Aviar Curtis is the type to person to always show up early to an engagement, ask politely to be excused, and never speak over someone else--even if he was interrupted. He's also the Keeper of Acacia, son of Phoenicia, the Mother Creator, endowed with great power a millennium ago, and entrusted to protect the people of Acacia, life after life. Death is only an intermission for Aviar, for like the phoenixes of Acacia, he too is reborn as a babe from his ashes each time he dies.