His mother is one of the top candidates to be the next Domina of New York, which is probably still the single most powerful enclave in the world right now, and his father’s a master artificer. His power-sharer also has an alert on it to let him know if any of the other New York kids are being attacked by mals. After Orion saved Chloe from being eaten by mals on a playground, she followed him around and tried to be his friend.īefore going into the school his mother told him he had to look out for the other New York enclaver kids. Orion knew Chloe not only because they're both from New York, but because their fathers are both artificers who know each other. There was more then likely a fair share of jealousy amount the boys, too, that held them back from treating Orion as a normal boy.

They set him up on a pedestal and never got to know him as a person. Orion never had any true friends growing up as everyone treated him like a hero / savior. When he was in second grade, his mother worked with him using flash cards so that he would recognize the people in the compound, especially the children around his age. Whenever his mother would send him to a playdate he would escape as soon as possible and go to the gates to help keep mals out of the enclave. El suspects that Orion's heroism is a result of the universe balancing out their evil.Įver since he was in preschool, Orion's whole attention has been focused on killing mals rather then playing with the other children. After they were the only graduates of the Scholomance that year, the adults realized what had happened and had hunted them down.

They'd called themselves the 'Hands of Death' and had banded together to take out the rest of the senior class for a massive dose of malia just before graduation. Orion Lake was conceived right about the time that the Scholomance graduated only a dozen seniors and they had all become Maleficers.

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