Luna Sévoss

Luna Sévoss belonged to the infamous Sévoss family of assassins, well-known and extremely feared by the other Elravian houses. They were known to harness the element of air - their victims were always found with nary a mark on their body, but their lungs collapsed from the air being forcefully pulled from their bodies. The smallest prick from their ancient scythe-like Edge weapons, and the elemental effect would take their life-breath and leave them dead. For generations the Sévoss Family had been taking out members of the royal family, their reasons their own and unknown. The royal family finally had enough when the crown prince was assassinated by the Sévoss. They sent their pet killing machine, Arial Vaharic, to take out the Sévoss Family. She wiped out all but one of them, a young girl who she believed posed no threat. She was wrong. Luna Sévoss was filled with rage and a thirst for revenge, but she knew she was no match for the immortal royal guard. She spent the next twenty years training and murdering her way through lesser nobility for practice. Arial was her true target, and the time was nearing. She had spent weeks trailing Arial, learning her schedule and habits, devising a plan to take her out. While doing so she began to notice that Arial seemed to be... slipping. It seemed the perfect time to strike. But then, Arial disappeared without a trace. The royal family was in an uproar and panicking. Luna was beyond livid. Twenty years of training, and her mark just vanishes? She would never know the sweet taste of revenge as Arial’s life-breath was pulled from her. She would never see the look of panic in her eyes as she realized her stupidly long life, was at last, coming to an end. Luna saw only red as she descended on the palace the following new moon under cover of full dark. She went from room to room, killing anyone who had the misfortune to cross her path. Royal family members, servants, guards - they all fell beneath her ice cold rage. But even the hundreds of lives she took that night could not satiate her desire for revenge. She left Elravia the next day. She had a senile royal guard to find, and it was time to go hunting. Years passed as Luna tracked Vaharic across the cosmos. Her bloody rampage grew increasingly desperate as she failed to catch-up with Arial; as the trail went cold, her violent outbursts increased in both frequency and ferocity. The closest she ever came was also their final near-encounter, on the frozen moon of Vos. There, amidst a state-of-the-art data farm, Arial - for reasons unknown - attempted to interface with a prototype neural network AI, CAMBION. She was interrupted before the uplink could occur, and fled. Luna, seeking whatever insights she could into her sworn enemy, took her place... From there, Luna disappears from history.

Dean Goulder