Aelianos Zephyrius

### Other Titles

Prince Aelianos, Prince of Altiventus, Aelie (by Caitlineia and Astreia), Your Highness

### Age

* 16 (TSoaFP)
* ??? (TCoaFK)

### Voiced by

* Johnny Yong Bosch (English)
* Junichi Suwabe (JP)

## Appearance

### Height

* 5'8" (TSoaFP)
* 5'11" (TCoaFK)

### Weight

* 60 kg (TSoaFP)
* 70 kg (TCoaFK)

## Biographical Information

### Relatives

Scirron Zephyrius (father), Callia Celerea (mother), Severina Zephyrius (younger sister), Aeolus Celerea (grandfather)

# MAY Timeline

**Aelianos Zephyrius** is the sole crown prince of the Zephyrian Kingdom of the continent Altiventus.

## History

### Early Life

**Spoiler warning: *Plot and/or ending details follow.***
He was born in the city of Ymel, the capital of the Zephyrius Kingdom in Altiventus on October 4th, 2000 CDE. His parents are Scirron Zephyrius and Callia Celerea. He is the eldest offspring among two children. His younger sister was named Severina Zephyrius, the princess of House Zephyrius. He is currently the crown prince of Altiventus. He was a sheltered young man but he learned to train himself in martial arts and swordsmanship in order to protect their kingdom.

His mother Callia is more focused in taking care of him and Severina rather than being the queen of the Zephyrius Kingdom. His father was the exact opposite—he chose to prioritize other people (his subjects) more than he could with his family. As a result, he and Severina grew up detached from their father. Furthermore, during his years of observing the people around the castle, especially his father, he honed his power of intuition well.

When he was around 8 years old, he was condemned by his father due to his incompetence. Because of this, he forced to get out of the castle and find a place for him to vent out his sadness. He happened to be in the territory of House Eurius, the enemy family of the Zephyrius family since the time that Scirron, a Zephyrius family member, married the first princess of Altiventian, Callia, who is the daughter of the Prime King of Winds, Aeolus. He was scorned by the members of House Eurius, telling him to get out of their territory as a Zephyrius. However, he was stopped by a young girl with long wavy emerald-green hair. Her name was Caitlineia, a member of House Eurius. Showing him compassion, she secretly pulled him into her house to stay for a while until he gets over the condemnation from his father. Strangely enough, her parents and her twin sister were unlike the other Eurius— they were hospitable and kind towards any other Altiventian families. They let him stay for the whole night but they apparently feared that Aelianos' father, the king of Altiventus itself, would subject them into grave punishment. Regardless, this resulted into a friendly relationship between Aelianos and the Eurius-Pagonia family, especially Caitlineia.

Aelianos went back home after that comfortable stay with the help of Caitlineia's parents keeping a secret to Queen Callia. Callia was regardless neutral to the whole feud, so she happily agreed to keep the secret for the sake of her son. From that time on, Aelianos began to sneak into Caitlineia's house to play with the children every morning. This developed his friendship with Caitlineia and her twin sister Cordelia. They often played by the high springs behind their house, where the family usually stayed to relax and meditate.

Five years later, he was then confronted by his father. After a long-winded argument between the two, the king decided to force a peace treaty to House Eurius, who in turn refused because they believed that Scirron would be successful in directly manipulating them using his authority as king. Because of this, House Eurius waged a clan war between them. Of course, the advantage would be for House Zephyrius, considering that they already have a military force enough to conquer the whole territory of House Eurius. In an attempt to stop this feud, Aelianos proposed to be engaged to Caitlineia and get married when he reaches 18. Caitlineia's family expected this to happen in their favor since they were the only Eurius family members who disagreed to wage war with House Zephyrius, seeing how it would be dangerous and sinful for them to fight against the royalty—it was in essence a rebellion. The two sides thought about it for three days and agreed to it, considering it would be a good idea for the two noble families to unite under the royal family of Celerea.

For two years, Aelianos and Caitlineia have been together as betrothed adolescents. Their relationship took a big step forward because of this, which almost becomes intimate. Regardless, the two prioritized their life as adolescents until they reach eighteen. However, this miserably failed after the dark forces of Neteria attacked the kingdom of Altiventus from behind. Aelianos and Caitlineia then encountered a mysterious dark knight in seemingly prismatic armor who was leading the attacks. They tried to escape but to no avail—they were outflanked by his subjects. Aelianos poured all his might against them, all to protect his fiancée. But he failed regardless—the enemy far too skilled and experienced for him. After a long struggle, he finally fell down, feeling limp. He felt that he could die at any moment because of his wounds. Unfortunately for him, the cruel strings of fate allowed Caitlineia to sacrifice herself for her fiancé, by taking a serious hit to her right side from the dark knight's greatsword. She fell down with Aelianos, who was frozen in fright. Before taking her seemingly last breath, she held his hand told him, "I want you... to be the king that I longed for you to be... I..love you, Aelie... Fare..well." Upon closing her eyes, he started to feel insane, which is evident when he yelled her nickname "Sylph" at the top of his lungs. This caused Scirron to hear him from a distance, who was busy dealing with Neterian soldiers trying to destroy his castle. The dark knight took Caitlineia's body with him while Aelianos was there struggling to fight back and yelling at him to give her back but to no avail. He then was rendered unconscious after getting severely weakened. He was found by Scirron after dealing with Neterian forces in the front lines.

A day later, they later found out that Caitlineia's body was nowhere to be found. Aelianos was horrified, thinking that her body might be reanimated and he would fight her in the future. He could not stop thinking about his fear. However, this also encouraged him to avenge her death. He kept in the last will of his fiancée in his heart to be the best king that no one in the history of Archonos never was. Regardless of the body's whereabouts, House Eurius, along with the other Altiventian noble families, still held a funeral for their supposed next Lady of the House. They crafted a golden cenotaph with Caitlineia's effigy inside it.

Because of this tragic event, the Zephyrius and Eurius families finally decided to make peace and unite as nobles of Altiventus serving under the royal blood of Celerea. After a year, Aelianos quickly got over the death of his fiancée and replaced his grievance with a resolve to improve his skill to protect other women in danger. His life began from scratch as a high school student of Ymel Central Institute of Magic after the capital recovered from the failed invasion of Neteria. Before he reached 16 years old, he underwent into a process of intensive holistic training as part of his resolve.

 ***Spoilers end here.***

### Mystical Archives of the Second Millennium

#### The Saga of a Forlorn Prince: Idyllic Destiny

*Main article: The Saga of a Forlorn Prince/Season 1: Idyllic Destiny*
##### Return of Neteria

Aelianos is 16 years old during this story. He may have gotten over the death of his fiancée but the pain was still there in his heart because he could not forget the woman he loves. He aimed to get another glimpse of hope in life. Of course, he often prayed to Aeter to give him enough strength for the resolve he got from Caitlineia's last will to him. Without further ado, he pursued his career of being a magical specialist to be strong enough to protect his people. He and Severina went together to the institute to study. In order to make use of his powers for the protection of the school campus, he volunteered to join the Order of Pacificators, a student disciplinary organization of the institute aside from the usual law enforcement assigned by the kingdom.

Of course, he was lonely without friends with him often. Since he was royalty, almost every student in the institute was afraid of interacting with him. As a result, he had a very limited circle of friends. He had only few acquaintances but none of them were his close friends. Regardless, he pressed on without help and he was able to be consistent in his studies.

It was a Sunday afternoon at the 23rd of Diamosia (April) in the year 2016 during the Cataclysmic Divide Era. Aelianos, who was dressed in a casual attire instead of his traditional royal garment, went to the west Ymelic plaza to buy a bouquet of flowers to lay on Caitlineia's cenotaph. He sensed something ominous around him, causing him to experience déjà vu in response and to be reminded of the time that his deceased fiancée sacrificed herself for his safety. His extrasensory skill **【Tachyon Eyes】** was also autocast. He looked around to see who was acting strangely, if there were any. It was an armored dragoon. He approached the man, who in turn ran away with the help of a fire propulsion magic spell after a short interrogation. After a while, Aelianos saw a maiden concealed underneath a white cloak lying on the ground. It seemed she was bumped into by the fleeing man. He took care of her dusty garment after a short while and left his pursuit of the man to prioritize the girl. He helped her carry her grocery and accompanied her home. He knew that she was living in a shrine after she answered him when he asked. However, he saw her afar off to avoid any unnecessary gossip about him and her.

It was at the next day when he found a glimpse of hope in life. A new friend that he could be close with. He was feeling twinges of pain on his right arm because he alone had to deal with unruly boys who were trying to escape disciplinary measures. When he took a bit of rest sitting on a bench before heading to the infirmary for treatment, he was approached by a girl who thanked him for yesterday. Aelianos was initially confused but he remembered when he finally took a glimpse of the maiden's breathtakingly gorgeous visage. He was a bit disconcerted, about to be infatuated by her beauty. Still he tried his best to maintain his composure, responding that what he did was trivial. She then requested to heal him after observing him adjust his right arm frequently and his facial reactions upon feeling pain. Astreia healed Aelianos' injuries but he was surprised when she acted peculiarly as seen from her irides that had changed color—from aquamarine to coral pink. Fortunately, the maiden managed to regain control but she realized that she had been so reckless after seeing what she had done to him even as an accident as they were lying on the ground together. As a result, she distanced herself from Aelianos out of utter shame. There was nothing that Aelianos could do yet so he let her think about it and move on.

