Infobox
Mores Gwydion
Young: Werlyt, before the wars As Orraux: Current vessel, 1582
Titles [TODO] Also Known As Orraux Clauvier (current vessel) Race Human (Werlyt) True Age ~120+ (body-hopped since 1537) Height [TODO] Weight [TODO] Job [TODO] Created By [TODO] Personal Status
Affiliation
Current None Previous Independent mage, Werlyt Occupation
Current None (dormant within Woeborn) Previous Royal Mage; body-hopper Base of Operations
Current Woeborn (dormant) Previous Werlyt; Camp Dragonhead (as Orraux)
Mores Gwydion is the hidden villain of Runes of Chimera. A mage from Werlyt who has body-hopped through history for over a century using a forbidden technique called Oversoul, keeping himself alive long enough to resurrect his daughter Mari. He is not truly evil — he is a devastated father who refused to accept his daughter’s death and let that refusal consume a century. His love without limits became something that hurt everyone it touched.
Appearance
Mores’ true appearance is unknown — he has occupied different host bodies for over a century. Orraux’s body is merely his current vessel.
As Orraux Clauvier, he presents as a tall, slender older man with short white hair and a neatly trimmed white beard. He wears square-framed glasses and carries himself with composed, unhurried authority. His coat is long and white with dark lapels and brass detailing at the collar — the dress of a camp medic who takes the work seriously. Nothing about his bearing suggests someone who has been doing this for a hundred years.
History
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1520 | Gravely wounded fighting Nidhogg’s advance. Enters stasis for two years. Presumed dead — Woeborn is forged from a Nidhogg scale in his honour. He did not forge it himself. |
| 1521 | His family is slaughtered by Garleans. His daughter Mari (age 19) is captured and used in early Oversoul experiments. He recovers from stasis to find everything gone. |
| 1528 | Begins studying Oversoul — the forbidden technique of soul transference. |
| 1537 | Age 75. Performs his first Oversoul transfer to avoid dying before his goal is achieved. |
| 1558 | Encounters Geciro Teciro (Lociro’s brother) in a new host body. |
| 1559 | Meets Nunuwa Nuwa — Geciro’s wife. Tells her the truth. She becomes an ally. |
| 1561 | Creates the Mari mammet using her soul imprint. Calls it a success. It is not a true resurrection. |
| 1563 | Chimera experiments to develop a soul-harmonizing core — early attempts crack and break. |
| 1576 | Takes Galene Didanc’s mother as next host body. |
| 1582 | Oversouls into Orraux Clauvier — his body at the start of Runes of Chimera. |
Plots
As Orraux, he sends Zekito and Nimvaei to collect six specific ingredients across Eorzea, claiming they are for a cure to Blackram disease afflicting his daughter Edrette. In truth, he wrote the book on the ruins himself, engineered the entire quest to harvest the materials he needed, and used Nim and Zek as unwitting lab assistants. Zekito caught the scent of his intent early and was immobilised to prevent interference.
His goal: a true full resurrection of Mari, not merely the mammet approximation. The six ingredients map to the components of a soul harmonization process — with Woeborn (containing Mari’s soul) as the final vessel.
Ending: Nimvaei, with help from Luvsan Tumet (dormant in Woeborn) and the mammet Mari, pulls Mores’ soul into Woeborn, where Nidhogg’s hunger confines him. Orraux is left comatose. Mores, dormant in the blade, eventually comes to a kind of peace — he is with Mari again, in a sense.