Lucas

In the grander scheme of things Lucas really isn't a bad guy, but he's certainly not a good one either. An excellent leader and general, but if you expect him to care you'll find yourself sorely disappointed. He's calloused and practical, more than willing to shed dead weight if it's hindering his plans.


Born in Thrace as Loukas, a demigod associated with violence and bloodthirst by virtue of his father, the halfgod Cycnus, son of Ares. Through his mother, Themistonoe, daughter of Ceyx and Halcyone of Trachis he finds association with a sense of calm. This dichotomy is what would have led to him obtaining the title of god of the calm during war were to he have ascended his divinity - but it was never to be. Apollo, enraged by Cycnus' atrocities and dissatisfied with simply washing away his tomb, cursed the halfgod's descendants to eternity spent shifting between man and beast.

Lucas has lived many lifetimes, each more different than the last. Time spent as the beast has no impact on his human self's age (though it does heal him), and there are numerous periods where he remembers only the briefest moments. It was pure happenstance that the beast was in Olympias when the city-state was teleported by the Olympian-Chthonic Gods, and it was several hundred years still before he awoke as a man again. Now becoming a magistrate? That's another feat entirely.