Kylin Felstar
It began with an excavation. Or so I'm told.
Kylin, known as Castiel Mavanix at the time, was always seeking his father's approval. As such, helping with the daily running of House Mavanix at the time came naturally to him. Assigned the task to oversee an excavation led by House Mavanix's team known as Avalon, Kylin would seek to prove himself to house patriarch Cartius by finding the necessary keys to unlock a sealed gate discovered in the excavation site. The search for these keys led the youth to a cult known as the Order of the Stormguard. Believing the cult to be potentially involved with his excavation project (and further intrigued by his father's past inability to acquire the group's innermost secrets), Kylin manipulated his way into the inner circle by taking advantage of the Sundering--a deadly massacre against the Stormguard by unknown assailants. Vulnerable and trying to rebuild, Highguard Keir Loell allowed Kylin into the group, oblivious to the young man's true intentions at first.
As time passed, Kylin rose in rank within the Stormguard and edged ever closer to achieving his goal of uncovering their secrets. He also met a myriad of individuals during this time, including on and off again rival Oria Argall, childhood friend Seraphine Winter, and more. As time passed, Keir became more aware of Kylin's true intentions. Tensions between the two are said to have heightened to a point where Keir was put into a situation where he went toe-to-toe in battle with the deadly Mavanix/Felstar assassin, Vertigo.
Eventually, Kylin abandoned his ill intentions against the Stormguard. It still remains unclear why, though it's believed he had started to care for its members, including Keir Loell. When the cult crumbled mysteriously later down the line, it was Kylin who sealed some of the remaining Stormguard relics (excluding its keepsake sword, which Seraphine had sent to the vanishing Keir) in a hidden location known only to him.
It was around this time that a new organization began its brief rise in glory. Known as Outer Heaven, the mercenary company was created by three powerful nobles: Batgroob Dok, Rebecca Winter, and Cartius Mavanix. Seraphine and Kylin oversaw the group's leadership in place of their respective parents. Eva Ianeira was recruited to round off the company as the leader of the fourth pillar. Numerous well known adventurers joined the company, helping in the company's quick rise in prominence as they tackled various missions for the group. Kylin and Seraphine would forever be set on a new path as a result of these missions...
It was during a mission that the group encountered a member of a dangerous cult known as Decretum Umbra--a secretive branch of the Mavanix family who sought to reclaim their 'stolen birthright.' Ekidnah Mavanix led the group into a deadly trap in Mun Tuy Cellars, where Kylin was nearly killed. She also revealed here that Seraphine was actually the daughter of Cartius and as such, Kylin's half-sister. Hoping the secret would cause devastation to House Mavanix's image, Ekidnah's plan backfired as Cartius eagerly accepted Seraphine into his life while vowing revenge against Rebecca Winter for keeping the secret all these years.
Outer Heaven faced off against other members of Decretum Umbra, including the deadly magician Marvani Mavanix and the cult's leader, Lemdarva Mavanix -- an equally deadly necromancer. Overcoming challenge after challenge, the mercenaries would fight a fierce battle with the group's summoned matriarch, Carmilla Mavanix, at the Avalon Heritage Museum that nearly cost them their lives when the sorceress attempted to activate the Soulfire Apparatus artifact. After this battle, Cartius withdrew his support from Outer Heaven and allowed it to rapidly crumble, revealing that he may have used the group as a weapon against Decretum Umbra from the beginning. Seraphine's mother was also mysteriously murdered in a mansion fire during this time.
Kylin, having lost Stormguard, his leadership at Outer Heaven, his excavation project due to Cartius ending the project he originally put his son in charge of, became furious at his father for "undermining" Kylin's potential achievements. Their relationship became increasingly strained as Kylin rebelled against the patriarch and changed his name from Castiel, among other various rebellious acts. During this time, the Mavanix Mansion came under attack from a mysterious enemy. Cartius was believed to be murdered, devastating Kylin. House Mavanix's future became unclear, though most assumed Kylin would become the new patriarch. Shockingly, Cartius's will named Elza Ashfen, a secret daughter nobody had known about, as the new matriarch of the house. House Mavanix's race to the end had thus begun, though none had realized it yet.
