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Lionel Caldwell
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Race Human Class Rogue Origin Crystal Ville Resides Nyvara Affiliations Druecian Ministry of Colonial Advancement Alignment Lawful Evil Status Alive
Overview
Lionel Caldwell is a disgraced medical researcher and alchemical theorist with a dark vision of controlled human evolution. Once a brilliant student of medicine at Autumngrove, he now travels as a self-styled doctor and field scientist, hiding behind a mask of clinical detachment and professionalism.
His obsession with perfecting the Concord Formula—a serum designed to chemically impose order and strength upon the human body—drives him to conduct dangerous and unethical experiments under the guise of healing.
Worked with the Empire to bring Druecia’s Finest to justice. Killed Eyelan and attempted to kill Thraine Axegrinder.
During the chaos of the delegation of the Eastern Conclave, Druecia’s Finest disbanded. His group members Sylas Thorne and Dadaka are presumably dead.
Appearance
Lionel is pale and lean, his posture subtly hunched from an old injury. His eyes are calculating, always searching, and he moves with the careful precision of a man used to scalpels and silence. He often dresses in a modified medical coat repurposed for travel, with belts of vials, syringes, and field tools neatly arranged across his chest and waist.
Beneath the coat, his body bears the lingering scars of the childhood accident that left his musculature underdeveloped—a fact he hides with rigid composure.
Background
Lionel was raised in Crystal Ville, a human colonial town rooted in labor exploitation and social hierarchy. Though not born into nobility, the Caldwell name carried enough influence to grant him an elite education and a deep-seated sense of superiority.
A traumatic childhood incident involving a rampaging ogre laborer left Lionel physically impaired and deeply prejudiced against non-humans, whom he now views as erratic, inferior, and dangerous.
At Autumngrove College of Medicine, he excelled as a student, gaining notoriety for his surgical talent and radical theories. His downfall came with the development of Concord, an injectable compound meant to “perfect” the human body.
After the serum caused the death of a non-human test subject, Lionel was brought before a tribunal. He showed no remorse, famously stating, “Medicine cannot be constrained by lesser anatomy.”
He was expelled without honors, but took his notes and his ambitions with him.