Faluel

**Faluel** is a 7-headed Hydra Emperor Beast who presides over the Distar Marquisate and is Lith, Quylla, Phloria, Tista, Friya, and Nalrond's current Master. She is also Fyrwal's daughter.

## Appearance

### Human Form

Faluel looks like a young woman in her mid 20's. Her face has an oval shape, with rainbow-colored eyes and waist-long light brown hair that frames her fine features and have the 6 colors of the elements as well as the emerald green of pure mana. The simple grace of her slender body seem to be perfectly attuned with her demeanor, making the final result much more stunning than the sum of the single parts. Her voice sounds reassuring like that of an old friend and her oddly colored hair is easy on the eyes. She wears a pink shirt that leaves her arm exposed and tight pants resembling jeans.

Her legs are shorter than Phloria's, she is less curvy than Friya, and her face doesn't look as chiseled as Tista's, but she can easily be called a perfectly imperfect beauty. The grace with which her slender body moves along with the warmth of her voice emphasizes Faluel as a whole, making the final result much more stunning than the sum of the single parts.

### Hydra Form

The Hydra has a stocky lower body with four short legs and a heavy tail. Both are necessary to balance her long, serpentine necks ending with a snake-like head the size of a muscle car. Her whole body is covered in deep green scales the size of a house. Her short, stumpy body is as wide as a building and as sturdy as a mountain. It allows her to move nimbly on the ground despite her size. On top of that, by shifting the weight on her four legs, she can keep the balance even when her seven snake heads and their respective long necks move in completely different directions. Each one of her seven heads has its scales streaked of a different color and their eyes shine with different elemental mana. Faluel towers at a height of 20 meters (66 feet).

### Hybrid Form

Faluel's hybrid form can be considered a Dragon-Hydra hybrid. Her body is not humanoid but covered in thick emerald scales, about 3.5 meters (11'6") tall. She has seven snake heads, each one on a serpentine neck over four times longer than a human's allowing them to look in every direction. Both her hands and feet end with razor-sharp claws and she has a set of membranous wings on her back.

As she wasn't born with wings, Faluel needed to practice a lot to get used to flying. She only uses the hybrid form when forced to fight in enclosed spaces since it's better than the human form but still inferior to her Hydra form.

### Life Force

Faluel's life force looks like a bright violet star that burns with power. The surface of the star is never still, featuring what look like solar flares and eruptions. It is comprised of countless streams of energy that flow into each other countering their respective effects and allowing the star to keep its form stable despite the apparent chaos. In her human form, the star is still violet and its power unchanged, just smaller and reshaped to look like a human's life force. However, instead of lego bricks and an erector set, it is still made of energy streams - all the excess mass is stored in a compressed star identical to the original that is located where the human heart is supposed to be.

Her hybrid form's life force looks like a violet star again, but not a perfect sphere - it has bumps and dents that alter the path of the energy streams, making them move awkwardly, though just on the surface. Underneath, the star is still compressed and in its original form. The bumps are the alterations she needs to look more like a Dragon and less like a Hydra.

## Personality

Faluel hates cold in general and winter in particular. She often spends the cold season asleep unless it is strictly necessary otherwise.

## Abilities

Faluel's breathing technique is called **Lifestream**. She is a talented Healer because with her seven heads, she alone can do the work of six Healers at the same time, seven if it's a real crisis, though she usually prefers to keep one head free to use Invigoration.

Faluel is an excellent cook since her offspring usually have more than one mouth to feed.

## Equipment

Faluel has an elegant suit of armor made of Adamant that is as light as silk but sturdier than a mountain. It has mana crystals of different colors on its gloves, shoulder pads, chest, and tights that power up its power core. The armor can grow in size with her, covering even her Hydra body, and changes color according to the element that Faluel needs to boost. Whenever a ray of light touches it, a small rainbow appears.

After the events in Lightkeep, Lith gifts Faluel the Hands of Menadion to protect herself as one of the recipients of the Balkor cards.

### Forgemastering Lab

In her lair Faluel has a Forgemastering lab with heavy Adamant tools and a forge entirely made with Davross. She has a heavy set of blacksmith clothes, comprised of an overall, a lab coat, and a pair of gloves. All of them are crafted from the red scales of one of her heads that she sheds which are imbued with her 300 years of fire mana and offer great protection from heat.

The smithy of the Hydra is nothing like Zekell's. A complex system of arrays keeps all kinds of heat contained, no matter natural, magical, or Origin Flames based. A huge hole in the middle of the lab channels molten lava from the depths of Mogar inside the furnace, where it is used in the place of charcoal to keep the temperature steady.