Three days later after that incident, the two decided to have a private conversation by the benches where that accident took place after school. She knelt before the prince and deeply humbled herself, willingly asking for punishment for her recklessness. Nevertheless, Aelianos said it was okay and let her explain why she did that so that he would know. She mentioned that it was an uncontrollable trait that she inherited from her mother. Before she could continue, the young man was alerted of danger. He felt the same fear of losing another girl, this time as a close friend, from the hands of the prismatic dark knight he encountered, so he went quickly with Astreia to go back to the castle. They were interrupted for a short moment by three prismatic dark soldiers which where easily defeated by the prince. Aelianos carried Astreia on his back and warned her to prepare herself for a swift ride. He then cast **【Temporal Step】** before zooming back to the castle, barely surviving distractions from flying enemies.

When they got home, Aelianos was met by his father who was waiting for him. He was immediately sent to the council room to hear of the situation being dissertated in the congregation while Severina and Astreia were requested by Callia to be under her protection. During the hearing, Aelianos knew of the impending danger because of his previous encounter with those dark forces. They were back to destroy the kingdom again. Aelianos felt the same fear he had before. He didn't want Astreia to die like Caitlineia, too...

As such, few days were spent in communicating with the other sectors around the continents in order to protect their territories from the massive forces of Neteria. It seemed that not only the city of Ymel, and not even just the entire area of Altiventus was attacked. The other continents have experienced attacks from the malevolent army, technically classifying their force as a world superpower.

During this period, it was at a remarkable timing because it was summertime after the preparation of the continental military branches. The queen Callia herself requested Astreia's parents to let her stay at the castle for protection because it would be dangerous for her to go home at this point of tine. Because of this, Astreia was always invited in the dining sessions of the royals in the castle, thus developing her bonds with Aelianos. He also took the opportunity to train himself in combat once again. He invited Astreia to join him, in which she happily agreed, knowing that she could also learn basics from him on how to fight back. Hand-to-hand combat was not her strong point due to her frailness but she did rather well in swordplay and magic training. He knew that his chances of keeping her safe are high when she learns more about combat and synchronization so he kept going with this. As such, he wanted to conduct an investigation of the issues regarding the attacks of the Neterian forces on Ymel. Scirron readily approved of this, seeing that he has been "competent" after all those years and he demanded fruits of his labor. Callia hesitated to let them go but gave up, knowing that he was also trying to save the kingdom—not for his father but for his people. He brought Astreia along with his trusted retainers Uriel Theophilus and Alice Argentum, as well as an elite detachment of astral watchers, battle clerics, and forensic mages.

They began their operations, in which they were split into three squads. Aelianos and Astreia were in the first squad, Uriel in the second, and Alice in the third. They managed to mitigate the enemy forces lurking around the city. Their current task was relatively easy because their numbers were also few—to the point that they were just scouts at that time. They went back to their posts to identify what strategy the enemy was using. Aelianos inferred that they were using a series of tactics that involved confusing the imperial military as to what strategy they are using, as shown when the enemy army attempted to kill him and Astreia by concentration of forces but leaving few units hiding in different sectors around Ymel while reducing the kingdom's city-wide defenses in an attempt to blitz the imperial military at once with superior numbers during a set period of time. He also extrapolated that the enemy would invade the kingdom as long as the imperial patrols are reduced which would give the enemy advantage in close-proximity territories, morale, and numbers. Therefore, he concluded that the enemy's strategy was quite formidable but he was able to discover a convolution in its foundation. After identification, they went back to the castle to report to Scirron. Deriving from the report, Scirron suggested to eliminate as much enemy guerrilla forces with elites to force the main army to lengthen the time needed for the kingdom to prepare as much forces to fight back. Aelianos thought of it beforehand, adding to play defenseless in order to trick the enemy that their defenses were weak enough for them to invade the kingdom but in fact the kingdom would prepare two forces from around the continent to box the hostiles into fighting two opposite sides at once. It seemed no one disagreed to such a strategy but Uriel reminded them to have a fail-safe plan should their current strategy fall apart since they might not be able to assemble so large a force within this year should the enemy unexpectedly invade them head-on.

As such, the three squads continued investigating until September. Aelianos' squad seemingly encountered one of the elites of Neteria's army on Ymel—a well-built spearman under the alias of "Dragoon of Sable Flame". It seemed that he was accompanied by more forces than what they could usually encounter. Observing such events, like the assault of the enemy towards Astreia's direction in an attempt to take her hostage, Aelianos realized that they were after her. He tried interrogating the spearman when they clashed weapons but the latter did not say anything while he was able to overwhelm the prince because of his apparently higher level of experience. However, even Aelianos did not get a direct answer from him, he was able to find out what they want. However, since he and his squad lacked enough power to truly defeat the dragoon and his company, he made a quick getaway for his section using a Tachyon Magic spell called **【Acceleration Field】** and with the help of his subordinates using elemental magic.

Because of these discoveries, he reported to his father Scirron once again with regards to the current events. This led the king to decree that all magic schools around Altiventus must undergo in intensive training in combat albeit in a far lesser degree than the military itself. Because of this, Aelianos was tasked to lead the Ymel Central Institute of Magic's military instructors for high school and college students. The instructors were to subject them in training in order to augment the students' combat prowess aside from just being magicians in the battlefield.

##### Manifestation of Feelings

It was the 4th of Peridopheus (August) when Astreia celebrated her birthday in the castle. Her parents and her older brother were invited to a banquet for Astreia, in which they came and sent her gifts from the shrine. Aelianos eased Astreia's feeling of embarrassment when she felt shame when the royalty themselves hosted a banquet for a commoner like her. Regardless, they enjoyed the event with fellowship and meal. Aelianos played his violin as a form of gift for Astreia to hear his music during her birthday. She was enchanted by his music and ended up smiling, clapping her hands first before anyone else.

He and Astreia went to talk for a short while in bed after the banquet. She said she was worried for her parents, thinking that they could be killed in the midst of war. Aelianos tried to reassure her of Aeter's grace upon them in which she took thought of it as she was able to have sleep in comfort. Aelianos was surprised that she quickly fell asleep by the mere mention of His grace working upon them. He reconsidered when he remembered her status as a child of shrine people. He thought she is beautiful when she is asleep too. This eased his feeling, gaining enough motivation to protect her, albeit being it trivial to him at the very least.

Peridopheus (September) came as Aelianos continued to help his schoolmates train martial combat with the help of the instructors, who were elites in the arts of war, including Uriel and Alice. Aelianos soon encountered Cordelia after a long time of not keeping in touch. She requested that she would be training exclusively under him, seeing how she was more interested in that condition. She also wanted to avenge her sister for her death and that she felt his pain of losing one whom they held so dear. At that, Aelianos trained together with her and Astreia.

As days passed by, Aelianos noticed Astreia doing her best in training a lot to the point of exerting too much in it. He attempted to help her by acknowledging her exceptional efforts and advising her not to train too much. She told her that she had to do so in order to be strong enough to protect her family, as well as him. He insisted that she should not overwork herself, telling her that she would die before getting into battle. He thought it was worse to die in that manner than to die in the war. He added that there is no honor in sacrificing oneself for a person just because of his social status. He was taken aback when she replied that she wanted to sacrifice herself for him because it is him. He answered that he feared of seeing her die like Caitlineia, in which she countered by asking why he broods too much about it and if she was really important to him. He immediately answered that she is undoubtedly his friend—of course it was natural for him to do so. Hearing her side that she did not want to be a burden to him, he told her that it is all right and that he is happy that she is doing her best. He still told her his advice to stop exhausting herself in which she complied to afterwards. He comforted her when she apologized for being so stubborn.

Matters mellowed down for the city starting from the exact beginning of October. Aelianos went to the Pagonia-Eurius house to serve and honor Caitlineia during her supposed birthday by taking care of her cenotaph. As such, he met Cordelia in the house, causing him to feel nostalgic when he looked at her face—which apparently looks identical to Caitlineia. Since knows that they are twins, Cordelia was not exempt from Aelianos' special treatment. He gave her a bouquet of flowers—exactly like the ones he gives to Caitlineia. Cordelia felt happy yet ashamed at the same time, kmowing that it actually was meant for her twin sister. Aelianos disregarded such a thought by reassuring her that it was really for her, as he has a separate bouquet for Caitlineia. They went to tidy up the vault and its only cenotaph in the backyard. Aelianos took care of the dust in the area and Cordelia took care of the neatness using her Pagonian Magic. Aelianos had a conversation with her regarding himself and Astreia, asking if he was courting her. He answered that he was not but potentially will do so in the future, although he was unsure. He was told that she understood him, thinking of the fact that Caitlineia was already dead so it was all right to forget her and find another girl to love. Aelianos sympathized for Cordelia, knowing that she was apparently really close to her twin—more than his level could ever reach. However, he added that he did not want to forget his first love and that he wanted to cherish the memories they had even he would have to court another girl. Cordelia told him that they together must avenge Caitlineia before he could get engaged to Astreia. Aelianos affirmed to this, promising Cordelia to do so.

October 4th came, which was Aelianos' birthday. Astreia decided to return the favor by helping out with the maids for **yet another banquet** for him. He was shocked to know that she and Cordelia helped in, which overjoyed him. During October 11th, which is the birthday of the Queen Callia held around the capital in honor of her, Aelianos helped out with the food alongside Astreia, Cordelia, and Severina. On the 29th of November, which was Severina's birthday, they decided to spend the day with going around the lower cities as a means of personal assistance to the feudal lords.

