Theo

Theo is the protagonist of The Weirkey Chronicles. He was born on Earth and his soul ended up in The Nine Worlds after being involved in a car crash. His friends were killed in the Cleansed Lands by a fourth stage demon and he was killed moments later by Vistgil on Noven. His soul then made its way to his body on Earth which was in a hospital bed. Theo then spent 40 years on Earth before wandering into Tatian.

Appearance
After returning to Tatian from Earth, Theo was born into a new body, and his elderly body died at some point after returning to The Nine. Theo's new form is about the same age as the body he had before his death at Vistgil's hands, making him look like a young man. Theo has pale skin and light hair.

Original
In his first life Theo was a Stronghold. One of his soulhome's highest rooms enhanced his eyesight. His soulhome was described as a "fortress" but there were a number of flaws within his soulhome. He also had a wind chamber which he used to enhance his jumps. His original soulhome was mostly focused on speed. One of the problems with Theo's original soulhome was that whenever he came across a new technique he wanted he would create a new chamber for it, even if the technique was not aligned with his soulhome and did not strengthen it overall. Theo's original soulhome was also limited because he used materials to push through ascensions. Ignoring windows limited Theo's soulhome in his first life as that had been a problem for his ascension to Authority.

His soulhome was wiped away when his soul returned to his body on Earth.

Soulhome (Book 1)
When Theo makes his way into Tatian he is not a Soulcrafter but he manages to advance by activating the armament spear Navim made him. Theo intended to create his soulhome based on the blueprint Brigana designed - a soulhome based on her insight and Theo's scientific knowledge of light. In this design the corner rooms of Theo's soulhome would have enhanced him with techniques in the 4 connecting rooms. In his current design the corners have techniques with the connecting rooms working as enhancements.

The grass in his soulhome was yellow and brown. Theo believed this was because he was actually an old man regardless of his body. Theo's first actions as a soulcrafter was to absorb some flamefruit and plant the seeds of one of them. He then begins trimming the branches of the hearthtree wood he had taken. Then he makes a door from the hearthtree planks. This door allows him to remain aware of his body whilst inside his soul. This is when he realises that the flamefruit seeds have died. Later, Theo is given some solarstone from Nanjuma and manages to break it into chunks. Theo then constructs a primitive room by stacking the solarstone lumps into a circular room with his hearthtree planks as a roof. Theo then begins to construct a vestibule. The vestibule has the effect of letting Theo absorb cantae more rapidly, use it with less loss due to inefficiency, and release it more forcefully. Theo also soulcrafts a box to store a Pearl of  the  Falls. He returns the Pearl in order to get another sublime material. Over the next three months, Theo finds that all plants die within his soulhome. During this time Theo also constructs 9 rooms out of solarstone and he sets up a crude fence from hearthtree wood.

Theo ignites a solar core from noonstone in the heart of his soulhome. This causes an explosion that changes the solarstone in the room to a glassy black colour. After examination Nanjuma determines that this reaction was caused because Brigana's blueprint no longer fit him, as he does not consider himself young and hopeful. Theo decides to change his soulhome from one focused on light to gravity. After accepting this his soulhome undergoes changes. The light dims, his solarstone walls grow darker and his grass changes to grey. Theo then claims the Archcrafter tier sublime material he was promised. He choses an item called a bogstone. He improves his outer chambers by crafting simple furnishings from hearthtree wood. Theo then begins feeding all the excess sublime materials he has to the bogstone which alters the bogstone into a a singularity.

Theo creates his first technique chamber by melting down sublime ore and shaping it into a representation of the space-time continuum. This room allows Theo to create gravitational fields and inverse fields. He finds that he is limited to a single gravitational effect at a time. His technique can double gravity or nullify it allowing for levitation. He then started adding trim and more elaborate doorframes, and some polish to the path between the room and the central chamber. Theo etched gravitational  symbols on  them. Theo spends time working on this room and he can use two fields at once which increases the gravity fields power so he can triple gravity or create negative gravity.

