Lucas has always wandered the worlds between magical and mundane. He refuses to call mundanes Muggles, though. Not out of respect, but more out of the way that he dislikes saying the word. He is a man of few words, though not in the sullen way of most of his other-dimensional counterparts. He would rather reserve comment, until necessary.

The first years of his life were in the mundane world, as many Mages' often are found. However, he distinctly had no potential as a magician at all - until the dark mage Renaud swiped him from his bed at the age of 6 years.

The next torturous decades under Renaud's harsh rule left Lucas with emotional wounds - like all the other Sangers out there - but also with the infusion of magical ability that the wizard had been trying to do.

When Lucas attempted escape the first half dozen times, Renaud simply sent out a couple spells and retrieved him. But Lucas learned from these experiences. Quickly he became adept at concealing his magical presence from these elementary spells, so Renaud's punishments got more and more harsh.

For almost two hundred years, Lucas and Renaud went back and forth with a volley of tactics that made both of them far stronger than they had been before. These events were interrupted by long stints of almost-friendly behavior, researching spells, cooperating to perform bigger rituals. But there was never a moment that Lucas wished anything other than freedom from this monster who had created him.

Then Lucas attempted another escape, almost succeeding in removing his entire presence from the magical lands. After more than forty years wandering, and knowing that he'd be found eventually, Lucas was frantic to get somewhere he could be safe. This was the first time he encountered the official schools of Magic - Hogwarts in particular - and the first time they realized there was a much bigger problem than they thought with helping him.

Renaud had entered a pact with a demon to get back at him. This was no imp, no small change. It was not the first time Renaud had used this particular demon to do his dirty work, and apparently the pact was a mutually acceptable one. The creature enjoyed its work, and Renaud certainly seemed to enjoy bringing it on the world. By the time they knew what had hit them, the wizards at Hogwarts had no choice but to break off their defenses and allow the demon to have his prize.

Renaud got his servant back. The demon got rewarded in other ways. But this was not over by a long shot. Actively attempting to fight Renaud, Lucas earned himself decades in stasis which were punctuated by years spent toiling as a magical battery for Renaud's experiments.

Lucas changed tactics around his three-hundreth year. He simply stopped responding to his Master. Refusing to give Renaud the benefits of his mind, withholding any magical power for work, and certainly refraining from offering (voluntarily anyway) any of his physical pleasures, Lucas attempted to become undesirable to Renaud.

And perhaps that worked a little too well. Renaud's ritual was complex, and one that Lucas recognized the components of a bit too late to do anything about it to defend himself. A demon summoning at Renaud's dank castle was nothing new. But the subtleties of this spell included things that Lucas hadn't expected.

This demon was far greater than the last - one of the Lords that the retrieval demons often paid their tithes to in Hell. Lucas was rendered immobile by another spell, before he could react.

Effectively sold into slavery to a demon of one of the more prestigious levels of Hell, Lucas was unable to perform even the simplest magical tasks without punishment. Dragged into Hell itself, a human normally stands little chance of survival. However, Lucas was no ordinary man, even then.

The decades spent in this demon Lord's posession are ones which Lucas would far rather forget. His duties were so horrific emotionally that he refuses to speak about it unless absolutely necessary (and there have been times, to illustrate a point to an obstinate wizard or other). Lucas just leaves this part out of his "background check". But it has left him with a truly haunted past, and an equally haunted look crosses his long face on occasion. Especially when he thinks about his living children...

Events in this nether realm have a way of changing even the most well-laid plans, however. After more than forty years of agony, the demonic Lord's lands were overthrown. In the chaos of monsterous battle, Lucas managed to escape into the wilds of Hell. The Lord was not killed, but was not powerful enough when all was said and done to try getting him back. A human in Hell without the protection of a demon lord? Think 'snowflake'.

But this snowflake was made of sturdier stuff. He hadn't lived this way for that long without learning some things. Though his magical skills had become dusty after disuse, Lucas did not forget any of his spells. It took him several more years (a mix of running from and beating up various demonic entities) but Lucas developed a portal spell which he used to exit Hell.

