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Auraq

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Auraq

Overview

Auraq is a Lyra Exalt and Alterer who performs at venues including The Opera, The Astoria, The Nightingale, and The Spark in Arkaster. Auraq is the stage name of Awmar, a performer from a Lyra theatrical troupe. Their companion is Kibble, an ethereal rabbit or cat-like Chimera. Auraq’s Alteration abilities are connected to Ignescence.

Background

During childhood, Awmar accompanied his parents to their performances, watching the setup and wandering amidst the clutter of crates, cables, and metal frameworks. He watched actors don costumes and watched his mother perform. Awmar’s father worked as a costume maker for the troupe, maintaining a studio with fantastical clothing designs. Awmar and his friend Nyala would sneak into the studio to take these designs. Together they formed a duo and vowed to create their first show as a team, spending hours devising scenarios, practicing steps, reciting lines, and juggling. Nyala developed her Alteration powers before Awmar did.

Awmar’s mother drew on Ignescence to captivate crowds with her voice and gestures, but her performances left her drained. During a rehearsal, she lost consciousness and did not recover. With no one to replace the lead female role, Awmar volunteered to stand in for her and delivered the performance to thunderous applause. When he returned to their trailer afterward, he found his mother had died during the performance. Awmar and Nyala drifted apart after the death. Nyala began staging small shows independently, while Auraq stepped into his mother’s role in the troupe.

When the Clan journeyed to a Tumult Singularity to entrust his mother’s body to its transforming currents, Awmar joined the procession. A Chimera emerged from The Tumult—a cat or rabbit-like creature with an ethereal, translucent body. The entity approached him and placed its paw on his arm. The Chimera remained close to him afterward, following them in their wanderings. He named the Chimera Kibble.

After Kibble’s arrival, Awmar took on the roles left vacant by his mother. His performances gained visibility, and critics praised his work. Over time, his repertoire became more burlesque, and the persona of Auraq emerged as his stage identity. One evening, Auraq invoked her mother’s Eidolon to converse with her, and the Eidolon kissed her on the forehead.

Timeline

360 AC - Watching Lyra Thespian

Auraq watched actor perform alone on stage playing multiple characters using Alteration.

370 AC - Hathor Performance

Auraq performed on tables, summoning Hathor to dance flamenco while audience clapped rhythm.

381 AC - Sandman Storytelling

Auraq told Chiara Caceres story to Kasirga Clan children with Sandman creating ghostly sand figures, Marang clinging during story.

385 AC - Cloth Cocoon with Ehuang

Ehuang performed aerial ribbons act while Auraq summoned Tanuki as villain threatening scissors, and Ehuang wrapped him in silk cocoon.

386 AC - Twinkle Twinkle Nursery Rhyme

Fen and Aruzhan helped Auraq after children escaped dormitory, and Aruzhan sang nursery rhyme while Crowbar stood guard.

388 AC - Tanuki Stage Performance

Auraq summoned Tanuki with dorayaki, and Tanuki teleported using beech leaf to catch flying treat.

389 AC - Sea Journey Across Muir Concordia

Auraq traveled by boat across Muir Concordia with Kibble.

390 AC - Drawing from Ignescence

Auraq drew from Ignescence to absorb ideas from the air, observing them combine into new forms.

392 AC - Stabilizing Area with Kibble

Kibble leaped through unstable gravity crackling with Mana, and Auraq caught him, releasing an explosion that transformed the surrounding area.

392 AC, December - Caer Oorun Performance with Nyala

Auraq performed at Kasirga Clan celebration marking Caer Oorun reclamation and expeditionary departure, encountering childhood friend Nyala for first time since their estrangement. During afternoon rehearsal, Auraq observed Nyala’s portal demonstration from backstage. During evening performance, when Nyala lost control of summoned flaming wyvern Eidolon that ignited stage drapes, Auraq improvised by leaping onstage and singing while communicating with creature through syncopated gestures. After exchanged glance and nod, Nyala created dimensional portal behind Auraq allowing her to command wyvern into gateway, with both performers collapsing from depleted Ignescence as audience erupted believing it was planned duet.

393 AC, January-April - Hot Spring Leisure at Storvhit

Auraq bathed in hot springs at Storhvit with Fen and Nevenka, diverting streams to create pools while Fen confided plans about finding The Song of One.

393 AC, January-April - Observing Nyala’s Ice Performance

Auraq watched Nyala perform skating tricks with Mana rippling at fingertips generating portals.

393 AC, January-March - Will-o’-the-Wisp Misdirection

Auraq materialized pink Will-o’-the-Wisp to mislead scouts away from Belisenki nest, sending glowing spark down slope through coral flowers.

393 AC, January-April - Heimdall Cave Escape

Auraq summoned Heimdall Eidolon in dead-end ice cave, and the guardian blew Gjallarhorn horn with colorful energy waves that exploded rock wall creating exit.

393 AC, January-April - Lake Ice Rescue

Auraq saved children from breaking lake ice by throwing warmth ideas over them while the ice gave way beneath Nyala who was skating nearby.

393 AC, January-April - Icebound Tundra Exploration

Auraq explored frozen canyon with ocher coral-like mineral formations and blue grasses, hearing rustling after studying hybrid stone-plant structures with tree-ring patterns.

393 AC, June-September - Shadow Attack with Lernaean Hydra

Auraq fought alongside Teija and Atsadi against shadow entities in City of Scholars caverns, protecting Kibble while Atsadi summoned Lernaean Hydra whose manifestation Teija psychically altered.

393 AC, June-September - Encountering Tisdhera Contortionist

Auraq discovered a Tisdhera Clan contortionist in an underground tunnel of the City of Scholars and they completed a nursery rhyme together.

393 AC, June-September - Consulting Man in the Maze

Auraq consulted I’itoi Eidolon at entrance to The Maze in City of Scholars regarding The Song of One.

393 AC, June-September - Scheduled at The Stage

Auraq was scheduled to perform at The Stage at The Screed outpost alongside Nyala and the band BLISS!.

Abilities

Auraq draws on Ignescence to fuel performances, absorbing ideas from the air and channeling them into Alteration. Auraq can summon multiple Eidolons including Hathor, Tanuki, The Sandman, Heimdall, and Will-o’-the-Wisp. Working with Kibble, Auraq can release explosive transformations of surrounding areas through combined Mana discharge.

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