Growing up as the son of a commoner, young Solaris had dreams of grandeur. When he wasn't toiling on his parent's farm, he dreamed of one day ruling a kingdom, and later on, the continent.

But being the son of farmers made his dream sound absurd, even to his parents, whenever he told them, he was always cautioned to stop deluding himself with dreams of the impossible, sometimes beaten for it. Eventually, he stopped voicing it, leaving his parents with the notion that he'd given up on such delusions, but deep in his heart, Solar never gave up.

Reaching the age of fifteen—the age of awakening—Solaris was lucky to be discovered with an affinity for fire. This gave him the key to accomplishing his dreams, but his parents only saw the flame as something to be avoided. They wanted their son to carry on their legacy as farmers, instead of playing with such dangerous element. An argument erupted, with the result being Solar leaving his home.

Leaving the only home you've known since birth, other people would have been reluctant, dreading even, but Solar never looked back.

He wandered, searching for something to make true his dream. He moved from villages to villages to towns, and eventually, cities.

Along the way, Solar familiarized himself with his affinity in the only way he knew, learning how to create flame balls and flame breathe.

He knew that to achieve his dreams, he needed power, true power; so despite being afraid, he hunted. Beginning with the weakest monsters, and then to those with more powers.

Like this, he slowly grew in power, and by the time he'd reached his first city, he was already in the adept stage. Just a few months after awakening.

Getting into the city, it finally occurred to him that he'd need money. Throughout his wandering, he'd never found the need for currency, since he only fed on monster meats.

He took up odd jobs using his fire powers to burn all kinds of wastes and any other job he could find that required a fire affinity user, since those allowed him time to practice more with his powers.

It was on one such fortunate day that while practicing his powers, he came into the eyes of a passer-by who immediately took a liking to the young boy. The man introduced himself as a master in an academy and offered to take Solar in as a disciple.

The academies were prestigious institutions that everyone wished to one day attend, even those of noble lineage. As such, it was nearly impossible for commoners to get accepted.

Attending the academy, Solar was discovered to be an unusual genius. His intuitive control of fire was unheard of in the academy's history. Easily manipulating the fire element in ways even older students hadn't yet grasped. As such, he became popular and soon enough, was offered the prestigious honor of becoming the direct disciple of the academy head.

Like this, Solar grew in power and closer to his ambition, reaching the lord stage in ten years, thereby joining the peaks of the entire kingdom. Practically unheard of.

During these years, Solar acquainted himself with people of standard. Nobles, merchant barons, and heads of other academies.

Familiarizing himself with them, he noticed something they all shared: their lack of drive. They were content with the meager powers they held; powers which could easily be taken away. Because of this, he developed a secret disgust towards those individuals, people who'd lost their drive to acquire more status, more powers.

Soon enough, he came up with his master plan: to take everything away from them.

This was an easily accomplished plan since these figures never imagined a commoner—even one of lord status—taking from them. It was an absurd notion that no commoner would ever dare.

He began with the biggest: the royal family. In his notion, why start from the smallest when you can just take everything in one fell swoop?

Getting the princess to fall in love with him was no problem, who didn't want to deepen their relationship with a renowned genius?

It took months of careful work, but he eventually got the princess to say yes to his marriage proposal. Done with that, he turned to eliminating all her competition for the throne.

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Over the few short years after their marriage, the royal family was continuously slammed with a series of unfortunate incidents which led to the deaths of two royal children out of three.

Done with that, he turned his eyes to the king and queen, their deaths coming a year later when they were unfortunate to be on the path of a monster horde during one of their interstate travels. Soo tragic.

With the deaths of all competition and none being the wiser, Solar became prince consort to the crowned queen.

Being a royal consort was completely different from being an academy genius; Questions were going to be asked and one of them would be the origin of this figure. So Solar made a quick trip, paying a visit to his home village.

Anyone who would be fortunate enough to discover the location of where this prince consort hailed from would be unfortunate to find all those villages deserted, including the ones up to a week's distance. Their residents disappearing into thin air.