It would be too much to ask that Renaud some how be dust when he got back. But rather than showing up on his Master's doorstep, Lucas began to plot a way around ever having to deal with him again. While he wandered the northern realms he encountered another magic school - however this one had been warned generations earlier about this strange man. Giving him only enough time to rest, and a meal and clothing, they immediately kicked him back out into the world. Demons powerful enough to push aside the complex web of defenses around a full fledged magic school like Hogwarts were more than enough to warrant a stiff regulation against Lucas ever entering one of their schools again. While on the surface Lucas understands this, he also greatly resents it. The only people able to help him are also the only ones unwilling to do so.

But while out in the middle of nowhere, Lucas discovered an invading army of dark forces. Having a 'bit of experience' in this field, he assisted with tactics and spells in the quelling of this invasion. In the process, he met up with a pocket of dragons - whose territory was the first the demonic army would have taken down. Sleeping dragons are usually 'bad' to awaken, but in this case they were in fact somewhat glad he did so.

Remaining with them for another half-century, Lucas developed his shapeshifting powers more extensively. Mostly in order to keep up with the dragons themselves, but also to gain the confidence in his own abilities that he'd needed for centuries, Lucas enjoys a tremendous freedom flying under his own power in the skies above the dragon territory.

With a grudging admission of great importance, the elder of the dragons expressed to Lucas that if he could fully transform himself, he might be the last hope for their little band's survival. All three males of their tribe were brothers, and with but one sister who had deserted them some time back, they had little hope of finding another female to carry their line. Their sister might have been willing to carry their great eggs - but for the shame of not being able to fly.

Within the first ten years of his life with the dragons, he began to seek out this missing sister. While the thought of being pushed into siring children made him ill (his years of service in Hell bitterly come to mind) the desire to help his draconic companions was far stronger. And, his curiosity at this missing sister was overwhelming. Dragons are a strange lot, Lucas had learned. Their overt expressions of love and friendship changed tone when they would speak of their sister. Because she'd lost her wing sails during a fight with another invading Wyrm, they were repulsed by her appearance.

Lucas couldn't quite understand this, being 'only human'. Even though he could adopt their shape for a while, he would never quite be one of them. Determined to help, and determined to try and change their minds about their desolate sister, he began tracking her through the wilds.

Villages with rumors of a dragon having passed through, whispers of a great black beast hiding among the shadows in the hills, these things allowed Lucas to at last locate the missing sister Lennuv.

Approaching carefully, and fully human, Lucas explained his presence to Lennuv. Long before she even emerged from her dark cavern den, Lucas could tell that she was still in great pain physically from her wounds. Her wing sails in tatters, unable to rise and fly - and thus grounded she had to hunt like a Wyrm, an embarrassment greater than her brothers disgust at her appearance.

Because of his centuries-long captivity and regular torture at the hands of Renaud, Lucas had a large selection of healing spells on hand. Not having had to use them for quite some time, he prepared to use them on her to repair her wings. Lennuv at first refused, but eventually accepted the gift of his healing hands.

When he transformed into a dragon to help her re-learn to fly, was when Lennuv accepted him as a partner. She still has difficulty flying, but with regular spell application she will eventually grace the skies properly with her brothers - and her offspring.

The fact that he is in reality a human showed through on the first of their eggs. Though Lennuv laid eight eggs all at once in their now-shared den in the northlands near House Domina, two were far smaller than the others, and seemed to mature more quickly. One hatched after only two years (only!?) into a human-shaped slightly draconic female. She has a long (and some would say shapely) tail, and a strangely draconic face, plus wings in addition to her human shape. Another eight years later, her brother, a stranger looking half-dragon half-human 'centaur' type, hatched.

The other six eggs remain on their nest, maturing for decades. The first of those hatched nearly thirty years after being laid, into a beautiful female fully-dragon-shaped dragon. The promise of this new life has brought the little family of dragons closer together again.

Lucas, occasionally accompanied by his two half-dragon children, had begun to wander again, and located Domina. Curiousity and an old ache to be among his own kind for a while caused him to ask about remaining there. He was eagerly accepted, since House Domina and the school there had never quite gotten the 'lesson' of Hogwarts' refusal to allow Lucas entry. His children learn as students, while he occasionally pretends to teach.

Lucas has been aided in his search for his soul, by Iris - now his paladin - and her story can be found HERE.

((Below, Lucas as a half-dragon. In full dragon form he would be considered a "dark/Brown" by many cultures.))