## Background

Faluel's nest lies under the Black Scar, one of the rare mountains in the southern Griffon Kingdom that takes its name from the obsidian rocks covering most of its surface. It had once been a volcano, now reduced to steaming hot springs. The rest of the underground cave is decorated with piles of gold and precious gemstones mixed in with small mounds of magic crystals, as well as all the artifacts she had collected and Forgemastered over the centuries stored in a locked crystal case.

Whenever the Griffon Kingdom went to war, she offered her services for a price, both as a warrior and Forgemaster.

Faluel gained her 7th head once she became a fully developed Emperor Beast, around her 60's.

After Balkor's attack, Protector seeks out Faluel to learn about Healing and Forgemastering. He works for her for a year before she accepts him as an apprentice, taking jobs such as killing rogue Magical Beasts, human hunters that harmed her forest, or even dealing with Abominations. Faluel later sends Protector to help Lith in Zantia. Lith's posing as a Wyrmling using his Hybrid Form alerts Xedros, the Beast Lord of the Kellar Region, who contacts Faluel asking if he is one of her offspring and she lies, claiming Lith is her friend's disciple.

Protector invites Lith to meet Faluel, who had expressed interest in his Wyrmling form and Origin Flames, as well as his ability to create an Orichalcum Skinwalker armor without using runes. When Raagu Drerian attempts to bring Lith into the human side of the Awakened Council, Faluel appears with Protector and rebuffs Raagu, claiming Lith as one of their own. She invites Lith to visit her lair where she imparts on him several lessons on Origin Flames, Dominance, Spirit Magic, and runes, and offers him an apprenticeship. Faluel's arrogant son Sedra makes an appearance and attempts to attack Lith out of jealousy, forcing Faluel to concede additional knowledge to Lith and to kick Sedra out of the house until he finds a master willing to Awaken him.

When Lith returns from Laruel to inform Faluel of the threat Erlik the Draugr Treant poses to the Awakened, she warns him that he has become a target of ambition and resentment for all young Awakened due to his feats and killing of Gaaron, but promises to protect his family. She proceeds to explain the nature of the World Tree and its Saplings, and how Erlik could potentially learn the secret of Awakening.

Lith accepts Faluel's apprenticeship offer and willingly introduces him to Xedros for guidance on Light Mastery and Origin Flames. Faluel also helps deliver Selia's third child and occasionally helps babysit for Selia and Ryman. After Dawn's defeat, Lith informs Faluel of the Horseman's escape and she warns him to be prepared the moment he concludes his Ranger duty. She also promises to help Protector with accommodating Nalrond.

Faluel reveals she knows about Solus from Scarlett, meeting her and promising to mentor her as well. She informs Lith of the Three Horsemen and warns him of the potential power play in the Council by the humans and undead. She offers him a plan to gain the beasts' support. When Rena is pregnant with triplets, Lith diagnoses one of the children with the Strangler, a common respiratory disease. Lith, Quylla, Marth, and Vastor fail to devise a procedure to save both the children and mother so Lith asks for Faluel's help. She recruits Nalrond, Quylla, and Lith to successfully cure the boy, later delivering the babies without any side effects. Rena decides to name the boy she saved Falco in Faluel's honor.

### Awakened Academy

Lith approaches Faluel about taking in Phloria and Quylla in as apprentices and shows her the sword War he received from Orion. She praises the work and tells him about the two wills imbued in it. She accompanies him to his Council trial where she expresses support for him joining the beast's side, and veils War as a gift from her. She orders him to reveal his Hybrid Form, validating his predisposition to beasts. She explains the results of the Council's decision to Lith, though doesn't try to force Lith into joining a side.

After Lith successfully passes the trial, he shows Faluel the gravity ring he had gotten from Kulah. Faluel promises to help decipher the runes to improve the gravity field into an energy field, though warns that the process will take a long time due to Awakened's penchant for monopolizing secrets.

Lith brings the Ernas sisters to Faluel's lair at the start of his apprenticeship. She agrees to teach Quylla on the condition that she gets full access to her Grimoire and has monopoly over any of Quylla's discoveries. She declines Friya's offer to become her Harbinger but decides to treat her as one, though warns her to show the proper resolve being one entails.

Faluel reveals Constable Tyris Griffon as the Guardian Tyris and explains the Guardians' role as Mogar's will. She proceeds to give a lesson in shapeshifting and explains about world tribulations. The next day she introduces them to Spirit Magic and its applications, and learns about Royal Forgemastering wands, which lets fakes mages use Spirit Magic. Morok Eari stumbles on her doorstep and leaves after convincing Quylla to a date, though is roughly Warped away to an unknown location for his rude behavior.

