Reigan Shen's History
Reigan Shen was a white lion Sacred Beast on the Path of King's Key. He was the Lone Monarch of the Rosegold continent — the homeland of House Arelius, where millennia ago Ozmanthus Arelius was Monarch. In fact, he was responsible for the death of Tiberian Arelius, Ozmanthus' distant descendant, and enslavement of Tiberian's Remnant.
Reigan Shen was the creator and sole practitioner of his Path, a force Path touched by the authority of space. As a Jade cub, he was lucky enough to bond with a Sage’s Remnant that had some command over space. His Path involves control over an extra-spatial vault in which he stores weapons, techniques, and even enemies.
Reigan Shen was a creature of ambition. He was born to a pride of regal white lions on the western plains of the Rosegold continent, a prince of this line of sacred beasts. His diplomatic victories were matched only by his impressive record in combat, and before he turned twenty years old, he had united the plains under his family name and reached Underlord on a Path of his own design. If he had been allowed to continue his life uninterrupted, he would have led his tribe to unprecedented prosperity and ushered in a new treaty between the local human cities and sacred beasts.
The Dread War disrupted his fate. When the twelve Monarchs attacked the Wandering Titan in an attempt to destroy the Dreadgods once and for all, Reigan Shen distantly sensed the battle. And when the other three Dreadgods woke to defend their brother, beginning the greatest slaughter of Monarchs since the creation of Cradle, he saw the start of that fight as well. It was his first glimpse of true power, and it filled him with awe. The conflict broke most of his home plains, and many of his pride lost their lives, but he led an expedition to a nearby human city. His goal: to find out the identity of these godlike beings whose battle had broken the earth and spread across the sky.
That same year he began his search, the Dread War concluded. The two surviving Monarchs convened the handful of Heralds and great families remaining in the world. Together, they organized the Uncrowned King tournament in an effort to pool their resources and raise up a new generation of Monarchs. Reigan Shen reached these families just as they had begun their search for powerful Underlords. He was the victor of the first Uncrowned King tournament, and that fortune became the foundation for decades of conquest.
The Monarch of the King’s Key Path proceeded to develop a reputation as a conqueror and a glory-seeker, an imperialist and a daring innovator, known to be generous to his people but ruthless and cruel to all others. He is always looking for the next legendary deed that will spread his own myth. So when he approached the four Dreadgod cults, promising them each that he intended to awaken their masters for good, they had no reason to doubt him.
Only a few years ago, Shen killed his neighboring Monarch on the Rosegold continent, Tiberian Arelius, who had approached the lion against advice from his young advisor, Eithan Arelius, with a plan to eliminate the Dreadgods and force the Monarchs to ascend. After Shen killed Tiberian Arelius, and almost killed the Arelius Sage of a Thousand Eyes, he enslaved Tiberian's Remnant to allow a loophole from soul oaths and took control of the entire Rosegold Continent, making him the lone monarch of the Rosegold continent. He left Eithan's country in literal ashes.
After allying himself with the Dreadgod cults, he went on an solitary expedition into the Labyrinth in Sacred Valley, the birthplace of the Dreadgods, to empower the Dreadgods further and to gain control of the Laybyrinth. He achieved the former, failing in the latter when he was weakened by the Valley's suppression field and defeated by Eithan Arelius and his disciples. However, he did not emerge empty-handed, as he was able to obtain a Dreadgod's core binding, creating a weapon out of it that would allow him to summon and control the other Dreadgods.
However, it wasn't long until two Dreadgods were already killed, empowering the remaining two as well as the remains of the fifth, which were in the possession of Lindon and Reigan Shen. Reigan Shen desperately called out to the other two Dreadgods, and the three fought a climactic battle against the disciples of Eithan Arelius as well as two rival Monarchs. Reigan Shen eventually died from his spiritual wounds, and his Remnant was later Consumed by Lindon.
