Aegus Nestoris

„*I will not murder an injured Ardoni under my care. You must understand Achillean, many of these Voltaris now fight to stay alive. I will do what I must to shield him from harm. Perhaps it may even begin to heal the wounds between our clans.*”
— Aegus Nestoris to Achillean Nestoris about Ingressus Voltaris↑
**Aegus Nestoris** is the Master of the Nestoris clan during the Great War. Long before this he finds and protects the Master of the Voltaris clan, Ingressus Voltaris, who was very young at this point, and raises him as a member of the Nestoris clan to protect him from the other clans. During the Nether Invasion, Ingressus competes in a Tournament to become the Champion who would wield the Prime Songs, but they are denied to him. Ingressus assassinates all the Masters of the clans to obtain the Prime Songs, except for Aegus, who shows compassion for being the one who raised him and let him escape. Time after the Great War, Aegus dies by old age and is replaced as Master of the Nestoris clan by Aurelius Nestoris.

## Lore

Long before the Great War, Aegus Nestoris becomes the final Master of the Nestoris clan, and gets given the Aggressium Prime Song, which is considered the most powerful of all Prime Songs.

Shortly after the slaughter of the Voltaris in Northwind, a young Achillean Nestoris is fishing in Nestoria, when he finds a young Ingressus Voltaris drifting in the ocean. Achillean calls Aegus and they brought him into a house. Aegus explaines to Achillean that the staff that the young Ardoni is holding was Voltar, indicating that they are before the Master of the Voltaris clan. Aegus refuses to kill a wounded Ardoni under his care, understanding that the Voltaris are now fighting to survive, so to protect him he is initiated into the Nestoris clan to hide his red markings and raised as his son. At one point in his growth, Aegus gives Ingressus Voltar and his sword back, which he had kept guarded, now that he sees that he is an honorable and virtuous Ardoni and deserve them.

Later, Ingressus learns that the Prime Songs would be used again by a champion to repel the Nether invasion, and is frustrated by this, since the Prime Songs are used against his people, but is convinced by Achillean to participate in the Tournament to demonstrate that the Voltaris had no evil intentions. Ingressus accepts, wins in the Tournament, and reveilles their clan's colors to everyone, but the Masters refuses to give the Prime Songs to Ingressus, including Aegus. Ingressus, frustrates by the rejection with which he was treated, killed the Masters of the Kaltaris, Sendaris and Mendoris clan, becoming known as the Deathsinger. At the time of attempting to kill Aegus to claim the Aggressium Prime, he tells Ingressus that this is not how he had been raised and urged him to see what he has done to the people he grew up with, making him look around to see Nestoria on fire and many Nestoris dead. Achillean then arrives to defend Aegus and escapes with him, preventing the Deathsinger from obtaining the last and most powerful Prime Song. Aegus looks on, together with Achillean and a group of surviving Nestoris, at his home, Nestoria, burned by one of his own, before leaving for an unknown location far from Nestoria. It is not known what happened to Aegus during the Great War, but it is known that he was alive.

An unknown time after the end of the Great War and the alleged death of Ingressus and Achillean, Aegus dies due to his advanced age. The Ardoni who replaces him as the Master of the Nestoris clan is Aurelius Nestoris, who holds the post until the times of the Second Great War.

## Trivia

* Aegus Nestoris will be the only Master to survive the Deathsinger's massacre.
* It is rumored among the clans and the people of Ardonia that Aegus is the one who initiated the Deathsinger into the Nestoris clan, allowing him to hide his colors in the Tournament, but clan members such as Hubris Nestoris refused to believe this, claiming that the Voltaris used dark magic to appear other clan colors.
* The former would turn out true, but later be revealed as well that Aegus's intentions were only pure and the Deathsinger was not always so evil.
* It was also rumored Aegus was too powerful or too cunning for the Deathsinger and eluded death. However, this is not true, as the Deathsinger was prepared to finish off a weakened Aegus, but had a moment of remorse, and was interrupted regardless by Achillean, and fled.