Lahg

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* Songs of Greavesoyl 3.5

## **Lahg, The Cryomancer**

Lahg is a former Satran firefighter, who still wears his old fireproof coat. People often mistake him for much older he actually is thanks to his long and unkempt hair and beard. A pair of circular scars marks his face under his left eye. His skin is unnaturally pale, and his hands look permanently frostbitten due to years of using cryomancy, in which he’s very proficient. In his past Lahg mastered this school of magic, and despite rarely practicing nowadays he can still fluently use it both to extinguish fire and in combat. For the later purpose he still carries a can of freezing fluids with himself every time he is sent on a mission with other Gatekeepers, which allows him to quickly freeze an enemy without having to actually engage in a proper fight.

Since leaving the fire department and the death of his husband Lahg is apathetic and mostly indifferent, unmoved even things like death and destruction around or even Kayral doing The Kayral Things. He wants to just get things done in the way which takes the least effort, and the only real emotions he shows is his annoyance when something prevents him from getting things done in the simplest way (which, ironically, is usually Kayral doing The Kayral Things).

## **Story**

Since the rise of popularity of magic and founding of many magic schools, the fire department on Greavesoyl consists almost exclusively of trained cryomancers. Modern firefighters use the ice magic as well as non-magical equipment to fight not only fires, but large scale accidents and in rare cases even hostile dragons. They always work in a team, and fighting together through life-threatening fires often forges unbreakable bonds between them.

Rarely though two firefighters form a bond as close as the one between Lahg and Nerli. The two have meet for the first time while studying cryomancy in the Satran Academy, and what they both thought was a passing relationship survived the test of time and turned into something much more. After finishing their studies they both joined the fire department, a job for which they both were more than competent, and which paid more than they needed to live happily. Over the years, Lahg donated a lot of his disposable income for the research on the Curse of Undying – a disease his partner unfortunately got infected with at a young age, and which proved to be incurable even over 2000 years after it’s creation. Still, money was never Lahg’s big concern, and the love of his life would be spared from the terrible fate as long as he would live to die out of old age, a fate they both aimed for despite their dangerous job, and the fate they both promised to each other as they got married.

Sadly, some firefighters don’t get to die out of old age. One fateful night their team got called to a fire in the potion warehouse on the city’s edge. The claustrophobic space inside proved hard to navigate, and the caustic smoke concealed threats awaiting behind every corner. Lahg did not noticed a beam falling onto his head. Neril did. That night Lahg’s dreams of happiness and all joy in his life were shattered along with his husband’s spine as he was pushed to safety.

With all of his savings he managed to put Neril in an undead asylum, a shady illegal facility which promises to house the undead safely until (if ever) a cure can be found. In dire need of money to keep his love safe and to fund research which could save him, Lahg left his previous job and started taking even more dangerous offers the Lower City could offer and luckily for him, the skills of a master cryomancer were in decent demand. He ended up working with gangs, guarding and cooling drug payloads and even got his gloves stained in blood a few times. He never kept the reason why a secret and his, after all, noble goal got him in contact with a particular scientist who shared the same goal, and offered him work much more dangerous than all he faced before.

Lahg remembered the promise he made at his wedding well, and he intended to keep it or die trying. The Curse of Undead which stood in his way was an ancient form of magic, one which nobody nowadays understood well, but his new boss had a interesting theory.

Even before the Curse was created, mankind sealed countless eternal ones in The Void – powerful beings for whom magic was second nature. The chance for one of them being able to understand, or even undo the Curse was low… but not zero.

And for the broken firefighter that was enough to gaze in The Void and help with containment of mad gods and demons pulled out from the endless sea of gray dust.

## **In-game**

Lahg is a squishy mid-range battlemage who, aside of dealing AOE damage, focuses on applying heavy slow and silence on groups of enemies.

Abilities
 Cryostream
Cone of Cold
If this ability is recasted while channelling, Lahg instead instantly fires a cone of frost which deals 5 damage and roots all enemies hit for 2 seconds.
 Cooling Fluids

## **Trivia**

* The knife he uses as his melee weapon in-game is the same knife he stole from a thug in chapter 55 of the comic.
* His in-game head was made by wavgudbye long before he was consideres as a playable character.
* Unlike what his backstory might suggest, Lahg is actually bisexual - however, he has a preference towards men.
* Cryostream/Cone of Cold is currently the only ability which has a specific re-cast window.