Theo creates a feasting chamber using the sublime food he had acquired. The feasting chamber enhances his body and cantae generation. Theo then makes the room just through his vestibule a storage room by reinforcing the door frames and by crafting chests to fill it. This room makes his body tougher and allows him to store sublime materials. His feasting chamber is improved with food from the sublime feast Nanjuma sets up.



Rainhorn (Book 2)
Theo had begun work on the room in another of his corner rooms. This room is meant to create a torsion effect. However, it was nowhere near working at the start. He makes carvings in this room. Theo improved both his storage room making his body more durable and his feasting chamber increasing his strength and senses. His roof was also improved by merging his hearthtree wood with solarstone. Theo improved his feasting chamber by making carvings into the table in the room. Theo improves his gravitational field technique room so that he can create 3 fields at once for a maximum of 4 times normal gravity. He decides to make his 4 corner rooms all components that can be used to produce something greater. Theo decides to hold all of Deuxan medals that he, Nauda and Fiyu acquired in one of his rooms. The medals gave a little cantae due to the low quality material they were made from.

In his third corner room, Theo sets a repelling stone in the center. He forms rings of hearthtree wood and fixed them to the floor and ceiling because the stone tends to float and the rings help keep it in place. Theo experimented with the room by attempting to hang or orbit various objects around the central force. Theo makes this into an anti-mass technique however it is so weak it does next to nothing. Theo places a magnetised stone in the last corner of his soulhome. However, this stone is too strong threatening to damage Theo's soulhome whenever he tried to use it fully. This room is meant to create mass. At this point Theo decides that he dislikes the way that his soulhome is set out. He believes his cantae would flow smoother if the mass and anti-mass rooms were set out on opposing sides. Theo adds the rainhorn meat to his feasting chamber and puts the excess flamefruit into his singularity. Theo creates a frame to hold a set of rainhorn antlers and places them inside his torsion room. The torsion room would generate gravitational and twisting forces, which filtered through the horns would create a sharp bolt of cantae. Theo continues carving in his feast room.

Theo ascends to Archcrafter in order to gain enough power to best the eryo. Ascending to Archcrafter increased his cantae's power making his techniques stronger.

Archcrafter (Book 3)


Theo begins to break down some eclipsebasalt boulders. Eclipsebasalt is incredibly durable and contained cantae nearly perfectly so Theo used it for the construction of the rooms on his second floor. Eclipsebasalt has a dark outside and glowing inside so Theo made bricks that glowed externally but where black on the inside of his soulhome. When made like this, the eclipsebasalt bricks glowed on the outside like his solarstone floor and the exterior helps deflect attacks whilst the inside matches with Theo's gravity. Theo added some Fithan food into his feasting chamber which provided him with slightly more strength. Theo describes how his 4 corners will have channels from his techniques on his first floor that open to his second floor so that his techniques will eventually mix into a single technique - a black hole. Over the next 2 weeks, Theo finishes the outer walls of his second floor and constructs a wooden roof.

Theo intends to use his singularity as a heart room on both of his floors. Making a heart column instead of 2 separate heart rooms. Theo creates shafts in the corner rooms so that the cantae from his techniques begins to flow into his second floor. Theo then moved his singularity up to his second floor but it is too strong when outside of his blasted solarstone and begins to crack his soulhome. He then returns his singularity to his first floor where it is contained by the glossy obsidian solarstone. Later, Theo purchased a trenchgem which is a sublime material that resists pressure. Theo obtained a stonevortex from the Blacksilver vaults. He places the trenchgem in the room above his anti-mass technique. The trenchgem has little effect on its own but when its cantae flows down into the anti-mass room the power combines so that Theo can push things away. However, developing this into a defence would take significant effort so Theo developed both rooms for use in his black hole technique. His stonevortex is a spinning, red rock that Theo places above the gravitational torsion chamber. The spinning cantae matched perfectly with  his  technique of shifting gravitational planes, making the technique much more deadly. Both the trenchgem and stonevortex rooms are extremely basic with a great deal of carvings.

