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Cael’s FFXIV verse (draft):

he is a pureblood xaela aura, whose family is respected and quite influential amongst the xaela auri community, and a part of the orl tribe. he was born in the beginning of the sixth astral era when the orl tribe was in the early stage of development, so most of his childhood was spent on martial art training to protect his tribe against its hostile counterparts. unlike his father who was skilled in diplomacy and trading, he took great interest in the art of the lance from the very first moment he laid eyes on it, therefore, devoted practically most of his time to mastering this weaponry. this resulted in rather poorly delevoped social and communication skills; some might even mistake him for a qestir.

the orl tribe, under cael’s father’s leadership, adopted a rather open mindset towards accepting visitors/travellers from beyond the border of azim stepp as well as doing foreign trades and commerce. much like the mol, the orl too was not interested in taking part of the annual nadaam, they instead focused mainly on expanding their business either by travelling to other continents or doing trades with merchants from all walks of life at the stepp. cael’s father was not exempt from this duty even as the head of the tribe. 

on one of his travels to coerthas, around 500, unaware of the war that broke out between dragons and men after king thordan committed atrocity, cael’s family was caught in the midst of the chaos. mistaken as kins of the dragons, the ishgardians drew blade against his family, killing both his father and mother despite their pleading cry. enraged by their unjust death, cael turned to massacring the ishgardian troops (a literal depiction of one man vs. an army 👀), which eventually reached the ears of a knight of the knights twelve. he later was bested in combat by the knight (thought neither came out of the battle unscathed) and was then captured as prisoner. 

against the relentless marching of the dravanian horde, the fallen ishgardians littered the snowy plains of coerthas like ashes, their home razed to the ground. they soon became desperate, resorting to experimentation as a desperate means to win the war or at least to somehow balance the power between them. with the prime example of king thordan and the knights twelve being able to absorb ratatoskr’s power to enhance their own power, they sought a way to create an army enhanced with the power of the dragons without succumbing to the dragons’ raging aether. cael was their first test subject. they harvested the remains of ratatoskr and implanted them into cael’s body, as well as forcing her aether into his core. this terribly conflicted with cael’s aether flow and even consumed it, causing his body to mutate: one of his eyes bled red and became blind with the dragon’s power, three extra horns protruded on either side of his head and in the middle of his forehead, his scales grew harder and seemingly ate into his flesh. not only was he affected physically, his mind also suffered from the aether corruption— a condition called frenzying. he was bound to lose his mind and made to surrender the control of his body to the dragon within for a period of time, in which he would massacre indiscriminately. there was no telling when he would, or how long it would last before he regained his sanity. after multiple frenzies however, the ishgardians had found out a possible trigger to this phenomenon: blood.

taking advantage of this condition, the ishgardians tempted him with blood then dispatched him into the battlefield against nidhogg’s brood, and locked him up again and left him to rot in the deepest dungeons of the vault once it passed. this torment continued on for the next milennium until nidhogg’s reawakening in 1572. his dragonsong was so powerful that it reached even the pit of the vault, resonating within cael and accelerating his rate of frenzying. during a dravanian attack and the heretics’ assault, as the ishgardian knights came to release him into battles as per usual, he was already frenzied. unaware of this fact, the ishgardians were easily felled by his claws, and with most of the knights gone and only a few remained behind, seemingly occupied with aiding the frontline, cael successfuly breached the vault and escaped into the night.

he found his way to nidhogg, to dravania, and learned to harness his dragon power there. soon, he rejoined the war, marching with the dravanian horde with the sole desire to exact vengeance upon those who wronged him— the vault.    

#about. / character study #vii. the half-blooded dragon. / final fantasy xiv verse. #ITS A WIP #IT WILL CHANGE #BUT BASICALLY #THAT #IDK #IM JUST EXTREMELY SLEEPY RN BUT I WANNA PUSH THIS OUT SO IT DOESNT HAUNT ME ANYMORE