Nalrond teaches Faluel, Lith, and Solus Light Mastery in exchange for Healing and magic lessons. Faluel succeeds in conjuring hard-light constructs thanks to her 7 heads and experience. While away on vacation with Scarlett and Feela, Nalrond contacts her and the beasts realize their contact has been cut off from Lutia and their lairs sealed, prompting them to rush back. In the aftermath, Faluel helps save Nalrond's life using the spell Quylla traded her.

#### Test of Wisdom

Faluel praises Lith for crafting the Scalewalker Armor. At her request, Lith tells Faluel more about himself, his life, goals, ideals, etc. She approaches Friya, providing an ultimatum - leave and perhaps pursue a career with her father, or possibly become Faluel's Harbinger (the latter of which would result in Friya's death if she chooses to back out afterwards). Friya chooses the latter, and Faluel gifts her an Adamant Forgemastering hammer. Faluel gives Lith, Tista, and Phloria the cure to the Jiera plague before facilitating a meeting with Tyris and Leegaain, who Warp them to the Jiera continent.

Nalrond decides to bring Quylla and Friya to his people's Fringe, and Morok tags along. After barely escaping from the hostile Dewan werefolk tribe and a army of elves, Friya contacts Faluel for help, who reaches the Blood Desert through Asphodus the Roc's lair and Warps them away. Upon Lith's group's return to Garlen, Faluel greets them along with Tyris and Leegaain. Tyris informs them of her intent to use their success to revitalize the Royal Courts and Faluel being their mentor as a bridge between humans and beasts.

Lith and Solus question Faluel about her involvement in sending them to the Lost City of Kolga. She confirms that she'd hoped they would be sent there and be cured of their conditions, but reassures them she hadn't intended on them suffering. She shows how Lith's life forces have further mixed and he is close to the violet core, though can't say more as their methods are too similar. Following the allegations of him being Lith's father, Leegaain visits Lutia for a blood test from Lith's parents and seeks out Faluel as a witness.

#### Blood Test

Faluel informs Leegaain that Lith and his parents are away on bootcamp/vacation, and rebukes Leegaain for his part in sending Lith to Kolga for a tribulation. Leegaain convinces her to escort him to the Flying Griffon resort where the Verhens are on vacation after asking Salaark to send a stand-in for Lutia's protection. Salaark sends Crevan Gershal, but Faluel isn't convinced until he brings two other members of the nest Lenanna and Jhet. The pair make their way to the Flying Griffon Resort, where they see many thralls mingling. Leegaain introduces himself to Elina and Raaz and asks for a blood sample, but Elina strikes Leegaain and kicks him in the gonads, having been told by Lith that Leegaain likely sent them to Jiera knowing about the potential tribulation.

Leegaain explains that if he proves Lith isn't of his blood, his enemies would leave Lith alone. Faluel vouches for his reasoning, as does Tyris who suddenly arrives. Elina accepts and Leegaain makes an emergency summons of the Council and the Jiera and Garlen Guardians. The Blood Resonance spell confirms Raaz and Elina's blood relation to Lith but contrary to expectation Lith's beast life force identifies Leegaain and Salaark as his kin.

#### Balkor Copycat

Faluel finds a Balkor copycat card marked "Present" nailed to a tree in front of her house, right outside the range of her arrays. Nok, Nyka, Kalla, and Scarlett visit Faluel's lair when Lith returns for his apprenticeship, and after informing him of the events with Leegaain, congratulate him on his newly discovered heritage. As the Awakened Council is going to war with the Undead Courts, people like Kalla are tasked with teaching others about undead. Kalla gives a lecture on undead's nature and the difference between Baba Yaga's children and Liches. Lith shares his conversation with Mogar and Abomination origin with Faluel and Kalla. The two insist he is perfectly acceptable as he is and warn him away from Chaos magic.

The Awakened academy resumes. Faluel teaches Morok, Lith, and Solus the basics of true Domination, and discovers Morok's Tyrannical Eye technique taught to him by his father Glemos was slowly poisoning his life force and mana core with each use. Faluel lends Nalrond her improved version of the Royal Forgemastering wand to practice Spirit Magic with when Faluel introduces Spirit Mastery. She has them practice enhancing and manifesting elements of their mana.

