Ogier

Every word he speaks is an act of loyalty; every move he makes, an act of virtue.

Though courtesy, honor, and self-discipline are carved deep into his soul, this Virtue Knight still wears the face of a child.

But there's no need to worry. Even if the price is being erased forever, Ogier will give everything he has to carry out his lord's orders.

May that day never come.

Unlocks at: Awakener Level 1

A.F.2@2, November, a major earthquake struck the Beren region.

The next day, two professors were ordered to head to the disaster area to search for the missing Mythag investigation team.

The team was last active along the Mare Internum coast, primarily tasked with exploring, excavating historical relics, and searching for possible leads related to the "D-phenomenon."

On November 8, at the location where team members were reportedly last seen, Professor @2 discovered an unrecorded palace ruin and recovered a Mythag-standard silver key, numbered I-@2, but did not find any team members.

On November 9, two Silvers were unearthed at the site, which were later taken back to Londinium and sealed due to their historical value, to be Awakened on another day.

Unlocks at: Affinity Level 3

"If it's your first investigation, take little Ogier with you!"

That's the advice the veterans always give a nervous new Investigator, which says plenty about how well liked Ogier is among students and faculty alike.

His stiff, old-fashioned manners cause the occasional incident, but he and his Investigator always end up finding the same rhythm, each holding the other up. In recent years it has become something everyone at the school simply agrees on: a rookie's first mission should be Ogier's mission too. Jokes about him make the rounds among the students, "Ogier brings a cloak for the female Investigators," "Ogier blushes at the sight of a bare leg."

The name "Death Knight" is fading from memory, buried under trust and warmth. All that's left is one small thorn, lodged in the boy's heart.

Unlocks at: Affinity Level 5

Hardly anyone at the school still remembers that the boy was once called the "Death Knight."

Only at midnight does that day come back as a nightmare and creep into his dreams.

The Dissolutes overrunning the campus. The bell tower coming down. The "Keeper," barely breathing.

"Don't cry, Ogier. This isn't your fault..."

The cavalry overrunning his homeland. The palace in ruins. Black blood running from the princess's fingers.

"Don't throw your life away for me, Ogier. You've done more than enough..."

The grit of memory carries pain with it, and it scours the boy's soul.

Unlocks at: Affinity Level 7

How could it not be his fault? What he did was nowhere near enough.

Driven by that self-reproach, Ogier takes on twice as many missions as any other Awakener, burying "death" under the "virtue" everyone praises him for.

The endless work, the grateful words of young Investigators, they almost seem to wash the grief out of his soul.

But the sickness is only crowded deeper into the shadows of his heart, where They fester and stink, quietly drawing the knight toward a black mire.

"Um, sorry? Hello?"

Someone comes up to Ogier like a shaft of sunlight, or a breath of wind.

"The seniors said Ogier would be coming with me and Ramona on my first investigation. Is that right?"

He cannot protect the princess a second time, but he has been given another chance to protect a "Keeper."

"My name is Ogier. It is my honor to be bound to you by contract. I will guard your life with my soul. I swear it today, and I will never forget it."

Unlocks at: Affinity Level 9