Soulnier

Full name: Gekko Samaharc

Age: 125

Species: Hybrid (peacock - caiman)

Stature: High

Build: Very thin

Nationality: Gomonica

Powers: Fiamma Krumori, has the power to absorb the souls of others together with their powers to be able to remain young forever.

Character: depending on his current personality, the events of End of History is very unstable and at the same time manipulator, showing equally murderous murderousness as loving affection, impossible to determine which are the facade or not.

He likes: chaos, massacre, Umbersun, terrorism, ???

Detests: himself, the established order, the NCM, the whole world, ???

Bio:

Gekko Samahar was born in 11886 in the city of Mongeta, capital of the state of Gomoe, a period in which the world conflict saw the FESL front (Federation of the Free States) with that of the CFU (United Fariatric Confederation), which pushed each other small states bearing the Mofea peninsula.

The son of caiman farmers is the only one to show the recessive peacock gene, growing more slender and slender than the three siblings, with the further characteristic of being albino in the plumage.

In the war context of the time the state of Gomoe was affiliated to the CFU, which used as propaganda the ancient cult of Mapetti (which translated means "Essays Zii") to hold the state system in its hands through a legitimate military caste legitimate by a rhetoric of conservatism and necessity, strongly retrograde.

Gekko spent a difficult childhood, even seen by his family as too weak and effeminate, while at school is a perpetual victim of bullying from which he can not defend himself. The only friendship he manages to establish is with the Cephalus Ephiodus, a tiger from a family of the Brizantia state who worked as a spy for the Mapetti family, guaranteeing their death and protection for Ephiodus, but not protecting him from the bullying that also it suffers as an immigrant of an enemy state. When his young brothers are enrolled to serve the CFU he is refused because of his fragile health and for this reason his father decides to let him leave his studies to work in the camps instead of his brothers, preventing him from continuing to attend with Ephiodus with whom he had established a profound relationship, no more than mere friendship. With the escalation of war hungry for new soldiers now even children unable to combat begin to be enlisted, which pushes Gekko to flee from his family to go covertly hidden with Ephodeo (which could not be enlisted given the service done by the his family).

Gekko is 16 when he begins to cohabit with Efiodo.

Unfortunately, Efiodo, also fragile and in a difficult position for a boy of that age, shows signs of instability, developing an addiction to alcohol that makes him violent and cruel, pouring out the violence that he suffers from the outside world on Gekko, the what hidden in the house develops fear, anxiety and therefore dependence on the partner who hits him fiercely almost every day.

Gekko suffers, loving Efiodo despite everything and feeling pity for what he passes, feeling a coward not being able to leave the house to be close to him every time he faces the world, but the continuous and increasing mistreatment bring his soul to want to die, making him make the decision to leave forever from that house.

He flees secretly, walking without possessions and without a destination in a straight line, crossing cities and mountains waiting for death to take him away from his wounds of body and heart, overcoming the boundaries of Gomoe and making him lose in the woods of the state of Armada where he loses his senses.

Instead of dying there, Gekko is rescued by Rayala, a lama priestess Emyon, who takes care of him, medicating him and feeding him in her temple and home, isolated in the woods.

Instead of dying there, Gekko is rescued by Rayala, a lama priestess Emyon, who takes care of him, medicating him and feeding him in her temple and home, isolated in the woods.

Knowing Gekko discovers that Rayala was the daughter of a witch who was believed to have the power to summon demons in inanimate objects with which she persecuted the villages and that for this was executed, however when Rayala, then a child, was discovered by a priest passing by, he noticed that from his mother she had inherited the power to revive plants and restore poisoned lands to fertility. The priest then decided to spare her and took her to a monastery where she was started as a priestess Emyon and then be locked up in a probitous wood, ravaged centuries before by the Blue Fire scourge (eradicated by Emperor Ettore) and around which they were erected monolithic statues about 5 meters high as a warning and prohibition for anyone to access it and for her to come out. Over the years Rayala had brought back to life the forest, guardian and prisoner of it, bringing fertility to the surrounding areas (even the other Eymon priestesses have as their mission the taking care of the flora, but their powers were not comparable to those of Rayala).

Gekko stops in the forest of Rayala to live with her, learning to take care of the forest and listening to her stories about the cult of Emyon. Rayala sees in him a missed Olsanca, or a type of priests who are destined to bring the good in the world as full of painful experiences that are able to transform suffering into good for the peoples, awakening in them the unique truth of 'love and Gekko sees her an angel who has soothed his wounded spirit by giving him the hope of a place to live happily. The two end up loving each other, living years in that forbidden and peaceful garden, far from the war that is blazing in the rest of the world.

One day in spring the natural instincts bring the two to desire and to join together, but the embrace ends with the hidden powers of Gekko who wake up involuntarily to absorb from the hands the soul and powers of Rayala, stealing so of ' vital energy and mental health.