Faluel is accompanying Scarlett and Kalla's family to Lutia's Blackest Day evening fair, when the news of Count Lark's death reaches them, cancelling the festivities. The next day, Faluel offers her condolences, but brings up the issue of Friya being a liability due to the Balkor cards. To resolve this, she Awakens Friya, granting her a deep blue core, a perfectly refined body, and manifesting the six colors of the elements in her hair. She gathers her Awakened apprentices for the formal Council meeting where they are met by Salaark who performs the Blood Imprint on Lith, proving his Phoenix relation.

Qisal the Wyvern provokes Lith, initiating a Spirit Duel. Lith's self-enlightenment for the violet core allows him to level the playing field and defeat Qisal. Before Xedros leaves in anger, he allows Sedra to meet with Faluel. Sedra reconciles with his mother for his past actions. Faluel later vouches for Parmegianno Haug after Lith and Kamila are lured to his tavern, confirming that it is a neutral zone for Awakened.

The Three Horsemen lead attacks on major cities of the Kingdom. Faluel informs the Council, which sends several members as reinforcements. Marchioness Distar contacts Faluel to make sure Lith's family is safe, and theorizes that the Balkor copycat will likely strike again soon. After Mirim's murder by the copycat Faluel helps put Kamila in contact with Lith, though feels the sudden need for a boyfriend after witnessing the couple's intimacy.

Faluel learns of Sedra's death at Xedros' hands, closing herself inside her lair for several days to grieve. The Council offers her reparation out of guilt but Faluel blames them and the Guardians' bloodlines for their carelessness which led to so many youths being deceived for Thrud's experiments. She only allows visits from her friends and Lith, the latter whom shares his new ice cream invention. Lith gifts Faluel the Hands of Menadion to protect herself as one of the recipients of the Balkor cards. She advises him on his relationship with Kamila and developing a new breathing technique suitable for his new form as a Tiamat.

Faluel resumes her lessons and teaches gravity fusion. She assigns Lith to purify her magic metals with Origin Flames per their agreement and shows him how to use Domination on Origin Flames to help the purification process. She lets him overexert himself to show the consequences of abusing the Flames in a controlled environment. Lith shows her the salvage of Darwen he had obtained from Gremus the Rock Worm years prior hoping to make something with it, and Faluel explains its relationship with Davross.

As the new year starts after the winter solstice, Lith ceases his Domination lessons and joins the others in physical training in his Tiamat form. He stays behind after lessons to help Faluel purify magical metals and enters sparring sessions with Faluel, Feela, or one of Faluel's Council friends. Faluel explains Blade spells to Solus and shows them footage of the Kingdom's founders from the When All Are One Spirit array, revealing her relationship as Fyrwal's daughter.

Faluel attends the Royal Gala as Lith's date and is introduced as a member of one of the Kingdom's founding families, though her Emperor Beast nature is hidden. When their relation is brought up, Faluel teases Lith about what their children would look like. At the end of the gala, Lith and the Ernas are visiting the Gardens of Saefel when Quylla is suddenly killed by one of the Lost Magi Tiennon Zavra. Lith manages to kill Zavra, but the Ernas mourn Quylla's passing. Faluel suspends lessons to grieve in her lair.

Faluel and the others celebrate when they learn news of Quylla being alive, the decoy being part of Jirni's deception. With Thrud gaining a large army of bloodline legacies and former Council disciples, the Council decides to organize a test for their apprentices to help them learn to work together and test how trustworthy they are. They fabricate a replica of the ancient city of Urgamakka and Faluel sends Lith and Phloria.

Lith shares the discovery of the Gargoyles' energy core with the other apprentices and Faluel, earning him merits. She reassures him that Aalejah the elf is trustworthy as one of the World Tree's Chroniclers. After the test, Faluel informs him that he and Phloria passed the test with flying colors, and that once he learns the knowledge gained from Urgamakka, he will be released from his apprenticeship.

Faluel's class is halved due to the Verhens and Friya visiting the Blood Desert and Phloria resting from Urgamakka, allowing her to focus on Quylla and Nalrond. With Morok forced into hiding from his estranged father Glemos after his Awakening, Faluel sends Protector, Quylla, and Nalrond on a mission with Morok to help Ajatar the Drake lure out Glemos. They go to subjugate monster tribes in the Weghan region.

