Lucius Valerian

**Lucius Augustine Valerian** is the de-facto leader of the active 4-person adventuring party on the continent of Kyllambria. He is a man hailing from the Valerians of **Vinoveritas**, a wealthy indeed, and yet only middle aristocracy family in the bustling *City of Villas and Wine*. Fascinated with world history and especially wartime chronicles of old, Lucius, as many aspiring family heads in Vinoveritas, is a military man, applying for enlistment at 15 years old, he would receive no answer back until applying again at 16, and finally arriving at the barracks and training camps a few months before becoming 17. He would show much tactical knowledge and critique towards some of the duties required of the peacetime army, and pledge himself to the path of education for officer duty. Achieving the assigned rank of *first lieutenant*, he would try and reach even further past such a measly title, alas that simply would not be - he would leave the army at 19 years old due to the military-related policies of the new Necromancer Government of Lorminar. He wields a heavy shield and a variety of swords, currently a shortsword.

Fighter

(Battle Master)
97
20
16
18
 INT
13
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16

## Physical Appearance

Lucius is 186cm tall, with parted, wild blonde hair and piercing dark blue eyes. Well-built and weighing at about 86kg, Lucius puts forward an image of appreciable strength. Despite being only 21 years old, his face more matches that of a man in the middle 30s range, frequently serious, with a furrowed brow and often with a frown across lips. He wears the relatively recently acquisitioned ***Oathbreaker's Mithral Armour*** - it consists of dark metal full-plate armour along with a full-faced helmet with two red glowing eyes adorning it. On his left hip are his two shortsword scabbards, while he keeps his original longsword in a sheath on his back. He also wears a tattered burgundy cape that he has attached to the armour. Alongside the armour, Lucius also carries a sizeable shield, now scratched, beaten and smeared with blood.

## Personality

The Young Valerian is a man of curious personality, determined and dependable, he shows tremendous, radiating confidence in himself. When within the confines of the group and sometimes even in tense situations, he holds an extremely laid back, centred and joking presence - shown especially when joking with Isaac and Chloe, and also towards the currently absent half-giant Sif. When on his own, however, the behaviours of a man of the robe and of the army shift back in, while still managing to not come off as cold or condescending. Within civilization, he prefers to exercise diplomacy and pragmatism rather than force of arms, this also falls away when dealing with some of the organizations in Kyllambria.

Lucius has been identified as a "creature of great ambition" by several higher entities throughout the party's adventures and this is entirely true, but not always shown outwardly. Lucius from the age of 12 believes himself to be a man worthy and destined for greatness. These thoughts are one of the main reasons he joined the soon-to-be-defunct Lorminarian military, as he considers war one of the main and longest lasting avenues for immortal glory. Regarding said military training, Lucius has a lot to show, both with his tactical reasoning and strength in combat. Through many battles however, there has definitely been a growing penchant for brutality when fighting, which has only recently started showing more and more.

Lucius has a noticeable distaste for backing down, even against terrible odds or death itself his near-limitless confidence propels him to push every physiological metric to the limits - most recently seen that, despite not sleeping for 2 days and falling unconscious twice, Lucius simply refuses to not be able to take his position at the frontline of battle.

## Belief System and Goals

### "Whether my likeness be turned to dust, to statues of marble or busts of gold - all will know my name!"

Lucius' thoughts on life in general are directly tied to the library's worth of books he has read on historical figures, battles and kingdoms - he believes that no matter what you do in your time on the earth, if nothing of what you have done is remembered by the masses, then you have lived no life at all. This thought propels Lucius to consistently push himself in all possible fields of interest (except magic) with the hopes that with them, he will go on to achieve immortal glory.

Currently this lust to show his prowess moves past the boundaries of safety, as he has been seen eager and tempted to tackle beasts and forces possibly out of his league - a vocalization of these thoughts when in regards to fighting would be something akin to ***"Either go down swinging or don't go down at all."***

## Relations

### Isaac

Having known each other for just about 9 years now, it is no secret that Lucius sees Isaac more as a brother than simply a friend. He is ever proud and interested in the young hunter's newfound magical abilities, as his own life and interests simply didn't lead him down a path of Arcana. Even in his lack of knowledge on the subject, Lucius will try to help Isaac on his quest for understanding in any way he can. Outside of that, Lucius certainly tries to impart some of his knowledge about the world and more specifically about fighting - the moral and psychological aspects of it. These teachings were most important when Isaac was hesitant to use his magic to fight the members of the Order of the Phoenix and the Dark Brotherhood.