Desperate for guilt and determined to find a cure for Rayala, Gekko decides to leave on a research trip: teaches a memory-less Rayala how to survive in her own woods and leaves, leaving Armada's border. Informing himself he discovers that the power he possesses is linked in some way to the Flame Krumori, or the power of necromancy, of which the great masters are in the semi-desert state of the Dairo, east of the border.

During the trip, despite having with Rayala refined his survival techniques, he is intercepted by local militias who mistake him for a magical saboteur of an opposing state and for this they attack him, wounding him to death.

Gekko, believing himself dead, reawakens his powers again and ruthlessly lifts himself up and sucks the souls and vital energy of the aggressors from his hands, draining them to death and regenerating the destroyed tissues of his body. He thus realizes that he is a vampire and that his powers will not let him die for any reason.

Arrived in the Dairo manages to infiltrate the forbidden lands of Tallok, on the slopes of Mount Sedna where they are accumulated corpses from all the battlefields, from the jungles where the great fauna dies and there are worked to clean their bones. Get in touch with the necromancers of the Order of the Cinta who recognize in him a bearer of the Krumori flame and for which they take him under them with the promise of helping him find a cure for Rayala.

The Order of the Cinta, led by time immemorial by the necromancer leader Sominù, lives indocubated in the Dairo and protected, however unreported, by the latter: it provides necromancers as precious mercenaries to be used in conflicts, all quite precious and capable to require a minimum human tribute to the number of adepts.

Being the power of anomalous Gekko he is enrolled in one of the most prestigious medical schools in the world where he can learn to better use his powers through the help of a magister, Tortor, who will follow him in his process of growth and studies, trying at the same time to better understand his powers. In return he is asked to act as an incognito performer, eliminating those other members of the Order present in the institute who intend to desert or betray.

It is the 11914 DD and Gekko is 24 years old when the world war enters its last, tragic year.

The recruitment of Gekko is imposed on the Order, because its power is anomalous and high strategic potential, but he does not want to take part in the conflict, hating both fronts whose war has caused him suffering since childhood and that now he is turning into a simple indiscriminate genocide, which is why he decides to flee, interrupting his studies, to return to Rayala.

During the escape attempt, he is intercepted by his magister Tortor, who can not allow Gekko to betray the Order and for this he must kill him, if he can not stop him. After the clash Gekko comes out victorious, having to suck the soul of Tortor killing him. He flees aware that the entire Order of the Cinta will be at his heels but, strangely, does not find anyone in his pursuit.

On the return journey through the television ads and rumors, he finds out that the war has reached its peak with a monstrous nuclear conflict that has exterminated millions of people on the continent of Crea, whose souls have gathered in the atmosphere, generating a Mega-Cumulugeist (a semi-conscious cloudy mass composed of deceased souls capable of pulling the soul from the living to feed itself further), the greatest in history, so big that it can wipe out life from the planet. Gekko with renewed despair runs much faster towards Armada, with the intention of spending the last moments of life close to his beloved Rayala, before the Mega-Cumulugeist arrives above them.

Running non-stop for days falls free of forces from fatigue and in that half-sleep appears in a dream the figure of a robin, which urges him not to lose hope in life, to continue to believe in a future of peace, because that future It has its strength in everyone's heart, all you need to do is to find it.

The day after Gekko wakes up while the cameras from around the world are all aimed at the Direct Ocean, where Kellya of the Representatives, the same robin who had appeared in a dream to him as to all the people of the world the day before and considered a terrorist from all the factions protagonists of the conflict, he throws himself into the Mega-Cumulugeist, not letting himself be torn from the soul but rather becoming her soul, merging with it and making it dissolve into the atmosphere, thus saving the world.

This gesture thus marks the end of the world war, with states too overwhelmed by losses and united by the risk that they escaped by a person's miracle and sacrifice in order to resume belligerence.

Gekko is very impressed by this person who becomes for him like many other inspiration, making believe that the world is about to face a second New Heroic Era based this time on reconstruction.

When he returns from Rayala, he spends the rest of his time with her to take care of her, with the forest now fallen into a perennial fall without her power to keep him alive.

After a couple of years together Gekko starts again for the Dairo, now that the war is over, to try to make amends with the Order of the Cinta and ask them again for help to heal Rayala who shows signs of growing premature aging, but back in Tallok discovers that by now the sect no longer exists, extinguished by the increasing demands of men at the front, despite the promises of the Dairo to protect them: only empty halls remain of their den, dusty ossuaries now completely empty.

Continuing the search he goes to his old school, where there is no trace of the Order or someone who had to do but discovering to have filed in his name a prestigious scholarship for life that will allow him to complete any study want.

