Licionio Albic

## Description

Licionio is a young man of very athletic built and above average height, with messy white hair and short braids.

**Height:** 187 cm

**Age:** 25

**Affiliation**: Siderati, Green Mayfly, Albic clan.

## Personality

Licionio is a kind and quiet person on the surface, but bears deep emotional scars from the massacre he survived, burdened with survivor's guilt yet also burdened with taking care of Veturio Albic. He shoulders himself alone with the burden to continue the Albic clan's survival with himself and Veturio, and even the protection of Siderati as a whole is one he feels rests on him. He deals with serious anxiety issues stemming from PTSD, which is easily triggered during battle if someone he cares about is in danger. His anxiety disrupts his Frigid Focus servitor, forcing him to retreat from combat if the anxiety grows too high.

He has the most trusted relationship with Vuuga Inisaya out of all the Green Mayfly members, and whenever he is inadequate she steps in to take on the burden. After their first meeting during the First Siege of Crathaldir, the two have saved eachother several times. He cares deeply about the other people in the Green Mayfly as well, seeing them as his own responsibility too, even though they are more like equals. Especially with Dagaric, he often goofs off when they can afford to not be serious.

## Backstory

The Albic clan used to be a proud lineage of martial artists in the border province of Ultyrel. They owned a large estate that housed much of the direct family. Licionio grew up on the Albic estate, so while he lived in relative wealth, he was also subject to intense training from a young age. He was always a prodigy, but yet he felt inadequate due to the crushing pressure placed upon him. At 16 years old, his marriage was arranged with a 17 year old girl from another wealthy family, Nives from the Suediva family. He and Nives never romantically clicked, but developed a mutual understanding and deep respect, and vowed to each help the other find their own happiness. However, when Licionio was 17 years old and his arranged marriage with Nives was organized, the Albic clan would find its downfall. Sudra Major had long been infuriated with the Albic clan's resistance and insolence, so the Sentruja family planned out an elaborate plan to eliminate them. On the day of Licionio's marriage, when all the family members would be present at one chaotic gathering, they would be most vulnerable. With several lines of attack, including indetectable poison in the water supply and food, and a well-executed ambush with powerful sorcerers, most of the Albic clan was wiped out in that afternoon slaughter. The only reason Licionio survived is because he was too tense to eat or drink anything that day. In the chaos of the battle that happened, Licionio's weakened father Aventanir told him to run and take Veturio with him, to flee far away and not look back. Deferring to his father's orders, he fled with Veturio under his arm, and the rest was wiped out, including Nives.

For a year he wandered the Siderati countryside, away from the border skirmishes and keeping Veturio safe, until he realized that no matter how much he would avoid the truth, keeping Veturio truly safe would not be possible if Sudra Major retook Siderati. So he went to the frontlines as a lone warrior until he met Vuuga Inisaya when he was 18 during the First Siege of Crathaldir. Both of them saved each other's lives and went on together afterwards.

## Sorcery

Licionio is a specialist divergence technique user, employing no conjuration at all. As a disciple of the Void Blade tradition, he has honed this martial arts style to its extreme. The Void Blade tradition uses Heat Void to rob the environment around him and adding the thermal energy to the sword and martial artist's body as kinetic energy. Mastering this energy conversion for efficient movement requires unreal precision and endless training, both of which Licionio excels at. When a Heat Void is triggered for this attack, the air rushes in and produces a roaring sound of a meters wide vacuum collapsing, a ''fake thunderclap''. When Licionio uses this technique seriously, this results in dozens of such ''fake thunderclaps'' per second, an ear-shatteringly loud roar like that of a Greatwyrm. This is why Licionio always wears ear covers during combat.

The Void Blade tradition was inherited from his now-destroyed Albic family clan, and he intends to hone it and teach it to the next generation to keep this martial arts school alive. His goal is to reach the height of skill that his father, Aventanir Albic, once reached.

However, Licionio is not a one-trick pony who merely relies on his swordsmanship. To keep up with his own terrifying speed, he has developed a mental servitor, *Frigid Focus*. *Frigid Focus* gets activated when Licionio readies a Heat Void, triggering the servitor to take over Licionio's eyes. His eyes transmutate during posession, and do not blink until *Frigid Focus* is retracted again. Frigid Focus is specialized for visual processing, and filters out any low-priority visual data in real-time, showing only those objects that are relevant in the next 100 miliseconds, calculated automatically. The visual data is then given to Licionio's brain slowed down, making him perceive everything in slow motion. This gives him time to to position his next Heat Void-powered lunge.

His other servitor is Inverted Heaven. Inverted Heaven fully separates from Licionio when active, but they are directly under his control and thus not autonomous. Inverted Heaven takes the form of 3 gigantic ghostly fishes that swim through the sky, being invisible to those that are not in Convergence. These fishes have a single technique, but a rather powerful one. Each ghostly fish can generate a sustained Heat Void far more powerful than Licionio can, but the usage of the Heat Void is predetermined. They steal heat and convert it into kinetic energy drawn to their center, which accumulates a huge chunk of ice when used inside clouds. Inverted Heaven is used to turn parts of clouds into these giant chunks of ice in the stratosphere, just to drop them on enemy troops or important locations, demolishing them with pure kinetic energy. Licionio can control Inverted Heaven with a distance up to 5 km.

Besides his two categories of servitors, Licionio has another advanced divergence technique: *Numbing Gaze*. Numbing Gaze is activated by making a finger circle over his eye, which then projects his eye as a spiritual eye far above him. The usage for Numbing Gaze is rather specialized, as it was made as a counter to the great Sudra Major archmage Boldizsar Sentruja. Boldizsar projects his monstrous conjuration power all over the empire's reaches with his six linked orbs, providing trouble wherever he decides to help. Numbing Gaze can intercept the waves of undifferentiated Arcanum as they travel through the air, allowing Licionio to interrupt Boldizsars powerful boons of might to other sorcerers. It can also be used to counter other spells cast at a distance, such as Brimstone Burst.