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Ozmanthus Arelius

2021-12-05T21:39:50Z

LordZeloxy: Added Pre-book tag to biography.

{{Cradle NavBox}}'''<big>[INFORMATION RESTRICTED] Ozmanthus Tiberian Mereithan Arelius</big>'''

'''<big>Authorization required to access.</big>'''

'''<big>Authorization confirmed: 008 Ozriel</big>'''

'''<big>Beginning Report.</big>'''{{Cradle Character|Name=Ozmanthus Tiberian Mereithan Arelius|image=Eithan by Kandra.png|Path=[[Path of the Hollow King]]|Rank=Judge 008 - The Reaper|Faction=Abidan {{!}} Twin Star Sect {{!}} Grand Patriarch of House Arelius|Type Parents Unkown=Unknown|First Appearance=[[Soulsmith]]|Home=[[Rosegold Continent]]|Icons=Broom & Death}}

'''Ozmanthus (Eithan) Arelius''' is the Grand Patriarch of [[House Arelius]], and the [[Ozriel|Eighth Judge]] of the [[Abidan]] Court.

==Appearance==

Eithan is a tall, somewhat lanky man. He has long flowing yellow hair that he is quite fond of. He tends to dress in fine robes of the highest quality and get's visibly upset when they are soiled. He has pale blue eyes and always has a smile on his face.

''Most of the witnesses looked disgusted, confused, or alarmed, save for the main with the long yellow hair that Lindon had seen before. At least, he assumed it was the same man; in a camp this size, perhaps there were many disciples of this strange Path that lightened hair color. He was wearing intricate robes of blue and white, so that the cape on his shoulders was raised and separated to resemble wings. it looked as though he'd prepared for a parade.''

''He met Lindon's glance with eyes of pale blue, no doubt another consequence of his Goldsign. He gave a cheery wave. -Soulsmith, Chapter 8, Page 105''

==Personality==
Eithan has a very carefree attitude toward everything. He is rarely seen without a smile on his face. He tends to make jokes in face of danger in an attempt to lighten the mood. He enjoys toying with his opponents and making fun of them while fighting. He is so carefree that others around him often wonder if he is taking the situation seriously enough. His attitude often gets him in trouble and angers those around him. Even so, in typical Eithan Fashion, he doesn't care.

==Biography==

====== Pre-Books: ======
Ozmanthus Arelius was an incredibly gifted child. At Copper he possessed a level of insight and understanding far beyond his peers. He designed his own Iron Body and Path. He manifested the Broom Icon at Underlord and went on to become one of the greatest Soulsmiths of his day. He discovered The Labyrinth where he forged some of the deadliest weapons to ever grace Iteration 110. As a consequence, he manifested the Death Icon. Upon his advancement to Monarch, he developed the infamous Arelius bloodline ability, the ability to See. After this he ascended; but he left behind a measure of his power in a beacon. His hope was that one of his descendants would find this beacon and follow in his footsteps.

Upon his successful induction into the Abidan, Ozmanthus passed his compatibility tests with flying colors and it became clear that he could inherit the Mantle of any Judge except one, Suriel. He joined the third division and was named the successor to Telariel in record time. He and his fellow spiders encountered a Vroshir ambush and Ozmanthus was the sole survivor. This bothered him, he could have saved them if he had a weapon powerful enough. So, he made one, he combined many Judge-Tier weapons along with one of his own creations and created the Scythe. He became the avatar of true Destruction. The Court of Seven were in awe. They decided to name him Ozriel, The Reaper: Eighth Judge of the Abidan Court.

Ozriel’s job became the reaping of worlds. His Scythe could cull a world so efficiently that there were no Chaos fragments left to threaten other iterations. Once a world became corrupted and the adept population evacuated, Ozriel would destroy the iteration. This allowed the Abidan to expand to thousands of worlds. But with every iteration he destroyed, with every life he ended, the weight on Ozriel’s soul grew bigger and bigger until eventually, it became too much. He begged the court to allow him to raise up his own Division. Reapers that could intervene in Fate and remove corruption at the root before the world was lost. But the Court apposed this, forcing Ozriel to continue reaping.

Eventually the weight on Ozriel was too much to bear and he deserted the Abidan. He knew he couldn’t hide forever, but he needed a break; He needed time on his own. He looked into fate and discovered the planets that would be corrupted next. On these planets he left people and items of cultural significance. Enough to restart the cultures of this planet on a pioneer world. It was in one of these worlds where he was confronted. The Mad King had just so happened to choose this world to test his new creation. The origin shroud; a veil so powerful that even Ozriel didn’t recognize him at first. When they fought, Ozriel overpowered him easily and took the Shroud. Seeing The Mad King with the shroud gave Ozriel an idea. He would raise up warriors outside of the Abidan’s influence and fix the broken system that they had been using for millennia. He repaired and perfected the origin shroud, and used it on himself. He traveled to the place of his birth, Cradle. The veil was so tight that he became mortal again. He adapted his Path of the Hollow king to pure madra and set out under a new name, Eithan Aurelius.

Upon his return to Cradle, Eithan visited the main branch of his family on the Rosegold continent. He presented himself as a young Underlord and shocked his descendants by entering and passing the tests of the First Patriarchs Tomb (His own tomb.) The current patriarch of the family, [[Tiberian Arelius]] took notice and made Eithan one of his closest advisors. When Eithan came forward with a plan to kill the Dreadgod’s once and for all, Tiberian decided to follow his advice. The plan hinged on the cooperation of the other Monarchs so Tiberian approached his neighbor [[Reigan Shen]]. Reigan saw the value in the Hand of Subject One but not in the way Tiberian did. He attacked Tiberian and overpowered him. After killing the Arelius Monarch, Reigan rained hell upon their lands and massacred their people. Eithan, seeing the destruction he had brought upon his descendants, couldn’t bear to stay. He left and traveled to the Blackflame Empire.

Upon arrival in the Blackflame empire, where Underlords are significantly less common, he became the Patriarch of the Blackflame branch of his family. He remained in this capacity for seven years before the main events of the books take place.

======Soulsmith:======
Eithan sensed the change in the iteration after what Suriel in Sacred Valley and decided to head that direction ahead of the rest of his family. Upon his arrival he mingles amongst the other sacred artists in the five-faction alliance camp under a veil. It was here that he noticed Lindon and Yerin. He noticed Yerin because he recognized her as the Sword Sage’s disciple, and he noticed Lindon because of how weak he was for his age. Upon a closer inspection he noticed Suriel’s marble and decided that these two would be his students. He started trailing them and even got captured and sent to the mines at the same time that Lindon did. Once in the mines with Lindon and Yerin, he helped them escape the captivity of the Sand Vipers. Eithan then proceeds to lock Lindon inside the Transcendent Ruins in an attempt to get him to advance to Iron. During this time, he continues to train Yerin by having her fight dread beasts within the Transcendent Ruins. After Lindon advances to Iron, they travel towards the center of the ruins. Once there, a fight breaks out and Lindon ends up killing Sand Viper Kral. Eithan reveals himself to be the Arelius Underlord and takes control of the situation. He grants each faction a reward for reaching the prize and promises Jai Long that he will have a chance to avenge Sand Viper Kral in a duel against Lindon in one year’s time. Eithan then takes Lindon and Yerin in officially as his students.

'''[TO BE CONTINUED] Feel free to adjust and add as you see fit. '''

==Powers and Techniques==
Link the characters path here, along with their Iron body and any notable items or powers they may also have. If they have a bloodline ability it goes here as well. Their path page should have a solid explanation of the paths abilities and limitations, but here you can also touch on how the character uses the path and any special synergy they may gain from other abilities or items they have. Finally a demonstration of their mastery or skill can also be explained here, just a rough estimate of how strong they are in comparison to everyone else.

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Ozmanthus Arelius

2021-12-05T21:38:36Z

LordZeloxy: Added More Biography

{{Cradle NavBox}}'''<big>[INFORMATION RESTRICTED] Ozmanthus Tiberian Mereithan Arelius</big>'''

'''<big>Authorization required to access.</big>'''

'''<big>Authorization confirmed: 008 Ozriel</big>'''

'''<big>Beginning Report.</big>'''{{Cradle Character|Name=Ozmanthus Tiberian Mereithan Arelius|image=Eithan by Kandra.png|Path=[[Path of the Hollow King]]|Rank=Judge 008 - The Reaper|Faction=Abidan {{!}} Twin Star Sect {{!}} Grand Patriarch of House Arelius|Type Parents Unkown=Unknown|First Appearance=[[Soulsmith]]|Home=[[Rosegold Continent]]|Icons=Broom & Death}}

'''Ozmanthus (Eithan) Arelius''' is the Grand Patriarch of [[House Arelius]], and the [[Ozriel|Eighth Judge]] of the [[Abidan]] Court.

==Appearance==

Eithan is a tall, somewhat lanky man. He has long flowing yellow hair that he is quite fond of. He tends to dress in fine robes of the highest quality and get's visibly upset when they are soiled. He has pale blue eyes and always has a smile on his face.

''Most of the witnesses looked disgusted, confused, or alarmed, save for the main with the long yellow hair that Lindon had seen before. At least, he assumed it was the same man; in a camp this size, perhaps there were many disciples of this strange Path that lightened hair color. He was wearing intricate robes of blue and white, so that the cape on his shoulders was raised and separated to resemble wings. it looked as though he'd prepared for a parade.''

''He met Lindon's glance with eyes of pale blue, no doubt another consequence of his Goldsign. He gave a cheery wave. -Soulsmith, Chapter 8, Page 105''

==Personality==
Eithan has a very carefree attitude toward everything. He is rarely seen without a smile on his face. He tends to make jokes in face of danger in an attempt to lighten the mood. He enjoys toying with his opponents and making fun of them while fighting. He is so carefree that others around him often wonder if he is taking the situation seriously enough. His attitude often gets him in trouble and angers those around him. Even so, in typical Eithan Fashion, he doesn't care.

==Biography==
Ozmanthus Arelius was an incredibly gifted child. At Copper he possessed a level of insight and understanding far beyond his peers. He designed his own Iron Body and Path. He manifested the Broom Icon at Underlord and went on to become one of the greatest Soulsmiths of his day. He discovered The Labyrinth where he forged some of the deadliest weapons to ever grace Iteration 110. As a consequence, he manifested the Death Icon. Upon his advancement to Monarch, he developed the infamous Arelius bloodline ability, the ability to See. After this he ascended; but he left behind a measure of his power in a beacon. His hope was that one of his descendants would find this beacon and follow in his footsteps.

Upon his successful induction into the Abidan, Ozmanthus passed his compatibility tests with flying colors and it became clear that he could inherit the Mantle of any Judge except one, Suriel. He joined the third division and was named the successor to Telariel in record time. He and his fellow spiders encountered a Vroshir ambush and Ozmanthus was the sole survivor. This bothered him, he could have saved them if he had a weapon powerful enough. So, he made one, he combined many Judge-Tier weapons along with one of his own creations and created the Scythe. He became the avatar of true Destruction. The Court of Seven were in awe. They decided to name him Ozriel, The Reaper: Eighth Judge of the Abidan Court.

Ozriel’s job became the reaping of worlds. His Scythe could cull a world so efficiently that there were no Chaos fragments left to threaten other iterations. Once a world became corrupted and the adept population evacuated, Ozriel would destroy the iteration. This allowed the Abidan to expand to thousands of worlds. But with every iteration he destroyed, with every life he ended, the weight on Ozriel’s soul grew bigger and bigger until eventually, it became too much. He begged the court to allow him to raise up his own Division. Reapers that could intervene in Fate and remove corruption at the root before the world was lost. But the Court apposed this, forcing Ozriel to continue reaping.

Eventually the weight on Ozriel was too much to bear and he deserted the Abidan. He knew he couldn’t hide forever, but he needed a break; He needed time on his own. He looked into fate and discovered the planets that would be corrupted next. On these planets he left people and items of cultural significance. Enough to restart the cultures of this planet on a pioneer world. It was in one of these worlds where he was confronted. The Mad King had just so happened to choose this world to test his new creation. The origin shroud; a veil so powerful that even Ozriel didn’t recognize him at first. When they fought, Ozriel overpowered him easily and took the Shroud. Seeing The Mad King with the shroud gave Ozriel an idea. He would raise up warriors outside of the Abidan’s influence and fix the broken system that they had been using for millennia. He repaired and perfected the origin shroud, and used it on himself. He traveled to the place of his birth, Cradle. The veil was so tight that he became mortal again. He adapted his Path of the Hollow king to pure madra and set out under a new name, Eithan Aurelius.

Upon his return to Cradle, Eithan visited the main branch of his family on the Rosegold continent. He presented himself as a young Underlord and shocked his descendants by entering and passing the tests of the First Patriarchs Tomb (His own tomb.) The current patriarch of the family, [[Tiberian Arelius]] took notice and made Eithan one of his closest advisors. When Eithan came forward with a plan to kill the Dreadgod’s once and for all, Tiberian decided to follow his advice. The plan hinged on the cooperation of the other Monarchs so Tiberian approached his neighbor [[Reigan Shen]]. Reigan saw the value in the Hand of Subject One but not in the way Tiberian did. He attacked Tiberian and overpowered him. After killing the Arelius Monarch, Reigan rained hell upon their lands and massacred their people. Eithan, seeing the destruction he had brought upon his descendants, couldn’t bear to stay. He left and traveled to the Blackflame Empire.

Upon arrival in the Blackflame empire, where Underlords are significantly less common, he became the Patriarch of the Blackflame branch of his family. He remained in this capacity for seven years before the main events of the books take place.

====== Soulsmith: ======
Eithan sensed the change in the iteration after what Suriel in Sacred Valley and decided to head that direction ahead of the rest of his family. Upon his arrival he mingles amongst the other sacred artists in the five-faction alliance camp under a veil. It was here that he noticed Lindon and Yerin. He noticed Yerin because he recognized her as the Sword Sage’s disciple, and he noticed Lindon because of how weak he was for his age. Upon a closer inspection he noticed Suriel’s marble and decided that these two would be his students. He started trailing them and even got captured and sent to the mines at the same time that Lindon did. Once in the mines with Lindon and Yerin, he helped them escape the captivity of the Sand Vipers. Eithan then proceeds to lock Lindon inside the Transcendent Ruins in an attempt to get him to advance to Iron. During this time, he continues to train Yerin by having her fight dread beasts within the Transcendent Ruins. After Lindon advances to Iron, they travel towards the center of the ruins. Once there, a fight breaks out and Lindon ends up killing Sand Viper Kral. Eithan reveals himself to be the Arelius Underlord and takes control of the situation. He grants each faction a reward for reaching the prize and promises Jai Long that he will have a chance to avenge Sand Viper Kral in a duel against Lindon in one year’s time. Eithan then takes Lindon and Yerin in officially as his students.

'''[TO BE CONTINUED] Feel free to adjust and add as you see fit. '''

==Powers and Techniques==
Link the characters path here, along with their Iron body and any notable items or powers they may also have. If they have a bloodline ability it goes here as well. Their path page should have a solid explanation of the paths abilities and limitations, but here you can also touch on how the character uses the path and any special synergy they may gain from other abilities or items they have. Finally a demonstration of their mastery or skill can also be explained here, just a rough estimate of how strong they are in comparison to everyone else.

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Suriel

2021-12-05T20:55:49Z

LordZeloxy: Added Image Credit

{{Cradle NavBox}}'''<big>[INFORMATION RESTRICTED] Suriel, Sixth Judge of the Abidan Court</big>'''

'''<big>Authorization Required to Access.</big>'''

'''<big>Authorization Confirmed: 006 - Suriel.</big>''' {{Cradle Character|Name=Suriel|image=Suriel_oliviahintzart.jpg|Rank=Judge 006 - The Phoenix|Faction=Abidan|First Appearance=Unsouled|Origin=Sector 13|Image By=Oliviahintzart}}

The power of the Phoenix is the power of restoration. An [[Abidan]] of the Phoenix Division can use the Way to return order to a system, restoring it to prime condition. Phoenixes are used as mechanics and engineers as often as healers, and are prized on any battlefield.

Though skilled Phoenix Abidan are rare, and their division small, they are also very durable. A Phoenix is said to be the second-most difficult of the [[Abidan]] to destroy (after a Titan), since powerful Phoenixes can regenerate even from total destruction.

The Phoenix herself, Suriel, is the only entity capable of restoring the condition of an entire Iteration at once. This can cause irregularities for both the [[Telariel|Spiders]] and the [[Makiel|Hounds]], so she is required to notify Sector Control prior to temporal reversion.

==Appearance==
Transparent gray ghostlines ran from the back of her head, twisting down her right arm to terminate in her fingers. The Mantle of Suriel ran behind her like she’d tied a river of burning light around her neck. Her white uniform was seamless, a layer of inch-thick liquid armor that coated her from her neck down to her toes. It seemed like Forged madra, which was close enough to the truth. She bore flaming blue wings and her weapon hung at her hip, a meter-long shaft of blue steel. Her long hair drifted around her, luminescent green and shining against the darkness of space.Her eyes were large and purple. Her irises had expanded to take up most of the sclera, marked with a ring of symbols recognizable as script. They were tools to help her see the flow of fate.

==Ability==
Ozriel is well-known as the most powerful Judge, However, he has no ability as a Phoenix. He has made it a point to befriend both the previous Suriel and this one, holding their talents in high esteem.

Suriel is an accomplished Fox (who excel at instant travel) and an able Spider (who detect deviations in chaos).She is the only entity capable of restoring the condition of an entire Iteration at once.

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Suriel

2021-12-05T20:54:51Z

LordZeloxy:

{{Cradle NavBox}}'''<big>[INFORMATION RESTRICTED] Suriel, Sixth Judge of the Abidan Court</big>'''

'''<big>Authorization Required to Access.</big>'''

'''<big>Authorization Confirmed: 006 - Suriel.</big>''' {{Cradle Character|Name=Suriel|image=Suriel_oliviahintzart.jpg|Rank=Judge 006 - The Phoenix|Faction=Abidan|First Appearance=Unsouled|Origin=Sector 13}}

The power of the Phoenix is the power of restoration. An [[Abidan]] of the Phoenix Division can use the Way to return order to a system, restoring it to prime condition. Phoenixes are used as mechanics and engineers as often as healers, and are prized on any battlefield.

Though skilled Phoenix Abidan are rare, and their division small, they are also very durable. A Phoenix is said to be the second-most difficult of the [[Abidan]] to destroy (after a Titan), since powerful Phoenixes can regenerate even from total destruction.

The Phoenix herself, Suriel, is the only entity capable of restoring the condition of an entire Iteration at once. This can cause irregularities for both the [[Telariel|Spiders]] and the [[Makiel|Hounds]], so she is required to notify Sector Control prior to temporal reversion.

==Appearance==
Transparent gray ghostlines ran from the back of her head, twisting down her right arm to terminate in her fingers. The Mantle of Suriel ran behind her like she’d tied a river of burning light around her neck. Her white uniform was seamless, a layer of inch-thick liquid armor that coated her from her neck down to her toes. It seemed like Forged madra, which was close enough to the truth. She bore flaming blue wings and her weapon hung at her hip, a meter-long shaft of blue steel. Her long hair drifted around her, luminescent green and shining against the darkness of space.Her eyes were large and purple. Her irises had expanded to take up most of the sclera, marked with a ring of symbols recognizable as script. They were tools to help her see the flow of fate.

==Ability==
Ozriel is well-known as the most powerful Judge, However, he has no ability as a Phoenix. He has made it a point to befriend both the previous Suriel and this one, holding their talents in high esteem.

Suriel is an accomplished Fox (who excel at instant travel) and an able Spider (who detect deviations in chaos).She is the only entity capable of restoring the condition of an entire Iteration at once.

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2021-12-05T20:54:20Z

LordZeloxy: Added Image Credit

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File:Suriel oliviahintzart.jpg

2021-12-05T20:46:35Z

LordZeloxy:

Suriel

2021-12-05T20:46:21Z

LordZeloxy: Added Presence

{{Cradle NavBox}}'''<big>[INFORMATION RESTRICTED] Suriel, Sixth Judge of the Abidan Court</big>'''

'''<big>Authorization Required to Access.</big>'''

'''<big>Authorization Confirmed: 006 - Suriel.</big>''' {{Cradle Character|Name=Suriel|image=Suriel.jpg|Rank=Judge 006 - The Phoenix|Faction=Abidan|First Appearance=Unsouled|Origin=Sector 13}}

The power of the Phoenix is the power of restoration. An [[Abidan]] of the Phoenix Division can use the Way to return order to a system, restoring it to prime condition. Phoenixes are used as mechanics and engineers as often as healers, and are prized on any battlefield.

Though skilled Phoenix Abidan are rare, and their division small, they are also very durable. A Phoenix is said to be the second-most difficult of the [[Abidan]] to destroy (after a Titan), since powerful Phoenixes can regenerate even from total destruction.

The Phoenix herself, Suriel, is the only entity capable of restoring the condition of an entire Iteration at once. This can cause irregularities for both the [[Telariel|Spiders]] and the [[Makiel|Hounds]], so she is required to notify Sector Control prior to temporal reversion.

==Appearance==
Transparent gray ghostlines ran from the back of her head, twisting down her right arm to terminate in her fingers. The Mantle of Suriel ran behind her like she’d tied a river of burning light around her neck. Her white uniform was seamless, a layer of inch-thick liquid armor that coated her from her neck down to her toes. It seemed like Forged madra, which was close enough to the truth. She bore flaming blue wings and her weapon hung at her hip, a meter-long shaft of blue steel. Her long hair drifted around her, luminescent green and shining against the darkness of space.Her eyes were large and purple. Her irises had expanded to take up most of the sclera, marked with a ring of symbols recognizable as script. They were tools to help her see the flow of fate.

==Ability==
Ozriel is well-known as the most powerful Judge, However, he has no ability as a Phoenix. He has made it a point to befriend both the previous Suriel and this one, holding their talents in high esteem.

Suriel is an accomplished Fox (who excel at instant travel) and an able Spider (who detect deviations in chaos).She is the only entity capable of restoring the condition of an entire Iteration at once.

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Ozmanthus Arelius

2021-12-05T18:01:45Z

LordZeloxy:

Ozmanthus Arelius

2021-12-05T18:00:34Z

LordZeloxy: Fixed the presence being considered sections of the page (Hopefully)

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===='''[INFORMATION RESTRICTED] Ozmanthus Tiberian Mereithan Arelius'''====

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====Authorization confirmed: 008 Ozriel====
====Beginning Report.====
{{Cradle Character|Name=Ozmanthus Tiberian Mereithan Arelius|image=Eithan by Kandra.png|Path=[[Path of the Hollow King]]|Rank=Judge 008 - The Reaper|Faction=Abidan {{!}} Twin Star Sect {{!}} Grand Patriarch of House Arelius|Type Parents Unkown=Unknown|First Appearance=[[Soulsmith]]|Home=[[Rosegold Continent]]|Icons=Broom & Death}}

'''Ozmanthus (Eithan) Arelius''' is the Grand Patriarch of [[House Arelius]], and the [[Ozriel|Eighth Judge]] of the [[Abidan]] Court.

==Appearance==

Eithan is a tall, somewhat lanky man. He has long flowing yellow hair that he is quite fond of. He tends to dress in fine robes of the highest quality and get's visibly upset when they are soiled. He has pale blue eyes and always has a smile on his face.

''Most of the witnesses looked disgusted, confused, or alarmed, save for the main with the long yellow hair that Lindon had seen before. At least, he assumed it was the same man; in a camp this size, perhaps there were many disciples of this strange Path that lightened hair color. He was wearing intricate robes of blue and white, so that the cape on his shoulders was raised and separated to resemble wings. it looked as though he'd prepared for a parade.''

''He met Lindon's glance with eyes of pale blue, no doubt another consequence of his Goldsign. He gave a cheery wave. -Soulsmith, Chapter 8, Page 105''

==Personality==
Eithan has a very carefree attitude toward everything. He is rarely seen without a smile on his face. He tends to make jokes in face of danger in an attempt to lighten the mood. He enjoys toying with his opponents and making fun of them while fighting. He is so carefree that others around him often wonder if he is taking the situation seriously enough. His attitude often gets him in trouble and angers those around him. Even so, in typical Eithan Fashion, he doesn't care.

==Biography==
Ozmanthus Arelius was an incredibly gifted child. At Copper he possessed a level of insight and understanding far beyond his peers. He designed his own Iron Body and Path. He manifested the Broom Icon at Underlord and went on to become one of the greatest Soulsmiths of his day. He discovered The Labyrinth where he forged some of the deadliest weapons to ever grace Iteration 110. As a consequence, he manifested the Death Icon. Upon his advancement to Monarch, he developed the infamous Arelius bloodline ability, the ability to See. After this he ascended; but he left behind a measure of his power in a beacon. His hope was that one of his descendants would find this beacon and follow in his footsteps.