It was early Turphyshil (December), almost nearing the wintry season of the Solstice of the Abyssal Veil. During a day of spare time in the castle, Aelianos was preparing to have his clothes ready before taking a bath. He apparently went to the master bathroom. He looked at the indicator on the door of the bathroom to check if there is someone currently using it. Noticing that it was unused but he could see light from inside and hear the sound of the shower, he was alerted that it might have been left unattended. This led him to quickly open the door and head for the shower to stop the water from gushing unnecessarily. To his shock, he saw Astreia, of all people, bathing inside. She was just about to apply soap. Strangely enough, the maiden did not shriek at all while Aelianos asked for a sincere apology spoken in few words in which she easily agreed. Just when he was about to leave after setting the indicator to "used" and reminding Astreia to set it before taking a bath, she asked him if he was going to go next. Aelianos affirmed to this. She then immediately asked him if it was all right for him to take a bath with her and assured that she would not mind as long it was him. Aelianos, initially thinking that it was a bit inappropriate unless they were related as family, was about to decline. However, he realized that she felt scared and alone by the tone of her voice and the pattern of her speech, which was more stuttered than usual. He then sighed and agreed so.

Upon passing through the curtain while wearing his bathrobe, he was able to take a full view of her body. He was being careful not to stare too much at her well-endowed figure and only maintain his gaze upon her fair face. As they were both under the shower, they began talking to each other in a volume that is inaudible from outside. She asked him if her figure looked strange, causing Aelianos to be unsure of what to say because of the apparent situation they are in. He told her that he doesn't think of it that way—in fact, he told her in sincerest way possible that he admires it. Astreia began to flush to the point of getting slightly aroused after hearing that compliment. She tried to calm herself down, struggling not to let go of her control to her other self. Nevertheless, she ultimately failed and she switched sides again. Aelianos sighed, expecting this before even seeing her eyes. He was thinking that she might chase him out of the bathroom stark naked so he attempted to solve the problem inside the bathroom by utilizing his speed to have her wear her bathrobe back and temporarily render her unconscious. Before he could even make a move, the uncontrolled maiden charged at him in an attempt to knock him down and restrain him so that she could have her way. Nevertheless, he almost got rammed over but she caught her by both of her arms before she would crash through the door. The matter was solved after he rendered her unconscious with **【Rotary Feather】** that spun her in circles until she was dizzy. Checking if there were people walking by the corridor of the bathroom, he slipped away to the second master bedroom while there were no people. He then let Astreia rest on his bed while she was still her bathrobe as he managed to completely groom himself.

It was late Turphyshil when they celebrated the Solstice of the Abyssal Veil, the Christmas equivalent of Antiquus' northern hemisphere. Aelianos was planning for a gift to Astreia for this month. He remembered that the Eve of Gishil is during the 25th of Turphyshil so he used that opportunity to carry out his plan in the form of a date. He used the basement of the castle, which had no contents to store so he was able to take a bit of time to clean it by himself during the 22nd. When the time came for the Eve of Gishil, he used a wind spell to render his movements undetectable by human senses. Regardless, Astreia was able to catch wind of his presence but she never knew that it was him. As such, he easily covered her eyes with a red scarf and led her to the basement without speaking a word, which led Astreia to wonder what it is about. When she was there, he removed the blindfold, causing her to be shocked in happiness when she was introduced to the room. It was a simple basement lighted with orange photonite which is responsible for the seemingly romantic atmosphere. However, Aelianos did not intend it to be a romantic surprise even though she was rather close to him now. There were wreaths of asters hanging around the place. Good timing as Astreia gave Aelianos a gift herself—an analog-type astral stopwatch with golden accents, signifying its high monetary value. He thanked her a lot for such an intricate gift, thinking that Astreia must have accumulated money from her savings just for this. As they sat down, they talked about past events regarding her stay in the castle, in which she was overjoyed to have him company since she was often alone back then.

The time came when she began speaking about her true feelings—she liked him a lot because of his apparent kindness even though he was often viewed as a cynical and strict prince by his people, which is actually his mere straightforwardness and no-nonsense attitude. Aelianos was unsure of what to say in response, experiencing an inner conflict. He still had Caitlineia in his mind, thinking that she might still be alive. He greatly fear that he would ultimately betray her if he were to wed Astreia. But he was also thinking about the latter since both of them are doing what they could to reciprocate each other's feelings. But what if Astreia was only influenced by her lustful other self? Because he was still thinking about it, he responded with all honesty that he was not ready to respond to her feelings yet. This was not really a big deal to Astreia. In fact, she told him that it was all right and she will patiently await for his response. Nevertheless, the two had fun spending the time talking to each other without any other obstructions.

##### Point of No Return

The Vigil of Neos Etos came for the year 2017 of the Cataclysmic Divide Era. It was a worldwide event in which all Archosapients, rich or poor, are celebrating during the evening of the last day of a year. Because of this, the castle members were busy with such an event because of food preparation, catering of the needs of common-folk, etc. Aelianos was at the backyard, practicing with his violin in preparation for the midnight. Astreia was also awake, looking for him. She soon appeared before him, interested in hearing the sound of his instrument. Aelianos looked at her and smiled as he continued playing. It would seem that he was in the middle of courting Astreia with his musical prowess. When Astreia began singing along to the song due to her being familiar with it, Aelianos was enamored by her soothing and vivid voice, inferring that she also has a talent in singing. When the castle bell rang once, Aelianos went to the third floor while he was carrying his violin. Astreia tagged along as per her personal request. When midnight came, the castle bell rang a few times before Aelianos and his fiddlers began playing their violins and Astreia singing to the tune. Aelianos cast a wind spell which adjusted the density of the city's atmosphere. The beautiful music resounded across the city. This marked the start of a new year—2017 CDE.

A day later, the main forces of Neteria started invading the kingdoms themselves in order to shut down control all over the continents. Fortunately, they were at least well-prepared for such a wide-scale attack. Aelianos, Uriel, Alice and Scirron fought in the front lines together with the main army. Astreia and Callia were in the rear within Castle Zephyr. It took three days to deal enough damage to the city itself. After that duration, class was supposed to start at the 5th of January. Instead, the high school and college students were gathered in the school for a sufficient counterattack against the army. He led them like he used to before. However, a battalion of enemy troops led by the Dragoon of Sable Flame surrounded the school. This time he introduced himself as Algis Atertein. He demanded that they should keep out of the war as he knew they were getting in the way. Otherwise, he would burn them all to cinders along with the school. When Aelianos was about to retaliate against him, he met unexpected company which attacked the dragoon from behind. It was Louisius Salamandra, the crown heir of the Feronian kingdom. Aelianos was told by Louisius' sister Astrapea Salamandra that they were attacked but at a far smaller scale so they were able to handle the threat at a short time. He was contacted by the Benthosian crown prince Caradeus Atlanteum that they found the one who was leading the forces invading Ymel. Aelianos thought that it probably must be the mysterious dark knight that killed Caitlineia several years ago. Because of this, he took Cordelia with him and requested to let Astreia stay there because it was too dangerous. Astreia insisted to go with him, saying that she wouldn't be safe anywhere save for when she is with him. Aelianos sighed, thinking of a way to slip her into the castle in the midst of the skirmish.

The three of them attempted to venture back to the castle undetected using the wind magic spell **【Wayfarer's Passage】** with Cordelia and Aelianos casting it on themselves, including Astreia, who was holding onto him. They did succeed in setting foot inside the castle gates. However, the place was empty and quiet, as if nothing happened. Aelianos was slightly worried about this. Fortunately, Astreia knew that it was a complex illusion—they were yet to know why. They found out that they surrounded by Neterian fusiliers, headed by a dark figure. Aelianos knew of him—it was the mysterious dark knight who killed Caitlineia. Out of fury, he quickly formed a wind blade from his hand, causing the knight to signal his subordinates to kill them with firearms if he makes another move. Because of this gambit, the knight was able to force him under his rules, as Aelianos was thinking about the safety of the two girls. He was also worried about his father who was fighting in the front lines. Regardless, he accepted the knight's wager—he will not attack Ymel again if he is defeated, otherwise he will take the two girls with him. Aelianos asked him what he did to Caitlineia, in which he did not answer. When they were about to begin the duel, the knight was treacherous enough to signal his fusiliers to kill him before he makes his move. However, this was interrupted by graviton fields, painfully forcing the gunmen down on the ground. Aelianos looked up and it was the Terallian crown prince Erdion Ascifalke casting **【Forced Descent】** on the fusiliers. He was surprised as to why all the other crown princes are in Ymel. However, Aelianos thanked them and proceeded to fight the knight with Cordelia. Astreia had to be taken in by the guards but she was insisting to let her go. Due to her recklessness, she forced herself forward in accident, losing balance as she moved toward the three. Aelianos was blasted through the abdomen with a dark energy wave, causing him to crash on a wall. Cordelia, who was casting ice spells, was pushed forward by Astreia, causing both girls to fall on the ground, rending the former unconscious few second after her forehead struck the ground. The dark knight took this opportunity to take them while the guards were defeated at once when they resisted. Astreia was struggling while Aelianos emerged from the rubble—his fuse burning shorter when he saw the two being dragged away.

