Raihan Zoraskaya

"Good? Evil? Who cares. I'll settle for freedom. Freedom absolute."
-Raihan 
Leon Huxley, preferably called Raihan Zoraskaya in his male form, Rayne Zoraskaya in his female form, and in the Valkanaz language as Lio'an Kath, is one of the four main protagonists of Dawnbreaker. He is the direct primogenital descendant of an immensely powerful demon known as the Great Kath, and is himself the current demon lord of the House of Kath. 
His family is a poor one that lives in the Westminster district of London, the capital of The British Isles. However, he was mostly raised in the Free City of Moscow by his godmother Ekaterina Zoraskaya. He is a part of Class 1-D's Dawn Squad, alongside Aaron Bright, Khaliah Al-Palmyra, and Azanna Beldier. He is also an operative for the Moscow Institute of Magic, though his employment has been suspended indefinitely since he was removed by his godmother. 
== Appearance ==
Raihan is a 17 year old desire demon of the Kath type, with a humanoid appearance, four, sharp red-white horns, fangs and carnassial teeth, a tail, vibrant red cat eyes, elf ears, claws, and balharaan feet (much of which he keeps hidden when outside of combat due to several provisions in the Arcturian Agreement). Raihan is described as being inhumanly attractive, a result of being born under the moon's lust phase. 
He is 7.2 feet tall (220 cm), and has an incredibly well-sculpted, muscular body. Raihan has albinism, causing him to have white hair and pale skin, as opposed to the common pink hair and red skin common for Kath demons. He is known to take very good care of his appearance, ensuring his skin is blemish free. Additionally, he keeps his hair medium-length and brushed back, with a low ponytail strand in the back that reaches down to his hip. 
Raihan has the Lord's Sigil branded onto his back, marking him as a demon lord. It consists of the skull of a balharaan clamped down on his family crest (two crescent moons dominated by a haloed star) and a five-pointed crown floating above its head. 
Raihan has a love of fashion, and prefers a lightly edgy, neo-militarist style. He wears a set of compression gear made of balharaan silk, a hoodie with patches, shorts, combat boots, fingerless tactical gloves, a gaiter, and four earrings: a cross on his right ear, and three triangle studs on his left. All his clothes are in either silver, black, or red. 
== Personality ==
Raihan is a highly stuck-up person who believes himself above all others. 
He is vainglorious, narcissistic, childish, lustful, violent, and short-tempered, as well as highly spiteful. He believes his position as a demon lord makes him superior to those around him, and while technically true, his boasting often puts people off. 
Despite this, he has a caring side, and will do anything to protect what he considers "his property". Raihan is the healer of the Dawn Squad, and is the group's most powerful member. Though he is good friends with his squadmates, he often clashes with them due to his personality. 
== History ==
Raihan was born in London on October 24th, alongside his twin, Liam Huxley. However, as a result of a curse bestowed on his mother by Angra the Betrayer, he was born severely deformed, and died shortly after birth. After he was cremated, his soul refused to move on, and created such a ruckus that it drew the attention of the Great Kath. In the presence of his clan's founder, Raihan's soul was offered a deal: be reborn and get a second chance at life, and in exchange Raihan would complete Axios the Divine's contract, and then become a sacrificial lamb to further the Great Kath's revival. Raihan took the deal, not knowing what it meant, and was reborn as a demon lord in Moscow, a location deliberately chosen by the Great Kath. 
However, the process needed to grant Raihan the full powers of the Great Kath was interrupted when a cultist of Angra went looking for him, and ripped Raihan out of his cocoon on Christmas Eve. This left Raihan with an abnormally small mana well, and rendered him an empyrean: a creature that should have been more, but was forced out of ascension. The excess energy of Raihan's interrupted rebirth caused the hospital he was being birthed in to become enveloped in a dark magic storm, which lead to his infantile form being found by the Moscow Institute's director: Ekaterina Zoraskaya. 
