Editing Fanon:Veila

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{{SubTitle|[[Fanon:Soulbound|Soulbound AU]]}}

  |name       =  Veila

  |age        = <p>{{Tooltip|mastertext=19|tooltip=Veila was equivalent to 13 years of age at creation.}}<small> (Whilst Alive)</small></p><br><p>{{Tooltip|mastertext=598|tooltip=Includes time trapped within Codex Perditus.}}<small> (Technical)</small></p>

  |other      = <p>{{Tooltip|mastertext=Red soul|tooltip=Soul color determines what kind of magic is most natural to a Raposa.<br><br>Red souls are naturally best at performing spells which manipulate the location of matter.}}</p><br><p>{{Tooltip|mastertext=White soul|tooltip=White souls are incapable of performing any magic. This is not a natural soul color, and was instead given to Veila following her resurrection.}}<small> (Resurrected)</small></p>

'''Veila''' <span id="pronounce" style="opacity:0.75; font-size: small;">(''pronounced <abbr title="As in V·an">V</abbr><abbr title="As in s·AY">ay</abbr>-<abbr title="As in LU·nge">luh</abbr>'')</span> is a 19-year-old female Genesis Raposa of [[Raposa Village|Capital]].  

Veila has red-brown eyes, orange fur, and long dark-brown hair with lifted bangs. Unlike her past life, she prefers to wear her down, such that it rests on her shoulders, and styles it with loose.

Veila is a Genesis Raposa created (age 13) alongside the rest of her kind on the dawn of the fourth year. As a Genesis Raposa, Veila was created for the purpose of furthering her species and was bestowed with a unique gift to aid her. Within the first week of creation, most of Veila's peers had discovered their purpose and abilities. Yet Veila, among the few who had yet to determine their gifts, worked as a laborer, assisting in the construction of what would soon become [[Raposa Village|Capital Village]].

As seasons passed, the number of Raposa who had yet to discover their ordained purpose diminished until only Veila and her closest friend, Kodir, remained without. Though her village was kind, Veila thought herself inadequate compared to those around her with abilities she yet lacked.

Unwilling to become a burden to her village, she embraced a lifestyle of self-sufficiency, living alongside her best friend. However, a year later, Kodir discovered their purpose to Veila's greatest delight and melancholy. Though she was ecstatic for her best friend, the heavy burden of purposelessness now laid solely upon her shoulders.

A prominent example, and one leading to her notoriety, were the [[:Category:Gates|Warp Gates]]. Warp Gates, the evolution of her first basic levitation spell, allowed Raposa to traverse long distances instantly between other linked Gates. Treks that would take teams of Raposa days to cross now could be complete in mere seconds without need for bulky supplies. Naturally, this enabled her village to expand far beyond its original borders.  

=== The Book of Life ===

With her abilities as a magician realized, Veila was entrusted by the village leader with the [[Fanon:Book_of_Life/Two_Books_Theory|Book of Life*]]. This book, which was found by the village leader shortly after her creation, contained boundless information pertaining to their [[Fanon:Neve|world]] and basic doctrine for the Raposa, but otherwise served no known use. Accepting the gift, Veila took the Book in for study, understanding it as a creation artifact.

It wasn't long until Veila noted the reality altering properties of the Book of Life. By manipulating the magic of the pages in the Book, Veila was able to modify aspects of the respective creations contained within. With this new found use, Veila was further able to assist her village by manipulating the world—particularly atmospheric conditions—through the Book: During dry seasons, Veila learned to summon rain by manipulating the page for clouds, or mildly raise or lower the temperature and tides by manipulating the Sun and Moon pages.  

Beginning to understand the importance of the Book of Life, the village leader instructed everyone to begin construction of [[Creation Hall]] based schematics found within new pages of the Book. This building, once complete, became the sanctuary of the Book of Life and a holy spot of worship for the Raposa settlement. Over time, more pages began to fill the Book, and the Raposa followed the new doctrine understanding it as the holy word of the Creator.  

As the village expanded with new landmarks, Veila and her peers became perplexed by the schematics of a final creation: a wood and iron pedestal the Raposa had constructed at the center of their village. Though the schematics portrayed the box alight with flame, all attempts to kindle a fire within it failed as powerful gusts of wind would soon after extinguish all efforts. With the village exhausted of ideas, Veila trepidatiously tore the page for fire from the Book of Life and rested it within the pedestal. To the astonishment of everyone, the page suddenly ignited and burned as a brilliant white flame that soon thereafter shot into the heavens as a beacon of fire.