Astreia, having one option to help out instead of her futile resistance, let her other self cast a high-level light magic spell called **【Celestial Sphere】** upon Aelianos and the dark knight, designating them "Zenith" and "Nadir" respectively. Aelianos was healed and the dark knight was sufficiently weakened, letting go of them in the process. He made short work of the knight with his speed and magical arts. The knight told Aelianos that he will return when he becomes the Altiventian king to take Astreia with him. After that, the Neterian army retreated at last, giving Ymel a chance to recuperate. The only problem is that Astreia significantly lost too much Aetermana after casting such a spell, causing her to be confined in the city hospital for few days due to this case of anaetermania.

Few days later, Astreia approached him and they talked about her hidden powers that she also was not able to control. At the very least, she did not die. However, Aelianos scolded her for being too reckless, finally confessing his love for her, in which he thought was forbidden to him, which is why he did not tell her sooner. Because of this, he put in his mind that he did see Caitlineia die by his side and that Astreia was showing true love with the best way she could. He readied an intricate ring he bought after the slight incident in the bathroom. He knelt down and proposed to wed Astreia in bed, rejecting any form of regret because of the present truth set upon his eyes. Astreia did not actually expect for Aelianos to reciprocate her feelings like this but she was exceedingly glad about this and accepted it. From that day on, they were secretly betrothed to each other.

Before they could get engaged, Aelianos went to talk with Cordelia about it. The two had a short argument that started when he told her that they were going to get engaged. Cordelia reacted not because she thought that he did not keep his promise to her that they would avenge Caitlineia by killing the dark knight before engagement but because of a more personal reason. Aelianos was surprised to hear Cordelia confess her deep-seated feelings of love since they were children. She said that she had already fell in love with him at the start as was Caitlineia. It was why she kept imitating her sister to deceive him while she was not around. She let her tears out because of the pain of not having any chance of being with Aelianos. He apologized for not realizing it and because he loved Astreia. Cordelia calmed herself down, saying it was all right—she was able to tell him what she feels at the very least. Regardless, the two wished that they will be still close friends and they were since they grew up.

Aelianos notified his father and mother that he wanted to be officially engaged to Astreia and explained details. Callia asked him if he was still thinking about his deceased fiancée. He replied that he decided to stop brooding over it since she was already dead. She then agreed and gave her advice about it. However, Scirron was hesitating, saying that it was better that he should marry a pureblood Altiventian. Regardless, the two were thinking that Astreia was also a devout of Aeter so there was no problem in their spiritual connections. Aelianos and Astreia proceeded to her house. Her parents were glad to have Aelianos marry Astreia because of the privilege of their child to be a member of royalty as they were also loyal to the kingdom. Things turned out very well, except that Astreia's older brother Congregor Arcstellaerea was a bit dismayed that there will be no Arcstellaerean maidens left in their family to sustain their occupation as future shrine maidens in the continent. Regardless, he eventually agreed to it, saying that he would ever be more loyal to Aeter as a staunch priest in the family when they would be successful.

As such, Aelianos and Astreia were together as an engaged couple since he grew up to be 17...

## Personality

He is always calm and collected, even when at tense situations, to the extent that he is not affected by generally traumatic situations, but not enough to label him as emotionless. Because of this, he can be a very cold and stern man at first sight. However, he was affected by the tragic event that took most of his happiness in his teen life—the day that his fiancée Caitlineia sacrificed herself just to keep him alive. He was only able to get over her death by the help of spiritual support from his mother who was devoted as a child of Aeter. From this, he managed to be more calm and collected than he ever was before.

## Powers

### Wind Magic

He is a talented user of wind magic, being able to manipulate it in highly complex degrees at the age of 16 which was young for an Archosapient since he has not come of age yet. Complex applications include the fine adjustment of atmospheric density in order for sound produced open-air to reach faster than it normally should and further refract it 5 degrees downwards, enabling it to reach at around 514.5 meters per second (1,150.9 miles per hour, 1852.2 kilometers per hour) in order for the whole city to hear the soothing tune. Before even learning Ancient Wind Magic, he was even able to manipulate the flow of wind in a way that others would not easily detect his presence.

### Lightning Magic

He is also talented in using lightning magic, being able to cast a spell that electrocutes the desired target excluding any entity adjacent to it. This is only done with the assistance of **【Tachyon Eyes】**.

### Tachyon Magic

It is a branch of Particle Magic within the bloodline of House Celerea. By channeling Aetermana around his body, he can accelerate or decelerate his personal time flow without affecting his life span. Due to this magic allowing for high-speed battles, Aelianos is able to read the speeds of entities, regardless of being inanimate or organic. This sharply increases perception levels as well.

### Telepathy

As a natural-born Archosapient, he is able to telepathize with people having a telepathic connection with him. However, he cannot do this with people having no connection, unless they agreed to establish one. Simple physical contact after agreement can make the establishment successful. This connection cannot be broken unless one or two people involved pass away. However, he can still read the minds of others even a connection is nonexistent.

### Aetermana Manipulation

He is able to manipulate Aetermana in a way that he could materialize it. In this state, he is skillful enough to cancel other's magic activation sequences by sending low-frequency environmental Aetermana towards the opponent's magic circle.

## Abilities

### Normal Strength

His strength is subpar, being only as strong to carry his own body weight.

### Normal Durability

He is considered a glass cannon because of his subpar durability and soft body structure as a result of being born with the ability to use Tachyon MAgic. However, he compensates by temporal speed and using the arts of Zephyrian martial arts to receive physical attacks with his own soft structure, which is highly similar to the Chinese kung fu style Wing Chun.

### High Flexibility

Because of his soft body structure, he is easily flexible, in which it also sets his body to be compatible with utilizing the Celerean gymnastic martial art called Gyris.

### High Movement Speed

His temporal speed is enough to be almost unseen by the naked eye and viewing reality as having its time stopped. However, his max speed could reach at the supersonic level as an adolescent.

### High Reflexes

To keep up with his temporal speeds, his reflexes are optimized as a result of Tachyon Magic and his inherent physical traits. When at normal, his reflex speed is estimated to be at 50 milliseconds at maximum. However, this is halved to 25 milliseconds when using **【Tachyon Eyes】**.

### High Perception

Because of his temporal speeds, his perception is at the superhuman level, seeing things in a slow motion while reacting faster. He can also sense the presence of living entities within a range of 300 meters away. When **【Tachyon Eyes】** is active, the range is increased to 400 meters.

### High Attack Speed

At normal, he is able to attack at a rate four times than an average Archosapient can.

### High Resistance

He can absorb any wind-elemental and lightning-elemental attack. He resists water-elemental and ice-elemental attacks by 50%. He nullifies earth-elemental attacks. He is also able to resist debilitating attacks by 50%. As an Archosapient, his body can normally absorb around 600 Sv (sieverts) without experiencing any sort of damage to his cells by radiation. However, anything higher than that can kill him.

### Longevity

As a royal Archosapient, he is unable to die from age. Due to his life force which is abnormal for an average human, but not of Archosapient standards, he is immune to mild illnesses.

### Non-Hexahedronian Internal Attack Immunity

As a natural-born Archosapient, he is immune to any non-Hexahedronian magic or spell that involves the manipulation of his mind, soul, and spirit. Thus, he is immune to control attacks like the following but not limited to being able to bypass telekinesis, cannot be mind-controlled, any part of his psyche cannot be frozen, etc.

### Personal Timespace

He is absolutely immune to time-based abilities because he has a personal timespace as a passive of Tachyon Magic.

## Skill and Spell Set

### Lightning Magic

#### Ain Blitz

Aelianos can electrocute a single enemy excluding other individual entities. The current is kept to an average of 5 mA for incapacitating opponents. However, when matters are serious, he could adjust the current to how much lightning naturally contains, as is the case of **【Empyrean Storm】**.

### Tachyon Magic

#### Tachyon Strike

Aelianos gathers enough tachyonic energy into his right foot and carries himself mid-air with wind magic. He then launches himself towards his opponent and slams his right foot on it. The momentum from this attack is only existent outside Aelianos' timespace, allowing him to follow up with extra attacks which would be seen as absurd to the one(s) who exist outside of his personal timespace, including those who have their own personal timespace. This effect also ignores g-forces because Aelianos practically warped time in his favor, as well as that his speed is virtually at average speed in his view.

## Weaknesses

### Fire-elemental Attacks

Due to this uncanny weakness, he cannot tolerate staying in high-temperature areas. This drawback causes his battle parameters to decrease dramatically to the extent of suffering from heatstroke with a higher chance than others when in a high-temperature area. Due to this limitation, he will have a hard time fighting fire-elementals. Strangely, sunny areas do not pose a problem to Aelianos, because the temperature in these areas are within his tolerable range.

### Physical Attack Vulnerability

Due to his physiology affected by Tachyon Magic, he is slightly vulnerable against physical attacks.

## Miscellaneous Info

His hobbies are painting, drawing, writing antique novels, playing the violin, and traveling around Altiventus. The places he likes to go are windy and have low temperature. He prefers living within a boreal biome. The food he prefers eating are mostly savory, while some are mildly sweet. His favorite food is white sauce pasta. His favorite pastry is coconut buttermilk cookies. His favorite drink is minted green tea. His favorite colors are mostly within the hues of blue and green. He likes to wear trench coats and thick scarves. His favorite animals are birds and cats, while he somewhat dislikes dogs and abhors cockroaches. His favorite sport is kick volleyball.

His Runic Sign is Plastingos and his temperament is Melancholic-Choleric. Being an individual possessing the Plastingos sign, he has a great sense of justice as evident in its "scale" symbol. He is also meticulous in many aspects, whether great or small. This can be inferred that Aelianos is of the Lawful Good alignment.

