1. Characters

Vollius D. Xyler

Wishful Star, Wish Upon a Star, Star Monarch

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Lore


An enigmatic yet awe-inspiring ability, Wishful Star lives up to the mystique of its name. At first glance, its true nature remains elusive. Its purpose is not immediately apparent, veiled in cosmic wonder and astral elegance. However, beneath this veil lies a power of staggering potential, the manipulation and generation of stellar phenomena through the user's own astral energy.


Within the bounds of this universe, the user does not command existing stars but instead replicates them, forming radiant constructs known as Star Fragments. These fragments, born from pure astral energy, are more than mere light. They are condensed manifestations of celestial force. Visually, the ability is nothing short of breathtaking. Observers often describe it as “beautiful,” and for good reason. The Star Fragments shimmer in a kaleidoscope of colors, each hue carrying a distinct function or effect. Despite their variety, their base form always appears as a lustrous, glittering silver.


Functionally, the user can conjure these luminous stars to flicker into existence anywhere on or around their body. These radiant nodes act as power cores, brimming with volatile cosmic energy. By harnessing the mass energy of these Star Fragments, the user can unleash devastating bursts of raw power. The resulting force is so immense that it can be mistaken for gravitational manipulation. These eruptions are capable of repelling enemies with overwhelming pressure or empowering the user with explosive kinetic force. The ability is not limited to singular applications. The user can manifest numerous Star Fragments in their palms or the surrounding area, then amplify their energy outward across a wide field. Within this expanded domain, all matter, organic or inorganic, is drawn into the fragments' influence. The user may then reabsorb this assimilated energy and redirect it as a weaponized force capable of destabilizing, repelling, or obliterating targets. Despite its offensive prowess, Wishful Star is remarkably versatile. The user may manipulate the Star Fragments defensively, shaping them into radiant barriers or issuing commands to intercept attacks, shielding both themselves and their allies. These barriers can form instantaneously from any direction, adapting to incoming threats in fluid, reactive patterns. Among the ability’s techniques, one stands apart in both majesty and magnitude: Overshine.


Overshine represents the peak of synchronization between the user and their astral power. By compressing and channeling star fragment energy throughout their entire being, the user achieves a state of perfect resonance. In this form, physical transformation is evident. Their eyes shimmer with glittering silver, the pupils reshaped into radiant stars. Silver lightning dances across their body while small, luminous stars orbit them in a dazzling display, blinking in and out of existence like celestial bodies.


Yet this transformation is more than visual. Overshine exponentially amplifies the user's physical and mental capabilities, as well as all core aspects of their ability. With each compressed fragment surging within them, the user becomes a living conduit of stellar devastation.


In this empowered state, the user gains access to a unique form of explosive offense. By deliberately shattering a Star Fragment during Overshine, they release its fully condensed energy in a controlled detonation. These starbursts are not only destructive but tactically adaptable, allowing the user to trigger them mid-combat to manipulate terrain, disorient foes, or unleash wide-scale damage while retaining combat momentum.


Wishful Star is not merely an ability. It is a spectacle of cosmic majesty, a power that fuses beauty with force, elegance with destruction, and limitless imagination with the brilliance of the stars themselves.

Backstory

In the twilight-veiled dominion of House Xyler, a noble bloodline steeped in vampiric aristocracy, a child was born under an ominous celestial alignment, a convergence of the pale moon and a dying star. This child, Vollius D. Xyler, was neither wholly vampire nor entirely human. He was dhampir, a half-blood, a paradox of life and undeath, of sun and shadow.


His mother, Selene Araveth, was not of this realm in truth. Though she walked the earth clothed in the visage of a mortal woman, her soul burned with the ethereal luminance of a Celestial, an ancient starborn entity who had descended from the firmament out of love, or perhaps fate’s cruel jest. Her union with Lord Malvaric Xyler, a pureblood vampire of prestigious lineage and cold ambition, was a scandalous affair that shook the court of the Nightborne Clans. Yet for a time, there was peace… and even something resembling love.


But peace is seldom eternal.


When a strange affliction took root within Selene’s radiant form, an ailment that seemed to wither her from the inside, severing her slowly from the celestial current, the household fell into decay. Physicians, mages, and blood-seers all failed to cure her. Some whispered that it was a curse, a divine punishment for a starbound being consorting with a creature of undeath. In her final moments, she pressed her trembling fingers against her son’s brow and whispered, “Your light is not of this world. One day, you must remember the sky.” Then, silence.


After her passing, Malvaric changed. His once cold but calculated demeanor curdled into something unrecognizable. He took another bride, Lady Velenthra, a noble vampiress of serpent blood and silver tongue. With her came a new brood: siblings to Vollius in name alone. They bore none of his humanity and inherited none of his mother’s gentleness. These were creatures of the dark born proud, pure, and poisonous.


As the years slithered by, the young Vollius became a pariah within his own house, scorned for his mortality, mocked for his blood, and beaten not merely with fists, but with words designed to rot the soul. His new mother spun lies with a lover’s ease, poisoning his father’s mind, until the once great Lord Xyler became a shadow wrapped puppet, indifferent to his firstborn's plight.


But then came the breaking


A night drenched in thunder and vitriol, where the cruelty of Vollius’ siblings reached a crescendo. Whether it was accidental rage or calculated execution remains unknown, but Vollius was left bloodied and broken, his body hurled from the cliffs of Velmire Falls, swallowed by the roar of cascading waters below.


But fate had not yet turned its final page.


His shattered form was retrieved by A group of Monks of the Celestial Path, reclusive mystics who believed in the divine resonance of stars and the hidden powers of the cosmos. They nursed his broken body, but more importantly, mended his fractured spirit. Over decades of silence, meditation, and arcane communion beneath starlit skies, Vollius began to awaken something ancient within his blood, an astral inheritance not of vampiric origin, but from the heavens themselves.


Stars began to answer his call.


He could shape their patterns, replicate and manifest fragments of them in ethereal form, forge weapons of starlight and mirror the essence of space. He discovered that his mother, Selene, had once been known among the Celestials as, "The Warden of Falling Suns", a guardian of stellar fates. Her essence still shimmered in him, buried beneath pain and loss.


Now, draped in robes woven with cosmic threads, and armed with both martial discipline and celestial power, Vollius D. Xyler walks the path of the Astral Wanderer. He is no longer the disgraced half-blood of House Xyler. But the, The Uncrowned King Of The Stars