Lucasa
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DECEASED
1985 NC - 2003 NC
18 years old
Lucasa, Mage-King of Lun Dorak, the Heretic, Emperor of Zeth. Medium Human Male.
Overview
Koramian human male. Legendary Mage-King of Lun Dorak who brought together the largest Empire in history during the waning years of the Third Age of Man.
Description
In his prime, Lucasa was a tall, thin man with pale skin, reddish eyes and long white hair.
Background
Lucasa, the hated Mage-King of Lun Dorak, was born Lucas Chamberville in the small village of Elton in Koramia to Lord Richard and Lady Jeanette Chamberville. An albino, Lucas was born prematurely when the Lady Chamberville was struck by a mystical backlash during an attack by the witch-hunter Clove on an elven witch known as Dove who was living near Elton. At a young age, Lucas displayed tremendous powers: he was able to read the minds of those near him and was able to resurrect the recently deceased. Because of his strange appearance and inability to turn off his telepathic abilities, Lucas was often feared by the simple folk of Elton, despite the love of his mother.
In 1998 NC, Lucas was kidnapped by an agent of the mages of Lun Dorak and taken to the Sapphire City for training and indoctrination. He was trained in a pocket dimension where time moved more quickly than in the temporal world. He emerged two weeks after his arrival fifteen years older and one of the most powerful mages ever to have lived. He took on the Dorakian name Lucasa and within a month, he was elected Mage-King by the Council of Five and in the following year, under the guise of the wizard Lucius, he became adviser to the Emperor Publius Antonius of House Zetar in Zeth. Lucius quickly became one of the Emperor's closest advisers and, upon the death of the Emperor's heir, was formally adopted into House Zetar and made heir to the Purple.
As Lucius Augustus of House Zetar, Lucasa was granted leadership of the Imperial Legion in Koramia. Under Lucius, the flower of Koramian chivalry was driven back by the relentless march of the legions. The Imperial legions made their way quickly to Paeldain, the capital of Koramia, and set siege to the great city. King William I, who had promised to return when Koramia most needed him, organized the defenses of the city, but few expected a Koramian victory. At the height of the siege, however, the recently reformed Dragonknights arrived in the midst of the battle with a Koramian knight at the helm of the legendary flying ship, the Glorious Galleon. The Imperial legion was decimated and, for a time, Paeldain was saved. Lucasa was not so easily dissuaded from his plans, however. Soon after the First Battle of Paeldain, Chamberville obtained the legendary sword of Davalor himself, the Magesword. He reformed the legion within a year, this time with mysterious foreign wizards to provide tactical support. He again attacked Paeldain and, in the Second Battle of Paeldain, the Empire finally took the city. The Greysword and much of his family were slain. As the Koramian forces retreated to the mountains, a nephew of the Greysword, Gawyn Asheva, was crowned King of what remained of Koramia.
By the end of the second year of the war, Publius Antonius lay dead from a mysterious disease and Lucius was raised to the Purple as Emperor Lucius Augustus of House Zetar. It was only after his coronation that he revealed that he was truly called Lucasa, the Mage-King of Lun Dorak. His plans revealed, Lucasa formally moved the capital of the Empire from Zeth to Davalor and directed the armies of both nations to conquer Duria once and for all.
The free people of Duria proved unwilling to lay down as slaves to the Mage-King. Under the leadership of the Dragonknights, the humans of Koramia and Illyria allied with the dwarves of Gundag and Derlos, the elves of the Webwood and even the orcs of Vor Midal, who were unified under the strong hand of their first Great Khan in centuries, Gar’dun. The combined allied force fought its way to the gates of Davalor itself. In the titanic battle that followed, the city was laid to waste and many on both sides lost their lives. When the dust finally settled, the Mage-King Lucasa was defeated… not, it is said, from any military genius of the allied forces, but from a mystical disease, perhaps a curse placed on him by Abaris herself for his hubris in her name.
