Archmage Lukart

**Archmage Lukart** was a noble of the Griffon Kingdom, head of the ancient Lukart noble household, father to Lyam Lukart, and one of Nalear's co-conspirators to spark a civil war between old and new nobles. He was also involved with the famous Alchemist Coirn Hatorne and the Kandria plague outbreak. He and his family are killed by Nalear during their escape.

## Personality

Lukart is extremely ambitious and secretive, hatching many plots to facilitate a rise to power. Despite his cleverness, he is also very stubborn.

## Background

Lukart used the chaos from the threat of Balkor over the years to gather more power, influence, and allies in an attempt to seize the Crown. He allied with Nalear, offering her revenge and to take control of the academies using slave items, not realizing that she was a double agent and had enslaved all of his accomplices.

It is later discovered that the mercenaries sent to hunt magical beasts in the White Griffon Academy forest and blame it on the students are on Lukart and other ancient nobles' payrolls payroll in an attempt to sour relations between Headmaster Linjos and Scarlett. The plot also involves delivering sealed dimensional boxes anti-mana toxins and slave items to the academy to weaken/enslave the students and staff.

Queen's Corpse member Arjîn Rênas infiltrates Hatorne's Alchemic laboratory in Kandria, the source of the locked boxes, as well as other inhumane experiments. Hatorne detonates the lab, killing Arjîn in the process and alerting Lukart, urging him to fast forward his plans. It is later revealed that Lukart is responsible for the assassination attempt on Marchioness Mirim Distar's daughter Brinja in an attempt to kill the entire family and seize control of the Marquisate. He had also organized the dimensional Training Hall sabotage to force Linjos' execution for failure and force the new noble faction into civil war.

When Lith is sent to Kandria as a diagnostician for the plague, Lukart and Nalear organize an ambush by a Talons unit, and though the Queen's Corps unit is killed, Lith manages to escape and make his way to Kandria. Lukart had planned to unleash Hatorne's water parasites on the Blood Desert and mana parasites on the Gorgon Empire, forcing them under his heel and seizing control of power in the Griffon Kingdom, but his plans are foiled after Hatorne detonates the lab.

Due to Lith's actions, the noble faction is suppressed and many are stripped of their lands after trying to leave the Kingdom. Archmage Velan Deirus, suspecting Lukart of being the culprit behind many schemes, begins suppressing Lukart's assets and gathering evidence to incriminate him. As a result, Lukart attempts to get Nalear to orchestrate Yurial's death during the second exam, but Linjos' security prevents her from doing anything.

Lukart makes one last attempt on Yurial's life during their practical healing home visits, though the assassin team falls extraordinarily short in comparison to the Talons and the group manages to easily kill or subdue them. Prior to Balkor's attack, Lukart flees the Griffon Kingdom using Gadorf the Wyvern's illegal Warp Gates.

Lukart gives his master slave ring to Nalear when he escapes, but Nalear turns on him and kills him and his entire family before seizing control of all his allies and assets in and out of the academies.

## Quotes

* *"If you keep underestimating the same 'kid' that saved Distar's daughter from your prized poison, taking away the only silver lining in your utter fiasco of an assassination attempt, and later stopped the spatial breakdown with no casualties despite my sabotage, then you are a bigger fool than I thought."* (Lukart to Nalear, Chapter 130)

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 143
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 312
3. ↑ Chapter 105
4. ↑ Chapter 109
5. ↑ Chapter 118
6. ↑ Chapter 122
7. ↑ Chapter 130
8. ↑ Chapter 130
9. ↑ Chapter 139
10. ↑ Chapter 173
11. ↑ Chapter 192
12. ↑ Chapter 227
13. ↑ Chapter 280