=== The Eternal Flame ===

The [[Eternal Flame]] established a closer connection with the [[Creator]] for the growing village as for the first time since their creation, the Raposa heard the voice of their Creator. Veila noticed how the new landmark took on the properties of the page the returned to it; the bonfire appeared unassuming, but it illuminated the village insurmountably more than its breadth would suggest, without radiating heat or spreading. However, with the loss of the page for fire, Veila was unable to manipulate the properties of fire within the world. Only the flames she conjured herself based on spells she had learned from the Book could be manipulated, but these spells were comparatively weaker than what the Book allowed.

This revelation lead Veila to conclude that it would be safer to entrust the pages of creation with the Creator rather than with Rapokind. Fearing that one day the Book of Life could fall to the wrong hands, Veila told the village leader of her intentions to return the Book of Life to the [[Eternal Flame]] as she had done with the flame page before it. Seeing the Book as the reason for the Raposas' continued survival, the leader resisted Veila's idea, but trusted her judgment.

Nevertheless, Attempting to ease her leader's concerns, Veila began work on her final project: The Codex Perditus. A complete document detailing all the spells Veila knew, based on the powers of the Book of Life, the Codex would have the ability to safely carry out spells for even the most inexperienced magicians while reducing the magic cost requirements considerably. In order for such a book to exist, pages from the Book of Life would need to be co-opted.

Taking the Book of Life back to her home in [[Gearworks]], Veila begun the process of creating the spellbook. With the book bound, all that was left was to transfer the magic from the extracted pages into the empty Codex. Though she had taken precautions and started slow, the magic from the combined pages was far more powerful than she had estimated. Her soul was overpowered and she quickly lost control over the unstable enchantment as she tried desperately to halt the binding process.

The infusion spell backfired. Fueled by the excess magic of the [[Book of Life]], the effect of the binding was amplified. Rather than just absorbing the magic from the few pages, the Codex Perditus absorbed all that surrounded  it, including Veila's soul. By the time the spell concluded, the Codex became hyper-saturated. Composed of more magic than matter, the object became too unstable to remain fixed to the physical realm and vanished into the [[Fanon:Primordial Void|Void]], taking what little remained of Veila along with it.

Days following the accident, a search party was launched by the village leader. The farthest reaches of the [[Forest Gate]] region were scoured. Although the Book of Life was found, fully intact among the ruble of Veila's home, no trace of Veila was ever identified. The search was eventually called off when [[Mecha Baki]]—one of Veila's experiments—in the area became increasingly more erratic without her guidance. Out of equal parts fear and respect, the villagers sealed off the Gearworks region where it would remain untouched until [[Fanon:Timeline|The Fall]].  

Seeing the fate that befell Veila as a sign, the village leader's hesitance toward returning the Book of Life was substantiated. Soon after, the village leader declare herself the first [[Mayor (Position)|Mayor]] and permanently re-homed the Book of Life in [[Village Hall]] where it would remain guarded by future generations of Mayors. Fearing the power of the Book after the loss of Veila, the first Mayor denied everyone access to it. Over time, the true purpose of the Book of Life was forgotten, as its power and abilities were never taught to future generations.  

=== Shadow Construct ===

Within the Codex, Veila's consciousness became fragmented and dreamlike. Without a proper body, she lost the ability to feel complex emotions and reason. She was left with only her fear and anger, with little control over her thoughts and actions. As long as the Codex were in the [[Fanon:Primordial Void|Void]], it was unable to interact with reality except during brief windows when the tome was able to maintain a physical form.

While most of these events came and passed with no one discovering the ancient book, those who were unlucky enough to uncover the tome found it possessed by a hostile [[Shadow|Shadow construct]]. Though the soul-powered entity was sluggish and easily fooled, it was responsible for a small handful of disappearances and injuries over the centuries following. Yet, the rarity and random nature of these events made determining a cause difficult to prove. The disorganized accounts of dazed survivors meant that the Shadow being, and the book it guarded, entered public knowledge only as an obscure myth.

600 years after its creation, the Codex Perditus happened across its final victim(s). The Codex materialized before the car of the Heinnen family on their way to a camp-out. The resulting collision led to the deaths of both parents in the front compartment, while [[Fanon:Marzell|Marzell]] and his younger brother survived with heavy injuries. Forcing his way out of the mangled vehicle, Marzell found themselves pursued by the Shadow construct. Desperate to protect his remaining family, Marzell fought his way to the Codex Perditus and destroyed it. The magic stored within the book flooded into the surrounding environment and a small portion—including Veila's soul—was absorbed by Marzell.