Editing Lucifen

'''Lucifen''' are an Immortal, Classless, Devil-like [[Races|species]], living in [[Innworld]].

== Physiology ==

===<u>Appearance</u>===
Their true form has yet to be completely shown, but it is known that they have a humanoid appearance, with grey skin, a pair of fairly tall horns curving up from the forehead, bright orange-yellow<ref name=":8.50">[https://wanderinginn.com/2021/10/31/8-50/ Chapter 8.50]</ref> or glittered red eyes<ref name=":9.20">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/10/12/9-20/ Chapter 9.20]</ref> with perfectly square pupils, noticeably sharp teeth,<ref name=":8.50" /> a tail—of a kind,<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2021/10/06/interlude-perspective-and-past/ Interlude – Perspective and Past]</ref> clawed? hands and feet,<ref name=":8.50" /> and have wings.<ref name=":9.20" /> They also smell like forgefire (not quite like brimstone as it smells terrible, but like fire and metal), and cast no shadow, even under spotlight.<ref name=":8.50" />

===<u>Physical Qualities</u>===

====Strength====
They have demonstrated incredible strength, that seems to be on par with a perfectly healthy [[Vampire]].<ref name=":8.50" />

====Lifespan====
They have no lifespan as they are immortal. 

====Diet====
While they can enjoy foods and drinks of all kinds, they don't get any sustenance from them as they can only eat one thing and that is people. They eat their flesh and bones, and can eat it from [[Humans]] or [[half-Elves]] or [[Dwarves]] or any other species, but they only need to consume just one person once a month. It is unknown exactly why they have to only sustenance themselves this way but it is believed to have something to do with the nature of people.<ref name=":8.50" />

===<u>Magical Qualities</u>===
They have shown to have a naturally inclined towards magic, being able to cast teleportation and complex illusions with ease,<ref name=":8.50" /> and they possess a large mana supply. They've perfected a tier 6 killing spell called [Midnight Shard].<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/03/13/8-70-e/ Chapter 8.70 E]</ref>

====Darkness and Fire Magic====
They have strong, innate affinity and talent for Darkness and Fire magic.<ref name=":8.72">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/03/15/8-72/ Chapter 8.72]</ref>

===<u>Special Abilities</u>===

==== Infernal Pact====
While it is not exactly explained how it works the Lucifen can make a deals with others by giving them something that they wanted without taking from them, and in exchange they would gain connections that will make their power grow by the deals they make, be it grand acts and small, as their power is not from what they take or give, but only the magnitude of it.<ref name=":8.50" />

==== Verum Pactum ====
Through a ritual dance, a non-Lucifen can enter into an Infernal pact with a Lucifen. Both parties are summoned to an other-dimensional room called the ''Verum Pactum'' while time is stopped. The room compels fair answers from  the occupants, and blocks spells and possibly Skills as well. The contractor makes a request to the Lucifen, and the room calculates the counterbalance of the offer with a scale, and summon additional scales for seperate deals. The room will also threaten to punish any attempts to enforce annuled contracts. When the contract is sealed, the contractee trades a part of their soul to the Lucifen, and a link is established between them, empowering them both. The Lucifen must fulfill the pact, and failure to do so annuls it and the contractee regains the piece of their soul.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":6">{{VERef|10.07}}</ref>

==== Soul Link ====
The powers of the Lucifen is founded on Authority, a quantative force for them, and Lucifen seek mortal souls to gain more of it. The abilities confered from gaining another's soul are as of yet unknown, as are what it grants to the contractee, though it influences them and lets them access more powers of the Lucifen, and share it. Those powers are accessible while the contractee lives, and disappear if they die. The Lucifen can sense the status and feelings of the person they are linked to.<ref name=":6" />

====Lesser Magic Resistance====
They are immune to Tier 1-2 Spells.<ref name=":8.72" />

==== Gate-Walking ====
Lucifen can create gates to a dimension only they can navigate. It's a realm of blackness with a road that must not been strayed from. There is a down direction within and it is possible to fall. The realm is finite, a landmass about half the size of Ailendamus. It contains labyrinths, battlegrounds and more. It can be used to travel, effectively allowing Lucifen to teleport through protals. It needs to be anchored to a point in reality.<ref name=":2" />

====Warform ====
Lucifen can activate a Warform, which will change their bodies, heal damage they've sustained, and empower them. However, it cannot be maintained for an extended period of time.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/04/26/8-82-pt-2/ Chapter 8.82 pt.2]</ref> Lucifen Warforms have unique appearances and can change when empowered by an Infernal Pact.<ref name=":1" /> More great powers of the Lucifen are said to start at the Warform. The Warform can be empowered by an Infernal Pact.

===<u>Weaknesses</u>===

====Light====
They are weak to light (Sunlight or Light Magic?).<ref name=":8.72" />

==== ??? Magic====
They are also weak to a certain chaotic subset of magic.<ref name=":8.72" />

====Classless ====
They were excluded from the [[Trials of Levelling]], thus being unable to obtain Classes/Levels and Skills.<ref name=":7">{{VERef|10.18 E}}</ref>

==Behavior and Culture==
Lucifen do not feel strong emotions and lack empathy. Despite how dispassionate they are, they are highly moral in their own way. They are quite intelligent.

