Lucas Shepard

Nyx Shepard is a half-elf balth villager. She used to work as a shepard alongside her uncle and aunt in the village Salmon river.

### Background

In his youth, he made friends with Waldemar and Leliana. But he was bullied often by Vincenzo, to the point that Lucas tried to shut himself away from the world and tried to not react to anything. He found himself unhappily pine after Waldemar, unable to express his emotions to the goliath. When he partook of the weapon training all balth do, he trained with the quarterstaff and became able to wield his shepard's staff as a weapon. As he grew of age, he recieved the last name Shepard to reflect his chosen profession.

### The demon war

The day before the winter solstice festival, Lucas met his parents who told him that he needed to hurry up and get a wife which meant that he would have to take part in the festival acitivities, and that his uncle and aunt were to have a child.

That same evening, a monster attacked. Lucas reacted remarkably quickly, wielding his staff and anything he could get his hands on to get the attention away from the monster so that it would not hurt anything else. During the fight, he noticed that the monster was going after him and Vincenzo. While Lucas tried to get Vincenzo to leave, he was unable to convince the brash teenager. Once Shata and Casia had defeated the monster, Lucas tried to get Waldemar and Leliana to quietly leave with him. But they were intercepted by Shata. Lucas found all of his paranoia being confirmed, that it was partly his fault that the monster had come here and that his entire life would be turned over. He was furious when Shata was being vague with information, and so she brought them all to Casia and Vincenzo in an attempt to resolve the situation. The two adventurers told the four youngster that they would have to leave this village as soon as possible. Lucas argued passionately that Waldemar and Leliana deserved a chance to say goodbye to their parents, which the adventurers wouldn't agree to. What they did agree to tell however, was that they had come to the village specifically to find Lucas because Casia knew of him due to her having had adventured with Lucas mother, Nissus.

Lucas quickly went home, gathered a few belongings and left a letter for his uncle and aunt. The next morning, Lucas awoke early. He got an oppertunity to speak alone with Shata, and asked for more details of his mother.

During the journey, Lucas asked Shata for additional training in order to protect themselves. She was prepared to agree, but he would have to swear an oath of secrecy. He accepted and she revealed a form of mind training were Lucas would face her memories of previous battles, to be done daily from that point on.

A few days of travel later, Lucas told Waldemar and Leliana that he would sworn to undergotraining but couldn't tell them any details.

During one night, Lucas kept up his training with Shata. But while he was in a deep state of dreaming, his real body was attacked. Another beast of the same kind which had attacked Oceanus lair had breached the camp and pierced Lucas with its claws. The rest of the group woke up and attacked. It was fought off enough that the bivouac sphere could be activated, which warded it off. Lucas had fallen into a coma, which Shata determined that he could be awoken from if he was taken to a healing stone. As such, the course towards the capital was kept.

As Lucas lay comatose, he experienced visions from Shata's memories. He learned that she is a aasimar on a quest, but Lucas didn't see details of what that entailed. During the evening of the same day the had left Panderom, Vincenzo wondered what to do about Lucas and smacked him on the head. This awoke Lucas, who told the group of what he had learned but could not tell the details of how he had learned this. He also demonstrated his newfound skills from his training and made certain to the group that he would be able to protect them. His coma had left him looking thinner and paler than before.

As the group reached Pandoron, Lucas quietly decided to leave the group. He sold everything that could be traced back to the group, visited a flesh reaver to have his appearence and gender changed. Finally, she left a letter with Rinya to be delivered to the group, explaining her actions.