Lance Drameus

> " The song connects us more than you know. We will meet again. Grow strong, my children "
>
> Lance Drameus, to his children when he and Katara depart for the Depths.

## Relationships

### Family:

Lorelai Drameus (Daughter)Kaladin Jaegen (Son)

### Other:

Winter Eko (Best Friend)
Inari Ixatoki (Close Friend)

## Description

One of the founding members of the Ruin Hunters, Lance Drameus is a Khan, and is extremely strong, wielding an armory of heavy weapons, including the Gran Sudaruska. Lance traveled initially with Winter Eko, Inari Ixatoki, and Katara Jaegen. He would go on to have two children with Katara. Following Inari's death, Lance travelled to the Hive to raise his children. Much later, he and Katara would travel to the Depths, seeking to obtain the Oath of the Visionshaper from the Nestmind, and in time would train with Akira whilst Katara searched for the entrance to Layer 3, seeking out Amorus Pleeksty.

## Early Life

Lance was born in 12XX to Lancelot and Pietra Drameus, in the Etrean Luminant, within the Temple of the Blade. His parents were both Blade Temple Guards. He learned the art of Frostdraw from his mother in his early years. He received training from the guards in a variety of weapons, ranging from a katana to a great sword. Lance was trained from a very young age, and by his early teenage years, he had developed a love for weaponry, training heavily, and becoming quite skilled at the young age. He was extremely specialized in the battle-axe, which had grown on him and was his preferred weapon by the end of his training. At sixteen, a very young age to leave home, Lance set out from home to begin adventuring, encouraged by his early, yet deep, knowledge of weaponry and Frostdraw. He sailed to Erisia, at the recommendation of his father to test his skills there.

## Forming the Ruin Hunters

Lance dominated the lowly bandits of Erisia, usually due to being completely underestimated. He took over and ran the bandit township in Middle Erisia, using it to store his riches. Lance would soon have it taken from him as easily as he obtained it, when the Knives of Eylis took it over. He was forced out, losing the most of the treasure he had horded there. While fighting a Megalodaunt, Lance would run into Winter Eko and Inari Ixatoki, quickly hitting it off with the two, noticing a flow in the way they fought together. He joined the two, and soon they had the idea to form a guild, and thus the Ruin Hunters were born.

## First Era

The three travelled around in Erisia a while longer, before they could no longer improve themselves there. Lance would stay behind to wrap up any affairs there while Inari and Winter went to sell an Artifact of the Forge to gather some money to travel to the Eastern Luminant. Lance would encounter a nest of Deep Owls during a full moon night in Erisia. He got extremely wounded, and was trying to escape when he came across Katara Jaegen. She helped him to escape, and nursed him to health. When the two returned to pick him up, they officially recruited Katara, before setting off to the Eastern Luminant, with Katara promising to meet them there when she finished business she had there. Lance was fascinated with the Owls he encountered, and sought out knowledge across various islands the stopped at on the way to the Eastern Luminant. They trained their for a month, defeating the various Songseekers. Katara would arrive there soon after, and the group set out to the Starswept Valley.