Age: 29

Starting level: 4

Backstory: Lydia was born twenty-nine years ago in an Altharion that no longer exists.

She grew up much like anyone else, though few would have described her as ordinary. Confident to a fault and carrying an ego large enough to rival some nobles, Lydia had a habit of throwing herself into challenges simply because someone said she couldn’t do something. Yet beneath the bravado was someone fiercely loyal to the people she cared about.

As she grew older, she traveled throughout Altharion, slowly building a life for herself. Along the way she met people who would shape her journey in ways she never expected.

She spent time with healers and priests, learning that strength was more than simply winning battles. She traveled alongside adventurers and off-worlders whose stories came from realms she could barely imagine. She crossed paths with thieves, guardians, hunters, and wandering souls, learning that every person carried burdens invisible to everyone else.

Some became trusted companions.

Some became respected allies.

A rare few became close enough to be considered family.

Among them was Aeven, one of the people Ace trusted most. The two spent years traveling, fighting, and talking together. While Lydia rarely trusted others with her vulnerabilities, Aeven was one of the few people who managed to see beyond her confidence and understand the person beneath it. The trust between them became so deep that Aeven eventually shared her true name with Lydia, a secret she entrusted to very few.

Life wasn’t perfect, but it was hers.

There were quests to complete, festivals to attend, people to laugh with, and futures to look forward to.

Then everything began to fall apart.

At first it seemed like isolated incidents. Strange magical disturbances. Places appearing where they shouldn’t. Scholars reporting impossible readings. Rumors of entire locations briefly vanishing before reappearing again.

No one understood what was happening.

By the time the truth was discovered, it was already too late.

Another Altharion had begun colliding with their own.

Two realities were attempting to exist in the same place at the same time.

Reality itself began to tear apart under the strain.

The skies cracked.

The seas between islands twisted into impossible voids.

Entire regions vanished without warning.

Cities disappeared.

People disappeared.

The world was dying.

Lydia refused to accept it.

She fought alongside countless others in a desperate attempt to save what remained. She traveled wherever help was needed, throwing herself into danger again and again. Every victory felt meaningless as the collapse continued spreading across the archipelago.

The people she cared about kept fighting too.

But courage alone could not stop the end of a universe.

One by one, everything Lydia loved was erased.

The islands she had explored.

The cities she called home.

The friends she had spent years beside.

All of it was consumed by the collapse.

In the final moments of her reality, one of her closest companions sacrificed themselves to create a path out. They forced Lydia through before she could object, giving their life so that at least one person might survive.

Lydia watched her world die.

Then she fell into darkness.

When she awoke, she found herself beneath the skies of another Altharion.

The islands were familiar.

The air felt familiar.

Everything looked almost exactly the same.

But it wasn’t.

This was a different world.

A different reality.

An Altharion that still lived while hers had been reduced to nothing.

Standing alone in a world that should not have existed, Lydia made a promise.

Whatever force had destroyed her home, whatever had taken everyone she cared about from her, she would find it.

And when she did, she would make it answer.

From that day forward, she carried that vow with her while bearing memories of a world that only she remembered.

Background: Farmer

"Origin" Feat: Polearm Master

Starting Grace: Edge of Conquest

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