The Lore of Sorcerer Harley of the Veil
Harley began life as a Genesis MoonCat, one of the 160 who chose the path of heroes and stayed behind on Luna to save their brethren from the impending solar eclipse. Due to a freak accident at the sub-lunarian moonbase (someone spilled tuna on a particle accelerator), Harley got sucked through a wormhole and ended up in the Forgotten Runes. The journey through the rift in space-time also changed Harley down to the subatomic level, uplifting the MoonCat to superhuman intellect and endowing him with the ability to wield magic.
Curiously enough, Harley wasn't the only one to traverse that particular wormhole on that fateful day. Something else was also ejected from the wormhole, a scorched refinery crucible filled with once molten iron, with a pure tungsten sphere inside. Using magic to re-melt the iron, levitate the sphere out, and crack it open, Harley found the most unexpected creature inside: a snail. Not only that, a hyper intelligent immortal snail, who communicated to Harley that it had only one mission in life: to locate and physically touch a certain somebody. Harley wasn't sure what that whole business was all about, but being two peas in a pod, torn from their own universes to find themselves stranded in this new one, the two decided to travel together, and quickly became fast friends.
That was many years ago, and since then, Harley and the Immortal Snail have acclimated to life in their new home. Harley still walks the path of heroes, using his magic to defend the denizens of the Runiverse against Forgotten Souls and the evil minions of the Quantum Shadow. But he has a much more critical long-term concern than these day-to-day struggles, because he knows something that others in his world do not. That theirs is not the only universe. There are many, many universes out there, some like the Forgotten Runes, others drastically different, populated by all sorts of unusual, and sometimes deadly inhabitants.
As a dimensional magic user, Harley has been to many of these worlds...he has even considered returning to the MoonCats, but he knows that MoonCat society is in good hands with the rest of the Genesis cats, so he decided to stay in the Forgotten Runes to help his new home prepare for the impending threat. Because it's only a matter of time before the barriers between all these different universes start to break down and they all converge into one ultimate metaverse. When that happens, there will be far greater existential threats to this world than wraiths and liches (Harley has seen all manners of fantastical creatures during his interdimensional travels, from a goddess named Irene leading an army of “simps,” to a horrific type of demon called a Larva Chad). When the convergence happens, chaos will come. And Harley will be ready, scythe in hand and his companion the Immortal Snail by his side.
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