Luja (Eladrin)

***This page contains spoilers about the plot and character from Monarchs and Minions SMP. For the streamer who plays the character, see LujaLDP.***

## Luja - Elf Thinkerer

* Start
* Second Life
* Third Life
* Rogue
* Drawing (by Luja)

## The Rundown

### Aliases

Toucan (nickname)Right-Hand Man (by Tay) "Polybii discip"

## Bonus Info

### Birthplace

Southern Far Lands (Overworld)

**Luja** (he/him) was brought into the world of Monarchs and Minions playing an Eladrin Minion along with Parker and Rose. He was the least adventurous character of the Eladrins, preferring to remain at the City of Eladion, collecting resources and building. He was the most loyal minion in the faction to his monarch, King Tay, Heir of Hayland, always ready to follow his orders, by also being his closest advisor. He used to be suspicious of the other Kingdoms, considering them not completely trustworthy, preferring to have as least contact as possible with them, but also trying his best to avoid any conflict between them, with the hope to keep peaceful but neutral relations between the Eladrins and the rest of the Kingdoms. He was a thinkerer and liked to build structures, to experiment and work with redstone and powering machines with it.

## Physiology

Standing at 6 foot 0 inches (182 cm), because of his mixed species, Luja was not as slender nor athletic as the other Eladrins, having a physical build much closer to one of a human, but his vivid colored, smooth skin, luscious long hair and characteristic pointy ears made him easily recognizable as one of them. He wore green linen and cotton robes who he tailored for himself, comfortable enough for the sunny and warm climate of Eladion.

At the fourth session he had a slightly different outfit, now wearing some thinkering goggles on his head, tied his hair in a ponytail and having blue paint markings on his left shoulder and arm.

At the sixth session the marks on his body became red, expanded all over his body and made him bleed, this was caused by him researching and testing on himself with magic to prove his theories and figure out the reason of The Game existance.

At his final session his body was taken fully by his illness, making him partially blind and very weak, the marks now grey as the magic that were on them was cleared, but the damage was too much. His ears cut as a way to denounce his identity as an Eladrin, admitting he never was part of them in the first place as just an Half-Blooded fraud.

## Personality

Luja was cunning, hard working and proud. At first met foreigners will found him sullen, rude and snobbish, as he used to be not trusting to people at first met, rather he preferred to have time to know them if they demonstrate good intentions towards him and the rest of the Eladrins, especially towards King Tay, as he wanted peace and kindness out of everyone. He realized the importance of good speech, but his "strange accent" made difficult for him to find the right words, he always expressed his knowledge and opinions about things he approved or not. He was very emotional towards the people who trusted and for those who really considers his friends he has proven to be caring, supportive, reasonable and thoughtful, as he considered his friends as his own family. On the contrary, towards hostility he was direct, relentless and determined to defend everyone he cared for from it, preferring to use violence only as a last resort for quelling conflicts.

He was very secretive about his past, he never spoke about the past in general instead talking in a present and future way, as he made him appear forward thinking to most, but in reality hiding many insecurities and dark thoughts for himself.

After Tay untimely death he was broken and with no one to trust, he hid in the undergound wanting to live the rest of his life while a magical illness caused by the magic he performed on his body while trying to find a way to cheat the game rules and find a way to save everyone, but he was too late and he soon payed the consequences of not acting like he was supposed and needed to.

His mind plagued with feelings of vengeance he tried to assassinate Gravy, but he ended up dying in the hands of Marlo, as his trap didn't work as he planned.

## History

***(The following section in is a spoiler on the backstory of the character of Luja, if you want to know the story from others perspective skip after the "The Half-Elf Slave" story.)***

The following was written in a book given to Parker in the eight session.

**The Half-Elf Slave**: *"I was born in another place, far away from here, and all my life I only knew the life of a slave, as my kind were seen as defective and inferior. From my birth I was bound to chains, I had no name, no one close to me, until one day the Eladrins of Hayland came, and they freed us, as a Spirit of Freedom shined his light on the way and broke my chains. It guided me to Tay, but not the Tay you all knew as the Tay you and I went to know here was much younger and naive. I followed him and found a new life, a name, a place to call home. There I vowed to serve the Eladrins, to follow them and protect them, I used my time to learn and serve the people I now called mine own, I finally had something to die for, and for the first time I felt free, but only now I realized that my freedom was making me a slave of their own, and my chains were still bound at my ankles.*

*One day a strange portal opened in the Palace, I saw my King going in and I followed, I ended up here, and there I realized that I really was less than nothing, that even if I tried my hardest it wasn't enough, and because of me the people I swore to protect are now broken, their hearts full of sorrow, left alone to roam in this world and I just hope for them they found another place they can be protected and feel like their home.*

*While I am writing this I am slowly dying, and I hope if I gave this book or whoever will find it, you are now reading this, as I want to apologize to you all, I wanted peace, I wanted freedom, I wanted everyone to feel safe like home, but I only brought sufference and death to the people I cared for, now these chains are too heavy for me, yet I still hope that the day I will be truly free will come, that the Spirit of Freedom will come back to me.*