Gekko settles in the school to complete his studies of medicine and magic in the hope of finding a cure independently and discover the nature of his powers, using every free moment to return from Rayala and assist her in her temple, with her decay more and more visible.

The third year on his return to their forest Rayala died, as well as the forest where he had lived all his life, Gekko at the age of 28 burying the old body of his beloved outside the forbidden circle of monoliths, finally free to get out of his prison.

Remains a year in complete solitude without leaving the dead wood to keep Rayala's grave, living in the memory of their first years together; during this period she matured the idea of ​​having to make the prediction that she made him, to assume the role of Olsanca and return to the civil world to fix what he had left behind, to transform the suffering he had seen and suffered in justice.

Being the state of Gomoe (similarly to many other states) still plagued by internal turmoil, had remained hostile to the newly formed NCM (New World Commission) which was working in those years to extinguish any rebellion against peaceful globalization.

Gekko enlists 30 years in the bodies of the NCM in order to free his homeland from the old dictatorship Mapetti, which had coalesced with the former enemies of Taurini and Kutennote: he advances on the front line, without fear of being able to to die, in order to be able to find the friend and love of childhood Ephiodus and use his experience and maturity to help him as Rayala had helped him.

He seeks Ephiodus in every field, in every hospital and cemetery, in every archive and following the traces he manages to reconstruct only part of what happened after his escape after which Ephodeo was arrested several times for small crimes and then enlisted, covering on several occasions of shame himself and his battalion (given his family could not be enlisted as a simple soldier) until one day he simply disappeared, last seen in a bar of Mezini totally drunk and sloppy, and then be searched for as a deserter and finally given as missing.

Nothing will know more about him.

This discovery destroys Gekko a second time, leaving him with a second huge emptiness in his heart.

Gomoe, now exhausted and destroyed, eventually abdicated against the NCM, which applies severe sanctions throughout the civilized world and to all the states that in the previous decade took part in the world war.

Gekko returns to his home, discovering that none of his family had survived the war, except one of his older brothers, a cruel and stupid bully who has also remained a cowardly and overbearing person as an adult, but who does not remember of him or having ever had a brother with that name: it is as if Gekko Samaharc had never existed.

Without any link with the world, the albino begins, as a veteran of the war, a trip to the world, buying a boat and approaching so many distant cultures, accumulating experiences of any kind without ever finding a permanent home outside of the old forest of Rayala, where you pass once a year to say hello.

Not indifferent to the suffering of poor people, Gekko always remains faithful to Rayala's words and intervenes everywhere to see injustices, in defense of the weakest and strongest of his powers, wearing what was once his uniform as a member of the Order of the Cinta but enriching it of decorative elements of the Olsanca.

Crossed the Direct Ocean he continues his work on Crea: he sees with his own eyes the desolate beaches of the gulf where there was the most terrible nuclear attack, now reduced to a desert cemetery of radioactive warships; sees the laborious reconstruction that is facing the Mane-Brizatica Federation now united again, but he goes further, going to the small villages not yet reached in a widespread manner by the NCM and remained at the mercy of those who, from the world conflict, had managed to accumulate enough magical artifacts (the Artaghi) to be able to enslave the small realities in an attempt to form new autochthonous kingdoms.

At that time Gekko unknowingly acts paving the way to the NCM and becoming famous among the oppressed peoples with the nickname of Herald of the Lucente Wing, a term used centuries earlier. Gekko acts according to his sense of justice, acting outside the local law if necessary and adored by the plebs, who sees him as an immortal missionary to enemy blows.

During one of his travels he is contacted by Zedù, a buffalo with long dreads, who reveals to him that he possesses his own powers and that they are not the only ones.

They are called Soulbusters, they are people endowed with the Flame Krumori that they have developed in anomalous way, allowing to suck souls and powers to be able to use them in turn and for the world there are several from the beginning of the New Era Heroic, as they have always lived hidden to avoid persecution like vampires. Zedù explains to Gekko that he was able to track him down thanks to an Aura counter (an invention made well before the beginning of the world war, a tool capable of recognizing the exotic flame carriers such as Krumori), portable and modified to recognize the impression soulbusters and that they are gathering around the world to compete in what looks like a giant treasure hunt: it is believed that millennia ago during the colonization of the world by the ancient peoples, who knew and dominated the magic better than anyone Other, several colonies on which the later kingdoms were built were enchanted and linked to a magical object called the Mastedeon able to allow those who possess it to be recognized as the legitimate ruler of those lands from around the world.

After the rebirth and rediscovery of magic in the world (and thus the beginning of the New Heroic Era) this object ceased to be mere myth and became a source of interest for many hunters of artisans, who succeeded in identifying which regions could be under the effect of the spell, but they could never find the legendary artifact.

Apparently this has always been kept hidden by some soulbusters and only now has it been decided to put it at stake for those who will be worthy.

