Luther Redgaze

Luther in his Lorica - Suurego

*"Yeah, the elven body in a bag... It's somewhere between one and eight hundred thousand years old and they gave it to me." ~* Luther to Toumego telling her about what he got from his trip to Verde

**Luther Redgaze** is a part-time inventor, craftsman and engineer mainly operating in the Millennium Empire.He is a Moonchild that has travelled all around Europa, before settling in Asjar. He became a close friend of Evan Derwent and Adaleth Makela deciding to accompany them on their quest to stop Saego Vetaa in order to find any hidden technologies that could help him in his studies.

## Appearance

Luther is a male of Moonchild origin. He has an average build and looks to be in his thirties. His face is ovally shaped. Luther regularly cuts his hair bald and shaves his facial hair to the base. He is shown to have a few red hairs, although his eyebrows are black, suggesting he paints them. He also uses lenses, to change his eye color to black, even though his eyes are red.

He has a mark on the left cheek from a bullet going through it. During his alcohol addiction he had puffy cheeks and bags under the eyes, but since his abstinence his face became slimmer and with no bags.

Luther generally dislikes clothing that isn't practical for work. He often chooses comfortable and expendable clothes like t-shirts, leather pants and almost any clothing he has his hands on, making his style very chaotic. He doesn't care what he wears or how bad it may look on him. Most of his clothes have stains on them from various substances.

## Personality

Luther's whole personality seems entirely captivated around his work. He spares little time for his personal life and isn't very sociable. He often neglects himself and the others around him, which makes him prone to depression, in result developing an alcohol addiction. His lack of self-care comes from the fact he originates from another race, seemingly superior to the human one, which can withstand much more pressure and hardship. That makes him believe he doesn't have the right to go easy on himself and must serve humanity to his full potential. His lack of social etiquette, disinterest in human affairs and self-isolation is due to his realisation that making any connections with people would be painful as they are mortal, unlike him and he will eventually lose them.

## Abilities

### Yellow Blood

Luther's heritage as a Moonchild makes him superior to ordinary humans. Other than the other-worldly colour of his blood he benefits from a very healthy body. He is protected from most diseases and has a great endurance. This is most evident by his severe alcohol addiction in which he drank absurd amount of hard alcohol and he didn't get drunk, with his organs mostly unaffected other than the liver which he healed by magic every few months to sustain his overall health . Luther is also immortal, in the sense he doesn't age. The blood itself is said to have thousands of souls in it's essence, fragmented and mended to make up one, unlike human blood where it's only a single soul. It overall has many practicalities as seen through out the story.

Coming into the world as a Moonchild gave him inborn talents for engineering and mathematics, which he was naturally drawn to. He was able to easily craft objects of many arts, like smithing, weaving, carpentering and even develop magical potions or dangerous poisons. He had a knack for developing his skills and trying new things, eventually making breakthroughs in his field.

Luther is a naturally predisposed to magic, being able to interact with the Reflection. He is a decent spellcaster, but uses his magic mostly to support himself or his allies in and out of combat situations. His race also gives him the ability to cast a select few spells he otherwise wouldn't be able to learn due to their complexity. A burning beam of light, a spell that controlls storms, a spell that makes him impossible to catch and a spell that let him see into the deep past.

### Lorica Suurego

Luther is one of the three known owners of a Lorica Lucida-a magical armor created from moonshard material containing a human soul within it. The armor attached itself to him during his stay in the consumed city of Pavdala and showed it was able to communicate with him telepathically. He named the female voice he heard, Suurego. As his bond and trust with the armor's conscienceness strengthened, its capabalities were also able to evolve. Whenever extreme circumstances demanded something Luther simply couldn't achieve, Suurego was pushed to break her own boundaries and let Luther achieve it. By the end of the shadow war she was able to make Luther completely invulnerable to any harm for almost up to a minute, use itself to bend even the hardest steel or let Luther fly. She also heightened his reflexes, enchanced his speed and synergyzed with his sword, making it more destructive.

Although she was able to evolve on her own, she wasn't able to make herself independent of Luther, which Luther set himself the goal of doing. Athough hard, since he had no prior knowledge on manipulating moonshard material, he was determined to find out how to give her soul a human body. He firstly gave Suurego a physical voice, so she could communicate with everyone else, by using the aid of Herghaz Innovez. After the end of the war, with the help of Saego Vetaa, he achieved to give Suurego the body her soul used to have before she became a Lorica.

### M.O.N.K.I.

Mechanically-Operational-Nonliving-Keratanized-Intelligence is the full name of the constructs engineered by Luther, throughout the story. The M.O.N.K.I. 's body is made from animal and metal parts. It isn't conscious and obeys Luther's commands. It has basic intelligence, but is highly perceptive and physically dangerous. Luther made several constructs of this kind all resembling different creatures, with different capabilities. First one, a Kirin looking animal with sharp teeth and nails, high in speed. The second, more enchanced, resembling a small wyvern with much sharper nails and incredible strength, with the ability to glide in the air. The third, a giant turtle with better armor and an attached assault rifle to it's back that you could detach and use yourself if need be.

### Artisanship

Luther was able to use his magic and engineering skills to create many other items that aided him or his allies. He created magical items capable of shielding him physically and mentally, enchancing his vitality and improving his strength.