They feel the closest thing they can to joy in the proper administration of law. Seeing a system they've laid out function without issue or resolving a problem within it is pleasing to them.<ref name=":1">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/03/09/8-68/ Chapter 8.68]</ref>

They hide themselves from those searching for them with the Library of Infernus, which has tomes that block searching spells. It also houses their historical records. In their paranoia, even against their own kind, they know wide-reaching spells, and teach their children deadly spells for self-defense. All Lucifen know how to cast a tier 6 mage-killer spell.<ref name=":5" />

The Lucifen have a traditional convocation that used to be held every century. The head or heads of the Lucifen would speak their will to be debated or challenged by the others, and informed their people’s deeds. It was also used to gauge the maturity of their younger members, if they are considered 'worthy' of hearing the speech, which could lead to being granted full autonomy. Failure to at least put up a front could mean years of oversight and critique on their actions. They shared this tradition with the Agelum after they left Rhir. after they were decimated by Curulac, it was held every decade instead, and done separately from the Agelum.<ref name=":2" />

==History==
Lucifen were meant to be the caretakers of [[Hellste]], from where they derived their authority. Because every [[Goblins|Goblin]] in history were sent to Hellste, they took over Hellste, and the Lucifen have largely joined them.<ref name=":3">[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/11/26/9-67-pt-1/ Chapter 9.67 (Pt. 1)]</ref> They were also excluded from the Trials of Levelling from the start.<ref name=":7" />

In the past, the Lucifen hunted in a sadistic glee, mortals to eat them. They also struck mighty deals and gained power by suffering. They walked among Dragons and made deals with Giants and great immortals. They were referred to as The Infernal Court. It rarely turned out well when they ruled a nation. But in time, they dwindled. And the very small people, the people who cry for each other, who care and suffer and live lives like candle flames, covered every land.<ref name=":8.50" /><ref name=":0">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/07/12/9-06/ Chapter 9.06]</ref>

In an era before the [[Creler Wars]], they used to be the guardians of [[Rhir]], but became so corrupt that they were exiled from the continent<ref name=":0" /> ten thousand years ago. They were said to have been destroyed both internally and externally. Cormelex destroyed some of the records of their downfall.

Afterwards, they lived across the world and hid among the mortals, disguising themselves as Humans, half-Elves, and Beastkin. They were driven from [[Baleros]] by the Nagas using the Eyes of Baleros, from [[Izril]] by the [[Vampires]], and from [[Chandrar]] by the tyrant [[Nerrhavia (Queen)|Nerrhavia]], leaving only [[Terandria]] as a refuge for their species.

Some information about the Lucifen has been erased so thoroughly that there are safeguards which will kill those that learn the wrong information about them.

They had made it through the Creler Wars without great difficulty, adapting quickly to the [[Crelers]] being resistant to their magic. However, they lost many of their numbers to the Goblin King [[Curulac]], who was hunting them down. This prompted them to make peace and unite with the Agelum, who had also been massacred by Curulac. Every Lucifen who was alive during the Creler Wars had been slain, and they were so reduced that they could no longer call themselves The Infernal Court.

Eventually, they approached [[Ailendamus]] and joined the nation as House Shoel, though as allies with demands, not as supplicants.

==Relations==

===[[Agelum]]===
Agelum and Lucifen were once mortal enemies. However the number of deaths suffered during the rampage of Curulac caused them to unite as one house. As of the present-day, Lucifen have a close relationship with the Agelum, as they refer to each other as cousins and help each other, even live together as one family.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2021/11/03/interlude-conversations/ Interlude – Conversations]</ref>

=== [[Demons]] ===
Demons have apparently attempted to destroy the Lucifen in the past.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/12/07/interlude-age-and-tales/ Interlude - Age and Tales]</ref>

=== [[Goblins]] ===
Historically, the Lucifen have been enemies with the Goblins, notably when [[Curulac|Curulac of a Hundred Days]] killed many of their number. [[Greydath]] claimed that Curulac had specifically targeted the Lucifen and Agelum, calling them the "servants of our foes." 

While the Lucifen were the original owners of [[Hellste]], the few in that realm have stepped aside to let the Goblins take over, being outnumbered by them. They were described to be "either sulking or looking pleased." <ref name=":3" />

==Known Members ==

*[[Visophecin]] - First of Law
*[[Paxere]]
*[[Azemith]]
*[[Igolze]]
*Vultapheles
*Shierxun<ref name=":1" />
*Theadrix<ref name=":4">[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/11/28/9-68/ Chapter 9.68]</ref>
*Oelvix<ref name=":2">[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/04/01/interlude-stories/ Interlude - Stories]</ref>
*Degelen<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/09/05/9-56/ Chapter 9.56]</ref>
*[[Cormelex]] (''Deceased'')<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/07/19/9-08/ Chapter 9.08]</ref>

==Trivia== 

*The leader of The Infernal Court is referred to as the First of Law.<ref name=":0" />
*House Shoel has at least forty fully adult Lucifen.<ref name=":4" /> This number has decreased after the Night of Bloodtear.
*The [[Garden of Sanctuary#Pavilion of Secrets|Pavilion of Secrets]] did not work on them due to their nature as levelless people, until Cormellex raised an objection against this.<ref name=":7" />

==References==
[[Category:Races]]
[[Category:Lucifen|*]]

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