Some soulbusters have been given some clues that may lead to the treasure, however most of these do not intend to collaborate and for this they are grouping different in different groups competing and fighting each other to steal the missing parts of the puzzle leading to the Mastedeon: Zedù is one of these and if he had not discovered the ignorance of Gekko in this regard he would attack, he explains, but the case he wants now he offers him to join his group to try to hunt the treasure or to defend against the other soulbuster groups who surely do not like possible competitors on the loose.

Before accepting Gekko asks Zedù what his intentions are if he can conquer the Mastedeon and he replies that his intention is to divide the control of the various zones with the members of the group and to give a safe homeland to all the bearers of exotic flames like them: in those years, in fact, after the tragedies of war, the NCM in 11.920 DD had launched a new program called Exotic Flame Control which aimed at reducing the risk of people endowed with such destructive powers ( especially the carriers of Fiamma Mambara, intoxicated with radiation from birth and able to give rise to a nuclear explosion committing suicide) and the program consisted of induced abortion of all the fetuses that showed signs of exotic flames exposed to the Aura counters and the census of all the already born bearers who were forced to cryogenic sleep while awaiting the discovery of a cure; although some states were opposed, the radicalization of NCM and the fear of further genocide led public opinion to consider the sacrifice of a few acceptable to the security of the world.

If the power of the Mastedeon were real this would prevent any attack or retaliation against those states that would harbor the bearers of exotic flames as refugees.

Gekko then agrees to join the Zedù group, with whom he manages to make friends. The clue in possession of Zedù is a place, the island of Ysade in the White Archipelago, a borderland north of Crea, once home to the first conquerors of the bears who gave birth to the Zena civilization on the continent, now under control of the ducal family of Stijibella, which serves as an institutional support to the newly formed Republican Senate.

Once there they are soon attacked by other soulbusters and discover that the duchy is under the check of these, who have gathered in a large group called Gauntlerstad so powerful that they can easily blackmail the Stijibella family. Zedù and Gekko (to which the nickname of Soulnier is affixed, given the speed and ease with which it absorbs and annihilates the powers of others) can defeat the conspiracy and free the duchess Armea girl, held hostage, thanks to the help of a ragged little boy, a white fox named Karato who seems to be a soulbuster, even if totally inexperienced. He has always lived as an orphan, trying to live the pity of others and some small theft, but now that the situation has become dangerous Soulnier offers to join them and help him to train his powers.

The liberation of Ysade does not go unnoticed in the eyes of the duchy, to which Zedù asks to keep it secret to avoid alarming the Gauntlerstad, and that gratitude there invests the title of knights, giving them a gift of some Artaghi kept in the ducal museum including the Talleode sword, a precious cutting weapon that belonged to the monk Nafarre of the Lame Nobili about a century ago. Talleode was a sword able to increase its cutting ability according to the moral conduct of its bearer (it is a very rare and special object, as it has its own conscience and capacity for ethical evaluation, even if it is not animated) and Nafarre took a lifetime to clean it from any stain of injustice; in the hands of Soulnier it seems not to undergo any variation, regardless of the type of actions it performs.

Zedù with Gekko, Karato and the rest of the group chase the members of the Gauntlerstad through the various countries where his agents had taken root, using the memories of each to find others: this will partially restore the political situation of the Manea state which was still in a meeting with the state of Brizantia and therefore fragile and devoid of any magic armament even for the sole defense (as imposed by the NCM).

Their adventure takes them to the east of Crea, where after several vicissitudes they manage to defeat the Gauntlerstar leaders and get hold of their clues.

What they discover is that those currently in possession of the Mastedeon are summoning up all the soulbuster groups to decide which of them will be worthy of receiving power, and the meeting place is paradoxically hidden on the same island as Ysade.

The place reached in the middle of the ice is an imposing and labyrinthine underground palace, a labyrinth of almost alien features where the groups of soulbusters who have survived and who have completed the puzzle have gathered together.

To welcome them there are two masked figures, those who have protected until that day the Mastedeon which was hidden in the middle of the labyrinth and now it is up to the soulbusters groups who have remained to find it to decide who will be the winner and then the worthy owner.

The Zedù group moves through the maze, but something does not come back: in the memories torn from an enemy of the Gauntlerstad the guardians of the Mastedeon had to be three instead of two. Their race leads them to confront the other groups of opponents but is interrupted when they clash with an old acquaintance of Zedù who reveals to the group that he betrayed his group long ago and that he does not intend to divide the power.

Faced with the request of the comrades to get absorbed a small fragment of memory to be able to see if the allegations are founded Zedù refuses to drop his mask, but not wanting to fight against his fellow adventure choose to run away from them, trying to reach alone the treasure.

The treasure hunt ends when from the walls of the maze begin to emerge hordes of skeletons and undead that attack all without distinction, making a massacre of the incapable soulbusters to suck the soul of the undead and whose souls instead converge like streams through the maze, as you aspire to something.

