Lucille

"*Don't think that just because I'm the Oracle I'm above kicking bullies like you in the arse!*"
— Lucy

 **Personality**

**Lucille,** *(Sanctus Lucavil)* usually simply **Lucy,** was an Oracle of the Church of the Heavenly Mother and member of the Sin-eaters. A powerful student of the Light and ruthless hunter of dark mages from a young age, she was born in far northern Mendea and abducted shortly after her birth by the rogue Templar Grand Master Furnace under mysterious circumstances, living in the captivity of him and his crusader cell before being rescued by loyalists of the Order and placed under the protection of the seers at Temple Sidon. Furnace sought to exploit her nature as the only true Oracle to be born in centuries, allowing her to directly commune with Mother Rhea, with his motives unclear. As soon as Garland and the main host of the Templars caught wind of her existence, they resolved to hide her away in the ruins of Thel Olihim, where she would be trained to hone her abilities by the Temple's priestess caretakers.

There she remained throughout her teenage years until a convocation of black mages, at the behest of Hastur, master of the Acolytes of the Beyond, laid siege to the ancient temple and easily slaughtered its meek clerical custodians, save Lucy, whom they had been instructed by their dark master to capture and deliver her to Lorelei's Sepulchre. Though her skills with holy magicks were not to be scoffed at, she had little hope of fending her would-be captors off, and would have been Hastur's prisoner had it not been for the intercession with the Emissary of Light, a singularly potent presence which neutralized the mages by destroying their minds. The Emissary, face obscured and body clad in cthonic robes whose colours resembled that of the Templars, bid her to remain in Sidon until help arrived, and claimed to be the messenger of Rhea. Something about the figure was distinctly familiar to Lucy, whose intuition told her that this was not the first time they had met. The Emissary named themselves "Selriam" upon inquiry, and bid the girl farewell for the time being.

Haunted by the sudden deaths of her only friends, Lucy hid within the Temple ruins for several days until a lad named Owen arrived, claiming to have been sent to find the Oracle of Light by the Heavenly Host that she might aid the Templar counterattack against the hordes of heretics gathering in Kilran's dark recesses. She obliged, and the two began an investigation into the whereabouts of the heretics' base of operations which led them to the Sepulchre within the Great Intermarium. After a botched attempt by the Bobyrujsk Templars to destroy the heretics ended in tragedy, Lucy and Owen met with Lord Garland, then Grand Master of the Templars, who secreted them away to the Olexia stronghold that they might join the main host in biding their time and formulating a plan to strike back against the occultists. Though Garland insisted she stay lest the worst come to fruition, Lucy resolved to strike out and resume her investigation into the whereabouts of the villains who razed Sidon without the help of the Templars; Owen insisted he come along, having become fast friends and confidants with the Oracle as they shared the ambition of exposing the forces of the Shadows on Kilran with or without the Order.

Seeking to systematically ruin the heretics' plans by sabotaging their support networks in every city they were known to operate in, the two crusaders sailed for Daguo, the largest city on the southern coast of Kilran and one known to have once been a haven for the Old Ways. Forces loyal to Heiroban seized the stronghold-city early in the war of succession after the Mad King was assassinated by his sons, and its populace were briefly under the authority of the Shadowsong Coven. The heretics set about constructing shrines to Hades throughout the city, a practice believed by followers of the Old Ways to enhance their power through devotion to their patrons. Shrines to the old gods were set up in cities and hamlets across all Kilran, and their true extent was still a mystery. Daguo was distinguished by the fact that it was one of the few settlements on the continent to be governed solely by mages for any amount of time, placing a vile curse on its soil on their forced expulsion by the Templars. With her preternatural skill for detecting anomalous fluctuations in quintessence, Lucy quickly identified Daguo as a veritable hive of heretics with its heart deep below the city with dozens of hidden entrances. Against the words of caution from Owen, the Oracle "suggested" they simply find any heretics they can and force them to reveal the way into their hideout. Their gentle inquiries were brazen enough to attract the attention of three bounty hunters in the employ of the Acolytes of the Beyond: Finn Hamm - known by privateers across Aquila as the Black Wolf - and two of his most trusted associates, the assassin Shiba Misago and the bard Piper Ward.

The two adventurers were delivered from a swift death at the hands of the bounty hunters by Ser Jeanne Aster, a fellow former Templar who was slated to become the successor of Lord Garland himself had she not become disillusioned from the Order and left to follow a path of her own. Jeanne explained that after leaving the Order, she and several like-minded comrades formed a new crusader faction they called the Sin-eaters; independent of any government or clergy, the Sin-eaters scoured Kilran in search of heretics and apostates, guided by an angel whom Aster identified as none other than Selriam, ostensibly operating under the auspices of Rhea as her emissary to Aquila. Owen was suspicious, noting that no Templar manuscript ever made mention of an angel called Selriam, and it was against the Mother's nature to interfere in the affairs of mortals. Still, Lucy found much in common with Jeanne, and upon hearing the account of her angelic encounter, she became convinced that it was the will of Rhea that she and Owen join the Sin-eaters, as the Templars could no longer be entrusted with the fate of Aquila. Though hesitant, Owen agreed, and the three unlikely allies struck out to banish the Shadows once and for all in the Final Crusade.

* Battle
* Personality/Skills

 Dilate
 Galvanize
 Revivify
 Tower Shield
 Enfeeble
 Will of the Light