Tael/Story

Tall "Tael"
The Origins of a Man of The World
The History of a Man who stands fast against Fate.

## The Lost Grace - Beginning.

From a great, spiraling World Tree, one so insurmountable in size, so brilliant in nature and pure of sap that none other would ever be compared to this one, was born a child from the race that would only come to be known as the Golden Folk. This child, however, fell unlike any other, accompained of a brilliant light akin to a falling star, a twinkle on the sky high, descending onto the earth at terminal velocity... Such was his brilliance that everyone in the surrounding village of the Mother Tree realized his existence the moment he was expelled from their o' so gracious Mother Tree. Upon his fall, many of his kin were there to analyze him, to see who had come to give them such light, one of the town Elders ordered the people to stay back and give the newborn some space for himself. The Town Leader grabbed the newborn baby and noticed a strange carving onto it's skin - The mark of an Ouroboros, symbolizing Eternity and a jewel, stuck to his forehead that exuded the most brilliant of lights. Many around him became envious of this sacred birth onto their nation, and quickly began preparing for a way to rid this newborn off their village from pure jealousy. The Elders, sensing this blood lust towards such a innocent and pure creature, offered to take care of the Child of Light, naming him henceforth Eiliftí, meaning Gleam in the Mak tongue. Even through these adversities however... Eiliftí was largely loved in the town he lived in, and led a happy life as a child, even if it would last... As the curse of reincarnation does not permit it so.

On Tael's first 100 years, when he had already come of age, a calamity was bound to strike the quiet village at the foot of the ginormous tree, as the Conqueror of Stars was soon to come to lay ruin to these lands and conquer them for his vast empire. He stepped onto the land, and quickly locked eyes with the Mother Tree, claiming it as his prize. When he reached near his prize, he realized a village of rather small people was hosted under him, he crouched down and exclaimed loudly

***"People of this land, gatekeeper of this beautiful World Tree, soon to be my own! I consider myself welcomed by your bravery! I challenge you all for a duel between me and the strongest of your ken! If I win, I am entitled to this village and the tree that sits amidst it, if I lose, I shall retire myself and share my secrets with you folk!"***

The fear of such a goliath, of over 10 meters of height, challenging the strongest of the village for a duel, they all took their spears out and prepared to assassinate the Conqueror of Stars. They brought forth one of the strongest soldiers that they owned, as the Conqueror of Stars took his two ginormous blades from the floor and prepared for a duel. The sky was consumed by a carmine color as the Conqueror of Stars cackled loudly, preparing for a battle like many he had seen on his excidingly long lifetime.

***"I, High Emperor Radahn, Conqueror of Stars and Universes, Ruler of the Cosmos on High and of the very Foundation of all Planets within it, accept this knight as my partner!"***

The battle soon unfolded, with the soldier of the Golden Folk being quickly overpowered. Seeing this in despair, the Elders intruded the duel by telling all soldiers to charge the singular goliath to spare that life. This however, was a dishonor towards the duel and greatly enraged the Emperor, who then rose his hand with an expression of true anger after being brought to his knees by the dishonorable army of thousands. He then brought his hand down, decimating the village to bits with meteors made of crimson debris, which hit everyone in the village, killing almost everyone, sparing Eiliftí who was shocked in dread, a handful of civilians and the army that had dishonored his duel.

***"You runts! You bring dishonor to your names and ken. Thy kind are all of a piece, dishonorable, emboldened by the Mother Tree that you live by. This will not stand!"***

After hearing this, Tael knew that his life was bound to end due the Conqueror of Stars' ouslaught due to the dishonor brought to his honorable duel by the foolish acts of his people to try and save one life, dooming several thousand others. At this breaking point, a voice reached to him, of a man who no longer had a proper form, with long hairs, an long cloak which spoke with a soft, beautifully soothing voice to him.

***"Greetings, Descendant of my own Soulkin... You must flee, run from this place before you are torn asunder, for this is not your place to die, not yet. Grace was bustowed upon you to live, not to perish. Go, flee!"***

Upon hearing the voice of this figure, Eiliftí rose his head and began sprinting away from everyone and everything, running endlessly with tears on his eyes until his legs gave in from aching, his breath became raspy and shallow and the adrenaline wore off. In a moment's notice, he fell and passed out, thinking that he would die, as he failed to live, as his Ascentral voice had told him to.

