Lucien

Tiefling / Warlock

Submitted character story

Defining moment:
Lucien Veyr was born into House Veyr, a wealthy and influential tiefling family known publicly for commerce, diplomacy, and arcane patronage. To outsiders, the Veyrs were merchants and negotiators—people who could open doors, settle disputes, and move goods through places where others could not.

That was only the respectable half of the family business.

Behind closed doors, House Veyr built its influence through information. Secrets, favors, blackmail, political leverage, carefully cultivated relationships, and intermediaries were as valuable to them as coin. They rarely needed to threaten someone openly. A Veyr preferred knowing the one thing a person couldn’t afford to have revealed.

Lucien grew up in that world.

He learned to negotiate, lie, read people, assume identities, and understand that power did not necessarily belong to the person holding the sword. Often, it belonged to the person who knew why the sword was being drawn. The Missing Seven Years

Lucien initially believed the disappearance of his family had happened recently.

It hadn’t.

Eventually, he discovered something far worse:

Seven years of his life were missing.

The memories Lucien possessed were seven years out of date.

For seven years, Lucien Veyr had apparently continued living.

Traveling.

Making deals.

Building relationships.

Making enemies.

Using names he could no longer remember.

People occasionally recognized him—but not necessarily as Lucien Veyr.

They knew other versions of him.

Other identities.

Other reputations.

And Lucien had no idea what any of those men had done.

So he began traveling under false identities himself, partly out of practicality and partly because every identity became another layer between him and whatever had happened during those seven missing years.

Archetype: You're the The Fractured Continuity. He walks the world wearing faces he cannot remember having earned.

Personality: Laughs at the wrong moment