Lucien Evans

Lucien Evans is the central sorcerer, arcanist, and musician whose search for survival and an explanation for his arrival in another world grows into a sustained effort to understand magic, matter, space-time, and the soul. Beginning as Xiafeng in the body of an impoverished Aalto youth, he builds public identities as a celebrated composer and scholar while secretly practicing forbidden magic. His discoveries reshape the Congress of Magic, his partnership with Natasha Violet changes Holm's political balance, and his final model of two interacting universes opens an arcanist's route beyond the legendary level. (Chapters 1, 67, 581, and 821–823)

Biography

Survival, music, and hidden magic in Aalto

Xiafeng awakens in Lucien Evans's body with no money, little physical strength, and the recent inquisition death of the body's former owner hanging over him. The witch burning outside Aderon Cathedral immediately shows him that magic is real and that even suspicion can be fatal. He initially concentrates on food, literacy, and a regular income, but the church's use of him in the underground chamber gives him access to three magic books and produces the inner library that preserves what he reads. When gangsters attack him and injure Alisa, weakness becomes intolerable: he chooses the danger of magic because remaining powerless has already endangered both himself and the people who shelter him. (Chapters 1–8 and 14–17)

That choice does not make Lucien reckless. He studies the dead witch's notes in secret, meditates, connects to a Host Star of Destiny, and learns that apprentice magic is limited by both spiritual reserves and the ability to analyze spell structures. He also uses the intimidating ring Ice Revenger and the borrowed identity “Professor” to enter Aalto's apprentice circle without revealing that he is a novice. The disguise lets him trade knowledge and seek the Continental Congress of Magic, while his resonance-based Professor's Oscillation Hand gives him a weapon whose physical effect conceals its magical origin. These arrangements establish his characteristic method: learn the mechanism, hide the decisive information, and turn a stronger opponent's assumptions into protection. (Chapters 20–25, 41–45, and 51–54)

Lucien's other path begins when he seeks literacy from Victor and is admitted as a music student. He works hard enough to acquire a real technical foundation, but his inner library also gives him access to music from his original world. When Victor's Psalm Hall concert is threatened by the absence of a suitable final work, Lucien supplies the Symphony of Fate both to repay Victor's kindness and to give form to his own refusal to yield. Victor publicly credits him after the performance, transforming a slum laborer into a recognized musician. The new status offers practical protection from casual investigation, but it also connects him to Natasha, whose response to the symphony develops into friendship through music, conversation, and mutual trust. (Chapters 18–21, 47–50, and 65–68)

Public success never removes the conflict between his two lives. As Professor, Lucien fights the Argent Horn conspiracy and the night watchers who hunt him; as a musician, he continues composing and gains access to noble society. Rhine eventually tells him that the Congress is in Allyn, giving his secret studies a destination. Lucien becomes a first-circle sorcerer while traveling and chooses to stand with Natasha against Verdi's rebellion even though using magic risks exposure. Natasha sees the evidence that he is Professor, but judges him by his conduct rather than his forbidden identity and urges him toward Holm. Her acceptance allows Lucien to leave Aalto with a friendship intact rather than abandoning every bond he has made there. (Chapters 78–90, 117–124, and 127–136)

Journey to Allyn and the arcana community

The road to the Congress repeatedly tests whether Lucien's caution can coexist with his refusal to ignore immediate danger. He destroys Baron Habearo's undead plot after confirming the threat, then reaches a necromancer gathering where Felipe's power makes direct confrontation suicidal. To preserve Professor's cover and obtain the Congress liaison, Lucien challenges the theory of life force through an experiment and bets on Felipe's curiosity as an arcanist. The experiment does not produce the result Lucien publicly implies, but the wager secures the Sturk contact. When that route is compromised, he investigates the betrayal and helps reopen passage rather than surrendering his goal only a strait away from Allyn. (Chapters 141–168)

Arrival in the Congress gives Lucien freedom to study, but not freedom from consequences. He recognizes that his knowledge from Earth must be checked experimentally and released in an order that will not expose him as something stranger than a genius. His early paper on spell improvement earns attention; his experiments on elements lead to a periodic table and the Holm Crown Prize, while the carbamide synthesis he once used against Felipe remains politically explosive. He forms a research group and treats arcana as the channel through which knowledge becomes magic, status, and protection. This is also where his attitude changes from seeking a sanctuary to deliberately creating new fields of study within the community he has joined. (Chapters 184–219)

