Lyren Grandor Goetia

Lyren Grandor Goetia is the blind, ex-court mage of the Shierheel Empire. He is one of the protagonists of Reinhart, starting off as a morally ambiguous wild-card, but slowly becoming close and opening up to Reinhart.

Appearance
He has long, fluffy pink hair that goes down to his hips before splaying outwards, contrasting his green and black clothing. His green robes are loose and revealing, which he became accustomed to growing up with Libidines and likely wouldn't care about anyways due to being blind. Adorning his hat are moon and star shaped silver decorations that jingle with every movement. Lyren's skin, though looking healthy, is pale and clammy. His eyes are perpetually tired and he has deep bags under them. Nothing is of interest with his hidden eye, as his hair covers his face out of laziness instead of out of style or for mystery.

Personality
Lyren is cold and reserved. He doesn't think much of other people and would rather be on his own. He believes that the ends justify the means and his spells reflect this belief, having no limits to what effects they'll have on a person, good or bad. He enjoys fighting others, usually to a violent death, and enjoys inflicting pain on others and even having pain inflicted on himself.

Lyren struggles with speaking, often having long pauses between phrases or words, usually staring into space during the pause. Alongside this absentmindedness, he will often forget other's names and will resort to a nickname instead.

Lyren's current personality is a far cry from his personality as a child. As a child, he was bubbly and optimistic, believing that hard work and perseverance would pay off. He always believed in the good of everyone and that every problem had a solution. A bit of this naivety still survives what happened to him, as when Lyren is with someone close, such as his adoptive father, he will open up and speak about how he feels, if just as slowly. In his eyes, the incident that robbed him of his dream showed him the depravity that people will sink to and he views the world as something not worth caring about and, at best, one big toy to experiment with.

Birth and Childhood
Lyren was born to an elf father and an elf mother on Moon 8 Day 40 Year 1443 in Hillshire. He grew up in poverty as the youngest of six children and learned to harness his magical prowess at a young age to try and earn his family money. While doing magic tricks at a nearby market, he was scouted by a soldier for the Shierheel Empire and was soon recruited to be trained as the Empire's new court mage as the previous one had gone rogue. His family gladly sent him to the Empire, not only proud of their son's potential status but for the handsome payments they'd receive from the Empire as a result.

Court mage training and The Explosion
Lyren underwent strict training at the Shierheel Empire, working all hours he wasn't sleeping and on an unforgiving regiment. His status as a prodigy helped him finish the work put in front of him quickly, but only made it so he'd do nearly double the work as his peers to keep busy. One fateful night, he was forced to stay up as punishment for falling behind work and was to practice light spells. In casting a spell, he illuminated the princess, Lorelia Altian, sneaking out of her room. Bonding over how unfair they were being treated as kids, the two became fast friends and would often sneak off to meet each other.

Court-mage-in-training's would have weekly spell demonstrations to prove that the Queen should continue funding their training. Lyren, now eleven, was tasked with a simple fire spell, one of the beginner spells he had been told to hone to perfection. When it was his turn to demonstrate his skill, the fire quickly grew out of control and exploded in Lyren's face, horrifically damaging him and causing him to go blind. The soldier next to him was injured in the explosion, causing the incident to be treated as attempted murder. Due to Lyren's age, a trial wasn't sought after as the public backlash of imprisoning a child would cause too much unrest. Instead, Lyren was stripped of his title, banished from the castle, and sent to live on the streets.

Summoning
Lyren struggled to live on the streets, begging for food and shelter from already starving peasants. The stigma of the explosion incident also made people reluctant to help him in fear that they would be punished as well. As winter started, Lyren knew that he likely wouldn't make it to the next morning, having not eaten in a week. To "die in dignity," he used the last of his strength to bite his tongue and use the resulting blood in an elaborate sigil, the only one he remembered from his education. The Demon Prince Stolas Goetia was brought forth from the sigil, furious at who would interrupt his studies, only to find an unconscious young boy bleeding in front of him. It is unsure what made Stolas decide to take the boy in instead of feasting on him, but under his watch, Lyren grew into an immensely powerful mage, if at the expense of becoming a cold recluse.