Ekaterina would go on to adopt the boy, and raise him as her own in place of her own recently deceased son, Peter Zoraski. She gave him the name Paul Zoraski, and would raise him through his infantile and juvenile forms, in which he would discover his ability to switch genders, and take on the new identity of Rayne Zoraskaya. Eventually, her survival would be discovered by her actual parents in London, and Ekaterina would reluctantly send her to her real family, where she would discover her birth name, Leon Huxley. However, while in London, Rayne experienced a massive meltdown, which lead to several injuries. Though she was first apprehended by MI-13, she was released upon request of her parents, who then agreed to allow Ekaterina to become the girl's godmother in exchange for raising her in controlled conditions. Eventually, Rayne would decide to return to her male form, though taking the name Raihan instead of Paul because "It sounded cooler". 
At one point, Raihan was sent to an all-demon school in Yakutia, where he was bullied relentlessly for his miniature size and small mana well. This quickly escalated when Raihan entered his final metamorphic cocoon, and emerged in his fully-matured and significantly more powerful adult form, creating a school-wide incident which lead to the school shutting down, and him returning to Moscow. There he would go to school during the day, and work for the Moscow Institute at night, quickly becoming a valued asset. However, at one point, Raihan's cousin Tanya Zoraskaya would get kidnapped by a group of harvesters, and he would take part in a disastrous rescue mission in which 32 people would wind up dead. In response, Ekaterina would force him into a no-violence blood contract, and expel from from the institute. This would then lead him to sign up with the Order of the White Cross, where Dawnbreaker: The Vaults of Malta begins. 
== Powers ==
* Smouldering Abundance: Raihan's blessing. It allows him to control the powers of both life and fire, bending each to his will. Unfortunately, due to his low mana count, it is too powerful for him to use, and its activation causes him to immediately soulburst. 
* Blessing of the Empyrean: A multi-effect ability born from Raihan's status as an empyrean. Raihan's eyes have a devastating effect on anyone who meets his gaze, and people are naturally less weary of him, his words, and mind magic. 
* Paragon: Raihan is a demon lord, an evolved demon with greater strength, power, and intelligence. Raihan can easily use occultist magics, such as those of the dark, old faith, and contract sects. 
* Crown Sepulcher: An unnaturally large pocket dimension granted to Raihan as Lord of the Kath. He can use it to store any item of any size, as well as his five dor'katha spirit servants, Laurantis, Aurus, Aurulia, Graunda, and Rendus. 
== Equipment ==
* Balharaan Silk Compression Gear: A set of compression gear made of balharaan silk, woven from the silk glands in Raihan's mouth. Cancels the hypersensitivity of his skin, and allows him to wear regular clothes. Also acts as an insulator and resistant to slashing damage equivalent to a gambeson. 
== Weaknesses ==
* Blood Contract: Ekaterina Zoraskaya: Raihan is contractually bound to never directly injure or harm creatures above a certain intelligence threshold.
* Curse of the Empyrean: As a result of his interrupted birth, Raihan suffers from an abnormally small soul, which stops him from gathering mana above the omega level.
* Hypersensitivity: Raihan's senses are stronger than that of a human's by a hundredfold, and thus can be easily set off by loud noises, bad tastes, foul odors, and ichy fabric. Raihan suffers from perpetual insomnia, and must wear a suit of balharaan silk woven from his own silk threads to be able to wear clothes. 
== Trivia ==
* Raihan can fluently speak Russian, Yakut, Iranian, English, French, German, and Japanese, and is learning Indonesian and Arabic. 
* His favorite animal is the cat. 
* Dogs hate him. 
* Due to the abzanrotoxin in his blood, he smells pleasantly of roses. 
* His dream job is to move to New Zealand and open a bakery in the Wellington Understory. 
* Raihan is an avid enjoyer of manga and anime. 
* There is a cut chapter in book one where Raihan teaches Prakhya how to dance, as well as another where he meets the god Luku'antali. 
* Meta-chronologically, Raihan is the oldest of the main cast, and predates Dawnbreaker itself by a decade at least. His original inspiration was Drakath from Adventure Quest Worlds. 
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