The Congress sends Lucien into problems that cannot be solved by theory alone. His agricultural work with the elves turns elemental analysis into a practical response to polluted crops, while later assignments expose ancient rites, the Church's reach, and the risks of using a famous identity in hostile territory. In the East Haven he adopts another cover, works with Leo, and accepts Rhine's dangerous request. A forced transformation during that mission raises his soul to fourth-circle equivalence and gives him level-two-knight physical strength, but the experience also confirms that sudden power without control or context can be as dangerous as weakness. (Chapters 220–255 and 256–281)

Returning to Aalto, Lucien publicly resumes the role of master musician and privately offers the local apprentices a route to Allyn. Clown's pursuit forces him and Natasha to turn those identities into a trap: Professor appears responsible for the apparent killing of Lucien Evans, allowing the musician's “death” to close one line of investigation while the apprentices escape. Lucien reveals the truth only to Joel, Alisa, John, and Iven before leaving again, accepting their grief as the immediate cost of protecting them. In the Dark Mountain Range, a constructed ordeal arranged by the Nightmare King forces his latent soul power forward to the fifth-circle level; the later revelation that Fernando is the legendary observer behind his recruitment returns him to Allyn not merely as a promising researcher, but as the Lord of Storm's student. (Chapters 282–309 and 311–326)

Scientific upheaval and senior-rank ascent

Under Fernando, Lucien gains a mentor who demands proof rather than reverence. He establishes the Atom Institution, supervises assistants, and pursues brain electromagnetism, thermal radiation, particles, and the foundations of alchemy. His proposal of discontinuous energy and his discovery of the electron repeatedly challenge established cognitive worlds, making the social cost of a new theory inseparable from its scientific value. Appointment to the Arcana Review Board places him on the other side of that pressure: he must judge disruptive work without reproducing the dogmatism he has broken. The same discoveries accelerate his sorcery, and he completes the rite that makes him a senior-rank sorcerer and a Secretive whose destiny resists ordinary prophecy. (Chapters 327–375)

Lucien continues to accept covert work because the Congress's safety depends on more than papers. Following Rhine's plan into the Night Highland and later into the Holy Heilz Empire, he uses disguise, prophecy, elemental magic, and Pale Justice while investigating vampires, ancient faith, and Thanos's legacy. Rather than overpower every opponent, he manipulates expectations and prepares multiple exits, reserving stronger resources until their need is proven. These missions uncover links among divine power, primeval devils, and attempts at immortality, shifting his interest in religion from political camouflage toward a problem that arcana may eventually explain. (Chapters 376–417)

Back in Allyn, Lucien uses his institutional authority to broaden the culture of research. He gives Levski's rejected geometry a fair review, creates Nature as a venue for mathematical and theoretical work, teaches students to question premises, and supports the launch of Arcana Voice. His work on New Alchemy overturns the indivisible-atom model and supplies a framework for the elements, but it also demonstrates that a correct result can break minds built around an incompatible cognitive world. Lucien's response is not to stop disruptive inquiry; he advocates evidence, preparation, and openness while building communication and education systems that let more people participate in the new age. (Chapters 418–460)

His investigations then bring the intellectual and political threads together. Disguised as Leviathan, Lucien infiltrates a false-god conflict, studies how faith and the Seed of Spirit produce power, and turns the seed into a usable badge rather than accepting its claimed divine origin. When the operation collapses into a struggle involving Congus and Rudolf II, he and Natasha survive by combining analysis, misdirection, borrowed divine or blood power, and mutual protection. Lucien writes on relativity even while they are hunted, reflecting how research is not separate from his crises but one of the ways he masters them. By the end of the ordeal his soul has reached the eighth circle, his partnership with Natasha has deepened under pressure, and the remains of a higher existence have exposed a scale of danger beyond ordinary archmages. (Chapters 461–506)

Grand arcanist and legendary struggles

After their escape, Lucien and Natasha recognize that their friendship has become love. Their relationship remains a working partnership: they test Sard's intentions, consider the balance among the Church, Congress, and nobles, and protect one another without treating either person's public responsibility as disposable. Lucien responds to threats against Natasha with ruthless contingency planning, while she refuses to let affection reduce her resolve as queen. Their shared taste for directness and humor gives them respite, but their courtship also creates a political alliance that makes attacks on one of them a strategic threat to both Holm and the Congress. (Chapters 517–545)