Soulnier is facing the two mysterious tournament organizers, who reveal their identity: they are the oldest soulbusters in history, lived 10,000 years ago, who were in three and hibernated in order to survive during the era in where the magic of the Flames had disappeared from the planet, yet when they awoke they had discovered that their need for souls to keep alive had increased dramatically and that they now needed souls from other soulbusters to feed themselves. This is why the tournament was created, a giant trap where there is no Mastedeon but only an Artaghi able to suck the souls, provided by their third companion just before disappearing, probably forever.

One of the two is the condor Ekretil, head member of the Alja of Berja, an occult elite of avian who has been manipulating the history of the world for over 500 years, the other being Sominù, the master of the Order of the Cinta that Soulnier believed dead and that, in fact, forced to participate in the front line of the world war, he lost a good part of his body, thus having to keep alive as undead.

For this reason Sominù has a particular interest in Soulnier of which he wants the body, which is why at their first meeting he pretended not to know his powers and how to give back the stolen soul to Rayala, while at Ekretil the souls of the other soulbusters are enough.

Despite the numerical disadvantage, the battle ends in favor of prey, as Soulnier manages to use for the first time the Neurega flame left by Rayala just enough to, instead of creating life, annihilate the undead soldiers from whose bodies bloom hundreds of flowers and completely destroy the body of Sominù.

Ekretil in the meantime flees carrying the Artaghi, direct by air to the Ducal palace of the Stijibella and carrying a platoon of soldiers of his personal guard.

Gekko reunites with the other few survivors of the various groups: both Karate and Zedù have managed to survive and they decide, together with all the others, to follow Ekretil to defeat him definitively.

United under a single purpose the remaining soulbusters reach the Stijibella palace kept under the air by the military forces of Ekretil: stealing the memories from some of these seems that Ekretil can not yet absorb the souls gathered in the Artaghi and that to open it serves a kind of key which is present in the blood of some members of the Stijibella family for some mysterious reason.

Inside the building the new group is forced to divide to cover as many roads as possible and Karate in a fire fight remains divided by everyone else, getting lost.

Soulnier and Zedù meet with great surprise Sominù redivivo, of which there is now only the skull of his original body: a horrible fluctuating mass of flame Krumori determined to take the body of Gekko before Ekretil brings the Duchess Armea, key to open the Artaghi, to the magical artifact so as to begin the meal of souls.

Soulnier remains to fight his master a second time, leaving Zedù the compote to chase and stop Ekretil by letting him borrow the Talleode sword.

Meanwhile Karato, wandering alone in the ducal palace in search of his companions, runs into the Araghi collector of souls and, in front of him, this opens up independently, inviting him to be touched.

Zedù manages to reach the condor soulbusters who has taken Armea hostage: he mocks him, to him and to the other soulbusters for ingenuity; there is only one way to control the events of the world and this is the plot, of which they have always been the architects since ancient times, this is the true Mastedeon, the real power.

However Ekretil does not realize that Zedù has with him Talleode, the sword with which Nafarre along with the utharaptor Furja (the illegitimate son of Ekretil) almost killed him a century ago and falling into a trap by the same Zedù is pierced by this, losing the ability to fight and thus leaving Armea.

Ekretil fleeing to the west wing summons his men, but no one seems to answer, just as Zedù also receives no radio response from the other soulbusters located in that area.

Armea, who had hidden to escape the pursuers, finally runs into Karate, recognizing him as a member of Gekko and Zedù's friends and runs to meet him. Karato, smiling, pierces her heart, while her scream crosses the building, drawing the attention of everyone present.

Ekretil, with Talleode still stuck in the body, is outside the building in the snow when it is taken.

At the end Karate shows up in front of Soulnier and Sominù, interrupting their fight. Sominù finally recognizes him: he is the third of the three ancient soulbusters, the one who provided them with the Artaghi and who believed dead.

Karate in reality, after they awoke from their millennial sleep, turned the world becoming one of the apostles of the Genius of the World (a messiah generated by the collective will of humanity) who betraying it received his killing the gift / curse of knowing the future (a knowledge that makes slaves of events that already know each other). Having seen the present, Karato gave rise to the Stijibella lineage, collected and modified an ancient telepathic artifact (the so-called Sachelion) so as to be able to unload its memory and powers, immediately after organizing the tournament with Sominù and Ekretil, l 'having assumed the appearance of when he was a child and having erased the memory of the Stijibella dynasty of their founder.

He knew that Sominù and Ekretil, victims of his own hunger, would sooner or later try to absorb the souls of each other, including his own, for this would have disappeared and now that he had finally regained memory could finally complete his work, absorbing all the soulbusters in the world.

