Auriel Lucius

Auriel Lucius was a professor at Signal Academy and currently the leader of the Aurora Guardians. His weapon of choice is a Durable Dust Light Sword (DDLS) named Aurorae. He also alludes to Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, leader and namesake of the Twelve Paladins of Charlemagne.

## Appearance

Auriel is a middle-aged man that has light blonde, medium length, semi tousled hair with blue eyes. He has a light complexion, a semi slim build, and a fading scar on his right cheek.

***Main Outfit (Volume 2 - Current)***

He wears a long, dark blue, sleeveless trench coat with black and gold trimmings, and gold detailing. Underneath it, he wears a cream and brown collared, long sleeve shirt with gold and black lining and a brown article with gold lining and design around his waist. He also wears a pair of cream bottoms with a pair of brown and gold boots.

For accessories, he wears a pair of brown and gold arm greaves, a brown obi with gold lining under a black cross belt with gold lining and a red cord with a red tassel along with two light green pins with red tassels attached. He has a metal plate underneath his trench coat to hold his weapon and has a pouch on his belt to hold dust crystals. His emblem can be found on the center of his cross belt.

## Personality

Auriel is known to be courteous, tactical, and reserved but also have a friendly and humorous side towards his allies. As the leader of the Aurora Guardians, he has shown leadership and courage such as when he lead three members of the Aurora Guardians that were present in Vale during the Fall of Beacon and help the other huntsman create a safe zone within the city.  Because of this, he is well respected by the members of the Aurora Guardians and by those who have been assisted by them. He does also have a high amount of patience for students and allies, especially if he is trying to teach or explain different topics. Because of his experiences as an Atlas Specialist, as a teacher, and as a huntsman, he is also very knowledgeable about many topics such as aura and the kingdoms of Remnant along with their diverse cultures.

He can also be secretive since he hides information about him leading the Aurora Guardians and their mission to stop Nightmarian Eye from Team MLIT. The reason he does this is to find out if he can trust others with the secrets he holds, making him wary towards others especially after he was betrayed by a member of the Aurora Guardians. When he does feel that someone can be trusted, he does come clean and apologize for the secrecy but he defends his actions because of said wariness.

As a former teacher and a person, he does have a friendly persona to students and strangers until he is threatened in which he becomes a serious huntsman. This is seen who he exchanges words with Forest before they begin to fight each other.

As a huntsman, he is very strategic in how he fights as he does try to use his surroundings to his advantage. He is also a very noble fighter as he does not hurt innocent or defenseless people and will not kill anyone unless it is absolutely necessary which is what he consistently abides by since he began training with his father and the rest of the Knights of the White Dawn. He usually works alone on missions though makes exceptions for Aurora Guardians and students such as when he is accompanied by Team MLIT on their first mission to Vacuo, although this bad habit breaks during his time with Team IQAT in Mistral after the Fall of Beacon.

After the Fall of Beacon, he is more wary of Nightmarian Eye as he begins to take more drastic actions with the Aurora Guardians, especially when the Knights of the White Dawn are now seen in a not so noble light to the eyes of the people of Remnant. He has also resolved into stopping both parties and doing what he can in his power to help others, which leads to him letting Team IQAT in on the Aurora Guardians and their mission and later on assist them on their journey to find the other members of their teams.

## Biography/ History

Auriel was born in the city of Atlas. He lived a luxurious life with his mother, Xanthus Charna-Lucius, who was a scientist and father, Sir Arcene Lucius, who was a knight of the Knights of the White Dawn. He also has an older brother named Kieran. Because of his father's position, he trained with his father beginning at 7 years old. After training with his father and the other members of the White Dawn, he took the entrance exam when he was 16 to attend Atlas Academy from his father's suggestion. He passed and was admitted a year early to start training. At this point he was a prodigy in swordplay thanks to all the training and experience he obtained and became leader of Team AURN (Aureolin). After four years of training with his teammates, he and his team graduated near the top of their class from Atlas Academy and the team joined the Atlas Military. After Auriel was tested by a placement exam, he became one of the Atlas Military Specialists along with his other teammates. They would go on missions as a team and bring back success.