He likes people with good discipline and adequate wisdom. However, he greatly dislikes flamboyant people. The men he likes to be friends with are bighearted, willful, and compassionate. In terms of women, he prefers the mysterious, demure, and shy ones. Regarding appearances, he generally likes women with long hair, as well as those with braids. This is evident of his first wife and second wife, Astreia and Caitlineia respectively, who have long hair. However, his greatest preference on choosing a woman is her personality.

He graduated in Ymel Central Institute of Magic in all educational ranks of elementary, middle school, high school, and college.

His personal motto is "*Art is an endless possibility".*

## Trivia

* His surname **Zephyrius** signifies that he uses the Western Style of Ancient Wind Magic. On the flip side, Caitlineia Eurius uses the Eastern Style, since she belongs to the Eurius bloodline.
	+ The bloodlines **Zephyrius** and **Eurius** are both royal bloodlines that originated from the Altiventus' royal pureblood bloodline **Celerea**.
* His first name **Aelianos** foreshadows his trait of tolerating heat from the sun although he has a flaw in high-temperature areas.
* Strangely enough, he shares his second name **Altus** with Frisch Celerent, who also has **Altus** as his second name.

# AK Timeline

**Joshua Zephyrius** is the second Lesser Deific King of Ventilus and its current ruler. He is the protagonist of the **Ancient Kings** series and the persona of User:Aethervallum.

## Basic Info

### Other Titles

Josh, King Joshua, Ventilusian King, Archon Emperor, Aelie (by Astreia and Caitlineia), Milord

### Age

279 (Zephyrian Chronicles Chapter 1), 280 (Zephyrian Chronicles Chapter 2), 281 (Zephyrian Chronicles Chapter 3), 757 (Start of AK:T/TVK:Year 2757-2765), 765 (AK:T/TVK:Year 2757-2765 Aftermath), 800 (AK:T/TBK:DoS), 1007 (Start of AK:T/TVK:TRI), 1012 (AK:T/TVK:TRI Aftermath), 1238 (2016 Era, ExF Chapter 1, AKxAoS Chapter 1, GA3TRotP), 1239 (ExF Chapter 2, AKX:MB Seasons 1-2), 1240 (ExF Chapter 3, AKX:MB Seasons 3-5), 1248 (ExF Q1:OoS)

### Voiced by

* Johnny Yong Bosch (English)
* Junichi Suwabe (JP)

## Biographical Information

### Relatives

Scirron Zephyrius (father), Callia Celerea (mother), Severina Zephyrius (younger sister), Astreia Arcstellaerea (first wife; deceased), Caitlineia Eurius (second and current wife), Aeolus Celerea (ancestor), Cirrem Zephyrius (oldest and only son by Caitlineia), Aeravelia Zephyrius (oldest and only daughter by Astreia), Mistralia Zephyrius (second oldest daughter by Caitlineia), Alissa Zephyrius (youngest daughter by Caitlineia)

### Affiliations

Ventilusian Royal Hierarchy, Empyrdom of Anticytheris

## History

**Spoiler warning: *Plot and/or ending details follow.***
### Early Life

He was born in Cryglen City, the capital city of Avalaera in Ventilus on October 4, 2000 ATS. His parents were Zephyrus Zephyrius and Callia Celerea. He is the eldest offspring among two children. His younger sister was named Severina Zephyrius, the current Ventilus Princess. He was the crown prince of Ventilus Royal Hierarchy. When he was over 280 years old, his ancestor Aeolus Celerea, granted him the authority to become the Ventilus King after his father.

When he was eight years old, he met Caitlineia Eurius, the daughter of their hospitable neighbor, which was a Ventilusian couple living in a dainty shrine, symbolizing the Pagonian spirit. They lived together as childhood friends. However, three years later, Caitlineia was separated from him by a renegade Pyronian dragoon, turning her into a slave. He swore to bring his friend back by settling the situation with the man in a peaceful way.

### Meeting Astreia and the Shadow Knight

*Main article: Zephyrian Chronicles/Chapter 1: Deathly Dusk, Halcyon Dawn*

### Reminiscing the Past

*Main article: Ancient Kings: Transitions/The Ventilus King: Year 2757-2765*

He appeared as the 757-year old Joshua Zephyrius, the protagonist of the story. He traveled along with Reius Draganea and Astreia Arcstellaerea to stop the conflicts between the Pyronian monarchy and the renegades led by the Shadow Knight. He investigated the occurrences to find a lead behind the long-term enslavement of his dearest childhood friend Caitlineia and the connection of Astreia with the Shadow Knight.

On January 2, 2757 ATS, there was a meeting among the members of Empyrean Conclave. They discussed the disputes of the Pyronian monarchy and the renegades within the volcanic territory, as well as the relation of a mage who possessed a great aptitude in the arts of Ancient Light Magic and Ancient Dark Magic, also known as the Moonlight Priestess. The modernization of Antiquus was also dissertated. After the meeting was adjourned, Joshua exited the Zephyeur Castle to visit the continent Pyronia.

In Calderum proper, Joshua was seen strolling around the public market. He walked along the sidewalk and met Astrapea Salamandra, an acquaintance and the princess of Pyronia. They conversed, until Astrapea asked Joshua out to eat with them at Salamandras Castle as a token of gratitude for his assistance. However, all of a sudden, explosions resounded the air of the city. Most of the locals retreated to the nearest citadel. The two went up to higher ground to inspect the situation. To their surprise, they saw a battalion of Pyronian warriors from afar, setting foot towards the castle. They seemed to be rebels, because they wore onyx armor instead of the usual zuccorchite armor.

When they arrived, they saw the rebels about to fight the royal soldiers, but the Pyronia King, Louisius Salamandra himself intervened.
He challenged Algis to a one-on-one battle in which the latter accepted.
Algis demanded the maiden standing with the rebels behind him to create a barrier to surround them.
The lady cast her magic to do so, causing the two contenders to begin the battle.
Teardrops fell from the woman's eyes, causing Joshua to stealthily assault the rebels guarding her in an instant.
He eventually subdued them, causing them to flee.
After the skirmish, he approached the maiden, whom in turn hugged him.
She asked him if he still remembered her.
However, he did not get a clear image of her from the past.
The maiden introduced herself as Astreia Arcstellaerea to refresh his memories, but he barely got a shred of memory.
Fortunately, he thought she was familiar when he heard of her name.
Afterwards, they reunited with Astrapea and went back to the castle of Zephyeur, the capital building of the continent Ventilus.

As they returned, they prepared themselves to go to the Norten Carnival for a visit.
At late afternoon, the carnival was bustling with women and children, albeit some men were attending to them.
As Joshua, Astreia, Cephelia, and Astrapea were having fun in the place, some mysterious figures were watching them from the Ferris wheel.
Moments later, there was strife as the figures started to raze the carnival in order to retrieve Astreia.
Joshua was battling with multiple Pyronian warriors while Astrapea and Cephelia support him from both sides.
Algis appeared amidst the strife and attempted to sneakily attack Joshua with his halberd yet he failed as Joshua had already perceived his presence, resulting in him retaliating with his sword. However, he did not anticipate that Algis retaliated as well by sending a black fireball at him. Fortunately, he dodged it as well. Algis was knocked down by a thrust attack delivered by Astreia's staff. She began to reveal herself underneath her priestess robe. Joshua, taking notice, widened his eyes as if he had already met such an individual by her hair. However, he was yet to look directly at her. As Astreia made her decision to never come back to Algis and stay with Joshua as she had nowhere to go to, she easily disposed of Algis with her regained strength from Ancient Light Magic. This resulted to the enemy retreating. As Astreia turned to Joshua, the latter was struck with a vague flashback of him and her in the past. Joshua realized that he was getting to remember Astreia as she was since past times.

### The Shared Woes

*Main article: Ancient Kings: Transitions/The Benthos King: Depths of Strength*

### The Regimenian Invasion on Mobius

*Main article: Empyrdom x Jkirk Federations: Fray of the Multiverse/Chapter 1: Crossroads of Fate*

### Danger in the Ether Forest (SF)

*Main article: Welcome to the Ether Forest*

He first appeared within the Ether Forest after an interference in his tachyonic warpdrive sequence when he was under Regimenian pursuit. He knew of the same forest he usually took respite in when he was lonely because of the very familiar presences of magical spirits in the area. He met the anthropomorphic version of his close friend Io Iapetus and immediately knew the former because of her identical characteristics. He attempted to rescue her when fire afflicted the forest which weakened her.

When he carried her on his back, he encountered Ruben the Hedgehog of Universe 6, who in turn mistook them both for the "fire putters". He asked Ruben if he had the resolve to protect the forest. The latter was quite determined to carry out his promise. He followed Joshua as the latter said so.

However, Vermudegarii started to attack them. However, Ruben and Io had escaped to the cabins as Joshua and Vermudegarii were left to battle. The latter was at a fair disadvantage because of the Geh'amm Scwaerand. He deliberately revealed half of his new plans to challenge him. He then went to the direction of the cabins as he had read the life force signatures of Ruben and Io.

Vermudegarii was seen by Ruben who in turn regrouped with Joshua to begin their retaliation. Vermudegarii began to use his signature fog attack to use his secret magnetic ability but was interrupted by Joshua's Dual Geh'amm Scwaerand which rent the cloud into two separate banks. When he sent a battalion of carrion pygmies to overwhelm the three, Joshua ascended to his Zephyrian State while Ruben ascended to Super.

