Farolynch

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Farolynch (法罗林奇)
Alias(es)	Lin Qi — used by Xin Erwei 198 220
Species/Race	Naturally awakened Resurrector; later achieves a unique form of complete resurrection 92 177 198
Gender	Male
Origin	Kingsbia; his childhood memories are tied to the ancient oak in Great Oak Town 179 220
Affiliation	Dawn 198
Occupation/Role	Dawn member; protector of Xin Erwei and her two children 198 200
Status	Alive and continuing to grow stronger in the latest supplied appearance 316
First Appearance	First identified appearance in the provided material: 92

Power Progression

Farolynch’s development does not follow the Resurrector Path’s normal sequence; his exact rank cannot be reliably assigned after his complete resurrection 198.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Accidental awakening as a Resurrector	92	Awakens when a vampire retrieves and opens his coffin. Retains his name but has confused memories and little understanding of the modern world.
Learns to gather magic power	177	Recently acquires conscious control over gathering magic. Already a genuine supernatural being by nature, but possesses little power compared with orthodox practitioners.
Partial bodily revival	179	Embracing his childhood oak breaks an emotional barrier. Natural breathing returns, and his organs begin reviving.
Greater bodily function and agility	181	Most organs resume functioning; bodily stiffness recedes, allowing finer muscle control and greater speed.
Complete resurrection; Reborn-associated sunlight tolerance	197 198	His relationship with Xin Erwei accompanies the final revival of his body. Achieves complete bodily control and painless exposure to sunlight, bypassing the expected Resurrector and Undead stages. His power still falls short of the abundance rank.
Dawn Mark acquired	198	Opens the Book of Dawn, understands its revelations, and willingly joins Dawn. Its mark is branded into his body, soul, and magic.
Realm of reality confirmed	227 231	Describes himself as having stepped into truth; Mulan subsequently confirms that he has entered the realm of reality. No exact tier is given.
Spiritual growth through communion with Silias	290 291	Meditation on the World Tree’s natural rhythms deepens spiritual awareness, expands potential, and strengthens resistance to Chaos and evil influence.
Continued growth without major bottlenecks	316	Sebastina notices his increased strength. His exceptionally high initial attainment, despite weak foundations, has allowed an extended period of largely unobstructed development.

Background / History

Farolynch’s recovered memories place his childhood near the enormous riverside oak in Great Oak Town. He also remembers a happy family, a gentle wife who fiercely protected their children, and profound regrets associated with their loss. The circumstances of his death remain undisclosed in the supplied material 179 180.

His awakening is accidental: a vampire pulls out his coffin and opens it, bringing him back into consciousness. Initially, Farolynch remembers only his name clearly; his sense of time and knowledge of his former life are muddled. Mulan agrees to help investigate his identity while keeping his existence secret 92.

Mulan’s notes frame a Resurrector as a new undead spirit carrying a dead person’s body and memories. Farolynch struggles with this interpretation, fearing that accepting it would sever his connection to the life he remembers. His later revival through memory, affection, and human attachment leads him to challenge Mulan’s assumptions about his condition 178 179 197 198.

Appearance

• Corpse-like face: Before his complete revival, his face is repeatedly described as dead-looking, gloomy, and difficult to make expressive 92 112 128 178.
• Unsettling gaze: An attacker looking into his eyes seems to see countless departed souls wailing 176.
• Darkened eyes: His eyes turn black as anger and traumatic memories surface during the attack on Xin Erwei’s family 179.
• Dawn Mark: Bears Dawn’s symbol on his palm after taking his oath 198.
• Combat changes: In the Otherworld, his body becomes whitish and his muscles gleam like metal while reinforced by magic 201.

Personality

Farolynch is reserved and socially awkward, especially when trying to reassure frightened people. His impassive expression often conceals strong feelings; even when excited by Dawn, he insists on understanding its purpose before committing himself. He initially refuses Mulan’s invitation rather than offering impulsive loyalty 104 112 180.

His desire to become human includes ordinary pleasures as well as survival. He resents his corpse-like existence, longs to enjoy food and physical sensations, and maintains habits such as washing and changing clothes to preserve the experience of living as a person 113 178.

Compassion increasingly directs his choices. He sympathizes with the Avenger, protects strangers during the cult uprising, and repeatedly places himself between his family and stronger enemies. His restraint has limits: he kills a cultist who attacks him, but deliberately refuses to consume the man’s vital essence or soul 112 177 179 200 201.

