Na'arisiel

A blind angel

The amalgam cannot be allowed to come to fruition. . . Find the catalyst. Destroy it.

History

Na’arisiel first arrived in the city 50 years before the story begins, although his own life began much, much before then. Facing persecution from Upper plane hosts, Reis fled to the Prime plane to take shelter and recover. In doing so, he demonstrated to his pursuers that he was in position of a rarity: a corporeal human-adjacent vessel through which he could interact safely and covertly with the physical world of the Prime plane. Unfortunately, that only served to incentivize his recapture.

It was while pursued by hosts that Na’arisiel first drew the attention of a rag tag group of outcasts and peacekeepers he would come to call friends. These people, at the time complete strangers, stepped in to protect him from the constructs sent to collect him. Reis, awestruck by their efficacy and lofty goals of standing against dangerous exoplanar meddling, offered his services to the group, and they in turn accepted him with open arms. The years that followed were some of the most fulfilling and adventurous Reis had ever experienced.

In particular, it was during this period that he found himself enamored with one Hollis Tucker, an anomaly to Reis in several ways. What began as an anthropological interest in the man rapidly devolved (evolved?) into the beginnings of a near-psychosexual romantic obsession. It took a while for Tucker himself to get on board with the whole thing, but in the end, Reis’s overtures were enough to woo him, and in late 501, Hollis proposed.

Na’arisiel’s time in the six-person apartment, and his aspirations of a long-term relationship with Hollis, came to an abrupt and violent end in mid 502. After nearly a decade of fighting them off, the host came once more for Reis, and at last, he and his friends were caught unprepared. The hosts killed everyone in the apartment, and dragged Na’arisiel, as well as his coveted human body, back to the Upper planes.

Time doesn’t function in the Upper planes as it does on the Prime plane. And it doesn’t pass for Na’arisiel the way it does for humans. That said, it would be forty long and painful years before he found himself on the Prime plane again. The hosts vivisected his corporeal form for previously-lost information on its construction. They stripped him of his position among the host. They also confiscated his eyes.

Na’arisiel’s eyes aren’t for seeing so much as they are for focus. He’s primarily an entity comprised of soul energy, so their function, while linked to their physical analogue, is more abstract. Without these “lenses,” Reis is unable to orient himself in pertinent dimensions like space and time. Furthermore, he cannot filter out or focus on external stimulus, resulting in a state not dissimilar from experiencing all pasts, futures, and presents simultaneously. Separate from their original owner, the eyes themselves maintain their basic functionality.

In 542, Na’arisiel is dumped unceremoniously back onto the Prime plane. Relying on his tattered human form for any sense of time and place, Reis is left closely tethered to the institution that body is housed in. At least until an opening is made for his escape.