Upon his successful induction into the Abidan, Ozmanthus passed his compatibility tests with flying colors and it became clear that he could inherit the Mantle of any Judge except one, Suriel. He joined the third division and was named the successor to Telariel in record time. He and his fellow spiders encountered a Vroshir ambush and Ozmanthus was the sole survivor. This bothered him, he could have saved them if he had a weapon powerful enough. So, he made one, he combined many Judge-Tier weapons along with one of his own creations and created the Scythe. He became the avatar of true Destruction. The Court of Seven were in awe. They decided to name him Ozriel, The Reaper: Eighth Judge of the Abidan Court.

Ozriel’s job became the reaping of worlds. His Scythe could cull a world so efficiently that there were no Chaos fragments left to threaten other iterations. Once a world became corrupted and the adept population evacuated, Ozriel would destroy the iteration. This allowed the Abidan to expand to thousands of worlds. But with every iteration he destroyed, with every life he ended, the weight on Ozriel’s soul grew bigger and bigger until eventually, it became too much. He begged the court to allow him to raise up his own Division. Reapers that could intervene in Fate and remove corruption at the root before the world was lost. But the Court apposed this, forcing Ozriel to continue reaping.

Eventually the weight on Ozriel was too much to bear and he deserted the Abidan. He knew he couldn’t hide forever, but he needed a break; He needed time on his own. He looked into fate and discovered the planets that would be corrupted next. On these planets he left people and items of cultural significance. Enough to restart the cultures of this planet on a pioneer world. It was in one of these worlds where he was confronted. The Mad King had just so happened to choose this world to test his new creation. The origin shroud; a veil so powerful that even Ozriel didn’t recognize him at first. When they fought, Ozriel overpowered him easily and took the Shroud. Seeing The Mad King with the shroud gave Ozriel an idea. He would raise up warriors outside of the Abidan’s influence and fix the broken system that they had been using for millennia. He repaired and perfected the origin shroud, and used it on himself. He traveled to the place of his birth, Cradle. The veil was so tight that he became mortal again. He adapted his Path of the Hollow king to pure madra and set out under a new name, Eithan Aurelius.

'''[TO BE CONTINUED] Feel free to adjust and add as you see fit. '''

==Powers and Techniques==
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Ozmanthus Arelius

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'''Ozmanthus (Eithan) Arelius''' is the Grand Patriarch of [[House Arelius]], and the [[Ozriel|Eighth Judge]] of the [[Abidan]] Court.

==Appearance==

Eithan is a tall, somewhat lanky man. He has long flowing yellow hair that he is quite fond of. He tends to dress in fine robes of the highest quality and get's visibly upset when they are soiled. He has pale blue eyes and always has a smile on his face.

''Most of the witnesses looked disgusted, confused, or alarmed, save for the main with the long yellow hair that Lindon had seen before. At least, he assumed it was the same man; in a camp this size, perhaps there were many disciples of this strange Path that lightened hair color. He was wearing intricate robes of blue and white, so that the cape on his shoulders was raised and separated to resemble wings. it looked as though he'd prepared for a parade.''

''He met Lindon's glance with eyes of pale blue, no doubt another consequence of his Goldsign. He gave a cheery wave. -Soulsmith, Chapter 8, Page 105''

==Personality==
Eithan has a very carefree attitude toward everything. He is rarely seen without a smile on his face. He tends to make jokes in face of danger in an attempt to lighten the mood. He enjoys toying with his opponents and making fun of them while fighting. He is so carefree that others around him often wonder if he is taking the situation seriously enough. His attitude often gets him in trouble and angers those around him. Even so, in typical Eithan Fashion, he doesn't care.

==Biography==
Ozmanthus Arelius was an incredibly gifted child. At Copper he possessed a level of insight and understanding far beyond his peers. He designed his own Iron Body and Path. He manifested the Broom Icon at Underlord and went on to become one of the greatest Soulsmiths of his day. He discovered The Labyrinth where he forged some of the deadliest weapons to ever grace Iteration 110. As a consequence, he manifested the Death Icon. Upon his advancement to Monarch, he developed the infamous Arelius bloodline ability, the ability to See. After this he ascended; but he left behind a measure of his power in a beacon. His hope was that one of his descendants would find this beacon and follow in his footsteps.

Upon his successful induction into the Abidan, Ozmanthus passed his compatibility tests with flying colors and it became clear that he could inherit the Mantle of any Judge except one, Suriel. He joined the third division and was named the successor to Telariel in record time. He and his fellow spiders encountered a Vroshir ambush and Ozmanthus was the sole survivor. This bothered him, he could have saved them if he had a weapon powerful enough. So, he made one, he combined many Judge-Tier weapons along with one of his own creations and created the Scythe. He became the avatar of true Destruction. The Court of Seven were in awe. They decided to name him Ozriel, The Reaper: Eighth Judge of the Abidan Court.

Ozriel’s job became the reaping of worlds. His Scythe could cull a world so efficiently that there were no Chaos fragments left to threaten other iterations. Once a world became corrupted and the adept population evacuated, Ozriel would destroy the iteration. This allowed the Abidan to expand to thousands of worlds. But with every iteration he destroyed, with every life he ended, the weight on Ozriel’s soul grew bigger and bigger until eventually, it became too much. He begged the court to allow him to raise up his own Division. Reapers that could intervene in Fate and remove corruption at the root before the world was lost. But the Court apposed this, forcing Ozriel to continue reaping.

Eventually the weight on Ozriel was too much to bear and he deserted the Abidan. He knew he couldn’t hide forever, but he needed a break; He needed time on his own. He looked into fate and discovered the planets that would be corrupted next. On these planets he left people and items of cultural significance. Enough to restart the cultures of this planet on a pioneer world. It was in one of these worlds where he was confronted. The Mad King had just so happened to choose this world to test his new creation. The origin shroud; a veil so powerful that even Ozriel didn’t recognize him at first. When they fought, Ozriel overpowered him easily and took the Shroud. Seeing The Mad King with the shroud gave Ozriel an idea. He would raise up warriors outside of the Abidan’s influence and fix the broken system that they had been using for millennia. He repaired and perfected the origin shroud, and used it on himself. He traveled to the place of his birth, Cradle. The veil was so tight that he became mortal again. He adapted his Path of the Hollow king to pure madra and set out under a new name, Eithan Aurelius.

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Wei Shi Lindon

2021-12-04T10:51:42Z

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'''Wei Shi''' '''Lindon Arelius''' is the primary protagonist of ''Cradle''. He was born to the Shi family of the Wei Clan in [[Sacred Valley]] and was considered Unsouled due to a madra deficiency. He is currently an Overlord with the Akura family.

==Appearance==
Lindon is a tall man with a brawny physique. He often looks like he is spoiling for a fight with his rough face, tall build and broad shoulders. He has black hair and dark brown eyes. His eyes turn black with red irises when he cycles Blackflame madra.

After losing his arm, he obtains a misty prosthetic created through Soulsmithing. The prosthetic uses a hunger binding taken from the Ancestors Spear that allows it to consume madra, but due to its nature as Remnant he needs to cycle madra through it to solidify it and allow it to interact with solid inanimate objects.

After advancing to Underlord, his features smooth out. His prosthetic remnant arm takes on the shape of a normal arm though it maintains its ivory white color. He also Forges the Archstone into his arm in order for the Gold Level prosthetic to survive the transition into the Lord Realm once washed in soulfire.

==Personality==
Lindon is very polite and deferential due to growing up as an Unsouled, by far the least valuable member of the clan. Because of his madra deficiency, he was treated with mild scorn within his clan. Without power, he was considered to be inconsequential at best and a little better than a punching bag at worst. In response to this treatment, he cultivated a very humble attitude demonstrated by his habit of always referring to himself as “this one” which seems to imply that he is so low as to not deserve recognition. This demeanor, though, has also made it easy for him to hide his dangerously clever mind without even intending to do so.

Lindon has a keen interest in Soulsmithing, his mother's profession. He is very focused on advancement due to his time as weak and his vision from Suriel about the future calamity in Sacred Valley. He is relentless in his goal to save Sacred Valley, no matter the cost.

During his time in the Wei Clan he was also forbidden from learning any manner of sacred arts as well as utilizing any clan resources for advancement. Lindon searched desperately for ways to improve himself on his own, doing whatever it takes to move forward. He relies on plans, tricks, and loopholes to get ahead.

Lindon is kind and caring, sometimes to the point of naivety due to unfamiliarity with the world outside of Sacred Valley.

==Biography==

===Daily Timeline===
[[Lindon Timeline]]

==='''Unsouled'''===
Lindon is the youngest child of Jaran and Seisha, Irons of the Wei clan. In his youth, Lindon failed the Spritual Origin madra affinity test and was labeled an Unsouled, cursed of the heavens. As such he was forbidden to learn the Sacred Arts of the clan and was denied a path. His clan refused to invest resources to help him advance due to this deficiency. As a result he remained at the Foundation rank long past the age when children advance to Copper.

Prior to the Festival, Seisha sent Lindon to find the white orus, a spirit fruit. A normal orus fruit was like a pure white peach, and grew only in Sacred Valley. Fruit from an ancestral orus tree looked no different, but a bite would deliver him years' worth of purified vital aura that he could process into madra. As Lindon began to harvest the spirit fruit, Teris soon emerged from the woods, hair mussed and covered in scratches. He was hunting a snowfox, which was illegal. Angered that Lindon had interrupted his hunt, Teris punched the bark and leaving the imprint of his fist in the wood. The tree bent in the middle, splintered and fell apart. As a result, a remnant rose from the tree’s corpse. Immediately, Teris ran deeper in the woods without a glance back. Lindon used scripts and a crystal flask to distract the remnant and retrieve the spirit fruit from the remnant. Seisha was able to restore the remnant of the spirit fruit and split it between Kelsa and Lindon.

Soon, Lindon and Teris were called before the First Elder to recount the confrontation. Since Teris had abandoned a child of the Foundation Stage, he was to receive three lashes. Lindon, however, was to speak with Elder Whisper. Elder Whisper told Lindon that the Path of the White Fox was not for him and Lindon would have to forge his own path. During the public whipping of Wei Mon Teris, Wei Mon Eri challenged Wei Shi Lindon to a duel of honor before the entire clan. Lindon was forced to accept the duel to surrender.

Lindon spent his time scouring the Clan archives searching for a suitable path. There he found a book called, "''Heart of Twin Stars".'' The book taught two techniques, ''Empty Palm'' and ''Heart of Twin Stars.'' Since Lindon would be shamed in the duel regardless of the outcome due to his age and deficiency, he and Kelsa devised a plan. Lindon would challenge Wei Mon Keth, Teris and Eri's father. Lindon requested a duel in which each party would have one strike each. The first to lose his footing is defeated. Lindon quickly executed the empty palm and punched Keth in the gut. Immediately, Lindon surrendered the duel.

During the seven years festival held by the Wei Clan, Lindon was a victim of a temporal divergence. Due to the nature of this event, he ended up meeting Suriel, the Phoenix, Sixth Judge of the Abidan Court. Suriel had taken an interest in Lindon after seeing him give his life in what he knew to be a futile effort to stop a being who had transcended Cradle, Li Markuth. She admired his actions and, as something of a reward, showed him his most likely fated future. During this vision, Lindon discovers that Sacred Valley would be destroyed by a Dreadgod (the Titan) a being so powerful that it crushes the entire valley underfoot. Desperate to save his home, despite his treatment, Lindon begs the “Celestial Messenger” to show him a way to prevent this tragedy from occurring. In response, he is taken by Suriel to see several individuals (The Eight Man Empire, The Monarch Northstrider, and Luminous Queen Sha Miara) stating that they each had the power to save his homeland. At first, this is believed to be the answer to his question but he is proven wrong as Suriel asks him what they have in common. Unable to come up with the correct answer he is told that it boils down to one simple thing: Drive. “...any Sage will tell you that all paths can be reduced to one: Improve yourself.” Thus begins Wei Shi Lindon’s journey. After time was reversed by Suriel, he easily won the tournament, via his Empty Palm, and went to the Heaven's Glory school, only to leave almost immediately after with Yerin after killing several irons and a jade.

==='''Soulsmith'''===
After escaping from the Sacred Valley, Yerin and Lindon enter territory of the Sandvipers. Again, they soon leave, and enter Fisher territory. Yerin does jobs for the Fishers, such as helping them kill off remnants, while Lindon is recruited by Fisher Gesha to forge scales for her due to his pure madra. Lindon is captured to work in the mines but is immediately rescued by Gesha, who says it won't happen it again. Lindon attempts to free the slaves working in the mine, but gets captured for real this time, as does Yerin. Eithan is also 'captured' though he actually came willingly. Lindon undergoes a lot of training, and after being stung five times by the venomous sandviper, ascends to iron with a Bloodforged body. Soon, Eithan gets them out, but Lindon is severely injured by Kral, but because of his iron body, survives, and kills Kral after Eithan reveals that Lindon was still alive to him. Jai Long demands retribution but after Eithan revealed that he was the Arelius Underlord, backs down, but Eithan promises Jai Long a duel in a year. With this, Lindon and Yerin are healed by the Fishers, and taken to the Arelius family.

This ends up pushing Lindon to stretch himself past his limits which leads to him killing a Highgold as an Iron later on. In doing so he accidentally enters into a feud with Jai Long who, having made a difficult and irreversible choice to save his sister, was shamed by his clan and had looked at his fellow Highgold as something of a brother.

==='''Blackflame'''===
Lindon goes to Serpent’s Grave in the [[Blackflame Empire]] and embarks one of his pure cores on the Path of Black Flame. Eithan shows him various powerful paths, before he settles on the Path of Black Flame. Eithan has Lindon bond with a Truegold Sacred Beast, named [[Orthos]]. This allows Lindon to instantly have a core producing Blackflame madra and advance to Jade. He then begins training with [[Yerin]], supervised by [[Cassias Arelius]]. After several months, the Arelius family within the city Serpents Grave is attacked. While under attack, Lindon and Orthos are forced to fight the chief of the Sandviper Sect, and Kral's father, [[Sandviper Gokren]]. Lindon's newly mastered Dragon's Breath takes his arm off. Just before this, he advances to Lowgold, though he doesn't realize it. While this fight is going on, Yerin is fighting [[Jai Long]]. Jai Long is Truegold while Yerin is Lowgold, though she advances to Highgold during the fight, and due to the circumstances within the city, Jai Long is forced to retreat. After fighting and killing the Sandvipers with Orthos, Lindon sees a bloody and bruised Eithan. Eithan jokes that his ranking amongst the Underlords would soon go up, as a Skysworn was watching the fight. Eithan also shares that he had a marble from the Abidan, which is similar except for having a darker, black color. He sends Lindon to find Jai Long’s little sister [[Jai Chen]], a young teenager who has been kidnapped by [[Jai Daishou]], to force Long’s compliance. Lindon finds Chen and heals her broken madra channels, helped by [[Little Blue]]. Chen promises to tell her brother Jai Long that Lindon has no quarrel with him.

==='''Skysworn'''===
Lindon fights with [[Jai Long]], a Truegold. While he makes a good showing, Jai Long is too far advanced for Lowgold Lindon to win. He loses his arm in the fight, before it is interrupted by [[Jai Daishou]]. After the fight, Lindon is fitted for a prosthetic Remnant arm with a hunger binding. After inital reluctance and with the prompting of [[Yerin Arelius|Yerin]], Lindon joins the Skysworn to fight the emissaries of the newly awoken Bleeding Phoenix. Meanwhile, the emperor [[Naru Huan]] censures the Jai clan for opening the Labyrinth and stealing the Archstone, so [[Jai Long]] takes his sister [[Jai Chen|Chen]] back west again, to hide in the forgotten cursed lands ([[Sacred Valley]]). Lindon gives them directions to avoid the blood spawn and provisions, in gratitude for not killing him.

==='''Ghostwater'''===
Skysworn Captain [[Naru Gwei]] sends Lindon, [[Yerin]], [[Orthos]], [[Little Blue]], Mercy, Renfei, and Bai Rou on a mission to a pocket dimension known as 'Ghostwater'. Ghostwater was created by the Monarch level sacred artist 'Northstrider'. Northstrider is said to have vanished many years beforehand and is believed dead. The skysworn send Lindon and the others to investigate the status of Ghostwater and potentially retrieve any useful artifacts left behind by Northstrider.

Upon arriving at the portal to Ghostwater, Lindon, Orthos, and Renfei enter alone and are taken by surprise to find a large number of unknown Truegold sacred artists waiting by the entrance portal. Renfei is then killed by one of the Truegolds revealed to be Akura Harmony. Lindon and Orthos flee the battle and are pursued by Ekeri, a Truegold golden dragon. Lindon takes refuge inside an underground vault wherein he discovers a pool known as 'The Dreamwell'. Water from The Dreamwell restores ones mental clarity as if they had just had a full nights rest. Inside The Dreamwell Lindon discovers a sentient construct named 'Dross' which guides him through the rest of Northstrider's facility.

Lindon takes advantage of the time with the dreamwell to train far faster than he is typically able, since he does not have to sleep when using the dreamwell as a supplement. He also discovers that the sacred beasts that live in Ghostwater provide extreme benefits to his physical body when eaten, due to their extremely high Madra concentrations. After being strengthened by Dreamwell training, and Sacred fish, Lindon is able to defeat Ekeri in a battle and escape The Dreamwell chamber.

Led by Dross, Lindon and Orthos proceed to another section of Ghostwater where Dross leads them to 'The spiritwell'. This well provides Madra on level with a top grade elixer and allows Lindon to quickly expand both of his cores. Within days, Lindon reaches High Gold in both cores. They are then met by 'Ziel' a Truegold disciple of the Beast King. Ziel proves to be relatively friendly to the group, and passively watches Lindon cycle and train using the Spirit Well, occasionally driving off a Sacred Beast threat. Ziel then tells Lindon that Ghostwater is collapsing more and more rapidly and encourages him to move on to the next section so that he may escape in time. He then gives Lindon several bottles of Spiritwell water that will be enough to advance him to Truegold.

Lindon proceeds to the next section of Ghostwater where he encounters 'The Lifewell'. He drinks from the Lifewell and strengthens his Lifeline to be 'as thick as a treetrunk' which will ensure Lindon will live an extremely long natural life and increased vitality.

Lindon then proceeds to the lowest level of Ghostwater where he confronts Akura Harmony. After a heated battle, Lindon and Orthos are able to defeat Akura Harmony after Dross uses Ghostwater to connect himself to The Wey, and essentially become 'a Presence'.

Lindon begs Akura Harmony to come with him as Ghostwater collapses. Harmony, too proud to accept Lindon's mercy vows revenge and refuses to come with him. Lindon then flees Ghostwater, leaving Harmony to die.

==='''Underlord'''===
Lindon heads to the Blackflame Empire to regroup with Eithan. Akura Charity, Sage of the Silver Heart and Mercy's distant aunt announces to the Blackflame empire and its neighbouring kingdom, the Seishen Kingdom about the Uncrowned Tournament. Since both the Blackflame empire and the Seishen kingdom are vassal states of the Akura family territory, they are allowed to participate in the uncrowned tournament, but only 3 members will be selected. To participate in the Uncrowned Tournament, the participant must be an Underlord and the age limit is 35 years. Since there are only a few underlords in both the Blackflame Empire and the Seishen kingdom, Charity opens a portal into the Nightwheel Valley, the training grounds of the Akura family, where the aura is much stonger, making it easier to advance for sacred artists. Eithan, Yerin, Lindon, Mercy and Orthos are one of the first to arrive at Nightwheel Valley, but they soon discover they have to fight for their place there.
==='''Uncrowned'''===
Lindon has been selected for the Uncrowned Tournament, but instead of going as a part of the team from the Blackflame empire, he is selected by Akura Charity to represent the main branch of the Akura family. She sees this as payment from Lindon for killing her promising candidate, Akura Harmony. Eithan, Yerin and Naru Saeya, Emperor Naru Huan's sister, make up the team representing the vassal states of the Akura family and the Blackflame empire.

Lindon is taken to the Akura homeland for training, where he faces extreme hostility from the other Akura underlords fighting for the last position on the Akura team. Mercy's younger brother, Akura Pride hates Lindon more than the others and treats him with contempt and disrespect. Initially, in the first months of training, Lindon is constantly challenged to duals by the other contestants and keeps losing most of the time, thus giving the idea to the others that he is weak. When the final day comes to select the third member of the Akura main team, all the underlords prepare to dual each other. Even though, Lindon is already a part of the team, he insists on fighting all of the underlords head on, at the same time. Lindon has gathered information about each of their techniques and with the help of Dross, he easily defeats all of them and only Akura Pride is left, filling the last spot on the team.

In the tournament itself, Lindon faces off against the most powerful Underlords on Cradle in a series of trials. The first round of the tournament is an individual event where all the participants are required to go through a series of challenges, testing their strength and skill. LIndon finishes 10th and Yerin finishes 11th, ahead of many other participants. Each of the qualified members in the top 64 move on to the next trial. As a reward, they receive a floating palace specially designed for each individual from the Ninecloud Court.

In the second round of the tournament, the contestants are placed on an open island. Golden crowns appear with fixed intervals and the objective is to keep the crown on your head without getting killed. Lindon, Yerin, Mercy and Eithan of the main protagonists succeed while Pride and Naru Saeya sacrifice their spots in the tournament for their team's sake. In the third round of the Tournament, Lindon faces off against [[Naian Blackflame]]. Instead of trying to win the fight, Lindon chooses to spend his fight curing Naian of his Blackflame induced madness.

==='''Wintersteel'''===
While trying to discover his Overlord revelation during his battle with Sopharanatoth, Lindon instead establishes his connection to the Void Icon, and advances to Sage. He is given a Wintersteel badge by Eithan, with the same symbol for "Empty" depicted on it much like his first Unsouled badge.

==='''Bloodline'''===
After the events of the Uncrowned King Tournament Lindon learns that the Wandering Titan is headed toward Sacred Valley. He begs Akura Charity to let him go evacuate his people, saying that he will go with or without her blessing. Charity agrees to let him go and provides several cloud ships and hundreds of Akura golds to help in the evacuation effort. Eithan, Yerin, Mercy and Ziel all accompany him to the Valley.

When they arrive they are attacked at the gates of the Heavens Glory school who mistake them for Wei exiles. They find that the Heavens Glory school has been attacked and is in ruins. The school elder accidentally reveals to Lindon that the Wei Exiles are his family and they are currently under siege by Heavens Glory. Lindon immediately leaves in search of them. He finds Orthos and his sister under attack and goes into a rage fueled frenzy. He get's so violent that he has to be restrained from killing the Heavens Glory attackers. After this, his team splits up to each go to a different clan or school.

Yerin accompanies Lindon to the Wei clan and they are immediately attacked upon entering. Despite this Lindon makes his way to the clan elders and explains that a monster is coming for the valley. They don't believe him even after Dross shows them his memories. In order to get them to obey he unveils his Underlord core (which they mistake for a Gold core) and forces them to evacuate. On the way to the exit of Sacred Valley, Lindon senses Heavens Glory jades on their way to intercept. Assuming they are there to attack he notifies his clan's elders and rushes to the vanguard to meet them. When he confronts them the Wei clan betray him and trap him and Yerin in a boundary field, hoping that they can kill him. Despite his weakened state and the boundary field he manages to get Yerin out and break through the barrier. He then hunts the elders down and attacks them. He permanently cripples the Wei Patriarchs core and injures the First Elder. He then sends them in the direction of the titan so their final thoughts can be about how they should have listened to him.

He makes his way to the Heavens Glory school as the Wandering Titan arrives earlier then expected. They take off with the little people they have saved. Meanwhile Yerin contacts the Monarchs and they bestow her Uncrowned Gift, and officially make her a Herald. She convinces Akura Malice to help her distract the titan so they can rescue more people. After Lindon's departure from the valley he is torn between trying to save more people, and getting away with the people he has already saved. He receives a message from Suriel and she helps him make up his mind. After his message he quickly advances to Overlord and rushes in with his friends to attack the titan. They are greatly outclassed in this fight and it's all they can do to defend from its attacks. Dross comes up with a plan and enacts it. He has each member of the team play a part to get Lindon in close to the titan. Lindon uses the hunger binding in his remnant arm and sucks some of the titans madra. He then feeds this madra to Dross and Dross puts a fox dream on the titan, this illusion makes the titan's attackers, as well as it's goal, disappear. The titan then leaves the valley to roam in search of power. Lindon relaxes as they've beat the titan but at a heavy cost. Lindon can no longer sense Dross in him. He can sense a swirl of power where Dross used to be, but the mind spirit is no longer able to speak to him.

As the residents of Sacred Valley funnel back in and try to salvage what has been destroyed, Lindon visits the Ancestors tomb. He senses a slight tear in the world and wills it open. He finds that it's the personal void space of the Sword Sage. He then senses a familiar presence in the room and confronts it. Elder Whisper emerges and explains that he kept the space from collapsing in the hope that Lindon would return. He shows Lindon the reason that the Sword Sage came to Sacred Valley two years ago and the key to open the Labyrinth.

