Lucio Wega

Lucio is an Avakai, a nomad, a coward, a gardener and fisher, a bit awkward, sometimes a resource collector or map maker and on his worst days if he's especially drunk a poet. He travels in both Rathnir and Eldham. His current home resides in the Vulperium city of Earnside where he lives as a regular citizen.

Appearance
Avakai are slimmer and mostly not as strong as humans but nimble and dexterous. Lucio is really short even for Avakai only standing at ~130-140cm which would help him blend into crowds if his fur wasn’t bright yellow like a bee. A notable difference to other Avakai is that his brown blackish stripe already starts by his eyes and go down to his chest making it look like he’s wearing a thick scarf. His eyes look alike a bee’s eye, black. But his eye color has gone through some transitions, nowadays it turned into a bright white similar to the morning sun.

Just above his eyes are two antennae. They are very sensitive and the Avakais main data collection tools, containing receptors for touch, taste, and smell. The feelers can also detect temperature, humidity along with gravity and wind speed.

Above them or sometimes around his neck he wears his pilot goggles that he used when piloting his space vessel. Unlike most of his space suit these glasses luckily survived the landing they don’t function propally anymore but he still keeps them as a memory of his family.

While he possesses 4 semitransparent wings which glint in the color of his environment and look similar to bee wings. They’re completely useless. These Wings are really small and situated on his back, he wear's a coat over them covering his entire upper body and head.

Personality
Lucio is often lost.

Not only when traveling but also when trying to communicate, it becomes obvious that he never knows what he is doing. This is due to his extraterrestrial origin and his struggle to understand language. He often overthinks how he should answer a simple question, trying hard not to offend anybody but also saying the truth. For example a question like “How are you” can turn into a long while of awkward silence.

Beelings and Avakais are social creatures but Lucio worries about being rude and gets stressed out easily, so he avoids talking to people as much as possible. This somewhat counts for animals to. It goes so far that he always carries an invisibility potion on him. While he has no ill intend he can get perceived as distant or even cold because of that trait.

Origin
Long before any Humans made there appearance on the continents, his race the Avakai had left Rathnir to wander among the stars. Therefore he grew up in a far away galaxy by a star his clan called Wega where also his family name comes from. He spend his childhood living in the space vessels of his small clan which had decided to settle down for reasons unknown to him. His parents had often told them stories about there origin world, of the many plants and flowers witch grew there and stories about animals, bioms and water. This is also where his obsession whit nature and his bond to the ocean began.

Star Bonding
Unlike other races Avakai don’t rely on magic form nature or there environment so much. Instead they found a way to receive magic from the stars directly but they haven’t perfected that form of magic yet. Avakai don’t have a naturally high affinity for magic so they have to “ask” a star for it. This is done by forging a bond with the star. Such a process can take many years and isn’t guarantied to work if the star happened to have a difficult “personality”. If it dose work, the Avakai gets granted with magical abilities but there abilities depend on what the star is willing to give them and sometimes how they’re “feeling”.

To strengthen the relationship with the star they can talk to it, for example in there dreams, but it often takes years of talking for the star to respond in some way. This can also backfire if the star doesn't like you.

Because star bonding takes such a long time Avakai which grow up next to stars naturally start to bond with them when there baby's. If Avakai has successfully bonded with a star there eye color and there magic changes to the color of it. This also help's distinguish the different clans from each other. Lucio used to have blue whitish eyes and his magic looked like blue flames with a white core.

They use magic in their contraptions very often for example to power there space vessels or communicate over long distances. But they can only use there magic as long as they're in the light of the star. That’s the reason they don’t settle on planets often. But they do inhabit and build around comet structures that orbit stars.

Their star is like another family member to them, so if the star happens to die during their lifetime the Avakai will slowly loose interest in everything they love, become depressed and die. But that can be avoided if they bond to another star or something else.

Space Travel
Life in the small vessels quickly got boring for Lucio so when he was old enough to pilot his own space vessel he joined up with a bigger clan who was still wandering among the stars. They traveled through space and time, looking at countless stars, anomalies, surviving wired space kraken’s and other funky creatures. But during all this time he kept looking for their origin world. One faithful day he recognized a planet that matched the tales his parents had told him as a kid. It had landmasses in all different colors surrounded by water. Some were lush and green others could and hostile. Lucio was fascinated.

But the clan planned to continue their travel to yet another star system. While he couldn't change there minds, he got permission to land on the planet and to study it at the cost that he had to leave the clan. They seemed to be in a hurry, Lucio didn’t found out why.

Arrival in Rathnir
His space vessel got caught in a storm and not only that but it just completely refused to work. The previous blue body of water looked shockingly black as he crashed into it. He got thrown around hitting gray walls and starting to sink deeper and deeper into the blackness. Water busted into his cabin and made him freeze. He had to get out, FAST. But nothing was working, communication GONE, engine GONE and the GOD DAM DOOR wouldn't open. Another strong hit shook his vessel, he had sunk. The water was rapidly rising to his neck, he gasped for the remaining bits of air. Was this his end? No! He FINALLY forced the GOD DAM DOOR to open and swam out of his cabin and out of the vessel. Struggling to move upwards yet reaching the surface, only to be immediately crunched under again, again, and again.

