Talen Family

The **Talen family** is a royal family of which Ray, Zain and Quinn are a part of. It is also a family that got involved several times with Systems.

## History

### During the Magical Era of Earth

The first known family member was Jack Talen, an adventurer of the Alure Kingdom, located at the east of the Bronzeland continent, on Planet Earth. He met Scarlett Talen, a noblewoman and family leader candidate of the Crune Empire, while he was visiting the Kingdom's capital Roland. Scarlett was then a student of the Roland Academy of Magic and a fire mage. The couple settled in a mining village, south of the Kingdom and close to the border of the Empire. It is where Ray Talen, the reincarnation of the Red Dragon Sen, was born. Originally, Ray had black hair like his mother, but it quickly turned red, the same color as his former scales. Sen was reincarnated by the goddess Bliss with the hope he would save the Bronzeland continent from the Shadow Plague. When he was 5 years old, his father Jack Talen returned infected from the Shadow Plague and slowly lost his mind. He eventually totally fell into the Shadow Dragon Krad's possession, became a True Infected, and had to be killed by Ray because there was no way to overcome the possession.

Ray Talen gave notoriety to the family by founding the Redwings Kingdom after defending successfully the city of Avrion (formerly to the Alure Kingdom but outside its borders) from annihilation by the Shadow Beasts and by later declaring independence. He introduced Dwarven technology by hiring the Dwarf Randin as blacksmith, turning his capital into a "steampunk city". Ray's fame grew further when he managed to be the first to reclaim lost territory to the Shadow Continent and even defeat the Shadow Plague once and for all by slaying the Shadow Dragon Krad. He also prevented the opening of a portal to the Dragon "Hell" and an invasion of the deceased Dragons. Ray had a son with Slyvia Heart, and in all likelihood, he became the next king as he was his only heir. When the young prince was only a baby, Ray decided to leave behind everyone he knew when he recovered his original Dragon body, so he most probably never raised his heir, although he watched his descendants grow. He became a God Slayer, perhaps with Krad's God Slayer Crystal, and slew several Celestials.

Jack Dem, the first Alpha Werewolf of the Dem family, was also one of Ray's most trusted followers and founded his own pack in the Redwings Kingdom.

### During the Magicless Era of Earth

Ray Talen was at some point a schoolmate of Jack Dem's descendent Gary Dem at the Westbridge High School, just before he decided to give up his corporeal life and to be sealed in the Ability Tablet, only to be extracted from there later by his descendent Quinn in the 28th century of that Earth's calendar.

The Talen family passed down the draconic blood running dormant inside them due to Ray being the dragon Sen. However, after Richard Eno's bloodline (Lenny Steel's) mixed with the Talen bloodline due to his descendent Vincent Eno, it became from then on a mixed draconic and vampiric bloodline. Normally, a Vampire like Vincent Eno would have been unable to reproduce with a Human, but he used his Equivalent Exchange Ability to seal his vampiric powers, making him the first Vampire to have Human offspring. It is amusing to note that Lenny Steel (Richard Eno) was a friend of his ancestor Ray Talen during the first century of his life, and that it was Ray that avenged his family by killing the Shadow Guard Sena, which was the very reason he became the first Vampire in the first place.

Zain Talen had red hair like his ancestor Ray. He was raised normally by his parents until they probably passed away during his childhood. He was involved in a murder incident when he was 11 years old that led him to be incarcerated in a Juvenile Detention Centre. He enjoyed video games and went to college. His father was obsessed with Zombie movies growing up and passed that obsession to Zain, that trained his body in the unlikely eventuality of a Zombie apocalypse. He was caught like many others in an actual Zombie apocalypse in the city where he studied but had the luck to become a Reborn Zombie, that also coincided with a mysterious meteor shower. He investigated the origin of the infection, that was most likely related to the Reborn Group.

### During the Dalki Wars and Spacefaring Age of Earth

Quinn Talen lost his parents, Finley and Isabela Talen at the age of 10 due to the First Dalki War in the 27th century, but could afford to live on Earth thanks to Richard Eno paying secretly his appartment. He therefore never could learn anything about his family before seeing Vincent Eno's memories or meeting Ray Talen in the Ability Tablet. Quinn Talen is the first Talen to descend from both a Dragon (from his patrilineal line) and a Vampire (from his matrilineal line), and on top of that to become a Vampire himself.

Quinn got fame among the Vampires after he became the 6th Vampire Leader of the Tenth Family, and among the Humans when he gathered the remnants of the Crow, Eagle and Parasite factions to form the Cursed faction, that would soon become the third faction of Human "world leaders" to rule the Human planets of the Milky Way Galaxy. He resolved two civil wars among the Vampires, became the last Vampire King. He made public the existence of Vampires in Human society and layed the groundwork for their coexistence. After a decisive contribution in the Second Dalki War, he was acknowledged as a hero by both species after he defeated the Dalki leader Graham in battle. He ascended to become the first Celestial of the Talen family, slew two Celestials, and allied with two God Slayers, Sil Blade and Russ. He saved humanity and the vampires once again 1016 years after defeating Graham by closing the portal to the Red Plane, where Immortui and his demons were sealed. He also made the unusual choice to give up godhood to turn into a God Slayer, by using Erin Heley's God Slayer Crystal.

