Karea Brightwing

**Karea Brightwing** (28 Yavannie S118) is the wife of Hadvar Suntorry. She is one of the first sorceresses in Lofuel'Ahtash Nethor, being that teaching sorcery and arcane magics were prohibited to be taught outside of Onth'Thalas until Hadvar's arrival in the realm.

She is the daughter of 2 Onth'Thalassian commoners who settled in the new colony during that time of her birth. Fascinated by sorcery at an early age, she found that teaching sorcery and magehood was prohibited and was almost dissuaded by the law, until Hadvar established the realm's first sorcery school, in which Karea is one of Hadvar's own students.

She and Hadvar would develop a student-teacher relationship until she would later become one of Hadvar's subordinates as soon as Hadvar became the realm's Governor-General. She would not find his real identity until he revealed his plot to her. While she was hesitant of turning him into the authorities, she was dissuaded by her intense and subtle romantic feelings for him. She would later on accompany him on his journeys.

## Early Life

Karea was born in New Silvermoon to an merchant father and a cafe owner mother. She is the only child of her parents. Deemed precious by her parents and relatives, Karea was described as a girl who got everything she wanted. However, Karea was careful in being not overly doing so.

During her childhood, teaching sorcery was forbidden by a law that was passed over onto the Thalassian Realms. However, wizardry wasn't, hence she found her call in wizardry. She often casted spells that caused explosions, which led her to being bullied by her peers. She, however, didn't give up. She remained interested in learning wizardry and wished that sorcery would soon be legalised.

## Learning Sorcery and Arcane

When she turned 20, she turned to helping her mother support her family's cafe until when she learned of a particular Thalassian "immigrant" with blue eyes and a blonde hair, and about 175cm in height who knows a lot about sorcery and arcane. She found out his name from her peers. She came to recognise the man later on as Aerilian Richrest. Upon knowing that he was looking for a researcher, she instantly signed up to the job, driven with an intense desire to learn sorcery and arcane, despite it being forbidden to be taught to Nethor Elves at that time.

Unbeknownst to Karea, Richrest had foreseen her future of being a sorceress. Despite his knowledge that it was forbidden, he ended up teaching sorcery and arcane magics to her as she slowly got mature. Richrest was initially commanding of Brightwing, often assigning her to do hard tasks that was beyond her capabilities. However, he would later tell Karea that it is the first step of learning sorcery. To keep it covert, they had to do their lessons every evening. They were later joined by Richrest's close friend, Solerron Lightpoem, who was a recognised figure in Lofuel'Athash-Nethor as a leading member of the Holy Septian Church. He came to him to teach Karea healing magics under Richrest's request.

In time, Karea would become accomplished with sorcery and arcanism.

## The Revelation and Romance

Two years after meeting each other, the Nethorian government learned that Hadvar was in the country under a different identity. This was the closest that Karea was placed in danger, being an associate of a convict in Onth'Thalas. Planning to extradite him back, they put a price on Hadvar's head. Karea became eager to hunt down for Hadvar, as much as some of the Nethor Elves were driven. Prior to his revalation, only Lightpoem knew who Richrest really was.

During the spring of that year, Richrest would reveal his true identity to Karea as Hadvar Suntorry. Karea was driven to shock, being an associate of a convict. Had she been caught with him, she would have lost her life. She was later driven into temptation to turning him to the authorities. A week later however, she found out that he was going to turn himself in. She would later realise that Hadvar has been a biggest thing to happen in her life. Not only that, she was also dissuaded out of her developing subtle romantic feelings for him.

Hadvar would return this feeling to her, realising that he was also falling for her with every day of their sorcery classes. He confessed to Karea, who was driven with a deep emotional love and acceptance from him. They became lovers following the night of their confession.

## The Creation of the Southern Well

During the autumn of that year, the corruption of the Sunwell bought by King Revalor Suntorry's was beginning to affect the Nethor Elves, such that many were driven to magical addiction. Hadvar realised that if the people fell to this addiction, their lives would be affected and could even cause death. Karea, Hadvar, and Solerron realised that the only way to reverse the corruption was the creation of a fount of power.

Solerron immediately made an appeal to the ruling Governor-General at that time to allow them to create such. Not wanting to suffer any further, the Governor-General agreed. With the support of the priests and priestesses of the Holy Septian Church; Karea looked on as Hadvar created the fount of power known as the Southern Well. The creation instantly reversed the effects of the corruption, freeing the Nethor Elves from despair.

The Governor-General, conceding that he had failed in his task, took into effect a law which finally legalised the teaching and tutoring of sorcery and arcanism to Lofuel'Athash-Nethor. In addition to his failure, he would resign and ironically name Hadvar (still under his fake identity) as the new Governor-General. Following this, Hadvar and Karea would create the Southern Well Circle, which was the organisation responsible for maintaining the Southern Well. Together, along with Solerron's organisation, they would open the first Sorcery Academy in Lofuel'Athash Nethor.

## Personal Life

Early in her life, she was driven with an intense passion to learn about sorcery but the prevailing law kept her from doing so until she met Hadvar. Karea and Hadvar would develop a strong student-teacher bond, despite their 2-year age gap. She would later realise that she would finally achieve her dream thanks to him and as a result of their journeys, she developed feelings for him. Following the creation of the Southern Well, Hadvar would propose to her, which she accepted. They were married with Solerron as their priest.

Karea is described as flirtatious, voluptuous, charming, and sexualised as she aged. Hence she once attempted to seduce Hadvar during one of their classes but ended up failing as Hadvar saw through her thoughts, embarassing her. She often calls Hadvar as "cutie", "darling", "honey", and when they started dating, "love".