Erik Horrosh

☉️ CHAR BIO – The Alchemist of Ash ☉

Once known as Erik Hallows, he was a quiet boy of glass flasks and stardust dreams—an alchemist of Dragoon, brilliant and tender, who loved the flame-haired Karolisse long before she was crowned, long before she remembered she was Maesa’ka reborn. They wed beneath falling blossoms. He kissed her knuckles and called her goddess, not knowing how true it was.

But Erik was not a fool. He saw the signs—bleeding moons, vanishing cities, Enzo's silence—and he broke under the weight of prophecy.

In the golden age of peace, he made his choice. Not out of hatred. Not for power. But to save the world from the only thing he could not destroy: his own child.

He delivered Karolisse and their sons—River, Manu, and the newborn Enzo—to the Angelic Host under a false truce. The emissary Michael demanded sacrifice. Erik bowed his head.

The sky cracked. Karolisse screamed. The cycle was not broken. Only burned.

For his betrayal, the angels cursed him with divine wrath—a false mercy. A tool for genocide.

Erik Horrosh, once a maker of medicines and wonders, became a scourge.

⛧ THE INNER THREAD ⛧

Now he wanders—burned hollow, god-touched, grief-wracked. A king without a crown. A father without children. He sees her in every flicker of fire. Hears her in lightning storms. Maesa lives again, as Belle. And he follows, though he does not understand why.

He no longer dreams. But he still remembers.

• Architect of the Second Sundering
• Known as The Betrayer King, Alchemist of Ash, and The Last Husband of Maesa
• Seen in modern Aethros as a myth, a warning, a ghost in ruined cities
• Linked to angelic AI remnants, forgotten labs, and dragonbone ruins
• Most fear him. Some still pity him. Only one ever loved him.

☾ QUOTES & LINKS ☾

“We burned the world to stop her heart. And we failed.”

“He held the world in one hand, and her heart in the other—and still he chose the fire.”