Lucien's general theory of relativity provides the Congress with a new account of gravity and gives Douglas a possible route toward demigodhood. In the struggle against Sard and the South Church, Lucien helps coordinate legendary allies, communication, and battlefield deception rather than relying on a single spell. Feedback from the real world advances him to the ninth circle; the Congress then recognizes him as a grand arcanist and a member of the Highest Council. He chooses the Atom Controller legendary class, builds a demiplane from his cognitive world, and enters legend before his wedding. When assassins attack the ceremony, his concealed advancement allows him and Natasha to fight as a married pair rather than victims awaiting rescue. (Chapters 542–581 and 593–610)

Membership in the Highest Council also makes Lucien responsible for dangers older than the Congress. Traveling with Rhine through the World of Souls and the Realm of Gates, he follows Maskelyne's evidence about Thanos, Viken, Mountain Paradise, and the primeval hell. Monsters that imitate memories and identities make raw power unreliable, so Lucien repeatedly verifies allies, uses the peculiar protection of the Secretive, and accepts that some apparent discoveries may be staged. He returns with a clearer picture of the rival Vikens and of an immortality route based on faith and negative feelings, but also with unresolved questions about the soul and the higher-dimensional source of supernatural power. (Chapters 611–646)

Lucien's quantum work then attacks determinism inside the Congress itself. He presents observation, uncertainty, and incompleteness as consequences to be tested rather than comforting philosophies, even when colleagues find the resulting worldview unbearable. World feedback from his theoretical synthesis engraves Eternal Blaze and advances him to level three of legend. He carries that strength into the elven and abyssal crisis with Natasha and Malfurion, where they expose corruption linked to Viken's demigod method and intervene without pretending they can permanently ally with demons. His choices show a mature balance between inquiry and governance: collect the evidence, stop the immediate catastrophe, and avoid turning a temporary alignment into a lasting strategic mistake. (Chapters 647–700)

Cosmology, demigods, and the City in the Sky

The struggle in the abyss continues with Lucien targeting the Time Plate and confronting enemies who understand many of his established spells. He therefore develops attacks whose mechanisms are not yet part of common arcana, most notably Positron Cannon; its matter–antimatter annihilation turns an opponent's material defense into additional fuel, though space-time protection and magnetic deflection remain counters. Lucien and Natasha leave once the objective is secured instead of treating destructive success as a reason to prolong the fight. At home, the ideas and institutions he helped build spread through students, satellites, broadcasts, transportation, public schools, and popular accounts of arcana, making his influence social as well as military. (Chapters 701–753)

Space exploration gives Lucien direct evidence that the familiar stars are projections and that the real sun lies beyond the world's apparent sky. He works with Douglas, Fernando, and other grand arcanists to test vacuum and cosmological models, then supports Douglas's demigod attempt with both security planning and the theory that made the attempt possible. These discoveries do not make Lucien complacent: even at peak legendary he treats Viken, Maltimus, and the demigods as threats requiring alliances, misdirection, and safeguards against God's Arrival. Douglas's trust that Lucien could lead the Congress if the attempt failed marks how far Lucien has moved from seeking refuge in Allyn to bearing responsibility for its survival. (Chapters 739, 765–768, and 783–788)

Lucien and the Congress stage what appears to be his first demigod attempt in the World of Souls, deliberately drawing Viken, Maltimus, and other hostile powers away from Allyn while Douglas undertakes the real breakthrough. Lucien remains separable from the rite, spends Viken's use of God's Arrival, and destroys his temporary body on schedule; a prepared appendix reconstructs him beside Natasha in his demiplane. The deception buys Douglas the time to become a demigod and demonstrates Lucien's willingness to make even his own apparent advancement subordinate to the Congress's survival. Lucien then uses the quantum eraser experiment and further soul research to probe the relation between observation, memory, and identity, directing his attention toward Viken's claimed route to godhood rather than mistaking the decoy rite for his path. (Chapters 788–799)

