Warlord, Harbinger of the Flood, taken prisoner by the Master of the ☵ Water Sanctum, Mulsae, and treated as a pet and sex slave. Originally a boisterous warrior, he transforms over the series into a wise and steady philosopher.
Etymology: Greek Hephaestian “to tame”
History & EventsLineage & BodyPersonality Magical PowersLimited PowersFull PowersRelationships Learning to Read
History & Events
Born to a mother of the lowest caste, and product of rape by an Emberkin. When his Fire Phase affinity was tested, he was removed from his mother and sent to Kindlepoint for training. When he was old enough, he traveled back to his original Hearthhold but found it transformed into a Coldhold, abandoned. He doesn't remember his mother's name. He doesn't remember his birth name. They are incapable of finding each other because so many mothers and sons share their story.
He regularly visits the Coldhold in hopes his mother does, too, as it was the last place they were together.
Loses the Water Sanctum Civil War
Lineage & Body
Age: 310 (see Events), looks like late 20’s
Skin: Brown like Earth's Turkish
Build: Tall, wide set shoulders. Muscular. Powerful, could cut down a Mortal in a single blow.
Wings: Dark crimson with orange accents.
Hair: Dark brown with red highlights, kept long, below shoulder length
Eyes: Light warm brown
Empowered state: Embedded Talisman glows blue and orange under his right collarbone.
Personality
When comfortable, he is boisterous and carefree, always ready for a belly laugh. When guarded, he is silent and watchful. Calculating. Sarcastic and snide if his buttons are pushed. Fiercely loyal.
Body language: When comfortable, he is light, relaxed, with an infectious smile on his face. When guarded, he is the danger of calm stillness ready to strike.
Hair: Kept long. Tied in a bun for physical labor and fighting, but kept down and flowing when relaxing.
Clothes: Prefers comfort and utility. Enjoys freedom of movement, so he'll only wear pants, even forego shoes, if he is allowed to. Easily feels confined so chooses light unrestrictive clothing.
Armor: Dark crimson with orange highlights and black under layers. Embodies the scales of water, feathers of wings, and licking flames of fire. Light and unrestrictive, flows around him like water or flame.
Magical Powers
As a Windborne, they can summon and dismiss wings and use them to fly.
Limited Talisman Powers
Fire Phase Powers
- Self-warming
- Self-drying
☵ Water Sanctum Powers
- Condensation cleansing. Can pull small amounts of water from the air. Uses to wash the hands and face.
Full Talisman Powers
☵ Water Sanctum Powers:
- Control over liquids. Can push or pull fluids in short, intense bursts. This includes blood within living beings. Can be triggered repeatedly but grows increasingly exhausting.
- Sense presence. Can sense the emotional presence of beings, where they are located, and read their intentions.
Fire Phase Powers:
Important to be distinct from ☲ Flame Sanctum powers. Fire Phase is about transformation.
- Molten edge: Superheat swords to cut through armor and flesh. Gradually warps and melts over time.
- Metal dissolution: Breaks down metal at the molecular level—melting swords, warping armor, or collapsing structural reinforcements. Can be done subtly to weaken metal secretly.
- Ore Purification: Draws out impurities from raw metal or stone, leaving a cleaner, stronger material behind. Could turn rusted, corroded iron into something usable again.
- Phase Shift: Alters a substance’s state — solid to liquid, liquid to gas — in a controlled, localized way. Example: Evaporating water from wet powder to make it usable again, or liquefying stone in a thin vein to seal a crack.
- Stone Tempering: Changes the hardness of stone, from crumbly and brittle to diamond-hard, or vice versa. Useful for breaking through obstacles or fortifying a wall.
- Mineral Growth: Encourages crystalline structures to form or expand within rock, either to trap or to reinforce. Could be used as a bridge-building trick or to trap an enemy’s feet in a crystal cluster.
- Earthen Transmutation: Converts one earth-based material into another — clay into ceramic, sand into glass, limestone into quicklime.
Relationships
Mother: Missing. Unknown identity.
Father: Unknown
Siblings: Unknown
- Mulsae: Former slave owner and now companion
Clarise Fellmark
Love interest.
Damion craves someone who:
- Takes charge without cruelty
- Affirms his value through consistency and quiet protection
- Provides emotional structure
Clarise Fellmark can give that—but only when she chooses. She enjoys being the one to grant safety. She’s affectionate in controlled ways: brushing his hair out of his face, cupping his jaw when he spirals—but she always holds the center of gravity in the relationship.
She is subtle, controlling, and grounding.
Learning to Read
The common language is English but the script is in Korea’s Hangul.
The “quick brown fox” equivalent in Latin letters is “A quick-witted wizard bluffs, vexes, and jumps through foggy hex gates while brewing opaque elixirs.”
In Hangul it is:
어 퀵-위티드 위자드 블러프스, 벡시즈, 앤 점프스 쓰루 포기 헥스 게이츠 와일 브루잉 오페이크 엘릭시얼스.
That script represents these sounds:
eo kwik-wi-ti-deu wi-ja-deu beul-leo-peu-seu, bek-si-jeu, aen jeom-peu-seu seu-ru po-gi hek-seu ge-i-cheu wa-il beu-ru-ing o-pe-i-keu el-lik-si-eol-seu