Fau

Fau was the ghost of a necromancer of the ancient Parsu people.

Background
Fau lost her mother in the necromantic maelstrom that destroyed the Parsu civilization, and her people fled into the labyrinth in what is now Yelgland, where she lived, died, and was buried, with her ghost bound inside her coffin in hopes of one day passing on her knowledge. Eventually, Kimberly Magic Academy was built overtop of the labyrinth, and at some later point, a mage of the Rivermoore clan discovered her tomb, among others, in an abandoned zone in the second layer. Her coffin was passed down to Douglas Rivermoore, then from him to his great-grandson Cyrus Rivermoore.

By 1534, Cyrus had made a breakthrough in his family's research towards resurrecting Fau, and began ambushing other students in order to steal their bones and matter from their etheric bodies for the final effort. During the preliminary round for the senior year combat leagues, he attacked Alvin Godfrey to retrieve the final missing piece. This provoked the Kimberly Campus Watch to lead a posse of underclassmen into his realm on the second layer; Tim Linton, Oliver Horn, Nanao Hibiya, Yuri Leik, and Gwyn and Shannon Sherwood ultimately penetrated through to his laboratory. Oliver revealed he'd been secretly ordered by Lesedi Ingwe to offer Cyrus the chance to finish his work in exchange for returning Godfrey's bone.

Cyrus cast a grand aria originally developed by Douglas Rivermoore and resurrected Fau in the artificial body he'd made for her. Unfortunately, the aria's seal was incomplete, and a reaper broke in to pursue Fau. Oliver's group fought to delay it, while Fau set about passing her knowledge on to Cyrus. Using the ghosts of unborn children, she crafted an astral lifeform with her knowledge imprinted in it, which he would raise as his own child. Once this was accomplished, Fau returned to face the reapers, and Cyrus ran her through with his athame to end their attack.

As a last request, Cyrus took her to the edge of an artificial sea he had added to the grand aria, a sight she had never seen in life. She died in his arms.

Appearance
The resurrected Fau took the appearance of a girl of about twelve. She had long hair with a bow on the end.