The final crisis draws Lucien into the primeval hell, where Viken's attempt to combine Mountain Paradise and negative feelings threatens every faction. Lucien's encounter with another version of himself and the simultaneous appearance of two universes let him connect his spirit library, transmigration, magic, and the soul into one model. He returns to Allyn and explains that the material world and the reality behind magic are interacting universes, breaking Viken's boundary through understanding rather than accumulated faith. This different foundation advances Lucien to demigodhood; because he now understands the high-dimensional connection targeted by God's Arrival, he can leave the affected projection and return, then defeat Viken through space-time control, antimatter, and the black-hole structure in his cognitive world. Even afterward, he states that demigodhood is not omnipotence and treats recovery, immortality, and the soul as research programs rather than solved mysteries. (Chapters 802–823)

Appearance and personality

Lucien first appears as a seventeen-year-old with black hair, dark eyes, and well-formed, good-looking features, but his clean linen clothes and plain shoes immediately reveal his poverty. As his status rises, he commonly adopts restrained formal dress—black suits, tuxedos, or magic robes—that suits both the musician and scholarly identities he presents. Strengthened soul and magic do not erase the recognizable face Natasha first teases him about; by the later story he is repeatedly described through a gentle, composed bearing rather than an overtly intimidating physique. (Chapters 8, 18, 134, and 821)

His most persistent traits are curiosity, self-control, and stubborn persistence. Fear is frequent in his early experience, but he responds by gathering information, preparing escape routes, and acting decisively once delay becomes more dangerous. He is pragmatic about money and reputation because both begin as tools of survival, yet he repeatedly accepts risk for Joel's family, John, Natasha, his students, and the Congress. Lucien can be playful, vain about the names of his spells, and dryly humorous with people he trusts; toward enemies who threaten those people, he is willing to deceive, trap, or kill without romanticizing the choice. His open-mindedness is principled rather than passive: he demands experimental verification and can subordinate even the appearance of his own advancement to a larger, carefully prepared strategy. (Chapters 12–17, 160, 329, 535, 602, and 788–796)

Magic, abilities, and skills

Lucien's power is built around the interaction of disciplined sorcery and arcana. Magic models engraved in the soul produce spells, while meditation, spiritual power, the Host Star of Destiny, and an increasingly solid cognitive world determine what he can construct and sustain. His principal schools are elements, electromagnetism, astrology, force fields, and later space-time and the microscopic domain. He often compensates for a rank disadvantage with prepared equipment, misleading identities, environmental analysis, and combinations of spells rather than meeting an opponent's strongest ability directly. (Chapters 24–25, 124, 373–375, and 579)

Spirit library and scientific method

The spirit library preserves books Lucien reads and initially contains knowledge carried from Earth, but access is limited: advanced volumes remain sealed until his soul and spiritual power grow. This gives him a store of music, mathematics, chemistry, and physics, not automatic mastery. He must learn unfamiliar Congress mathematics, verify that earthly laws operate in this world, adapt results to magic, and sometimes derive work without consulting the stored texts. At legendary advancement the library opens completely, and at demigodhood he understands it as a protected connection formed by the interaction of Xiafeng's original universe with Lucien's. Its greatest limitation is therefore epistemic: stored knowledge can suggest a model, but local experiment decides whether the model is true. (Chapters 2, 19, 153, 169, 187, 579, 601, and 821)

That method makes Lucien an exceptional arcanist and designer. He translates resonance into Professor's Oscillation Hand, organizes the elements through the periodic table, identifies the electron, develops relativity and quantum theories, and connects those abstractions to usable spell structures. His cognitive world changes with what he accepts as the world's structure, so theoretical error can destabilize power just as new truth can produce direct feedback and advancement. Lucien reduces this danger through experiments, mathematical consistency, peer criticism, and an explicit willingness to treat even prestigious assumptions as provisional. (Chapters 53, 203–215, 329–356, 451–455, and 572–579)

Elemental and atomic magic

Lucien's early signature spell, Professor's Oscillation Hand, detects a structure's vibration frequency and drives it into destructive resonance; complicated or magically reinforced structures limit its effectiveness. Elemental Order similarly applies his command of elemental composition to separate or resolve materials and is useful for both combat and purification. He later improves it to legendary level with reference to Elements Resolve, but the full version requires a long incantation and gestures when it is not among the limited spell models constructed directly in his soul. (Chapters 53–54, 165, 237–240, and 619)