### Mystic Crepuscularity

*Main article: The Midnight Zone*

Joshua first appeared inside the Primordial Archetype Tachyon with Caitlineia. The Empyrdom was in a joint mission with the Jkirk Federations. As his forces built their main fortifications on the zone, a giant biped lupine monster named Wolfor approached them, wondering what their business in the zone is. Joshua ordered his plasma troopers to aim their firearms at the monster to warn him of the danger should he choose to attack the Empyrdom. The reality invaders surveyed the zone, only to detect dark magic signatures and a vague horizon of the northern mountain and the western lake. Wolfor bade Joshua farewell after offering his invitation of assistance should the Empyrdom experience some problems. However, Joshua does not quite trust the local company, knowing that the wolf was of the zone itself.

### Anticytherian Circle Tournament of 2016

*Main article: Anticytherian Circle/2016 Tourney*

## Personality

He is always calm and collected, even when at tense situations, to the extent that he is not affected by generally traumatic situations. Because of this, he can be a very cold and stern man at first sight. This trait is a great factor in his battle performance, wherein his concentration stays stable in the face of any foe. This also makes him very efficient because he does not hesitate to fight anyone as long he fully believes on what is right.

Despite his unshaken tranquility, there are only few things that can trigger his anger. First is the lack of courtesy in the face of authority. He demands that any person should show respect, if not completely obey, to the authority, despite their transgressions. He believes that any kind of formal authority is bestowed by Photos. Therefore, if any Antiquian should do any offense against the authority, he has automatically offended Photos himself. Second is when his relatives are being harmed by others. He will stand up to protect them with the capabilities he currently has. Third is flamboyant people. He hates people who flaunts his traits in the presence of many people.

He might display arrogance at times during battle, but he displays incredible prowess in using his innate abilities to back it up. As he aged and became the Archon Emperor of the Empyrdom, he became more aware with opponents, thus taking caution as to not underestimate them.

When he was 757 years old, he lived at the thought of the tragic incident 749 years ago when Caitlineia was separated from him by a Pyronian dragoon. He felt a deep sense of regret since he failed to save his childhood friend at the cost of his own life. This incident also caused him to be more melancholy than he was before. On the flip side, it also helped him to live as a noble gentleman, doing his best to give great value for women and to protect them from evil. Despite his melancholy, he kept his cool during battles involving damsels in distress.

As the Archon Emperor of the Empyrdom of Anticytheris, he is a very analytical leader. Before proceeding to war, he organizes all of his troops according to the situation at hand. However, he easily gets disappointed when any of his officers are not knowledgeable enough of his explanations, especially when these officers are newly promoted in the army. That is why he always trains them on how to use their mind well in battle.

He is a compassionate person, always helping those in need. As a father, he has indomitable willpower, willing to sacrifice himself to protect his family, especially her wife Caitlineia. As much as possible, when his wife is about to enter a battle by herself, he takes the stead to prevent her from taking too much harm, even though she cannot die. It is because he values his wife a great deal despite her current situation.

In certain occasions, he puts on a serious expression to counter Reius' jests concerning women that he secretly admires. However, he is actually flustered inside but only hides it very well. He believes that these feelings are only temporary and require no attention.

One of his hidden characteristics is his frankness and perfectionism. As a person born with the Melancholic temperament, he values perfection, which also reflects his efficiency in most activities. When he observes that a person that he knows well repeats the same mistake, he will rebuke that person. He also dislikes the attitude of people that dodge conversations by playing dumb, taking things too literally, and jump to conclusions while the perceived problem has not been completely solved yet.

## Powers

Unlike the general concept of how divinity drastically fuels powers of deific characters, Joshua's divine powers are rooted from Aeter, the absolute supreme god of Heluxion, in which while other deific characters possess powers that negate divine power, Aeter's blessing is eternal. Simply put, its divinity is entirely different from the common divinity in popular culture. Thus, it is unaffected by related but not similar divine powers that cancel divine power, except those who have their powers rooted from a supreme god of his or her continuity as well.

### Ancient Wind Magic

Joshua has fully mastered Ancient Wind Magic when he was 280 years of age. He was taught by his ancestor to be a master practitioner of this magic in order to prove that his powers speak of his authority as the second Lesser Deific King of Ventilus. He possesses a godlike control over wind, allowing him to utilize wind around him in any form at will. He is able to release a large amount of energy in few seconds to cast devastating spells associated with the latter magic. Moreover, this type of magic is highly complex even for Antiquians; only the prophesied Ancient Kings of Ventilus are able to learn it through their predecessors.

This degree of wind magic involves the instantaneous release of wind energy at pure wavelengths, allowing it to easily outmatch the power of average-tier pyrokinesis or fire magic and even related pyrokinesis or fire magic of divine origin (but not as potent against Ancient Fire Magic). This is because Joshua, as an Ancient King, has a level of soul resonance which is completely acclimated to the pure essence of wind itself, which allows him to freely absorb the energy for regenerative purposes or to fuel his own attacks when the energy he is absorbing to more than the capacity of his mana pool. Both of these functions are passively smartcast.

Since he is of Zephyrian birth, he utilizes Ancient Wind Magic in Zephyrian Aerokinetic Style. As an example, he often incorporates his use of Ancient Wind Magic with physical attacks and further enhances his proficiency in close combat through inherently high motor skills to compensate for his slight weakness against physical attacks.

Even such a destructive form of magic has its hidden flaws. It can be easily countered by Ancient Fire Magic, usually used by the Pyronia King Louisius Salamandra. When both attacks of these two magic collide, the fire overwhelms the wind, increasing the fire attack's strength and potency fourfold. Even though Joshua has god-like control over wind through this magic, it can be interrupted even by non-Antiquian metamagic. This situation would require Joshua to ascend to Zephyrian State in order to attain far higher control.

Standard antimagic and certain types of antimagic are not very effective against this type of magic because of the fairly high presence of Photos' absolute divine power within it that resists darkness-based magic. That being said, only Antiquian antimagic can effectively counter it.

### Ancient Lightning Magic

Joshua has fully mastered Ancient Lightning Magic after 2765 ATS. He was taught by his ancestor to be a master practitioner of this magic in order to prove that his powers speak of his authority as the second Lesser Deific King of Ventilus. He possesses a godlike control over lightning, allowing him to utilize lightning around him in any form at will. He is able to release a large amount of energy in few seconds to cast devastating spells associated with the latter magic. Moreover, this type of magic is highly complex even for Antiquians; only the prophesied Ancient Kings of Ventilus are able to learn it through their predecessors.

### Ancient Time Magic

This branch of magic is very rare and has been used even before the 1st Lesser Deific Kings were born. It is one of the most powerful forms of magic mentioned in Antiquian lore and is one of the primary affinities of Ishtukham, the Heavenly Archon of Time, Gravity, and Life. However, usage of this type of magic requires a very high level of concentration and is also mentally taxing to cast. Because of this condition, Joshua is only to cast the magic circle twice and cast spells within the interval twice. When he exceeds, the next spell will not be cast and the user's mental concentration will be temporarily impaired for approximately 30 minutes or will range until a day. This is because only Ishtukham aside from Photos has the pristine ability to manipulate time. To compensate for such a weakness, Joshua uses Tachyon Magic instead of Ancient Time Magic to minimize health risks involved.

### Ascensions

Joshua is able to ascend to a stronger form by using the power of the seven Ancient Keystones or their enhanced versions called the Aeternal Keystones.

To ascend, he first casts a magical heptagon on his wake. From each vertex of the heptagon has a small magic circle with a line connecting them together. Each Ancient Keystone nearby will float above each circle. To harness their powers, Joshua casts a floating rune that floats before him. Afterwards, he will stretch his arms sideways and reach forth his palms towards the rune. To unlock the energy channel within the rune, he will swipe it in an upward motion with both index and middle fingers, causing the rune to dissipate. Eventually, the user will be surrounded in a beam of light and emerge from a surge of massive energy, resulting in an ascension of the user's current form.

Joshua has three ascensions: the Zephyrian State, the Ancient Archon, and the Aeternal Archon. The Archon States, however, are incredibly inaccessible because the Ancient Keystones were long lost deep in the planet of Antiquus. These, however, were found during 3238 ATS, in which the Empyrdom has conducted an interplanetary expedition around Antiquus to search for the keystones. The Zephyrian State is merely a power boost in times of emergencies, due to certain occasions that he needs complete control over wind against metamagic.

The Aeternal Keystones bestow gigantic levels of reality-defying power which carry a tedious risk. Even though Joshua is a Deific King and an Antiquian, he is still a mortal. Being one, he cannot sustain all the power he gains from the Keystones. After reverting to normal when the Aeternal Keystones are harnessed, Joshua will fall into a week-long coma after an interval of five seconds within the revertion process.

### Tachyon Magic

It is a branch of Particle Magic within the bloodline of Celerean family. It allows Joshua to control tachyon energy in his body. Due to this manipulation, he can move at extreme speeds to the point that his movements cannot be seen with the naked eye. He can do this while heading towards multiple directions because of his insane resistance against g-forces and his naturally enhanced motor skills. His usual approximate speed is 771 meters per second. His top speed may be faster than the speed of light. His current speed limit in base form is around 450,000,000 meters per second. However, as he ascends to a stronger form, his speed limit is further minimized until the point he reaches Aeternal Archon which completely removes his speed limit. Due to his physiology affected by Tachyon Magic, he is lightweight. He can easily move at high speeds given his current weight that can resist air friction.

