Lorraine Lucien

Lorraine loved the wrong man at the dawn of the wrong era, and spent the rest of her life making certain her son would survive the consequences.

Once close to the center of power in Magicia, she saw what was coming before almost anyone — the tightening of doctrine, the rewriting of names, the slow closing of a fist around an entire world. So she did the one thing the powerful never forgive: she took something they believed was theirs, hid it where it could not be found, and let them believe it destroyed.

Then, her secret kept and her child shielded, she did the hardest thing of all. She disappeared — so completely that history itself seems to have misplaced her.

Some mothers build dynasties. Some bury them, so that one child might live.

What became of her, no record says. But the choices she made still move beneath the story like a current no one can see.