Wystan Aylmere

Wystan Aylmere was a human Dascúa who lived during the 12th Century SBY. He was the son of Dascúa soldier Martha Stildolphe and Bloodletter healer Kegan Aylmere.
== Description ==
Wystan was described as a tall, intimidating man with a strong jaw. His black hair were most of the time held up in a half ponytail, and his brown eyes were hard and seemed to have no glint to them. He kept his beard short and tidy, and never let it grow for longer than three days. 
He wore expensive clothing that made him look like a high noble, and was never seen wearing any other colour than black. 
== Personality ==
Wystan was a greedy, power hungry man. Even though he was quite good at hiding it, he was selfish and wouldn't hestiate a second to sacrifice someone close to him for his own good. He was bold and ready to do anything to achieve his goals. When his mind was set on something, he could sacrifice everything to get it. 
== Abilities ==
Wystan was a Dascúa and a direct descendant of Edith Wingate, making him part of the most powerful line of Dascúa.
He was naturally able to feel and gather dark energy from the air, and, upon training, he able to create and destroy tenebrises, to read minds, to control the dead and influence the living, to resurrect himself if he ever came to die, to mould dark energy, and to shift her own soul between the Shadows and the living world.
His training at the Manor taught her to wield weapons and wear armour. 
== Relationships ==
=== Princess Ethelwynn ===
Wystan and Ethelwynn were childhood friends. When they were still children, they used to spend their afternoons messing around in the castle grounds, and when they grew up, their messing around became more intimate. But, as a Dascúa, Wystan was not allowed to marry into royalty. They loved each other so much they chose to leave their relation as a secret. When the princess married, their relation was stronger than ever. They remained together until Wystan disappeared in 1325 SBY. 
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Born in 1285 SBY in Blacern's capital Fyrport, Wystan Aylmere is the son of Dascúa Martha and Bloodletter Kegan Aylmere. His father was the King's personal healer, while his mother was part of the Royal Army of Enchanters.
Given the circumpstances of his birth, Wystan grew up close to the royal court and was often mistaken for one of the royal children by less experienced courtiers. He was especially close to the Princess Ethelwynn, King Aldred and Queen Delwyn's youngest daughter. By the age of five they both claimed to be each other's soulmate. Ethelwynn and Wystan cried for days when their mothers informed them they wouldn't be able to marry, as he was a Dascúa. Since he was only able to produce one heir, it wouldn't be fit for the royal family. When Ethelwynn was betrothed to Piers Coer in 1303, they decided to act like they didn't care about each other anymore and to see each other in secret. In 1315, Ethelwynn fell pregnant, and knew that Piers was not the father. She only told Wystan about her pregnancy, and Wystan forced her to give birth and abandon her child to a brothel. She did, and Wystan never head of the child anymore. 
=== The Order ===
After Ethelwynn gave birth, Wystan could not see her the same anymore. Even though she abandonned her first child out of love for him, he just couldn't look at her anymore. He could not bear the thought of her being the one who birthed his only heir, and thus condemned his own spawn to certain death. So, he rode for Esmoria and joined the Order of the Supreme Beings. 
There, he spent ten years and found himself hungry for more power. He wanted to have everything and everyone all at once. He was the most powerful Dascúa in the whole Order, and loved to remind everyone who had the misfortune to forget. He wasn't particularly liked by the other Enchanters, but he surely was feared by the young ones because of his violent nature and despised by the older ones because of his refusal to fight in the war. 
=== Death ===
In 1324 SBY, Wystan grew a great interest in Faubert Palastrel and his research on the Breach. Since none of the writings about it had any information on the location of the Breach, Wystan recklessly chose to find it and take control of it. He thought that, since he was of Edith Wingate's line, he had the power to succeed where Palastrel had failed. He became obessed with it and couldn't think about anything else. 
Safe in the fortified Manor, Wystan spent months cross-referencing everything he could find on the matter, only to, one night, sneaking out unnoticed, stealing a horse and leaving to the Fórboden Fiergen. When he arrived on the foot of the mountains a week later, he abandonned the horse and continued by foot for another three days. When he finally got to the Breach, he desperately tried to control it and everything that was in the Shadows, only to get sucked into it. His body suffered intense force, compressing and crushing all his organs, bones and muscles, and literally squeezing his soul out of his body, trapping him inside the Breach, right between the living plane and the Shadows. 
While his body was reduced to nothingness and basically disappeared from the plane of existance, his soul remained there, and he was conscious the whole time, feeling all the pain while being unable to even ignore it. 
Unbeknownst to him, his mistake actually helped the Enchanters to repel the tenebrises and gyregiest, as blocking the Breach stopped the evercoming flow of tenebrises from coming into the living plane, and the gyregiest warlocks lost some of their powers. Even though he didn't save his fellow Dascúa from being massacred ten years later, he helped the other Enchanters to win the war. 
=== Stuck in the Breach ===
For more than four hundred years, Wystan was trapped in the Breach, fully aware of the time, but unable to sleep, talk, or do anything but to think and sometimes, if he strained hard enough, to see through the veil of the Breach to glance into either the Shadows or the living plane. As the centuries passed, he grew resentful and hateful, he was angry at everyone and everything for what was happening to him, even though he was blaming everyone for something only he was responsible of, and the little humanity he had left completely disappeared. After a hundred years, he began plotting his escape from the Breach and his revenge against a world that did not wrong him. 
After another hundred years, he started to try to fully shift into the Shadows, so he could gain a tenebris' body and open the Breach again, but in vain. His soul wasn't strong enough to force itself into the Shadows. Something was keeping him in the Breach, and it was too powerful for him to fight. 
=== The Second War of the Undying Shadows ===