Auren Thorne

Heir of House Thorne and the unlikeliest hero of the Everloop's western coast — a charming, bumbling young lord called "The Lord of Luck" for his habit of accidentally winning fights he should have lost. Auren is a brilliant heart wrapped around the worst sword arm in the Virelay Coastlands, and he knows it. When the Fray reaches the Coastlands and House Thorne's trade lines fail, he slips past Brennick the gate-guard, stops at the Cracked Pot Tavern (knocking out a drunk by tripping into him), and rides for Virelay to do what no trained fighter has managed: dive for the Third Shard of the Pattern beneath the Underwater Well. He returns carrying the Shard, the city, and an inheritance he was not raised to want. His parents Lord Thorne and Lady Thorne watched him go and let him.