and his fellows many accolades and the permanent adoration of the young princess Megan.

 

The world at large took notices after that, Adolyn and his friends were named full fledge Knights by King Legault himself. Despite the honor for one so young, his knighthood was bittersweet. His friends and he would be separated. Jo was sought after by the Home Guard in Assyria and Nemea. Cress and Aritrea had been given an opportunity to train as a forward scouts, with serious considerations of being trained as Rangers, though Aritrea would have moved the heavens to follow him back to the Border Legion had he asked.

 

Adolyn, however did not stay in the Borderlands for long after his knighthood. In the fall on 249 AC as a favor to his father, he was sent along with other Bordermen to Forest Kingdom of Faeorie. The Faeorie were experiencing an unnatural drought and strange forest fires had become common.Their Rangers were taxed keeping the people safe from the Wilderings, forest hare’s whom were outcasted from Faeorie society. In the course of his adventure, Adolyn discovered the troubles were caused by a sect of Faeorie Witches who plotted to reanimate the bones of the great dragon Garvos and use his power to conquer the Kingdom. Eventually with the help of Faeorie Rangers, the surviving bordermen of his Legion and the support of his childhood friend and rival, Dame Jo; he was able to brave the Meandering Woods and defeat the feral beasts within and claim the sword Durendal. With it’s power Garvos was slain and the Faeorie, and perhaps all of Theria were saved.

 

Though Adolyn would complete many noble charges, as well as survive many dangerous adventures; he is most well known for his actions at the ‘Battle of Herald’s Keep’. What was to be an armistice in order to discuss peace, became a plot by the Saurian King to murder the Lioncourt Royal Family. Poisoned by ancient and black magics, the King was weakened and struck with a mortal blow by the Saurian King Mizer. Though King Legault was able to plunge his sword, ‘The Raven’s Wing’ deep in the heart of the Saurian King, it was not enough to stay the Saurian attack.

 

The Border Legion was called on to face the Saurian’s Wyvern Riders and their fierce and powerful Dragon Knights. Adolyn however was not at the Keep with his legion, but as a guest of Princess Megan de Lioncourt, along with his Academy fellows who previous helped save her life. It was during this battle that Adolyn again saved the lives of the Princess Megan and her brother Prince Vandell, stowing them away with the Raven Riders to return to Bast. With Jo, Aritrea and Cress by his side, he fought his way deep into the Keep to find their father, Prince Eriol de Lioncourt.

 

The prince and his Raven Knight’s were found on the Keep’s walls, trying to make their way to the more fortified eastern tower. Adolyn had known if the King were alive, the Royal Knight’s would have surely took him there. Lead by their Primus Corvinus; Sir Garret Jesstane the weapons master, the Raven Knight’s ferociously fought back the Saurian onslaught. Though few in number, the Raven Knight’s were warriors of incredibly ability, each wielding an Eldeidan. Their archers peppered the skies with explosive and magic arrows, keeping wyvern riders at bay. Their lancers fought back Saurian dragoons as they pressed the lines of the enemy. At every edge they were assaulted, the Raven Knight’s held the line, but the overwhelming might brought to bear against them seemed to be too great. Many of their number were lost in the battle.

 

Adolyn arrived on the battlefield with Durendal in hand, the blades power and legend were enough to give his enemies pause. With it in hand, he did not fear revealing his druid taught skills. Most would credit the feats to the Eldeidan he carried. Though only four, he and his fellows were enough to push back the assault of the Saurian soldiers. All seemed to turn until the a High Wyvern attacked. Massive and breathing fire, the feral beast began to lay waste to the defenders. Sir Garret and his Knight Commanders took on the beast, stabbing their weapons into it and disappearing into the night, leaving Adolyn to command the remaining forces and defending Prince Eriol until the Captain of the Royal Guard, Sir Harlem Eridanus and a few of his men arrived.

 

Though Adolyn acquitted himself in command and protection of the Prince, he was not nearly in time to save the life of King Legault. He and his men were slaughtered to the last, having held out in a hall beneath the east tower, their intended escape route destroyed and covered in debris. The Prince had seen his father's final moments, too weak from magic poison to defend against the onslaught any longer, he and his final Royal Guard, the wife of Sir Harlem Eridanus and mother of Aritrea were killed. Adolyn could only watch as sorrow and fury overtook those around him and the king’s killers were butchered to the last. His life, his kingdom, would never be the same.

 

With the Saurian attack beaten back, the Kingdom of Lioncourt mourned the death of her King. Eriol de Lioncourt was named King of the Pridelands in the wake of the disaster. The King’s first order was to dismiss the Royal Knight’s whom left his father's side during his darkest hour, especially The Captain of the Guard, Harlem Eridanus who was banished from ever stepping foot in Castle Ravenclaw. This dishonor was seen as both harsh and unnecessary, carrying with it not only significant damage to the Eridanus family as a whole, but leading to Adolyn’s friend Aritrea resigning her post. When Adolyn and the King requested her to reconsider, she spat in the King’s face. Though many wanted to see her hung for this insult, King Eriol forgave it and allowed her to leave without incident, with the offer to return to Knighthood if she so chose.

With Sir Garret Jesstane seriously injured and his Raven Knight’s devastated by the battle, Adolyn was offered apprenticeship under the great warrior and the role of Primus Corvinus of the Raven Knights. Dame Jo and Sir Cress were also offered places within the great order. Though Adolyn refused, wishing to return to the Border Legion, the King denied this and named him the future Primus anyway. From that day forth Sir Adolyn’s life would never be the same. No longer just a Knight or a Hero, he was now Champion of Lioncourt and the most recognized name of their order at only twenty one years of age.