A somewhat youthful nano with ruddy hair, a short trimmed beard, and a crystalline tattoo etched over his left eye, Lyel Veric comes off with an air of distraction, seeming to attend to ideas as they come and go without care for whether they interrupt current events. Often he is garbed in very simple clothes with accents of purple and symbols etched in silver along the trim.

Though his regular affect seems distracted, he is still quite obviously intelligent and sometimes displays his brilliance with keen musings and insights, and can also occasionally shed his distracted affect to reveal intense concentrated focus. When concentrated, his focused attention can be unnerving, the intense gaze of his eyes seeming to look deep into the very core of whomever catches his attention, and a slight glow emitting from his eyes.

However, aside from those moments of intensity, he seems affable, and will delightfully engage in discussion of philosophy or recite poetic verses with those who ask, if they can stand his frequent tangents.

One additional feature stands out, a recent and troublesome acquisition, which is a Cypher radiation mutation, resulting in the appearance of a short, broad tail stemming from his spine.

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Lyel Veric always seemed prone to daydreams, though he was rather brilliant and inspired, and took to the study of Numenera naturally. What he did not know at first was that his distracted affect that kept him bemused with flights of fancy and ideas that seemed wild even by the standards of the Ninth World was actually a natural attunement with the Datasphere, a psuedo-psychic connection that filled his mind with the same inspirations that contributed to his genius.

As he came of age, he was cultivated to one day become an Aeon Priest. However, he infuriated his tutors time and again, who considered him too flighty to be of any worth to the Order of Truth. Even so they did not expel him from their tutelage, as he would show off his prowess in understanding the Numenera despite his constant distraction in ways that confounded them. However, when his subjects of study turned to powers of the mind, he activated what seemed to be a mundane bit of obscura, a book that while odd was not considered significant. Upon seeing the book, a disc made of synth whose notched cover slid in a rotary direction to uncover 3 simple poems, Lyel had a moment of inspired truth revealed to him, and he assembled the adjustable notches in such a way to slide the rotary cover further, allowing more of the book to be revealed, and with it an artifact within. Crystalline grains seemed to rise from the ink itself, crawling along his skin, and etching into his temple and brow in a strange pattern.

This event was a catalyst, revealing to Lyel an inspired moment, a prescient vision which he has since sought to cultivate and work towards. In addition his previously disjointed affinity for esoteries and numenera insight, which previously relied on the random and infrequent bursts of insight gleaned from the Datasphere, now seemed to be at his command. Having experienced this catalyst, he saw no more need to continue his study directly under the teaching of an Aeon Priest, and instead absconded with the book, the artifact, and his newfound purpose.

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