=='''Powers and Abilities'''==
As an Unsouled, Lindon effectively started two stages behind most Sacred Artists, further limited by the natural restrictions and the "curse" of the Sacred Valley and without a natural predisposition towards any of 4 classes of techniques.

Scripts: Due to his natural and clan-imposed limitations, Lindon's only avenue of practicing the sacred arts within his clan was through scripts. While not particularly talented, he has shown some versatility in using them and moderate skill in drawing them.

Heart of Twin Stars: While at the Foundation stage, before cycling elemental vital aura from the world, Lindon split his core.

*Pure Madra: Composed of pure madra.
*Blackflame Madra: Composed of fire and destruction madra.

Soulsmithing: Pure madra gives Lindon solid overall compatibility with most constructs, although with a weaker effect than specialized madra types.

Little Blue: A Sylvan Riverseed. Originally fed madra and scales by Lindon, her growth is rapidly advanced by Eithan feeding her a drop of soulfire. Her natural purification abilities drain her, but can counteract the corrosive effect of Blackflame madra on the mind, body, and madra channels.

Orthos: Lindon's contract with Orthos allows him to fill one of his cores with Blackflame madra, lessening the his burden. Due to Orthos being a Truegold, this allowed Lindon's Blackflame core to quickly advance from Iron to Jade and later to Lowgold, as if his core was treated with high grade elixirs.

Remnant Arm: By activating the hunger binding on the arm, Lindon can draw out madra from the enemy. In a less concentrated form, he can then vent it back at them as a distraction.

Dross: The remnants of one of Northstrider's attempts in Ghostwater to create mental enhancement tools and mimic the Presences of the Abidan. Originally created as a memory construct, Dross has gained further abilities through soaking in high grade mental elixirs, consuming dream madra, and fusing with an Eye of the Deep. He temporarily connected with the collective of information at the metal tree in Ghostwater, gathering data from other Eyes of the Deep that had been taken through the world.

In combat against an enemy with well-known, recorded, fully defined capabilities, Dross can simulate and create a battle plan that ensures the greatest chance of success. He also acts as general mental enhancement, allowing Lindon to better focus on battle. While Soulsmithing, Dross can simulate the effect of madra interactions, allowing Lindon's soulsmithing success rate for straightforward constructs to exceed that of experts like Fisher Gesha.

====Sacred Art Ranks====
As a Sacred Artists progresses through the ranks, they naturally gain access to certain abilities

*Foundation: At the Foundation level, Sacred Artists can cycle madra to slightly strengthen their body or activate scripts.
*Copper: Copper Sight
*Iron: At the Iron level, Sacred Artists gain an Iron Body that increases physical abilities. Lindon's Bloodforged Iron body, catalyzed using the venom and blood from nearly have a dozen sandvipers, enables rapid healing and recovery from poisons and physical damage at an extremely high madra cost.
*Jade: Jade senses
*Gold: Lindon advanced from Jade to Lowgold using a further infusion of Blackflame Madra from Orthos, without a remnant. He lacks a true Goldsign beyond red eyes when channeling Blackflame Madra
*Underlord: Reborn in Soulfire, Lindon's body is able to push farther and he is able to activate Underlord-level weapons.
*Overlord: Reborn in Soulfire again, Lindon's Soulfire gains a greater depth and his more potent.

====Techniques====
Foundation Cycling Technique: A basic cycling technique taught to Foundation-level children of the Wei clan.

Empty Palm: A pure Madra technique that focuses it into a simple palm thrust. When making contact with the core of an enemy, it disrupts his or her madra. This leaves the enemy powerless for a few seconds, unable to muster the energy to control any techniques or even their own limbs. When sufficiently powerful, it can destroy the core of an enemy, preventing them from even leaving a remnant.

Heaven and Earth Purification Wheel: A madra cycling technique focused on expanding madra capacity. Eithan teaches Lindon this technique as it is vital to training his pure madra core, which cannot advance through taking in vital aura from the outside world.

Burning Cloak: The Dragon Advances. The Fierce Outer Burning Robe technique is an Enforcer technique. It is a basic full-body Enforcement using Blackflame Madra, protecting and powering the body by madra while in use. It allows for the release of explosive force of movement.

Dragon Breath: The Dragon Destroys. The Fierce River of Fierce Flowing Breath technique is a Striker Technique. Blackflame madra is gathered in the hands, rotated, and condensed repeatedly until being released as a solid beam that eradicates everything in its path.

Void Dragon's Dance: The Dragon Conquers. In one moment, the flames devour everything on the battlefield, leaving only smoke and dust. Like many Ruler techniques, it is capable of great destruction, but requires appropriate vital aura in the environment, and time to build and concentrate on the vital aura to take control.

Soul Cloak: An Enforcer technique utilizing Lindon's pure madra core. Compared to the Burning Cloak, it allows for more measured power output.

The Dragon Descends: Lindon's ultimate attack from his dragon path. All his techniques from the Blackflame Path Forged on his hand. He forges claws of Blackflame madra on his hand like a glove with a miniature Void Dragon's Dance swirling around it, Dragon's Breath filling it like blood and a Burning Cloak surrounding it all. Takes all his spirit and a significant amount of his soulfire to bring it to life.

Hollow Domain: A pure madra technique developed in ''Wintersteel''. With the help of Little Blue's madra, Lindon can create a sphere of pure madra that weakens or deletes any techniques that enters. This technique makes Lindon's eyes glow a sapphire-blue. It is not specified what kind of technique it is, but it was inspired by Eithen's Armor of the Hollow King technique.

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Wei Shi Lindon

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'''Wei Shi''' '''Lindon Arelius''' is the primary protagonist of ''Cradle''. He was born to the Shi family of the Wei Clan in [[Sacred Valley]] and was considered Unsouled due to a madra deficiency. He is currently an Overlord with the Akura family.

==Appearance==
Lindon is a tall man with a brawny physique. He often looks like he is spoiling for a fight with his rough face, tall build and broad shoulders. He has black hair and dark brown eyes. His eyes turn black with red irises when he cycles Blackflame madra.

After losing his arm, he obtains a misty prosthetic created through Soulsmithing. The prosthetic uses a hunger binding taken from the Ancestors Spear that allows it to consume madra, but due to its nature as Remnant he needs to cycle madra through it to solidify it and allow it to interact with solid inanimate objects.

After advancing to Underlord, his features smooth out. His prosthetic remnant arm takes on the shape of a normal arm though it maintains its ivory white color. He also Forges the Archstone into his arm in order for the Gold Level prosthetic to survive the transition into the Lord Realm once washed in soulfire.

==Personality==
Lindon is very polite and deferential due to growing up as an Unsouled, by far the least valuable member of the clan. Because of his madra deficiency, he was treated with mild scorn within his clan. Without power, he was considered to be inconsequential at best and a little better than a punching bag at worst. In response to this treatment, he cultivated a very humble attitude demonstrated by his habit of always referring to himself as “this one” which seems to imply that he is so low as to not deserve recognition. This demeanor, though, has also made it easy for him to hide his dangerously clever mind without even intending to do so.

Lindon has a keen interest in Soulsmithing, his mother's profession. He is very focused on advancement due to his time as weak and his vision from Suriel about the future calamity in Sacred Valley. He is relentless in his goal to save Sacred Valley, no matter the cost.

During his time in the Wei Clan he was also forbidden from learning any manner of sacred arts as well as utilizing any clan resources for advancement. Lindon searched desperately for ways to improve himself on his own, doing whatever it takes to move forward. He relies on plans, tricks, and loopholes to get ahead.

Lindon is kind and caring, sometimes to the point of naivety due to unfamiliarity with the world outside of Sacred Valley.

==Biography==

===Daily Timeline===
[[Lindon Timeline]]

==='''Unsouled'''===
Lindon is the youngest child of Jaran and Seisha, Irons of the Wei clan. In his youth, Lindon failed the Spritual Origin madra affinity test and was labeled an Unsouled, cursed of the heavens. As such he was forbidden to learn the Sacred Arts of the clan and was denied a path. His clan refused to invest resources to help him advance due to this deficiency. As a result he remained at the Foundation rank long past the age when children advance to Copper.

Prior to the Festival, Seisha sent Lindon to find the white orus, a spirit fruit. A normal orus fruit was like a pure white peach, and grew only in Sacred Valley. Fruit from an ancestral orus tree looked no different, but a bite would deliver him years' worth of purified vital aura that he could process into madra. As Lindon began to harvest the spirit fruit, Teris soon emerged from the woods, hair mussed and covered in scratches. He was hunting a snowfox, which was illegal. Angered that Lindon had interrupted his hunt, Teris punched the bark and leaving the imprint of his fist in the wood. The tree bent in the middle, splintered and fell apart. As a result, a remnant rose from the tree’s corpse. Immediately, Teris ran deeper in the woods without a glance back. Lindon used scripts and a crystal flask to distract the remnant and retrieve the spirit fruit from the remnant. Seisha was able to restore the remnant of the spirit fruit and split it between Kelsa and Lindon.

Soon, Lindon and Teris were called before the First Elder to recount the confrontation. Since Teris had abandoned a child of the Foundation Stage, he was to receive three lashes. Lindon, however, was to speak with Elder Whisper. Elder Whisper told Lindon that the Path of the White Fox was not for him and Lindon would have to forge his own path. During the public whipping of Wei Mon Teris, Wei Mon Eri challenged Wei Shi Lindon to a duel of honor before the entire clan. Lindon was forced to accept the duel to surrender.

Lindon spent his time scouring the Clan archives searching for a suitable path. There he found a book called, "''Heart of Twin Stars".'' The book taught two techniques, ''Empty Palm'' and ''Heart of Twin Stars.'' Since Lindon would be shamed in the duel regardless of the outcome due to his age and deficiency, he and Kelsa devised a plan. Lindon would challenge Wei Mon Keth, Teris and Eri's father. Lindon requested a duel in which each party would have one strike each. The first to lose his footing is defeated. Lindon quickly executed the empty palm and punched Keth in the gut. Immediately, Lindon surrendered the duel.

During the seven years festival held by the Wei Clan, Lindon was a victim of a temporal divergence. Due to the nature of this event, he ended up meeting Suriel, the Phoenix, Sixth Judge of the Abidan Court. Suriel had taken an interest in Lindon after seeing him give his life in what he knew to be a futile effort to stop a being who had transcended Cradle, Li Markuth. She admired his actions and, as something of a reward, showed him his most likely fated future. During this vision, Lindon discovers that Sacred Valley would be destroyed by a Dreadgod (the Titan) a being so powerful that it crushes the entire valley underfoot. Desperate to save his home, despite his treatment, Lindon begs the “Celestial Messenger” to show him a way to prevent this tragedy from occurring. In response, he is taken by Suriel to see several individuals (The Eight Man Empire, The Monarch Northstrider, and Luminous Queen Sha Miara) stating that they each had the power to save his homeland. At first, this is believed to be the answer to his question but he is proven wrong as Suriel asks him what they have in common. Unable to come up with the correct answer he is told that it boils down to one simple thing: Drive. “...any Sage will tell you that all paths can be reduced to one: Improve yourself.” Thus begins Wei Shi Lindon’s journey. After time was reversed by Suriel, he easily won the tournament, via his Empty Palm, and went to the Heaven's Glory school, only to leave almost immediately after with Yerin after killing several irons and a jade.

==='''Soulsmith'''===
After escaping from the Sacred Valley, Yerin and Lindon enter territory of the Sandvipers. Again, they soon leave, and enter Fisher territory. Yerin does jobs for the Fishers, such as helping them kill off remnants, while Lindon is recruited by Fisher Gesha to forge scales for her due to his pure madra. Lindon is captured to work in the mines but is immediately rescued by Gesha, who says it won't happen it again. Lindon attempts to free the slaves working in the mine, but gets captured for real this time, as does Yerin. Eithan is also 'captured' though he actually came willingly. Lindon undergoes a lot of training, and after being stung five times by the venomous sandviper, ascends to iron with a Bloodforged body. Soon, Eithan gets them out, but Lindon is severely injured by Kral, but because of his iron body, survives, and kills Kral after Eithan reveals that Lindon was still alive to him. Jai Long demands retribution but after Eithan revealed that he was the Arelius Underlord, backs down, but Eithan promises Jai Long a duel in a year. With this, Lindon and Yerin are healed by the Fishers, and taken to the Arelius family.

This ends up pushing Lindon to stretch himself past his limits which leads to him killing a Highgold as an Iron later on. In doing so he accidentally enters into a feud with Jai Long who, having made a difficult and irreversible choice to save his sister, was shamed by his clan and had looked at his fellow Highgold as something of a brother.

==='''Blackflame'''===
Lindon goes to Serpent’s Grave in the [[Blackflame Empire]] and embarks one of his pure cores on the Path of Black Flame. Eithan shows him various powerful paths, before he settles on the Path of Black Flame. Eithan has Lindon bond with a Truegold Sacred Beast, named [[Orthos]]. This allows Lindon to instantly have a core producing Blackflame madra and advance to Jade. He then begins training with [[Yerin]], supervised by [[Cassias Arelius]]. After several months, the Arelius family within the city Serpents Grave is attacked. While under attack, Lindon and Orthos are forced to fight the chief of the Sandviper Sect, and Kral's father, [[Sandviper Gokren]]. Lindon's newly mastered Dragon's Breath takes his arm off. Just before this, he advances to Lowgold, though he doesn't realize it. While this fight is going on, Yerin is fighting [[Jai Long]]. Jai Long is Truegold while Yerin is Lowgold, though she advances to Highgold during the fight, and due to the circumstances within the city, Jai Long is forced to retreat. After fighting and killing the Sandvipers with Orthos, Lindon sees a bloody and bruised Eithan. Eithan jokes that his ranking amongst the Underlords would soon go up, as a Skysworn was watching the fight. Eithan also shares that he had a marble from the Abidan, which is similar except for having a darker, black color. He sends Lindon to find Jai Long’s little sister [[Jai Chen]], a young teenager who has been kidnapped by [[Jai Daishou]], to force Long’s compliance. Lindon finds Chen and heals her broken madra channels, helped by [[Little Blue]]. Chen promises to tell her brother Jai Long that Lindon has no quarrel with him.

==='''Skysworn'''===
Lindon fights with [[Jai Long]], a Truegold. While he makes a good showing, Jai Long is too far advanced for Lowgold Lindon to win. He loses his arm in the fight, before it is interrupted by [[Jai Daishou]]. After the fight, Lindon is fitted for a prosthetic Remnant arm with a hunger binding. After inital reluctance and with the prompting of [[Yerin Arelius|Yerin]], Lindon joins the Skysworn to fight the emissaries of the newly awoken Bleeding Phoenix. Meanwhile, the emperor [[Naru Huan]] censures the Jai clan for opening the Labyrinth and stealing the Archstone, so [[Jai Long]] takes his sister [[Jai Chen|Chen]] back west again, to hide in the forgotten cursed lands ([[Sacred Valley]]). Lindon gives them directions to avoid the blood spawn and provisions, in gratitude for not killing him.

==='''Ghostwater'''===
Skysworn Captain [[Naru Gwei]] sends Lindon, [[Yerin]], [[Orthos]], [[Little Blue]], Mercy, Renfei, and Bai Rou on a mission to a pocket dimension known as 'Ghostwater'. Ghostwater was created by the Monarch level sacred artist 'Northstrider'. Northstrider is said to have vanished many years beforehand and is believed dead. The skysworn send Lindon and the others to investigate the status of Ghostwater and potentially retrieve any useful artifacts left behind by Northstrider.

Upon arriving at the portal to Ghostwater, Lindon, Orthos, and Renfei enter alone and are taken by surprise to find a large number of unknown Truegold sacred artists waiting by the entrance portal. Renfei is then killed by one of the Truegolds revealed to be Akura Harmony. Lindon and Orthos flee the battle and are pursued by Ekeri, a Truegold golden dragon. Lindon takes refuge inside an underground vault wherein he discovers a pool known as 'The Dreamwell'. Water from The Dreamwell restores ones mental clarity as if they had just had a full nights rest. Inside The Dreamwell Lindon discovers a sentient construct named 'Dross' which guides him through the rest of Northstrider's facility.

Lindon takes advantage of the time with the dreamwell to train far faster than he is typically able, since he does not have to sleep when using the dreamwell as a supplement. He also discovers that the sacred beasts that live in Ghostwater provide extreme benefits to his physical body when eaten, due to their extremely high Madra concentrations. After being strengthened by Dreamwell training, and Sacred fish, Lindon is able to defeat Ekeri in a battle and escape The Dreamwell chamber.

Led by Dross, Lindon and Orthos proceed to another section of Ghostwater where Dross leads them to 'The spiritwell'. This well provides Madra on level with a top grade elixer and allows Lindon to quickly expand both of his cores. Within days, Lindon reaches High Gold in both cores. They are then met by 'Ziel' a Truegold disciple of the Beast King. Ziel proves to be relatively friendly to the group, and passively watches Lindon cycle and train using the Spirit Well, occasionally driving off a Sacred Beast threat. Ziel then tells Lindon that Ghostwater is collapsing more and more rapidly and encourages him to move on to the next section so that he may escape in time. He then gives Lindon several bottles of Spiritwell water that will be enough to advance him to Truegold.

Lindon proceeds to the next section of Ghostwater where he encounters 'The Lifewell'. He drinks from the Lifewell and strengthens his Lifeline to be 'as thick as a treetrunk' which will ensure Lindon will live an extremely long natural life and increased vitality.

Lindon then proceeds to the lowest level of Ghostwater where he confronts Akura Harmony. After a heated battle, Lindon and Orthos are able to defeat Akura Harmony after Dross uses Ghostwater to connect himself to The Wey, and essentially become 'a Presence'.

Lindon begs Akura Harmony to come with him as Ghostwater collapses. Harmony, too proud to accept Lindon's mercy vows revenge and refuses to come with him. Lindon then flees Ghostwater, leaving Harmony to die.

==='''Underlord'''===
Lindon heads to the Blackflame Empire to regroup with Eithan. Akura Charity, Sage of the Silver Heart and Mercy's distant aunt announces to the Blackflame empire and its neighbouring kingdom, the Seishen Kingdom about the Uncrowned Tournament. Since both the Blackflame empire and the Seishen kingdom are vassal states of the Akura family territory, they are allowed to participate in the uncrowned tournament, but only 3 members will be selected. To participate in the Uncrowned Tournament, the participant must be an Underlord and the age limit is 35 years. Since there are only a few underlords in both the Blackflame Empire and the Seishen kingdom, Charity opens a portal into the Nightwheel Valley, the training grounds of the Akura family, where the aura is much stonger, making it easier to advance for sacred artists. Eithan, Yerin, Lindon, Mercy and Orthos are one of the first to arrive at Nightwheel Valley, but they soon discover they have to fight for their place there.
==='''Uncrowned'''===
Lindon has been selected for the Uncrowned Tournament, but instead of going as a part of the team from the Blackflame empire, he is selected by Akura Charity to represent the main branch of the Akura family. She sees this as payment from Lindon for killing her promising candidate, Akura Harmony. Eithan, Yerin and Naru Saeya, Emperor Naru Huan's sister, make up the team representing the vassal states of the Akura family and the Blackflame empire.

Lindon is taken to the Akura homeland for training, where he faces extreme hostility from the other Akura underlords fighting for the last position on the Akura team. Mercy's younger brother, Akura Pride hates Lindon more than the others and treats him with contempt and disrespect. Initially, in the first months of training, Lindon is constantly challenged to duals by the other contestants and keeps losing most of the time, thus giving the idea to the others that he is weak. When the final day comes to select the third member of the Akura main team, all the underlords prepare to dual each other. Even though, Lindon is already a part of the team, he insists on fighting all of the underlords head on, at the same time. Lindon has gathered information about each of their techniques and with the help of Dross, he easily defeats all of them and only Akura Pride is left, filling the last spot on the team.

In the tournament itself, Lindon faces off against the most powerful Underlords on Cradle in a series of trials. The first round of the tournament is an individual event where all the participants are required to go through a series of challenges, testing their strength and skill. LIndon finishes 10th and Yerin finishes 11th, ahead of many other participants. Each of the qualified members in the top 64 move on to the next trial. As a reward, they receive a floating palace specially designed for each individual from the Ninecloud Court.

In the second round of the tournament, the contestants are placed on an open island. Golden crowns appear with fixed intervals and the objective is to keep the crown on your head without getting killed. Lindon, Yerin, Mercy and Eithan of the main protagonists succeed while Pride and Naru Saeya sacrifice their spots in the tournament for their team's sake. In the third round of the Tournament, Lindon faces off against [[Naian Blackflame]]. Instead of trying to win the fight, Lindon chooses to spend his fight curing Naian of his Blackflame induced madness.

==='''Wintersteel'''===
While trying to discover his Overlord revelation during his battle with Sopharanatoth, Lindon instead establishes his connection to the Void Icon, and advances to Sage. He is given a Wintersteel badge by Eithan, with the same symbol for "Empty" depicted on it much like his first Unsouled badge.

==='''Bloodline'''===
After the events of the Uncrowned King Tournament Lindon learns that the Wandering Titan is headed toward Sacred Valley. He begs Akura Charity to let him go evacuate his people, saying that he will go with or without her blessing. Charity agrees to let him go and provides several cloud ships and hundreds of Akura golds to help in the evacuation effort. Eithan, Yerin, Mercy and Ziel all accompany him to the Valley.

When they arrive they are attacked at the gates of the Heavens Glory school who mistake them for Wei exiles. They find that the Heavens Glory school has been attacked and is in ruins. The school elder accidentally reveals to Lindon that the Wei Exiles are his family and they are currently under siege by Heavens Glory. Lindon immediately leaves in search of them. He finds Orthos and his sister under attack and goes into a rage fueled frenzy. He get's so violent that he has to be restrained from killing the Heavens Glory attackers. After this, his team splits up to each go to a different clan or school.

Yerin accompanies Lindon to the Wei clan and they are immediately attacked upon entering. Despite this Lindon makes his way to the clan elders and explains that a monster is coming for the valley. They don't believe him even after Dross shows them his memories. In order to get them to obey he unveils his Underlord core (which they mistake for a Gold core) and forces them to evacuate. On the way to the exit of Sacred Valley, Lindon senses Heavens Glory jades on their way to intercept. Assuming they are there to attack he notifies his clan's elders and rushes to the vanguard to meet them. When he confronts them the Wei clan betray him and trap him and Yerin in a boundary field, hoping that they can kill him. Despite his weakened state and the boundary field he manages to get Yerin out and break through the barrier. He then hunts the elders down and attacks them. He permanently cripples the Wei Patriarchs core and injures the First Elder. He then sends them in the direction of the titan so their final thoughts can be about how they should have listened to him.

He makes his way to the Heavens Glory school as the Wandering Titan arrives earlier then expected. They take off with the little people they have saved. Meanwhile Yerin contacts the Monarchs and they bestow her Uncrowned Gift, and officially make her a Herald. She convinces Akura Malice to help her distract the titan so they can rescue more people. After Lindon's departure from the valley he is torn between trying to save more people, and getting away with the people he has already saved. He receives a message from Suriel and she helps him make up his mind. After his message he quickly advances to Overlord and rushes in with his friends to attack the titan. They are greatly outclassed in this fight and it's all they can do to defend from its attacks. Dross comes up with a plan and enacts it. He has each member of the team play a part to get Lindon in close to the titan. Lindon uses the hunger binding in his remnant arm and sucks some of the titans madra. He then feeds this madra to Dross and Dross puts a fox dream on the titan, this illusion makes the titan's attackers, as well as it's goal, disappear. The titan then leaves the valley to roam in search of power. Lindon relaxes as they've beat the titan but at a heavy cost. Lindon can no longer sense Dross in him. He can sense a swirl of power where Dross used to be, but the mind spirit is no longer able to speak to him.

As the residents of Sacred Valley funnel back in and try to salvage what has been destroyed, Lindon visits the Ancestors tomb. He senses a slight tear in the world and wills it open. He finds that it's the personal void space of the Sword Sage. He then senses a familiar presence in the room and confronts it. Elder Whisper emerges and explains that he kept the space from collapsing in the hope that Lindon would return. He shows Lindon the reason that the Sword Sage came to Sacred Valley two years ago and the key to open the Labyrinth.

=='''Powers and Abilities'''==
As an Unsouled, Lindon effectively started two stages behind most Sacred Artists, further limited by the natural restrictions and the "curse" of the Sacred Valley and without a natural predisposition towards any of 4 classes of techniques.

Scripts: Due to his natural and clan-imposed limitations, Lindon's only avenue of practicing the sacred arts within his clan was through scripts. While not particularly talented, he has shown some versatility in using them and moderate skill in drawing them.

Heart of Twin Stars: While at the Foundation stage, before cycling elemental vital aura from the world, Lindon split his core.