Present
Reinhart and Lukas end up stumbling on Lyren's shop while looking for a tome that could have a money generation spell, having no money for a blimp ride to the Shining Isles. Upon trying to use the spell without paying, Lyren terrorizes the two of them and forces them to work in his shop until he gets bored. Queen Altian comes in to look for them and sees Lyren, recognizing him. Now seeing them as friends of a friend, Lyren lets Reinhart and Lukas go, only to bring Reinhart back due to his magic potential. Lyren joins the group on their trip to the Shining Isles after Reinhart ends up burning down Lyren's shop with an enhanced fire spell Lyren had him cast.

Spell Creation
Lyren has pioneered the art of spell creation. Spells are learned from tomes which have always existed in history, which guarantees that everyone can learn them but also creates an issue of a limited number of spells that can be learned. Using his nails and making indents in the page like binary coding, Lyren can "program" new spells that can range from a sterotypical lightning bolt to a spell that evaporates your skin.

Potion Creation
Lyren does something similar to Spell Creation with potions, creating potions from scratch from any and all ingredients. He will test the effects of the potions on anyone nearby, willing or otherwise. As he makes his potions with different ingredients every time, no two effects will be the same.

Magical Prodigy
Lyren, from his elf heritage, shows strong magical affinity and is able to cast any class level of spell without practice. This allows him to be able to cast the spells he creates, as some of them are so powerful they are instantly classified as Master class or above.

Prince Stolas Goetia
The Goetic Prince is Lyren's adoptive father and treats him with the utmost care and protection, often finding himself at ends with Lyren's self destructive ways. Despite living away from it now, Lyren will often visit Stolas' library and knows that all he has to do is say his father's name to have him summoned. Stolas is one of the very few people Lyren fully opens up to and they choose to speak telepathically to each other.

Andras Goetia
Andras is Lyren's adoptive sister. Andras is very supportive of Lyren and spoils him whenever he comes to visit the library. Lyren doesn't talk to her much, but feels at ease around her.

Heartstrings
Stolas' right hand person. Lyren is close with Heartstrings and views them as a sort of parent as well.

Reinhart von Crouse
Lyren sees the magical potential in Reinhart-- literally calling him Potential-- and hopes to see what he's capable of. As he's grown, he's been able to open up more to Reinhart and now considers him a friend, if not more.

Queen Lorelia Altian
Lyren's childhood friend. Lyren is very close to Lorelia and is very protective of her, carrying out the duties he would've had as the Court Mage. He likes to tease her and is so close to her that many think they're romantically involved.

Soda Pop
Heartstrings' brother. Lyren uses him for experiments a lot and they've grown a friendship over the years. Lyren finds him reckless and stupid.

Khorgol
Being an orc, Lyren finds Khorgol infinitely fascinating and tries to constantly bring him to his room for testing and sample collection. Khorgol is not bothered by it at all.

Kimiko
A fox from another universe. Lyren has gotten close to him out of curiosity and has fun testing things on him.

Her Majesty Queen Altian
Lyren's former employer. He worked as a court-mage-in-training until a spell gone wrong not only crippled him but banished him from the castle. He tries to keep the incident and her out of his mind, but he has a sneaking suspicion now that it was a set-up.

Lukas
Lyren does not have much of a relationship with Lukas, but is uneasy with the amount of magical energy coming from him.

Dirlanimodrane
Dirlanimodrane is too loud for him. He keeps his distance.

Kha
He doesn't have many feelings for Kha. He is curious about her story and her plot for revenge, but that's it. She's a source of entertainment for him.

Isaackverstraussen
A friend of Lorelia's. Lyren tolerates him, but finds him uneasy.

Grimheart
Lyren has no feelings about Grimheart and his conquest other than his personal feelings making it feel somewhat justified, not something he'd say out loud.

Trivia

 * Lyren doesn't call people other names to be rude. He genuinely can't remember names.
 * He is notorious among all magic-using beings in the universe as someone to steer clear from. Even if you're more powerful than him, you'll at the very least be walking away with some nasty injuries.
 * Lyren's father gave him and all his siblings different shades of pink hair, something that made them stand out.
 * He could likely cure his blindness with a spell or a potion if he really wanted to. He doesn't find being blind to be too much of a hassle.
 * Was originally a Fire Emblem fancharacter.