Sheyric

Sheyric is a main character of Gift and protagonist of Anew. He is a trader, traveler, and salesman who hired Leiea. He was teleported to Florithe by Firyah and risen to power as a noble.

## History

### Before

After graduating from school, Sheyric received two horses from his parents and and brought his caravan to trade with. He said he remembered seeing Leiea from school.

His parents made sure to teacher him how to be polite, but didn’t bother doing so with his sister. He was six years old when Lorietta was born.

### Gift

In Gift, Sheyric meets Leiea, who is introduced by his sister. He gives her an emerald, as a gift for graduation and a hint to join him in trading.

He specifically asked her to join him during her graduation ceremony. She is scared and reluctant, but eventually agrees after visiting him several more times. Before leaving, Sheyric teaches her geography, trading, bartering, and more related to the job.

In Karyk, Leiea meets Plei, a motel owner and his friend. They stay in her motel for their time trading. While packing to leave, they encounter a mysterious man with a huge predatory bird, a man Sheyric says he knows this man, that he saw him in the same spot years ago. That years five school teachers, one of them his grandmother, where killed by unexplained means. From then, he took this man as an omen of death.

They continue to Galerus frightened. In this city, Leiea stays secluded in the caravan and Sheyric becomes overwhelmed by the chaotic crowds. Soon into their stay, Leiea takes a walk around Galerus and encounters a strange old woman telling her to flee home. This scares her but agrees, considering what Sheyric also said about the bird man. They pack everything up again and leave for home.

The work going back is slow. They stop in Karyk again for supplies and Sheyric sees the bird man again, briefly. Leaving Karyk, the caravan is ambushed by dozens the man’s strange birds. They kill Lothain and injure Sheyric badly, with burns and scratch marks. He attacks the birds back with a rifle, killing most of the ones feasting on his horse. Leiea grows mad at him for killing them for no reason. She gives him back the emerald, saying it caused this. She doesn’t know what he did with it.

On the way, they meet Sheyric’s old friend and fellow trader, Saena. They make a deal to trade one of her race horses and horse tack for Sheyric’s caravan to make it home faster. From there, Leiea rides on their new horse, Craith, and Sheyric rides Odenne. They are forced to leave most of their things behind.

Sheyric leads them to where the village would be. In its place are ashy ruins, everything burn to to the ground. They try to salvage things from it or find bodies but nothing is found. They’re forced to move on from the conditions.

Further west from the ruins, they find an encampment. Roughly 40 people survived the fires and gathered enough supplies to continue building. Most of the tents are medical, full of fatally injured people and nurses. Soon, Leiea starts helping in the medical tents, where she meets Vaeic, and Sheyric goes hunting for the starving people. He returns with two deer and they immediately cook it for the survivors. There, Leiea meets Hania and Sheyric meets Therin again after many years.

Leiea forced Sheyric into creating some sort of team to investigate the forest for the fire birds. He agrees and the two of them find a few people to join it. Sheyric finds Therin, Hania, Heron, and a friend he’s been staying with. Leiea gets Ryn and Vaeic. They meet in a tent where Sheyric explains to them the story about the fire birds and the connections to the village fires.

The day after at sunrise, they leave for the forest, armed with weapons. A few hours in, Sheyric and Therin find the clearing the forest Sheyric said he saw the fire birds in whole hunting. Many birds are there, all of them attacking the team. Sheyric, Therin, and Ailpein get the most injured. Walking out of the place, Leiea finds the emerald sitting in the soil. She blames Sheyric for setting it up.

A few days after, the encampment gets ambushed by the fire birds again. They escape the tent and make it to the fields, as well as most other people. Leiea, Sheyric, Ryn, Hania, and Vaeic get together, but are intervened by the mysterious bird man.

When Leiea reappears after Firyah teleported her away, he tells her that something is coming out of the forest.

Although suffering a concussion, Leiea runs out into the fields, where Sheyric finds her and kisses her. This angers her and she punches him, then running out to find Hania.

Therin spots Firyah again in the distance. The king captures him and Hania, as well as Leiea, telling her that they’re going to search for the emerald in the forest. His Ildful, the fire birds, collected the jewel from where Sheyric left it behind and stored it there. At this time, Sheyric, riding Odenne, finds the scene and attempts to shoot Firyah. Using his power, he catches the bullet in his bare hands and transports Sheyric completely away from the area, to Florithe.

### Anew

In Anew, it’s revealed that Sheyric was risen to power as a noble in the capital following the death of Firyah and election of Evadon. In Florithe, he lives in a manor near the Florithe Castle, where he lives lavishly, something he hates.

During a noble meeting, he proposes to reinstate an old tradition of the Florae Festival that would allow him to travel west to find Leiea and anyone else from the village that survived. He was allowed to on a few conditions, and employs Glennic and Ceicy as his drivers there. Although grudgingly, he lets Lorietta come with him.

Before leaving, the drivers show Sheyric that they have a lead on where they are going, a new village on the foothills of the coastal mountains. This makes their trip faster and more direct,

The first stop is in a village called Becoden, and Sheyric states that is looks exactly like Dofia, but smaller. At a small shop in the village, he finds Saena for the first time in years, running the store. He’s crushed to know she stopped trading to live in Becoden and run the store, and that she sold away his old caravan again.

Still in Becoden, an assassin ambushes him. He manages to keep the attacker down, and almost kills them before Glennic calls guards over. The guards kills the assassin themselves and they move on, Sheyric and Glennic going back to the carriage.

Days later, they reach Karyk, which excites Sheyric. However, entering Plei’s motel, he finds it being packed up a man who reveals herself to be Plei’s son. They didn’t have enough money to keep running the motel and a business tycoon, Keres, took it over. They now have to share a small house on the other side of the town. This angers Sheyric, and he immediately donates much of the money on him to her.

