Alyss Nightcrest/History

## **Early Life**

Alyss was born Lady Alyss Nightcrest, the Countess of Ioae. The Isle of Ioae was inhabited by dusk elves. Alyss’s biological father died when she was a baby in a duel with an underlord. During the destruction of Ioae, Ezael Stormblood promised Alyss’s mother that he would always protect Alyss. Alyss was still very young during the destruction of Ioae.

The remaining dusk elves created a village known as Shadowbrook. Alyss learned how to fight there starting at 6 years old and Alyss also dyed her hair blue there. It was also most likely there when she realized that she had abilities that weren’t even properly unlocked yet. At an unknown time, Shadowbrook was stormed by Herobrine’s mobs. During the battle Alyss accidentally used Quietus on the mobs, an ability that she will later use again in a fight years from now. Shadowbrook was burned and the dusk elves were taken to Herobrine’s dungeon.

As well as being prisoners, the dusk elves were also Herobrine’s test subjects. They were experimented on because Herobrine wanted to make a strong army that was never seen before. However they couldn’t figure out how to control the minds of the dusk elves. It was during this time when Alyss and her surrogate father were taken to a rune chamber and enchanted. After an unknown amount of time passed, Alyss and Ezael escaped into the wild.

Alyss and her adoptive father were constantly being hunted by Herobrine’s servants. After the escape, they had nowhere to go, so they wandered the Overworld aimlessly. They traveled from inn to inn, village to village, and occasionally having to shelter in the wild. No matter where they went, Herobrine's servants were always on their tail. One time, it was a pigman in black robes, and he wielded a dagger with Wither XII. Another time, a shadow emerged from a wall, reaching for Alyss while she was in her nightgown, writing in her diary. This amount of trauma caused her to be very withdrawn in the future.

Eventually, Alyss and Ezael drank Disguise II potions (villager variant) and used an enchanted nametag to change their names. Alyss became Breeze and Ezael became Brio. With the mobs finally off their scent they settled in a village called Villagetown.

## **Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior:**

Alyss was never mentioned in this book, so everything written here is speculation, or she mentioned it in later books.

Once Alyss got taken into the school, she remained hidden or invisible. She saw how people like Pebble or Max treated those with skill, so she drew back her superior skill a lot, so that she wouldn’t get bullied. No one got to see her record book, and she maintained a good relationship with the teachers. She did everything at a steady pace, so that the teachers wouldn’t call her out.

No one noticed her and it is doubted that she made any friendships with the girls.

## **Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: From Seeds to Swords**

During this time, Alyss was told by her adoptive father to follow Runt and gather information about him. Ezael thinks that Runt could be a very important person to saving Villagetown. She was there during the brew-off, one of the times when Runt was playing with his pet slime, and in other hidden places. Alyss was a source of knowledge for her adoptive father when it came to the brew-off and of Jello. During the battle when Runt killed his first mob, Alyss assisted him by shooting a zombie off him. Alyss also did occasionally ask him for help or for him to teach her, but Runt always declined them. Runt never noticed Alyss watching him but he did acknowledge that he thought someone was following him. It could be theorized that this was the time when Alyss began developing a crush on Runt.

After Runt’s record book was destroyed, Alyss walked up to him and awkwardly asked if they could hang out. Runt thought she was weird and realized that Alyss was following him everywhere. Runt declined and Alyss took off into the trees, with tears on her face.

After Runt was paired up with Alyss for everything, Alyss seriously toned down her skills, purposely blowing up her potion in class and making mistakes in the archery range. Later, Alyss got put in a combat unit with Emerald, Urf, and Runt.

During a later battle, Alyss’s combat unit got placed to protect the school. Soon they were surrounded by zombies under the influence of a strength potion. Emerald and Urf took off, terrified, leaving only Alyss and Runt. Alyss drew her sword for the first time and Runt, realizing that she was still calm, told her to run. Instead, Alyss showed her skill by destroying all the zombies in one swift movement. While Runt was recovering from his shock, Urkk attacks the school. Alyss jumps a height of 5 blocks, to Runt’s astonishment, and shatters Urkk’s helmet. On the way down, Urkk catches her with his hook and flings her over a building. Alyss survives this and rushes to get Jello for him to distract Urkk. She races back and shoots at Urkk and Jello appears to help Runt. This gives Runt enough time to terrify Urkk by putting him more than 5 blocks above the ground. Runt then lights TNT, blowing up Urkk but leaving him with half a heart.

Runt survives thanks to Alyss and asks to see Alyss’s record book. Alyss shows it to him, revealing her skill while darkly telling him not to tell anyone. Runt asks more questions, but Alyss ignores Runt.