Additionally, he is able to deal severe damage against certain opponents most likely because of the momentum he gives off. Despite being lightweight, his speed increases his force. While it is generally true that too much force applies to the action-reaction, this does not hold true to him in certain situations. Sporting a very high g-force resistance due to physiology and Ancient Wind Magic itself, he is able to move at almost unbelievable ways that may sometimes be mistaken as pulling off ridiculous stuff out of nowhere. This will hold true if and only if Joshua moves at superluminal speeds, as forcing the body to evade while moving at the said speed will bypass his resistance.

### Telepathy

As a natural-born Antiquian, he is able to telepathize with people having a telepathic connection with him. However, he cannot do this with people having no connection, unless they agreed to establish one. Simple physical contact after agreement can make the establishment successful. This connection cannot be broken unless one or two people involved pass away. However, he can still read the minds of others even a connection is nonexistent.

### Ether Manipulation

Joshua can freely manipulate the ether of the Ether Forest to enhance his powers utilizing Aetermana. However, even as a Deific King, he experiences a slight twinge of pain in his forehead when manipulating raw ether because of the presence of impurities. In the case of pure ether, however, he experiences no problems in manipulating it.

## Abilities

### Longevity

As a royal Antiquian, he is unable to die from age. Due to his life force which is abnormal for an average human, but not of Antiquian standards, he is immune to mild illnesses.

### Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant

He is quite a talented, if not the best, hand-to-hand combatant even without utilizing his Ancient Wind Magic or his Tachyon Magic. However, his swordsmanship is far more deadly than being barehanded.

### Sustained Unlimited Flight

Due to his Ancient Wind Magic, he can fly at an unlimited rate.

### Immense Elemental Resistance

Joshua can withstand a load of magical attacks (except fire) thrown at him without feeling too much pain.

### Enhanced Refined Strength

Though he may not look like it, Joshua has enhanced strength, because he has a high pool of magical energy inside his body, although his kicks do pack more power. However, unlike his fellow king Thomas Atlanteum, he lacks raw power.

### Non-Antiquian Psychic Immunity

As a natural-born Antiquian, he is immune to any non-Antiquian magic or spell that involves the manipulation of his mind. This is due to Photos' divine spell that cancels the effects of non-Antiquian psychic magic formulae and blocks psychic connections from non-Antiquians to his mind and body. Thus, he cannot be lifted up from the ground with non-Antiquian telekinetic, cannot be mind-controlled, etc.

### Immense Reflexes

He can easily dodge most slow attacks through his enhanced motor skills. To an extent, he can dodge most dense attacks and even manifold attacks. Through his athletic abilities, it is easy for him to dodge these attacks. He can react to attacks at a slightly faster rate, allowing him to dodge the attacks involved. Moreover, this inherent skill acts as an auxiliary for Tachyon Magic. His base reaction speeds are at the speed of electrical impulses.

### Ancient King Swordplay

As an Ancient King, he is able to wield his Aetergeheim masterfully. Moreover, he can overwhelm other opponents by combining the adamant strength of his broadsword and his very high attack speed. He is also adept in pinpointing blind spots and weak points of the enemy as long he is familiar with their characteristics. Strangely enough, he often unsheathes his Aetergeheim in a samurai-like way but attacks in a similar way to his fellow Ancient Kings. He is able to skillfully conjoin sword attacks with each other in order to create effective combos while maintaining his position free from vulnerabilities as much as possible.

He usually wields the Aetergeheim its *zweihander* form with only one hand because of its magical properties brought about by the Ancient Wing Magic's effects resonating with its runescedalite blade. He is also famous in his locality for his swift one-hand sword combos while incorporating his speeds and enhanced motor skill to deal severe damage to certain opponents. Despite the sword being virtually weightless, it can easily cut through any kind of armor, since the blade is powered by the blessing of Aeter, the Antiquian supreme god himself, that can "sunder anything temporal". Related divine objects, however, will receive significant damage regardless.

Despite being skilled in overall swordplay, his lethality is further increased when he wields the Aetergeheim in its dual-wield form. He becomes more versatile in close-quarters combat when dual-wielding.

### Lancing Arts

Although mainly a swordsman, he displays masterful prowess in wielding spears, lances, and halberds. He is able to strike many opponents with few swings of Lys, the Halberd of Ecliptic Moonlight. He uses a specific style called the Caustellon.

### Immense Intelligence

For an entity that has lived for more than a thousand years, he has a prodigial level of intelligence, ranging from 280-300 IQ. He is able to organize an organization by himself. He invented most of the Empyrdom's military weaponry and consolidated knowledge for his members to use. He even invented many notable contraptions that the Empyrdom has in store. He finished magic school earning a vast range of knowledge about Antiquian magic.

### Master Tactician

Having an intellect of 280-300 IQ and a known polymath in his kingdom, he can manage multiple armies in the Empyrdom. If none of his officers are present to assist him in taking care of specific careers for specialization, he is entirely capable of working alone in military sessions.

Depending on the engagement rules of a certain battle, he is always serious but he will not kill unless the law allows him to. He may be heavily restricted in taking the life of a certain entity due to law but he is normally not afraid to kill. He will use all he has in his range of wisdom to rightfully defeat his opponents.

### Immense Flight and Swimming Speed

He can also fly and swim at superluminal speeds Due to this, he is able to dodge most ranged attacks, but may vary on his reaction time, trajectory and speed of the projectiles.

### Aquatic Respiration

He can breathe underwater because he is enveloped in Ancient Aerokinetic energy which sustains his oxygen levels underwater.

### High Resistance to Radiation

As an Antiquian, his body can normally absorb around 200 Sv (sieverts) without experiencing any sort of damage to his cells. However, anything higher than 200 Sv can harm him.

### Immense Perception Level

Through the power of his Tachyon Magic, his eyes can read even superluminal speeds for a long time. He can sense the presence of living entities within a range of 500 meters away.

### Immense Aetermana Capacity

Within thousand years of his lifetime, he always spent his spare time in meditation in order to increase his Aetermana capacity and to improve his magic control. This and his inherently massive Aetermana capacity makes him a formidable foe in terms of fighting with magic alone for long periods of time. This is evident in Empyrdom x Federations Q1, in which using Empyrean Storm, a high-tier Ancient Lightning spell, for a relatively prolonged time, didn't tire him out.

## Skill and Spell Set

### Ancient Wind Magic

#### Silent Stratos

A Single-target FE-Two-Way-control Wind-Elemental-type Ancient-degree spell allows Joshua's body, soul, and spirit to blend with the air around them to completely conceal themselves. This expends less Aetermana when used within the atmosphere of a planet as this spell needs air around it. Since the presence of Joshua's spiritual entities coordinate with his elemental resonance, the exact location of his soul cannot be detected easily as the astral patterns become very unpredictable.

#### Silent Dervish

This Poly-target Formula-control Wind-Elemental-type Ancient-degree spell is a basic spell that Joshua devised from Ancient Wind Magic. Joshua forms wind blades from the air to overwhelm foes, catch them off guard, or to deliver swift death upon them. These wind blades are slightly less stronger than Aetergeheim but has shown to be very effective in any situation.

#### Force Shatter

This is a Single-target Formula-control Wind-Elemental-type Ancient-degree spell that allows Joshua to minimize opposing force in his way. This is often done in response to wave attacks which may either deflect them or redirect them away from him, thus protecting him from those attacks. Joshua forms a green magic circle in front of him which would increase his velocity or blow away projectiles along his trajectory with a strong force of wind.

#### Wind Mirage

This skill manifests if Joshua's eyes glow green for half a second. This allows him to turn his body into air as his real body is prepared to manifest in any place he wishes. This is used as a diversion or a getaway.

### Ancient Time Magic

#### Reality Stasis

It can be used only once in base form until Joshua recovers spent Aetermana. It can completely halt the flow of time of the whole existence for ten seconds. When at Ancient Archon, he can cast this spell three times maximum—each is limited to a minute. When at Aeternal Archon, he has unlimited usage and can be reverted anytime he wishes to.

### Tachyon Magic

#### Tachyon Kick

Joshua charges his right foot with tachyon energy. After his foot is fully loaded, he focuses natural energy into his left foot, causing him to jump at a high level of altitude. While Joshua is suspended mid-air, he aims his right foot at the opponent. Using his Tachyon Magic, he jets off toward his opponent, leaving afterimages behind. When he reaches his opponent, he slams his charged foot with full force on him or her. The attack has very high momentum because of its tremendous velocity.

* Full Tachyon Kick

This variant is Joshua's default finishing attack. After pinning down an opponent, he fully charges his right foot with tachyon energy. He utilizes the time needed to fill his charging limit for Tachyon Kick and also momentum in order to hit his opponent with stunning accuracy.

* Juggling Tachyon Kick

This variant is used when Joshua executes a combo against an opponent. He can deal relative damage to certain opponents by ending the combo with an acrobatic Haste Tachyon Kick.

* Haste Tachyon Kick

This variant is only used when ambushing an opponent without further delay. However, this is weaker than the default Tachyon Kick because it is not fully charged unlike the latter variant.

* Circumferential Tachyon Kick

This is a variant of the Full Tachyon Kick, wherein Joshua executes the latter attack in a roundhouse manner, dealing damage to all surrounding opponents.

