Lilykind

## Lore

**>> Lilykind is born as a creation of Zalynx in defiance of the All-Mother, eventually leaves on a journey of self discovery.**

During his pursuit of world code defying magic, Zalynx managed to birth Lilykind into existence during his early experimentation work of the Genesis Seed. Having stumbled upon a key ingredient for creating conscious intelligent life itself through years of intense research, Zalynx infused this new knowledge into a prematurely born dryad body with his prototype code. Miraculously, his act of defiance against the All-Mother's world code prevailed and thus, Lilykind was born.

After being birthed into the world, Lilykind sat by Zalynx’s side as his protege and half daughter. With her innate connection with plant magics, she helped fuel Zalynx’s ingenious inventions as he meticulously crafted the Genesis Seed using her magical essence as a base.

Zalynx sheltered her from the outside world, preventing her from leaving his side. Seeing this as parental protection and affection of sorts, Lilykind grew to respect and love Zalynx as her own family. Unfortunately, Lilykind misunderstood the visionary's true intentions, for his heart's desires weren't so benevolent. Zalynx was simply being posessive out of his own selfishness to safeguarding his work. She was his magnum opus, and he would do whatever neccesary to not have his work stolen or damaged.

When the Arklight exploded, and the world descended into chaos, Lilykind stayed by Zalynx’s side fearful of the dangers of the outside world. However as his experiments brought him closer and closer to power that would eclipse even gods, his work became more and more crazy with his personality warping and becoming more and more egoistic and insane.

Trying to make him see reason, Lilykind pleaded to her father to stop the madness. But he cast her out, calling her nothing more than a page in his book of countless experiments. How dare she, his creation, talk to him in such a manner and consider themselves emotional equals. He was on the cusp of something revolutionary, something that the greatest minds of their time had failed to achieve with the Arklight, and no one was to disuade him from his path to glory, less of all his own creation.

Cast out like a spoilt child goes from one new obsession to another, no longer welcome in the only place she knew as home, Lilykind with a heavy heart left the isle of Cala Nath. Set off on a boat to the mainland, she wistfully recalled the words of her former idol figure, and her resolved strengthened. With a new sense of determination, fueled to prove Zalynx otherwise: she left to find herself a new place in the world and make something of herself.

## Development Notes

* Lilykind was initially a plant summoner back when the Magic Quest was still being conceptualized. That idea was dropped shortly after.
	+ Funnily enough, the plant summoner concept was revisited with Zalynx, who would become heavily tied to Lilykind storywise throughout his own development.
* Her initial development lore had Lilykind as a sheltered child who lived in a remote town in the woods, who would get resurrected by a god of Nature after being slain by deforesters.

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