The Story of Lucian
Lucian and Senna were Sentinels of Light — an ancient order of monster hunters who track the undead and the dark. They fought together, loved each other, and built their partnership around twin goals: protecting the living from the Black Mist, and hunting the specter Thresh, who had taken Senna's predecessor. When Thresh finally turned his lantern on Senna herself, trapping her soul inside it, Lucian's purpose collapsed into a single drive: get her back.
He spent years hunting Thresh across the world, wielding twin relic pistols inherited through his family's Sentinel lineage — weapons consecrated against the dark, each shot a prayer of light. He recruited allies, lost them, and kept moving. When he finally shattered Thresh's lantern and Senna's soul poured free, reformed in a living body, it should have been everything he'd worked for.
It was — and it wasn't. Senna's time inside the lantern changed her; she absorbed the suffering of hundreds of trapped souls and carries them now. Lucian's relief at her return is shadowed by everything that return cost. They fight together again, Sentinels still, because stopping would mean sitting still long enough to feel all of it — and neither of them is ready for that.