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Like most Shadar-kai, Anastasia and Lucian were born in the Shadowfell. Their house was among those in Gloomwrought, one of the last Shadar-kai cities. Their father built an empire and became known among nobility. His house was in secret, and not many, even family, truly knew what happened there.

He eventually took a wife. And it wasn't long after that he realized he'd need an heir. His wife gave birth to twins.. and that was when he devised a terribly wicked plan and had the twins bonded by magic, a visage of tattoos completed in each other so that no matter what they could never break away. No one truly knew the reasoning behind why, not even the twins themselves. (And sometimes Anastasia swears that only now some parts of his plans are unraveling..)

The twins grew together for a number of years. They were schooled in private by a number of maids and tutors, kept from anyone near their own age. That is where the similarities between the twins upbringing ended. While Anastasia endured private training from her father, Lucian was given everything he could ask for. He was taught from the best tudors, taught how to hold a sword, learned how to be a strategist and whatever he asked for was given instantly. That didn't stop him from realizing that his father was hard and expected excellence, but for Lucian that was a minor thought over everything else.

Then, at about the age of ten, Lucian was ripped out of his bed in the middle of the night and shipped off to private school where he learned how to became a proper man and heir. That was the first glimpse that he got that his home-life might not be perfect, however, he was naive in thinking that his father was merely just misinformed about the choice he made for his son's schooling.

Life at the school was terrible. While there, Lucian came to realize that not only were the teachers cut-throat, they were trying to kill the students.. to make them murderers and vile to the core. Lucian wouldn't give in to this, and made it his project to protect the weaker students, which made him more than a few enemies. They, in turn, did whatever they could to make Lucian's life a living hell while at the school.

Near the end of his schooling, there was a game to weed out the weak. Students were leashed upon each other, told to kill one another and that only the strongest would survive. There they ganged up on him, at least a dozen, he fought strong, killing at least half of them before they beat him to a bloody pulp. They left him there to die on the snow. He drug himself out of sight, having lost all hope, when he saw a light. There in front of him appeared a wonderful seen of light and water. There a beautiful woman came up out of the well, a vision of purity. Kneeling down, she healed his wounds, and there made him her knight, giving him the power to right the wrongs that were dealt to him if he agreed to help try to free her from the well.

Taking her power and making the pact of the Hex Blade, he went back to the school and killed everyone who had done him wrong, the teachers included.. and burnt the school to the ground so that it could no longer create evil.

After wandering toward home, it was then that he heard the screams through his tattoos and rushed back home to see his sister crying and cradling their mother's corpse and his father standing over his sister with malicious intent. He did the only thing a good brother could... save his sister..