When he arose, he found himself near an empty space, with only a spectral figure of someone that seemed to be the man that spoke to him. He walked to the man, raggedy and bloodied from blood of the others that died before him as the man took pity in him, and gave him new clothes and cured whatever wounds he may have sustained upon reaching here. Slowly but surely, the man would uncover the truth of Eiliftí's existence onto him, that he was on the line of a great reincarnation cycle that must be complete - And that there were many other thousand reincarnations of his that are not even aware of this, but some of them, are quite and are making efforts to complete themselves. It is unknown what else this man came to tell Eiliftí, but it is clear that from that moment on, he vanquished his name, and the gem that sat on his forehead and no longer was Eiliftí, he was Tael.

## Death's Demise - Nyx's Arc

The Fall was triggered with the appearance of Nyx due to the wish of the masses. Everyone entered in a new world that was… quite weird for them, they found themselves in a sort of Simulacra without knowing about it, living lives that were not meant for them. Tael incarnated in that world as a Junior Student in a nearby Academy, Ienzo incarnated as the legal guardian of Tael, Female Excellion incarnated as a student in another Academy and Excellion incarnated as a Police Officer and, a new member of the group that appeared some adventures beforehand, Kosmos who incarnated as someone completely random, and faked her way into the headquarters of the military… However, the 2 Excellion seemed to have no memory loss at all, the complete opposite of the other end of the team. After getting access to a weird looking gun and shooting himself on the head, awakening all his memories along with his persona, Thanatos who he used to fight off

    the authorities that tried to keep him in his cuffs. Tael's initial plan due to Kcalb's influence was to slaughter anyone who opposed him for that he had the power to do so but Tael's body refused to kill as many people as he saw, resulting on Tael's change of mind to gather the group firstly and get their memories back, so they could fight off the God of Death who kept following the desire of the masses. Tael firstly got the aid of Ienzo, by shooting him with the Evoker, even if he refused due to being afraid of dying from that shot, who wasn't going to happen. After having Ienzo's memories awakened he ventured forth trying to find the location of Female Excellion by asking around for her… They eventually got with the place and were greeted with F.E. already having her memories from the past, in which they found really weird at first glance, but allowed it to slide for that wasn't the thing of much importance. The next target was surely Excellion, who wasn't hard to find since F.E. had already seen him going around in his police officer's clothing.

After attempting to go in to talk with Excellion and check if he owned any memories of the life after the transportation to that simulation in which Excellion seemed to have not as Tael tried to awfully be "stealth-ish" to recruit him for that would have ended up in an awful mess. Excellion then told Tael that he was awful at trying to fake his way through stuff and also revealing that he had memories of anything that happened before the events of The Fall. Now that the squad was almost reunited, they went to the military post to do a little… revenge on the creator of The Fall, for that he would be hiding there most likely.

The one who stepped up to fight the squad was Kosmos, taking on Tael both with their powers. The fight turned out to be interrupted by Kosmos telling that she had every single memory of the outside world, making Tael think for some time that he may have been a malfunction in this "simulacra" process since everyone seemed to have their memories apart from him and Ienzo. The Excellion's refused to tell the truth about them having their own memories as they

    went forth towards The Fall's Creator. They then came to find out the horrible, scary mask-looking face of the God of Death that threatened the world, One of Nyx's Avatars. In fact, Nyx wasn't doing anything wrong but to hear and aid the masses on their wishes but it was still quite a tragic thing to the world and those who still wanted to live on it. The squad quickly rushed to the Avatar but to no avail, for that he stomped on them with the power of the wishes of everyone. Seeing that they had no chance against the God of Death, they retreated from the fight into a sort of hideout, to find a way to defeat Nyx… After a long time of discussing ideas, the only plausible choice they got to was to change the hearts of the people living in that world, and so they did, disguising themselves under the name of ***"The Last Hope"***, they announced to the world that they would be a salvation for this world if they allowed them to be. After having the trust and power of the masses on their side, they were able to find Nyx's Avatar again and… With the rage of a thousand suns, Tael was able to destroy it, giving his life for the cause due to overloading in power. However, a new Nyx Avatar appeared to confront the remaining member for which Female Excellion gave her life in protection of the crew, sealing The Fall itself in a great gate for everyone's safety.