As an Atom Controller, Lucien turns fission and fusion into his principal large-scale attacks. Atomic Fission combines heat, an energy storm, and a curse over an area. Eternal Blaze simulates fusion and is especially destructive against undead beings, but the true spell initially requires power beyond what his soul can contain; before reaching the necessary level he can only produce a weaker demiplane projection or use power supplied by a higher existence. World feedback eventually engraves the spell and advances him to level-three legendary, after which he uses it against the Prince of Demons. These attacks are not precision tools: their scale, exposure, and effect on allies demand distance, preparation, or protection. (Chapters 506–507, 579, 583, 619, 667, and 686)

Snow Goddess's Forgiveness reaches a temperature less than one degree above absolute zero and can destroy a legendary fire creature, but the world resists that extreme and the effect cannot persist. Positron Cannon instead gathers antimatter under magnetic restraint; when it meets normal matter, even a material defense can join the annihilation and magnify the energy release. Its first major use nearly destroys Mecantron's vessel, but Lucien explicitly recognizes its counters: space-time defense can isolate the reaction, and magnetic powers can deflect the charged attack. At demigod rank he develops the idea into a broader Antimatter Cannon capable of offsetting the energy of God's Arrival. (Chapters 700, 705, and 822)

Space-time, probability, and the cognitive world

Space Staff manipulates local space-time for acceleration, deceleration, barriers, and battlefield control. It can create time-like advantages and protect Lucien from attacks, but stronger legendary power can break its spatial defenses, and constructing or using it does not make him universally immune to time effects. The Moon Timer improves his precision and resistance in this field, illustrating how Lucien often pairs a theoretical spell with purpose-built equipment. After becoming a demigod, his grasp of the connection between soul and projection lets Space Staff shift an area into a partly separate state rather than merely applying a conventional slowing spell. (Chapters 583, 593, 607, 630, 633, and 822)

Evans' Hand of Uncertainties is an auxiliary legendary spell that can be attached to another spell without a separate chant. It exploits microscopic uncertainty to create a chance that defenses will fail, making attacks such as Vengeful Gaze dangerous across a rank gap. The improvement has strict costs: adding it lengthens the original casting by about a second and increases spiritual consumption so sharply that only a few enhanced casts can exhaust reserves, while success is never guaranteed. Lucien therefore uses it to create decisive openings rather than as a permanent enhancement. (Chapters 602, 608–609, and 622)

Lucien's cognitive world contains atomic structures, a cosmic model, his Host Star of Destiny, and eventually the image of the universe connected to Earth. As a Secretive, his destiny is displaced from ordinary astrological expectations, which impairs attempts to locate or predict him but does not make him impossible to track by every method. At demigodhood he can temporarily withdraw a soul projection from the dimension targeted by God's Arrival, reconstruct it, and bring high-dimensional relations into spellcasting. He defeats Viken by letting their similar states enter his cognitive world and using the black-hole aspect of his Host Star to connect with the corresponding structure in the other universe. The process badly damages his cognitive world, showing that even his latest mastery imposes real risk. (Chapters 373–375, 627, and 821–823)

Combat, teaching, and music

Lucien is a prepared combatant rather than a specialist duelist. He uses prophecy, detection, dispelling, force fields, transformations, teleportation, enchanted equipment, and information shared with allies to control conditions before committing a signature attack. Baler's Transformation can temporarily give him knight abilities at his sorcerer level, allowing him to wield weapons such as Pale Justice or the Sword of Truth, but this is a temporary state rather than a second permanent blood-power progression. His victories often depend on recognizing limits—the cooldown of an item, the range of a spell, the enemy's likely counter, or the moment retreat is more valuable than another attack. (Chapters 142, 273, 483–504, 607–635, and 705)

Outside combat, Lucien is a composer, conductor, pianist, violinist, teacher, and institution builder. The spirit library supplies repertory and technique, but Victor's training gives him the local musical foundation needed to use it convincingly. In arcana he creates research groups and journals, mentors Heidi, Annick, Katrina, Sprint, and others, and treats criticism as part of discovery. His most enduring skill is synthesis: he can connect a spell to a physical mechanism, a theory to an experiment, or a technical innovation to a public institution, while remaining alert to the gap between an elegant explanation and demonstrated truth. (Chapters 37–50, 65–68, 219, 421–448, 663–666, and 696)