*Before The Game ends, you need to know that you are still in time to stop the cicle, you can break the chain, because I believe you can "cheat" The Game, as all of your choices matter here, your freedom matters and we can all reach our ideals if we all work together and not against each others.*

*I am, was and forever will be the half-elf slave, never free yet always was.*

*Et debes scire, Unitas est fortitudo!"*

**(End of spoilers)**

He has recollection of his past before being brought to play the game, but he never talks about it. The only things known is that he was part of the Kingdom with King Tay some time before everything started, he comes from the Southern Far Lands, in the coasts of the Medium Sea, explaining his peculiar accent. He came to The Game because he followed King Tay to it, quickly realizing what is The Game about and determined to help his King achieve the peace and prosperity their people deserve. He studied alot during his teenage years, mostly mathematics, redstone, weapon-smithing and cave knowledge.

He later revealed to The Trader that he comes from a land in the south, and mangrove trees were rare but still more present where he used to live.

To Parker he admitted that he is one of the few who still have clear memory of his past, yet he feels like "displaced", like just before the time of The Game when he followed Tay into this world he shifted universes, finding somethings familiar yet unknown by him, starting from the city of Eladion, who he never remembered even being mentioned before from his people, yet he really felt safe and at home when he was there.

He was killed by Marlo after his redstone trap failed while he was trying to lure Gravy into it.

"Adhuc te dicentem audire possum, catenam numquam franges."

## Beliefs and Theories

Luja has many theories about the inner workings of the game:

* **Monarch Soul-bound**: As every minion is connected to their assigned monarch they cannot die, unless the monarch is dead too.
* **Monarch 3 Lives System**: The monarchs are the hardest to kill but the ones more vulnerable to death, Only capable to re-spawn only 2 times, making their safety essential to keep playing the game.
* **The Game**: After the contact with the Observers, Luja confirmed his first understanding of the game, being some sort of battleground where 4 Civilizations will fight to conquer one another, as of now he is working tirelessly to find a peaceful solution to the game, but he feels that won't be the key to win The Game.
* **The Observers**: At first he thought that they where just malicious sprites who exist for praking and torment the participants of The Game, but as he learns more of them he sees how they influence The Game happenings, separating the kingdoms and creating rifts between them so they are forced to.
* **Stopping the Game Master**: He came to know about a powerful entity who constructed and rules over The Game, he is trying to find a way to stop him and save his people from the suffering and death The Game brings to the Kingdom.
* **A Dark Story**: Luja was a slave freed by Tay, the only thing he knew how to do was to serve, yet he questioned what he was really serving, as even when his intentions were good, the actions he took were despicable and unforgivable, and he payed his mistakes with the spilled blood of his Monarch.

## Quotes

"Honesty is not all, you need to check what other people do, you need to tell them what they need to do, you need too... you need too have some kind of control over things, because you can't trust what other people say, thinking that you say nice things and you get nice things back, because look what happened to us! " ~Luja talking to Nomad after Keith set Eladion on Fire

"My King, this is a very big responsibility you are giving me, I will not fail to lead our people towards peace." ~Luja accepting the role as Second In Command given by Tay

"Monarchs? Minions? Now even these Observers? In what sick and twisted fate we ended up, The Game, the constant killing, nothing makes sense anymore... did I get that all wrong? Can it be only one way to end all of this? \*sighs\* I guess I'll never get free, no matter how much I try to break the chain." ~Luja talking to himself after speaking with Fern

"We are part of a sick game, made to appease these "higher beings" [...] the problem of this game for us is that we are people of peace, that never wages war on others, everywhere that Tay goes peace follows, but not here..." ~Luja explaining The Game nature to Parker

"Why can't we try? Why can't we just cooperate to win The Game togehter?" ~Luja asking The OraCal

"I am too late... the only thing I vowed myself to do... he is dead because of my foolish actions \*sobs and coughs\* and now he is gone..." ~Luja to Silver after Tay's Death

"And at the end, I couldn't manage to break myself out of my chains." ~Luja to Silver and LucidSoda

"I always was a slave, always will be." -Luja

## Trivia

* Unlike the rest of the Eladrin, Luja seems to lack any magical ability, and doesn't have much care for nature like his peers, preferring extracting materials to engineer redstone contraptions and building structures.
* Toucan is a friendly nickname that he lets only his closest friends to name him with.
* Latin is his native language.
* His favorite thing is redstone, knowing well their properties he knows the powerful tool you can make with the machines you can make with it.
* For how he talks about peace and war, you can tell that Luja used to fight in the past.
* In session six he hired a "delivery boy" called Toucan to do things in his place while he was away for research. For his close resemblence to the Eladrin many people confused him for the real Luja with an alternative attire, despite not having the pointy ears, being Human and lacking the body paint he displayed in earlier sessions.
* Rarely, he plays the guitar.
* "Unitas est fortitudo".