Aer Prismray

My family, the Prismrays, are known for brilliant minds, tireless work, and groundbreaking magitech. I was supposed to be another success story, instead I became a criminal.
My lover Kai devised a scheme targetting my miserly grandfather. It was going to set us up for life. I believed we were building our future together, but when our crime was discovered, he betrayed me to save himself. My family disowned me, withdrew my magical scholarship, and left me to face the consequences alone.
Heartbroken, I served my time in Blackrock prison, where my magic earned respect from folk I once would've called monsters. On release, that respect opened the door to the underworld. Over the next few years I thrived as a criminal, quickly rising to a senior position in my gang, I was a Prismray, after all.
Then everything went wrong. Again. I was looking at a sentence that would put me away for life, when my estranged aunt Vi intervened. As a senior Luminary of the Illusionist Guild, she spoke on my behalf and paid my bond.
Her price was simple: I would serve the guild as a security specialist, use my abilities for something worthy of a Prismray, and pay back every copper the guild had fronted on her behalf.