Cal Moricas

## Origin

Torcal "Cal" Moricas was a starship pilot who flew in the Canyons of Mayhem in his ship, The Red Rascal. Moricas was the fake identity used by King Drall to hide the fact that he was indeed Kath Volt.

## In *The Winds of Beyond*

Cal Moricas was first introduced as Kath Volt in a brief moment where King Drall sent him off to find the map to The Winds of Beyond. Moricas diverted from his mission and built a crew made of Lyla Stone, Mia Noth Durin, Lou Taboo, and Mate. Moricas stole a ship from Asher Slum called *The Starstorm**.* Cal and his crew wound up captured by The Slum Gang but were rescued by Mate. The crew took *The Starstorm* to Tace where they encountered two Krightlocks named Muro Cyboth and Zaylack Noth Borrianna. The crew defeated them and befriended both The Larrow and Cenneth Noth Tace. The Larrow agreed to help Cal after recognizing he was Kath Volt but did not know so himself. Just then, bounty hunters Gjono the Barden Decapitator and Mey'r Doraj ambushed the crew. Gjono made away with Cal, Lyla, and The Larrow while Mey'r stayed behind to lead the rest of the crew into a trap.

### Revelation on Borrianna

Gjono took the three prisoners to Borrianna where they were confronted by King Drall. Drall revealed to Lyla alone that Cal was Kath Volt. Drall's plan was to take Cal (who had Sunmaker blood) to The Winds of Beyond to sacrifice him to save his wife, Merriss Tant. Cal and Lyla were escorted to the castle dungeon where the two poured their hearts out to each other.

#### War of the Winds

Eventually, Drall had access to both halves of the map and took Lyla, Cal, The Larrow, and the rest of the crew (who had since been detained) to the Winds. To Cal's surprise, Merriss attempted to assassinate Drall. Drall killed Merriss and a battle broke out. Kuf Vershal briefly dueled Zytanian Tant until he defeated him. Lou and Mate fought and killed Valia Odogorim. The Larrow burst a flurry of attacks at Verhsal, Mia took on Cyboth and Cenneth fought Zaylack. Cal and Lyla engaged in a three party duel against Zytanian and Drall. Lyla kicked Zytanian to the ground and dueled Drall while Cal made the decision to kill himself, making Drall the last Sunmaker left to sacrifice himself to save Merriss. Lyla defeated Drall after Cal stabbed himself and tossed Drall's body into the Winds with Merriss'. Zytanian stood up and revealed he was a Sunmaker, sacrificing himself for Cal Moricas, who awoke from the Winds as Cal.

## The Battle of Borrianna

Shortly after *Bluesword's Retribution**,* Cal took part in defending Queen Merriss Tant's castle from the invading forces from Bluesword, led by Lethran Nakada. Nakada captured Cal while defending the throne and revealed that he was in possession of Zytanian's jaggox, a device constructed to extract Kath Volt's memories to make him Cal Moricas once more. Lethran used the jaggox on Moricas, reverting him to Kath Volt. Volt dueled Lyla Stone and was eventually subdued. He was last taken by The Larrow to an unknown planet outside of Serrellia.

## Behind the Scenes

Torcal Moricas was portrayed by actor Austin Whisler in the stage play version of *The Winds of Beyond.* The character of Cal Moricas was created for *Journal of the Lost Heroes*, a short story written two years prior to the idea of *Winds* ever being planted inside Sampson Miller's head.