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## General

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## Lore

Carlito Acero was born in the city of Gaiztoak. Raised to fight from a young age, he quickly excelled in the art of combat and left Gaiztoak with his friend, a possession wizard called Corryth. Together, they caused chaos and havoc throughout the land, an unseperable pair that cut down humans left and right, their lives kept in each others' hands. This was until one night, Corryth was out scouting when he was captured by a group of wizards known as the The Storm (one of the smaller wizard gangs in Teboria). They interrogated Corryth for the location of Carlito, but he refused to blow his friend's cover. However, after several weeks of grueling imprisonment, the wizards offered him his freedom in return for Carlito's location, and to the wizard's surprise he quickly took up the offer. At dawn, the wizards encroached upon Carlito's location and overpowered the wizard before he could resist. Untrue to their word, the wizards chucked both Carlito and Corryth back into jail.

However, Corryth was only kept in the jail for 10 years, due to his compliance with the Storm, while Carlito was sentenced to lifetime imprisonment. For 30 years, his hatred and disbelief at his most trusted friend's betrayal built up inside of him. Upon his escape, he sought to deliver just punishment on the traitor, and devoted his life to tracking down the backstabbing bastard's residence to the city of Berdea. Under the cover of midnight, he broke into Corryth's house and decapitated him in front of his screaming wife and child. His vengeance satisfied, Carlito fled to the Psincary mountains North of Berdea, and after a few hours of climbing he stopped. He placed Corryth's decapitated head, the mouth still wide from shock, and eyes a murky white, on the ground.

Then he broke.

After days of pouring out his hatred and regret, he collapsed to his knees and gazed at his old friend's remains. Carlito decided to settle down, he skewered Corryth's head on a spike and built his home, for many years he spent his spare time gardening next to his hut and the, now skeletal, head of Corryth.

One day, he returned home from his job as a hired assassin to find a group of Hallowed setting fire to his residence. He hastily put them down with a smog cloud, but not before his garden was burnt to a char. However, a small flicker caught his eye; a small poppy stood in the corner of the wreckage and a flame dancing around the petals of the flower, it was an infernua papaver, a fire poppy. He quickly put it in a jar inside his bag to keep it safe and to hopefully replant it someday. Searching the pockets of his fallen Hallowed brethren revealed to him an order to burn down any human village, city, or town in Psincary up to the border of Handia. Willing to escape the chaos, he travelled down South to the desert city of Indarra, where he resided for a few weeks until hearing of Illius, the city where humans and wizards alike could live in peace together, and left to find the place.

Carlito arrived in Illius in the midst of a battle, the mages of Illius fighting off the hoards of Hallowed. He quickly dropped his bags and fought against the Hallowed. During the fight he thought he recognised a few other ex-Hallowed fighting for the city, which surprised him. One mage in particular caught his attention, a crazy (and rather unkempt) old man took on masses of Hallowed soldiers subduing them, wave after wave with a gardening hoe. As the city began to rise into the sky, the masses began to thin.

After the wizards of Illius had removed the last of the Hallowed from the now-airborne city, Carlito sought out the old man, who introduced him as Kiel. Kiel took Carlito to the Grand Mage, who thanked Carlito for his aid on the battlefield and that he was welcome to stay in Illius as long as he pleased. Carlito accepted the offer and lived in Illius; spending a lot of his time gardening and helping Kiel with the farms.