*Pure Madra: Composed of pure madra.
*Blackflame Madra: Composed of fire and destruction madra.

Soulsmithing: Pure madra gives Lindon solid overall compatibility with most constructs, although with a weaker effect than specialized madra types.

Little Blue: A Sylvan Riverseed. Originally fed madra and scales by Lindon, her growth is rapidly advanced by Eithan feeding her a drop of soulfire. Her natural purification abilities drain her, but can counteract the corrosive effect of Blackflame madra on the mind, body, and madra channels.

Orthos: Lindon's contract with Orthos allows him to fill one of his cores with Blackflame madra, lessening the his burden. Due to Orthos being a Truegold, this allowed Lindon's Blackflame core to quickly advance from Iron to Jade and later to Lowgold, as if his core was treated with high grade elixirs.

Remnant Arm: By activating the hunger binding on the arm, Lindon can draw out madra from the enemy. In a less concentrated form, he can then vent it back at them as a distraction.

Dross: The remnants of one of Northstrider's attempts in Ghostwater to create mental enhancement tools and mimic the Presences of the Abidan. Originally created as a memory construct, Dross has gained further abilities through soaking in high grade mental elixirs, consuming dream madra, and fusing with an Eye of the Deep. He temporarily connected with the collective of information at the metal tree in Ghostwater, gathering data from other Eyes of the Deep that had been taken through the world.

In combat against an enemy with well-known, recorded, fully defined capabilities, Dross can simulate and create a battle plan that ensures the greatest chance of success. He also acts as general mental enhancement, allowing Lindon to better focus on battle. While Soulsmithing, Dross can simulate the effect of madra interactions, allowing Lindon's soulsmithing success rate for straightforward constructs to exceed that of experts like Fisher Gesha.

====Sacred Art Ranks====
As a Sacred Artists progresses through the ranks, they naturally gain access to certain abilities

*Foundation: At the Foundation level, Sacred Artists can cycle madra to slightly strengthen their body or activate scripts.
*Copper: Copper Sight
*Iron: At the Iron level, Sacred Artists gain an Iron Body that increases physical abilities. Lindon's Bloodforged Iron body, catalyzed using the venom and blood from nearly have a dozen sandvipers, enables rapid healing and recovery from poisons and physical damage at an extremely high madra cost.
*Jade: Jade senses
*Gold: Lindon advanced from Jade to Lowgold using a further infusion of Blackflame Madra from Orthos, without a remnant. He lacks a true Goldsign beyond red eyes when channeling Blackflame Madra
*Underlord: Reborn in Soulfire, Lindon's body is able to push farther and he is able to activate Underlord-level weapons.
*Overlord: Reborn in Soulfire again, Lindon's Soulfire gains a greater depth and his more potent.

====Techniques====
Foundation Cycling Technique: A basic cycling technique taught to Foundation-level children of the Wei clan.

Empty Palm: A pure Madra technique that focuses it into a simple palm thrust. When making contact with the core of an enemy, it disrupts his or her madra. This leaves the enemy powerless for a few seconds, unable to muster the energy to control any techniques or even their own limbs. When sufficiently powerful, it can destroy the core of an enemy, preventing them from even leaving a remnant.

Heaven and Earth Purification Wheel: A madra cycling technique focused on expanding madra capacity. Eithan teaches Lindon this technique as it is vital to training his pure madra core, which cannot advance through taking in vital aura from the outside world.

Burning Cloak: The Dragon Advances. The Fierce Outer Burning Robe technique is an Enforcer technique. It is a basic full-body Enforcement using Blackflame Madra, protecting and powering the body by madra while in use. It allows for the release of explosive force of movement.

Dragon Breath: The Dragon Destroys. The Fierce River of Fierce Flowing Breath technique is a Striker Technique. Blackflame madra is gathered in the hands, rotated, and condensed repeatedly until being released as a solid beam that eradicates everything in its path.

Void Dragon's Dance: The Dragon Conquers. In one moment, the flames devour everything on the battlefield, leaving only smoke and dust. Like many Ruler techniques, it is capable of great destruction, but requires appropriate vital aura in the environment, and time to build and concentrate on the vital aura to take control.

Soul Cloak: An Enforcer technique utilizing Lindon's pure madra core. Compared to the Burning Cloak, it allows for more measured power output.

The Dragon Descends: Lindon's ultimate attack from his dragon path. All his techniques from the Blackflame Path Forged on his hand. He forges claws of Blackflame madra on his hand like a glove with a miniature Void Dragon's Dance swirling around it, Dragon's Breath filling it like blood and a Burning Cloak surrounding it all. Takes all his spirit and a significant amount of his soulfire to bring it to life.

Hollow Domain: A pure madra technique developed in ''Wintersteel''. With the help of Little Blue's madra, Lindon can create a sphere of pure madra that weakens or deletes any techniques that enters. This technique makes Lindon's eyes glow a sapphire-blue. It is not specified what kind of technique it is, but it was inspired by Eithen's Armor of the Hollow King technique.

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Jai Chen

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==Chen’s Childhood==
Chen was born with a promising future into the then-prominent Jai Clan, highly ranked in the [[Blackflame Empire]]. However, she was largely ignored after suffering a seemingly incurable injury to her madra channels when she was attacked in bed at only six years old. She is the younger sister of [[Jai Long]], who is eight years older than her. Because of his own sudden facial deformation, incurred during the same attack that injured his little sister, he was exiled to the Desolate Wilds, despite his promise and ability. Still a child, Jai Chen went “out west” along with her big brother, because he wanted to care for her and seek treatment for her. They found a home with the [[Sandviper Gokren|Sandviper]] sect in the Desolate Wilds, a desert, with twisted black trees and numerous dreadbeasts. They sought the powerful Ancestor’s Spear in the ancient Labyrinth — the Transcendent Ruins. She lived in the desert for about 8 years, roughly. Then she went East with her brother to Serpent’s Grave.

==Age & Appearance==
Jai Chen is roughly the same age as [[Wei Shi Lindon Arelius]] (Skysworn, ch 4). She’s a young teenage girl in book 2 [[Soulsmith]], about 14 years old. By book 10, she’s probably about 19.

{{Quote Box|title=Jai Chen|quote=''"About his age, she was small and pale, with soft black hair that tumbled down past her shoulders. She was dressed in powder-blue robes|source=-Skysworn, ch. 4|align=left}}

{{Quote Box|title=Soft|quote=''"She was a small woman... and she looked...soft. In every sense of the word. Eyes, skin, hair, hands, demeanor. Soft. But...soft didn’t always mean weak."''|source=-Bloodline|align=left}}

==Character==
Warm-hearted, loyal, trusting, patient, determined, brave, long-suffering, yet still able to giggle at the absurd. Strong. Picked up the broken Ancestors Spear and used it to kill her enemy ([[Skysworn]])

==Injuries==
When she was six years old, Jai Chen suffered from a crippling disability (mangled madra channels) as the result of an attack by a remnant. She went to the Desolate Wilds with her brother [[Jai Long]], who was only fourteen. He searched for a way to gain power and to heal her. She was healed by [[Wei Shi Lindon Arelius]] and [[Little Blue]] and seems to have unique, possibly living madra due to the remnant attack and subsequent events.

==Path==
Unclear. As a child, she would probably have been just Foundational following the Jai Clan sacred arts -- the [[Path of the Stellar Spear]]. However, that ended when she was injured. She did accidentally gain a touch of the famous Aurelius [[Bloodline Abilities]] (perception, to see) and some of Lindon's pure madra when she used the Ancestors Spear to kill her enemy while he was holding The Archstone -- a forbidden relic that had absorbed madra from the surrounding people (see [[Skysworn]], also see [[Bloodline]]).

*Eithan examines her, after she was exposed to the Archstone:
<blockquote>Eithan ran his spiritual sense through her soul. Thanks to Sylvan Riverseed's touch, her madra channels had been rebalanced, cleansed, and purified. Without that, she would have lost control of her madra and died already. As it was, she was just barely holding on. A sack stuffed to capacity and coming apart at the seams, but not in danger of bursting. “Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do for her,” Eithan said, and Jai Long's twisted face began to fall behind his mask. “...but fortunately, there's also no need. She will survive this. And her core will be filled with quite unique madra, so that's a treat. You were quite lucky that Lindon and I were here, and that Lindon's Blackflame core was empty, otherwise the madra would have reached a critical imbalance. As it is, none of our madra conflicted too badly with each other. They will blend together in her.” She would also gain some measure of the Arelius bloodline ability, though she would have to expend madra to use it, while Eithan's happened naturally. She really had ended up in quite a unique situation, and he looked forward to seeing how she handled it. “She will have difficulty controlling her madra for a while,” he continued. “But then...well, she has a unique Path ahead of her.” ([[Skysworn]])</blockquote>
Later in the series, in book 10, Lindon gives Jai Chen advice on cycling. Excerpt:
<blockquote>“Jai Chen, you’ve been focusing on using your techniques with your contracted spirit as a medium. You don’t have to do that; not all your madra is taken up by him anymore. I’ll give you four basic techniques you can work on, and you can refine them on your own, but for now start cycling your madra separately from your dragon.” ([[Reaper]])</blockquote>
She advances to Lowgold in book 10. She has no goldsign (but neither does Eithan or Lindon). She has some of Eithan's [[Bloodline Abilities]], the ability to stretch out her madra to see.
<blockquote>"Jai Chen gave a sharp gasp, and he immediately stretched his perception out to her. Even with the support of the sect, she’d had a difficult time reaching Lowgold. There weren’t any Remnants with her unique blend of aspects, not to mention any appropriate scales. But since she had, her detection web had become easier to use and far more efficient." ([[Reaper]])</blockquote>
==Fingerling==
Sometime after Lindon healed her, Jai Chen bonded / contracted with a tiny ferocious pink dragon-spirit. It seems to have come from her own living madra. Fingerling can see up to a mile away and its madra dissolves enemies. This dragon-spirit first appears in book 4, [[Skysworn]], during Lindon's duel with Jai Long.

===Fingerling: Description===
<blockquote>‘He spun his spear around, looking for the creature that had gotten behind him, only to see his sister holding a dragon by its tail. A serpentine dragon roared, surging from the space between her hands. It was like one of his snakes, only far more detailed: he could see a pair of whiskers on its face and scales on its body. It was tinged pink, like the light of dawn, and it raged into the bloody creatures with a majestic cry. They were splattered across the floor with the sheer momentum of its charge. Awed, Jai Long extended his spiritual perception. The substance of this creature felt like nothing he'd ever seen before. It was something like his own madra, corrupted by that Remnant long ago, which explained life in a creature that wasn't a Remnant. But at the same time, it was also...refined, in a way he couldn't describe. Like Jai Long's power had been boiled down, purified, perfected, and then strengthened. And there were elements that reminded him of a storm. It was a confusing, overwhelming mass of impressions, and he couldn't make sense of them before the dragon burst in a massive flash of essence, dissolving almost instantly. “I did it,” Jai Chen said, her smile broad. Then she collapsed.’([[Skysworn]], ch 9)</blockquote>
===Fingerling’s Madra===
‘Jai Chen directed Fingerling, who breathed his strange pink madra over a bloodspawn that looked like it had been made from scarlet scissors strapped together to walk like a man. Fingerling’s breath didn’t behave like fire, or even fire madra, but like a dense cloud that passed over the jagged spawn and dissolved it.’([[Bloodline]])

===Fingerling’s Name===
“You’ve cared for your bonded spirit well,” Eithan observed. “Have you named it?”
 
“We call him Fingerling,” Jai Chen said, looking a little sheepish. “He started off the size of a finger, and he loves eating small fish. It started as a nickname, but then it just.. .stuck.” The pink, serpentine dragon trilled proudly at the sound of his name. ([[Bloodline]])

==Sect of Twin Stars==
Eventually, Archlord [[Ozmanthus Arelius|Eithan Arelius]] invites Jai Chen to help organize the new Twin Star Sect, a group that follows Sage [[Wei Shi Lindon]] of the [[Path of Twin Stars]]. Working with [[Wei Shi Kelsa]], she recruits new members and manages the sect. The sect sprang to life in the Desolate Wilds shantytown of Refuge and continued in Serpent’s Grave. ([[Bloodline]] and [[Reaper]])
<blockquote>‘His sister, Jai Chen, wore a set of sacred artists robes trimmed in blue and burnt orange: the colors of the Twin Star sect. She wore the emblem proudly over her heart, and she moved as though it gave her endless energy. She bounced into the room beaming, and even her companion spirit danced around in midair as though he’d inherited the mood. Fingerling was a serpentine, finger-sized pink dragon that was the manifestation of Jai Chen’s power.’ ([[Reaper]])</blockquote>

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Tiberian Arelius

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Tiberian Arelius, the Storm King, Patriarch of [[House Arelius]], was a [[Monarch (Advancement)|Monarch]] on the Path of the Raging Sky and ruler of over half of the Rosegold continent. Approximately eight years before the Eighteenth Uncrowned King Tournament, Tiberian was slain in battle by his primary neighbor and rival, [[Reigan Shen]]. In the aftermath, most of the Rosegold continent was devastated and House Arelius was left in ruins.

==Appearance==
<blockquote>A man with short, blond hair and a cropped golden beard sat behind a desk, speaking to the person leaving the memory. There were few thoughts attached to it, only his appearance and his words. -''Reaper'', Chapter 2<ref>Will Wight, ''Reaper'', Chapter 2</ref></blockquote>

==Personality==
As a young sacred artist, Tiberian was known for his hard work and diligence mastering his techniques. Simultaneously humble to his superiors, and merciful to his inferiors, Tiberian grew into his power to become a wise and beneficent ruler of his half of the Rosegold continent.

==Biography==
More than 6 years before [[Wei Shi Lindon|Wei Shi Lindon Arelius]] left Sacred Valley with [[Yerin Arelius]], Tiberian had in his employ a young prodigy of his family, [[Eithan Arelius]]. Impressed after Eithan successfully infiltrated the Arelius progenitor's tomb, Tiberian made the young Arelius one of his most trusted advisors. Upon being convinced that the threat of the Dread Gods needed to be eliminated once and for all, Tiberian approached his primary neighbor and rival Monarch of the Rosegold continent, Reigan Shen.

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Ozriel

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When a world lives too long and drifts from [[The Way and The Worlds|The Way]], only one person can terminate the Iteration without scattering corrupted fragments that threaten other worlds.

For most of the history of the [[Abidan]], there was no Ozriel. They eliminated worlds the old-fashioned way, and most of their manpower was spent defending Iterations from chaos-corrupted fragments. Ozriel reduced the threat of corruption to such a degree that the Abidan could spread their manpower to an unprecedented degree. Where once it took hundreds of Abidan to protect and maintain a single Iteration, now that same team could supervise an entire Sector of ten or more worlds.

However, the entire system of the current [[Abidan]] now hinges on one man.

Where most Judges are rule-abiding and structured by nature, Ozriel is not so rigid. He often challenges Abidan laws and traditions, trying to change and improve the policies of their organization. He might have succeeded by now if he were willing to relinquish control and cooperate with others. But, traditionally, he has never been much of a team player. When others don't agree with him, he tends to do exactly what he wants anyway.

As the one individual in existence with a world-erasing superweapon, he's used to getting his way.

==Appearance==
Ozriel stood in his polished black armor, the Mantle of Ozriel streaming behind him like a boiling cape of shadow, and the white hair running down his back. His face cold and distant and grim.

In person, he had more of a sense of humor than any other [[Abidan]], but he always wore an expression like a man bracing himself for terrible news.

==Ability==
Ozriel was accomplished and skilled enough to fulfill the duties of any Judge but [[Suriel]]. He has no ability as a Phoenix. He has made it a point to befriend both the previous Suriel and this one, holding their talents in high esteem.

His coming brought about an era of explosive growth for the A[[abidan|bidan]]. His predictive abilities rivaled that of [[Makiel|Makiel, The Judge of Fate]]. His skills far exceed that of [[Telariel|the Spider]] such that when he went into hiding [[Telariel]] could not find him despite his best attempts and full exertion. He was irreplaceable and the cornerstone around which the [[Abidan]] inadvertently found themselves growing. Ozriel is well-known as the most powerful Judge since the first generation of the [[Abidan|Abidan Court]], and possibly of all time.

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Ozmanthus Arelius

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'''Ozmanthus (Eithan) Arelius''' is the Grand Patriarch of [[House Arelius]], and the [[Ozriel|Eighth Judge]] of the [[Abidan]] Court.

==Appearance==

Eithan is a tall, somewhat lanky man. He has long flowing yellow hair that he is quite fond of. He tends to dress in fine robes of the highest quality and get's visibly upset when they are soiled. He has pale blue eyes and always has a smile on his face.

''Most of the witnesses looked disgusted, confused, or alarmed, save for the main with the long yellow hair that Lindon had seen before. At least, he assumed it was the same man; in a camp this size, perhaps there were many disciples of this strange Path that lightened hair color. He was wearing intricate robes of blue and white, so that the cape on his shoulders was raised and separated to resemble wings. it looked as though he'd prepared for a parade.''

''He met Lindon's glance with eyes of pale blue, no doubt another consequence of his Goldsign. He gave a cheery wave. -Soulsmith, Chapter 8, Page 105''

==Personality==
Eithan has a very carefree attitude toward everything. He is rarely seen without a smile on his face. He tends to make jokes in face of danger in an attempt to lighten the mood. He enjoys toying with his opponents and making fun of them while fighting. He is so carefree that others around him often wonder if he is taking the situation seriously enough. His attitude often gets him in trouble and angers those around him. Even so, in typical Eithan Fashion, he doesn't care.

==Biography==
Ozmanthus Arelius was an incredibly gifted child. At Copper he possessed a level of insight and understanding far beyond his peers. He designed his own Iron Body and Path. He manifested the Broom Icon at Underlord and went on to become one of the greatest Soulsmiths of his day. He discovered The Labyrinth where he forged some of the deadliest weapons to ever grace Iteration 110. As a consequence, he manifested the Death Icon. Upon his advancement to Monarch, he developed the infamous Arelius bloodline ability, the ability to See. After this he ascended; but he left behind a measure of his power in a beacon. His hope was that one of his descendants would find this beacon and follow in his footsteps.

Upon his successful induction into the Abidan, Ozmanthus passed his compatibility tests with flying colors and it became clear that he could inherit the Mantle of any Judge except one, Suriel. He joined the third division and was named the successor to Telariel in record time. He and his fellow spiders encountered a Vroshir ambush and Ozmanthus was the sole survivor. This bothered him, he could have saved them if he had a weapon powerful enough. So, he made one, he combined many Judge-Tier weapons along with one of his own creations and created the Scythe. He became the avatar of true Destruction. The Court of Seven were in awe. They decided to name him Ozriel, The Reaper: Eighth Judge of the Abidan Court.

Ozriel’s job became the reaping of worlds. His Scythe could cull a world so efficiently that there were no Chaos fragments left to threaten other iterations. Once a world became corrupted and the adept population evacuated, Ozriel would destroy the iteration. This allowed the Abidan to expand to thousands of worlds. But with every iteration he destroyed, with every life he ended, the weight on Ozriel’s soul grew bigger and bigger until eventually, it became too much. He begged the court to allow him to raise up his own Division. Reapers that could intervene in Fate and remove corruption at the root before the world was lost. But the Court apposed this, forcing Ozriel to continue reaping.

Eventually the weight on Ozriel was too much to bear and he deserted the Abidan. He knew he couldn’t hide forever, but he needed a break; He needed time on his own. He looked into fate and discovered the planets that would be corrupted next. On these planets he left people and items of cultural significance. Enough to restart the cultures of this planet on a pioneer world. It was in one of these worlds where he was confronted. The Mad King had just so happened to choose this world to test his new creation. The origin shroud; a veil so powerful that even Ozriel didn’t recognize him at first. When they fought, Ozriel overpowered him easily and took the Shroud. Seeing The Mad King with the shroud gave Ozriel an idea. He would raise up warriors outside of the Abidan’s influence and fix the broken system that they had been using for millennia. He repaired and perfected the origin shroud, and used it on himself. He traveled to the place of his birth, Cradle. The veil was so tight that he became mortal again. He adapted his Path of the Hollow king to pure madra and set out under a new name, Eithan Aurelius.

'''[TO BE CONTINUED] Feel free to adjust and add as you see fit. '''

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Ozmanthus Arelius

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'''Ozmanthus (Eithan) Arelius''' is the Grand Patriarch of [[House Arelius]], and the [[Ozriel|Eighth Judge]] of the [[Abidan]] Court.

==Appearance==

Eithan is a tall, somewhat lanky man. He has long flowing yellow hair that he is quite fond of. He tends to dress in fine robes of the highest quality and get's visibly upset when they are soiled. He has pale blue eyes and always has a smile on his face.

''Most of the witnesses looked disgusted, confused, or alarmed, save for the main with the long yellow hair that Lindon had seen before. At least, he assumed it was the same man; in a camp this size, perhaps there were many disciples of this strange Path that lightened hair color. He was wearing intricate robes of blue and white, so that the cape on his shoulders was raised and separated to resemble wings. it looked as though he'd prepared for a parade.''

''He met Lindon's glance with eyes of pale blue, no doubt another consequence of his Goldsign. He gave a cheery wave. -Soulsmith, Chapter 8, Page 105''

==Personality==
Eithan has a very carefree attitude toward everything. He is rarely seen without a smile on his face. He tends to make jokes in face of danger in an attempt to lighten the mood. He enjoys toying with his opponents and making fun of them while fighting. He is so carefree that others around him often wonder if he is taking the situation seriously enough. His attitude often gets him in trouble and angers those around him. Even so, in typical Eithan Fashion, he doesn't care.

==Biography==
Ozmanthus Arelius was an incredibly gifted child. At Copper he possessed a level of insight and understanding far beyond his peers. He designed his own Iron Body and Path. He manifested the Broom Icon at Underlord and went on to become one of the greatest Soulsmiths of his day. He discovered The Labyrinth where he forged some of the deadliest weapons to ever grace Iteration 110. As a consequence, he manifested the Death Icon. Upon his advancement to Monarch, he developed the infamous Arelius bloodline ability, the ability to See. After this he ascended; but he left behind a measure of his power in a beacon. His hope was that one of his descendants would find this beacon and follow in his footsteps.

Upon his successful induction into the Abidan, Ozmanthus passed his compatibility tests with flying colors and it became clear that he could inherit the Mantle of any Judge except one, Suriel. He joined the third division and was named the successor to Telariel in record time. He and his fellow spiders encountered a Vroshir ambush and Ozmanthus was the sole survivor. This bothered him, he could have saved them if he had a weapon powerful enough. So, he made one, he combined many Judge-Tier weapons along with one of his own creations and created the Scythe. He became the avatar of true Destruction. The Court of Seven were in awe. They decided to name him Ozriel, The Reaper: Eighth Judge of the Abidan Court.

Ozriel’s job became the reaping of worlds. His Scythe could cull a world so efficiently that there were no Chaos fragments left to threaten other iterations. Once a world became corrupted and the adept population evacuated, Ozriel would destroy the iteration. This allowed the Abidan to expand to thousands of worlds. But with every iteration he destroyed, with every life he ended, the weight on Ozriel’s soul grew bigger and bigger until eventually, it became too much. He begged the court to allow him to raise up his own Division. Reapers that could intervene in Fate and remove corruption at the root before the world was lost. But the Court apposed this, forcing Ozriel to continue reaping.

Eventually the weight on Ozriel was too much to bear and he deserted the Abidan. He knew he couldn’t hide forever, but he needed a break; He needed time on his own. He looked into fate and discovered the planets that would be corrupted next. On these planets he left people and items of cultural significance. Enough to restart the cultures of this planet on a pioneer world. It was in one of these worlds where he was confronted. The Mad King had just so happened to choose this world to test his new creation. The origin shroud; a veil so powerful that even Ozriel didn’t recognize him at first. When they fought, Ozriel overpowered him easily and took the Shroud. Seeing The Mad King with the shroud gave Ozriel an idea. He would raise up warriors outside of the Abidan’s influence and fix the broken system that they had been using for millennia. He repaired and perfected the origin shroud, and used it on himself. He traveled to the place of his birth, Cradle. The veil was so tight that he became mortal again. He adapted his Path of the Hollow king to pure madra and set out under a new name, Eithan Aurelius.

'''[TO BE CONTINUED] Feel free to adjust and add as you see fit. '''

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Ozmanthus Arelius

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Suriel

2021-12-02T02:27:25Z

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The power of the Phoenix is the power of restoration. An [[Abidan]] of the Phoenix Division can use the Way to return order to a system, restoring it to prime condition. Phoenixes are used as mechanics and engineers as often as healers, and are prized on any battlefield.

Though skilled Phoenix Abidan are rare, and their division small, they are also very durable. A Phoenix is said to be the second-most difficult of the [[Abidan]] to destroy (after a Titan), since powerful Phoenixes can regenerate even from total destruction.

