The great mage understands how true power lies in a perfect balance between knowing much—and revealing little. Keeping his enemies at a distance through a mix of spellcasting and strategy, few ever have the chance to gaze upon their slayer.

Once a Nexi of the Conclave, long was Polinore's fall from grace. Very little is known about the mage's past or intentions, but tales reverberate about the day he met his Relic. Journeying forth towards the Malediction with apprentices and levied resources, Polinore would come back wielding the Runefold Gauntlet, with no shadow at his side but his own.

After his rising as Seeker, seizing the opportunity after his former master's untimely demise, Polinore made himself the obvious successor for Keeper of the Oracle—those entrusted with the duty of overseeing everything related to the Conclave's most precious Relic. This, however, came at a cost: the power-hungry eyes of his peers loomed over his prestigious role, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. When Londriel, Polinore's pupil, stepped forth to denounce the corruption of the Conclave, they found their opportunity.

The Conclave, too mystery-clad to allow their secrets to be brought to light, sent both pupil and master to court. Londriel was accused of heresy and treason, while Polinore faced a conundrum of accusations, such as corrupting the youth, and nonconformism. Polinore could easily defend himself from most accusations, but those regarding Londriel threatened to kindle even further his accusers' anger, putting him, and his former apprentice, in grave danger. Shocking all, Polinore remained silent. To the court, it was an admission of guilt.

Polinore was stripped of his rank as Nexi, receiving, in its place, the role of Archivist of the Tabernacle of Knowledge. This far-off Conclave settlement regulates the entry, and distribution, of every artifact recovered from the Malediction. There, away from Quinvala, he would no longer be a nuisance. However, to his peers’ surprise, this banishment of sorts seems to have been the mage's plan all along. As near to the Malediction as the Conclave lands allow one to be, Polinore has control over the Relics retrieved, as well as to whose hands shall receive them. Taking his time to venture into the storm of chaos himself, always returning more powerful than before, those who connived his downfall are left wondering who truly pulls the strings.

Born before the Fall, Londriel survived the cataclysm entrapped inside her Relic, the Ark of Lamentation. She awakened to find a world lost to chaos, in need of a protector. She will become the savior she needs to be, and rebuild all that was lost.

Screams, panic, a rumble loud enough to crack the world asunder, and then, silence—that's all Londriel seems to remember about the Fall, the great cataclysm that birthed the Malediction and sunk Selejia into chaos. Now, awakened in a strange world, changed to its very core while she slumbered for a thousand years, protected by the Ark of Lamentation, Londriel struggles to find her home once more.

Whether it was trauma or tender age, as she was but a child when the world died, Londriel seems to recall very little of the cataclysm, and it is not known if putting her into the Ark’s stasis was an action of outside forces, or if her Relic did so out of its own, unknown whim, but it is certain that she was granted a mercy that would befall no one else. Awakened in Tempras, deep in the Order’s territory, Londriel was adopted by a loving family. There, amidst a society of zealots, she saw herself torn between different expectations. For some, she was a living saint, a living embodiment of the will of the Everlasting, a symbol to be worshipped, while for others, her nature as an erisyr brought much strain to the Order’s culture, and she was seen as an outsider to be feared.

Raised on the principles of the Order, Londriel encompasses their dedication towards a higher purpose, channeling their teachings into hatred for corruption. As she was sent to study the ways of Liastrum magic on Quinvala, this naivety would be her, and her master's, sentence. Always inquisitive, Londriel learned unsettling secrets about the Conclave, and the greediness that seeped from the Nexi, infuriating her to the breaking point. Openly denouncing the Conclave's immorality and negligence, Londriel and Polinore would be punished on account of non-conformism. Worse still, her master stood silent as both were accused and sentenced.

Londriel, however, sees in this merely the righteousness of her actions, and won't let anything stop her from creating a new home for herself and for those who choose to see the truth. She knows that to topple power, she too must be powerful, and so, as the Ebbing commences, she strides toward the Malediction. Perhaps, she also hopes to uncover the secrets of her past.