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Herald Lavan Chitward, known as Firestarter, and Firestorm; or more commonly Herald Lavan Firestorm is a fictional character in the book ''Brightly Burning'', by Mercedes Lackey. Lavan Firestorm is also referenced as a legend the books that follow in the Valdemar timeline. This article references the fictional organizations and locations used in the book. == Lavan Chitward, Academy Student == Lavan Chitward is the child of Nelda and Archer Chitward, both prominent members of the Needleworkers' and Cloth Merchants' Guilds (respectively). As a result of their skills, they are invited to move from their rural home in Alderscroft to the capital of Haven, in Valdemar. Samael, Lavan's older brother, is already apprenticed to one of their father's colleagues. Macy and Feodor, Lavan's younger siblings, are also looking to apprentice into their parents' guild. Lavan doesn't want to follow this path, having no interest in either of his parents' trades. He has a dream of entering the guard as part of the cavalry. He never expresses this desire to his parents, fearing their outright rejection of his wish. His father decides to send him to a school created by the trade guilds in Haven, in an attempt to provide his son with opportunities to apprentice in a trade he might enjoy. On his first day in the Trade School he is initially interviewed by the schoolmaster, who determines what form (or grade) to put him into. After an extensive examination Lavan is placed in the Third Form. He soon realizes that his peers in the form are all younger than himself. This quickly brings him to the attention of Tyron Jelnack, a member of the Sixth Form. Tyron is a bully and is encouraged by the schoolmaster to keep discipline and order during the school day. He quickly starts tormenting Lavan, giving him the nickname Scrub, taunting him about being in a lower form, and calling his sexuality into question. As a result of these increasingly aggressive and unprovoked attacks, Lavan begins to suffer with powerful migraines. These migraines are so powerful that he is unable to continue going to school. They are also accompanied by a raging fever that leaves Lavan's skin feeling sunburned. His mother, showing nothing more than annoyance at his confinement, soon calls in a herbalist-healer. He gives Lavan several medicinal syrups that are supposed to help prevent the headaches from recurring. During this long confinement Lavan confesses to his mother that Tyron wants him to steal several lengths of a very expensive scarlet velvet silk. Nelda reacts with scorn, believing that because Tyron comes from a very wealthy family he couldn't possibly be a bully, and Lavan just misunderstood a joke. After he is deemed fit to return to school, Lavan devises a new way to avoid the self-styled "Sixth Formers." He arrives at school before everyone else, stops going to the lunch room to eat, and stays after class, waiting for everyone else to leave. The other children who suffer at the hand of Tyron start to follow Lavan's example, staying in class over lunch and sharing their bits of food with each other. This new tactic greatly enrages Tyron and his gang, who catch Lavan daydreaming in an empty classroom after school. Tyron declares that Lavan must be punished for his defiance of their "rules," and orders that he receive 80 lashes. Tyron and several friends haul Lavan to an unused classroom in the back of the building, where they decided to spread the lashes out over four days, so as not to beat him too badly. Once in the classroom they started pushing and shoving Lavan, before strapping him down to give him the lashes. Suddenly, the room erupted in fire and the last thing Lavan remembers is the fire reaching out to consume his tormentors.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lavan Firestorm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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