Spotlight on: Devius Domus - "Regret"

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                               DEVIUS DOMUS

As a child Devius is rejected by his parents for being a Dark Magus. The sensitive little boy can't handle the darkness inside of him well and in a moment of anger he hurts his father with it. Scared of their own child his parents want nothing to do with him anymore. He is then raised by his Dark Magus master. Devius is afraid he won't be liked by others because of his temper. As he grows up he lives a life of solitude, sometimes visited by his younger sister Rebecca, a pirate who leaves home when she is sixteen rebelling against her parents who abandoned her brother.
Devius becomes a gravedigger on the Island of Darkness, Caligo when he's contacted by the Goddess of Light herself. It is short after his sister's death. The Goddess promises him revenge. She says if he joins a mission and agrees to marry Queen Aurea he will get to face the one who killed his sister. He accepts, but will soon realise that Queen Aurea is still love sick about Ian, her fiancé who left her on their wedding day. She does not respond to his courting which upsets him. The Goddess of Light then tricks Aurea into marrying Devius. The prophecy says for the mission to succeed "Light and Darkness will become one". They are united through the golden heart that on their wedding day proves them to be soul mates. Neither Devius nor Aurea understand how they can be soul mates while hating each other. Being constantly rejected by Aurea, Devius uses his darkness to make her obey him. In time the power, rage and darkness consume him until there's nothing left of the shy man he used to be. Is there any hope for King Devius?