“What am I looking at? Am I looking up at the ceiling? Wait, the last thing I remember was being under water. Where am I? Why am I hearing different voices? My arms are so little. Who are these people? Ok, hold on, let's take a second. The last thing I remember is the whirlpool then drowning and everything going dark, and now here I am in a strange room, surrounded by people I don't know with….white coats. Wait, there is no way this is possible. Did I wake up in a different world? Is this the same world that I know of and I’m just in a different body or is this a completely different world? I seriously hope it's the latter. Man, I'm getting really tired. I think it might be time for a nap, someone tucked me in really well. I feel like a tiny human burrito.”

Luke finds himself in and out of consciousness, asking himself so many questions and having no answers. Finding himself waking up to a new body, and quite possibly a new world is thrilling if not a little scary.To Luke it’s rather frightening that the prayer he kept asking for every day might actually have come true. As he spends his time thinking what to do next, Luke is being picked up from his crib, and held by what he could only assume is his new parents. Two younger boys are both talking to these people, and Luke guesses that these two boys would be his older brothers. Time is rather hard for Luke to keep track of, he isn’t sure how many days have gone by if time is still even measured by seconds, minutes, hours or days. Even though Luke still has his conscious mind from his previous life he can’t overcome the rules of life. He still has to adhere to the rules everyone has to follow at a young age. As time moves forward he is able to get the hang of this new world and learns many new things.

For the first couple years Luke was able to learn some new information.First thing he was able to learn was that his name is no longer Luke, it is Lucien. While that was not a very hard thing for him to wrap his head around it was more of something to get used to. Another thing he found out in time was that this really is a whole new world, his prayers came true, he was dropped into a whole new realm of possibilities. Lucien also found out there was magic, what kind of magic he isn’t sure but he was so excited to find out. Unfortunately he has to wait until he is fifteen before he can find out the type of power he will be able to wield. It could be something that deals with weapons, elements, alchemy or many other things. Lucien was really hoping for some elements, but was being trained for anything with weapons.

With other parts of his life it really didn’t differ much from his world, he was still able to be a kid and do kid things. While the dangers were different and medicine was now handled with magic, life as a kid was almost the same. Lucien and his family lived on a farm outside of the city because his father didn’t want his kids raised in a privileged lifestyle that money can bring to one in the city. Dinner with the family every night was something his mother made sure to happen. Lucien came up with the idea to measure his height against the door frame and his brothers joined in on the idea. Lucien was able to incorporate other things from his world into his new one just so he could keep some ties to his original life, even though it offered him nothing but pain and suffering.

Other information Lucien has come to learn is that his father is a military man, and has gotten himself to the rank of what would be considered general back in his world. Lucien's father has already trained his brothers in hand to hand combat and with weapons, and while they can train with each other his fathers focus quickly moved to him. While he still has years before he will be tested, his father wastes no time to get him prepared. When a child reaches the age of fifteen they are tested in what is called the Chambers of Will. Supposedly it’s different for each family, the chambers could open every generation or skip generation. WIth Lucien's family it skipped his brothers, even being twins which is rare in of itself the odds were believed to be very good that it would open for his brothers. When that fateful day came and the chambers didn’t open his brothers, his family then put the future of the house in his hands. With there being a ten year difference between Lucien and his brother he didn’t know at such a young age the burden he now has to bear.

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As the years passed and with Lucien getting older, his mother decided it was time to train him not only physically but also mentally. There was a tutor that came to their house everyday to teach Lucien his new world. He learned that everyone of all different races now lives in the sky. Long ago there was an outbreak of monsters that all the races couldn't control. Two of the last known Worldshapers used their life force and last bit of magic to form these land masses in the sky. There were only seven known Worldshapers at the time and the five left since created their own kingdoms that we know about today. The five kingdoms are known as Valeria, Sylmara, Eldoria,Thaldris, and Aetheris. Since the creation of the kingdoms each Wolrdshaper still goes down to the surface to keep the hordes of monsters at bay while the kingdoms train up more soldiers, in hopes of one day taking back the surface.

Here on Aetheris everyone trains at an early age. The king, Alrdric Valthorne has ruled since the creation of the kingdom and his power is dealing with wind. There are rumors he has mastered another element, but that is to be considered very rare. The Chamber of Wills provides one with some sort of power. Very rarely it has been seen that one has been given two powers but it is always just one. There are rumors that the other kings have two each but there is no way to prove that one way or another. All that matters is that they still go down to the surface and fight back the numbers that are said to grow everyday. No one is sure how the outbreak started or why it happened, some blame the Worldshapers, while others blame the gods. Regardless of how it started, each kingdom plays a vital part in making sure that the future of the world keeps going, with hopefully an end in sight one day.

Everyday Lucien learns more and his excitement grows for the one day he is allowed to enter the chamber and be given the power to change the world. Every morning he studies, and every afternoon he trains and works the farm. His dad makes sure to teach him hand to hand as well as swordsmanship. Lucien feels like his brother's only job is to give him a hard time, but he knows that in time, he will return that favor ten fold. Unfortunately Lucien isn’t really given the option for friends or free time. His life is controlled in every aspect that it can be. He isn’t sure what school life is like and he even isn't sure if there are schools in this world or not, there must be but are they like the ones back in his old world. As the years go by and the training is at an all time high, Lucien feels like he will never be more ready then he is now to start a better life in this world.