Yukeli Shorn

Yukeli Shorn - Lord of the Absolute
Yukeli was a human, born to an impoverished mother and no known father. He had a single older brother, one that was seven years older than him. His family had lived in a poor village near a wide, open forest teeming with wildlife, in the outskirts of the Kingdom of Binor, on the planet Tallew.

At the age of 1, he could already walk and talk, learning the Common language in a matter of months. At the age of 2, he had become a wordsmith, studying from the few books his family possessed. He had a deep love for poetry and expressed his feelings for the world around him in poems.

At the age of 3, he had won a great deal of acclaim and fame for his poetry, all as a mere child. The Lord of the territory he lived in had personally sent a dozen gold coins to reward his mother, allowing them to move into a real house, in a real town and leave the poor outskirt village. He single-handedly pulled his family out of squalor, a sweet, innocent and cheerful boy.

At the age of 4, his life took a turn.

The planet he lived on was conquered by a race of powerful creatures.

A varied race of beings known as Demons.

A mass slaughter took place, as the human race on his home planet faced extinction.

And suffered from it.

Before his eyes, as a pale, trembling 4 year old, hiding in a wooden cupboard in his nice home’s kitchen, Yukeli watched his mother have her heart ripped out.

His house, and that of many others, were destroyed. Everyone found was killed, usually in cruel, torturous ways. The Demon Race was not a kind race. They were cruel, their nature bloodthirsty and capricious.

Yukeli hid in the rubble of his home for two days, managing to survive off an old jug of water and a mostly burned collection of hardbread. He dug around slowly, searching desperately for his older brother. He didn’t dare to call out, the Demons still alive and active around him.

When the Demons moved past his city, moving on to another as they swept over the planet, he made his escape.

He fled from his ruined home, scavenging food and water to take with him. He gathered up supplies, eventually managing to find an abandoned Spatial Pouch in a destroyed merchant’s shop and load it up.

One thing led to another, and he eventually left the city.

And came upon a scene that was burnt into his mind forever.

A field of wooden crosses lined the outside of the city wall. Thousands of them, crudely contracted from broken wood, some from stone or metal.

Each cross held a body on it, a corpse of a human now dead.

As his eyes trailed over these wooden crosses, his eyes were drawn to a particular one.

One he stopped in front of, staying quiet for several minutes.

He had found his missing brother.

The memories blurred here, skipping past to a scene in a forest, where Yukeli was standing alone, looking down at a sluggish river. His face was marred, tears dripping down it.

“If I had been stronger, I could have done something.” He whispered, his hands clenched.

“If I had trained, studied magic, I could have done something.” His entire body shuddered,

“I wasn’t good enough.”

The young boy was silent. His shuddering stopped as he forcibly calmed down, his voice taking on a calm edge,

“I wasn’t good enough.”

“But I will become good enough.”

“You will rue this day.” His eyes flashed,

“I will exterminate you.”

“I will exterminate your entire species.”

“I will become more than good enough.” His eyes twitched, his voice filling with emotion,

“I will become so mighty nothing can stand in my way.”

“A good fighter? A strong Wizard?”

“Worthless.”

“I will achieve the pinnacle.”

“I will become perfection itself.”

His entire body shook as he uttered those words, a promise of death, full of power. Yukeli used hundreds of different techniques, studying more than a thousand different Mystic Arts to become a master in close combat. For Magic, he studied multitude of different styles before settling on a single type - Fate Magic.

He further specialized himself in researching specific types of Fate Magic, those centered around the Soul Spell Matrix of a being, the cycle of life, the concept of reincarnation, and a few other related topics.

Fate Magic was incredibly complex and abstruse, difficult to understand for even the most adept Wizards.

As for the laws of the universe, Yukeli discovered a Law that was previously unknown. The Law of the Absolute.