About 10 years later, him along with the rest of team AURN faced their fiercest challenge yet when they were given a task to take down a budding group of 7 huntsman mercenaries within Sanus. Auriel had expressed his worries to his teammates that this could be a terrible mistake if they go to try and eliminate the mercenaries, yet his other teammates stated that it would be successful similar to their other missions. Once they had arrived and fought through the desert filled with Grimm, they had been ambushed by the rogue huntsmen. The team thought that it was a success despite two of them escaping however there were only six present in the brawl. The seventh was revealed to be hiding not to far from Team AURN and fired an arrow at U, yet N had taken the shot for her, knowing that she was also out of aura to protect herself and sustained a severe wound that hit him through the right lung. With the last of his strength, N and Auriel had killed the mercenary together. Afterward, N had also died from blood loss and blood filling his lung after saying his own farewells to his teammates. Auriel and the others were upset from what had occurred with the loss of one of their members before giving him a funeral in Atlas.

After that traumatic mission and investigating the bodies of the mercenaries, Auriel had discovered that they were part of a new group called Nightmarian Eye and after extensive research between missions, they discovered their hideout in Anima. After finding and destroying it, they had recovered some information regarding their motives and thought they would become a problem for society. Him alongside the two of Team AURN decided that it was time to create an organization of their own to combat people with nefarious intentions. Even though the main goal was to combat Nightmarian Eye if anything had gotten out of hand, the guild was also created to help bring peace to Remnant. Auriel, U, and R had decided to create the Aurora Guardians together as a way to also make sure that N's sacrifice in the field was not in vain. At some point, his brother, Kieran also joined as a member.

A couple years later, Auriel withdrew from the Atlas Military and traveled around Remnant to search for allies to have join the Aurora Guardians. Shortly after assembling twelve others and spending a year as a professor at Haven Academy, he and Kieran receive word from their father that their mother is terminally ill. About a week after spending time with their mother, she passes away. On his way, he meets the Tsukiakari Clan at the Tsukiakari Dust Corporation to speak with the CEO, Mamoru Tsukiakari, a friend that he had met in Atlas during his time at Atlas Academy. After catching up with his longtime friend, he was invited to spend the night at the Tsukiakari Mansion. There, he met Lilian Tsukiakari along with their children Leonardo and Inari. He took interest in Inari as he witnessed her budding proficiency in dust casting and had asked to train her when she is older to which Mamoru has agreed. After that night, Auriel had returned to Haven before transferring over to Signal Academy a year later since he was following the movements of Nightmarian Eye.

After hearing the terrible news of the Tsukiakari Mansion, he had checked in with Katsumi Tsukiakari and heard that Mamoru and Lilian had gone missing in the night and that the two children survived. He had conducted some investigation to try and find them, yet also ran into members of Volkan's Faction after a couple months of searching. Once the trail turned cold, he continued to teach at Signal Academy.

Once Inari had started in Signal a couple years later, Auriel immediately took her under her wing and taught her about sword fighting and also helped her discover her semblance. The two bonded over the four years and helped her out whenever he could while monitoring Nightmarian Eye. He continued to do this even after he had written a letter of recommendation to the Headmaster of Beacon Academy to have Inari accepted into the institution and sent the acceptance letter to her. All in this time, he has also kept leadership over the Aurora Guardians to watch Nightmarian Eye's movements.

***~Battle of Beacon/ Timeskip~***

He was spectating the matches at the Amity Coliseum with two other members of the Aurora Guardians when the Battle of Beacon began. He helped defend the school before heading out to assist in the city with two other huntsman from the Aurora Guardians. The five of them together helped establish a safe zone in Vale and then heads out to locate more info on Nightmarian Eye.

A few months later, him along with the other Aurora Guardians ventured around Remnant to find more clues on Nightmarian Eye. While doing so, he discovers that The Knights of the White Dawn have been corrupted by new leadership which started to make issues in Anima and Sanus. Shortly after arriving in Anima, he finds Team IQAT and guides them through Mistral while reuniting with Inari and Taison.

## Faction Terms

* Tsukiakari Dust Corporation: A well known Dust Mining and Dust Melding Corporation that has ties with the Schnee Dust Company economically, but works independently on their own devices such as creating new dust combinations.
* Nightmarian Eye: An underground organization that believes that anyone should have the power to protect themselves without the aid of hunters and huntresses regardless of their abilities. And they also believe that without military assistance in protection, everyone would be equal in strength and able to stand against any adversary.
* Knights of the White Dawn: A Huntsman Knighthood that originated in Atlas and its mission is to help the people and to the Atlas Military. Has recently moved to Mistral and now under new leadership.
* Aurora Guardians: A group of skilled and elite huntsmen and huntresses that have formed to protect all people, regardless of race all around Remnant from the many dangers that include Grimm and various crime organizations.

