Jaden Priestley

Jaden grew up in a city that was a crossroads for scholars and traders from many lands. Orphaned early, he spent years in a monastery-library hybrid, absorbing texts on spellcraft and metaphysics while observing the faint glimmer of gateways that some whispered could open again. He learned to listen for the language of the weave, to treat magic with both reverence and discipline. A catastrophe—an event that bent realities and opened a door to another world—took him away from the only home he had known. In that strange land, he found a fragment of his former life in a ruined monastery, where he encountered a circle of mages who claimed to “remember the loom.” They taught him how to bend flame and wind toward protective ends, not as reckless destruction but as a shield. Now he follows the faint echoes of that event, seeking the truth about why he was drawn to it, how to close the rift, and what the other world wants from him. Beneath his cautious exterior lies a fierce sense of justice; he believes knowledge must be shared and danger confronted head-on, so long as it preserves life and hope for those who cannot defend themselves.