The Squire's Tale

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Lucas Alder

The Squire's Tale

Background:
Lucas Alder was born in 1794 in a small village somewhere to the south of Osrona. As a farming community, Magi there are treasured as the bringers of rain. Children who showed magical prowess are expected to become "Cloudsingers," a type of verbal magic-user whose ability to call upon Air Magic allowed them to guide rainclouds over the fields to ensure a good harvest. Indeed, that was the path that Lucas should have followed once he came of age. 

Though he is the youngest son of a Cloudsinger family he did not wish to pursue that path. When he was younger he heard stories of the glorious knights of the First Light and their Holy Magic, the blessings of the Stars and the Angels that allowed them to bring light and hope to the people. It filled him with wonder and made him consider a new path, one which could see him protect his village from hard times with his strength and faith rather than the Song of Wind. At 16, still refusing to take on the mantle of his family's traditional magic, he left the village and traveled to Osrona to find the Order of the Second Dawn. His path has taken him far from there, but time will tell what he becomes...


Timeline of Events:

1810 AC 
- On the eve of his 16th birthday, Lucas departs his home village to seek a new destiny.
1812 AC
- Marginalia: In the Light of Flowing Stone
1813 AC
- Act I Scene I - Upon the Heights...
- Act I Scene II - The Paths are Paved with Daggers
- Act I Scene III - For Signs and Seasons
- Intermission: Childhood's End
1814 AC
- Act II Scene I - First Light
- Intermission: The Scourging
- Act II Scene II - Clarity
1817 AC
- Act III Scene I - His Solemn Duty
- Intermission: The Torchbearer's Burden
1818 AC
- Act III Scene II - Parting the Waters
1819 AC
- Intermission: The Long Road
1820 AC
- The first semester of the Starfall Academy starts. Lucas teaches the inaugural class on Virtues and Ethics.
- Chaska Aevnass, Lucas's first graduating student, masters Holy Magic.
1821 AC
- Lucas is engaged to marry Moa-Moa-Moa of the Fireblooded, his beloved.
- A dance is held by the Irradiated Temple to celebrate the end of the school year, which Lucas and Moa attend as chaperones.
1822 AC
- Umbra Cysgol, Lucas's second graduating student, masters Holy Magic.
1825 AC
- Marginalia: Ástvinur