Kylin grew close to Elza due to the disappearance and believed death of their other sister, Seraphine. Turmoil began to tear House Mavanix apart. The Mavanix Academy crumbled first when the dean's betrayal against the house revealed shocking horrors involving experiments hidden beneath the school. After the dean's failed attempt to oust Elza, Margarah fashion line leaders Nina and Kalara Mavanix (sisters of Cartius) made their own attempt to remove her from power in a fashion duel challenge to prove who was worthy to lead the house's fashion line. Elza manipulated the mercenaries known as Everwatch into representing her in the duel and even manipulated the selection of the judging panel in hopes of giving Everwatch a better chance at winning. After Elza's victory, Nina and Kalara were killed in a horrible airship crash the same night, and most of the House Mavanix was massacred during an emergency family meeting. Only Ekidnah Mavanix (now a friend of the house), Elza, Kylin, and Xaliel Mavanix (cousin of Elza and Kylin) survived the attack.
House Mavanix continued to rapidly crumble as Vertigo assassinated the leader of the Mavanix Templars and manipulated Corvus Cinis, Shimmersong, and other mercenaries into severing the ties between the house and their powerful allies, a goblin tribe known by the house as "GIN" (Goblin Information Network). In time, Xaliel Mavanix was setup by Vertigo to be seen as the culprit behind the house's fall. The mercenaries confronted him after he kidnapped Kylin and attempted to sacrifice him in order to finish Decretum's Umbra objective and activate the house's powerful artifact, the Soulfire Apparatus. Xaliel was killed in the confrontation, his own blood activating the artifact and releasing the trapped soul of the first Mavanix patriarch, Joachim Mavanix, who took temporary possession of Kylin's body. Joachim then promptly summoned the other former spirits of the Mavanix clan, including Veronica Mavanix. The mercenaries battled furiously against the ghosts with little luck until they used the aether beneath the house against the vengeful spirits, destroying the mansion in the process.
Racing off to save Kylin from Joachim's clutches, the mercenaries did battle with the 200 year old spirit and ended up claiming victory eventually, releasing Kylin from the former patriarch's grasp. Shortly after this, Elza discovered who the real manipulator behind the house's fall was--a "Cardinal Felstar" of Ishgard. When rumor surfaced of the cardinal's pilgrimage into Thanalan, Elza wasted no time in sending the mercenaries to confront him once and for all in a last ditch effort to save the nearly collapsed house. They came face to face with Vertigo and Cartius Mavanix, who was in fact quite alive. Cartius revealed that he was in fact a Felstar, not a Mavanix, stolen at birth by House Mavanix due to internal family drama. He also revealed other atrocities that House Mavanix committed against his real family (House Felstar), stating that he faked his death in order to quietly orchestrate his revenge from behind the scenes. After revealing all of his schemes, the Felstar patriarch unleashed the demon Juravis against the group and then proceeded to let Ul'dahn authorities aware of Elza's being ineligible for inheriting House Mavanix per his will due to being a Felstar. Juravis was defeated in battle, but no proof would exist to pin Cartius for the crimes.
Kylin was overjoyed at this father being alive and dismissed the atrocities in order to rejoin his new family in Ishgard. Elza, on the other hand, was furious at the manipulations and deparated Eorzea by ship just as House Mavanix fell once and for all. Attempting to 'fix' his father's schemes against the mercenaries, Kylin joined the mercenary group Shimmersong. It was here that he began to spend time with Gerik Aston, an energetic highlander. The two became close friends quickly and it didn't take long before they fell in love and began a relationship. Kylin also began to spend more time with Crystalline, a pearl given to him by old friend Eva Ianeira after Outer Heaven fell. When Deirdre entered the picture and began spending an intense amount of time with Gerik, Kylin started to grow intimidated by her and feared she was trying to take Gerik away from him. He continued to feel threatened by the woman even after she saved his life from an assassination attempt by Lemdarva Mavanix.
At the Full Cold Moon gala, Kylin made arrangements for him and Gerik to leave Eorzea by ship. Using the coming Garlean threat and the impending doom of Dalamud, the young man managed to easily persuade Gerik to join him on the ship after the gala ended. In reality, he only wanted to forever separate Gerik and Deirdre from one another. The plan would never come to light though as disaster struck the gala when a stray meteor shower from Dalamud wreaked havoc upon the happy event. The impact from the meteors caused the aether beneath the ground to go chaotic, erupting and engulfing a number of adventurers. Kylin was among those swallowed by the aether, believed to be dead, as everyone struggled to survive the horror all around them.
The aether teleported Kylin out to Coerthas, though he remained in bad shape. Cartius and Vertigo managed to track him down and quickly returned to Ishgard with the comatose youth. Immediately upon arriving, House Felstar packed their belongings and departed the city for a private island safely tucked away from the Garlean threat. There, Kylin remained comatose for several weeks. The Battle of Cartenau came and went, and Kylin was left to believe that Gerik and the rest of his shell mates and acquaintances were dead.
So came an end to a long and dramatic chapter. But the real story had only just begun...