* Drag Tachyon Kick

This variant is used in quick battles. While Joshua is running under the effect of Tachyon Magic, he can execute this attack. The strength of this attack is relative to the speed of the user. The higher the momentum, the fiercer the attack will become.

#### Tachyon Edge

* Tachyon Edge

He can charge his Aetergeheim with high-density tachyon energy to enhance its attack speed and to prevent enemies from escaping. After charging, he delivers a lethal slash that can defeat multiple enemies.

* Tachyon Multi-Edge

Another variation is to lock an opponent into a tachyon-powered series of slashes instead of one pooled slash. He uses this form of attack after restraining the opponent with swordplay. He can also use this to overwhelm a defending enemy.

* Tachyon Myriad Edge

#### Tachyon System

Joshua's finishing combo attack as opposed to Tachyon Kick. This attack is more effective inside barriers.

#### Endless Waltz

A variety of Tachyon System more suited against multiple foes. Joshua takes off at tachyonic speeds as he attacks multiple foes relentlessly, without pause. However, if most of the foes have durability enough to withstand his attacks, much more if they can withstand more than a strike from Aetergeheim, this would easily cause Joshua to expend too much energy, exhausting him within extensive periods of time upon usage.

## Weaknesses

**Fire Magic Vulnerability**

Compared to his Ancient Wind Magic, he is greatly vulnerable against fire magic. Due to this uncanny weakness, he cannot tolerate high-temperature areas such as Pyronia, which he tries his best not to go there, due to the volcanic heat emitting from Mount Calderius and from the rest of volcanoes on the said continent. The heat there can only be tolerated by its own natural-born citizens. This drawback causes his battle parameters to decrease dramatically to the extent of suffering from heatstroke with a higher chance than others when in a high-temperature area. Due to this limitation, he will have a hard time fighting fire-elementals that can release pure fire such as Louisius Salamandra, the King of Pyronia. Strangely, sunny areas do not pose a problem to Joshua, because the temperature in these areas are within his tolerable range.
**Physical Attack Vulnerability**

Due to his physiology affected by Tachyon Magic, he is slightly vulnerable to physical attacks. As shown in Everburning Battle of the Shadow Revenant—Part 2, he struggled to regain his ground because of the strong force of Brian's punch and the collateral damage due to gravity when he crashed on the ground. He compensates for his weakness by his own extreme movement speed and is also training with his fellow king Thomas Atlanteum to reduce this weakness.
**Ancient Time Magic Strain**

If Joshua casts chronokinetic magic extensively, it can deal dizziness to him for a duration of thirty minutes to an hour. Regardless of his intellect, this condition disrupts his thought processes, temporarily disabling him from analyzing military situations in the Empyrdom.
**Excess Momentum**

If Joshua travels at superluminal speeds, there is a probability that he will end up hurting himself because he can sometimes miss even with his lightning-fast attacks, especially with hand-to-hand combat, and will bump onto harder objects accidentally. This is one of the reasons why Joshua often wields a weapon when engaging in close combat.
**Aeternal Archon Duration**

**Empyrean Armor Duration**

## Forms

* Armor
* Ascensions

Joshua can equip certain armor suits in certain circumstances.

* Empyrean Armor
* Asteriscan Armor
* Empyrean Asteriscan Armor

Joshua can ascend using various Sacred Relics as catalysts and energy sources for his transformations.

* Zephyrian
* Ancient Archon
* Aeternal Archon

This state is not considered an elemental shift, rather an ascension. Joshua gains access to this state by harnessing the power of a Zephyrian Stone on his person. This stone is imbued with the elemental energy of Zephyr, the Wind Elemental Guardian of Antiquus.

While in this state, Joshua's Ancient Wind Magic is further enhanced.

**Ancient Archon**
Ancient Archon State is Joshua's penultimate form. To ascend to this state, Joshua must use the powers of all seven Ancient Keystones and a large pool of mana (magical energy) in his body. His Ancientcalibur, when present in the field, can act as a catalyst during his transformation by sharing its own energy with him.

While in this state, his battle parameters are increased twentyfold, except for his maximum speed under influence of Tachyon Magic, because it remains unchanged and it is in fact imaginary. However, he is able to increase the overall strength of Tachyon Magic-based physical attacks by increasing its density. Due to this, the tachyon energy he emits is now golden instead of cyan. Also, his physical resistance is slightly increased, stripping him off of his weakness against physical attacks unless he reverts back to his normal state. However, his vulnerability against fire is not completely stripped off; he only gains a small resistance from it to minimize damage dealt from fire-elemental attacks.

**A****e****t****e****r****n****u****m** **Archon**
Aeternal Archon State is Joshua's ultimate and final form. To ascend to this state, Joshua must use the powers of all seven Aeternal Keystones which are enhanced by the individual elemental energies of seven Antiquian elemental guardians, namely Shielpheus, Gishil, Colossia, Zephyr, Lumineadhar, Abisnyctus, and Aethernova. His battle parameters are drastically increased to the point that he can even surpass the power of a Heavenly Archon, which is slightly stronger than a non-supreme god in popular culture.

## Quotes

* Introductions
* In-story
* When in Battle

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—introduction before battle

—formal introductions

—introducing self to non-Archosapei when not on Antiquus

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—to Joshua Sentrium Burns during Empyrdom x Jkirk Chapter 2

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—when starting a match as trainer or in a royal match

—when starting a match while highly confident

—taunt against hostile opponent

—taunt against hostile opponent

—taunt during training

—when determined to continue fighting or about to ascend form

—after ascending to Ancient Archon or Aeternal Archon respectively

—when using his finishing move

—when shifting elements

—when donning the Empyrean Armor

## Canonical Timeline

### Caitlineia Eurius

She is Joshua's first childhood friend and the first girl he admired in his life.

### Astreia Arcstellaerea

She is Joshua's friend during the Pyronian Rebellion.

### Reius Draganea

They met during the Imperial Awakening, wherein the Ventilusian Branch had assisted Draconia City in the defense against the Regimenians.

### Corona Fercolasia

He saved her from the mind control of the Shadow Knight.

## Non-Canonical/Crossover Timeline

### Darkstorm-Actu-Sin

#### Parallel Darkstorm

He and Darkstorm's bond is a solemn brotherhood.

#### Original Darkstorm

The only canon series he was able to truly meet the original Darkstorm was in Ancient Kings X: Multifarious Bonds.

He loathes the original Darkstorm because of the latter's brashness and paranoia that exceeds even his parallel self. Their first encounter was not eventually peaceful unlike with the parallel Darkstorm. After that, it left a mark in the original Darkstorm's heart to doubt Joshua even though he did not do anything amiss. This caused Joshua to doubt him as well because he believes that there is no sense trusting anyone who has no trust in him. He also believes that he does not need to gain his trust because "he is a large gap across his path".

### Everburn

#### Parallel Everburn

The parallel Everburn is Joshua's best knight among his men. They also are close friends and are willing to help out each other in battle.

### Joshua Sentrium Burns

He is close allies with Joshua. They first met when the Empyrdom of Anticytheris went to Mobius for an expeditionary mission.

## Miscellaneous Info

His hobbies are painting, drawing, writing antique novels, playing the violin, and traveling in Ventilus and Cryolus. The places he likes to go are windy and have low temperature. He prefers living within a boreal biome. The food he prefers eating are mostly savory, while some are mildly sweet. His favorite food is white sauce pasta. His favorite pastry is coconut buttermilk cookies. His favorite drink is minted green tea. His favorite colors are mostly within the hues of blue and green. He likes to wear trench coats and thick scarves. His favorite animals are birds and cats, while he somewhat dislikes dogs and abhors cockroaches. His favorite sport is kick volleyball. His favorite vacation venue is the Rink of Fractals in northeast Ventilus.

His Runic Sign is Plastingos and his temperament is Melancholic-Choleric. Being an individual possessing the Plastingos sign, he has a great sense of justice as evident in its "scale" symbol. He is also meticulous in many aspects, whether great or small. This can be inferred that Joshua is of the Lawful Good alignment.

He likes people with good discipline and adequate wisdom. However, he greatly dislikes flamboyant people. The men he likes to be friends with are bighearted, willful, and compassionate. In terms of women, he prefers the mysterious, demure, and shy ones. Regarding appearances, he generally likes women with long hair, as well as those with braids. This is evident of his first wife and second wife, Astreia and Caitlineia respectively, who have long hair. However, his greatest preference on choosing a woman is her personality.

He graduated after six years in Cryglen Magic Learning Center (now called Ventilus Basic Magic School), after six years in Cryglen Magic High, and after four years in Ventilus National Magic University as top-notch. He finished Wind Magic Course and Masteral of High Primeval Magic. He also took a doctorate of magic.

His personal motto is "*Art is an endless possibility".*

## Trivia

* His surname **Zephyrius** signifies that he uses the Western Style of Ancient Wind Magic. On the flip side, Caitlineia Eurius uses the Eastern Style, since she belongs to the Eurius bloodline.
	+ The bloodlines **Zephyrius** and **Eurius** are both royal bloodlines that originated from the Ventilus' royal pureblood bloodline **Celerea**.
* His first name **Joshua** is a Hebrew name that means "Yahweh is my deliverance". Particularly, in the normal concept of "deliverance", it foreshadows his separation from Caitlineia many years ago and his resolve to save her from the clutches of evil and reunite with her. This led him to another resolve: to value the safety of women as one of his greatest priorities.
* His second name **Aelianos** foreshadows his trait of tolerating heat from the sun although he has a flaw in high-temperature areas.