Shurelia Story before A.T 1 (part 1)

Shurelia is the administrator of the First Tower. Although it is well-known that she is a Reyvateil, and a very powerful one at that, the identity of her Reyvateil type is left as a mystery for most of the game. Though she looks cold at first, Shurelia is actually very shy and hides her emotions, as well as being quite clumsy (sometimes she trips and lands flat on her face while chanting spells). She has no sense of direction and often gets lost, even in her own tower. She has a great fondness for bunnies and anything related (dolls, bunny-shaped food, and even bombs and restoring items shaped similarly). Though extremely serious and no-nonsense as her role demands, she later reveals to be desperate in her longing to gain some sort of freedom and have a more ordinary, enjoyable life.

Shurelia is in fact a Reyvateil Origin, and the very first Reyvateil created in the world. Her real name is Eoria (sometimes romanized as Eolia), and she is one of the goddesses that appear in the legends of the Trio of Elemia. The reason of the changing of her name is that her adoptive father, Eleno, had a daughter called Shurelia. However, the real Shurelia was killed in a security failure during the war between Sol Ciel and Sol Cluster some years before Eoria's birth, and after she was born, Eleno saw his daughter in Eoria. Because of that, he kept on calling Eoria by the name of his dead daughter, Shurelia; Eoria eventually got so used to the name that she took it for herself. Eleno was also the person responsible for connecting Eoria/Shurelia to the Tower and appointing her as the Administrator. However, for that, she had to constantly undergo through various extremely painful Install processes, where Eleno had to insert Parameno and Grathnode crystals in her body to connect her to the Tower. However, Eleno showed her the object that was the key for the creation of the Tower, and that was its power source: the Orgel of Origins. Shurelia liked so much the melody it played that Eleno, on her birthday, gave to her an orgel pendant as a present, and even if it couldn't diminish the pain from the Installs, Shurelia said herself that he would do for her beloved father.

However, just a few years later, the Grathnode Inferia catastrophe ensued, and Eleno died trying to regulate the power boosters of the Tower to reduce the damage from the burst of magical power. Shurelia ended being very sad, but she wasn't alone, given that Rovar, one of Eleno's direct subordinates stood by her side, and effectively turned into an older brother for her, and Neath, who was the direct subordinate for the president of Elemia, became her best friend. Shurelia ended becoming part of the Elemia Supreme Council, where she spoke of her plans for the construction of a new sound science system, the Silver Horn, for the sake of the people, but in exchange, she made everyone promise that it, and sound science in general would never be used for warfare again. While she still was busy with the building of the Silver Horn and its many subsystems, she also spent a lot of her time going to the Tail of Reminiscence, and dozing off while looking up to the Horn and the sky, trying in vain to calm her feelings for Neath, which were starting to swell up. One day, a Teru girl approached her asking for food, and after a while, they both were chatting and became friends. This Teru girl was Tastiella de Lu. Some time later, Rovar and Neath began to quarrel about the construction of an airport in the Tail of Reminiscence, going as far to suspend temporarily the construction. This affected Shurelia so negatively that she even stood silent when Neath departed on a journey around the world, from which he would never come back.

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