Theo continued to work on his torsion chamber by adding more carvings as he questions if vents were the best way to channel powers between floors. Theo begins to work on a speed room using the tornadogems he collected. The speed room is set on his second floor. He had to build the room to dampen the effects of the tornadogems as they generated too much  wind which clashed with  his gravitational concepts. Theo built a hollow cube of eclipsebasalt, then replaced the four sides with dark sublime glass panes. The top was a lid, which he put the tornadogems in. They began to  spin  around one  another, forming a tornado of cantae. Their force passed through the dark window panes and was transformed into a much more acceptable energy. Theo made carvings in his speed chamber to enhance it.

Theo purchases a drysupernova so that he can replicate the explosion that produced the walls in his heart chamber on his first floor. This sublime material detonates producing the obsidian-like material for the walls of his center room on his second floor. This explosion made his singularity stronger. In Ichil Theo began to work on a second speed chamber also on his second floor using tornadogems and he finished the carvings in his corner rooms. Theo started carving a representation of an accretion disc around the exterior of his soulhome. He completed several major orbiting loops that would also help his cantae flow in the intended sphere. In the Biolumin Relay, Theo finds a sublime material that acts as a wormhole. Theo places this sublime material above his gravitational field room. When both the wormhole and the field rooms flow into his central room Theo can teleport small things - like his black holes. Theo buys a bleakburden which is a sublime stone with immense density. The bleakburden was placed above his mass chamber to strenghten it.

When Theo draws on all 8 corner rooms at once he can create a black hole. Theo's black hole technique feels infinitely dense to Fiyu but it lacks time dilation and there was very little of an accretion disc. The black hole devours cantae and as it is made by Theo it does not hurt him to touch. The technique grows as it devours things. Theo then creates a third tornadogem speed room. Theo then reinforced the torsion chamber and added a ring of tornadogems around the rainhorn antlers to sharpen the torsion bolts further. Dhan floods Theo's soulhome with cantae so that Theo can move his mass and anti-mass rooms are on opposite sides of his soulhome. By having his  soulhome flooded with such intense cantae, it was strengthened against being overwhelmed in the future. Theo has a coat armament made to help grant him limited protection. Fiyu and Nauda lend Theo some materials for his duel. As he manifests his black hole technique in his duel against Esaire it becomes strong enough to manifest on a spiritual level and begins to devour Esaire's soulhome.

Chasmfall (Book 4)


Theo purchased some abyssfluid and intended to use it to create a gravity sense. This room allows him to sense mass over an immense range. Dhan helps Theo in preparation for the Chasm of Lamentations by collecting food to help construct a Nine Worlds Feast and Dhan also helped extract Fiyu's and Nauda's sublime materials that they let Theo borrow for his duel. This leaves a room free on each floor. The feast that Dhan sets up is made up of immensely high quality Fithan food. The feast is a great improvement on Theo's existing Fithan food, excluding the sublime spices given by Tythes. Theo purchased a significant amount of Lightcarbon on Arbai and used it to construct a shielding wall. He used craftgems to bind the lightcarbon to form a crystalline wall. The lightcarbon shielding wall improves Theo's efficiency with his techniques. Theo condensed his three speed chambers into a single room.

Once in the Chasm, Theo harvests several flowers that shift colour and he uses the petals to form a chain. The chain is hung over the door in his soulhome to help provide protection from the wavering distortions and reduce the likelihood of triggering retaliation from the Chasm. Theo collects some sublime stone from the Chasm that would make good bricks for higher floors. The collects lots of blueshards in the Chasm. Theo constructed a crucible to ascend to Ruler. Senka gives Theo a glowing white sphere that reminds him of the sun.

Bondsfungi (Book 5)
Theo only had enough materials to construct 3 of the 9 rooms on his third floor as he was using a sublime stone known as densecrest which is tied to the concept of mass. He then breaks shards of blackflint. He then puts the 4 spikes made of blackflint into his corner chamber on his 3rd floor. The sublime stone taken from the heart of the island that Tythes destroyed generated immense power in that corner room. The strange stone from the Chasm threatened to destroy the room even with the alter Theo made for it. Theo placed the spikes in a circle around the stone which help direct the cantae from the stone and the cantae goes into the carved walls unify the room with the rest of his soulhome. As a Ruler, Theo can now make more use of his anti-mass abilities and can generate points of anti-mass that push things away. Theo is then given enough densecrest to make another room or 2.