Power progression

Relationships

• Natasha Violet: Lucien first reaches Natasha through music, becomes her trusted friend despite concealing his identity as Professor, and later develops a romantic and political partnership with her. They marry, share tactical information through their bond, and repeatedly fight as equals whose different responsibilities remain intact. (Chapters 67, 99, 133–135, 517–545, and 605–610)
• Fernando: Fernando recruits Lucien as his student and provides the exacting mentorship, institutional protection, and senior advancement support that turn Lucien's isolated knowledge into a mature research program. Their arguments are loud or teasing, but Lucien trusts Fernando's commitment to evidence and Fernando repeatedly entrusts him with the Congress's most dangerous work. (Chapters 325–340, 373–375, and 578–579)
• Douglas: Douglas's old questions first inspire Lucien's interest in the nature of the world. Later, Lucien's relativity work gives Douglas a route toward demigodhood, while Douglas helps conduct Lucien's legendary advancement and identifies him as a possible future leader of the Congress. (Chapters 24, 568–579, and 765–788)
• Victor: Victor teaches Lucien literacy, music theory, performance, and the discipline needed to become a credible musician. Lucien answers that generosity by helping save Victor's Psalm Hall concert, and he continues to regard Victor as his musical teacher after acquiring fame far beyond Aalto. (Chapters 18–21, 47–68, and 282–296)
• Rhine: Rhine is an enigmatic ally who connects Lucien to information about the Congress, later recruits him into covert investigations, and accompanies him through the World of Souls and Realm of Gates. Their cooperation rests on mutual capability and repeated identity checks rather than blind trust. (Chapters 90, 117, 277–278, 376–417, and 611–645)
• John: John is Lucien's childhood friend in Aalto and fights beside him before either has status. Lucien treats Joel, Alisa, John, and Iven as family, while John's later recollection of their sword practice measures the distance between their poor beginnings and their eventual lives. (Chapters 12–17, 309, and 850)
• Heidi, Annick, Katrina, and Sprint: These students become researchers in Lucien's Atom Institution and extend his work in particles, computation, magic, and education. He criticizes them directly, rewards valuable ideas even when primitive, and expects them to develop rather than merely repeat his conclusions. (Chapters 219, 429–451, 663–666, and 696)
• Felipe: Felipe begins as a lethal rival whom Lucien manipulates through an arcanist's curiosity. Their later competition in necromancy, biology, awards, and theory remains sharp, but it also becomes a productive professional rivalry inside the Congress. (Chapters 152–160, 203–215, 541–542, and 568)
• Viken: Viken's work on faith, primeval devils, and immortality shadows Lucien's investigations for much of his career. Lucien ultimately rejects Viken's accumulation of other souls in favor of understanding his own soul's cross-universe structure, and that difference supplies both his demigod path and Viken's defeat. (Chapters 587–646, 681–687, and 788–823)

Items

• Sun's Corona: Maskelyne's sealed divine item grows with Lucien's rank, detects undead beings and gaps to the World of Souls, supplies divine effects, and eventually guides his investigation into the Realm of Gates. (Chapters 122, 248, 376, and 611–646)
• Holm Crown Ring: Electron: Awarded for Lucien's discovery of the electron and worn as one of the Holm Crown rings that reinforce his otherwise limited reserves and defenses. (Chapters 349–368)
• Sun Staff: Lucien uses this staff as both a gentleman's cane and an implement that raises the power of astrology spells below the ninth circle. (Chapters 411, 435, and 442)
• Pale Justice: Selected for operations against vampires and other evil or undead creatures; Lucien wields it personally under transformation and also coordinates its use with Natasha. (Chapters 385–417 and 483–504)
• Congus Ring: Captured and deciphered with Natasha's help, this legendary necromantic ring gives Lucien broad defensive immunities and becomes a major part of his survival equipment. (Chapters 495–504)
• Robe of Grand Arcanists: Chosen as Lucien's Congress reward before legendary advancement; its defenses, including Elemental Protection, support him against opponents above his level. (Chapters 576–577 and 608–609)
• Moon Timer: Lucien crafts this legendary pocket watch from his space-time research, gaining resistance, precision, and limited acceleration or deceleration effects. (Chapters 604–605 and 608–615)
• Shield of Truth: Primarily Natasha's defense, but Lucien can raise it during temporary knight transformation and relies on it during Realm of Gates battles where ordinary spell barriers fail. (Chapters 605–635)
• Sword of Truth: Natasha's signature weapon and blood power; Lucien can wield the physical sword in an appropriate transformed state, though it is not his permanent possession or innate power. (Chapters 619–635)