Sev/Biography

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### Childhood

During the Blood War, Sev was a toddler. His parents, Alys and Sevono, were enlisted as Riders, and they were happy in their life in a farm. However, they sacrificed themselves to obliterate a force threatening everyone. Sev couldn't come to terms to this, but he followed their instructions to flee and get everyone else (including Kade) to run. He never forgave his parents for condemning him to a runaway's life.

Sev was forced to steal from bakers and other foodmongers, and was eventually caught colliding with a merchant, and arrested him. Instead of going to jail, he chose to enlist instead, and joined the army.

### Crown of Feathers

He escorts llamas along with bondservants, including Trix and Kade. Ott asks him to stay there, and he obliges. Sev has a conversation with a bondservant, who berates him for being a soldier. As the group reaches a cabin, they attempt to raid it. Sev finds Veronyka, but in a un-soldierlike move, doesn't attack her, instead telling her to run after knowing what Jotham and Ott would do to her, a vulnerable possible animage. He also finds Xephyra, but again says nothing. Sev wonders if she is a Phoenix Rider, and asks as much. She only replies with a grin. Suddenly he is grabbed from behind and threatened by his own dagger by Val.

Val sizes up Sev, calling him a coward, and finally releases him, but takes his knife. He returns to his campground, and can't stop feeling like his knife is still resting right where Val was holding it, this could be shadow magic at work, but this is not confirmed. Sev is confused and shaken at Xephyra and Veronyka, knowing that if he runs into more innocents like them, he might not get a lucky break. That night he runs into the woods, but runs into Trix instead. She asks him to get down her pigeon, and he does, revealing to her that he is indeed an animage. Trix gives him a bag of gold, and offers him an escape - if he works for her. Kade steps in and talks to Trix, and they all go along with her plan.

In the following time, he started to regret the deal, and felt it was more like blackmail. No one notices him and the two bondservants as working together. He talks with Trix about her past, and she reveals her connection to Avalkyra. As the unit moves along the Sekvia, he thinks about how he hasn't been getting much sleep, and how he is starting to admire Kade, but Kade insults him for being a soldier, implying that Kade feels that Sev should've been a bondservant too.

Later, he is escorting a llama, and a mean one at that, but it dies. They return to camp, and Kade is blamed for it, ignoring Sev, but Sev takes the blame. He gets stuck with pack animal duty, and later talks with Trix about his backstory, and officially joins Trix's Avalkyran Liberation Army.

A few days later he helps Trix brew poison from Pyraflora, or fire blossoms, and inquires on who she is. She explains her backstory, and explains her name, Trix which was taken in honor of her bondmate, Bella*trix.* Later that week, they move along and Kade talks with Sev. The food was poisoned that night, and people got sick as a result. His crossbow is picked up by Kade, who aims it straight at where he thinks is his heart, but is actually Jotham's. Jotham dies, and Kade hides the corpse, and it is revealed that a llama nearby has a ton of phoenix eggs. He leaves the soldiers to deliver them to the Riders.

He rounds a corner to find Belden attacking Trix with an ax, and Trix proclaiming "She lives." to all. In a desperate attempt to leave, he jumps off some rocks into a river. He makes it. In the Invasion of Azurec's Eyrie, he's injured and visited by Veronyka while he's recovering in the Axuran Temple. He also meets Cassian, and wonders at the opportunity to join the Riders. He rejoins the army as a spy. The eggs are stolen by Val.

### Heart of Flames

A few days later, he recaps the events to himself, and is currently in a mansion; Rolan's, infirmary wing. Sev also grumbles about how he rejoined the army he doesn't like. He also remembers his conversation with Cassian. The arrangement is in is that he has a top-notch healer, plus servants that he can summon at the ring of a bell.