The Phoenix herself, Suriel, is the only entity capable of restoring the condition of an entire Iteration at once. This can cause irregularities for both the [[Telariel|Spiders]] and the [[Makiel|Hounds]], so she is required to notify Sector Control prior to temporal reversion.

==Appearance==
Transparent gray ghostlines ran from the back of her head, twisting down her right arm to terminate in her fingers. The Mantle of Suriel ran behind her like she’d tied a river of burning light around her neck. Her white uniform was seamless, a layer of inch-thick liquid armor that coated her from her neck down to her toes. It seemed like Forged madra, which was close enough to the truth. She bore flaming blue wings and her weapon hung at her hip, a meter-long shaft of blue steel. Her long hair drifted around her, luminescent green and shining against the darkness of space.Her eyes were large and purple. Her irises had expanded to take up most of the sclera, marked with a ring of symbols recognizable as script. They were tools to help her see the flow of fate.

==Ability==
Ozriel is well-known as the most powerful Judge, However, he has no ability as a Phoenix. He has made it a point to befriend both the previous Suriel and this one, holding their talents in high esteem.

Suriel is an accomplished Fox (who excel at instant travel) and an able Spider (who detect deviations in chaos).She is the only entity capable of restoring the condition of an entire Iteration at once.

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Ozriel

2021-12-02T02:24:42Z

LordZeloxy: Restructured the Info Pod and added all the information we find out in Reaper.

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When a world lives too long and drifts from [[The Way and The Worlds|The Way]], only one person can terminate the Iteration without scattering corrupted fragments that threaten other worlds.

For most of the history of the [[Abidan]], there was no Ozriel. They eliminated worlds the old-fashioned way, and most of their manpower was spent defending Iterations from chaos-corrupted fragments. Ozriel reduced the threat of corruption to such a degree that the Abidan could spread their manpower to an unprecedented degree. Where once it took hundreds of Abidan to protect and maintain a single Iteration, now that same team could supervise an entire Sector of ten or more worlds.

However, the entire system of the current [[Abidan]] now hinges on one man.

Where most Judges are rule-abiding and structured by nature, Ozriel is not so rigid. He often challenges Abidan laws and traditions, trying to change and improve the policies of their organization. He might have succeeded by now if he were willing to relinquish control and cooperate with others. But, traditionally, he has never been much of a team player. When others don't agree with him, he tends to do exactly what he wants anyway.

As the one individual in existence with a world-erasing superweapon, he's used to getting his way.

==Appearance==
Ozriel stood in his polished black armor, the Mantle of Ozriel streaming behind him like a boiling cape of shadow, and the white hair running down his back. His face cold and distant and grim.

In person, he had more of a sense of humor than any other [[Abidan]], but he always wore an expression like a man bracing himself for terrible news.

==Ability==
Ozriel was accomplished and skilled enough to fulfill the duties of any Judge but [[Suriel]]. He has no ability as a Phoenix. He has made it a point to befriend both the previous Suriel and this one, holding their talents in high esteem.

His coming brought about an era of explosive growth for the A[[abidan|bidan]]. His predictive abilities rivaled that of [[Makiel|Makiel, The Judge of Fate]]. His skills far exceed that of [[Telariel|the Spider]] such that when he went into hiding [[Telariel]] could not find him despite his best attempts and full exertion. He was irreplaceable and the cornerstone around which the [[Abidan]] inadvertently found themselves growing. Ozriel is well-known as the most powerful Judge since the first generation of the [[Abidan|Abidan Court]], and possibly of all time.

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== Summary ==
Ozriel by Jazzy-Kandra

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An Icon is an embodiment of a concept greater than humanity and the mark of a [[Sage (Advancement)|Sage]]. Those who are able to manifest an Icon gain the ability to command reality itself. Below is a list of all currently known icons.

===List of Known Icons===

*Strength
*Winter
*Void
*Sword
*Dragon
*Heart
*Blood
*Storm (Implied)
*Points (In bloopers)

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2021-08-09T02:55:50Z

LordZeloxy: Added an "Implied" tag to the storm icon as it's not actually stated that the Storm Sage has manifested the Storm Icon, it's only implied because of his sect.

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2021-08-09T02:37:43Z

LordZeloxy: Added the Storm Icon

Ozmanthus Arelius

2021-08-08T18:23:46Z

LordZeloxy: Added personality

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'''Eithan Arelius''' is an [[Archlord (Advancement)|Archlord]] from the [[Arelius Family]] on Cradle.

==Appearance==

Eithan is a tall, somewhat lanky man. He has long flowing yellow hair that he is quite fond of. He tends to dress in fine robes of the highest quality and get's visibly upset when they are soiled. He has pale blue eyes and always has a smile on his face.

''Most of the witnesses looked disgusted, confused, or alarmed, save for the main with the long yellow hair that Lindon had seen before. At least, he assumed it was the same man; in a camp this size, perhaps there were many disciples of this strange Path that lightened hair color. He was wearing intricate robes of blue and white, so that the cape on his shoulders was raised and separated to resemble wings. it looked as though he'd prepared for a parade.''

''He met Lindon's glance with eyes of pale blue, no doubt another consequence of his Goldsign. He gave a cheery wave. -Soulsmith, Chapter 8, Page 105''

==Personality==
Eithan has a very carefree attitude toward everything. He is rarely seen without a smile on his face. He tends to make jokes in face of danger in an attempt to lighten the mood. He enjoys toying with his opponents and making fun of them while fighting. He is so carefree that others around him often wonder if he is taking the situation seriously enough. His attitude often gets him in trouble and angers those around him. Even so, in typical Eithan Fashion, he doesn't care.

==Biography==
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Ozmanthus Arelius

2021-08-08T18:02:03Z

LordZeloxy: Added Twin Star Sect

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'''Eithan Arelius''' is an [[Archlord (Advancement)|Archlord]] from the [[Arelius Family]] on Cradle.

==Appearance==

Eithan is a tall, somewhat lanky man. He has long flowing yellow hair that he is quite fond of. He tends to dress in fine robes of the highest quality and get's visibly upset when they are soiled. He has pale blue eyes and always has a smile on his face.

''Most of the witnesses looked disgusted, confused, or alarmed, save for the main with the long yellow hair that Lindon had seen before. At least, he assumed it was the same man; in a camp this size, perhaps there were many disciples of this strange Path that lightened hair color. He was wearing intricate robes of blue and white, so that the cape on his shoulders was raised and separated to resemble wings. it looked as though he'd prepared for a parade.''

''He met Lindon's glance with eyes of pale blue, no doubt another consequence of his Goldsign. He gave a cheery wave. -Soulsmith, Chapter 8, Page 105''

==Personality==
Any notable personality quirks, their temperament, e.g. always smiling or apologizing?

==Biography==
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==Powers and Techniques==
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Ozmanthus Arelius

2021-08-08T17:59:45Z

LordZeloxy: Added Eithan's appearance

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'''Eithan Arelius''' is an [[Archlord (Advancement)|Archlord]] from the [[Arelius Family]] on Cradle.

==Appearance==

Eithan is a tall, somewhat lanky man. He has long flowing yellow hair that he is quite fond of. He tends to dress in fine robes of the highest quality and get's visibly upset when they are soiled. He has pale blue eyes and always has a smile on his face.

''Most of the witnesses looked disgusted, confused, or alarmed, save for the main with the long yellow hair that Lindon had seen before. At least, he assumed it was the same man; in a camp this size, perhaps there were many disciples of this strange Path that lightened hair color. He was wearing intricate robes of blue and white, so that the cape on his shoulders was raised and separated to resemble wings. it looked as though he'd prepared for a parade.''

''He met Lindon's glance with eyes of pale blue, no doubt another consequence of his Goldsign. He gave a cheery wave. -Soulsmith, Chapter 8, Page 105''

==Personality==
Any notable personality quirks, their temperament, e.g. always smiling or apologizing?

==Biography==
Any history we are aware of from before their introduction in the books goes here. Followed by a book by book summary of the characters story line in each.

==Powers and Techniques==
Link the characters path here, along with their Iron body and any notable items or powers they may also have. If they have a bloodline ability it goes here as well. Their path page should have a solid explanation of the paths abilities and limitations, but here you can also touch on how the character uses the path and any special synergy they may gain from other abilities or items they have. Finally a demonstration of their mastery or skill can also be explained here, just a rough estimate of how strong they are in comparison to everyone else.

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Northstrider

2021-08-08T17:35:33Z

LordZeloxy: Added Icon

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|Name=Northstrider|First Appearance=Unsouled|Home=Cradle|Icons=Dragon}}'''Northstrider''' is a [[Monarch (Advancement)|Monarch]] on Cradle.

"The Monarch of unbound sacred artists, those with no sect or clan."

He was born with a special connection to blood through inherited dormant bloodline legacies. These allowed him to strengthen himself more and more by consuming water drakes.

He would venture out north into the ocean whenever he could to find prey, which is how he earned his name.

One day while roaming the deeps of the ocean, he stumbled upon a hidden entrance to the [[Cradle:Labyrinth|Labyrinth]] where he found hunger bindings. He incorporated them into his spirit to form the [[Path of the Hungry Deep]].

He is also the creator of the pocket world [[Ghostwater (Pocket World)|Ghostwater]], which was his attempt to enhance his mind by building a Presence. It failed, but [[Wei Shi Lindon]] succeeded in constructing [[Dross]] just before Ghostwater's destruction.

==Path: The Hungry Deep==
Aspects: Blood, Hunger.
<blockquote>A Path focused on devouring the physical and spiritual strength of dragons, as well as their latent authority, using them to empower the user. Most techniques are rudimentary, but become complex in execution when brought to life with the touch of the Dragon Icon.

Wight, Will. Uncrowned (Cradle Book 7) . Hidden Gnome Publishing. Kindle Edition.</blockquote>

==Trivia==

*He has a centuries-old feud with [[Seshethkunaaz|Seshethkunaaz, the King of Sands]] [https://www.abidanarchive.com/events/1/#e173 <nowiki>[1]</nowiki>]
*He would most likely beat the [[Eight-Man Empire]]. [https://www.abidanarchive.com/events/1/#e257 <nowiki>[2]</nowiki>]
*He would lose to [[Sha Miara]], the [[Ninecloud Court]] Monarch, due to a mismatch of powers.[https://www.abidanarchive.com/events/1/#e258 <nowiki>[3]</nowiki>]
*He is one of the oldest Monarchs of those alive today on Cradle.[https://www.abidanarchive.com/events/7/#e750 <nowiki>[4]</nowiki>]

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2021-08-08T17:34:20Z

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Orthos

2021-08-07T02:18:36Z

LordZeloxy: Updated Orthos's Rank

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A descendant of Dragons and the teacher of [[Wei Shi Lindon]] Orthos is a turtle of great importance to the cradle novels. He is a Truegold on The Path of The Blackflame. Once in a duel long ago he crippled himself and was driven mad. Until with the help of Lindon and Little Blue he was able to regain some measure of sanity. This was further helped by his time spent in the pocket realm Ghostwater which is also the name of the book. At the end of the current book, it is inferred that he has almost fully recovered from a majority of his illnesses.

In Underlord, however, he leaves Lindon and the others, saying that Sacred Beasts do not have to undergo a revelation to reach Underlord. Instead, they chose what they wished to become (ex: Orthos could remain a turtle, become a dragon, or even become human, as seen by Seshethkunaaz, the boy King of the Dragons). For this reason, Orthos leaves and is later seen in [[Sacred Valley]] alongside Lindon's sister, [[Wei Shi Kelsa]]. It is still unknown as to what form Orthos plans on taking.

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Wei Shi Lindon

2021-08-05T05:18:35Z

LordZeloxy: /* Sacred Art Ranks */

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'''Wei Shi''' '''Lindon Arelius''' is the primary protagonist of ''Cradle''. He was born to the Shi family of the Wei Clan in Sacred Valley and was considered Unsouled due to a madra deficiency. He is currently an Overlord with the Akura family.

==Appearance==
Lindon is a tall man with a brawny physique. He often looks like he is spoiling for a fight with his rough face, tall build and broad shoulders. He has black hair and dark brown eyes. His eyes turn black with red irises when he cycles Blackflame madra.

After losing his arm, he obtains a misty prosthetic created through Soulsmithing. The prosthetic uses a hunger binding taken from the Ancestors Spear that allows it to consume madra, but due to its nature as Remnant he needs to cycle madra through it to solidify it and allow it to interact with solid inanimate objects.

After advancing to Underlord, his features smooth out. His prosthetic remnant arm takes on the shape of a normal arm though it maintains its ivory white color. He also Forges the Archstone into his arm in order for the Gold Level prosthetic to survive the transition into the Lord Realm once washed in soulfire.

==Personality==
Lindon is very polite and deferential due to growing up as an Unsouled, by far the least valuable member of the clan. Because of his madra deficiency, he was treated with mild scorn within his clan. Without power, he was considered to be inconsequential at best and a little better than a punching bag at worst. In response to this treatment, he cultivated a very humble attitude demonstrated by his habit of always referring to himself as “this one” which seems to imply that he is so low as to not deserve recognition. This demeanor, though, has also made it easy for him to hide his dangerously clever mind without even intending to do so.

Lindon has a keen interest in Soulsmithing, his mother's profession. He is very focused on advancement due to his time as weak and his vision from Suriel about the future calamity in Sacred Valley. He is relentless in his goal to save Sacred Valley, no matter the cost.

During his time in the Wei Clan he was also forbidden from learning any manner of sacred arts as well as utilizing any clan resources for advancement. Lindon searched desperately for ways to improve himself on his own, doing whatever it takes to move forward. He relies on plans, tricks, and loopholes to get ahead.

Lindon is kind and caring, sometimes to the point of naivety due to unfamiliarity with the world outside of Sacred Valley.

==Biography==

===Daily Timeline===
[[Lindon Timeline]]

==='''Unsouled'''===
Lindon is the youngest child of Jaran and Seisha, Irons of the Wei clan. In his youth, Lindon failed the Spritual Origin madra affinity test and was labeled an Unsouled, cursed of the heavens. As such he was forbidden to learn the Sacred Arts of the clan and was denied a path. His clan refused to invest resources to help him advance due to this deficiency. As a result he remained at the Foundation rank long past the age when children advance to Copper.

Prior to the Festival, Seisha sent Lindon to find the white orus, a spirit fruit. A normal orus fruit was like a pure white peach, and grew only in Sacred Valley. Fruit from an ancestral orus tree looked no different, but a bite would deliver him years' worth of purified vital aura that he could process into madra. As Lindon began to harvest the spirit fruit, Teris soon emerged from the woods, hair mussed and covered in scratches. He was hunting a snowfox, which was illegal. Angered that Lindon had interrupted his hunt, Teris punched the bark and leaving the imprint of his fist in the wood. The tree bent in the middle, splintered and fell apart. As a result, a remnant rose from the tree’s corpse. Immediately, Teris ran deeper in the woods without a glance back. Lindon used scripts and a crystal flask to distract the remnant and retrieve the spirit fruit from the remnant. Seisha was able to restore the remnant of the spirit fruit and split it between Kelsa and Lindon.

Soon, Lindon and Teris were called before the First Elder to recount the confrontation. Since Teris had abandoned a child of the Foundation Stage, he was to receive three lashes. Lindon, however, was to speak with Elder Whisper. Elder Whisper told Lindon that the Path of the White Fox was not for him and Lindon would have to forge his own path. During the public whipping of Wei Mon Teris, Wei Mon Eri challenged Wei Shi Lindon to a duel of honor before the entire clan. Lindon was forced to accept the duel to surrender.

Lindon spent his time scouring the Clan archives searching for a suitable path. There he found a book called, "''Heart of Twin Stars".'' The book taught two techniques, ''Empty Palm'' and ''Heart of Twin Stars.'' Since Lindon would be shamed in the duel regardless of the outcome due to his age and deficiency, he and Kelsa devised a plan. Lindon would challenge Wei Mon Keth, Teris and Eri's father. Lindon requested a duel in which each party would have one strike each. The first to lose his footing is defeated. Lindon quickly executed the empty palm and punched Keth in the gut. Immediately, Lindon surrendered the duel.

During the seven years festival held by the Wei Clan, Lindon was a victim of a temporal divergence. Due to the nature of this event, he ended up meeting Suriel, the Phoenix, Sixth Judge of the Abidan Court. Suriel had taken an interest in Lindon after seeing him give his life in what he knew to be a futile effort to stop a being who had transcended Cradle, Li Markuth. She admired his actions and, as something of a reward, showed him his most likely fated future. During this vision, Lindon discovers that Sacred Valley would be destroyed by a Dreadgod (the Titan) a being so powerful that it crushes the entire valley underfoot. Desperate to save his home, despite his treatment, Lindon begs the “Celestial Messenger” to show him a way to prevent this tragedy from occurring. In response, he is taken by Suriel to see several individuals (The Eight Man Empire, The Monarch Northstrider, and Luminous Queen Sha Miara) stating that they each had the power to save his homeland. At first, this is believed to be the answer to his question but he is proven wrong as Suriel asks him what they have in common. Unable to come up with the correct answer he is told that it boils down to one simple thing: Drive. “...any Sage will tell you that all paths can be reduced to one: Improve yourself.” Thus begins Wei Shi Lindon’s journey. After time was reversed by Suriel, he easily won the tournament, via his Empty Palm, and went to the Heaven's Glory school, only to leave almost immediately after with Yerin after killing several irons and a jade.

==='''Soulsmith'''===
After escaping from the Sacred Valley, Yerin and Lindon enter territory of the Sandvipers. Again, they soon leave, and enter Fisher territory. Yerin does jobs for the Fishers, such as helping them kill off remnants, while Lindon is recruited by Fisher Gesha to forge scales for her due to his pure madra. Lindon is captured to work in the mines but is immediately rescued by Gesha, who says it won't happen it again. Lindon attempts to free the slaves working in the mine, but gets captured for real this time, as does Yerin. Eithan is also 'captured' though he actually came willingly. Lindon undergoes a lot of training, and after being stung five times by the venomous sandviper, ascends to iron with a Bloodforged body. Soon, Eithan gets them out, but Lindon is severely injured by Kral, but because of his iron body, survives, and kills Kral after Eithan reveals that Lindon was still alive to him. Jai Long demands retribution but after Eithan revealed that he was the Arelius Underlord, backs down, but Eithan promises Jai Long a duel in a year. With this, Lindon and Yerin are healed by the Fishers, and taken to the Arelius family.

This ends up pushing Lindon to stretch himself past his limits which leads to him killing a Highgold as an Iron later on. In doing so he accidentally enters into a feud with Jai Long who, having made a difficult and irreversible choice to save his sister, was shamed by his clan and had looked at his fellow Highgold as something of a brother.

==='''Blackflame'''===
Lindon goes to the Blackflame Empire and embarks one of his pure cores on the Path of Black Flame. Eithan shows him various powerful paths, before he settles on the Path of Black Flame. Eithan has Lindon bond with a Truegold Sacred Beast, named Orthos. This allows Lindon to instantly have a core producing Blackflame madra and advance to Jade. He then begins training with Yerin. After several months, the Arelius family within the city Serpents Grave is attacked. While under attack, Lindon and Orthos are forced to fight the chief of the Sandvipers and Kral's father, Gokren. Lindon's newly mastered Dragon's Breath takes his arm off. Just before this, he advanced to Lowgold, though he doesn't realize it. While this fight is going on, Yerin is fighting Jai Long. Jai Long is Truegold while Yerin is Lowgold, though she advances to Highgold during the fight, and due to the circumstances within the city, Jai Long is forced to retreat. After fighting and killing the Sandvipers with Orthos, Lindon sees a bloody and bruised Eithan. Eithan jokes that his ranking amongst the Underlords would soon go up, as a Skysworn was watching the fight. Eithan also shares that he had a marble from the Abidan, which is similar except for having a darker, black color.

==='''Skysworn'''===
Lindon fights with Jai Long. While he makes a good showing, Jai Long is too far advanced for Lindon to pull out the victor. He loses his arm in the fight, before it is interrupted by Jai Daishou. After the fight, Lindon is fitted for a prosthetic Remnant arm with a hunger binding. After inital reluctance and with the prompting of Yerin, Lindon joins the Skysworn to fight the emissaries of the newly awoken Bleeding Phoenix.

==='''Ghostwater'''===
Lindon, Yerin, Mercy, Renfei, and Bai Rou are sent on a mission to a pocket dimension known as 'Ghostwater'. Ghostwater was created by the Monarch level sacred artist 'Northstrider'. Northstrider is said to have vanished many years beforehand and is believed dead. The skysworn send Lindon and the others to investigate the status of Ghostwater and potential retrieve any useful artifacts left behind by Northstrider.

Upon arriving at the portal to Ghostwater, Lindon, Orthos, and Renfei enter alone and are taken by surprise to find a large number of unknown Truegold sacred artists waiting by the entrance portal. Renfei is then killed by one of the Truegolds revealed to be Akura Harmony. Lindon and Orthos flee the battle and are pursued by Ekeri, a Truegold golden dragon. Lindon takes refuge inside an underground vault wherein he discovers a pool known as 'The Dreamwell'. Water from The Dreamwell restores ones mental clarity as if they had just had a full nights rest. Inside The Dreamwell Lindon discovers a sentient construct named 'Dross' which guides him through the rest of Northstrider's facility.

Lindon takes advantage of the time with the dreamwell to train far faster than he is typically able, since he does not have to sleep when using the dreamwell as a supplement. He also discovers that the sacred beasts that live in Ghostwater provide extreme benefits to his physical body when eaten, due to their extremely high Madra concentrations. After being strengthened by Dreamwell training, and Sacred fish, Lindon is able to defeat Ekeri in a battle and escape The Dreamwell chamber.

Led by Dross, Lindon and Orthos proceed to another section of Ghostwater where Dross leads them to 'The spiritwell'. This well provides Madra on level with a top grade elixer and allows Lindon to quickly expand both of his cores. Within days, Lindon reaches High Gold in both cores. They are then met by 'Ziel' a Truegold disciple of the Beast King. Ziel proves to be relatively friendly to the group, and passively watches Lindon cycle and train using the Spirit Well, occasionally driving off a Sacred Beast threat. Ziel then tells Lindon that Ghostwater is collapsing more and more rapidly and encourages him to move on to the next section so that he may escape in time. He then gives Lindon several bottles of Spiritwell water that will be enough to advance him to Truegold.

Lindon proceeds to the next section of Ghostwater where he encounters 'The Lifewell'. He drinks from the Lifewell and strengthens his Lifeline to be 'as thick as a treetrunk' which will ensure Lindon will live an extremely long natural life and increased vitality.

Lindon then proceeds to the lowest level of Ghostwater where he confronts Akura Harmony. After a heated battle, Lindon and Orthos are able to defeat Akura Harmony after Dross uses Ghostwater to connect himself to The Wey, and essentially become 'a Presence'.

Lindon begs Akura Harmony to come with him as Ghostwater collapses. Harmony, too proud to accept Lindon's mercy vows revenge and refuses to come with him. Lindon then flees Ghostwater, leaving Harmony to die.

==='''Underlord'''===
Lindon heads to the Blackflame Empire to regroup with Eithan. Akura Charity, Sage of the Silver Heart and Mercy's distant aunt announces to the Blackflame empire and its neighbouring kingdom, the Seishen Kingdom about the Uncrowned Tournament. Since both the Blackflame empire and the Seishen kingdom are vassal states of the Akura family territory, they are allowed to participate in the uncrowned tournament, but only 3 members will be selected. To participate in the Uncrowned Tournament, the participant must be an Underlord and the age limit is 35 years. Since there are only a few underlords in both the Blackflame Empire and the Seishen kingdom, Charity opens a portal into the Nightwheel Valley, the training grounds of the Akura family, where the aura is much stonger, making it easier to advance for sacred artists. Eithan, Yerin, Lindon, Mercy and Orthos are one of the first to arrive at Nightwheel Valley, but they soon discover they have to fight for their place there.
==='''Uncrowned'''===
Lindon has been selected for the Uncrowned Tournament, but instead of going as a part of the team from the Blackflame empire, he is selected by Akura Charity to represent the main branch of the Akura family. She sees this as payment from Lindon for killing her promising candidate, Akura Harmony. Eithan, Yerin and Naru Saeya, Emperor Naru Huan's sister, make up the team representing the vassal states of the Akura family and the Blackflame empire.

Lindon is taken to the Akura homeland for training, where he faces extreme hostility from the other Akura underlords fighting for the last position on the Akura team. Mercy's younger brother, Akura Pride hates Lindon more than the others and treats him with contempt and disrespect. Initially, in the first months of training, Lindon is constantly challenged to duals by the other contestants and keeps losing most of the time, thus giving the idea to the others that he is weak. When the final day comes to select the third member of the Akura main team, all the underlords prepare to dual each other. Even though, Lindon is already a part of the team, he insists on fighting all of the underlords head on, at the same time. Lindon has gathered information about each of their techniques and with the help of Dross, he easily defeats all of them and only Akura Pride is left, filling the last spot on the team.

