Driven by the need for a powerful ally,
Lyra led Haruto to the reclusive Sun Elves, a tribe that had severed ties with her own forest-dwelling kin centuries ago. She revealed her own hidden heritage: she was the disowned daughter of the Sun Elf chieftain, exiled for advocating peace with humans. The reunion was hostile. Her father,
Chieftain Lorian, saw Haruto's shadow magic as an abomination and Lyra's return as a ploy.
To gain his aid, Haruto submitted to the "Trial of Lumina," a test that forced him to confront the darkness within his own soul. Instead of fighting it, he accepted it as part of himself,
demonstrating that light and shadow must coexist.
He emerged not as a pure being of light, but as a balanced one
, earning Lorian's grudging respect and the strategic support of the Sun
Elf archers and seers.