Sev is hailed as a hero by the Auran Empire. He meets with Lord Rolan himself. They have wine, and Rolan talks about his plan and how only two members of Sev's unit survived: Officer Yara and Sev himself. His assigned mission is to root out unloyal bondservants and regular servants. Sev (reluctantly) agrees. After Rolan leaves, he starts penning a letter to Cassian. Four days following that, he meets Rolan again in Rolan's living area (As opposed to Sev's room), but in a storage closet/interrogation room. A bunch of bondservants come in. Alastor, Rolan's guard, lets in a bondservant. Five come in, including Ulric, who yells about Sev and his true loyalties, but Rolan pays no heed. Ulric gets charged, and Sev leaves. Kade comes by and Sev alibis for him by saying he saved Sev's life. Kade is escorted out.

Hestia, his healer, comes in and Kade does too, apparently treated well. They talk about Trix, and Sev reveals he has The Lockbox. They decide the best course of action is to get familiar with the mansion. After they saw Bertram, Kade mentions that Bertram was once a bondservant, but was freed because he was a cousin. They also talk openings as spies. Hestia checks on him. He thinks of listening on the balcony meetings of Rolan and his allies. Meanwhile Hestia tells him about Cassian in his youth. Anthony gives him orange liquor to stop pain. Kade and Sev talk. They go onto the roof. Later they hear news: A shipment is leaving. Phoenixes suddenly burst in (Val on Ignix, and Sidra on her bondmate), and they wonder why they're here, even though Cassian said nothing of it. He sends him a letter asking him to explain.

Cassian reports that a Silverwood attack happened, and that they weren't his organization's. He gets debated over he's ready for duty again, Yara saying that he hasn't been cleared yet and another commander saying he is ready. Hestia checks in again. Sev says to Hestia to stop coddling him, as she is reminded of her own dead duo of sons and husband. Kade comes in after Hestia for the third time. He tells Sev that he (Sev) is going to help start a war, even if he doesn't want to. Dillon or Dill wants to talk to Sev, and Dill gives him a mug of ale. He wants Sev to help route the army to Runnet. They plan the attack. Sev again runs into Kade, who talks to him. He notes that Kade calls him neither 'Sevro' or 'Soldier'. Kade had planned to leave, but Sev begged him to stay. The next morning, he realizes that Kade stayed with him. His regiment moves, and goes back to where Veronyka's Cabin is, except that they don't live here anymore. Sev knows that 'the girl with the phoenix' was Veronyka with Xephyra, but not who the girl who threatened him was, who was Val. Dill, prioritizing speed and stealth, decides not to sack and pillage with his unit. Sev remembers the events of the cabin's raid. They plan to draw the Phoenix Riders into another battle. He goes to find Kade, and notes that the bondservants would probably be having their own Blood War anniversary celebration. Kade walks up to him and he realizes that his bond with Kade is beyond the romantic. He asks if Kade is with Mia, the hostler's daughter.

The next day they cross the fields, and Dill says proudly that they'll easily sack Hillsbridge - Sev's hometown. They do and Sev is very uncomfortable. He notes that it's rebuilt, but not nearly as big as it once was. He's in a daze, and marches through homes, never killing, but his partner, a var veteran (most likely from the Blood War like Yara), kills a ton. He's snapped out of his daze when Kade, in full soldier gear, comes in. He tells Sev that the Animage Captives of Ferro are planning to get captured and used as bait. A man attacks Kade with a spear after telling kids to run. The spear goes through Kade's abdomen. He runs, and collides with a perimeter guard. Kade still with him, he checks Kade into the Healer's Tent. Kade wakes up.

Veronyka tells them to escort animages away. They go, and try to free Riella. They lockpick her cell and free her and the other captives. The next day, Sev gets a call for help psychically from Veronyka to free Xephyra. He tells Kade, and they find her. Sidra starts trying to shoot them with arrows. Sev tackles her, and pins Sidra. Kade and Sev talk. He goes back for a second horse. They kiss. Both ride on the same saddle at the same time to get Riella to the Riders. They encounter Beryk, and Kade tells Beryk to get Riella to the Eyrie, but he needs to stay in the barely inhabited Foothills. Sev sends a letter to Kade sometime later. He remains a spy in the empire for the Riders.

### Wings of Shadow

*Coming soon.*

1. ↑ Heart of Flames, page 343