That was an incredibly sad death, but it was needed in order to contain Nyx and not have another "The Fall", and her soul still awaits the day that someone goes save her from the power of Nyx.

## The Guardian of Hearts - Jin's Arc (Part 1)

Tael didn't play much of a role in Jin's arc apart from trying to chase him down after getting stomped by him along with the whole Last Hope… Without much information on him they decided that it would be for the best to kill him, for that he just went to kill them without any proper reason. They ended up following him to the world of Xenoblade, where they found themselves with the objective of heading to the World Tree. After much endeavors and a lot of defeats against Jin, one of which got Noxis, Kcalb's son, killed, they ended up reaching Klaus, or at least half of him who explained a lot about that world and told them exactly what they needed to do to leave it, for that Jin had already left. After completing the task that was put from Klaus to them, they eventually left the world… but with no traces of Jin so far. The arc ended with the group leaving the Root dimension, the dimension in which they mainly worked to have a peaceful life working at a school as teachers for that their knowledge was immense.

## The Second Coming of the Guardian - Jin's Arc (Part 2)

With everyone working at the school, no one had ever expected to see Kuro betray everyone with helping Jin jump into the school and explode it from the inside out. Kuro's motives were unclear by that time, just as Kosmos motives also were when she went to meet with Jin and join him. Tael did not seem to understand the reason so he eventually got infuriated at Jin's supposed "kidnapping" and burrsted out of Kcalb's control at that same moment, and, in a fierce attempt to kill Jin once and for all, he ended up being the first one to damage Jin with a thrust on the stomach and he was able to pair with Jin in the slashes and see Jin's movements clearly, until Jin showed what he could truly do, leaving Tael hopeless once more. After various encounters with Jin and various people going to Jin's side, it eventually turned into a war of groups in the Keyblade graveyard, where Jin acquired the power of the Kingdom Hearts. In the middle of all the suffering from losing, they ended up going to Kingdom Hearts even tho they stood no chance against him, especially with the crown of the Sea of Souls. They then listened to Jin's motives and ideals, in which a fight of ideals was started as a final battle between Tael and Jin. Tael eventually lost this battle but got an immense respect towards Jin

## The World Ends With You - TWEWY Arc

Various years after the conflicts of the Holy War II, Tael was just a worker at the Demon Fang Inn, in Insomnia until Jin broke inside of the place and killed both Tael, and one person that he was talking to, an old friend of Aevum, Hana Song, both found Excellion and Kuro in a... afterlife of sorts. They then met with Megumin and were explained exactly what was going on there, and so they proceeded to the part of surviving a weak. Tael teamed with Kuro and Excellion with Hana. After the whole week of riddles and such, they eventually had to defeat Yodai, in which they did. After that… They had to play the week again but this time, Tael was a Reaper, a administrator of the game. He was given the mission to discover Joshua's indentity, in which he failed even tho he went to attack them sometimes. In the "Cheat-round", where Excellion was going to get himself erased because he needed to partner with someone and no one was there, Tael saved him by teaming up with him and together they found Kuro and both went to defeat the game. They eventually did find Joshua was the Composer, Game-master of the Reaper's Game and ended up, after a fight of ideals, joining him to their party. After that a school was created in which Tael lectured people once again, however he eventually left and no one has any trace of him. After a decade of being missing, he is now believed to be dead.

## Tael's Last Stand - Completion Arc

While he was largely absent from the arc, the inside of his mind was explored throughly, with Excellion and Jhin at the center cast piece of that arc with Galaxia who appeared once in a while to provide support to the cast. In definitive appearece was in the last battle against Kuro, his counterpart and sword brother for completion after both having adquired their specific parts in the process for this battle. The battle ends with the death of Kuro and Tael at once, but with Tael breating his final breath last, giving him the title of Complete Tael

Shortly after, Excellion and Complete Tael forge a new body for the old Tael so for Kosmos, his wife, and for those who would miss him greatly. Kuro however, is largely forgotten by everyone except the new Oddity Tael which lives in remorse of having kill his sword brother and intends to dethrone Complete Tael in exchange for Kuro's life back.