Done with his visit, Solar made his way back to the capital. To his new world as prince consort.

Over the following years, he and the queen lived as a loving couple. During these years, Solar had never stopped growing his power, both politically and personally.

So when the time came that he finally made a seizure for power, people were dumbfounded to find that he'd already surpassed them in cultivation.

In the world of cultivation, power was respected above all else. Personal power. So when Solar unveiled his cultivation in the Monarch realm, allegiances were quickly changed.

The nobles were amongst the troublesome sort, most of them easily capitulating while the stubborn ones...well, proved stubborn. They were publicly taken care of.

The heads of academies were either soul oathed into servitude or killed, depending on how stubborn they also proved.

In a few short days of taking power, Solar completely had all under his heel.

Accomplishing his lifelong dream, he soon changed the name of the small Kingdom to what it is today: Solaria.

Done with all of this, Solar viewed the queen as unfortunately, no longer of use, which quickly led to her quiet demise.

Over the years, Solar traveled publicly and more often, in private. It was during one of his travels that he discovered an ancient treasure, a sunflame stone which upgraded his affinity to that of the deadly Sunfire.

Because of how he took his present status, he developed a constant suspicion of all who worked under him. He needed a personal lieutenant who could go on quiet errands, so he founded the Solarian pillars, the first member being a young snakeskin he found during his travels: the infamous Elora Darkfang.

She was trained and taken care of until she developed an unyielding loyalty towards him.

Finding a treasure so rare he was almost certain nobody else on the entire planet owned something of this level, he finally set his eyes on his next objective: conquering the whole continent.

Wielding an affinity more powerful than anyone else on the planet, Solar began the first grand war.

He conquered kingdoms ruled by those of the Monarch realm, easily defeating them and using their deaths to elevate his cultivation, until eventually, he joined the ranks of the fabled Spirit lords.

Acquiring Spirit lord's strength only inflamed his ambition, leading to the fall of multiple kingdoms in a few short years.

His army grew the more he conquered until the wider community eventually grew aware of him. But they never took him too seriously until, like a fire left to grow, his power grew too great.

Over a century, the war raged on, leading to one of the highest fatality rates in history in the history of the world, with the death toll in the hundreds of millions.

Solar butchered his way through kingdoms until he was eventually stalled, but by then, he'd almost conquered half the continent, setting up the largest Empire on the planet.

No matter how strong he was, he couldn't take on the whole might of the planet; and that was what would have happened had his hunger proved too threatening to the sovereigns outside the continent, so he stalled, bidding his time.

With the empire no longer in a state of war, Solar decided he wanted an heir.

He wanted an heir but feared them being influenced and being used against him, so he planned secretly.

In secret, he captured a young beautiful lady who was forced into bearing his child.

Out of fear for her family, she made sure to stay in line, doing as asked, until months later when she bore him a child: a sweet young boy.

Finding no use for the girl anymore, she was quietly disposed of, leaving the young boy in the hands of his tyrannical father.

Young Tenral was a kindhearted boy who always found a reason to smile, even in infancy. Growing up, his identity was always kept a secret. Still, the boy strived to make his father proud of him.

Solar never saw the boy as anything more than a container to carry on his lineage, so he never gave Tenral the love that the boy wanted, still, Tenral still strove for it.

Finding himself stalled in power and hating it, Solar decided it was time to leave the planet behind.

He feared that all he built would be taken away after his ascension, so he called his son.

Ever wanting to make his father proud, Tenral never said no to the Solar's plans, even when they terrified him, he still wanted that love.

A fleshcrafter was called—cultivators who practiced the forbidden arts, hunted all around.

Although the process was long and extremely painful, Tenral persevered until his whole body—both flesh and bones—were shaped into a twin of his father's.

He was put through grueling training day and night until he was good enough to take down most cultivators of equal rank. And when he was made to become just like his father, he took up his father's identity, discarding the name 'Tenral'.

Satisfied with his work, Solar soon left the empire, never to be seen again.

Leaving the other sovereigns to cower on their throne, fearing an emperor who had disappeared.