Isaac

Isaac in 'Dance of Serpents' as the Greybark begins to spread.

Isaac is one of the key members of the Peregrin and a key player in the fight on the side of the rebellion during The Final Inquisition.

## History

### Early Life

Growing up an orphan in the Western Realm, Issac spent most of his life as a vagabond, doing odd jobs to survive and find shelter before he eventually ended up in the Blackwood city of Aureal.

### The Peregrin

He joined Haskneir and Alyxys vey early on in their adventure, initially with the only intent being to take Alyxys to the First Church of Farlore. When the Congregation there was killed and Haskenri was tasked with taking Alyxys to the Ecclesia, Isaac decided to join them in the hopes of finding a purpose and a life in the Eastern Empire.

Along the journey Isaac would become Branded along with the rest of the Peregrin at the time, making his journey to the Ecclesia all the more important and necessary.

### The Final Inquisition

After helping get Alyxys to the Ecclesia and the Final Inquisition being declared, Isaac would join the Emperor Alvaro's Royal Corp as he moved to Midwayer. From here Isaac became deeply involved in the Rebels' movements and plans, going on to become a founding member of the Kynarton Alliance which saw the Isk, Followers of Aknoch Tiik and the Pradera join forces against the Empire and make their stand at Kynarton.

Isaac's efforts in the rebellion and civil war saw him rise to the standing of Pohlmar as other leaders callousness and rashness saw them killed or captured. Isaac's distinctive style of leadership and tactics which saw a focus on compassion for the Ecclesia and Empires troops and converting infantryman men and civilians to the rebels side instead of capturing them as prisoners of war lead him to be nicknamed 'The Love General'. The name at first was derogatory but became a name of honour as the siege of Sureta-Goya lasted only a day with all the opposing soldiers of the Empire and Ecclesia laying down their arms and refusing to fight the Rebels.

After the final fight of the Rebellion at Capitol that saw the Ecclesia burn to the ground and the Three return to the mortal world, Isaac helped civilians escape by boat at Eagle's Landing to escape the attack of Brech. He himself escaped just in time as the Mist came down when Fah'hold cursed the land.

### The Schism

During the Schism, Isaac resided in the Western Realm, As Marcus and The Widow ventured to the Southern Land to crack open the Essence, Isaac remained gathering what allies he could in order to work out how to bring down the Mist and how to fight back against whatever laid wait on the other side. In his efforts to gain support he came under scrutiny from King Louis X who wanted to leave the Mist down as long as possible in the hopes to either weaken or fully destroy the Empire which could lead to his ruling over all of Whistain.

The Lord Regent Thillepe enlisted Isaac and his comrades to help usurp the King who was getting drunk on power and beginning to plan an expansion east to the Whitewood and beyond to overthrow the established lands of the Lupisks and Vi'Civ. When their plan was botched, Isaac and Lucille fled the city while the witch Dannika remained an insider in the King's court.

Isaac and Lucille flee to the east and whilst they ready the the Lupisks and The Raven for a fight back, they continue onwards to Valicia to rally the Vi'Civ. However before they can even get there they are attacked by Vi'Cv legionary and taken prisoner in the The Brace, the prison system built around the trunk of the Great Eiche Tree that rises up from the sea bed and high into the sky where Valicia is built into.

Whilst in prison Lucille and Isaac demand to know what they are there for and are told they will be used as bargaining when the Mist eventually comes down and whatever is left of the Empire finds out what the Vi'Civ have done. Isaac and Lucille can only work out that the Vi'Civ like the Realm are assembling an army however Queen Maribelle tells them it will not be too defend against the Realm.

Isaac is visited one night in his cell by what he at the time believes in an apparition, ghost or hallucination of a Serpisk, the long lost race of snake people said to be extinct who calls himself Alkosh. Alkosh however explains he is here to both give and get help from Isaac.

Alkosh explains to him the history of his people and how they had long felt they were not from this time and were not meant to be here and so in the three hundred years after the War of the Civ which saw the Isk come into being, they learnt a way to "walk outside of time and through space" that they call Plein Walking. Alkosh says he has come back to teach Isaac this method to help him overcome the great evils of his time and to help Alkosh return to his family whom he has "lost somewhere along the ladder of time".

Isaac, unsure what to believe accepts the lessons from Alkosh who resides inside the walls of his cell when guards are around. Isaac learns briefly how to master the first part of the ritual which is a dance like series of movements that "unhinge him from this plain and allow him to slip between the cracks of existence". This first part allows him to partially slip between the tree root bars of his cell but he falters and has to be pulled back by Alkosh so as not to re-materialise in the bars, the tip of fingers getting caught and being ripped from him.

His practice was cut short when he and Lucille are taken to be executed. Maribelle informed them that the Vi'Civ plans were taking longer than they had hoped and their prisoners would be too expensive to feed and keep alive. Isaac, in a last ditch effort, begun performing the Plein Walking ritual from memory which confused the guards and long enough for Lucille to escape which in turn allowed Isaac enough time to finish the ritual but not before he was pushed by one of the guards.

This sent Isaac hurtling through the ground and into what he only could describe an ocean of amber lights and a kaleidoscope of sight and sound. Slipping through space and time, Isaac reached out to the first thing that he could grab hold of and pulled himself up and out onto land. He emerges somewhere in a field in the Western Realm and hears soldiers approaching. Unsure of what to do he flees into the nearby woods and gets ensnared in a trap and hung from a tree. he convinces the two hunters, Layala and Meriquai to set him free. He asks them questions about the Mist and the Empire and they have no idea what he is talking about. When he asks for the year, they tell him 870 of Romera Dynasty. Isaac runs to the hillside and see the armies of Civ and men marching South to a volcanic mountain range in the Blackwood. Isaac realises the ritual worked and he has traveled back in time to the very tail end of the War of the Civ.