In the tournament itself, Lindon faces off against the most powerful Underlords on Cradle in a series of trials. The first round of the tournament is an individual event where all the participants are required to go through a series of challenges, testing their strength and skill. LIndon finishes 10th and Yerin finishes 11th, ahead of many other participants. Each of the qualified members in the top 64 move on to the next trial. As a reward, they receive a floating palace specially designed for each individual from the Ninecloud Court.

In the second round of the tournament, the contestants are placed on an open island. Golden crowns appear with fixed intervals and the objective is to keep the crown on your head without getting killed. Lindon, Yerin, Mercy and Eithan of the main protagonists succeed while Pride and Naru Saeya sacrifice their spots in the tournament for their team's sake. In the third round of the Tournament, Lindon faces off against [[Naian Blackflame]]. Instead of trying to win the fight, Lindon chooses to spend his fight curing Naian of his Blackflame induced madness.

==='''Wintersteel'''===
While trying to discover his Overlord revelation during his battle with Sopharanatoth, Lindon instead establishes his connection to the Void Icon, and advances to Sage. He is given a Wintersteel badge by Eithan, with the same symbol for "Empty" depicted on it much like his first Unsouled badge.

==='''Bloodline'''===
After the events of the Uncrowned King Tournament Lindon learns that the Wandering Titan is headed toward Sacred Valley. He begs Akura Charity to let him go evacuate his people, saying that he will go with or without her blessing. Charity agrees to let him go and provides several cloud ships and hundreds of Akura golds to help in the evacuation effort. Eithan, Yerin, Mercy and Ziel all accompany him to the Valley.

When they arrive they are attacked at the gates of the Heavens Glory school who mistake them for Wei exiles. They find that the Heavens Glory school has been attacked and is in ruins. The school elder accidentally reveals to Lindon that the Wei Exiles are his family and they are currently under siege by Heavens Glory. Lindon immediately leaves in search of them. He finds Orthos and his sister under attack and goes into a rage fueled frenzy. He get's so violent that he has to be restrained from killing the Heavens Glory attackers. After this, his team splits up to each go to a different clan or school.

Yerin accompanies Lindon to the Wei clan and they are immediately attacked upon entering. Despite this Lindon makes his way to the clan elders and explains that a monster is coming for the valley. They don't believe him even after Dross shows them his memories. In order to get them to obey he unveils his Underlord core (which they mistake for a Gold core) and forces them to evacuate. On the way to the exit of Sacred Valley, Lindon senses Heavens Glory jades on their way to intercept. Assuming they are there to attack he notifies his clan's elders and rushes to the vanguard to meet them. When he confronts them the Wei clan betray him and trap him and Yerin in a boundary field, hoping that they can kill him. Despite his weakened state and the boundary field he manages to get Yerin out and break through the barrier. He then hunts the elders down and attacks them. He permanently cripples the Wei Patriarchs core and injures the First Elder. He then sends them in the direction of the titan so their final thoughts can be about how they should have listened to him.

He makes his way to the Heavens Glory school as the Wandering Titan arrives earlier then expected. They take off with the little people they have saved. Meanwhile Yerin contacts the Monarchs and they bestow her Uncrowned Gift, and officially make her a Herald. She convinces Akura Malice to help her distract the titan so they can rescue more people. After Lindon's departure from the valley he is torn between trying to save more people, and getting away with the people he has already saved. He receives a message from Suriel and she helps him make up his mind. After his message he quickly advances to Overlord and rushes in with his friends to attack the titan. They are greatly outclassed in this fight and it's all they can do to defend from its attacks. Dross comes up with a plan and enacts it. He has each member of the team play a part to get Lindon in close to the titan. Lindon uses the hunger binding in his remnant arm and sucks some of the titans madra. He then feeds this madra to Dross and Dross puts a fox dream on the titan, this illusion makes the titan's attackers, as well as it's goal, disappear. The titan then leaves the valley to roam in search of power. Lindon relaxes as they've beat the titan but at a heavy cost. Lindon can no longer sense Dross in him. He can sense a swirl of power where Dross used to be, but the mind spirit is no longer able to speak to him.

As the residents of Sacred Valley funnel back in and try to salvage what has been destroyed, Lindon visits the Ancestors tomb. He senses a slight tear in the world and wills it open. He finds that it's the personal void space of the Sword Sage. He then senses a familiar presence in the room and confronts it. Elder Whisper emerges and explains that he kept the space from collapsing in the hope that Lindon would return. He shows Lindon the reason that the Sword Sage came to Sacred Valley two years ago and the key to open the Labyrinth.

=='''Powers and Abilities'''==
As an Unsouled, Lindon effectively started two stages behind most Sacred Artists, further limited by the natural restrictions and the "curse" of the Sacred Valley and without a natural predisposition towards any of 4 classes of techniques.

Scripts: Due to his natural and clan-imposed limitations, Lindon's only avenue of practicing the sacred arts within his clan was through scripts. While not particularly talented, he has shown some versatility in using them and moderate skill in drawing them.

Heart of Twin Stars: While at the Foundation stage, before cycling elemental vital aura from the world, Lindon split his core.

*Pure Madra: Composed of pure madra.
*Blackflame Madra: Composed of fire and destruction madra.

Soulsmithing: Pure madra gives Lindon solid overall compatibility with most constructs, although with a weaker effect than specialized madra types.

Little Blue: A Sylvan Riverseed. Originally fed madra and scales by Lindon, her growth is rapidly advanced by Eithan feeding her a drop of soulfire. Her natural purification abilities drain her, but can counteract the corrosive effect of Blackflame madra on the mind, body, and madra channels.

Orthos: Lindon's contract with Orthos allows him to fill one of his cores with Blackflame madra, lessening the his burden. Due to Orthos being a Truegold, this allowed Lindon's Blackflame core to quickly advance from Iron to Jade and later to Lowgold, as if his core was treated with high grade elixirs.

Remnant Arm: By activating the hunger binding on the arm, Lindon can draw out madra from the enemy. In a less concentrated form, he can then vent it back at them as a distraction.

Dross: The remnants of one of Northstrider's attempts in Ghostwater to create mental enhancement tools and mimic the Presences of the Abidan. Originally created as a memory construct, Dross has gained further abilities through soaking in high grade mental elixirs, consuming dream madra, and fusing with an Eye of the Deep. He temporarily connected with the collective of information at the metal tree in Ghostwater, gathering data from other Eyes of the Deep that had been taken through the world.

In combat against an enemy with well-known, recorded, fully defined capabilities, Dross can simulate and create a battle plan that ensures the greatest chance of success. He also acts as general mental enhancement, allowing Lindon to better focus on battle. While Soulsmithing, Dross can simulate the effect of madra interactions, allowing Lindon's soulsmithing success rate for straightforward constructs to exceed that of experts like Fisher Gesha.

====Sacred Art Ranks====
As a Sacred Artists progresses through the ranks, they naturally gain access to certain abilities

*Foundation: At the Foundation level, Sacred Artists can cycle madra to slightly strengthen their body or activate scripts.
*Copper: Copper Sight
*Iron: At the Iron level, Sacred Artists gain an Iron Body that increases physical abilities. Lindon's Bloodforged Iron body, catalyzed using the venom and blood from nearly have a dozen sandvipers, enables rapid healing and recovery from poisons and physical damage at an extremely high madra cost.
*Jade: Jade senses
*Gold: Lindon advanced from Jade to Lowgold using a further infusion of Blackflame Madra from Orthos, without a remnant. He lacks a true Goldsign beyond red eyes when channeling Blackflame Madra
*Underlord: Reborn in Soulfire, Lindon's body is able to push farther and he is able to activate Underlord-level weapons.
*Overlord: Reborn in Soulfire again, Lindon's Soulfire gains a greater depth and his more potent.

====Techniques====
Foundation Cycling Technique: A basic cycling technique taught to Foundation-level children of the Wei clan.

Empty Palm: A pure Madra technique that focuses it into a simple palm thrust. When making contact with the core of an enemy, it disrupts his or her madra. This leaves the enemy powerless for a few seconds, unable to muster the energy to control any techniques or even their own limbs. When sufficiently powerful, it can destroy the core of an enemy, preventing them from even leaving a remnant.

Heaven and Earth Purification Wheel: A madra cycling technique focused on expanding madra capacity. Eithan teaches Lindon this technique as it is vital to training his pure madra core, which cannot advance through taking in vital aura from the outside world.

Burning Cloak: The Dragon Advances. The Fierce Outer Burning Robe technique is an Enforcer technique. It is a basic full-body Enforcement using Blackflame Madra, protecting and powering the body by madra while in use. It allows for the release of explosive force of movement.

Dragon Breath: The Dragon Destroys. The Fierce River of Fierce Flowing Breath technique is a Striker Technique. Blackflame madra is gathered in the hands, rotated, and condensed repeatedly until being released as a solid beam that eradicates everything in its path.

Void Dragon's Dance: The Dragon Conquers. In one moment, the flames devour everything on the battlefield, leaving only smoke and dust. Like many Ruler techniques, it is capable of great destruction, but requires appropriate vital aura in the environment, and time to build and concentrate on the vital aura to take control.

Soul Cloak: An Enforcer technique utilizing Lindon's pure madra core. Compared to the Burning Cloak, it allows for more measured power output.

The Dragon Descends: Lindon's ultimate attack from his dragon path. All his techniques from the Blackflame Path Forged on his hand. He forges claws of Blackflame madra on his hand like a glove with a miniature Void Dragon's Dance swirling around it, Dragon's Breath filling it like blood and a Burning Cloak surrounding it all. Takes all his spirit and a significant amount of his soulfire to bring it to life.

Hollow Domain: A pure madra technique developed in ''Wintersteel''. With the help of Little Blue's madra, Lindon can create a sphere of pure madra that weakens or deletes any techniques that enters. This technique makes Lindon's eyes glow a sapphire-blue. It is not specified what kind of technique it is, but it was inspired by Eithen's Armor of the Hollow King technique.

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Wei Shi Lindon

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LordZeloxy: Added Bloodline section to Biography (I left out a lot of the detail and I'm sure this segment isn't exactly accurate. Feel free to correct it)

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'''Wei Shi''' '''Lindon Arelius''' is the primary protagonist of ''Cradle''. He was born to the Shi family of the Wei Clan in Sacred Valley and was considered Unsouled due to a madra deficiency. He is currently an Overlord with the Akura family.

==Appearance==
Lindon is a tall man with a brawny physique. He often looks like he is spoiling for a fight with his rough face, tall build and broad shoulders. He has black hair and dark brown eyes. His eyes turn black with red irises when he cycles Blackflame madra.

After losing his arm, he obtains a misty prosthetic created through Soulsmithing. The prosthetic uses a hunger binding taken from the Ancestors Spear that allows it to consume madra, but due to its nature as Remnant he needs to cycle madra through it to solidify it and allow it to interact with solid inanimate objects.

After advancing to Underlord, his features smooth out. His prosthetic remnant arm takes on the shape of a normal arm though it maintains its ivory white color. He also Forges the Archstone into his arm in order for the Gold Level prosthetic to survive the transition into the Lord Realm once washed in soulfire.

==Personality==
Lindon is very polite and deferential due to growing up as an Unsouled, by far the least valuable member of the clan. Because of his madra deficiency, he was treated with mild scorn within his clan. Without power, he was considered to be inconsequential at best and a little better than a punching bag at worst. In response to this treatment, he cultivated a very humble attitude demonstrated by his habit of always referring to himself as “this one” which seems to imply that he is so low as to not deserve recognition. This demeanor, though, has also made it easy for him to hide his dangerously clever mind without even intending to do so.

Lindon has a keen interest in Soulsmithing, his mother's profession. He is very focused on advancement due to his time as weak and his vision from Suriel about the future calamity in Sacred Valley. He is relentless in his goal to save Sacred Valley, no matter the cost.

During his time in the Wei Clan he was also forbidden from learning any manner of sacred arts as well as utilizing any clan resources for advancement. Lindon searched desperately for ways to improve himself on his own, doing whatever it takes to move forward. He relies on plans, tricks, and loopholes to get ahead.

Lindon is kind and caring, sometimes to the point of naivety due to unfamiliarity with the world outside of Sacred Valley.

==Biography==

===Daily Timeline===
[[Lindon Timeline]]

==='''Unsouled'''===
Lindon is the youngest child of Jaran and Seisha, Irons of the Wei clan. In his youth, Lindon failed the Spritual Origin madra affinity test and was labeled an Unsouled, cursed of the heavens. As such he was forbidden to learn the Sacred Arts of the clan and was denied a path. His clan refused to invest resources to help him advance due to this deficiency. As a result he remained at the Foundation rank long past the age when children advance to Copper.

Prior to the Festival, Seisha sent Lindon to find the white orus, a spirit fruit. A normal orus fruit was like a pure white peach, and grew only in Sacred Valley. Fruit from an ancestral orus tree looked no different, but a bite would deliver him years' worth of purified vital aura that he could process into madra. As Lindon began to harvest the spirit fruit, Teris soon emerged from the woods, hair mussed and covered in scratches. He was hunting a snowfox, which was illegal. Angered that Lindon had interrupted his hunt, Teris punched the bark and leaving the imprint of his fist in the wood. The tree bent in the middle, splintered and fell apart. As a result, a remnant rose from the tree’s corpse. Immediately, Teris ran deeper in the woods without a glance back. Lindon used scripts and a crystal flask to distract the remnant and retrieve the spirit fruit from the remnant. Seisha was able to restore the remnant of the spirit fruit and split it between Kelsa and Lindon.

Soon, Lindon and Teris were called before the First Elder to recount the confrontation. Since Teris had abandoned a child of the Foundation Stage, he was to receive three lashes. Lindon, however, was to speak with Elder Whisper. Elder Whisper told Lindon that the Path of the White Fox was not for him and Lindon would have to forge his own path. During the public whipping of Wei Mon Teris, Wei Mon Eri challenged Wei Shi Lindon to a duel of honor before the entire clan. Lindon was forced to accept the duel to surrender.

Lindon spent his time scouring the Clan archives searching for a suitable path. There he found a book called, "''Heart of Twin Stars".'' The book taught two techniques, ''Empty Palm'' and ''Heart of Twin Stars.'' Since Lindon would be shamed in the duel regardless of the outcome due to his age and deficiency, he and Kelsa devised a plan. Lindon would challenge Wei Mon Keth, Teris and Eri's father. Lindon requested a duel in which each party would have one strike each. The first to lose his footing is defeated. Lindon quickly executed the empty palm and punched Keth in the gut. Immediately, Lindon surrendered the duel.

During the seven years festival held by the Wei Clan, Lindon was a victim of a temporal divergence. Due to the nature of this event, he ended up meeting Suriel, the Phoenix, Sixth Judge of the Abidan Court. Suriel had taken an interest in Lindon after seeing him give his life in what he knew to be a futile effort to stop a being who had transcended Cradle, Li Markuth. She admired his actions and, as something of a reward, showed him his most likely fated future. During this vision, Lindon discovers that Sacred Valley would be destroyed by a Dreadgod (the Titan) a being so powerful that it crushes the entire valley underfoot. Desperate to save his home, despite his treatment, Lindon begs the “Celestial Messenger” to show him a way to prevent this tragedy from occurring. In response, he is taken by Suriel to see several individuals (The Eight Man Empire, The Monarch Northstrider, and Luminous Queen Sha Miara) stating that they each had the power to save his homeland. At first, this is believed to be the answer to his question but he is proven wrong as Suriel asks him what they have in common. Unable to come up with the correct answer he is told that it boils down to one simple thing: Drive. “...any Sage will tell you that all paths can be reduced to one: Improve yourself.” Thus begins Wei Shi Lindon’s journey. After time was reversed by Suriel, he easily won the tournament, via his Empty Palm, and went to the Heaven's Glory school, only to leave almost immediately after with Yerin after killing several irons and a jade.

==='''Soulsmith'''===
After escaping from the Sacred Valley, Yerin and Lindon enter territory of the Sandvipers. Again, they soon leave, and enter Fisher territory. Yerin does jobs for the Fishers, such as helping them kill off remnants, while Lindon is recruited by Fisher Gesha to forge scales for her due to his pure madra. Lindon is captured to work in the mines but is immediately rescued by Gesha, who says it won't happen it again. Lindon attempts to free the slaves working in the mine, but gets captured for real this time, as does Yerin. Eithan is also 'captured' though he actually came willingly. Lindon undergoes a lot of training, and after being stung five times by the venomous sandviper, ascends to iron with a Bloodforged body. Soon, Eithan gets them out, but Lindon is severely injured by Kral, but because of his iron body, survives, and kills Kral after Eithan reveals that Lindon was still alive to him. Jai Long demands retribution but after Eithan revealed that he was the Arelius Underlord, backs down, but Eithan promises Jai Long a duel in a year. With this, Lindon and Yerin are healed by the Fishers, and taken to the Arelius family.

This ends up pushing Lindon to stretch himself past his limits which leads to him killing a Highgold as an Iron later on. In doing so he accidentally enters into a feud with Jai Long who, having made a difficult and irreversible choice to save his sister, was shamed by his clan and had looked at his fellow Highgold as something of a brother.

==='''Blackflame'''===
Lindon goes to the Blackflame Empire and embarks one of his pure cores on the Path of Black Flame. Eithan shows him various powerful paths, before he settles on the Path of Black Flame. Eithan has Lindon bond with a Truegold Sacred Beast, named Orthos. This allows Lindon to instantly have a core producing Blackflame madra and advance to Jade. He then begins training with Yerin. After several months, the Arelius family within the city Serpents Grave is attacked. While under attack, Lindon and Orthos are forced to fight the chief of the Sandvipers and Kral's father, Gokren. Lindon's newly mastered Dragon's Breath takes his arm off. Just before this, he advanced to Lowgold, though he doesn't realize it. While this fight is going on, Yerin is fighting Jai Long. Jai Long is Truegold while Yerin is Lowgold, though she advances to Highgold during the fight, and due to the circumstances within the city, Jai Long is forced to retreat. After fighting and killing the Sandvipers with Orthos, Lindon sees a bloody and bruised Eithan. Eithan jokes that his ranking amongst the Underlords would soon go up, as a Skysworn was watching the fight. Eithan also shares that he had a marble from the Abidan, which is similar except for having a darker, black color.

==='''Skysworn'''===
Lindon fights with Jai Long. While he makes a good showing, Jai Long is too far advanced for Lindon to pull out the victor. He loses his arm in the fight, before it is interrupted by Jai Daishou. After the fight, Lindon is fitted for a prosthetic Remnant arm with a hunger binding. After inital reluctance and with the prompting of Yerin, Lindon joins the Skysworn to fight the emissaries of the newly awoken Bleeding Phoenix.

==='''Ghostwater'''===
Lindon, Yerin, Mercy, Renfei, and Bai Rou are sent on a mission to a pocket dimension known as 'Ghostwater'. Ghostwater was created by the Monarch level sacred artist 'Northstrider'. Northstrider is said to have vanished many years beforehand and is believed dead. The skysworn send Lindon and the others to investigate the status of Ghostwater and potential retrieve any useful artifacts left behind by Northstrider.

Upon arriving at the portal to Ghostwater, Lindon, Orthos, and Renfei enter alone and are taken by surprise to find a large number of unknown Truegold sacred artists waiting by the entrance portal. Renfei is then killed by one of the Truegolds revealed to be Akura Harmony. Lindon and Orthos flee the battle and are pursued by Ekeri, a Truegold golden dragon. Lindon takes refuge inside an underground vault wherein he discovers a pool known as 'The Dreamwell'. Water from The Dreamwell restores ones mental clarity as if they had just had a full nights rest. Inside The Dreamwell Lindon discovers a sentient construct named 'Dross' which guides him through the rest of Northstrider's facility.

Lindon takes advantage of the time with the dreamwell to train far faster than he is typically able, since he does not have to sleep when using the dreamwell as a supplement. He also discovers that the sacred beasts that live in Ghostwater provide extreme benefits to his physical body when eaten, due to their extremely high Madra concentrations. After being strengthened by Dreamwell training, and Sacred fish, Lindon is able to defeat Ekeri in a battle and escape The Dreamwell chamber.

Led by Dross, Lindon and Orthos proceed to another section of Ghostwater where Dross leads them to 'The spiritwell'. This well provides Madra on level with a top grade elixer and allows Lindon to quickly expand both of his cores. Within days, Lindon reaches High Gold in both cores. They are then met by 'Ziel' a Truegold disciple of the Beast King. Ziel proves to be relatively friendly to the group, and passively watches Lindon cycle and train using the Spirit Well, occasionally driving off a Sacred Beast threat. Ziel then tells Lindon that Ghostwater is collapsing more and more rapidly and encourages him to move on to the next section so that he may escape in time. He then gives Lindon several bottles of Spiritwell water that will be enough to advance him to Truegold.

Lindon proceeds to the next section of Ghostwater where he encounters 'The Lifewell'. He drinks from the Lifewell and strengthens his Lifeline to be 'as thick as a treetrunk' which will ensure Lindon will live an extremely long natural life and increased vitality.

Lindon then proceeds to the lowest level of Ghostwater where he confronts Akura Harmony. After a heated battle, Lindon and Orthos are able to defeat Akura Harmony after Dross uses Ghostwater to connect himself to The Wey, and essentially become 'a Presence'.

Lindon begs Akura Harmony to come with him as Ghostwater collapses. Harmony, too proud to accept Lindon's mercy vows revenge and refuses to come with him. Lindon then flees Ghostwater, leaving Harmony to die.

==='''Underlord'''===
Lindon heads to the Blackflame Empire to regroup with Eithan. Akura Charity, Sage of the Silver Heart and Mercy's distant aunt announces to the Blackflame empire and its neighbouring kingdom, the Seishen Kingdom about the Uncrowned Tournament. Since both the Blackflame empire and the Seishen kingdom are vassal states of the Akura family territory, they are allowed to participate in the uncrowned tournament, but only 3 members will be selected. To participate in the Uncrowned Tournament, the participant must be an Underlord and the age limit is 35 years. Since there are only a few underlords in both the Blackflame Empire and the Seishen kingdom, Charity opens a portal into the Nightwheel Valley, the training grounds of the Akura family, where the aura is much stonger, making it easier to advance for sacred artists. Eithan, Yerin, Lindon, Mercy and Orthos are one of the first to arrive at Nightwheel Valley, but they soon discover they have to fight for their place there.
==='''Uncrowned'''===
Lindon has been selected for the Uncrowned Tournament, but instead of going as a part of the team from the Blackflame empire, he is selected by Akura Charity to represent the main branch of the Akura family. She sees this as payment from Lindon for killing her promising candidate, Akura Harmony. Eithan, Yerin and Naru Saeya, Emperor Naru Huan's sister, make up the team representing the vassal states of the Akura family and the Blackflame empire.

Lindon is taken to the Akura homeland for training, where he faces extreme hostility from the other Akura underlords fighting for the last position on the Akura team. Mercy's younger brother, Akura Pride hates Lindon more than the others and treats him with contempt and disrespect. Initially, in the first months of training, Lindon is constantly challenged to duals by the other contestants and keeps losing most of the time, thus giving the idea to the others that he is weak. When the final day comes to select the third member of the Akura main team, all the underlords prepare to dual each other. Even though, Lindon is already a part of the team, he insists on fighting all of the underlords head on, at the same time. Lindon has gathered information about each of their techniques and with the help of Dross, he easily defeats all of them and only Akura Pride is left, filling the last spot on the team.

In the tournament itself, Lindon faces off against the most powerful Underlords on Cradle in a series of trials. The first round of the tournament is an individual event where all the participants are required to go through a series of challenges, testing their strength and skill. LIndon finishes 10th and Yerin finishes 11th, ahead of many other participants. Each of the qualified members in the top 64 move on to the next trial. As a reward, they receive a floating palace specially designed for each individual from the Ninecloud Court.

In the second round of the tournament, the contestants are placed on an open island. Golden crowns appear with fixed intervals and the objective is to keep the crown on your head without getting killed. Lindon, Yerin, Mercy and Eithan of the main protagonists succeed while Pride and Naru Saeya sacrifice their spots in the tournament for their team's sake. In the third round of the Tournament, Lindon faces off against [[Naian Blackflame]]. Instead of trying to win the fight, Lindon chooses to spend his fight curing Naian of his Blackflame induced madness.

==='''Wintersteel'''===
While trying to discover his Overlord revelation during his battle with Sopharanatoth, Lindon instead establishes his connection to the Void Icon, and advances to Sage. He is given a Wintersteel badge by Eithan, with the same symbol for "Empty" depicted on it much like his first Unsouled badge.

==='''Bloodline'''===
After the events of the Uncrowned King Tournament Lindon learns that the Wandering Titan is headed toward Sacred Valley. He begs Akura Charity to let him go evacuate his people, saying that he will go with or without her blessing. Charity agrees to let him go and provides several cloud ships and hundreds of Akura golds to help in the evacuation effort. Eithan, Yerin, Mercy and Ziel all accompany him to the Valley.

