The Lore of Alchemist Blaise of the Oasis

Alchemist Blaise has always been the most unlucky soul to ever walk these lands. His lifelong streak of bad luck began at the moment of his birth. His parents agreed to name him "Blaze," an incredibly badass name for a future wizard, but the midwife misheard them and recorded his name as "Blaise" on the birth certificate...significantly less badass. When he was 10, his entire extended family perished in a mana storm that struck while they were on a camping trip together. At the orphanage, he was the only child no one wanted to foster, until he eventually came of age and got booted out of the system. He worked a series of menial jobs to put food on the table, but could never hold down any of them for long, each time something would happen that would result in him getting fired. He did have a girlfriend once, until one day she decided to switch teams and ran off with another woman. He tried playing the lottery once, but missed a 1,000,000 gold jackpot by a single digit, and then got mugged the next day. Blaise's life has always, in a word, sucked.

Then he met Midnight. He didn't know where the cat came from, he just came home one day to find it curled up on his porch, shivering, matted, and hungry. Blaise has always loved animals, so he took it inside to give it food and shelter. Blaise was aware of his own bad karma, and knew from experience that his unlucky streak spread like a contagion to infect those around him, so after nursing the cat back to health, he tried to release it back into the wild. But Midnight refused to leave, it had grown used to Blaise and continued to follow him around despite his best efforts to rehome the feline. Blaise begrudgingly accepted the cat into his life, but it wasn't until later that he noticed that "something" had changed. Something incredible.

It began with the little things, then snowballed from there. Blaise would go out for a walk, and didn't have a pigeon land a bullseye poop on his head. He would visit the coffee shop and they wouldn't be out of his favorite drink. His annoying neighbors who had a daily habit of playing the drums at the crack of dawn got evicted, and a very nice elderly grandma moved in who baked him fresh cookies every Sunday. An old flame from the orphanage reached out to reconnect. He even found a new job working as a caretaker of the Zaros Oasis in the Sands. Eventually, Blaise noticed that ever since he adopted Midnight, his streak of bad luck had disappeared...was it possible that the curse had finally been lifted? Whatever the reason, things were beginning to look up for a change, and for once in his life, Blaise looked forward to what the future had in store for him.

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