Sominù, already tried by the many fights, is easily absorbed by Karato under the dogged eyes of Soulnier who tries to return the memory to the young friend to whom he had been a teacher, but this is his real complete memory.

Karate, now in possession of the souls of almost all the soulbusters of various eras and therefore of incommensurable powers is determined to exterminate the house he generated and suck away Soulnier and the last remaining so as to remain the only and eternal, finally appeasing his hunger: he explains to Gekko that it was he who deprived his family of the memory of him, so that fate would lead him to defeat Sominù and to mature his powers, so once he returned to Gomoe he did not recognize him.

The few soulbusters come together in an attempt to stop Patriarch Karato, but nothing seems able to stop him. Zedu, who had absorbed the soul of Armea, donated by her to the point of death after the meeting with the patriarch, wants to use the power of Stijibella blood to reseal the Sachelion that is the core of Karate, but its power does not it is enough to reach it, that is why there is only one chance to defeat Karato or the inovulation of the soul.

This consists in the voluntary granting of one's own soul to another person who allows a fusion of powers and will much more perhaps than the simple theft of souls used by the soulbusters, even if this means the death of the owner.

Zedù and his old group's souls melt their souls in Zedù's body to give him the opportunity to hit Karate's core, apologizing to Gekko for all the deceptions, but even this does not seem to suffice before the power of the Patriarch.

Zedù, now dying, asks Gekko to be absorbed by him along with all the remaining soulbusters, but Gekko is reluctant not wanting to sacrifice them, not wanting to repeat the tragedy of stealing the soul of someone dear. Zedù tells him that if Rayala's soul lives in him it probably was not due to an accident, probably she wanted to make that gift, a gift of love, as they will now live with him.

Zedù and the last remaining soulbusters sacrifice their lives and unite their souls in the body of Gekko, whose feathers are colored in all the different colors and that, thanks to the power of the Neurega Flame, they live and manifest their powers within him.

Soulnier's power is now such that not even Karate with its hundreds of slave souls can cope, allowing him to reach the Sachelion in its core and reverse its polarity: Karato's soul is sucked by the Sachelion, which being been absorbed by his body begins an endless loop of implosion: the last words of Karato before losing the reason are to tell Gekko, telling him sooner or later it will become him, that hunger will devour him, who saw him in the future.

At the end of the fight, Soulnier is the only one left.

Very few of the entire ducal family remained in the fury of Karato, but thanks to the survival of the grandparents of Armea the duchy can still continue to live, at least until it is replaced by the emerging republic.

The two dukes of Ysade, infinitely grateful to Soulnier and his group of friends, take him under them as their knight and bodyguard, giving him the power to represent the will of the duchy wherever it is.

Inside Soulnier they continue to live the thoughts and the wills of all his companions, even though they have returned to their natural appearance, but as time passes their presence becomes more and more feeble, as if they were slowly digested and disappeared, making Gekko to his original consciousness and making him feel alone again.

Unfortunately, despite the gratitude to Gekko, the duchy can not do anything to help the other exotic flames in the world, if not formally oppose the decision of the NCM to impose the program of suppression of the carriers: the maximum he can do is give protection to Gekko himself, as long as he remains in their territory.

Gekko spends serene years with the elderly dukes, protecting them and accompanying them in their old age.

It is the year 11933 and Gekko is now 47 when the two elderly dukes die of old age, thus leaving room for the new republican faction which no longer has any interest in opposing NCM's anti-exotic policies. Now no longer tied to that place Gekko abandons Ysade forever, only back inside and out, starting a journey around the world looking for the other soulbusters still using the Aura counter left by Zedù.

As far as he seeks, he finds no signs of his fellow men until, after years of fruitless research, he realizes that he has actually remained the last soulbuster in the world.

In the meantime the world has changed: the war, the victims and the sacrifices made are now past memories of a world that is now strongly globalized; the New Heroic Era, which was hoped to return, left room for cynicism, the son of well-being, of individualism; a world where there are no more clashes of values, but simple personal survival.

The Herald of the Lucent Wing has been quickly forgotten and its efforts to fight against injustices are no longer followed or influenced, it can no longer be an example for people in that unique civilization whose hyper industrialization is changing the face of the planet.

Disgusted and devoid of any purpose, Gekko cuts every bridge with the world, with which he no longer wants to have anything to do and retires definitively in the forest of Rayala to spend the rest of the time taking care of him, as guardian of his grave and of his memory, dedicating himself to the transcription on paper of the memories and memories of all the absorbed companions, before these disappeared digested by his body.

It is 11940 when Gekko turns 54: his body has not aged having consumed all the souls gathered by the other soulbusters. During a dream, waiting and hope to meet Rayala is contacted by a group of dreamers who present themselves as the heirs of the Kuftal, ancient bearers of exotic nomadic flames that broke away millennia ago from the dying Motroica civilization in search of fortune and conquests and therefore cursed by the peoples of the world since antiquity.