When they arrive they are attacked at the gates of the Heavens Glory school who mistake them for Wei exiles. They find that the Heavens Glory school has been attacked and is in ruins. The school elder accidentally reveals to Lindon that the Wei Exiles are his family and they are currently under siege by Heavens Glory. Lindon immediately leaves in search of them. He finds Orthos and his sister under attack and goes into a rage fueled frenzy. He get's so violent that he has to be restrained from killing the Heavens Glory attackers. After this, his team splits up to each go to a different clan or school.

Yerin accompanies Lindon to the Wei clan and they are immediately attacked upon entering. Despite this Lindon makes his way to the clan elders and explains that a monster is coming for the valley. They don't believe him even after Dross shows them his memories. In order to get them to obey he unveils his Underlord core (which they mistake for a Gold core) and forces them to evacuate. On the way to the exit of Sacred Valley, Lindon senses Heavens Glory jades on their way to intercept. Assuming they are there to attack he notifies his clan's elders and rushes to the vanguard to meet them. When he confronts them the Wei clan betray him and trap him and Yerin in a boundary field, hoping that they can kill him. Despite his weakened state and the boundary field he manages to get Yerin out and break through the barrier. He then hunts the elders down and attacks them. He permanently cripples the Wei Patriarchs core and injures the First Elder. He then sends them in the direction of the titan so their final thoughts can be about how they should have listened to him.

He makes his way to the Heavens Glory school as the Wandering Titan arrives earlier then expected. They take off with the little people they have saved. Meanwhile Yerin contacts the Monarchs and they bestow her Uncrowned Gift, and officially make her a Herald. She convinces Akura Malice to help her distract the titan so they can rescue more people. After Lindon's departure from the valley he is torn between trying to save more people, and getting away with the people he has already saved. He receives a message from Suriel and she helps him make up his mind. After his message he quickly advances to Overlord and rushes in with his friends to attack the titan. They are greatly outclassed in this fight and it's all they can do to defend from its attacks. Dross comes up with a plan and enacts it. He has each member of the team play a part to get Lindon in close to the titan. Lindon uses the hunger binding in his remnant arm and sucks some of the titans madra. He then feeds this madra to Dross and Dross puts a fox dream on the titan, this illusion makes the titan's attackers, as well as it's goal, disappear. The titan then leaves the valley to roam in search of power. Lindon relaxes as they've beat the titan but at a heavy cost. Lindon can no longer sense Dross in him. He can sense a swirl of power where Dross used to be, but the mind spirit is no longer able to speak to him.

As the residents of Sacred Valley funnel back in and try to salvage what has been destroyed, Lindon visits the Ancestors tomb. He senses a slight tear in the world and wills it open. He finds that it's the personal void space of the Sword Sage. He then senses a familiar presence in the room and confronts it. Elder Whisper emerges and explains that he kept the space from collapsing in the hope that Lindon would return. He shows Lindon the reason that the Sword Sage came to Sacred Valley two years ago and the key to open the Labyrinth.

=='''Powers and Abilities'''==
As an Unsouled, Lindon effectively started two stages behind most Sacred Artists, further limited by the natural restrictions and the "curse" of the Sacred Valley and without a natural predisposition towards any of 4 classes of techniques.

Scripts: Due to his natural and clan-imposed limitations, Lindon's only avenue of practicing the sacred arts within his clan was through scripts. While not particularly talented, he has shown some versatility in using them and moderate skill in drawing them.

Heart of Twin Stars: While at the Foundation stage, before cycling elemental vital aura from the world, Lindon split his core.

*Pure Madra: Composed of pure madra.
*Blackflame Madra: Composed of fire and destruction madra.

Soulsmithing: Pure madra gives Lindon solid overall compatibility with most constructs, although with a weaker effect than specialized madra types.

Little Blue: A Sylvan Riverseed. Originally fed madra and scales by Lindon, her growth is rapidly advanced by Eithan feeding her a drop of soulfire. Her natural purification abilities drain her, but can counteract the corrosive effect of Blackflame madra on the mind, body, and madra channels.

Orthos: Lindon's contract with Orthos allows him to fill one of his cores with Blackflame madra, lessening the his burden. Due to Orthos being a Truegold, this allowed Lindon's Blackflame core to quickly advance from Iron to Jade and later to Lowgold, as if his core was treated with high grade elixirs.

Remnant Arm: By activating the hunger binding on the arm, Lindon can draw out madra from the enemy. In a less concentrated form, he can then vent it back at them as a distraction.

Dross: The remnants of one of Northstrider's attempts in Ghostwater to create mental enhancement tools and mimic the Presences of the Abidan. Originally created as a memory construct, Dross has gained further abilities through soaking in high grade mental elixirs, consuming dream madra, and fusing with an Eye of the Deep. He temporarily connected with the collective of information at the metal tree in Ghostwater, gathering data from other Eyes of the Deep that had been taken through the world.

In combat against an enemy with well-known, recorded, fully defined capabilities, Dross can simulate and create a battle plan that ensures the greatest chance of success. He also acts as general mental enhancement, allowing Lindon to better focus on battle. While Soulsmithing, Dross can simulate the effect of madra interactions, allowing Lindon's soulsmithing success rate for straightforward constructs to exceed that of experts like Fisher Gesha.

====Sacred Art Ranks====
As a Sacred Artists progresses through the ranks, they naturally gain access to certain abilities

*Foundation: At the Foundation level, Sacred Artists can cycle madra to slightly strengthen their body or activate scripts.
*Copper: Copper Sight
*Iron: At the Iron level, Sacred Artists gain an Iron Body that increases physical abilities. Lindon's Bloodforged Iron body, catalyzed using the venom and blood from nearly have a dozen sandvipers, enables rapid healing and recovery from poisons and physical damage at an extremely high madra cost.
*Jade: Jade senses
*Gold: Lindon advanced from Jade to Lowgold using a further infusion of Blackflame Madra from Orthos, without a remnant. He lacks a true Goldsign beyond red eyes when channeling Blackflame Madra
*Underlord: Reborn in Soulfire, Lindon's body is able to push farther and he is able to activate Underlord-level weapons.

====Techniques====
Foundation Cycling Technique: A basic cycling technique taught to Foundation-level children of the Wei clan.

Empty Palm: A pure Madra technique that focuses it into a simple palm thrust. When making contact with the core of an enemy, it disrupts his or her madra. This leaves the enemy powerless for a few seconds, unable to muster the energy to control any techniques or even their own limbs. When sufficiently powerful, it can destroy the core of an enemy, preventing them from even leaving a remnant.

Heaven and Earth Purification Wheel: A madra cycling technique focused on expanding madra capacity. Eithan teaches Lindon this technique as it is vital to training his pure madra core, which cannot advance through taking in vital aura from the outside world.

Burning Cloak: The Dragon Advances. The Fierce Outer Burning Robe technique is an Enforcer technique. It is a basic full-body Enforcement using Blackflame Madra, protecting and powering the body by madra while in use. It allows for the release of explosive force of movement.

Dragon Breath: The Dragon Destroys. The Fierce River of Fierce Flowing Breath technique is a Striker Technique. Blackflame madra is gathered in the hands, rotated, and condensed repeatedly until being released as a solid beam that eradicates everything in its path.

Void Dragon's Dance: The Dragon Conquers. In one moment, the flames devour everything on the battlefield, leaving only smoke and dust. Like many Ruler techniques, it is capable of great destruction, but requires appropriate vital aura in the environment, and time to build and concentrate on the vital aura to take control.

Soul Cloak: An Enforcer technique utilizing Lindon's pure madra core. Compared to the Burning Cloak, it allows for more measured power output.

The Dragon Descends: Lindon's ultimate attack from his dragon path. All his techniques from the Blackflame Path Forged on his hand. He forges claws of Blackflame madra on his hand like a glove with a miniature Void Dragon's Dance swirling around it, Dragon's Breath filling it like blood and a Burning Cloak surrounding it all. Takes all his spirit and a significant amount of his soulfire to bring it to life.

Hollow Domain: A pure madra technique developed in ''Wintersteel''. With the help of Little Blue's madra, Lindon can create a sphere of pure madra that weakens or deletes any techniques that enters. This technique makes Lindon's eyes glow a sapphire-blue. It is not specified what kind of technique it is, but it was inspired by Eithen's Armor of the Hollow King technique.

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Wei Shi Lindon

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'''Wei Shi''' '''Lindon Arelius''' is the primary protagonist of ''Cradle''. He was born to the Shi family of the Wei Clan in Sacred Valley and was considered Unsouled due to a madra deficiency. He is currently an Overlord with the Akura family.

==Appearance==
Lindon is a tall man with a brawny physique. He often looks like he is spoiling for a fight with his rough face, tall build and broad shoulders. He has black hair and dark brown eyes. His eyes turn black with red irises when he cycles Blackflame madra.

After losing his arm, he obtains a misty prosthetic created through Soulsmithing. The prosthetic uses a hunger binding taken from the Ancestors Spear that allows it to consume madra, but due to its nature as Remnant he needs to cycle madra through it to solidify it and allow it to interact with solid inanimate objects.

After advancing to Underlord, his features smooth out. His prosthetic remnant arm takes on the shape of a normal arm though it maintains its ivory white color. He also Forges the Archstone into his arm in order for the Gold Level prosthetic to survive the transition into the Lord Realm once washed in soulfire.

==Personality==
Lindon is very polite and deferential due to growing up as an Unsouled, by far the least valuable member of the clan. Because of his madra deficiency, he was treated with mild scorn within his clan. Without power, he was considered to be inconsequential at best and a little better than a punching bag at worst. In response to this treatment, he cultivated a very humble attitude demonstrated by his habit of always referring to himself as “this one” which seems to imply that he is so low as to not deserve recognition. This demeanor, though, has also made it easy for him to hide his dangerously clever mind without even intending to do so.

Lindon has a keen interest in Soulsmithing, his mother's profession. He is very focused on advancement due to his time as weak and his vision from Suriel about the future calamity in Sacred Valley. He is relentless in his goal to save Sacred Valley, no matter the cost.

During his time in the Wei Clan he was also forbidden from learning any manner of sacred arts as well as utilizing any clan resources for advancement. Lindon searched desperately for ways to improve himself on his own, doing whatever it takes to move forward. He relies on plans, tricks, and loopholes to get ahead.

Lindon is kind and caring, sometimes to the point of naivety due to unfamiliarity with the world outside of Sacred Valley.

==Biography==

===Daily Timeline===
[[Lindon Timeline]]

==='''Unsouled'''===
Lindon is the youngest child of Jaran and Seisha, Irons of the Wei clan. In his youth, Lindon failed the Spritual Origin madra affinity test and was labeled an Unsouled, cursed of the heavens. As such he was forbidden to learn the Sacred Arts of the clan and was denied a path. His clan refused to invest resources to help him advance due to this deficiency. As a result he remained at the Foundation rank long past the age when children advance to Copper.

Prior to the Festival, Seisha sent Lindon to find the white orus, a spirit fruit. A normal orus fruit was like a pure white peach, and grew only in Sacred Valley. Fruit from an ancestral orus tree looked no different, but a bite would deliver him years' worth of purified vital aura that he could process into madra. As Lindon began to harvest the spirit fruit, Teris soon emerged from the woods, hair mussed and covered in scratches. He was hunting a snowfox, which was illegal. Angered that Lindon had interrupted his hunt, Teris punched the bark and leaving the imprint of his fist in the wood. The tree bent in the middle, splintered and fell apart. As a result, a remnant rose from the tree’s corpse. Immediately, Teris ran deeper in the woods without a glance back. Lindon used scripts and a crystal flask to distract the remnant and retrieve the spirit fruit from the remnant. Seisha was able to restore the remnant of the spirit fruit and split it between Kelsa and Lindon.

Soon, Lindon and Teris were called before the First Elder to recount the confrontation. Since Teris had abandoned a child of the Foundation Stage, he was to receive three lashes. Lindon, however, was to speak with Elder Whisper. Elder Whisper told Lindon that the Path of the White Fox was not for him and Lindon would have to forge his own path. During the public whipping of Wei Mon Teris, Wei Mon Eri challenged Wei Shi Lindon to a duel of honor before the entire clan. Lindon was forced to accept the duel to surrender.

Lindon spent his time scouring the Clan archives searching for a suitable path. There he found a book called, "''Heart of Twin Stars".'' The book taught two techniques, ''Empty Palm'' and ''Heart of Twin Stars.'' Since Lindon would be shamed in the duel regardless of the outcome due to his age and deficiency, he and Kelsa devised a plan. Lindon would challenge Wei Mon Keth, Teris and Eri's father. Lindon requested a duel in which each party would have one strike each. The first to lose his footing is defeated. Lindon quickly executed the empty palm and punched Keth in the gut. Immediately, Lindon surrendered the duel.

During the seven years festival held by the Wei Clan, Lindon was a victim of a temporal divergence. Due to the nature of this event, he ended up meeting Suriel, the Phoenix, Sixth Judge of the Abidan Court. Suriel had taken an interest in Lindon after seeing him give his life in what he knew to be a futile effort to stop a being who had transcended Cradle, Li Markuth. She admired his actions and, as something of a reward, showed him his most likely fated future. During this vision, Lindon discovers that Sacred Valley would be destroyed by a Dreadgod (the Titan) a being so powerful that it crushes the entire valley underfoot. Desperate to save his home, despite his treatment, Lindon begs the “Celestial Messenger” to show him a way to prevent this tragedy from occurring. In response, he is taken by Suriel to see several individuals (The Eight Man Empire, The Monarch Northstrider, and Luminous Queen Sha Miara) stating that they each had the power to save his homeland. At first, this is believed to be the answer to his question but he is proven wrong as Suriel asks him what they have in common. Unable to come up with the correct answer he is told that it boils down to one simple thing: Drive. “...any Sage will tell you that all paths can be reduced to one: Improve yourself.” Thus begins Wei Shi Lindon’s journey. After time was reversed by Suriel, he easily won the tournament, via his Empty Palm, and went to the Heaven's Glory school, only to leave almost immediately after with Yerin after killing several irons and a jade.

==='''Soulsmith'''===
After escaping from the Sacred Valley, Yerin and Lindon enter territory of the Sandvipers. Again, they soon leave, and enter Fisher territory. Yerin does jobs for the Fishers, such as helping them kill off remnants, while Lindon is recruited by Fisher Gesha to forge scales for her due to his pure madra. Lindon is captured to work in the mines but is immediately rescued by Gesha, who says it won't happen it again. Lindon attempts to free the slaves working in the mine, but gets captured for real this time, as does Yerin. Eithan is also 'captured' though he actually came willingly. Lindon undergoes a lot of training, and after being stung five times by the venomous sandviper, ascends to iron with a Bloodforged body. Soon, Eithan gets them out, but Lindon is severely injured by Kral, but because of his iron body, survives, and kills Kral after Eithan reveals that Lindon was still alive to him. Jai Long demands retribution but after Eithan revealed that he was the Arelius Underlord, backs down, but Eithan promises Jai Long a duel in a year. With this, Lindon and Yerin are healed by the Fishers, and taken to the Arelius family.

This ends up pushing Lindon to stretch himself past his limits which leads to him killing a Highgold as an Iron later on. In doing so he accidentally enters into a feud with Jai Long who, having made a difficult and irreversible choice to save his sister, was shamed by his clan and had looked at his fellow Highgold as something of a brother.

==='''Blackflame'''===
Lindon goes to the Blackflame Empire and embarks one of his pure cores on the Path of Black Flame. Eithan shows him various powerful paths, before he settles on the Path of Black Flame. Eithan has Lindon bond with a Truegold Sacred Beast, named Orthos. This allows Lindon to instantly have a core producing Blackflame madra and advance to Jade. He then begins training with Yerin. After several months, the Arelius family within the city Serpents Grave is attacked. While under attack, Lindon and Orthos are forced to fight the chief of the Sandvipers and Kral's father, Gokren. Lindon's newly mastered Dragon's Breath takes his arm off. Just before this, he advanced to Lowgold, though he doesn't realize it. While this fight is going on, Yerin is fighting Jai Long. Jai Long is Truegold while Yerin is Lowgold, though she advances to Highgold during the fight, and due to the circumstances within the city, Jai Long is forced to retreat. After fighting and killing the Sandvipers with Orthos, Lindon sees a bloody and bruised Eithan. Eithan jokes that his ranking amongst the Underlords would soon go up, as a Skysworn was watching the fight. Eithan also shares that he had a marble from the Abidan, which is similar except for having a darker, black color.

==='''Skysworn'''===
Lindon fights with Jai Long. While he makes a good showing, Jai Long is too far advanced for Lindon to pull out the victor. He loses his arm in the fight, before it is interrupted by Jai Daishou. After the fight, Lindon is fitted for a prosthetic Remnant arm with a hunger binding. After inital reluctance and with the prompting of Yerin, Lindon joins the Skysworn to fight the emissaries of the newly awoken Bleeding Phoenix.

==='''Ghostwater'''===
Lindon, Yerin, Mercy, Renfei, and Bai Rou are sent on a mission to a pocket dimension known as 'Ghostwater'. Ghostwater was created by the Monarch level sacred artist 'Northstrider'. Northstrider is said to have vanished many years beforehand and is believed dead. The skysworn send Lindon and the others to investigate the status of Ghostwater and potential retrieve any useful artifacts left behind by Northstrider.

Upon arriving at the portal to Ghostwater, Lindon, Orthos, and Renfei enter alone and are taken by surprise to find a large number of unknown Truegold sacred artists waiting by the entrance portal. Renfei is then killed by one of the Truegolds revealed to be Akura Harmony. Lindon and Orthos flee the battle and are pursued by Ekeri, a Truegold golden dragon. Lindon takes refuge inside an underground vault wherein he discovers a pool known as 'The Dreamwell'. Water from The Dreamwell restores ones mental clarity as if they had just had a full nights rest. Inside The Dreamwell Lindon discovers a sentient construct named 'Dross' which guides him through the rest of Northstrider's facility.

Lindon takes advantage of the time with the dreamwell to train far faster than he is typically able, since he does not have to sleep when using the dreamwell as a supplement. He also discovers that the sacred beasts that live in Ghostwater provide extreme benefits to his physical body when eaten, due to their extremely high Madra concentrations. After being strengthened by Dreamwell training, and Sacred fish, Lindon is able to defeat Ekeri in a battle and escape The Dreamwell chamber.

Led by Dross, Lindon and Orthos proceed to another section of Ghostwater where Dross leads them to 'The spiritwell'. This well provides Madra on level with a top grade elixer and allows Lindon to quickly expand both of his cores. Within days, Lindon reaches High Gold in both cores. They are then met by 'Ziel' a Truegold disciple of the Beast King. Ziel proves to be relatively friendly to the group, and passively watches Lindon cycle and train using the Spirit Well, occasionally driving off a Sacred Beast threat. Ziel then tells Lindon that Ghostwater is collapsing more and more rapidly and encourages him to move on to the next section so that he may escape in time. He then gives Lindon several bottles of Spiritwell water that will be enough to advance him to Truegold.

Lindon proceeds to the next section of Ghostwater where he encounters 'The Lifewell'. He drinks from the Lifewell and strengthens his Lifeline to be 'as thick as a treetrunk' which will ensure Lindon will live an extremely long natural life and increased vitality.

Lindon then proceeds to the lowest level of Ghostwater where he confronts Akura Harmony. After a heated battle, Lindon and Orthos are able to defeat Akura Harmony after Dross uses Ghostwater to connect himself to The Wey, and essentially become 'a Presence'.

Lindon begs Akura Harmony to come with him as Ghostwater collapses. Harmony, too proud to accept Lindon's mercy vows revenge and refuses to come with him. Lindon then flees Ghostwater, leaving Harmony to die.

==='''Underlord'''===
Lindon heads to the Blackflame Empire to regroup with Eithan. Akura Charity, Sage of the Silver Heart and Mercy's distant aunt announces to the Blackflame empire and its neighbouring kingdom, the Seishen Kingdom about the Uncrowned Tournament. Since both the Blackflame empire and the Seishen kingdom are vassal states of the Akura family territory, they are allowed to participate in the uncrowned tournament, but only 3 members will be selected. To participate in the Uncrowned Tournament, the participant must be an Underlord and the age limit is 35 years. Since there are only a few underlords in both the Blackflame Empire and the Seishen kingdom, Charity opens a portal into the Nightwheel Valley, the training grounds of the Akura family, where the aura is much stonger, making it easier to advance for sacred artists. Eithan, Yerin, Lindon, Mercy and Orthos are one of the first to arrive at Nightwheel Valley, but they soon discover they have to fight for their place there.
==='''Uncrowned'''===
Lindon has been selected for the Uncrowned Tournament, but instead of going as a part of the team from the Blackflame empire, he is selected by Akura Charity to represent the main branch of the Akura family. She sees this as payment from Lindon for killing her promising candidate, Akura Harmony. Eithan, Yerin and Naru Saeya, Emperor Naru Huan's sister, make up the team representing the vassal states of the Akura family and the Blackflame empire.

Lindon is taken to the Akura homeland for training, where he faces extreme hostility from the other Akura underlords fighting for the last position on the Akura team. Mercy's younger brother, Akura Pride hates Lindon more than the others and treats him with contempt and disrespect. Initially, in the first months of training, Lindon is constantly challenged to duals by the other contestants and keeps losing most of the time, thus giving the idea to the others that he is weak. When the final day comes to select the third member of the Akura main team, all the underlords prepare to dual each other. Even though, Lindon is already a part of the team, he insists on fighting all of the underlords head on, at the same time. Lindon has gathered information about each of their techniques and with the help of Dross, he easily defeats all of them and only Akura Pride is left, filling the last spot on the team.

In the tournament itself, Lindon faces off against the most powerful Underlords on Cradle in a series of trials. The first round of the tournament is an individual event where all the participants are required to go through a series of challenges, testing their strength and skill. LIndon finishes 10th and Yerin finishes 11th, ahead of many other participants. Each of the qualified members in the top 64 move on to the next trial. As a reward, they receive a floating palace specially designed for each individual from the Ninecloud Court.

In the second round of the tournament, the contestants are placed on an open island. Golden crowns appear with fixed intervals and the objective is to keep the crown on your head without getting killed. Lindon, Yerin, Mercy and Eithan of the main protagonists succeed while Pride and Naru Saeya sacrifice their spots in the tournament for their team's sake. In the third round of the Tournament, Lindon faces off against [[Naian Blackflame]]. Instead of trying to win the fight, Lindon chooses to spend his fight curing Naian of his Blackflame induced madness.

==='''Wintersteel'''===
While trying to discover his Overlord revelation during his battle with Sopharanatoth, Lindon instead establishes his connection to the Void Icon, and advances to Sage. He is given a Wintersteel badge by Eithan, with the same symbol for "Empty" depicted on it much like his first Unsouled badge.

=='''Powers and Abilities'''==
As an Unsouled, Lindon effectively started two stages behind most Sacred Artists, further limited by the natural restrictions and the "curse" of the Sacred Valley and without a natural predisposition towards any of 4 classes of techniques.

Scripts: Due to his natural and clan-imposed limitations, Lindon's only avenue of practicing the sacred arts within his clan was through scripts. While not particularly talented, he has shown some versatility in using them and moderate skill in drawing them.

Heart of Twin Stars: While at the Foundation stage, before cycling elemental vital aura from the world, Lindon split his core.

*Pure Madra: Composed of pure madra.
*Blackflame Madra: Composed of fire and destruction madra.

Soulsmithing: Pure madra gives Lindon solid overall compatibility with most constructs, although with a weaker effect than specialized madra types.

Little Blue: A Sylvan Riverseed. Originally fed madra and scales by Lindon, her growth is rapidly advanced by Eithan feeding her a drop of soulfire. Her natural purification abilities drain her, but can counteract the corrosive effect of Blackflame madra on the mind, body, and madra channels.

Orthos: Lindon's contract with Orthos allows him to fill one of his cores with Blackflame madra, lessening the his burden. Due to Orthos being a Truegold, this allowed Lindon's Blackflame core to quickly advance from Iron to Jade and later to Lowgold, as if his core was treated with high grade elixirs.

Remnant Arm: By activating the hunger binding on the arm, Lindon can draw out madra from the enemy. In a less concentrated form, he can then vent it back at them as a distraction.

Dross: The remnants of one of Northstrider's attempts in Ghostwater to create mental enhancement tools and mimic the Presences of the Abidan. Originally created as a memory construct, Dross has gained further abilities through soaking in high grade mental elixirs, consuming dream madra, and fusing with an Eye of the Deep. He temporarily connected with the collective of information at the metal tree in Ghostwater, gathering data from other Eyes of the Deep that had been taken through the world.

