Overview
Tazarin, formerly King Therion of current-cycle Soltheris, is the emperor of Thalcoris and later Thalassai's archon of cosmos. As Therion, he was Aurion's father, ruled Soltheris while darkness creatures struck its southern villages, and lived as a contemporary of Xandor, Khoradyn, and Orin. He is the later cycle counterpart of Therion, the earlier founder of Thalcoris and Tequaltor. Their lives belong to separate Xalmyrran cycles. As Tazarin, he rules the Tenari from Tequaltor, carries Xoh'Tenol's sun shard when Eira's group reaches Thalcoris, passes that succession to Kaelion, and becomes a senior ally during Thalcoris's liberation, Thalassai's recovery, and Nerissa's Invasion of Xalmyrra.
Appearance and Bearing
Tazarin is an older, physically powerful man with graying hair, gray-blue eyes, and a short gray beard. He wears sun-colored ceremonial Thalcoris robes in Tequaltor. In battle, cosmic energy and glyphwork can mark his body, and he carries a radiant sun mark in his palm while he bears Xoh'Tenol's shard.
Personality
Tazarin is controlled, diplomatic, and careful with public authority. He initially spares Eira, Lythariel, Cassian, and Kaelion, keeps them under supervision at the Tequaltor war school, and uses their arrival to test the shape of the Xolterra War. He is protective toward Kaelion, Aurion, Isrynn, and the Tenari, and he keeps Thalcoris moving toward recovery after Xoh'Metztli's control breaks.
Magic and Skills
Tazarin is an elite cosmic mage. His magic includes starfield barriers, cosmic beams and blasts, detonations, meteor-scale force, and glyph enchantments that can reinforce bodies or movement. He shields armies and cities, fights Virel near Chronasis, raises vast barriers over Erenmyr's defenders, and duels Kaelion with overwhelming cosmic barriers and detonations.
While carrying Xoh'Tenol's shard, Tazarin uses sun magic to form miniature suns, sun spears, and crop-blessing warmth. After Xoh'Tenol passes the sun shard to Kaelion, Tazarin keeps using cosmic barriers, beams, detonations, and city-scale shields while guiding Thalcoris through alliances with Thalassai and Xalmyrra.
History
Therion ruled Soltheris during the current Xalmyrran cycle's struggle with darkness. A celestial beam struck him down and left Aurion to inherit the throne while still young. Xoh'Tenol later summoned him to Thalcoris, where he became Emperor Tazarin.
The older Xolterran founding records belong to a previous cycle. In that previous cycle, Therion stands with Xandor, Orin, and Khoradyn among the Xalmyrran leaders who escaped into Xolterra roughly five millennia earlier and began Thalcoris's Tenari history. Therion recurs across cycles: the original Therion was the first sun-shard wielder, and Xoh'Tenol summoned later Therions in some cycles.
In Thalcoris, Tazarin realized Xoh'Metztli's songs and moon-shard system controlled Tenari minds. He shielded his own mind, killed one moon-shard wielder, and failed to free the people because Xoh'Metztli chose another vessel. When Eira, Kaelion, Cassian, Lythariel, and Splin reached Tequaltor, he spared them, placed them under supervision at the war school, and trained Kaelion after Xoh'Tenol chose him as future emperor.
After Cassian destroys Xoh'Metztli's essence, Tazarin speaks with Kaelion about Soltheris: Tazarin is Therion, and Isrynn was pregnant when he was taken from Soltheris. He reopens Thalcoris through roads, mages, diplomats, trade, and supply movement from Tequaltor toward Xalatun and across Thalassai's regions, and eventually enters Thalassai's archon council as archon of cosmos. During Nerissa's Invasion of Xalmyrra, he brings Thalcoris reinforcements to Xalmyrra and raises starfield barriers over Erenmyr's coast; afterward, he supports Chronasis and Thalassai defense planning.
Relationships
- Aurion: Tazarin's son from Soltheris, raised to rule after Therion's apparent death.
- Kaelion: Tazarin's son with Isrynn, Aurion's half-brother, and the future emperor chosen by Xoh'Tenol.
- Isrynn: Tazarin's former partner in Soltheris and Kaelion's mother.
- Xoh'Tenol: The sun god who summoned current-cycle Therion to Thalcoris, empowered him through the sun shard, and later transferred the shard and succession claim to Kaelion.
- Thalcoris inner circle: Zayren, Razen, Amaril, and Ziyara work under Tazarin as guard, army commander, teacher, librarian, and diplomat across Thalcoris's recovery.
- Allied leaders: Tazarin shares councils, diplomacy, and battlefield command with Thalena, Cassian, Calythos, Zephyra, Naryon, Brynor, Orin, Xandor, and Khoradyn through old Xalmyrran ties, Thalassai diplomacy, and Nerissa's Invasion of Xalmyrra.