The Verhens being away relieves the Hydra from her duty of protecting Lutia. She leaves her lair along with Protector and his family right after he returns from the mission in Ajatar's turf, temporarily moving to the Gorgon Empire. This leaves her out of reach during the Balkor copycat's attack on Lutia. After Lith's departure from Lutia, Faluel decides to bring Protector and his family to visit her family. Meanwhile, Faluel, Fyrwal, and Jiza Gernoff actively begin preparing countermeasures due to the increasing threat of the Balkor copycat after they invade Lutia and survive an encounter with Tezka. Jiza shares her information on the copycat and requests they help protect Jirni using their relationship with Lith as a cover.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 776: Powerhouse (Part 2)
2. ↑ Chapter 1258: Heroes and Masterminds (Part 2)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 777: Secrets and Ignorance (Part 1)
4. ↑ Chapter 1047: Harbingers (Part 1)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 1350: White Streaks (Part 2)
6. ↑ Chapter 1073: Foolishness and Wisdom (3)
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Chapter 1055: Shapeshifting (Part 3)
8. ↑ Chapter 1054: Shapeshifting (Part 2)
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Chapter 568: Master and Apprentice (Part 2)
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 778: Secrets and Ignorance (Part 2)
11. ↑ Note: in a Q&A Legion has stated that Abyssal Gaze is a mistake and her technique is called Lifestream.
12. ↑ Chapter 916: Blood Ties (Part 2)
13. ↑ Chapter 1336: Artificial Mana Flow (Part 2)
14. ↑ Chapter 1351: Pecking Order (Part 1)
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chapter 1426: Filling the Void (Part 2)
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Chapter 1434: Domination and Flames (Part 2)
17. ↑ Chapter 1435: Davross and Darwen (Part 1)
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Chapter 586: Lost and Found (Part 2)
19. ↑ Chapter 784: Gifts and Knowledge (Part 2)
20. ↑ Chapter 826: World Tree (Part 2)
21. ↑ Chapter 854: Xedros (Part 2)
22. ↑ Chapter 900: The Red Sun (Part 2)
23. ↑ Chapter 912: Apprenticeship for Two (Part 2)
24. ↑ Chapter 920: Spirit and Light Magic (Part 2)
25. ↑ Chapter 924: Birthdays (Part 2)
26. ↑ Chapter 970: Time to Move (Part 2)
27. ↑ Chapter 991: Questions and Answers (Part 1)
28. ↑ Chapter 995: Peerless Predator (Part 1)
29. ↑ Chapter 998: Treasure from the Past (Past 2)
30. ↑ Chapter 1049: Gods and Guardians (Part 1)
31. ↑ Chapter 1065: The Source of All Spells (Part 1)
32. ↑ Chapter 1075: Core Principles (Part 1)
33. ↑ Chapter 1083: Royal Summon (Part 1)
34. ↑ Chapter 1099: Mourning the Dead (Part 1)
35. ↑ Chapter 1120: The Calm after the Storm (Part 2)
36. ↑ Chapter 1126: A Forgemaster’s Pride (Part 2)
37. ↑ Chapter 1130: Thinking Ahead (Part 2)
38. ↑ Chapter 1132: Council Duty (Part 2)
39. ↑ Chapter 1232: Mana Poisoning (Part 2)
40. ↑ Chapter 1259: Faluel’s Plan (Part 1)
41. ↑ Chapter 1260: Faluel’s Plan (Part 2)
42. ↑ Chapter 1288: Away from Home (Part 2)
43. ↑ Chapter 1303: Bloodlines and Powers (Part 1)
44. ↑ Chapter 1308: Parents and Donors (Part 2)
45. ↑ Chapter 1325: Royal Summon (Part 1)
46. ↑ Chapter 1342: Monsters Among Us (Part 2)
47. ↑ Chapter 1346: Into Blackest Night (Part 2)
48. ↑ Chapter 1355: Parents and Gifts (Part 1)
49. ↑ Chapter 1361: The Verhen Mansion (Part 1)
50. ↑ Chapter 1367: Travelling Tavern (Part 3)
51. ↑ Chapter 1390: High-Master (Part 2)
52. ↑ Chapter 1404: Shared Misery (Part 2)
53. ↑ Chapter 1437: Family Time (Part 1)
54. ↑ Chapter 1451: Endless Training (Part 1)
55. ↑ Chapter 1461: Old and New Friends (Part 1)
56. ↑ Chapter 1477: Lost Magus (Part 3)
57. ↑ Chapter 1494: Masters and Apprentices (Part 2)
58. ↑ Chapter 1504: Early Rankings (Part 2)
59. ↑ Chapter 1532: Unveiling the Truth (Part 2)
60. ↑ Chapter 1551: Mutated Monsters (Part 1)
61. ↑ Chapter 1575: Nightmares and Reality (Part 1)
62. ↑ Chapter 1618: Down Memory Lane (Part 2)