The Lore of Alchemist Chyou of the Steppe

Chyou is a young wizard who originated from the Alchemist Archepeligo. Despite her youth she has seen much already and is worldly wise beyond her years. She is incredibly altruistic and kind, headstong and bold while also very inquisitive in her nature. The Steppe she now calls home wasn’t always her home. Originally from the Archipelago, she left with her mother shortly after the mysterious disappearance of her father, an incredibly powerful Alchemist who was a prolific user of magic. He had locked himself away in his workshop and had not been seen for months leading up to his disappearance. Rumours swirled that he had become so prolific in his magic use, it had started to change even his physical form. One morning he was discovered missing, the only lead in his disappearance was rune burnt into the wooden floor of the workshop. The rune was unidentifiable though and he has never been seen or heard from since.

After leaving the Archipelago her mother remarried while Chyou was still very young, this time to a warrior. Her stepfather was a man who was incredibly skilled in his chosen disciplines and had been a fierce warrior on the field of battle. Away from that, he was a wildly different person. Kind, devoted and passionate, if not for his scars and physique you’d never have known his roots. He took Chyou immediately and doted on her, always firm but fair in equal measure. While Chyou was an alchemist at heart she was also an avid student of her step father mastering swordsmanship and hand to hand fighting as well as developing the softer side of warriorship, meditating, healing and mental strength. Despite her slight frame, Chyou had became a fearsome opponent with her sheer speed and agility. The skills and lessons learnt from her stepfather influenced and drove her life heavily.

It was her skills as an alchemist though that brought her to the attention of a local Lord who took her in to produce the fine metals he needed for a plan to modernise his lands and bring prosperity to his people. Chyou had jumped at this opportunity, to be able to help so many with her talents appealed to her greatly. She later came to realise however, she had been tricked. The Lord was in fact a Lich and was using the resources she produced to expand his lands and crush the people. Distraught by this she refused to continue her work and was imprisoned in the castle dungeon. The dungeon was a dark forboding place, cold, damp and in complete darkness. The lessons in meditation and training her step father had taught her were the only things that kept Chyou going through this torment. She eventually escaped her confinement with the help of her familiar, whom she found in the darkness and fled the Lords lands. Once safe, she searched for her parents for a time, but they had long since left for the safety of lands far away believing her dead.

For now her home is the Steppe, a small house with a little workshop in a secluded location. In the summer she travels and fights with the armies marching against the Lich Lord that imprisoned her. In the winter, when the fighting seasons are done, she returns to the safety of the Steppe. Designing and creating swords made to order with the fine metals she produces, she makes a living through the long winters. The swords she produces are no ordinary swords, they are bespoke swords created for use against both the living and the dead. She puts aside the profits she needs to replenish her stocks and keep her going through next the summers campaigns. Then, when times are tough and hope seeps from the Steppe in the deep midwinter, she sets to work distributing the rest of her profits to the villages around her. Delivered to the villagers in the dead of night by her familiar. Never much, but enough to see them and their livestock through the winter.

This his her life for the near future, but one day soon when Lich Lord is finally defeated, a great adventure awaits her travelling to the far off lands to find her parents once again……

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Special thanks to 0xsharon & PineappleLord for their assistance and guidance in the writing of this lore.

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