Bernal

Elijah Bernal was once heralded as the greatest Spirare warrior to have ever lived. When he was still active within the Spirare ranks, he led his soldiers with a firm yet kind hand and was often at the center of positive changes within the laws that governed Spirare and their daily lives. He was responsible for bringing Luke and Jessie to MERCE, however, when he brought Jessie to the school he had already been mangled mentally and tortured into old age by an unseen villain. It is assumed that he was tortured by the Legions of Chaos in the Void, but the events of Spirare bring to light that that wasn't the case. As a result of the torment that he endured, his body was aged past the prime that most Spirare enjoy for their eternity and was left as a broken, feeble old man. Between his resentment of the other, healthy, Spirare and the madness inflicted on him by the unseen villain, Bernal became a villain himself and was consumed with his quest for absolute power. In M.E.R.C.E., he'd kidnapped Jessie and Puff in the hopes of manipulating Luke into using the Spirit Artifact to transfer his power into Bernal. His plan failed, however, when Jessie absorbed the Spirit Artifact into her soul and then turned its power against him as well as the entire Legions of Chaos in the Void.