## **Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: Crafting Alliances:**

Alyss gets grounded by Ezael most likely because she revealed her abilities to a fellow classmate. However, she later states it is because attacking Urkk was very dangerous. Ezael tells Runt (not knowing that Ezal is Alyss’s adopted father), that Alyss drank so many potions that she made herself sick. It can also be theorized that this is the time when Alyss gets dreams about Batwing asking her for help. Alyss also gets nightmares about her being captured again and being put in Herobrine’s dungeon, but these nightmares could have started long before.

During Alyss’s grounding, the Lost Legion went to Villagetown and started treating its inhabitants horribly. Emerald got string tied behind her back and she was forced to clean Kolbert’s house for him. Runt tells Kolbert to stop and Kolbert almost ties Runt’s hands behind his back, but then Alyss appears. She quietly tells Kolbert to stop and Kolbert, despite Runt’s warning, ignores her. This promptly led Kolbert to be punched in the face 3 times in 0.5 seconds. A shocked Kolbert lets Emerald go and is told by other villagers to quit it. This is also the time when Alyss officially joined Team Runt.

The next day, Herobrine visited the village, claiming that no matter how many mobs he sent, the village just won’t die. He shot blue lightning from his fingertips, paralyzing everybody. His attack quickly came to an end, thanks to Notch and Notch and Herobrine went somewhere else to fight.

Ezael claims that Alyss is his daughter and reveals their past, including being experimented on, but nothing about their elf roots or real names. Ezael then states that school is going to be much harder due to Herobrine’s visits. Alyss and Emerald were excused from all the chores, because they were to be making posters, to inspire other girls to be strong. Alyss seemed sad that Runt and Stump couldn’t come, and said that she will visit.

While Runt and Stump were lumberjacking, they found a hole. They let Emerald know and they spied on the hole, and to their astonishment they saw a creeper come into the hole. Runt realizes that it is a tunnel and Alyss walks into them, visibly confused. Later, Team Runt confronts the creeper with kittens. It is then revealed that Alyss has a cat named Dandelion. Team Runt captures the creeper, and fame and praise are showered upon the group. Each member also received a stack of emeralds.

A while after that incident, the village is attacked, and this time the mobs are using a formation. The formation consists of creepers behind slimes. Alyss pulls her bow all the way back and shoots it at the slime wall, but it doesn’t work. Pebble makes fun of Alyss, but Alyss roasts Pebble by pointing out that Pebble asked her for archery lessons a couple days back. Pebble tries shooting the slimes, but again, the slimes take zero damage.

The village goes down and tries attacking the slimes with their swords but the swords did zero damage. Terrified, the villagers rush back to the wall, including Alyss. Runt stops running and explodes the mobs with their own creepers. However, a Miniboss mob appeared behind Runt and struck him with a potion of slowness. Before the Miniboss could strike, Alyss appeared and slew the Miniboss. After slaying the Miniboss, Runt and Alyss hugged. Runt also noted that his scores were now above everyone besides Alyss. Ezael then asked them to make posters.

At the end of the book, it is revealed that anyone could become a warrior, and that the top 5 could become captains of people. These captains could lead warriors to the gates of Herobrine.

## **Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: Path of the Diamond**

During the celebration of Runt’s victory, Runt notes that Alyss was having fun for the first time. Emerald revealed that she felt like a coward for running away all the time, and Alyss comforts her. After the celebration, Runt walks Alyss home.

A couple days later, Pebble (under a Confusion potion) tries to blow up Runt and blows a hole in the wall. Runt survives, but an endless horde of mobs are trying to come inside. Alyss and the rest of the village hurriedly rush to help protect the village. There was a time during the defending of the village when Cogboggle and Runt got into an argument. Cogboggle states that when he becomes captain he will put Alyss on a leash. It almost turned into a mini fight within the fight going on around them, but Alyss told Runt to focus on the fact that they were losing.

Kolb and the Lost Legion saved the day by building a lava moat as a surrogate for the wall. The villagers jump above the lava moat and the horde of mobs just stays on the other side of the moat. Emerald remarks on how someday the zombies will be able to fly above the lava moat and Alyss tiredly responds that luckily that day isn’t today.

Pebble, feeling guilty about what he tried to do, asked if he and Runt could talk alone, drawing weird looks from Alyss and the rest of Team Runt. After Pebble’s conversation with Runt, Pebble turns himself in and gets banished.

The mayor then reveals that there will be many tests, including a test about Redstone. Everyone is worried about the Redstone test, but Team Runt manages to get their hands on Lola, a Redstone genius. Alyss then gets jealous about the amount of time Runt spends with Lola and isn’t friendly with Lola or the fact that she is terrible at combat. Alyss is also jealous about the amount of things Lola knows about the Redstone test. After Team Runt bombed three tests, Alyss got mad at Runt as an attempt to vent out her jealousy of Lola. However, after Lola won the fourth test with her creative idea, Alyss had a change of heart and admitted to Runt that she was jealous.

