Childhood

House Galatea was known for bringing warmth within wondrous winters through the fur trading business. You name it, they've got it. Home to hunters known for their ability and their unique milk-white hair, members of this noble house willingly put their lives on the line to get you an outfit befitting a king (with an exorbitant price tag often included).

The lady of the house did much of the hunting while her charismatic lord was the face of the business, vending their exotic wares. Their children, too, were raised to hunt and continue expanding their wealth. All three were quite eager to partake in the family “game”, but none as much as their boisterous middle child.

Perhaps it was apt to liken her to the beasts she had grown to slain: unlike her siblings, who had varying temperaments, Lorelei was rowdy and rough around the edges. It was impossible to attribute it to the typical "middle child" syndrome, for her parents divided attention favorably amongst their kids. This behavior shaped her well into her late teens. While mostly normal at home—though still quite rowdy and boisterous—her demeanor skyrocketed greatly around similar people, or tempered with calmer company.

While her prowess as a hunter was indubitably there — and her drive and challenging nature making for what should have been a superb salesman — her father had hoped that she'd develop similar skill for merchantry. When they noticed her behavior mimicked that of their customers, and inquiries into it derived that she didn't even notice it herself, the lord of the house confided in his elder sister, asking for advice. Though Cornelia had no children of her own, she had been a well-traveled, well-liked persona: surely an influence like that would be beneficial to his hard-headed daughter.

Peculiar Magic

A brief visit from her aunt, Cornelia, informed them that Lorelei had a unique trait, unbeknownst to her family — her sponge-like behavior was the result of magic tied to both heat and psionics. Not only could she discern the location of creatures based on the heat they naturally gave off, explaining why Lorelei could locate even the sneakiest of beasts, but she was able to determine the emotions of those closest to her by mapping heat sources to frequent spots on the body. Her body similarly would mimic that heat, manipulating her own behavior subconsciously.

Eager to determine the cause, Cornelia took her in for a brief time. Lorrie knew her aunt to be a proficient fire mage and was eager to be taken under her wing. Little did she know, it would not just be Cornelia teaching her, but the Aurilites as a whole, as Cornelia was quick to see whether or not Eternasci’s blessing potentially existed within her niece (and how desperately she hoped this to be true — after all, look how close they were to sharing a name!). Though initially intimidating, Lorelei’s natural desire to show off and excel took the reins, and while she did not appear to be the Phoenix’s incarnation, she did prove potent with what she did have.

When asked if she’d like to join the Aurilites, she had little reservations, but quietly knew she was not particularly enthralled with the God they were enamored with. Still, this was a means of developing a power she didn’t know she had. Missing out on that felt foolish — and thus, she accepted, moving forward with the rigorous training to become a full-fledged Aurilite. She had a quick grasp on her Beast Within forms, attributing that to her wrangling skills outside of magic, but purification bored her greatly. Cornelia forced this lesson upon her nevertheless, telling her that she could use her magatama offensively if she so desperately desired a battle to be won. Fair enough — she took quickly to the idea.

Familial Tragedy

Though she trained on the side, her focus would forever remain on her family's hunting business well into her late twenties. Unfortunately, this would come to an end when a pack of wargs were slain by her family, leaving all but one pup shivering and cowering in the distance. As time went on, this pup grew corrupted, turning into a massive warg that would return the favor in full, slaughtering the Galateas on a future hunt. Lorelei, being the only survivor, escaped with scars — both mental and physical. Rushing to her aunt to explain the situation, the pair goes to retrieve her family’s corpses for proper burial, they are surprised to see that they had, too, turned into corrupted beast-human hybrids, fitting for their human fondness of hunting down elusive monsters.

While Cornelia is pragmatic about the situation—Lorelei’s distress sends her spiraling. Unable to bear the reality that her loved ones were now all lost to her, the pair fled and returned to the Aurilites’ tower, with a distressed young woman left to her lonesome. They would become her only semblance of family as she mourned and studied harder, growing to believe in Eternasci’s comfort in righteous revenge against the corrupted. The Aurilites themselves also made her feel welcome in a time where she felt lost and alone, so her mind was far more open to their beliefs, and in time, she welcomed them wholeheartedly.

Though she was heavily dissuaded from taking action against the beast that ruined her life, seeing as lashing out caused problems for the god himself, this advice would fall on deaf ears as time went on. In-between missions, she would periodically return to the cavern where her family was slaughtered, seeking out the wolf she named Roc. Rather than come across the beast, she would occasionally find her monstrous loved ones. Even though time had healed her wounds, she ached as battle began, knowing that her job was to remove corrupted beasts from the world. When on their last legs, the beasts laid down ready for their demise, only for Lorrie to instead chain and detain them. She could not deal the killing blow.

With this first monster—her mother, a tiger-like beast—she learned her wrangling could come in handy and decided she would capture all of her loved ones and utilize them, similar to other Aurilites using beasts to fight corruption. She just opted to not tell them the exact way in which she gathered her new creatures… and over time, managed to nab all of her family members and keep them on chains for her combat, creating a way to keep them in her life for as long as she lived. A very healthy coping method.

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