When his mother had taken her own life, Lucian became an orphan at the age of six. Before he could become a young criminal, he was taken in an orphanage where he would suffer a worse fate than death. The grueling torture of the very nun who was supposed to look after him drove him to the point of apathy. He thought he had seen the worst of it until the nun revealed her true identity. If you've read ARK The Bane Of Spectres, this is Lucian before he met Marcus Vigil and the events took place before the story of Irina.