Wei Shi Lindon Arelius

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Eithan Arelius — adopted family

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Black eyes with blood-red irises (when cycling Blackflame) from his Contract with Orthos
 blue eyes with white irises (when using Hollow Domain) from Contract with Little Blue

Black eyes with white irises (post ascension to dreadgod )

**Wei Shi** **Lindon Arelius** is the primary protagonist of *Cradle*. He was born to the Shi family of the Wei Clan in Sacred Valley and was considered Unsouled due to his madra deficiency. He is following the Path of Twin Stars and the Path of Black Flame. He has been adopted into the Arelius family by his primary mentor, Lord Eithan Arelius.

## Appearance

Lindon is a tall young man with a brawny physique. He often looks like he is spoiling for a fight with his face, tall build and broad shoulders...He has black hair and dark brown eyes. His eyes turn black with red irises when he cycles his Blackflame madra. His eyes turn completely blue when he uses Hollow Domain after making a contract with Little Blue. After consuming the Silent King and upon its death and Lindon’s ascension to a Dreadgod, his eyes are now black eyes with white irises.

After losing his arm, he obtains a misty prosthetic created through Soulsmithing. The prosthetic uses a hunger binding taken from the Ancestors Spear that allows it to consume madra which can then be absorbed into either of his cores or gets funneled back into the enemy, but due to its nature as Remnant he needs to cycle madra through it to solidify it and allow it to interact with solid inanimate objects.

After advancing to Underlord, his features smooth out. His prosthetic remnant arm takes on the shape of a normal arm though it maintains its ivory white color. He also Forges the Archstone into his arm in order for the Gold Level prosthetic to survive the transition into the Lord Realm once washed in soulfire.

Once Lindon met the reminant of Subject One in the Labyrinth, he took the Arm of the Dreadgod and attached it to his own body, replacing the previous prosthetic. He used the hunger madra stored in the new arm to steal madra from the Silent King, advancing him further to a new and previously undiscovered rank, which could be classified as a dreadgod. In this transition the white of Subject One's arm crept up to his shoulder, and the hunger madra turned his eyes to a new white and black, resembling the emptiness of the Void.

## Personality

Lindon is very polite and deferential due to growing up as an Unsouled, by far the least valuable member of the clan. Because of his madra deficiency, he was treated with mild scorn within his clan. Without power, he was considered to be inconsequential at best and a little better than a punching bag at worst. In response to this treatment, he cultivated a very humble attitude demonstrated by his habit of always referring to himself as “this one” which seems to imply that he is so low as to not deserve recognition. This demeanor, though, has also made it easy for him to hide his dangerously clever mind without even intending to do so.

Lindon has a keen interest in Soulsmithing, his mother's profession. He is very focused on advancement, as he was powerless for so long. His vision from Suriel about the future calamity in Sacred Valley further inspires him to become strong enough to save his home. Though in *Underlord**,*** we find out that Lindon practices the sacred arts so that he won't be useless anymore.

During his time in the Wei Clan he was also forbidden from learning any manner of sacred arts as well as utilizing any clan resources for advancement. Lindon searched desperately for ways to improve himself on his own, doing whatever it takes to move forward. He relied on plans, tricks, and loopholes to get ahead in the first and second book.

In later books, Lindon's want to advance spills over into wanting to advance his friends so none of them are ever left behind like he was.

Lindon is kind and caring, sometimes to the point of naivety due to unfamiliarity with the world outside of Sacred Valley.

## **Abilities**

As an Unsouled, Lindon effectively started two stages behind most Sacred Artists. He was further limited by the natural restrictions and the "curse" of the Sacred Valley and was not able to demonstrate a natural predisposition towards any of the four classes of techniques.

## Techniques

* Heaven and Earth Purification Wheel: This cycling technique is extraordinarily demanding, focusing on both deepening a users core, allowing them to hold more madra, and strengthening their will. Eithan teaches Lindon this technique to compensate for his smaller cores (a result of him splitting his core in Unsouled), and to allow him to follow a pure madra path; he cannot cycle pure aura from the environment, as it does not exist. Because of this cycling technique Lindon has enough madra to fight for days.
	+ After instruction from Herald Akura Fury, Lindon has upgraded this technique by adding an enforcement and forger technique to its original striker base. He no longer needs to hit an opponent's core to disable their madra. His attack now comes with a larger echo that manifests a giant blue palm that overtakes their entire madra core and channels at the same time, rendering them powerless.
* Dragon Breath: The Dragon Destroys. The Fierce River of Fierce Flowing Breath technique is a Striker Technique. Blackflame madra is gathered in the hands, rotated, and condensed repeatedly until being released as a solid beam that eradicates everything in its path.
* Hollow Armor: A pure madra Enforcer technique copied from Eithan by Lindon. He blasts pure madra from all over his body covering him in an inch of spiritual armor. Whilst this is not as a effective movement technique, it protects him from madra attacks, but against physical attacks or Ruler techniques, which control vital aura. This armour becomes stronger the more the user advances, with its full strength being revealed once the user has advanced to Archlord.
* Burning Cloak: The Dragon Advances. The Fierce Outer Burning Robe technique is an Enforcer technique. It is a basic full-body Enforcement using Blackflame Madra, protecting and powering the body by madra while in use. It allows for the release of explosive force of movement. This explosive strength is so extreme it takes a physical tole on the users body. Lindon is only able to sustain its use through his Bloodforged Iron body, which uses his madra to heal the damage.
* Combined Technique: Lindon managed to temporarily draw madra from both his pure and blackflame cores, creating the Soul Cloak and then the Burning Cloak at the same time, then powering both with soulfire. He used the void icon and the stolen dragon icon together with the command "burn" which caused Lindon's body, spirit, blood essence and lifeline to burn into the technique. This produced a black and white fire around Lindon that warped the world around him. This is one of the most complex sacred arts techniques that Lindon has ever used.
* Consume Technique: A hunger madra soul enforcer technique taught to Lindon by Northstrider that greatly increases the speed of his advancement. With this technique advancement resources are no longer required, only enemies. Lindon can consume everything (sacred artist, sacred beast etc) to fuel his own advancement. He can absorb their madra, distilling it into its primary components, purifying it to add to his pure core (which can't take in aura), their lifeforce and blood essence to strengthen his body and the dream aura generated by their minds to strengthen Dross. The last piece includes their thoughts, memories and will. It requires Lindon to subdue their will with his own while Dross takes in their memories and only provides Lindon the information that Lindon deems relevant. Dross states that in order to use this technique, one would need:
	+ A soul enforcer technique to sort the madra (Lindon developed this from the Heart of Twin Stars)
	+ An advanced Sylvan Riverseed to purify the madra (Lindon formed a contract with Little Blue, his Sylvan Riverseed, allowing him to purify the madra himself)
	+ A mind spirit without peer to sort the residual memories (Dross)
	+ Iron Body strong enough to handle an influx of blood essence without tearing apart (Bloodforged Iron Body, along with his Iron Heart Sacred Treasure)