Legends of Vaeloria
Five souls whose bonds with their creature companions changed the course of history — warriors, scholars, whisperers, and wanderers who carry Vaeloria's fate on their shoulders.
A silk-weaver turned infiltrator, Sable Vexan earned her name in the contested markets of the Midlands where she unraveled three guild conspiracies before anyone knew she was watching. Her creature bond — a rare shadow-wraith known as a Nullmoth — gives her the ability to pass through light itself.
A rare cross-race summoner pairing — Kira, a Human scroll-mage from the Midlands, and Damon, a Ventara chorus-singer from the High Canopy. Their bonded creatures act in perfect concert, a feat of inter-species magical resonance that scholars still study decades after their first recorded collaboration.
Born in the Mid Nation of the Cephlayn, Lyra developed an affinity for creatures that goes beyond standard bottle summoning. She can perceive the emotional state of any bonded creature within a mile radius, a gift the Council of Tides calls the Tidal Empathy. She travels Vaeloria's surface nations as an ambassador of creature welfare.
One of the most decorated Hesskari blade-summoners alive, Theron earned his reputation at the Battle of the Salt Flats — twelve mirror summons in under four minutes, each precisely aimed to blind and disorient. He now leads a crew of cross-race summoner-soldiers that travels wherever the continent's worst crises break out.
Head of the Summoning Research Institute at the Midlands Grand Academy, Seris Alder has documented more creature species than any living scholar. Her seven-volume Compendium of Vaeloria's Bonded Creatures is the definitive text at every summoning school on the continent. She remains stubbornly optimistic that every creature can be understood.