## In Combat

***Weapon:***

***Aurorae*** - DDLS (Durable Dust Light Sword) - An elegant, durable light sword that has a dust chamber that holds up to 2 dust crystals at one time (one one side, one on the other) which when the dust crystal is pressed via button, it envelops the sword with it from both sides. It can send out dust waves and amplify attacks depending on the dust used. Can have any mix of these below.

* Red- Fire waves, fire blade envelopment

* Brown - Earth waves, earth blade envelopment

* Green - Wind waves, wind blade envelopment

* Yellow - Lightning waves, Lightning blade envelopment

* Blue - Ice waves, Ice blade envelopment

* Purple/Cyan- Gravity (Speed attacks)/Hardlight (For creating normal copies of swords for semblance)

***Abilities:***

Auriel is known to be a very capable huntsman with above average stamina and speed with average strength. He can hold his own against against other capable huntsman such as Chryssa Hestiah, to the point that the latter is reluctant to fight unless it is absolutely necessary. His strength is also seen when Forest Drake, a capable warrior, retreats after a few blows from him when Auriel arrives to back up Team MLIT in Vacuo. Because of his skills and strength, it makes other people see him as a threat such as the Nightmarian Eye leader.

From years of training in the Atlas Academy, Atlas Military, and from training solo and with his father, he is an expert in one handed and dual handed swordplay, has high amount of aura capability (knows of Inner Awakening), and has mastery over his semblance. However, because he has mastery over his semblance, he does tend to rely on it and over time, it can go through his aura supply if he is not careful.

He does also exhibit average hand to hand skills when he is disarmed and is able to protect himself without it. Even though his weapon is simple compared to other weapons, his semblance and skills more than make up for it.

From his time as a huntsman and being the former leader of Team AURN, he is shown to be very tactical as he creates plans and strategies to help his teammates or allies. He is also shown to have great leadership as the leader of the Aurora Guardians especially when he and his group lend a hand and help create a safe zone in Vale during the Fall of Beacon. However, most of his missions that he takes, he prefers to work alone which changes after the Fall of Beacon.

After the Fall of Beacon, he learns how to cast dust by hand after practicing the last few years between teaching and missions.

***Aura:*** Gold.

***Semblance: Arms Master***

Auriel is able to create multiple dust copies of objects (such as his sword) (Up to 5 at once and depending on what kind of dust is used) and use them to attack his enemies or defend himself. These dust swords can usually take up to 3 hits, though with a heavy weapon it can only take 1 hit. He usually uses this to attack multiple enemies at once or hit the enemy multiple times. The cloned swords' damage output is less (By 25-40%) than the original sword. He can increase or decrease their durability by increasing their output but it would cost more aura to do so. Normally, his cloned swords take about 2% of his aura per sword and increased ones take 5% per sword. Depending on the dust used, there can be many effects (See above in weapon section.)

With his mastery of his semblance, he is able to have the clone swords attack in sync with his own as it follows the path of its attacks. He is also able to launch them to attack enemies from afar (similar to knives). The more blades he creates, the more aura is used (Created up to 25 at one point before running out of aura).

## Trivia

* Auriel is a Latin name meaning "gold" or "golden."

* Lucius means "Bringer of light" in Latin America.

* He is alluded to Charlemagne, the king and the creator of the twelve paladins of Charlemagne.
	+ He is respective leader of his inner circle (Aurora Guardians)
	+ He also wields a powerful sword as his primary weapon.
	+ His semblance was inspired by the respective allusion's Noble Phantasm from Fate Grand Order.

* When he was created, he was known as "Professor Light". This was changed to follow the CNR.

* Aurorae was an idea that was given to me by Samjay Unfunny since he helped me create a weapon that would suit Auriel.

* He was originally only a minor character within Inari's Backstory, though now he plays a bigger role in "Moonlight Stars" as a mentor and ally to Team MLIT.

* It is revealed that he is against drinking unless he is with other Aurora Guardians or celebrating at a huge event.

## Image Gallery

Auriel outfit by RofealAuriel (Thanks to Samjay)Auriel with Semblance (Thanks to Samjay)Auriel Tarot Card (Thanks to Noriben!)Auriel Headshot (Thanks to Rofeal)