Thelucian is an optical media wizard who is composed of light rays. His story is difficult to track because he himself is so elusive and mercurial. He falls into the new category of persons known as tracers who were recognized since the explosion of multiple worlds, a generation after the digital revolution. The explosion marked the opening of the Electromagnetic Frontier. The emf , up until that time, was believed to be something between a nebulous energy field, a spectrum of light, and the rumored hallucination of lunatics, mystics, and dreamers. No one had any idea that it was the source of all energy and motion, that light was really the core substance of imagination, and that every brain had an access plug-in enabling cosmic travel, with no wires attached.
These strange persons who appeared during this breakthrough are referred to as Tracers. In another age, they were called genii, demons, or angels. The unique characteristic of the Tracer is, strangely enough, the fundamental question of their actual existence. They inhabit a sort of middle plane between fact and fiction. They are usually glimpsed during strange broadcast interruptions on televisions and computers or as light traces when traveling along the emf. It is important to understand that cyberspace is not the emf, it is merely the best approximate reflection.
Initially, the only way tracers emerge from behind a screen interface is when they appear in dreams of people who have been “tracing” the legend of their actions. Here the tracing becomes more complicated. Somehow the tracer is able to capture the light of a dream and incorporate the material into his actual person. They can actually capture a person’s dream sequence just like a moviemaker films the world. The tracer films the dream world. They are at the cutting edge of a new discipline known as machinima. This process enables them to slightly manifest in the actual world of the dreamer who dreamed him. Their natures vary from the mischievous to the benevolent to the absolutely wicked.
Thelucian is mischievous. He is part magician, alchemist, scientist, and filmmaker. He has been reported in the dreams of millions of humans. In another age he was known as Hermes or Mercury, Greek and Roman names for the god of communication and travel. He is always the close companion of philosopher kings, artists, and wise men.
It seems that the more popular the tracer becomes the more substantial is his body. It is rumored that Thelucian is now able to actually reside on earth somewhere, though as a hermit living at a very high altitude and far away from the world of horrors. He has the uncanny ability to transport between multiple dimensions at high speeds and he has begun teaching some of his most daring dreamers this arcane art. Thelucian accomplishes his dreamwork through a lens that connects to a camera built into the left side of his brain. The lens is interchangeable. He carries with him dozens of these all in different shades, which translate the light that enters through the camera into various types of emotional digital information which can then be processed for travel along the emf.
He is a guide but a very hard one to trust. Sometimes he leads a dreamer into vastly chaotic realms and with no notice will disappear, failing to give proper instructions on how to disentangle oneself from the labyrinth. It is believed that this is his “weeding out” process by which he discovers who the most daring explorers are. These are the dreamers who can realize possibilities even in the bleakest of circumstance. He likes those the best.
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