Theo claims both heavywater and depthclaw shells. Theo's storage chamber is filled with camping supplies, tools, food, and rope. Theo then begins to construct some more rooms on his third floor using the densecrest. Theo then purchased 7 different sublime materials: densecrest stone, a sunlessrose, a sack of deathdust, voidflint, slitherscales, a chaosgem and a staticstone. The densecrest is used for constructing the rooms on Theo's third floor, the sunlessrose was given to Fiyu, the deathdust is placed in between the anti-mass and torsion chambers to make his techniques more lethal - Theo uses an orbitstone to have the deathdust float around in the room and Theo believes that he can use the slitherscales on his second floor. Theo then moved all the Deuxan medals into his storage chamber. He constructs tiles using blueshards for his bathing chamber. Theo had to set the voidflint aside as it kept cutting him when he tried to work with it. Theo mostly finished constructing his bathing chamber which holds the heavywater.

Theo purchases a grizzleroot from the dark Tatians. The grizzleroot grows downwards and Theo believes he will need to prevent it spreading too far. Theo converts the room with the unknown stone from the Chasm to an armament chamber for his coat. This allows the defensive cantae of the stone to flow into his clothes giving him greater defence and his clothes repair automatically. Theo constructs more bricks from densecrest and constructs more rooms. Navim gives Theo the idea of using the chaosgem as a way of disabling opponents - It causes vomiting and dizziness. Theo gives the staticstone to Nauda. Theo completed his bathing chamber and it increases his stamina massively. Theo purchased enough densecrest to construct every room on his 3rd floor. Theo had constructed a garden by his vestibule. The grizzleroot inside the garden refused to grow. On Slest Theo makes a wreath out of flowers so that he can breathe easier. He also improves his sensory chamber my adding the depthclaw shells into carved positions and pouring abyssfluid inside. He continues to make more bricks and has few rooms left to construct. Theo adds the slitherscales to a room on his second floor to boost his agility.

Theo collects some sublime soil on Slest and fails to grow his grizzleroot in the soil in any major way. The second bud had been watered with heavywater from his bathing chamber instead of sublime water purchased from Fithe. This one had grown almost twice as much as the first, but was too expensive. For the third experiment, Theo wrapped the roots around a tornadogem from his speed chamber. This had no impact either. Theo finds a Tunnelegg which would be a good material for the room above his wormhole chamber. Theo then decides to grow the grizzleroot through the columns in his soulhome. Theo then detonates the sun-like sublime material from the Chasm, this turns the walls the same glossy black as the lower floors and it gives a great deal of power to the singularity. Theo makes a mistake with the voidflint and cuts himself. His blood then feeds the grizzleroot which begins to grow.

Bloodcrete (Book 6)
On Arbai Theo obtains a sublime material called an inertialvoid that absorbs inertia. Theo could only use it to zero out his momentum, making flying with gravity much easier, but believed he could easily adapt the material to other uses and fill one of his third floor chambers. He intended to add the voidflint to another enhancement chamber to make his techniques more deadly. Over time, Theo improved his enhancement chambers and they improve his reaction time. Adding food from Arbai to his Nine Worlds Feast improved Theo's mind. Two of  Theo's intended techniques barely worked. He hadn't finished his anchoring column, which he intended to use for flight and to enhance other techniques. The other room held the tunneling, which was a good sublime material but he couldn't create a wormhole large enough as a Ruler. Theo finds some pitch black sublime sand that aligns with gravity and takes it wanting to make the sand into glass for windows.

Theo creates a pedestal out of flightrock, a sublime material that possesses great inertia against all forces. The grizzleroot had grown thick in the pillars of his first floor. Theo then installs several windows made from the black sand and finishes the cravings in some of his rooms. He develops his anchoring room to the point that he could bind an object to a point in space. However, the anchoring room lacks a major sublime material. Theo's gravitational fields are strong enough by this point that a single field can be over 10 times normal gravity. Theo later installs and coats all the 24 windows which increased the efficiency of his cantae flow and strengthened his techniques. After installing the windows, Theo removes the rainhorn antlers from his torsion bolt room - this makes his techniques less deadly but more aligned with the rest of his soulhome. The antlers are moved into his storage room.

