Magister oneiros Shaar Elkraam (a.k.a. The nightmare of Athria, the devourer)
Dream made nightmare, Destruction from hubris, madness from jealousy
The words of the witch, the fall of Athria from Shaar and Kenariah's point of view.
two purple flames in a cast shadow. the eyes of Polaris, but bleeding and hornless.
Must free, kill, destroy, dream must cease, must awoke, shake the dream, awake. Dominate spirit, feed my mind.
To satisfy his suffering, free from his power, lost in a dream, a nightmare, he need to awake.
Physical Description
Strange dark tendril spiralling around his crystal heart, with purple flames inside. a face made by the tendril with two dark purple flames.
Holding the oneiric power, the power of dreams, he has the same power as a Calyster, Enumbris and Eriathril, but amplified to a point never achieved since by anyone else, the only think he did not have was time bending, or did he?
Mental characteristics
Shaar Elkraam, son of
Erakel Elkraam, chamberlain and councillor of the Overseer Dario Elina of
Athria. Himself grew with Dario's daughter,
Isara, as childhood friends. Then when age came for Isara to become part of the council, Shaar was asked to become her groom. As the time passed, Shaar grew some romantic feelings toward her; and when she was married to someone else,
Spiridia Onirem, he lost his mind in jealousy. Spiridia Onirem was not only her lover, but also the teacher of Shaar, who wanted to master Aether to amaze her, that is why Shaar took it as a treachery and swore vengeance.
As he fled from the palace of Calyster, he got acquainted with people who were from an adverse camp, the dominators, who were for dominating elves of Kray-Maven through their dreams. As the overseer Elina and the Magister council voted for silence, they thought about killing the king, and saw in Shaar the potential way to approach him; at the time, emotionally broken, he was easy to manipulate. Perfectly unaware of his changes, thinking they were still friends, Isara invited him to the marriage, as witness. That is at this moment, before the eyes of everyone, Isara, Spiridia and his own father, that he killed Dario Elina. As his power was growing thanks to Spiridia's training, and the arrival of his new friends, he could take the palace and establish a new era.
That is only after a long while that Spiridia, Isara and
Karth Estrada could take him down the throne, and fought each other master against student, and lover against rejected. Shaar lost and won at the same time; as he was defeated, his power became too powerful for himself and he tore the veil of the reality, connecting
Kray-Maven to Athria. It is how the fall happened, destroying Athria, erasing it from reality. Once in Kray-Maven, too powerful to be killed, it is by the sacrifice of Karth Estrada that he has been sealed in a mausoleum not far from
Alia. 1300 Years later he came back, freed by Kenariah, his witch, only to be defeated again, and this time forever, by
Quarhnia Onirem.
As a genderless Athrian, it is not really sure if he was taking himself as a male, a female or nothing, at final it was not important, it was a mad monstrous godlike entity that tried to erase a reality.
As the son of a counsellor, he received the same education, someone that would assist the Overseer in his decisions. All of that got lost with his folly.
Started as groom of a childhood friend, and ended as Destroyer of a reality, and enslaver of a second.
Destroyed an entire reality plane, and then ruled as tyran on another one for mostly a century, and taking it back for a year 1300 years later.
He lost any ability to feel that. however, being vanquished by the son of the one he once love may be a bit of an irony. Also the erasing of Athria was an accident while trying to hold a power that was too much for him to handle.
Apparently, the rejection of the one she loved was a trauma enough to provoke the fall of an entire reality.
Sharp mind, prescient even, but entirely mad.
Out of sheer jealousy he killed the father of the one that rejected him, and tried to dominate an entire world. He voided himself of any emotion for that.
his past love and friendship.
Personality Characteristics
Be free of his power by disappearing or destroying world.
He have nothing else but the oneiric power, wait, does that mean he can do anything ? too bad the only thing he did was dominating minds and destroying worlds.
Somehow he still love Isara, maybe? And have a sort of respect for Kenariah, the one of a master, proud ?
He had a real talent for dramatic speech and always was respectful of his nemesis.
seriously, you're asking ? it's not like he is evil or anything.
Tragic, dramatic, long prose.
Social
The conquest of Septrial, Meridia and Alkalia lasted a long ten years, a hundred if we count the elven invasion as the result of his corruption from athria. Destroyed multiple cities, the creation and destruction of
Riad'rethan,
Alia and
Kard'harim
His father, that he killed to than use as a puppet general of his armies. Isara, his former "love"
He is a god, god of dream and destruction.
he dominate spirit with a strong power that dominate him more than he master it; is that really counting as charisma? Yes he had the ego of a godlike. His etiquette and manierism were still perfect for a showman, worthy of
Argalan.
Very theatrical, dramatic long monologues, exaggerated gestures, maniacal evil laughs...
dark echoing rasp voice, strangely overwhelming both physically and mentally. Speak fast, loud, with random irregular punctuation.
former friend, ennemy (Trivial)
former friend, and enemy (Trivial)
Towards Isara Elina Onirem
History
Shaar was interested in Isara, they were childhood friend and spent most of their time together, and Spiridia spoiled his feelings. Isara was seeing Shaar as an adopted brother, a good friend, a confident. But now, Shaar killed her father, destroyed their plane, and tried to conquer a world, enslaving their inhabitants. She can only hate him, and him, deprived of his feeling by his consuming madness, only remember the hollow of a past love.
Shared Acquaintances
Karth, Spiridia
former student, nemesis, murderer (Important)
former Teacher, former friend, nemesis (Trivial)
History
At first, they were friend, and had a teacher-student relationship, as Spiridia taught Shaar how to use Calyster's powers. As Spiridia maried with Isara, Shaar snaped. Spiridia and Shaar entered a nemesis state, trying to kill each other. Shaar effectively killed Spiridia, but Spiridia turned into a dream entity instead of being erased.
Relationship Reasoning
Shaar, despite hating Spiridia, mock him as being a dream god, by showing a form of admiration tainted with hateful jealousy. Spiridia, despite all the bad things Shaar did, try to remember a bit too much that time when they were friends.
History
Erakel have a very difficult position to take, loving his child, thinking he raised him correctly in his childhood... only to see him kill his long-last friend Dario Elina. He always has felt guilty and responsible for such terrible crime, and always thought of a way to redeem himself to Isara Elina, Dario's daughter. But alas, as soon as he touched the ground of kray-maven, he became the mental slave of his own son, and a monster that slaughtered countless souls.
Today, Erakel cannot feel anything but deception and sadness for his son, that he participated in killing before committing suicide.
god and tool (Important)
Towards Kenariah Avelith-Melida
pupil and manipulator (Trivial)
History
Kenariah was amused by Shaar's tragic story, and yet she also trapped herself in associating and sharing feelings. But in the end, even if at first she was happy to find someone she could relate to, consider as a friend and even had a bit of admiration... he was but another tool she found to release her hatred and frustration.
Shaar had the opposite way, first he saw another slave, a good general, and then a confident, and he got deceived even harder than with Isara, in a way, but this time he died without ever knowing.
Commonalities & Shared Interests
Hatred and will to conquer and destroy, enslave and torture.
