Theodore Santiago

Theodore Santiago is a half-elf Bladesinging Arcane Knight who protects the innocent from the back of Hyperion, his bronze dragon familiar. The youngest in the Luneheim family and first in line for the throne of January; Theo mostly ignores the court of his heritage. Instead, he has devoted his life to being the closest thing to a modern "Knight Errant" traveling from country to country fighting injustice where ever he goes . When he has worked himself to the bone, or when money runs out, he returns to Irian Investigations to act as an Obviator.

## Birth

The night Rosalyn Santiago was to deliver to her infant son Theo, his father Thrane Luneheim sent assassins to kill them both in a heartless act of murder. Among the assassins was his half brother Azadiel who, upon hearing what he was meant to do that night, renounced his title as prince and swore to protect his infant brother.

Azadiel then fought his way out of the castle and through the planar gate toward earth, barely escaping with his life. Thanks to the manipulation of probability by Dr.Silas when he dropped his coin in central park, Azadiel was able to get ahead of Teddy's would-be assassins with the help of Radigan Investigations and together they found Rosalyn in the lair of Skytharixx the Green.

Azadiel rescued her along with several others who had been taken by the dragon-king of the underground, and after teleporting out of a dicey situation Theo was unceremoniously born on the metro-north green line just past 125st NYC. Jack Radigan was there to help see him into the world and keep him from harm while in the city's underground.

## Childhood to Young Adult Life

Azadiel kept watch over Rosalyn, protecting Theo and herself from future would-be assassins, of which there were many. When Theo turned five his powers began to manifest and it became apparent to both his guardians that he could no longer be a secret kept locked away in a room. The boy needed constant guidance with his powers, something Azadiel could not give him while fighting off assassins.

After extensive deliberation about what to do Azadiel and Rosalyn agreed to take Theo to the island of Evermeet. There he could study and focus his growing power far from his Fathers reach. Unforunately, due to the island's strict adherence to being an elven-only paradise his mother could not come with him. She said a tearful goodbye to her son, but knew in her heart it was his only chance at a real future.

Theo was admitted to the Leuthilspar Arcanum at the age of six, and for the next decade he would study magic and the art of bladesinging by the masters who invented the craft. He was an adept student with a ferocious appetite for blade theory and surpassed many in his class; because of this and his half-elven heritage he was resented and shunned by most of the other children, especially his childhood bully and rival Lashette.

On his thirteenth birthday after barely escaping an ambush by Lashette by running into the woods, Theo fell through a concealed pit and into a hidden cave system. Wounded and trying to hide from his tormentors he silently crawled through the cave until he came across a dragon's nest with half a dozen metallic gold eggs. Drawn forward by either allure or fate, one of the eggs began to hatch in his presence and as he touched it a psychic link was made between the wyrmling inside and himself. After some time the dragon that laid the eggs returned to find its newborn in the hands of the injured boy.

Featured: Theodore, 18 years old

Everything changed for Theo after that day, once it was confirmed that the dragon had truly bonded to him he was pulled out of the Arcanum and brought to train as a dragon rider. For three years he grew up with Hyperion and studied the history of the dragon riders who defended Evermeet, until the day he was forced to flee from the island by Lashette who had turned most of the city against him.