~House butler, to a young Felstar
It began with an excavation. Or so I'm told.
Kylin, known as Castiel Mavanix at the time, was always seeking his father's approval. As such, helping with the daily running of House Mavanix at the time came naturally to him. Assigned the task to oversee an excavation led by House Mavanix's team known as Avalon, Kylin would seek to prove himself to house patriarch Cartius by finding the necessary keys to unlock a sealed gate discovered in the excavation site. The search for these keys led the youth to a cult known as the Order of the Stormguard. Believing the cult to be potentially involved with his excavation project (and further intrigued by his father's past inability to acquire the group's innermost secrets), Kylin manipulated his way into the inner circle by taking advantage of the Sundering--a deadly massacre against the Stormguard by unknown assailants. Vulnerable and trying to rebuild, Highguard Keir Loell allowed Kylin into the group, oblivious to the young man's true intentions at first.
As time passed, Kylin rose in rank within the Stormguard and edged ever closer to achieving his goal of uncovering their secrets. He also met a myriad of individuals during this time, including on and off again rival Oria Argall, childhood friend Seraphine Winter, and more. As time passed, Keir became more aware of Kylin's true intentions. Tensions between the two are said to have heightened to a point where Keir was put into a situation where he went toe-to-toe in battle with the deadly Mavanix/Felstar assassin, Vertigo.
Eventually, Kylin abandoned his ill intentions against the Stormguard. It still remains unclear why, though it's believed he had started to care for its members, including Keir Loell. When the cult crumbled mysteriously later down the line, it was Kylin who sealed some of the remaining Stormguard relics (excluding its keepsake sword, which Seraphine had sent to the vanishing Keir) in a hidden location known only to him.
It was around this time that a new organization began its brief rise in glory. Known as Outer Heaven, the mercenary company was created by three powerful nobles: Batgroob Dok, Rebecca Winter, and Cartius Mavanix. Seraphine and Kylin oversaw the group's leadership in place of their respective parents. Eva Ianeira was recruited to round off the company as the leader of the fourth pillar. Numerous well known adventurers joined the company, helping in the company's quick rise in prominence as they tackled various missions for the group. Kylin and Seraphine would forever be set on a new path as a result of these missions...
It was during a mission that the group encountered a member of a dangerous cult known as Decretum Umbra--a secretive branch of the Mavanix family who sought to reclaim their 'stolen birthright.' Ekidnah Mavanix led the group into a deadly trap in Mun Tuy Cellars, where Kylin was nearly killed. She also revealed here that Seraphine was actually the daughter of Cartius and as such, Kylin's half-sister. Hoping the secret would cause devastation to House Mavanix's image, Ekidnah's plan backfired as Cartius eagerly accepted Seraphine into his life while vowing revenge against Rebecca Winter for keeping the secret all these years.
Outer Heaven faced off against other members of Decretum Umbra, including the deadly magician Marvani Mavanix and the cult's leader, Lemdarva Mavanix -- an equally deadly necromancer. Overcoming challenge after challenge, the mercenaries would fight a fierce battle with the group's summoned matriarch, Carmilla Mavanix, at the Avalon Heritage Museum that nearly cost them their lives when the sorceress attempted to activate the Soulfire Apparatus artifact. After this battle, Cartius withdrew his support from Outer Heaven and allowed it to rapidly crumble, revealing that he may have used the group as a weapon against Decretum Umbra from the beginning. Seraphine's mother was also mysteriously murdered in a mansion fire during this time.
Kylin, having lost Stormguard, his leadership at Outer Heaven, his excavation project due to Cartius ending the project he originally put his son in charge of, became furious at his father for "undermining" Kylin's potential achievements. Their relationship became increasingly strained as Kylin rebelled against the patriarch and changed his name from Castiel, among other various rebellious acts. During this time, the Mavanix Mansion came under attack from a mysterious enemy. Cartius was believed to be murdered, devastating Kylin. House Mavanix's future became unclear, though most assumed Kylin would become the new patriarch. Shockingly, Cartius's will named Elza Ashfen, a secret daughter nobody had known about, as the new matriarch of the house. House Mavanix's race to the end had thus begun, though none had realized it yet.
Kylin grew close to Elza due to the disappearance and believed death of their other sister, Seraphine. Turmoil began to tear House Mavanix apart. The Mavanix Academy crumbled first when the dean's betrayal against the house revealed shocking horrors involving experiments hidden beneath the school. After the dean's failed attempt to oust Elza, Margarah fashion line leaders Nina and Kalara Mavanix (sisters of Cartius) made their own attempt to remove her from power in a fashion duel challenge to prove who was worthy to lead the house's fashion line. Elza manipulated the mercenaries known as Everwatch into representing her in the duel and even manipulated the selection of the judging panel in hopes of giving Everwatch a better chance at winning. After Elza's victory, Nina and Kalara were killed in a horrible airship crash the same night, and most of the House Mavanix was massacred during an emergency family meeting. Only Ekidnah Mavanix (now a friend of the house), Elza, Kylin, and Xaliel Mavanix (cousin of Elza and Kylin) survived the attack.
