By Bleys J. Maynard
What has gone before
Losstarot. It was a name to inspire fear and terror, not only in children, but in those adults who knew the truth, for generations after his death. Although Sydney Losstarot had used many women like toys, and fathered many children, he systematically hunted down and slew any of his offspring in fear that one day, they might challenge him for the leadership of his empire. The man had shook the world on its foundations, and cast the nations into a global war, and had worked with the child-demon Yurius. Even after Losstarot's death, Yurius continued to prosecute his war, until an allied magus finally sealed him into a different plane. But that sealing was not without its price. The force of magic worked in the sealing caused the continents to shift, nations to break, and the Floating Continent of Alent to come crashing into the sea. From that day, new nations were born, and everybody tried to forget Sydney Losstarot. Almost everybody.
The magus who sealed Yurius away told almost nobody the final words of the child-demon, and never even wrote it in his personal journal:
You may think yourselves the victors, but this battle is far from done. Even now, I've set events in motion which will seal the doom of the earth. After Sydney's death, I located a homeless child whom he'd fathered. I put my mark upon the boy. For as long as it takes, Sydney will be born and reborn into that line, the line of direct succession, and when I walk this earth again, so shall he.
The magus, and those who came after him, sought the child for the rest of their days. They searched desperately, for their chance to avert Yurius's dark prophecy. Over the world, they searched for the son of Sydney Losstarot, but they never found him.
What many didn't know was that more than one son of Sydney Losstarot had survived. A child untouched by Yurius, and unknown by the allies. That line continued unbroken as well, and one thousand years after the Losstarot War, another direct descendent of Sydney Losstarot named Anoki Lain was instrumental in the defeat of Yurius after the return he'd foretold in his sealing. Thus, Yurius was prevented from uniting with the other descendent of Losstarot whom he'd prepared with such care after the death of the original.
This is the story of the line that overcame the darkness of Sydney Losstarot, and bred Anoki Lain.