L.E.P.U.S

Character File: AGENT L.E.P.U.S.

Name: Lucien Évrard

Former Occupation: Antique dealer & artifact smuggler

Specialization: Historical artifact tracing, coded linguistics, occult restoration

Affiliation: ILUNIA’s “ECHO CELL” – the division dedicated to decoding relics of consciousness

Lucien Évrard began his career on the dusty shelves of a Parisian antique shop and ended it as the most dangerous bearer of knowledge of ILUNIA. In a world where people valued the past, he believed that every object carried an echo: a prayer, a secret, a sin. During an ongoing restoration project beneath the Louvre Museum in France, he discovered a spiral engraved on a 14th-century wooden cross, perfectly matching the ILUNIA symbol. From that day on, the concept of "antique" became synonymous for him not with history, but with memory. His eyes always had the same gleam: the gleam of those who vacillate between knowing and burning.

His first trip was to Sweden. He was tasked with transporting a stone tablet called the "Aurora Codex" to a secretly opened museum warehouse near Stockholm. The tablet's inscriptions resembled light codes rather than human language. During his observation, an orange line suddenly appeared on the tablet's cold surface, leaving a small burn mark on Lucien's forehead, similar to the one on Pavlo's hands. ILUNIA recordings showed that the tablet was emitting a frequency at that moment. The Latin equivalent of this frequency was:

"We remember before memory begins."

He participated in ILUNIA's "Echo Field" excavation unit in Uganda. Beneath Lake Victoria, a temple was discovered, its stones inscribed with both African tribal patterns and ILUNIA's "Eye of Return." Here, for the first time, Lucien experienced ILUNIA not merely as an idea, but as a living being. When he touched the stones, he saw not the past but the future, and each time, he saw his own name carved into the walls. His final voice, recorded on the lakeshore, still echoes in ILUNIA's archives:

"Some artifacts don't wait to be found. They find you."

He participated in ILUNIA's "Resonance Codex" project in Finland. While translating a stone tablet inscribed with ancient runes, he discovered that the runes resonated with each other through a time delay. Every word echoed in the stone before it was spoken, as if the past were warning the future. Lucien believed this was not a language but a frequency gateway and presented it to ILUNIA: "Stones that speak in time." ILUNIA, after this discovery, promoted him to "ECHO CELL"—a historical reflection of Pavlo's "Terra 7."

His final assignment was in Turkey. He explored the "Seventh Chamber," a subterranean temple carved from tuff rock near Cappadocia. In frescoes on the wall, ILUNIA's eye symbol was carved directly into the center of the sun. The temple's entrance bore burn marks, and inside, extinguished candles stood as traces of Pavlo's disappearance. It was there that Lucien realized ILUNIA's true purpose: They weren't collecting history; they were rewriting history itself. And as an antique dealer, he was no longer a restorer of the past, but a guardian of what belongs to time. In his last notebook, he wrote:

"Things remain motionless, but faith passes through them. Every relic is a heart that remembers what we have forgotten."

Lucien Évrard, Agent L.E.P.U.S., suddenly disappeared one day. The last object found in his shop was a small marble sphere engraved with the ILUNIA symbol, representing all the points of exploration from France to Uganda. A short echo echoed in the ears of anyone who picked up the sphere:

"You found me, so I was never lost."