𓆩✧𓆪 Lohen 𓆩✧𓆪

*Name: Lohen

• Rarity: ★★★★★ (5 stars)
  *Element: Cryo
• Weapon: Polearm
  *Region: Mondstadt
• Organization: Ordo Favonius
  *Position: Deputy Captain of the 5th Ranged Squad, Ordo Favonius Expeditionary Force.
• Role in combat: Primary Cryo-DPS.
  *Constellation: Sly Hare.
• Age: 20 years.

Loen is a knight of the Ordo Favonius, part of the Great Varka Expedition. Despite belonging to a ranged unit, he almost always fights in the front lines, preferring a spear to a bow. Among his comrades, he is known as a highly unconventional tactician, a man with a cool head and a quirky sense of humor. His methods often raise eyebrows, but Loen's effectiveness is almost never questioned.

Unlike most knights, who project the image of noble heroes, Loen appears more like a calm and detached observer. He rarely raises his voice, dislikes idle chatter, and almost never displays strong emotions in public. Even in the most tense situations, he maintains his composure.

During the expedition to Nod-Kray, Loen earned a reputation as one of the world's foremost experts in reconnaissance, stealth infiltration, sabotage, and the elimination of highly dangerous opponents. His decisions often seem risky, but almost always prove to be carefully calculated.

Lohan uses an average male character model. In terms of height and build, he is comparable to Albedo, Xiao, Bennett, and Kinich.

His figure is slender and fit. At first glance, Loen appears to be physically fragile, but underneath this appearance lies the well-developed musculature necessary for swift dashes, high speed, and precise spear movements. It does not look massive or heavy – on the contrary, its entire body gives the impression of lightness and mobility.

The skin is very light, almost porcelain. Due to the constant service in the northern regions, it has a cold hue. There is almost never a blush on the face, so the facial expression often seems unusually calm or even lifeless to others.

The facial features are neat and regular. Under his right eye is a small mole, one of the most recognizable details of his appearance.

The eyes are dark red, of a muted ruby hue. Their peculiarity lies not in the color, but in the look. Loen almost never changes the expression of his eyes while talking. He looks directly at the interlocutor, not avoiding eye contact, but at the same time his gaze remains surprisingly calm and heavy. Many characters note that under such a gaze it becomes uncomfortable, as if Loen notices much more than he shows.

The hair is short, thick and slightly fluffy. Their color is a cold light turquoise shade with mint iridescence. In front, the hair forms a neat M-shaped bang framing the face, and a small unruly strand invariably sticks out on the top of the head.

Loen's uniform is made in the traditional style of the Knights of Favonius, but is noticeably different from the clothes of most knights.

The basis is a dark blue officer's uniform with a high collar that completely covers the neck. Under the collar is a black choker.

The silhouette is emphasized by a wide belt with a system of leather straps and silver buckles. This design simultaneously serves as a mount for equipment and fixes the center of gravity during combat.

Loen wears thick black leather gloves on his arms.

On the left shoulder is a large silver shoulder pad, holding a diagonal shoulder belt. Scabbards, pouches and elements of camping equipment are attached to it.

Behind his back is a long dark blue cloak with a bright blue inside. During the use of Cryo abilities, the fabric of the cloak is covered with frost, and the metal elements take on a cool bluish glow.

Trousers in light beige and gray fit snugly around the legs without restricting movement. An additional belt system is attached to the right hip to fix the equipment.

High black boots reach above the knees and are protected by metal inserts.

The Mondstadt-rimmed Eye of the Cryo God is pinned to the back of the collar.

❄️ First impression

Most people consider Loen to be a cold, arrogant, or indifferent person when they first meet him. This impression is created by his calm voice, restrained facial expressions and the habit of carefully observing what is happening before saying anything.

However, people who have served alongside him for a long time describe him differently. Loen rarely talks about his feelings, but he constantly notices the state of others. He remembers the weaknesses of his comrades, the peculiarities of their character and habits not in order to use them against them, but in order to act most effectively at the right moment. He almost never consoles with words, preferring to help with actions.

