Lionel Typhoeus

==Stats==
===Mark Tracker===
Marks: 5
Afflictions:
===Advances===
*Lancea Dragoon Barracks (+1 Defence)
*The Blade of Courage (+1 Umbran blade trait)
*Water Elemental Barracks (+1 Defence)
*The Golden Army (+1 Defence)
*Bastion of the Io (+1 Defence)
*Shrine to the spirits of populace (+1 Urban Druid)
==Significant Relationships==
Lionel has a tenuous relationship with the Mab the Queen of the Winter Fey, having used her gifts to aid Athesia.
Lionel has also discovered that his memory scroll has been a lie when hooked up to a mind machine to cure him of the mind plague. Lionel is the first Elf to be cured of the plague. Lionel has dedicated his time in discovering the past about himself and his blade which is an ancient weapon from Lexum.
Lionel is the leader of the allegiance between Athesia and the Io. As allies they have built a beacon and fortress for the Io.
==Background==
Lionel grew up with a relatively normal life within the Broken Lands, as normal as those magic cursed lands could get. His parents were a step above most fighters in his village as his father Lowell was the War chief and his mother Reona were both skilled combatants beyond their years. Lionel was trained since young by his parents in the arts of combat that his ancestors had always survived with. Lionel’s ancestors knew not where the fighting style originated from but they knew the name of the fighting style was the “Umbrus Lancea” and that it was tradition to pass on the art to each new generation. Like all those of his blood he became an expert at the fighting style very quickly. Due to his skill Lionel joined the hunting parties as a protector at the command of his father. His duty to the War chief and to his village would be to defend the hunters from threats such as the magical creatures that frequently roamed the Broken Lands.
As Lionel grew older he vastly improved both his technique and the tactics that hunting parties would employ while on their excursions. As many of the Typhoeus lineage Lionel developed his own specialty within the Umbra Lancea style. His fighting technique centered around attacking multiple foes at once goading them towards him and once they approached he would counter attack before they would know what happened. This would draw any attention away from the hunters he was with.
At the age of 35 he had become the acting leader of all the hunting parties in his village and neighboring villages as well. Due to his leadership and knowledge of the area hunting parties would very rarely suffer any wounds or casualties while out on an excursion for ever precious resources in the Broken Lands.
Several years after becoming the leader of the hunting parties Lionel received word from one of the villages he protects. It was from Elder Theren, the message had stated that all of the Elder’s children had been abducted by one of the outer villages. This was grave news to Lionel as not only was the future of an Elder lineage at stake but one of those that had been taken was a friend of his, Varis Liadon. Lionel immediately took his best trackers with him and sent numerous search parties to go to each village to find out what they knew. Through a couple months of searching the results provided no answers. Lionel was beginning to suspect something was amiss, when he confronted Elder Theren about his findings it only made matters worse. Theren assumed that the Elder’s of the other villages had gone mad with mindplague and were using malicious magics to prevent Lionel’s troops from finding his children. The Elder immediately ordered the War chief to prepare for a full scale war. The protests of both Lowell and Lionel fell onto deaf ears as the Elder would not be dissuaded.
Before all hell broke loose between the villages a miracle happened or so Lionel thought. Varis and his siblings returned home to their village. To Lionel’s surprise the Elder did not recognize his children at all, and within that moment Lionel knew that the Elder had been stricken with mindplague. Theren despite his children being right in front of him still told Lowell to prepare for war.
Shortly after the ‘reunion’ of Theren and his children, Lionel was approached by Varis. Much as it was a relief to see Varis again after many years both knew that situation was dire. After some discussion Varis came up with a plan to stop his father. It involved using the rite of leadership. This was a ceremony where the current Elder and a challenger would fight to the death, and the winner would claim the title of Elder. The plan was for Lionel to step in as Varis’s champion. Lionel knew that he was an even match for Theren with a blade so he was uncertain how the battle would pan out but Varis reassured him that he had learned some tricks on his travels that would be useful. When the rite commenced Lionel heard Varis start to play war music on his lyre. Upon hearing this music Lionel was filled with an admixture of magic, he had never felt such power before, he felt reborn in battle. Lionel did not know what Varis had done but he used it to his advantage. With each new note, each new beat, Lionel’s glaive cut through the air faster and stronger, until finally the glaive drew blood and Elder Theren fell to the floor. The Elder was hemorrhaging too much blood for even the best healer to save him. As much as Lionel wanted a better end to the conflict, he knew this was the only way. After the battle and a period of mourning Varis Liadon was proclaimed the new Elder.
Lionel with the help of Varis spearheaded a combined effort amongst the villages to better all the local guard and the fortifications of each village. Giving each of the local guards’ better structure and training so that if ever the need arose, they would be ready. As the fortifications were being built Varis told Lionel much of the other fortifications and defenses of many towns and settlements he had visited. Lionel was inspired Varis’s tales so Lionel built fortifications trying to incorporate some of the ideas Varis had told him about and mix it with the elven defenses they were accustomed with.
3 years after the death of Varis’s father, tragedy struck, Lionel’s father died from wounds he suffered on the field of battle fighting off arcane sorcerers that had been stricken with mindplague in the ancestral home of the elves. While Lowell was on his death bed, he left Lionel behind an old glaive and purple ceremonial battle armor. Lowell said that the armor had been passed on through the ages with the teaching of the Umbrus Lancea from generation to generation, moreover he told Lionel that the armor belonged to the elf that started the Umbrus Lancea fighting style. Upon closer inspection of the gear Lionel finds that a lot of the magic has been lost from the items. However despite this he now wears them with pride of his heritage and unlike his ancestors he has decided to embark on a personal quest to find out more about the origins of the Umbrus Lancea.
Lionel was given a ceremony after his father’s burial to inaugurate him as the new War chief:
The inauguration began, Lionel Typhoeus approached the village Elder Varis Liadon who was standing in the village centre among his people. Lionel knelt before the Elder showing his respect. The Elder took up the helm of the former War Chief Lowell and placed it on Lionel’s head and said: “Rise now and be ready to defend your people, War Chief Lionel Typhoeus." - Retelling of the event by Lorekeeper Cerana
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