Seen since then as an evil people, comparable to Satanists, their persecution has persisted in different cultures to modernity, with the current Church of Ahmarì which, thanks to its influence on the NCM has managed to impose itself theocratically and to persecute any cult not in line with its guidelines.

The Kuftals want redemption and revenge against that elite that has transformed a cult into an instrument of power and fascism to nurture its own power, which has transformed noble teachings into hypocrisy and prevarication.

This is why Uroma, the reigning of the mother goddess of the Kuftals, has come back with one of a Flame Shurudi of unlimited energy, to bring justice back to an amoral world because it was built on the falsities of a corrupt church.

To do this, the Kuftal Rebellion intends to perform a spell on a global scale that allows everyone to share the same feelings and awareness, so as to let everyone know the true story of the Kuftal, the suffering that had to endure the bearers of exotic flames and tying all the people of the world from a bond of empathy, but to realize this it is necessary to re-activate the ancient golems of the arthropathy era (the so-called Earthbound) dead tens of thousands of years.

Unfortunately, Earthbound, not being living beings, can not be brought back to life as non-dead from the Flame Krumori: they need a new soul to function, which only the Neurega Flame can generate with enormous energy consumption.

Rayala could never have done anything like this with her weak flame but Uroma with her own blood made of flame Shurudi yes.

The Kuftals ask Gekko for the definitive sacrifice to realize what the Herald of the Shining Wing has pursued for decades, that is to give the world back a heart, forcing people to respect each other by recognizing themselves as brothers, without species barriers, ideologies or social status, but in order to do so he will have to become a Dark Wing and he will have to surrender his soul to Uroma along with the powers left in him by Rayala.

Gekko, now alienated and discouraged by the world against whom he has fought in vain, accepts in the hope of being able to change the world even if this means its end.

Gekko meets Uroma for the first time during the exchange ritual: the girl half avian and half bat seems determined, as the trial will mean for her to lose every memory of the past and Gekko wonders what could have pushed a young girl to such a choice and what is leaving behind.

The ritual is successful: Uroma absorbs the soul of Gekko and the Neurega flame of Rayala leaving Gekko totally empty, which falls into a deep coma with no return, having sacrificed everything to the ideal of his beloved and to Kellya's words.

Ten years later, as his soul no longer exists, the body of Gekko awakens autonomously, driven by hunger for souls that as predicted by Karato would never have abandoned him. From ruins covered with rubbish he is reborn in the world, devoid of any memory that is not the name of Soulnier and devoured by a hunger for souls that does not allow him to let himself die. It is impossible for him to ever enter the world of dreams no longer having his own soul and therefore destined to a death without beyond, he crosses the world like a beggar, despairing of his damn condition and wishing a death that he can not give himself.

In the meantime the world has not changed: it comes to the discovery of a group of sorcerers led by Uroma who failed in the attempt to conquer the world, the change of the ecclesiastical class of the Church of Ahmarì and an event ten years earlier, known as Accolade, during which all the people of the world tried very intensely the feeling of what they felt all the others, but lasted a few seconds. Since that distant day, several humanitarian associations were born, the same NCM moderated its control over the peoples and the persecutions against the carriers of exotic flames, now extinct or aborted in the maternity centers before the fetus develops completely.

However, the loosening of control by the NCM led the states, despite the efforts of the various geopolitical blocs to limit them, to return to plotting against each other: new violent dictatorships were born as corruption and conspiracies snaked often fomented by large multinationals.

In that new world Soulnier ends up imprisoned to work as a slave in the Arkenite mines, participates in revolts and rebellions following his instincts, only to discover that old tyrants can only succeed with new ones.

His parable leads him to descend from ideological communism to socialist anarchy and finally to the simple gesture of destructive anarchy, becoming part of several terrorist groups in countries affected by dictatorships and wars in which he can stock up on souls to feed himself with.

At the unbelievable age of 111 (despite his appearance remained that of when he was 25) Soulnier joins the motorized cents D / Freemons, fighting against the dictatorship of the state of Dorotia where he carves out a prominent figure for the cold marziality with which he kills and obeys orders, more like that of a professional soldier than a rebel thug.

Two years later a young man named Tylor Morderavan joins the group, which takes the name of Umbersun, the flaming hyena. The boy is very tormented, despite hiding his discomfort behind alcohol and a fake lightheartedness, which leads Umbersun to become attached to him and forge a friendship that is reflected both on the battlefields and in moments of relaxation, empathizing his fear of being able to lose control of their powers and to be able to turn them against their loved ones by nature.