Even when he is among his colleagues, Loen does not seek to be the center of attention. He calmly allows others to talk, argue, and make decisions, intervening only when he deems it really necessary.

In everyday life, his sense of humor manifests itself in a peculiar way. Instead of the usual jokes, he prefers to arrange harmless tests of attentiveness, unexpectedly change the usual routine of training or leave small traps, checking the reaction of others. There has long been a saying among knights: if something happened "by itself", Loen was almost certainly nearby.

From the outside, Loen gives the impression of a person who is almost impossible to unbalance. He speaks quietly, rarely shows emotion and prefers to observe first and only then draw conclusions. Even in tense situations, he remains calm and almost never acts impulsively.

Because of his restraint, many consider him cold or indifferent, but this impression is deceptive. Loen is very attentive to those around him and notices details that others usually miss. He quickly understands the mood of the interlocutor, is able to recognize lies and rarely makes mistakes in assessing people.

After the events of the Legends Quest, Loen's personality changes markedly. If earlier he was ready to turn a blind eye to dangerous methods in order to achieve results, then after Adorno's death, he finally abandons the idea of seeking strength at any cost. He begins to treat himself much more strictly, first of all, and believes that it was his indecision that caused the tragedy.

Loen remains a pragmatic person. He is not an idealist and does not strive to look like a hero. If there is a safer way to complete the task, it will choose that one. For him, the success of the operation is always more important than personal glory.

Despite his seriousness, Loen has a very unusual sense of humor. He likes to test the attentiveness of others, arranging small tests and traps at training grounds. In his opinion, such things help knights not to lose vigilance and can one day save their lives.

He does not like to be praised or thanked. Loen considers the performance of duties to be a natural part of the service, and not a reason for admiration.

Although Loen serves in the 5th Ranged Squad, he himself almost never uses ranged weapons in real combat.

He prefers the spear, explaining that the commander must personally see what is happening on the front lines and make decisions from the side of his men.

His fighting style is not based on brute force, but on accuracy, speed, and control of space.

Using the power of Cryo, Loen restricts the movement of opponents, forcing them into disadvantageous positions. He rarely makes unnecessary movements, and each attack serves as a continuation of a pre-thought-out tactic.

During battle, Loen constantly analyzes the battlefield, quickly noticing changes in the situation and adjusting his actions to what is happening.

Outside of the service, Loen leads an extremely simple life.

He does not like noisy companies and rarely attends city holidays unnecessarily.

Loen spends most of his free time on training grounds, in the workshops of the Knights of Favonius, or studying reports on past operations.

One of Loen's most famous habits is his love of various training traps. He regularly upgrades the obstacle course and leaves small mechanical devices, checking the attentiveness of his colleagues. Most of them are completely harmless, but they can take a person by surprise.

Loen's special dish is "Boredom Gum". According to his description, he constantly chews it during long shifts, hikes, and reporting, claiming that it helps him stay focused and not distracted by monotonous work.

In everyday life, Loen is very neat. He takes good care of his weapons and equipment, never leaves things in a mess and always prepares in advance for the next task.

Even while on vacation, he continues to maintain physical fitness and does not like to spend a lot of time idle. According to his colleagues, if Loen looks like he's resting, chances are he's already come up with a new test of attentiveness for someone.

Loen was born and raised in Mondstadt in a family of hereditary artisans.

His father was a well-known bow maker. Many hunters and knights of the Knights of Favonius used his works, as he knew how to select wood that could withstand many years of service. From early childhood, Loen spent a lot of time in the studio, watching his father work. He learned to distinguish between types of wood, to understand their strength, flexibility and purpose, to disassemble and assemble bows, to change bowstrings, to repair weapons and to take care of them.

Despite the family craft, Loen's childhood cannot be called noisy or carefree. He grew up as a very calm child, preferring to observe rather than speak. Instead of playing with his peers, he was more interested in sitting for hours in the workshop, studying tools, the structure of weapons or listening to the stories of adults.

