Kystin Lawrence

**Kystin "Brenda" Jean Lawrence**, is a minor deuroganist in the game, Somber Elegy: Broken Dreams. She is found frozen in a block of ice within the Nalu's Temple in the Far North. She, along with several others, went to find this temple within the mountains, that she claimed she found in town. Months go by and her captain, A.S. Khaamar, decided to see what went wrong after her and her party never returned after being gone for three months.

## Biography

Kystin was born in Yanese, the capital of Utefue, under the Lawrence name, though she was given up for adoption. Though Utefue didn't have a great adoption agency at the time, she fell through the cracks, and was forgotten as no one really wanted her. The agency she was at decided to raise her as best as they could. For years she struggled with reading and writing, though she quickly gained momentum in succeeding as an agency worker would help her along the way. The agency worker told her that they will be removing her the next day, though she must not worry as the worker brought her home.

At the age of 7, Kystin was brought into a loving family who deeply cared about her. Brenda was able to breathe a sigh of relief as she has a home now, even though they aren't her true family. Though she loved them as much.

At a very young age, she began having dreams of discovering the past, and what Aurelia used to be like. She wanted to uncover the secrets this world held. She would always talk about history to her new mother, and was very supportive if Kystin ever wanted to go out and explore. Kystin was thinking long and hard for several days, she would tell her new mother that she will be leaving when she felt the time was right.

When she was the age of 13, Kystin left home, after hugging her new family, and promising them that she'll see them again in the years to come when she can, she promptly told her family that she will always love them and thanked them for taking her in. She sailed over to Aurelia to begin her dream. At first it was a struggle to find a job in that line of work. Though she managed to find a small expedition group led by the self-proclaimed "best expeditioner" A.S Khaamar. She was given the grunt work during most expeditions, but she rose through the ranks quick as she made herself a good asset from her experience as a kid of hunting and history.

She and A.S Khaamar, both started a good friendship as both had a knack for uncovering secrets and being people of great knowledge. As time went on, A.S Khaamar would later adopt Kystin as he always thought of her as the daughter he never had, but always wanted. Together they went on a multitude of expeditions across the world.

### **Kystin's Expeditions**

#### Hybyythia Expedition

Sometime in the year 75 AD, Kystin and Khaamar were researching the lost continent of Hybyythia. Some locals of Utefue claimed that it's in the Letawa Expanse, but no one will ever traverse that far due to no islands as far as the eye can see. Though with lack of sufficient evidence of it even existing, they pressed on to the Letawa Expanse and sailed for a few days.

While on the journey to find this lost continent, they discovered a very dense fog. They noticed that it doesn't seem to move, like it's stagnant. They pressed on into the fog slowly as they believe they discovered the lost continent. While traversing through, they come out on the other side and into a mountainous island with jagged peaks. They soon discover that the cities are built within the mountains to hide from intruders. Believing the place to be abandoned and possibly dangerous, they left to back home.

#### Hell's Reach Expedition

Sometime during the year 78 AD, just a few years after the expedition to Hybyythia, Kystin and Khaamar both went on an expedition to the fabled dangerous, Hell's Reach to explore the unforgiving wasteland. Whist traversing through, they discovered that human civilization used to thrive all the way down south. They believed to have found the ruins of the Autumn Wall and remnants of some fortresses.

Several months into the expedition they made it to the beginning of what they call the True Hell's Reach. Kystin says that the sky is black with a purplish hue. The monsters that dwell within this terrain she claims to be very dangerous, more so than the ones found normally. The expedition was cut short afterwards, as the team was slowly dying due to the elements.

#### The Far North Expedition

Eleven years pass by, Khaamar and Kystin both want to go back out, and explore one last undiscovered region, known as the Far North. For these eleven years they both have been researching, and trying to tail one of the Four True Enlightened, named Nalu. They pinpointed her supposed last location that they believe to be this cold region far north from Shandoria. They gathered nearly 25 people to come along, with a promise of recognition in history.

They soon made it to the Far North and established a small settlement within the woods. A few months pass by, and Kystin notices a temple on the mountain that they haven't seen before. When she points it out, no one can see it, even though she can. She brings Khaamar and a couple others to the spot where she found it, and they all see it. They all plan a small party to head over to the temple.

Within a few days, Kystin and her party found the temple at the peak out of mountainside. Kystin advises her party that they should seek refuge within as a blizzard has started to overwhelm them. A few hours later Kystin noticed her party began to succumb to something. They were hostile to her and each other. Kystin mercy killed her team, and is alone within the empty halls. She believed that she'll die here. In her final moments, she froze herself to go into reanimation with the thought that she'll never wake up.

### **The Orb Search**

Whist discovering the orbs of the True Enlightened, Katelynn and her party found Kystin's frozen body. Katelynn senses life within her, and sets her free from her icy tomb. Kystin is astonished to see that she is free, and that people came and found her. Confused, Katelynn tells her that she's here for the orb, and that she doesn't know who she is. Kystin says that she was from an expedition team, and that it's been a few hours since she's been asleep. Katelynn breaks the news that it's the Year 236 AD, and that if she who she says she is, she's 176 years old. Kystin breaks down a bit from this information, knowing that her adoptive father, Khaamar, and her new mother in Utefue are dead.

After helping Katelynn defeat the Prisoner and unlocking the secrets of Nalu's Temple, Kystin decides to be with Katelynn's party until they reach back to Nunavut Bay. Kystin tells Katelynn that it's been a pleasure meeting her, and thanks her for freeing her and helping her. She then tells them that she'll be sailing back to Utefue, to see if anyone even remembers her.