Eyolin Yumai

A passionate man by all accounts, Eyolin's emotions burn hot and deep, though he can appear much calmer and in control than his twin Pale ever does. It is for this reason that Eyolin is often the speaker for the two when they have to deal with outsiders, becoming known for his blunt truth and honest answers. Even so, his emotions, once fired, rarely smolder back to nothingness, leaving Eyolin filled with many and multiple passions that can flare up at any time. These flare ups leave many people believing Eyolin to be unbalanced, though the natives take his volatile nature to be just a sign of his relationship to Mashi'ari.

Eyolin's curse turns his passionate nature into a wild, violent study of extremes. If he cares for something, he will protect it obsessively; if he hates something, he will destroy it as soon as he spots it; if he wants something, he will hunt it down until he has it in his grasp. The few times Eyolin's fallen prey to his personal curse, he ended up destroying various pieces of non-native technology. Once, he destroyed an airfield and all the aircraft on it. Another time, he destroyed the start of a modern-style city that he felt was going to disturb the ecosystem of the island. While outsiders view him as nothing more than an arsonist, the natives see him as acting as an extension of the Fire Goddess' will.

As with his twin sister Pale, Eyolin has been sheltered all his life by living on the island, apart from the rest of the world and the Lost that inhabit it. Thus, his knowledge, like his sister's, is restricted to rumor, hearsay, and the experiences of others. So, while not quite as painfully biased as Pale is, Eyolin is very likely to give a Lost the cold shoulder if they don't immediately catch his favor.

A match for his sister in height and build - short, slender, and lithe, Eyolin is occasionally mistaken for the female of the two twins from behind, as he keeps his flame red hair long enough to reach his hips, and usually ties it back in a simple tail. Like his sister, his skin is bronzed from his time in the sun and his eyes are the color of beaten copper. His blood rose bloom is centered on his right side and wraps onto his front and back, the petals a much darker shade than the petals of many other Fallen, a result of his skin being so dark.

Eyolin's official colors are black and fire red and he, like his sister, has a tendency to wear at least some token of those colors about him at all times. Having been raised as a native in the traditional style, Eyolin often wears very little beyond a loincloth patterned with geometric designs in black and flame red. When he has to pretend to be "civilized" (or when going into a colder climate for a Gathering), Eyolin will switch to a cloth wrap that covers his entire body, often of a black color with flame red geometric patterns. At home, he rarely wears any sort of shoes, even when walking the obsidian flows around the volcano, preferring instead to trust to his tough soles and his instincts to keep his feet in one piece. In places where he absolutely has to wear something, though, he'll consent to wearing flip-flops for a time, discarding them as soon as possible.

Eyolin wears two pieces of very distinct jewelry at all times, a mark of his being a goddess-child. His right earlobe is pierced, from which dangles a hollow-point fang from a native lizard known as a mamishi. Also, at his throat is a choker with a cut fire opal in the center.

Pale and her brother Eyolin were initially spotted on the lip of the local volcano as wild-eyed children, skittish and wary of any sort of human contact. It took a dedicated party of locals over a week to hunt the two children down, capture them, and bring them back to the village near the base of the volcano. There, the shaman of the village proclaimed them to be the children of the Fire Goddess Mashi'ari, thereby winning them a place among the natives forever.

Immune to the disease itself and sheltered from the world at large, the natives had never before seen the mark of the Blood Rose, and so had no pre-conceived notion of how to treat those with it. As such, they simply treated Pale and Eyolin as children of their goddess, accepting their abilities and immunity to all sickness as just the result of being goddess-born.

It wasn't until a robed nun came to the island searching for those with the mark of the Rose that Pale and Eyolin realized they weren't the only ones like them. The First Gathering was a shock to them, as they learned of the disease, of the hatred of humans, and of their true origin. Shaken by this information, the siblings gratefully retreated back to their home island when the Gathering was over, and went to pray at the volcano they'd been found at.

They prayed for an entire day, hoping for some sign from their goddess, but received nothing until the sun began to set. A lizard, mottled orange, red, and black, approached, settling onto a rock in front of them, from which it could watch both easily. The lizard, known to the natives as a mamishi, was renowned for being skittish of any and all people, rarely even appearing before the shaman, and was the rarest of Mashi'ari's chosen avatars. This lizard, though, discarded traditional mamishi shyness and climbed up Pale's arm to perch on her shoulder.

Astounded, Eyolin watched as the lizard reached out and pierced Pale's earlobe with a single fang, then swiftly let go and scampered back down her arm and up his. To his surprise, a fang remained piercing his sister's ear, even though the lizard appeared to be in no distress. Seconds later, he realized the lizard had done the same to him, and that he had felt nothing more than a bit of pressure as it was done.

After the mamishi had scampered back down his arm, it resumed its place before them, standing on its hind legs, its mouth slightly open in what looked like a lizard-grin. Both fangs, partially dropped on their hinges, were visible, leaving her to wonder where the fang in her ear had come from. With a flick of its tail, the lizard turned and vanished, leaving the two siblings alone once more.

Pale and Eyolin found reassurance in the sign, and thus in the knowledge that, whatever else happened, they were the children of Mashi'ari. The shaman pulled the fangs from their ears and turned them into earrings for both to wear. The natives, seeing this, and also that, over time, the holes in the twins' ears didn't close or shrink, felt their belief in the two increase.

To this day, no matter what happens or what visitors to the island say, the natives insist that Pale and Eyolin are children of the Fire Goddess, and nothing will shake their beliefs.