Theo replaces his door made of Tatian wood with one made from weightwood a dark wood from Aathal. He then places his old door in storage. After talking to Nauda, Theo realises that his soulhome is a cube despite his cantae flow being a sphere. He then begins to carving so that he does not have actively to make the cantae flow in a sphere. He finished carving his first experiment out of a lesser sublime material he could afford  to  waste. One side  was  a  set  of  right angles that  would perfectly slot into the corner of his soulhome, while the other side was a concave slope. Theo's idea was that it would fill his corner and help shape his cantae into a natural sphere. This had a negligible impact. When Theo stops holding his singularity back its cantae floods his soulhome and begins to rattle his soulhome. This is because Theo throws most sublime materials he has into his singularity and when he manifests it as an attack it tends to absorb all the cantae thrown at along with the enemy soulcrafters.

Theo is instructed by Guchiro and Fiyu on how to improve his gravity sense. Fiyu gives Theo a shadowmind that he places in the last empty room on his second floor. The House of the Lost give Theo several sublime materials and a Noven weirkey. The most powerful were a  throbbing mass of  twisted flesh and  a bizarre shape, a living pattern that distorted every time he focused on it and seemed to  wriggle in  more than  three dimensions. Theo uses the living pattern from the House of the Lost to create an acclimatisation chamber. This room helps his body adapt to environments. The mass of flesh helps intertwine his body and soul like a miniature version of a corporeal floor. Theo worked extensively on his corners and gate in his shielding wall so that eventually his cantae naturally flows in a sphere and his singularity's true power can be brought out. Theo finished polishing and smoothing the corners in his soulhome and can bring out his singularity at full power, due to his cantae flowing smoothly without him controlling it, Theo can freely control his other techniques whilst drawing on his full power. Theo is then given a material from Blacksilver that is a small, clear rock and came from Siata and the material is perfect for his anchor technique as it takes significant effort to move.

Simplified
The following is a list of powers and abilities granted to Theo by his soulhome, as of the current book - The materials and other soulcrafting will not be mentioned.

Floor 1
On Theo's first floor he has 9 rooms in a square layout. The 4 corner rooms provide techniques and the 4 connecting rooms provide enhancements. The centre room is his heart chamber and provides cantae for his soulhome. His 4 techniques are gravitational fields, torsion bolts, mass and anti-mass. The enhancement chambers are a storage room, a bathing room, a Nine Worlds Feast and a room full of deathdust. Theo has a door and vestibule. The door allows him to remain aware of his body whilst soulcrafting. The vestibule increases his cantae efficiency and release it more forcefully.

Techniques :

Gravitational fields - Theo can create both intense gravity and an intense anti-gravity effect. He can use the gravity to crush opponents down and the anti-gravity to send them flying or to enable his own flight. He can create numerous fields and one field can be more than 10 times normal gravity.

Torsion bolts - In the opposite corner to his gravitational fields room, Theo set up a room that generates a cantae bolt made of twisting gravitational energy that can hit even those a tier above him hard.

Mass - With his mass chamber Theo can create points of mass out of cantae. This mass pulls things towards it.

Anti-mass - In the opposite corner to his mass room, Theo set up a room that generates anti-mass from cantae. This anti-mass can be used to push things away.

Enhancements :

Storage - Theo created a storage room in between his mass and torsion techniques. The storage room has chests inside and can store sublime materials and as a Ruler non-sublime materials as well. His storage chamber helps enhance his body passively by making him tougher and stronger.

Bathing - Theo's bathing chamber is set between his gravity and anti-mass technique rooms. This chamber increases his stamina to a major degree.

Feast - Theo's Nine Worlds Feast enhances his body and his cantae generation. This chamber increases his strength and senses. The Nine Worlds Feast also boosts his mind.

Deathdust - The deathdust is placed between his torsion and anti-mass rooms and increases how lethal his techniques are.