Loen rarely showed strong emotions. Even at an early age, he was distinguished by unusual self-control and a habit of first analyzing what was happening, and only then acting.

At the age of about 10, their wagon on the highway was attacked by high-class mercenaries. They were under the command of the corrupt Inspector of the Knights of Favonius, Eroch, who secretly supplied children to the Fatui Harbinger Dottora for monstrous experiments with the tainted blood of the dragon Ursa. Loen was locked in a damp underground cell along with another Mondstadt boy, Theodore. While the rest of the children in the Fatui camp were constantly sobbing and screaming in terror, ten-year-old Loen did not shed a single tear. He had a frightening, cold reaction to stress. He hid in a corner and discreetly hid in his sleeve a sharp arrowhead, which he managed to pick up during the attack, preparing to defend himself to the last. While in captivity, Loen quickly realized one thing.

Strong emotions do not help you survive.

Panic makes you make mistakes.

Fear makes a person predictable.

From that moment on, he began to suppress any outward manifestations of feelings, trying to keep a cool head even when real horror was happening around him.

This habit persisted into adulthood.

The existence of the secret base became known to the Knights of Favonius.

A squad of knights was sent to liberate it, led by an experienced veteran named Adorno, one of the most respected knights of his generation.

It was Adorno who found Loen among the rescued children.

For a child who has lived in constant fear for several days or weeks, the image of a knight has become a symbol of absolute security.

After the rescue, it was Adorno who accompanied the children back to Mondstadt.

Subsequently, he continued to visit Loen, inquiring about his condition and gradually becoming a man whom the boy began to trust. The abduction developed a deep psychological complex in Loen - a panic fear of becoming weak, defenseless and controlled again. He withdrawn, severed the emotional connection with his frightened parents and began to secretly run away from home at night. Armed with a homemade spear, he hunted monsters alone. Worried parents turned to Adorno. The experienced knight realized that the guy could not be broken, took him as a personal student and helped him officially join the Knights of Favonius.

Over time, a relationship developed between them that was more like that of a mentor and an apprentice than the usual acquaintance of a knight and a rescued child.

It was Adorno who first noticed that Loen almost never talked about his experiences.

He did not cry.

He did not complain.

He did not talk about what was happening.

But his behavior changed so much that it became clear to the experienced knight that the injury had not disappeared.

After the kidnapping, Loen became obsessed with one thought.

He never wanted to be helpless again.

While his parents hoped that everything would be forgotten over time, Loen himself began to train on his own.

At first, it was simple physical exercises.

Then there were classes with wooden weapons.

Later, he began to go outside the city to learn how to fight small monsters on his own.

In time, Adorno learned about this.

Instead of forbidding dangerous forays, he decided to personally engage in the training of the young man.

It was Adorno who became Loen's first full-fledged mentor.

He taught him not only the use of weapons, but also discipline, tactics, interaction within the squad, the responsibility of the commander for his subordinates, and the fact that real strength lies not only in victories.

Under Adorno's leadership, Loen officially joined the Knights of Favonius.

Already during the first years of service, it became obvious that he was significantly different from most young knights.

He was the fastest to analyze the situation.

He was better oriented in an unfamiliar area.

He remembered the location of opponents almost instantly.

Rarely did I make the same mistakes twice.

His out-of-the-box thinking at first aroused distrust, but numerous successful operations gradually earned him the respect of his colleagues.

After several years of service, Loen joined the Grand Expedition of the Knights of Favonius, led by Grand Master Varka.

Due to his merits, he was appointed deputy captain of the 5th Ranged Squad. Despite being a member of the rifle unit, Loen almost always personally accompanied reconnaissance teams and participated in the most dangerous stages of operations.

He specialized in reconnaissance, penetration into enemy territory, escorting small detachments and destroying especially dangerous targets. Over the years, Loen has earned a reputation as an extremely effective officer, able to remain calm even in the most hopeless situations.