## Members

* **Jack Talen** (Ray's Father, originally an adventurer of the Alure Kingdom)
* **Scarlett Talen** (Ray's Mother, the heir of one of the Crune Empire's 13 royal families)
* **Ray Talen** (protagonist of *My Dragon System*, Dragon turned into a Human)
* **Slyvia Heart** (Spouse of Ray Talen)
* **Unnamed Prince** (Son of Ray Talen and Slyvia Heart, heir of the Redwings Kingdom)
* **Unnamed Father** (Zain's Father)
* **Zain Talen** (protagonist of *Level up Zombie!*, Human turned into a Reborn Zombie)
* **Tai Talen**
* **Finley Talen** (Quinn's Father, Descended from the Talen family bloodline)
* **Isabela Talen** (Quinn's Mother, Descended from Eno family bloodline)
* **Quinn Talen** (protagonist of *My Vampire System*, Human turned into a Vampire)
* **Layla Munrow** (Spouse of Quinn Talen)
* **Minny Talen** (Adoptive daughter of Quinn Talen and Layla Munrow)
* **Galen Talen** (Son of Quinn Talen and Layla Munrow, born a Vampire and a Celestial)

## Origins of their systems

* Ray got his Dragon System from the Celestial Bliss, that might have modeled it after the Celestial System, due to the presence of a messaging feature and a marking feature similar to the one that would apply to dedicated followers. It was designed to force Ray to save Humans in order to unlock his previous 1000 Draconic abilities.
* Zain got his Zombie System from a silver pendant with a blue gem in the middle and several feathers all over that was dropped by the scientist Sarah Bain from the Reborn Group. This might have been intentional on her part. It rewards turning Humans into Zombies, defeating Mutated Zombies and punishes the user when normal Undeads are slain.
* Quinn got his Vampire System because Vincent Eno and Richard Eno developed an artificial intelligence similar to those of video games, and Vincent turned it into a book thanks to his Equivalent Exchange Ability, giving up his body in the process. It was designed with the purpose of assisting his heir to the Tenth Family in the absence of vampires to educate him.

## In Virtual Sword God!

Virtual Sword God! has a canonicity that may conflict with the other works of the series. Indeed, the Dragon Knights of Avrion and many characters are said to come from a parallel world from Novis Talen's, and even then the stories of many recurring characters may conflict. If Virtual Sword God! had any similarity to other works, it might have been set at the generation before Quinn Talen's, just before the First Dalki War.

## Talen family in Virtual Sword God!

Novis Talen had probably the happiest childhood of all the Talen protagonists. He and his brother Bill Talen enjoyed a normal life with their mother and father in England without any major catastrophe, if not for the meddling of the spirits of deceased warriors, some of which were evil. They played the VR game Virtual Sword Warrior. Their father was alive, worked for a game company, but was generally absent from home.

Unlike the other protagonists, Novis Talen did not have any inherent system, but the game he played had a ranking system.

## List of Talen in Virtual Sword God!

* Unnamed Grandfather (Novis' grandfather)
* Unnamed Mother (Novis' mother)
* Unnamed Father (Novis' father)
* **Novis Talen** (protagonist of Virtual Sword God!, new Virtual Sword Warrior player)
* **Bill Talen** (Novis' little brother and a good Virtual Sword Warrior player)

# Trivia

* The Talen family was doubly made of royal bloodlines. Scarlett Talen was herself the heir of one of the Crune Empire's 13 founding royal families and transported her claim to her son Ray Talen. If he had chosen to press his claim to become the patriarch of that family, he would have therefore obtained not only a vote to elect the emperor, but could have been elected emperor himself. He was also notoriously the founder of the Redwings Kingdom.
* The swordman Roki was also another relative of Ray Talen since he belonged to the family Scarlett Talen was the head of.

# References

1. ↑ My Dragon System, ch 7
2. ↑ My Dragon System, ch 532
3. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 401
4. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 460
5. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 529
6. ↑ Level up Zombie!, ch. 2
7. ↑ My Vampire System, ch. 1986
8. ↑ Implied as of My Vampire System ch. 2068-2069
9. ↑ Level up Zombie, ch. 3
10. ↑ Level up Zombie, ch. 162
11. ↑ Level up Zombie, ch. 171
12. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 50
13. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 44
14. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 1
15. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 6
16. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 44
17. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 3, 17
18. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 461