The success on the fourth test pulled Team Runt through and Alyss finished in second. However, Alyss didn’t become captain, so that Runt could become captain. While talking with Runt later, Alyss presents a diamond sword to Runt, as a gift. She admits that she wanted to be a farmer, and live a peaceful life. However, she said that there wouldn’t be peace until Herobrine was gone and that she chose the sword for Runt. After those words were out of her mouth, she held hands with Runt.

During the celebration, Alyss, Emerald, and Lola went to a salon and got their hair and clothes done. Alyss comes back to Runt and he notes that she looked a little bit like a human. Runt shares a bit about his worries for the future, but Alyss said that those worries are worries for tomorrow, and that for today they dance.

## **Tales of an 8-Bit Kitten: Lost in the Nether**

Alyss was on scout duty with Emerald when she saw Eeebs sleeping in a tree. She introduces him to the village and adopts Eeebs, meaning that her home would be his home. She ends up having to leave, being sent by the mayor to help Runt.

## **Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: Quest Mode**

Alyss walks into Runt being surrounded by a group of pigmen, and assists him in disposing of them. She explains to Runt that she was sent by the mayor to help Runt. Runt and Alyss ride on Alyss’s horse, eventually coming upon a large quartz building. They find a pit filled with items, and almost all of them have curses. Alyss and Runt grab the items with good enchantments and head to a tavern called the Enchanted Dragon. Once they rent the room, they enter the cafeteria, where Alyss orders food. The waitress tells Breeze and Runt that she wants to acquire a Frost Opal (a non metal material). She would give them some Quest Tokens, as a prize for completing the quest. They agree to this quest.

After Alyss and Runt arrive into their room, they take a bath, and Runt almost makes healing potions (he fell asleep before finishing). Alyss ends up making healing potions and teaches Runt how to dual wield. After sleeping, Breeze and Runt finally set out for The Tomb of the Forgotten King. At the back of the Tomb, they saw some horses tied at the back. Runt and Alyss enter the tomb and go down some stairs and enter the dungeon. They battle and solve many puzzles. Once they were done, they came across a room which had already been battled through. Runt assumes that the people that had done so were also the ones that had their horses tied to the back of the tomb.

After learning the ability Analyze Monster from a Lupin known as Faolan, they come across a human and a villager battling three Felhounds. Breeze, Runt, and the two other mysterious people fight off the Felhounds. Runt and Alyss look up at the villager and are horrified to see that the mysterious villager’s name is Pebble.

The group goes to the main room, where Urf is waiting for them. Alyss notices that Urf has a Regeneration V effect on him. Urf reveals that he was the one that put confusion potion in Pebble’s food. While the rest of the group charged at Urf, Alyss stayed behind, shooting weakness arrows at him. When Alyss runs out of arrows, Runt remembers that he had a strange looking arrow on him. He gave it to Alyss and she shot it at Urf, affecting him with Wither V. The group stayed behind, waiting for the Wither V to run its course. Alyss suddenly attacks, and Urf smashes down, apparently killing her. Alyss had taken down 25% off his health and the rest of the group took another 7% off his health bar.

Alyss suddenly appears behind Urf, with a greatsword in hand, and uses Quietus to take him out. She reveals that she sidestepped Urf’s blow and used Smoke Bomb to fake her death. She had also dropped all of her items to make it believable. Runt insisted on Alyss drinking health potions and Alyss complied. The group then loot Urf’s items and Alyss grabs a stick, Fey Cudgel. A weapon dropped from Urf that contained Stun II. Breeze was very interested in this item, to Runt's confusion. S and Pebble grab the Sapphire Flame with Alyss and Runt grabbing the glowmoss.

## **Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: Forging Destiny**

The group set out for the Owl’s Reach, and Alyss remained quiet. By the time they reached Owl’s Reach, it was dark and cold. The blacksmith gave Runt 750 emeralds for the Glowmoss. Alyss and Runt traded the loot from Urf for 3,572 emeralds. They then went to Quill&Feather to get an Aeon forge, and during this time they were holding hands.

After they got the forge they planned to stay at the Enchanted Dragon for another night. Alyss and Runt found an exhausted, food poisoned, and cold (plus fired from the tavern) Ophelia. They brought her inside, and at first the innkeeper didn’t want her to come in, but Runt slammed a bunch of emeralds, and the innkeeper gave them a room. Alyss went to grab a bucket for Ophelia while Runt stayed with Ophelia. After Alyss came back with a bucket, Runt went to grab some milk.