In combat against an enemy with well-known, recorded, fully defined capabilities, Dross can simulate and create a battle plan that ensures the greatest chance of success. He also acts as general mental enhancement, allowing Lindon to better focus on battle. While Soulsmithing, Dross can simulate the effect of madra interactions, allowing Lindon's soulsmithing success rate for straightforward constructs to exceed that of experts like Fisher Gesha.

====Sacred Art Ranks====
As a Sacred Artists progresses through the ranks, they naturally gain access to certain abilities

*Foundation: At the Foundation level, Sacred Artists can cycle madra to slightly strengthen their body or activate scripts.
*Copper: Copper Sight
*Iron: At the Iron level, Sacred Artists gain an Iron Body that increases physical abilities. Lindon's Bloodforged Iron body, catalyzed using the venom and blood from nearly have a dozen sandvipers, enables rapid healing and recovery from poisons and physical damage at an extremely high madra cost.
*Jade: Jade senses
*Gold: Lindon advanced from Jade to Lowgold using a further infusion of Blackflame Madra from Orthos, without a remnant. He lacks a true Goldsign beyond red eyes when channeling Blackflame Madra
*Underlord: Reborn in Soulfire, Lindon's body is able to push farther and he is able to activate Underlord-level weapons.

====Techniques====
Foundation Cycling Technique: A basic cycling technique taught to Foundation-level children of the Wei clan.

Empty Palm: A pure Madra technique that focuses it into a simple palm thrust. When making contact with the core of an enemy, it disrupts his or her madra. This leaves the enemy powerless for a few seconds, unable to muster the energy to control any techniques or even their own limbs. When sufficiently powerful, it can destroy the core of an enemy, preventing them from even leaving a remnant.

Heaven and Earth Purification Wheel: A madra cycling technique focused on expanding madra capacity. Eithan teaches Lindon this technique as it is vital to training his pure madra core, which cannot advance through taking in vital aura from the outside world.

Burning Cloak: The Dragon Advances. The Fierce Outer Burning Robe technique is an Enforcer technique. It is a basic full-body Enforcement using Blackflame Madra, protecting and powering the body by madra while in use. It allows for the release of explosive force of movement.

Dragon Breath: The Dragon Destroys. The Fierce River of Fierce Flowing Breath technique is a Striker Technique. Blackflame madra is gathered in the hands, rotated, and condensed repeatedly until being released as a solid beam that eradicates everything in its path.

Void Dragon's Dance: The Dragon Conquers. In one moment, the flames devour everything on the battlefield, leaving only smoke and dust. Like many Ruler techniques, it is capable of great destruction, but requires appropriate vital aura in the environment, and time to build and concentrate on the vital aura to take control.

Soul Cloak: An Enforcer technique utilizing Lindon's pure madra core. Compared to the Burning Cloak, it allows for more measured power output.

The Dragon Descends: Lindon's ultimate attack from his dragon path. All his techniques from the Blackflame Path Forged on his hand. He forges claws of Blackflame madra on his hand like a glove with a miniature Void Dragon's Dance swirling around it, Dragon's Breath filling it like blood and a Burning Cloak surrounding it all. Takes all his spirit and a significant amount of his soulfire to bring it to life.

Hollow Domain: A pure madra technique developed in ''Wintersteel''. With the help of Little Blue's madra, Lindon can create a sphere of pure madra that weakens or deletes any techniques that enters. This technique makes Lindon's eyes glow a sapphire-blue. It is not specified what kind of technique it is, but it was inspired by Eithen's Armor of the Hollow King technique.

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Wei Shi Lindon

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'''Wei Shi''' '''Lindon Arelius''' is the primary protagonist of ''Cradle''. He was born to the Shi family of the Wei Clan in Sacred Valley and was considered Unsouled due to a madra deficiency. Currently, he is training with the Akura family in preparation for the Uncrowned King tournament as an Underlord sacred artist on the Path of Twin Stars and the Path of Black Flame.

==Appearance==
Lindon is a tall man with a brawny physique. He often looks like he is spoiling for a fight with his rough face, tall build and broad shoulders. He has black hair and dark brown eyes. His eyes turn black with red irises when he cycles Blackflame madra.

After losing his arm, he obtains a misty prosthetic created through Soulsmithing. The prosthetic uses a hunger binding taken from the Ancestors Spear that allows it to consume madra, but due to its nature as Remnant he needs to cycle madra through it to solidify it and allow it to interact with solid inanimate objects.

After advancing to Underlord, his features smooth out. His prosthetic remnant arm takes on the shape of a normal arm though it maintains its ivory white color. He also Forges the Archstone into his arm in order for the Gold Level prosthetic to survive the transition into the Lord Realm once washed in soulfire.

==Personality==
Lindon is very polite and deferential due to growing up as an Unsouled, by far the least valuable member of the clan. Because of his madra deficiency, he was treated with mild scorn within his clan. Without power, he was considered to be inconsequential at best and a little better than a punching bag at worst. In response to this treatment, he cultivated a very humble attitude demonstrated by his habit of always referring to himself as “this one” which seems to imply that he is so low as to not deserve recognition. This demeanor, though, has also made it easy for him to hide his dangerously clever mind without even intending to do so.

Lindon has a keen interest in Soulsmithing, his mother's profession. He is very focused on advancement due to his time as weak and his vision from Suriel about the future calamity in Sacred Valley. He is relentless in his goal to save Sacred Valley, no matter the cost.

During his time in the Wei Clan he was also forbidden from learning any manner of sacred arts as well as utilizing any clan resources for advancement. Lindon searched desperately for ways to improve himself on his own, doing whatever it takes to move forward. He relies on plans, tricks, and loopholes to get ahead.

Lindon is kind and caring, sometimes to the point of naivety due to unfamiliarity with the world outside of Sacred Valley.

==Biography==

===Daily Timeline===
[[Lindon Timeline]]

==='''Unsouled'''===
Lindon is the youngest child of Jaran and Seisha, Irons of the Wei clan. In his youth, Lindon failed the Spritual Origin madra affinity test and was labeled an Unsouled, cursed of the heavens. As such he was forbidden to learn the Sacred Arts of the clan and was denied a path. His clan refused to invest resources to help him advance due to this deficiency. As a result he remained at the Foundation rank long past the age when children advance to Copper.

Prior to the Festival, Seisha sent Lindon to find the white orus, a spirit fruit. A normal orus fruit was like a pure white peach, and grew only in Sacred Valley. Fruit from an ancestral orus tree looked no different, but a bite would deliver him years' worth of purified vital aura that he could process into madra. As Lindon began to harvest the spirit fruit, Teris soon emerged from the woods, hair mussed and covered in scratches. He was hunting a snowfox, which was illegal. Angered that Lindon had interrupted his hunt, Teris punched the bark and leaving the imprint of his fist in the wood. The tree bent in the middle, splintered and fell apart. As a result, a remnant rose from the tree’s corpse. Immediately, Teris ran deeper in the woods without a glance back. Lindon used scripts and a crystal flask to distract the remnant and retrieve the spirit fruit from the remnant. Seisha was able to restore the remnant of the spirit fruit and split it between Kelsa and Lindon.

Soon, Lindon and Teris were called before the First Elder to recount the confrontation. Since Teris had abandoned a child of the Foundation Stage, he was to receive three lashes. Lindon, however, was to speak with Elder Whisper. Elder Whisper told Lindon that the Path of the White Fox was not for him and Lindon would have to forge his own path. During the public whipping of Wei Mon Teris, Wei Mon Eri challenged Wei Shi Lindon to a duel of honor before the entire clan. Lindon was forced to accept the duel to surrender.

Lindon spent his time scouring the Clan archives searching for a suitable path. There he found a book called, "''Heart of Twin Stars".'' The book taught two techniques, ''Empty Palm'' and ''Heart of Twin Stars.'' Since Lindon would be shamed in the duel regardless of the outcome due to his age and deficiency, he and Kelsa devised a plan. Lindon would challenge Wei Mon Keth, Teris and Eri's father. Lindon requested a duel in which each party would have one strike each. The first to lose his footing is defeated. Lindon quickly executed the empty palm and punched Keth in the gut. Immediately, Lindon surrendered the duel.

During the seven years festival held by the Wei Clan, Lindon was a victim of a temporal divergence. Due to the nature of this event, he ended up meeting Suriel, the Phoenix, Sixth Judge of the Abidan Court. Suriel had taken an interest in Lindon after seeing him give his life in what he knew to be a futile effort to stop a being who had transcended Cradle, Li Markuth. She admired his actions and, as something of a reward, showed him his most likely fated future. During this vision, Lindon discovers that Sacred Valley would be destroyed by a Dreadgod (the Titan) a being so powerful that it crushes the entire valley underfoot. Desperate to save his home, despite his treatment, Lindon begs the “Celestial Messenger” to show him a way to prevent this tragedy from occurring. In response, he is taken by Suriel to see several individuals (The Eight Man Empire, The Monarch Northstrider, and Luminous Queen Sha Miara) stating that they each had the power to save his homeland. At first, this is believed to be the answer to his question but he is proven wrong as Suriel asks him what they have in common. Unable to come up with the correct answer he is told that it boils down to one simple thing: Drive. “...any Sage will tell you that all paths can be reduced to one: Improve yourself.” Thus begins Wei Shi Lindon’s journey. After time was reversed by Suriel, he easily won the tournament, via his Empty Palm, and went to the Heaven's Glory school, only to leave almost immediately after with Yerin after killing several irons and a jade.

==='''Soulsmith'''===
After escaping from the Sacred Valley, Yerin and Lindon enter territory of the Sandvipers. Again, they soon leave, and enter Fisher territory. Yerin does jobs for the Fishers, such as helping them kill off remnants, while Lindon is recruited by Fisher Gesha to forge scales for her due to his pure madra. Lindon is captured to work in the mines but is immediately rescued by Gesha, who says it won't happen it again. Lindon attempts to free the slaves working in the mine, but gets captured for real this time, as does Yerin. Eithan is also 'captured' though he actually came willingly. Lindon undergoes a lot of training, and after being stung five times by the venomous sandviper, ascends to iron with a Bloodforged body. Soon, Eithan gets them out, but Lindon is severely injured by Kral, but because of his iron body, survives, and kills Kral after Eithan reveals that Lindon was still alive to him. Jai Long demands retribution but after Eithan revealed that he was the Arelius Underlord, backs down, but Eithan promises Jai Long a duel in a year. With this, Lindon and Yerin are healed by the Fishers, and taken to the Arelius family.

This ends up pushing Lindon to stretch himself past his limits which leads to him killing a Highgold as an Iron later on. In doing so he accidentally enters into a feud with Jai Long who, having made a difficult and irreversible choice to save his sister, was shamed by his clan and had looked at his fellow Highgold as something of a brother.

==='''Blackflame'''===
Lindon goes to the Blackflame Empire and embarks one of his pure cores on the Path of Black Flame. Eithan shows him various powerful paths, before he settles on the Path of Black Flame. Eithan has Lindon bond with a Truegold Sacred Beast, named Orthos. This allows Lindon to instantly have a core producing Blackflame madra and advance to Jade. He then begins training with Yerin. After several months, the Arelius family within the city Serpents Grave is attacked. While under attack, Lindon and Orthos are forced to fight the chief of the Sandvipers and Kral's father, Gokren. Lindon's newly mastered Dragon's Breath takes his arm off. Just before this, he advanced to Lowgold, though he doesn't realize it. While this fight is going on, Yerin is fighting Jai Long. Jai Long is Truegold while Yerin is Lowgold, though she advances to Highgold during the fight, and due to the circumstances within the city, Jai Long is forced to retreat. After fighting and killing the Sandvipers with Orthos, Lindon sees a bloody and bruised Eithan. Eithan jokes that his ranking amongst the Underlords would soon go up, as a Skysworn was watching the fight. Eithan also shares that he had a marble from the Abidan, which is similar except for having a darker, black color.

==='''Skysworn'''===
Lindon fights with Jai Long. While he makes a good showing, Jai Long is too far advanced for Lindon to pull out the victor. He loses his arm in the fight, before it is interrupted by Jai Daishou. After the fight, Lindon is fitted for a prosthetic Remnant arm with a hunger binding. After inital reluctance and with the prompting of Yerin, Lindon joins the Skysworn to fight the emissaries of the newly awoken Bleeding Phoenix.

==='''Ghostwater'''===
Lindon, Yerin, Mercy, Renfei, and Bai Rou are sent on a mission to a pocket dimension known as 'Ghostwater'. Ghostwater was created by the Monarch level sacred artist 'Northstrider'. Northstrider is said to have vanished many years beforehand and is believed dead. The skysworn send Lindon and the others to investigate the status of Ghostwater and potential retrieve any useful artifacts left behind by Northstrider.

Upon arriving at the portal to Ghostwater, Lindon, Orthos, and Renfei enter alone and are taken by surprise to find a large number of unknown Truegold sacred artists waiting by the entrance portal. Renfei is then killed by one of the Truegolds revealed to be Akura Harmony. Lindon and Orthos flee the battle and are pursued by Ekeri, a Truegold golden dragon. Lindon takes refuge inside an underground vault wherein he discovers a pool known as 'The Dreamwell'. Water from The Dreamwell restores ones mental clarity as if they had just had a full nights rest. Inside The Dreamwell Lindon discovers a sentient construct named 'Dross' which guides him through the rest of Northstrider's facility.

Lindon takes advantage of the time with the dreamwell to train far faster than he is typically able, since he does not have to sleep when using the dreamwell as a supplement. He also discovers that the sacred beasts that live in Ghostwater provide extreme benefits to his physical body when eaten, due to their extremely high Madra concentrations. After being strengthened by Dreamwell training, and Sacred fish, Lindon is able to defeat Ekeri in a battle and escape The Dreamwell chamber.

Led by Dross, Lindon and Orthos proceed to another section of Ghostwater where Dross leads them to 'The spiritwell'. This well provides Madra on level with a top grade elixer and allows Lindon to quickly expand both of his cores. Within days, Lindon reaches High Gold in both cores. They are then met by 'Ziel' a Truegold disciple of the Beast King. Ziel proves to be relatively friendly to the group, and passively watches Lindon cycle and train using the Spirit Well, occasionally driving off a Sacred Beast threat. Ziel then tells Lindon that Ghostwater is collapsing more and more rapidly and encourages him to move on to the next section so that he may escape in time. He then gives Lindon several bottles of Spiritwell water that will be enough to advance him to Truegold.

Lindon proceeds to the next section of Ghostwater where he encounters 'The Lifewell'. He drinks from the Lifewell and strengthens his Lifeline to be 'as thick as a treetrunk' which will ensure Lindon will live an extremely long natural life and increased vitality.

Lindon then proceeds to the lowest level of Ghostwater where he confronts Akura Harmony. After a heated battle, Lindon and Orthos are able to defeat Akura Harmony after Dross uses Ghostwater to connect himself to The Wey, and essentially become 'a Presence'.

Lindon begs Akura Harmony to come with him as Ghostwater collapses. Harmony, too proud to accept Lindon's mercy vows revenge and refuses to come with him. Lindon then flees Ghostwater, leaving Harmony to die.

==='''Underlord'''===
Lindon heads to the Blackflame Empire to regroup with Eithan. Akura Charity, Sage of the Silver Heart and Mercy's distant aunt announces to the Blackflame empire and its neighbouring kingdom, the Seishen Kingdom about the Uncrowned Tournament. Since both the Blackflame empire and the Seishen kingdom are vassal states of the Akura family territory, they are allowed to participate in the uncrowned tournament, but only 3 members will be selected. To participate in the Uncrowned Tournament, the participant must be an Underlord and the age limit is 35 years. Since there are only a few underlords in both the Blackflame Empire and the Seishen kingdom, Charity opens a portal into the Nightwheel Valley, the training grounds of the Akura family, where the aura is much stonger, making it easier to advance for sacred artists. Eithan, Yerin, Lindon, Mercy and Orthos are one of the first to arrive at Nightwheel Valley, but they soon discover they have to fight for their place there.
==='''Uncrowned'''===
Lindon has been selected for the Uncrowned Tournament, but instead of going as a part of the team from the Blackflame empire, he is selected by Akura Charity to represent the main branch of the Akura family. She sees this as payment from Lindon for killing her promising candidate, Akura Harmony. Eithan, Yerin and Naru Saeya, Emperor Naru Huan's sister, make up the team representing the vassal states of the Akura family and the Blackflame empire.

Lindon is taken to the Akura homeland for training, where he faces extreme hostility from the other Akura underlords fighting for the last position on the Akura team. Mercy's younger brother, Akura Pride hates Lindon more than the others and treats him with contempt and disrespect. Initially, in the first months of training, Lindon is constantly challenged to duals by the other contestants and keeps losing most of the time, thus giving the idea to the others that he is weak. When the final day comes to select the third member of the Akura main team, all the underlords prepare to dual each other. Even though, Lindon is already a part of the team, he insists on fighting all of the underlords head on, at the same time. Lindon has gathered information about each of their techniques and with the help of Dross, he easily defeats all of them and only Akura Pride is left, filling the last spot on the team.

In the tournament itself, Lindon faces off against the most powerful Underlords on Cradle in a series of trials. The first round of the tournament is an individual event where all the participants are required to go through a series of challenges, testing their strength and skill. LIndon finishes 10th and Yerin finishes 11th, ahead of many other participants. Each of the qualified members in the top 64 move on to the next trial. As a reward, they receive a floating palace specially designed for each individual from the Ninecloud Court.

In the second round of the tournament, the contestants are placed on an open island. Golden crowns appear with fixed intervals and the objective is to keep the crown on your head without getting killed. Lindon, Yerin, Mercy and Eithan of the main protagonists succeed while Pride and Naru Saeya sacrifice their spots in the tournament for their team's sake. In the third round of the Tournament, Lindon faces off against [[Naian Blackflame]]. Instead of trying to win the fight, Lindon chooses to spend his fight curing Naian of his Blackflame induced madness.

==='''Wintersteel'''===
While trying to discover his Overlord revelation during his battle with Sopharanatoth, Lindon instead establishes his connection to the Void Icon, and advances to Sage. He is given a Wintersteel badge by Eithan, with the same symbol for "Empty" depicted on it much like his first Unsouled badge.

=='''Powers and Abilities'''==
As an Unsouled, Lindon effectively started two stages behind most Sacred Artists, further limited by the natural restrictions and the "curse" of the Sacred Valley and without a natural predisposition towards any of 4 classes of techniques.

Scripts: Due to his natural and clan-imposed limitations, Lindon's only avenue of practicing the sacred arts within his clan was through scripts. While not particularly talented, he has shown some versatility in using them and moderate skill in drawing them.

Heart of Twin Stars: While at the Foundation stage, before cycling elemental vital aura from the world, Lindon split his core.

*Pure Madra: Composed of pure madra.
*Blackflame Madra: Composed of fire and destruction madra.

Soulsmithing: Pure madra gives Lindon solid overall compatibility with most constructs, although with a weaker effect than specialized madra types.

Little Blue: A Sylvan Riverseed. Originally fed madra and scales by Lindon, her growth is rapidly advanced by Eithan feeding her a drop of soulfire. Her natural purification abilities drain her, but can counteract the corrosive effect of Blackflame madra on the mind, body, and madra channels.

Orthos: Lindon's contract with Orthos allows him to fill one of his cores with Blackflame madra, lessening the his burden. Due to Orthos being a Truegold, this allowed Lindon's Blackflame core to quickly advance from Iron to Jade and later to Lowgold, as if his core was treated with high grade elixirs.

Remnant Arm: By activating the hunger binding on the arm, Lindon can draw out madra from the enemy. In a less concentrated form, he can then vent it back at them as a distraction.

Dross: The remnants of one of Northstrider's attempts in Ghostwater to create mental enhancement tools and mimic the Presences of the Abidan. Originally created as a memory construct, Dross has gained further abilities through soaking in high grade mental elixirs, consuming dream madra, and fusing with an Eye of the Deep. He temporarily connected with the collective of information at the metal tree in Ghostwater, gathering data from other Eyes of the Deep that had been taken through the world.

In combat against an enemy with well-known, recorded, fully defined capabilities, Dross can simulate and create a battle plan that ensures the greatest chance of success. He also acts as general mental enhancement, allowing Lindon to better focus on battle. While Soulsmithing, Dross can simulate the effect of madra interactions, allowing Lindon's soulsmithing success rate for straightforward constructs to exceed that of experts like Fisher Gesha.

====Sacred Art Ranks====
As a Sacred Artists progresses through the ranks, they naturally gain access to certain abilities

*Foundation: At the Foundation level, Sacred Artists can cycle madra to slightly strengthen their body or activate scripts.
*Copper: Copper Sight
*Iron: At the Iron level, Sacred Artists gain an Iron Body that increases physical abilities. Lindon's Bloodforged Iron body, catalyzed using the venom and blood from nearly have a dozen sandvipers, enables rapid healing and recovery from poisons and physical damage at an extremely high madra cost.
*Jade: Jade senses
*Gold: Lindon advanced from Jade to Lowgold using a further infusion of Blackflame Madra from Orthos, without a remnant. He lacks a true Goldsign beyond red eyes when channeling Blackflame Madra
*Underlord: Reborn in Soulfire, Lindon's body is able to push farther and he is able to activate Underlord-level weapons.

====Techniques====
Foundation Cycling Technique: A basic cycling technique taught to Foundation-level children of the Wei clan.

Empty Palm: A pure Madra technique that focuses it into a simple palm thrust. When making contact with the core of an enemy, it disrupts his or her madra. This leaves the enemy powerless for a few seconds, unable to muster the energy to control any techniques or even their own limbs. When sufficiently powerful, it can destroy the core of an enemy, preventing them from even leaving a remnant.

Heaven and Earth Purification Wheel: A madra cycling technique focused on expanding madra capacity. Eithan teaches Lindon this technique as it is vital to training his pure madra core, which cannot advance through taking in vital aura from the outside world.

Burning Cloak: The Dragon Advances. The Fierce Outer Burning Robe technique is an Enforcer technique. It is a basic full-body Enforcement using Blackflame Madra, protecting and powering the body by madra while in use. It allows for the release of explosive force of movement.

Dragon Breath: The Dragon Destroys. The Fierce River of Fierce Flowing Breath technique is a Striker Technique. Blackflame madra is gathered in the hands, rotated, and condensed repeatedly until being released as a solid beam that eradicates everything in its path.

Void Dragon's Dance: The Dragon Conquers. In one moment, the flames devour everything on the battlefield, leaving only smoke and dust. Like many Ruler techniques, it is capable of great destruction, but requires appropriate vital aura in the environment, and time to build and concentrate on the vital aura to take control.

Soul Cloak: An Enforcer technique utilizing Lindon's pure madra core. Compared to the Burning Cloak, it allows for more measured power output.

The Dragon Descends: Lindon's ultimate attack from his dragon path. All his techniques from the Blackflame Path Forged on his hand. He forges claws of Blackflame madra on his hand like a glove with a miniature Void Dragon's Dance swirling around it, Dragon's Breath filling it like blood and a Burning Cloak surrounding it all. Takes all his spirit and a significant amount of his soulfire to bring it to life.

Hollow Domain: A pure madra technique developed in ''Wintersteel''. With the help of Little Blue's madra, Lindon can create a sphere of pure madra that weakens or deletes any techniques that enters. This technique makes Lindon's eyes glow a sapphire-blue. It is not specified what kind of technique it is, but it was inspired by Eithen's Armor of the Hollow King technique.

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'''Akura Fury''' is known as one of the Akura family's legendary clan pillars, along with [[Akura Charity]], Sage of the Silver Heart.

He won the Uncrowned King Tournament as an Underlord and is a respected figure.

''Fury was Malice's child from before she was a Monarch, and he was the Sage Charity’s father. He was the only direct descendant of Malice to have ever made it to Herald, and was Malice's favored child. He was known for waging war singlehandedly. His techniques toppled cities and blighted forests. He had killed a dragon Herald, the Eight-Man Empire had a bounty on his head, and some cultures included him in their mythology as an omen of war. He was Malice's sharp sword, a legendary one-man force of devastation.''

''Wight, Will. Uncrowned (Cradle Book 7) (p. 68). Hidden Gnome Publishing.''

==Personality==
Akura Fury is a very cheerful person. He is always ready for a friendly duel, but he is more like Mercy than any other Akura seen so far. Fury is also stated as one to never back down from a fight and is famous for singlehandedly waging an entire war. He is one who is most comfortable on a battlefield and is said to have prolonged his stays on battlefields rather than return home.

His personality and overall attitude can be summed up in the this scene:

''Xorrus choked out a voice tinged with fear and anger, “Why? If you could advance, why did you wait?” A Forged hand of shadow grabbed her by the scaled throat, and Fury pulled her close. He was only the size of one of her eyes. “To see this look on your face.”''

''Then three other Heralds unveiled their power, and the true battle began.''

''Wight, Will. Wintersteel (Cradle Book 8) (p. 488). Hidden Gnome Publishing.''

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