He becomes more playful and confident through his friendships, adopting Mulan’s mocking greetings and Shire’s theatrical bravado. This confidence does not erase his fear or caution: he avoids battles he cannot win and refuses to sacrifice himself pointlessly 199 229 230.

Abilities & Skills

Unique Resurrection and Regeneration

Farolynch’s natural awakening develops into a form of resurrection that established magical theory cannot precisely classify 177 198.

• Survives multiple gunshot wounds that would have killed an ordinary person; his wounds begin closing before he removes all the bullets 178.
• Recovers natural breathing, bodily sensation, and increasingly complete organ function 179 181.
• Eventually gains painless sunlight exposure, normally associated with the late part of the Resurrector Path’s third stage, Reborn 104 198.
• Reconnects severed arms through magical blood and continues fighting after his neck is snapped 201.
• Remains vulnerable to blood loss, magical exhaustion, and opponents with substantially greater power 181 201 229.

Physical Strength and Close Combat

His strength and speed greatly exceed those of ordinary humans, while his revived body permits increasingly precise movement 176 181.

• Overpowers an armed cultist and restrains him by the throat 176.
• Breaks through a hostile crowd while carrying a woman and two children 179.
• Uses rapid changes of direction, wall-assisted leaps, grappling, and improvised body movements to escape stronger enemies 181 229.
• Dislocates his limbs to slip out of a vampire’s magical cloak and twists his neck nearly 180 degrees to bite an attacker 201.
• Initially struggles to moderate his strength: his first rescue nearly suffocates the people he carries 179.

Spiritual Perception and Concealment

Farolynch senses living presences, hostile intent, and supernatural activity, and learns to hide his own magical fluctuations 177 180 199.

• Detects police officers’ malice just before they shoot him 177.
• Locates a hibernating bear by following its living presence 180.
• Counts nearby werewolves through disturbances sensed at night 199.
• Covers himself and his family in black, water-like magic that conceals their warmth and presence 199.
• Uses makeup and an aura disguise to avoid recognition while wanted 179.
• Detection is hindered by crowds, and sufficiently concealed enemies can escape his unaided notice 177 200.

Strength and Aura Drain

Farolynch can draw strength and aura from another person to replenish himself 177.

• Drains an attacking cultist until the man becomes nearly helpless 177.
• Uses the stolen aura to support his impersonation of the dead cultist 177.
• Chooses not to extend the process to consuming vital essence and soul 177.

Perfect-Body Blood

After his complete revival, Farolynch’s blood has unusual transformative and magical properties 198 199.

• Sends floating drops and threads of blood through the city to reach distant targets 199.
• Temporarily restores a low-ranking werewolf to human form, but the resulting reaction kills the man 199.
• Uses pain to drive another werewolf out of Dover; this is coercion rather than direct control 199.
• Uses magical blood to reconnect severed limbs during combat 201.

Death Coil

Death Coil combines constriction with resentment that drains a target’s vitality 229.

• Tears apart a vampire’s magical cloak in the Otherworld 201.
• Converts a whirlwind filled with the dead residents’ resentment into black, thorn-like magic 229.
• Temporarily entangles the flesh abomination, buying time to escape rather than killing it 229.

Dawn Resonance

Farolynch’s conviction becomes closely fused with Dawn’s power, allowing his soul, body, and courage to respond to its resonance 198 229.

• Survives Dawn’s radiant intervention unharmed despite having previously been burned by similar light 129 181 182.
• Receives warnings through heat in his Dawn Mark 204 229.
• Develops pronounced sensitivity and aversion to evil, evil gods, and holy relics 229 290.
• Awakens the sunstone through a vow centered on protecting his loved ones and fulfilling his commitment to light 230.

Practical Knowledge

• First aid: Uses a resuscitation technique taught by Mulan to revive Xin Erwei’s son 179.
• Runic protection: Works with Shire to place simple ritual protections around their family’s rooms 227.
• Magical identification: Recognizes the abomination’s Death Substitute as advanced Blood Magic 228.
• Investigation: Searches newspapers, photographs, and postcards for memory clues, then reconstructs the abomination’s movement from tracks and impact craters 176 179 228.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Book of Dawn — Entrusted to him by Mulan before their separation. Provides warnings and concealment, reveals its secrets when he opens it, grants his Dawn Mark, and supplies light used against vampires and during entry into the Otherworld 130 198 199 200.
• Mulan’s notebook — Contains Mulan’s knowledge of the Resurrector Path, its advancement, and the dangers of losing identity or purpose 130 178.
• Sunstone — Receives half of Mulan’s stone as an aid to constructing a formative world. Preserves it because his revival succeeds without it, then uses it to destroy the riverbed abomination 129 229 230.
• Coffin — His original coffin is recovered at Baron Shire’s residence. Later uses another coffin to recover from burns, finding it unexpectedly comfortable despite its filthy condition 92 129.
• Umbrella — Uses one against sunlight before gaining sunlight tolerance 92.
• Steel spike and hooded robe — Takes these from an attacking cultist and uses them to infiltrate a sacrificial gathering 177.