While Runt was out, Alyss was tending to Ophelia. Alyss crafted healing potions using the ingredients in the dining hall and she ordered delicious food. When Runt came back, he took some Stormberry rolls and told Alyss that he found Cogboggle. Alyss was a little doubtful, but eventually believed Runt, and was confused. They decided to sleep and wait for Ophelia to wake up.

When they woke up, they noticed that Ophelia had woken up as well. Ophelia said that Ezael sent her to the village during the night of the celebration. Alyss was shocked to hear this and she wasn’t happy. After Ophelia finished, there was a voice, and Ezael revealed that he was here with an invisibility potion. Alyss stormed up to him and asked him what was going on. Ezael calmly told Alyss and the group to come down with him.

Downstairs there was the rest of Team Runt waiting for them. Runt showed them the aeon forge and they looked at it for a while. Ezael then regretfully placed a royal notice from the king, asking that every town, city, and village should send fifteen of their finest young men and women to the capital for better training. Everyone was shocked, and Alyss was very upset about it. Ezael explained that it felt cruel to let the members go without them experiencing the Overworld first. Alyss still glared at her adoptive father, but she calmed down a bit.

Alyss later went outside and Runt asked her if the training was going to be so bad. Alyss admitted that she didn’t think it would be easy and she didn’t want to go. However she grudgingly admitted that it was for the best, and that there are so many things she doesn’t know about herself. While they were talking the doors swung open and Sir Elric Darkbane came in. He greeted Alyss with grace and respect (most likely because she is a countess), saying that he had come to ensure safe passage to the capital. He also added that she is quite famous in the West, shocking her.

Alyss, Runt, and Sir Elric went to get the others and tossed swiftness potions on the horses. They rode before it was even dawn, and finally they stopped at the Laughing Cow for the night. While they were eating, a seemingly old man hobbled up towards Alyss. Alyss didn’t notice but Runt did. Suddenly the old man opened his mouth and said Alyss’s real name, she was still under the guise of Breeze. Alyss was shaken but she never got a chance to defend herself from the now shadow zombie. Runt did it for her. Alyss just stood there horrified and when Ezael came in, he was horrified too. Ezael warned Alyss to never ever let her guard down.

After Runt talked with Emerald about the prophecy, he went to talk with Alyss. Alyss admitted that she and her “father” had always been hunted, and only managed to evade them before they went to Villagetown.

The next day, they rode to Glimfrost, a Moon Elf village, and it was abandoned. Alyss and the seven villagers went in and explored the Moon Elf village. Alyss, despite Ezael’s command not to, looted a store that had armor from Shadowbrook.

When the group arrived at Villagetown, it was burning. Runt ran off, and Alyss tried to catch up with him. She found him with multiple drop piles at his feet, and Runt refused to talk about it. Runt went to reforge his swords while Alyss went to a player named Rubinia. Rubinia gave her a sapphire katana that she found in the ruins of Shadowbrook, and Alyss almost cried.

Ezael soon came in and Alyss watched him craft armor for Runt and then Max, Cogboggle, and Stump. They then out to help defend Villagetown, and they dealed enough damage to the Underlord to make him run away. Alyss drew her bow and chased after him, ignoring Elric’s warnings. Runt ran after her, and Alyss drew back a black arrow that had Wither II and Catstratch V and killed the Underlord. Runt congratulated her but then realized that Alyss had drawn the arrow from her own shoulder. Runt told Alyss to drink milk but she refused, and eventually ran away from Runt. She downed some milk, turning back into an dusk elf, but Runt found her. Alyss was upset and was forced to explain to Runt that she was a dusk elf and she hid her form to keep Villagetown safe. She revealed her true name and explained her history.

As Alyss' health was quite low, they decided to craft a mushroom soup recipe with Alyss' grandma, Eo's, recipie. They healed up, Runt drank with hesitation, and suddenly, felt a slight wind.

Within seconds a Shade stunned Alyss, and attacked Runt. However, Runt was able to defeat the monster without being stunned, much to Alyss' confusion. They both decided they needed to go to the capital to unlock their inner-selves. Alyss turned back into Breeze and they returned to the people. Later, they, Ezael Stormblood and Alyss Nightcrest, revealed their true selves to the people of VIllagetown and are bombarded with questions. It is also revealed that she is minor nobility and has supporters in the west. Ezael is revealed not to be her real father, but as near as possible to one. Alyss changed into a dress and celebrated.

The next day she helped with repairs and after told Runt more details on her past. She then presented Runt with 2 legendary weapons she carried from Ioae, Eventide and Morningtide. Alyss presented Runt with Eventide and recrafted them together. As they were still weak, they planned on using different gems to power them at the capital.

As the rest of their friends come up to the tower and head down for the dance, Alyss and Runt stay, watching the beautiful night sky enlightened with a beam from the temple Pebble and S set out for. They chat about the future, and declare that they are an item after all, a legendary one.