Audric

"Understood, Funkenstein."

**Audric,** often labelled the Atoning King, is a minor protagonist from ***Dragalia Lost,*** in particular the star of the Fractured Futures event and the side story That Which Remains.

## Canon

Once born King Aurelius of Alberia -- a kingdom known for its royalty making pacts with almighty dragons to borrow their power and form -- he lived a long life of wisdom, known to his people as the Sage King. In a bid to ensure eternal peace to his kingdom, Aurelius took the Tutelary, Delphi, to unseal the way to the Binding Ruins: a place holding a Sacred Shard, with enough power to ward off any threats to the kingdom that may come. This was a mistake.

Many years prior, the first king of Alberia had sealed away a great evil in his own bloodline. With every child born, the Other's soul would be torn apart more and more, kept in check by the Sacred Shards throughout the world. To touch this shard now unsealed what part of the soul that was in Aurelius: and, hence, the dreaded Morsayati was unleashed upon the world once more, taking over the king's body.

After that, things are unclear: the timeline Audric hails from is unexplored and in ruin, and little has been said for it. But one thing, at least, is known. As in the main timeline, Morsayati's ultimate goal in taking the body of the king was to claim the body of his seventh son, the prince Euden, an artificial life partially created from a piece of Morsayati's own flesh. From whence Audric hails, the beast succeeded.

Morsayati, now in the body of the seventh scion, was granted far more power than in now the freed king. Morsayati faced one obstacle in obtaining the power of the dragons said to be strongest of all: the Greatwyrms. That obstacle was Aurelius himself, who held a pact with the Shadowwyrm Zodiark. The best way to undo this with ease was to simply manipulate time itself, rewinding Aurelius' body into youth before he ever founded the pact at all. Hence was Chronos created, an amalgamation that combined all six of the Greatwyrms into a time-controlling dragon.

Aurelius, taking responsibility, chose to fight the oncoming apocalypse... but it was to little success. For everything he succeeded -- even going so far as to stop Chronos himself and reclaim the part of him that was lost -- in the end, the future remained the same. Countless people fell simply for the king's presence alone, for they believed he was their hope.

An idea sprung, then. Zodiark was once part of Chronos: and that power to surmount time remained, in some small capacity. If they could change time to their own ends, then, perhaps, there was a chance things could be different. It would be too late for the people of the timeline he is from, but he could still do something.

And that's just what they did, but with no shortage of sacrifice: anyone who came upon Audric during these times but Zodiark himself lost their lives. Now choosing to call himself Audric -- after a king who had let his country fall -- and accompanied by the faerie Notte, once his son's oldest friend, he went to seek the former royal sorcerer Cassandra, a friend of the former king's for many years. If there was anyone who could get them to stay in the time period they went to, it would be her. On the journey to her residence, Audric saved many from the tyranny that faced them, and in turn, they chose to follow him for safety.

Tragedy struck when those same people realized what Cassandra was about to do: to send Audric back through time would be to leave them defenseless. It was a trick, surely, an effort to leave the world doomed: and so the witch had to die. Only one was there to stop it: Notte, powerless. Both of them lost their lives, and Audric chose then to leave them: they had sacrificed innocents, and were no better than the people he had protected them from. But then the people had an idea: if they could take Audric's life, then the empire would provide protection as reward.

Hence there was nothing left. There was Audric, Zodiark, and a way to the past. And a way to that past he took.

## Pre-Paradise

Audric, now in the past as he had once been to help his son, found himself at a crossroads: in severing himself from causality, to allow him to stay in the time period he was then, he had effectively made himself unrememberable. To stay away from Audric for too long is to forget he ever existed: with one exception, the Cassandra of the timeline he now found himself in.

He chose, then, to keep things as it were. He would be undeserving of being anything but what he set out to be: that which brings hope. Even if his face were forgotten, such a fate would be acceptable. He once again forged a pact with Zodiark, and resolved to fight ever on.

It was not long after that that he found himself waking up in a room not dissimilar to that which he had stayed in prior...

## Plot Involvement

Barely a few minutes after waking up, the temporal anomaly that is Audric was swiftly detected by The Twelfth Doctor, to which he came accompanied by the TARDIS which materialized around the former king. After a brief moment of conflict -- Audric weary of being kidnapped twice in one day -- they both explained their individual situations. It was then that Audric found himself being unofficially induced into the the Time Brigade, a group devoted to protecting where they had ended up from extradimensional threats. Audric was doubtful, at first, but The Doctor had a point: someone such as Audric would need to have a careful eye on them, given the circumstances.

Hence he accepted, but with little time to ruminate: the TARDIS was knocked off course, and although quick thinking kept the two from spinning into the void, the problem remained. Something was wrong; something big, and there was little time to think on it beyond trying to solve it immediately. They soon found themselves on the Island of Distorted Time, and accompanied by other members of the team, set to work on solving the problem as quickly as possible.

## Character Relationships

* *The Twelfth Doctor -* A character from *Doctor Who*. The very second Audric arrived, he was soon confronted by The Doctor. They quickly met an understanding and began to get along well, and even then they were swiftly brought together by necessity, the TARDIS needing brought back on course and the following venture to solve what caused it at all on the Island of Distorted Time. Audric is slated to become The Doctor's full-time companion.

## Gallery

Zodiark, or often named Parallel Zodiark, Audric's companion that he can take the form of at will.Audric as he once appeared, the Sage King Aurelius.
## Trivia

* Though Multiverse Paradise is Audric's own first direct foray into crossover, his property has crossed with several already: *Fire Emblem, Persona 5, Princess Connect* and *Monster Hunter*. There is a chance, perhaps, he may recognize the names of those from said properties.
* While he has no theme that he can call purely his own, Audric -- and the Fractured Futures event as a whole -- is often associated with "Kibouno Oto," or, "The Sound of Hope.