<a i="0"> Role in the expedition: Loen traveled north on a massive expedition by Grand Master Varka. There he was promoted to deputy captain of the 5th Ranged Squad for military service. On the front, Loen was engaged in reconnaissance, covert operations, and harsh interrogations of prisoners.
Defeat by Roehr: In Nod Rim (an autonomous region in the south of the Snows), Loen faced a monstrously strong opponent named Roerer, related to the Wild Hunt. Rorear literally smeared Loen in battle, calling him an insignificant weakling. This defeat revealed an old childhood trauma: Loen felt like a helpless child in a cage again. He became obsessed with the idea of gaining power at any cost, which led to disaster upon his return to Mondstadt.

<a i="0"> Plot: Back in Mondstadt, Loen tricks the Traveler into his affairs, literally "buying" his friendship with a bag of Mora. He needs a strong ally.
Conflict with Theodore: Loen finds his childhood friend Theodore. It turns out that their mentor Adorno is terminally ill. In desperation, Theodore obtained old Fatui vials containing the remnants of Dottore's serum, hoping to save the old man. Loen, blinded by a thirst for power after losing to Roerr, decides not to stop Theodore. He wants to test from the outside whether the power of the Fatui is capable of giving true power.
*Tragedy and Fracture of Consciousness: The additives that Theodore and Loen added to Adorno's food help at first, but then it becomes clear that this turned Adorno into a monster who can completely go mad and lose his identity. It was very unethical, such things turn a person into a mad monster, Loen sobers up sharply. He realizes that the dirty power of the Fatui is a fake that makes people slaves. When the grief-stricken Theodore tries to continue the experiments, Loen stops him harshly and forcefully, stopping his madness. Adorno, in the last moments of his life, was in the laboratory, with Loen and Theodore, who was crying. Just like in childhood, when he saved them, they hugged... But it was necessary to act. Loen leaves Adorno and Theodore, and together with the Traveler, he is going to solve this problem, so they decide to split up. Loen deals with the monsters, breaks the ampoule that contained the powers that kept Adorno alive... And then he himself gets rid of his "spoiled" powers, repeating that he is not going to be a slave to someone else's power.

...

They allow Adorno to die peacefully, to die as a human being.

• Jean's Punishment: Loen pleads guilty. The current Magister Djinn cancels his planned promotion to Captain of the 5th Division, permanently stripping him of this chair. He was also stripped of his knighthood title, "Knight of Charity," which was supposed to have passed to him from Adorno. Loen serves time in solitary confinement in the underground prison of the headquarters for a couple of days.

Moral Evolution: Adorno's death knocked Loen's reckless selfishness out of him forever. He doesn't really care about what happened - there is a scorched desert and mourning inside him. He accepted the Djinn's punishment with humility. He realized that it was the duty of a knight to protect the weak, not to mindlessly measure strength. But he did not become a good altruist: he remained a pragmatic, tough tactician.

<a i="0"> Attitude towards bows: As the deputy captain of a long-range squad, Loen despises bows and firearms due to childhood trauma. While his subordinates stand in the rear with crossbows, Loen is the first to rush into the thick of melee combat with a spear at the ready.
The paradox of alcohol: Loen is an absolute teetotaler, he does not drink alcohol at all. But he buys expensive dandelion wine from the Rassvet distillery and uses it exclusively as an antiseptic. He experiences a perverse sadistic excitement as he pours a polite smile on the open wounds of his soldiers and watches them writhe in pain.
Fighting boredom: Loen suffocates in a peaceful environment. His household hobby is to set hidden traps and ice traps on the training ground or in the path of the Knights of Favonius patrols (and even Varka himself) to test their vigilance. In everyday life, he constantly chews his special dish - "Boredom-Busting Bubblegum".

