Gideon

Scion of the House of Thalemore, Gideon grew up the son of a nobleman but in the shadow of men far greater than himself: none more revered than Greystone, the immortal knight sworn to protect their realm. While the people hailed the knight as a living legend, Gideon watched from the fringes, heir in name but dismissed by his father as unworthy of the title.

When Greystone fell in battle and rose again in flame, something fractured in Gideon. If honour could defy death, what could ambition achieve? He turned his back on his familial duty, leaving his house and heritage while clutching only a single book on mythos that held ancient promises of infinite power.

His relentless pursuit led him to a vast, intricate artifact deep beneath the earth - a colossal machine left behind by a long-dead civilisation as a means of contacting the gods beyond the gods. Gideon couldn't stop at mere discovery; he became its architect, tirelessly reverse-engineering its complex systems before he eventually coaxed open an unstable gateway to the Sanctuary beyond.

However, just as Gideon thought he caught a glimpse of the shimmering beings at the cusp of creation, the ancient device faltered. Cosmic power flooded out of the portal, blasting through him at a molecular level before collapsing the portal and the machine that had torn it open. When Gideon awoke, he was no longer just a man, but a brilliant, dangerous sorcerer unbound by blood or birthright with space bending around his every footstep.