In the same period the D / Freemons joins another boy named Cody, who passes under the tutelage of Umbersun and Soulnier: Cody is an insecure but also an idealist, for this Soulnier gives him the sword Talleode, which up to then he remained unchanged with him (not having Soulnier a soul was not possible for the sword to judge him) but that, in a moment of awareness, he believes that it is more just in the hands of a young man to maintain his aim as an instrument of justice.

ID / Freemons, all gathered together by the same winged tattoo, symbolize the whole of Dorotia fighting the government, often receiving support from the NCM in the liberation of the country, until, in 12.000 DD, the dictatorship of Dorotia collapses and the D / Freemons pass by 'being considered allies to be seen as mere criminals, refusing to accept the new government imposed by the NCM by seeing them as usurpers.

The D / Freemons are all captured or killed by international forces, all except Soulnier who manages to escape out of the country, despite being hunted all over the world.

Intercepting him, however, are not the police, but a sect called the Golden Eye which has followed his deeds since the rebellion in the mines of Arkenite and that helps him to hide, asking for his help in return. They intend to realize the dream of their ancestors, the Lords of the City of the Rose, or to be able to change the very essence of reality from the world of Dreamscape, in order to rebuild it according to their own desires.

Although it may seem absurd, such a thing is possible, but to realize this it is fundamental to recover a living being, a laboratory guinea pig called Teria, imprisoned since time immemorial in a research center near the city of Duxel, in the independent state of the Pantakas.

The ESP power of this Teria, despite being a child, is such that it could be used as a catalyst for such a powerful ritual to generate a Level 4 Ghost Field, thus arriving to absorb the empirical reality: this is the essence of the Good project Skyline.

Soulnier accepts willingly, seeing in the end of this world the apotheosis of the concept of revolution.

He is inserted as an infiltrator in the secret agency PT, which for years has been acting on private clients to destabilize the state security of Eneida in order to make her lose independence, on recommendation and thanks to this he is soon provided with a team to be commanded as a terrorist force to which it is named Gocce Rosse.

However since he entered the P.T. continues to receive strange messages in code or anonymous clues that fails to interpret or explain.

Meanwhile inside the P.T. Soulnier meets Tina, a young and elegant gecko who acts as a representative of the powerful Cortemonian family, whose mother is part of P.T.

Talking to her together, Tina is surprised to know that he is receiving these anonymous messages, revealing that they actually come from being called Xantara, the legendary queen of dreams who lives exclusively in Dreamscape and who has contacted him because she wants to he something, as he contacted her years ago to ask her to be his vassal and friend.

However Soulnier can not meet her or speak to her directly because being devoid of soul she can not enter the Dreamscape: by reconstructing messages and clues he is taken to an old minor hospital in the city of Tatima. Crossing alone the ramshackle corridors and the half-abandoned abandoned buildings of the enormous medical city, he arrives at a small room where he meets Xantara himself for the first time: not an omnipotent goddess, not a royal priestess, but a young and emaciated hind machine that keeps her alive, born and raised in a perennial state of coma.

Next to his bed stands a tool not unlike a radio communicator or a cell phone that calls the attention of Soulnier who collects it and from which he incredibly feels the voice of Xantara.

She says she knows everything about him, that she has long heard about him from the gods residing in the dream world and knowing the secret of her vampire nature. His advent had been predicted and Xantara needs Soulnier as her personal herald: the Golden Eye can only stir up a world of suffering to generate new slaves and masters, since this is the nature of the world of the living; she intends to put an end to life itself, so that all people can achieve peace and serenity in the world of the underworld and of the dream, the Dreamscape. The queen of the dream promises in return Soulnier to give him a soul and put an end to his painful existence, allowing him to be able to reunite his lost memories, disappearing with them away from the pain of the present.

Soulnier, although in his life he had seen everything, in front of the vision and the words of that pathetic creature with atrophic limbs, falls to the ground in tears of joy, promising total and unique fidelity to Xantara until the end of the world.

As a mission for now he will continue to act on behalf of both P.T. together with Tina from the Golden Eye while being put in touch with Lerika, the internationally renowned model and singer (half a pheasant - half a unicorn) who is actually a witch at the service of her goddess and friend since childhood Xantara ( with whom he met in a dream during his difficult childhood as an orphan of war). Although Lerika has no sympathy for Soulnier and not trusting him as herald, she is forced to collaborate with him and Tina in the realization of the Xantara plan.

It is 12.008 and being Soulnier, once known as Gekko Samaharc, is 125 years old when he leads the young Red Drops as a loving father to a suicide attack in Duxel with the aim of kidnapping Teria, disguising everything as a terrorist attack by former soldier Nova Pride but now sought after by international Zack Toki.

Particular signs: albino plumage, tattoo on the abdomen with the symbol of the D / Freemons transformed over the years into a diabolic symbol of the evil goddess Ardebian, black eyes, bluish phosphorescent spots that from the hands reach the elbows similar to bleeding stigmata.