Ability to love: Loen is not amorous, romance for him is a weakness and vulnerability. But if he sincerely falls in love (FOR EXAMPLE!!) with a beautiful, kind and fragile girl, he will never offend her. His manners will become impeccably gallant. He will show love without words: silently throw a cloak over her shoulders from the cold, remember her favorite tea, secretly clear all the roads she walks from monsters, and carefully bring her a glowing moon butterfly in his palms. It will become his safe haven, saving him from inner darkness and boredom.

Loen is one of those people who are difficult to understand at first glance. He rarely talks about himself and almost never explains the reasons for his actions. Instead, he prefers others to judge him by his results.

He doesn't like to waste words. If the issue can be solved in one sentence instead of a long conversation, Loen will choose the former. For this reason, many consider him to be laconic, although in fact he knows how to maintain a conversation if the topic really seems interesting to him.

One of Loen's most unusual features is his love of boredom... More precisely, to fight it.

He sincerely hates monotony. A long absence of danger or new tasks begins to tire him, so he constantly invents some kind of activity for himself.

That is why Loen likes to test the attentiveness of his colleagues.

He can discreetly change the usual patrol route, rearrange training targets, set a safe mechanical trap or come up with a new test at the training ground. For him, this is not a joke, but a way not to allow others to relax.

Loen himself believes that a true knight must be prepared for the unexpected at any moment.

<a i="0"> Despite serving in a ranged squad, Loen prefers to personally lead people into close-quarters combat with a spear.
He is well versed in bow construction thanks to his father's craft, and is able to quickly determine the quality of almost any bow without even using it.
<a i="1"> Loen is excellent at navigating the terrain and has outstanding observation skills. He is able to notice traces, damage, changes in terrain, and other details that most people simply will not see.
Almost never raises his voice. Even during serious conflicts, he prefers to speak calmly.
<a i="2"> His sense of humor often remains incomprehensible to those around him, as it is expressed not in jokes, but in unexpected tests, trials, and peculiar ways of learning.
After the events of the Legends quest, Loen becomes significantly more careful when making decisions and is no longer willing to sacrifice moral principles for the sake of achieving results.
Despite his cold nature, he genuinely cherishes the Knights of Favonius and the people he considers his comrades, though he almost never speaks about it directly.

Loen is a young knight of the Knights of Favonius who survived the kidnapping of the Fatui as a child, raised by the legendary knight Adorno, and became one of the officers of the Great Expedition of Varka.

His defeat in Nod-Krai had caused him to question his own beliefs, and the events of the Legend Quest had changed his view of strength, responsibility, and duty.

His story is built not around the search for power, but around an attempt not to lose himself when faced with his own weaknesses.

Behind Loen's outward calmness is a man who takes his own mistakes very hard, but continues to move forward, remaining true to the main principle that Adorno once taught him:

A true knight protects people not because he is stronger than others, but because he is able to make the right choice even when it is most difficult.

According to the canon, Lohan does have pronounced sadistic character traits, but they do not turn him into a cruel or senselessly bloodthirsty person.

He likes to observe the reaction of people in extreme situations.

He takes pleasure in catching someone off guard with his trap or unconventional move.

He likes to test people's strength, both physically and psychologically.

At the same time, Loen almost never harms his allies for his own amusement. For him, such tests are part of training and preparation for real dangers. His "sadism" is more often manifested in a love of stressful trials than in a desire to inflict senseless pain. This is also reflected in the symbolism of his constellation Lepus Miles, inspired by the image of the "killer rabbit" from medieval European culture.

Loen is almost indifferent to his own pain.

It has a very high tolerance for physical damage and often continues to fight even after serious injuries. Varka separately notes this feature.

In training, Lohan often deliberately puts himself at a disadvantage.

He is more interested in winning when there is a real probability of losing.

That is why he constantly tries to outwit Varka, arranges dangerous tests for himself and is completely calm about the risk of injury.

During one of the trainings, he even ordered his subordinates to shoot at an apple that he was holding in his own hand. He was not at all afraid of the possibility of an accidental hit. To those around him, such behavior looked like madness.