House Mavanix continued to rapidly crumble as Vertigo assassinated the leader of the Mavanix Templars and manipulated Corvus Cinis, Shimmersong, and other mercenaries into severing the ties between the house and their powerful allies, a goblin tribe known by the house as "GIN" (Goblin Information Network). In time, Xaliel Mavanix was setup by Vertigo to be seen as the culprit behind the house's fall. The mercenaries confronted him after he kidnapped Kylin and attempted to sacrifice him in order to finish Decretum's Umbra objective and activate the house's powerful artifact, the Soulfire Apparatus. Xaliel was killed in the confrontation, his own blood activating the artifact and releasing the trapped soul of the first Mavanix patriarch, Joachim Mavanix, who took temporary possession of Kylin's body. Joachim then promptly summoned the other former spirits of the Mavanix clan, including Veronica Mavanix. The mercenaries battled furiously against the ghosts with little luck until they used the aether beneath the house against the vengeful spirits, destroying the mansion in the process.
Racing off to save Kylin from Joachim's clutches, the mercenaries did battle with the 200 year old spirit and ended up claiming victory eventually, releasing Kylin from the former patriarch's grasp. Shortly after this, Elza discovered who the real manipulator behind the house's fall was--a "Cardinal Felstar" of Ishgard. When rumor surfaced of the cardinal's pilgrimage into Thanalan, Elza wasted no time in sending the mercenaries to confront him once and for all in a last ditch effort to save the nearly collapsed house. They came face to face with Vertigo and Cartius Mavanix, who was in fact quite alive. Cartius revealed that he was in fact a Felstar, not a Mavanix, stolen at birth by House Mavanix due to internal family drama. He also revealed other atrocities that House Mavanix committed against his real family (House Felstar), stating that he faked his death in order to quietly orchestrate his revenge from behind the scenes. After revealing all of his schemes, the Felstar patriarch unleashed the demon Juravis against the group and then proceeded to let Ul'dahn authorities aware of Elza's being ineligible for inheriting House Mavanix per his will due to being a Felstar. Juravis was defeated in battle, but no proof would exist to pin Cartius for the crimes.
Kylin was overjoyed at this father being alive and dismissed the atrocities in order to rejoin his new family in Ishgard. Elza, on the other hand, was furious at the manipulations and deparated Eorzea by ship just as House Mavanix fell once and for all. Attempting to 'fix' his father's schemes against the mercenaries, Kylin joined the mercenary group Shimmersong. It was here that he began to spend time with Gerik Aston, an energetic highlander. The two became close friends quickly and it didn't take long before they fell in love and began a relationship. Kylin also began to spend more time with Crystalline, a pearl given to him by old friend Eva Ianeira after Outer Heaven fell. When Deirdre entered the picture and began spending an intense amount of time with Gerik, Kylin started to grow intimidated by her and feared she was trying to take Gerik away from him. He continued to feel threatened by the woman even after she saved his life from an assassination attempt by Lemdarva Mavanix.
At the Full Cold Moon gala, Kylin made arrangements for him and Gerik to leave Eorzea by ship. Using the coming Garlean threat and the impending doom of Dalamud, the young man managed to easily persuade Gerik to join him on the ship after the gala ended. In reality, he only wanted to forever separate Gerik and Deirdre from one another. The plan would never come to light though as disaster struck the gala when a stray meteor shower from Dalamud wreaked havoc upon the happy event. The impact from the meteors caused the aether beneath the ground to go chaotic, erupting and engulfing a number of adventurers. Kylin was among those swallowed by the aether, believed to be dead, as everyone struggled to survive the horror all around them.
The aether teleported Kylin out to Coerthas, though he remained in bad shape. Cartius and Vertigo managed to track him down and quickly returned to Ishgard with the comatose youth. Immediately upon arriving, House Felstar packed their belongings and departed the city for a private island safely tucked away from the Garlean threat. There, Kylin remained comatose for several weeks. The Battle of Cartenau came and went, and Kylin was left to believe that Gerik and the rest of his shell mates and acquaintances were dead.
So came an end to a long and dramatic chapter. But the real story had only just begun...
~House butler, to a young Felstar
