Luan Zya

Luan Zya's early life was defined by tragedy, which forged him into a master strategist who became the architect of the Dandelion Rebellion's greatest victories.

The last scion of a noble family of inventors, Luan Zya's family was massacred during the Xana conquest. He was the sole survivor, escaping on one of his father's experimental kites. He spent years as a lone assassin, culminating in his famous but failed kite attack on Emperor Mapidéré, an event witnessed by a young Kuni Garu.[TGOK-18]After the attack, he wandered Dara and was eventually gifted a magical, self-writing strategy book, Gitré Üthu, by the god Lutho. This shifted his purpose from mere vengeance to a quest to reshape the world.[TGOK-18]

He sought out Kuni Garu, and they formed an instant, deep bond, with Luan becoming Kuni's chief advisor. He became the 'mind' of the rebellion's central triumvirate, alongside Kuni's 'heart' and Mata Zyndu's 'arm'.[TGOK-19]His audacious plans, such as allying with the cruben-riders of Tan Adü to launch a surprise attack on Pan, were instrumental in the fall of the Xana Empire.[TGOK-28]During the civil war, he remained loyal to Kuni, challenging him to build a better empire and providing the crucial advice that led to victory over Mata Zyndu.[TGOK-42][TGOK-50]

In the years of peace, Luan dedicated himself to his personal quests for knowledge and passing on his wisdom, a path that led to his final, heroic sacrifice.

Traveling incognito, Luan discovered a brilliant, crippled girl from Dasu named Mimi. He took her on as his student, renaming her Zomi Kidosu and training her with his unorthodox methods to be his intellectual heir.[TWOS-7]Driven by his insatiable curiosity, he refused Kuni's plea to remain at court and instead embarked on a voyage to explore the unknown lands beyond the Wall of Storms.[TWOS-18]He was captured by the Lyucu, who manipulated him with a false history. After learning their true, genocidal intentions from another captive, Oga Kidosu, he was tortured into providing them with navigational calculations. However, he secretly embedded a fatal flaw in the equations.[TWOS-47][TWOS-50]In a final act of sabotage, he and Oga escaped the Lyucu flagship but died of their injuries. He left a final, coded message for Zomi, giving Dara the key to destroying the Lyucu reinforcement fleet, a posthumous victory that saved the islands.[TWOS-51][TWOS-62]