They both walk to their new house. Sheyric finds Plei much older and slower than before, and extremely sad about having to give up the motel. Sheyric makes a plan to move them back into the motel, luring Keres back. There, he uses his noble status and large sums of money to buy her out of it. He also, without telling her, plans to station more guards in Karyk for the town’s safety.

Sheyric, Lorietta, and their drivers stay the night at the motel. When they are getting ready to leave, Glennic falls from the carriage and paralyzes his arm. Sheyric and Ceicy help him. When they are back in the carriage and Ceicy is driving, Sheyric notices that Lorietta is wearing a perfect sapphire pendant. He becomes angry at her, knowing it is likely that the perfection of the gem caused the accident. It’s revealed that Sheyric has a small fear of precious stones as of Anew.

## Relationships

### Leiea

Leiea is Sheyric’s friend, crush, and co-worker. They worked together as luxury traders for many months, in the village, Karyk, and Galerus. Before leaving, Sheyric teaches Leiea on everything about trading and more in the caravan. They spend many hours a day doing this. They both stay in the caravan during this time until Sheyric sells it to get home faster. In Karyk, they share a room in Plei’s motel.

Leiea’s attitude to Sheyric changes quickly in Gift. She regularly becomes frustrated with him for his compulsive and commanding behavior. However, this doesn’t stop Sheyric from being interested in her romantically.

In Anew, Sheyric travels to Raencalia to be reunited with Leiea and the other people from the village.

### Lorietta

Lorietta is Sheyric’s little sister, 6 years younger than him. They have very different personalities and don’t get along well, although they look similar overall, besides varied eye color (Sheyric’s are are amber, Lorietta’s are blue). Sheyric was glad to see her leave for the Florithe University, although only because she wanted her away than for her to get a larger education.

In Anew, Lorietta’s attitude to Sheyric has changed. She becomes overall more emotionally sensitive to people and admits to loving Sheyric despite their differences, which surprises him.

## Personality

Leiea described Sheyric as kind, magnetic, and generous before leaving on the trade route, as well as being a good explainer. He stated that his parents taunt him how to be polite but didn’t bother with his sister, resulting in a stark difference in personality between the two. He is shown to be good with kids and usually humble.

In Karyk, Leiea and Plei joke that “when he’s sleep-deprived and starved, he’s a monster… when he’s overheated, he’s emotional… and when he’s not, he’s a cheery ray of sunshine”. In Galerus, a significantaly more busy city than Karyk or the village, crowds at the caravan made him more chaotic than usual. When the stress of returning home came to him, he became more tense and commanding.

Throughout Gift, and before the events of the book, he said to Leiea that he always liked her.

These traits stay with him until the end of Gift. However, in Anew, it’s seen his personality has returned to a more normal state, although somewhat more anxious. Opreie once told him he looks drunk after monthly noble meetings in the Castle.

## Skills

### Rifles

Sheyric is skilled in the use of rifles and other firearms. He is able to shoot down dozens of Ildful and other kinds of Firyah’s creatures.

### Business savvy

Running a luxury trading business, Sheyric is advanced in trading, bartering, pricing, and selling.

### Intelligence

Thanks to running a business, Sheyric is very intelligent. He knows how to think on his feet for his risky job, which comes in handy when he and Leiea have to navigate the events of their time on the trading route. He is also shown to be good at teaching and explaining, making it easier for Leiea to pick up on his job.

### Combat

Sheyric is skilled in both hand-to-hand and long distance combat. In Anew, he is able to tackle and hold down an assassin, although Glennic doesn’t let him kill the attacker. Throughout the books, he is advanced with rifles.

### Horses

Sheyric excels in the caring of horses, which he had to do almost constantly for his job out of the caravan. He is also good at horseback riding.

## Appearance

Sheyric is 28 years old (23 in Gift). He is handsome, with wavy black hair, striking amber and gold eyes, pale skin, a pointy white smile, and a flirtatious, or sometimes commanding, Florithe accent. Behind the scenes, it’s seen in art that his hair is slightly longer in the second book, and he has bangs throughout the series. He has muscled arms that knocked the breath from Leiea when he hugged her. It’s said in Anew that his more lazy lifestyle in the capital made him less fit, although he’s always trying to get back into shape.

On the trade route, his horse Odenne cuts open his forearm, leaving a scar. He also has thin white scars all over his body from Ildful attacks on multiple occasions. Although not noticeable, his fellow nobles didn’t like the ones on his face and he was forced to have them removed chemically, some of it roughly done. Around these nobles, he wears long sleeves and pants year round to cover what was left. After discussing this with Glennic, he decides to stop trying to appease them by hiding his scars.

In the village and on the trade route, he would wear comfortable work clothes, but no jewelry from his wares. In Florithe, all of his clothes are expensive and tailored, most of it blue, white, gold, and black. He continued to avoid jewelry and other precious stones.

## Trivia

* Sheyric is bisexual.
* He is the same age as Ceicy.
* Living in Florithe, Sheyric came to love flowers.
	+ His favorite type is oleander.
* Its possible that Sheyric knows more about precious stones and the effect of them than Firyah, a user of its magic. He is the one to explain and reveal how every one has its own effects. It's unclear who taught him or how he gained such knowledge. If someone did teach him, it was likely another jewerly salesperson.

## Quotes

> "A gift. Graduation for that will be in a mouth or so, anyway."
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> - Sheyric to Leiea about the emerald, Gift

> "I was the one that got our money. You didn’t lift a finger to help, just like our parents. Because I was able bodied, they gave me two horses and sent me into Kiira the same year I graduated, and you were left to wreak havoc on some poor kids’ lives. You have no right to say you were picked on.”
>
> - Sheyric to Lorietta, Anew