Relationships

• Mulan Jonester — Protector, teacher, and close friend. Their relationship begins under compulsory supervision but develops into mutual trust; Mulan calls him a friend rather than an attendant, entrusts him with the Book of Dawn, and later provides a sanctuary for his family 92 104 130 236.
• Xin Erwei — Wife. Their relationship develops from rescue and shared flight into affection and intimacy; her insistence that his humanity is already real accompanies his complete revival. She introduces him as her husband upon returning home 179 197 198 220.
• Xin Erwei’s children — Protected by Farolynch and treated as part of his family. Their safety and happiness become central to his commitment to Dawn 198 199 200 220.
• Baron Shire — Trusted companion. Shire warns him about a fourth-tier vampire and protects his family in the Otherworld; Farolynch later affirms Shire’s identity as a faithful blood-magic practitioner rather than a corrupted vampire 200 201 220.
• The Avenger — Fellow nonhuman being whose desire for humanity earns Farolynch’s sympathy. He encourages the Avenger to seek Mulan’s teaching and questions the promise that consuming an enemy will make him human 111 112 113.
• Handel — Early traveling companion who helps Mulan investigate the supernatural circumstances surrounding Farolynch and Shire 92 95 102.
• Silias — Guide to communion with the World Tree and the living secret realm. Its teaching strengthens Farolynch’s spiritual awareness and resistance to corruption 236 290 291.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Mulan’s Supervised Companion

Mulan takes responsibility for Farolynch while investigating his former identity and potential danger. Farolynch assists the operation against Silver Mane’s werewolves by carrying explosives into their mine, then studies the supernatural world alongside Mulan’s companions. Before returning to Digo, Mulan spends six days teaching him and leaves him both his notebook and the Book of Dawn 92 95 102 130.

Search for His Past and Cult Investigation

Farolynch travels into Kingsbia seeking objects and records that can restore his memories. In Terrazzo City, he infiltrates a cult ceremony that transfers captives’ life force to its members. His attempt to involve the police ends in an ambush and a wanted poster blaming him for multiple crimes. He alerts the Holy Temple with precise evidence and escapes downriver 176 177 178.

Great Oak Town and Rebirth

A postcard leads him to his childhood oak, where his breathing returns. He then rescues Xin Erwei and her children from a cult-led mob and draws a vampire away from their hiding place. Mulan’s remote intervention through the Book of Dawn saves him, and Farolynch flees with the family to Dover. There, his relationship with Xin Erwei accompanies his complete resurrection, and the book’s revelations lead him to swear allegiance to Dawn 179 180 181 182 197 198.

Dover Hunt and the Otherworld

As werewolves gather in Dover, Farolynch conceals and relocates his family, then uses daylight and the Book of Dawn against a pursuing vampire. A stronger, fourth-tier vampire later forces him into the Otherworld. Farolynch sends his family away and remains behind to delay the enemy; Shire reaches them, while Mulan rescues Farolynch. During the escape, Farolynch protests the possibility of abandoning Shire because of his half-vampire identity 199 200 201 204 205.

Return Home and the Flesh Abomination

After the war, Farolynch returns to Great Oak Town with Xin Erwei, the children, and Shire. Investigating killings upriver, he discovers a massive blood-draining abomination and lures it away from civilians despite being unable to defeat it directly. When it secretly follows him toward home, he activates his preserved sunstone and destroys it beneath the river. Shire’s followers publicly credit Shire with the victory 220 227 228 229 230.

Silias Sanctuary and Continued Dawn Service

Farolynch proposes the ancient oak as a possible anchor for Mulan’s secret realm. The resulting sanctuary protects the area around Great Oak Town and gives his family refuge if danger comes. He later learns communion with Silias, hears Dawn’s organizational plans, and continues developing his abilities; Sebastina’s later encounter confirms his growing strength 235 236 290 291 316.

Notable Quotes

“Mulan, you aren't always right, either. I've found my breath again.” 179

“I swear by the conviction in my heart: I willingly join Dawn, to protect what I love, what I cherish, and what I hope for, for all eternity.” 198

“I'm not that easy to kill!” 236