Jay Herah

Aldrich Nemasir (Mentor/Father figure)

Free Boro of Torisal (former citizen)

The Shaperate (Formerly)

The Kingdom of Asragore (Ally)

The Coalition against the Imperium of Sapens (Associate)

**Jay Herah** or **Jay Cole Herah** is a primary protagonist in the Keyvaile stories. He is a failed apprentice of the Sage of Gulavault, and is often found helping random people.

## Biography:

### Early life:

Jay Herah was born in the year 1985 in the world of Mercadia to Aaralyn Hearh, and a yet unknown father. He lived most of his youth in the wastelands, finding artifacts that his mother could sell in her shop at the market. He learned everything he knew from old books and scrolls.

One day, the lake near his village dried up and Jay at the age of nine, volunteered to figure out what happened. He found out that an old flood pump had been filing the lake from an underground reservoir, and it had recently been shut off. Jay pulled the lever to turn it back on, but also activated an defense golem who attacked him. Jay was snatched up by the construct, but before it could beat him into a bloody pulp, a spark of magic within him ignited and he teleported away.

He found himself in the town of Torisal in Keyvaile where he met his future mentor Aldrich Nemasir. The man offed to teach Jay everything he knew about magic if Jay became his apprentice, and Jay eager to learn accepted.

### Apprenticeship:

Jay became the apprenticeof the Sage of Gulavault, and learned much of that trade. At this time, he also attended Millini’s School of Magic as a member of Life House.

This would continue until at the age of sixteen. Jay began to dabble in blood magic, and dropped out of school. He fled from his responsibility to the village of Korinth, where he met a woman who called herself Maridis, who also tricked and betrayed him. Soon the village burned and Jay was found with his staff covered in blood of villagers.

With everyone Jay knew believing him the one responsible, he fled, ending his apprenticeship.

### Exile:

He would remain in hiding for some time before the Havasta Incident's energies forced him to teleport to a long abandoned Aldean facility; here he encountered the Yaddie Prime for the first time, being chased by her spawn across the structure. He barely survived, but managed to do so only because of a mana siphoning device, using it to greatly weaken the Yaddie. He could have killed her that day, but he felt her pain and fear and moved by pity released her, before teleporting away.

He traveled to first Tollona then Teranzair.

Discovering that great evil had awakened in both world thanks to the Havasta Incident, before fleeing to Inof where he met Gleb Kaur who gave him shelter for some time as he recovered from the aftermath of the Havasta Incident. He would eventually encounter a quartet of Hunters of Amon. The resulting fight left one Hunter dead and another maimed and Jay was once again forced to flee, this time to the devastated world of Drust.

Here he would find himself unable to enter the great city of Amok and would suffer terrible heatstroke and seraring burns from the intense sun of Drust. Near death, he teleported to the world of Onixana before falling unconscious. He woke up in a Mig hut being healed by Niossae Iliroris, a former priest of Nara, now a healer of the Miggan. After recovering he was taken to meet the Queen of the Migs who asked him to help her people purify a sacred grove and kill some corrupted hunters they could not bear to put down, including a great champion of their people Mardiel Etilios.

He did so, eventually confronting the demon responsible, the imp Lorana of Saxkizar who he banished with the aid of Niossae. The queen thanked him for his aid and told him of what she saw of his destiny, telling him to travel to the world of Madrapor.

He followed these instructions, traveling to the world of unrestrained magic, eventually encountering the mind mage Jainas Lufarius and Jay took offense to his enslaving ways, resulting in a great battle between the two, ending with Jay using blood magic to bring the mind mage to his knees, which allowed his former slave Elira Heartman to break free of his control and kill him.

He would help the young woman free the others, giving the mind mage’s wealth to them and went on his way.

Soon afterwards he was ambushed by Kitsune Clan Niji and nearly killed, surviving only due to the intervention of Kaosu, monster hunter and daughter of the mad Lunar god-emperor Zero. She would tell him that her half sister Shizumu was kidnapped by the mad sorcerer Vilantas Shigisan, in hopes of using her to further his insane plans for universal doom. Jay agreed to help rescue her and the two went and confronted the mad man; after a hard and brutal fight, they eventually made him flee.

### Redemption:

**This section contains some information that is only partly Canon.**

During this time, he saved the child Chara Amell who had been corrupted by betrayal. He healed her from this corruption and mended her broken soul. A short time later he was tracking a group of Sadraians on the ancient world of Dolmararia, where he discovered a group from the Lunar Empire lead by General Kori and the fallen Kiem Knight Arie Vinnis. He would defeat them with the aid a group known as the Champions of Magic, lead by a fellow Planeswalker Paul Miller. The group would follow the defeated Lunarians back through the portal where they would be ambushed by visored minions under the Lunar General Noblunga. He was captured and a dark visor was placed upon him that enslaved his mind to the Lunar Emperor's will. He was freed by the angel Relgena who helped him escape into the Lunar City. He would take revenge on his mind control, destroying many statues of the false gods of the Empire to distract the lunar armies away from the Champions. Then he was teleported away from the battle to Onixana, where he returned wounded to Chara who along with her father healed his wounds.

He would be forcefully teleported to Ashala, the city of guilds where he would witness the invasion of the city by undead. He tried to defeat the leader of the undead, a black-hearted necromancer Lillian Kozak, but his anger blinded him and she easily defeated him. He only survived due to the intervention of Aldrich Nemasir who rescued him from the necromancer. He lived through the battle and met with the Champions of Magic and each swore to meet again should the need arise.

## Personality:

Jay is most noticeable for his compassion, which is the fuel for most of his adventures, to his detriment at times and he won’t hesitate to lampshade it. He can also be quite sarcastic as well, which gets him into further trouble. He would do a lot of things to go back to Keyvaile, but he is slowly losing that it will ever happen.

## Powers:

**Mid Level Empath:** This user can sense others’ emotions, but can’t know why are they feeling it.

**Expert Level Wizard:** This user is an adept at magic.

**Blood Mage:** This character is a user of blood magic or is under suspicion at least.

**Planeswalker:** This user is gifted with the Planeshift, and can teleport between worlds without the need for portals.

## Relationships:

Aldrich Nemasir: His mentor, the Sage of Gulavault, who loved him like a son.

Tyberius Innatarsh: The two have an odd friendship.

## Trivia:

* Jay started out as a fan character for a Dragon Age fanfic created by Elvenkin and his sister. The writer liked the character so much he made him an important character in his Keyvaile stories.
* Jay Herah has Asperger's Syndrome much like his creator Elvenkin66.