Suddenly he got pulled out of the water onto some wobbling wooden half vessel. Coughing in pain Lucio faced 2 creatures. They had a similar stature to Beelings but they were way taller than him and instead of fur, their bodies were covered in white-pinkish skin. On top of which they were wearing clothes, armor, and weapons. The storm was howling water was falling from the sky and he could just make out the two shouting something at each other before fainting from exhaustion.

When he woke up again, he was lying in a bead. The Humans, how they called their race, gave him food and a place to stay. He found out that humans and many other races lived in Rathnir. Nations existed all over the world each with their own history, architecture, and culture. They were an intelligent and extremely creative race, yet they often waged war among themselves over things like land, power, religion etc. He thought that was weird.

So, over the years the Wang family, the people that had saved him, became his new home. He would life in Grimmor a small city in Borham for roughly 5 Years learning their language, learning how to build, fight and survive in Rathir.

But the first weeks were tough, he was constantly irritated, everything was too loud too noisy and he felt sick of the gravity. The worst thing was that he felt disconnected from his star. He was about to go insane. They had to literally pin him to his bead so he wouldn’t hurt himself. He wanted to jump out the next window fully knowing that his wings were far to small to support him. That’s how unbearable the loss of a star feels to an Avakai.

One late late night he managed to free himself, he quietly walked through the hallways and got onto the roof. But as he prepared to jump, - the sun rose from the sea – oh what a sight that’s been to see. It illuminating the freezing night, it sparkled strong in bright white light.- Who would have thought that something so violent could look so calm under the warmth of a star.

He sat down, and watched the sunrise over the ocean. All that pain seemed gone. He was happy for the first time in weeks. He just sat there, unknowingly mumbling to him self while watching the waves claw at the rock beneath him. This morning he hadn’t woken everybody with his screaming but that arguably freaked the family even more out. Lucio didn’t realize time pass when they found him, being ok, just sitting there, on the roof, staring at the horizon, at the sea, happy.

Travel to Eldham
When his curiosity overwhelmed his fears he said goodbye to the Wang family and started traveling again. He mostly walked the continents. While he loved looking at the sea he hated being anywhere near it. He even avoided rivers as much as possible but avoiding water was impossible, unpractical and it limited his studies. Water was even falling from the sky. They called it rain. Why was it raining so much all the time?

Eventually he had to overcome his fear take a leap of faith:

-One Step- (poem)
Winds were chasing after leaf’s,

which raced each other towards the seas.

When I got caught in that strong breeze,

it made me shiver and freeze.

Meanwhile I star into the sky,

the night gets cold the clouds pass by.

One step with faith it all might be,

But the ocean stares back and challenges me.

One step, One step it all might be

And the stares will guide me to new lands,

I hold the future in my hands.

But the ocean stares back…

…The memories come back…

Oh, that night that night

where he almost died.

He crashed into the sea like his fear implied

Yes, he almost drowned

Barely made it out

The storm, was so strong, he thought no one was around

While still in shock of agony,

I place my step onto the sea.

Take a deep breath, close your eyes.

Now Go! Now Rise!

The Step
The water where he placed his step light up in a bursting neon blue color. Beams shot out in all directions. So harsh, that he had to squint his eyes. Still shaking, he placed his second step, and again the water light up blue before abruptly freezing.

He sighed; the book didn’t lie after all.

Looking around he was standing on the surface of a seemingly forever on-going ocean. A few feet behind him was a dock connected to the main land. He had been sitting on that dock for what felt like forever. First just waiting for the sun to set, then contemplating all the possible ways it could go wrong.

The ocean was calm, it felt unreal to him. Like a wild animal lurking for its pray. And he just stood there, paralyzed. Lucio had avoided it. Ever since the crash. Ever since he first arrived. Ever since he almost drowned. It still send shivers up his spine.

He got that book from fishing. It didn’t lie. The book stated that it had magic, that it was able to freeze water when held it in his hands, he just had to have faith in its abilities and in himself. He knew magic existed. The problem was having faith in himself; He was terrified. But while traveling, he overheard a conversation about another great landmass just to the east of Rathnir, with different terrain and cultures and races and history, plants and flowers etc. and his curiosity eventually won over his fear.

Still, it had bound him to that dock and for many hours.

But Now, as he finally stood here, he felt like all that weight had been lifted of his shoulders. He felt free, alive, still shaking, but he smiled.

And so, he started walking first slow and carefully, but with every step he grew in confidence. He started running and gliding across the ice and by following a pattern of stars, he almost danced through the night. Until at long last arriving by the new lands, just in time for the sun to come up and greet him with a warm welcome.

Welcome to Eldham Lucio Wega

Arrival in Eldham
This time he traveled on a little ship that he had found on the beach. It was easier then walking and the book didn’t seem to work well during the day. The weather was even wetter than in Rathnir:

-Rainy Travels- (poem)
It rained and rained and rained

But still remained unsinking

By the stars forever blinking

Through the night river flowing,

Whilst barely through the moonlight showing,

was a boat rolling about,

swinging in and swinging out.

Through the forest, through the clouds,

through the swamps and icy sprouts

And as the sun rose from the sea...

Oh, what a sight that’s been to see.

Illuminating the freezing night,

it sparkled strong in bright white light.

At last he docked onto a bay

for he had found a place to stay. And it rained and rained and rained

The Vulperium
After arriving in the beautiful city of Earnside Lucio would settle down again. He build himself a cozy house with an attached green house where he stored all the plants that he found during his journeys. When he wasn’t traveling he was fishing or exploring other crafts like map making and gardening.

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