Starfinder Backstory: Lucan Lacuna (July 2025 Version) | The Dementia-Stricken Ex-Magnate and Unreliable Narrator

Lucan's troubles began with the disappearance of his beloved cat, Sir Meowglen Flufflebottom Whiskerford III.

To cope, Lucan kept himself busy by opposing AbadarCorp’s credit system, calling digital currency a tool of corporate control. He advocated a return to gold coins and made his cat the mascot of his eccentric campaign for “real” money. People might have taken his movement more seriously if he hadn’t lost most of his fortune in an unrelated cat-themed crypto scam. About half of his retirement savings vanished along with his missing cat, whose custom collar held the credstick which stored the savings. He is still in possession of a few million credits without realizing it, a sum that happens to match what would remain after a divorce settlement takes half of one’s stuff.

The loss gnawed at him, festering into obsession. Episodes of manic delusion, likely fueled by creeping dementia, culminated in him convincing the Order of the Pike, a group of Hellknights tasked with hunting monsters, that his cat was a demonic shapeshifter infiltrator. Tragically and ironically, he wasn’t entirely wrong.

Lucan, ignorant of the full truth, later paid the Free Captains to protect what he believes is his beloved Sir Meowglen Flufflebottom Whiskerford III from the very Hellknights he set upon them, unaware that the “pet” he’s safeguarding may be the very threat his dementia-riddled, mythomaniac mind warned them about.

With fear of the Hellknights looming, he presented the Xenowardens with a half-burnt certificate of authenticity and a medallion forged from melted credsticks, swearing that Sir Meowglen was an endangered biomimetic companion species, one genetically linked to ancient Pact Worlds fauna.

Eventually, during what he calls a hedonvalescent (pleasure-based recovery) drug binge while grieving his lost cat, Lucan receives a fragmentary vision that leads him to believe his cat is not the shapeshifter itself, but a vessel for one.

Upon this revelation, he seeks allies among the devotees of Lao Shu Po under false pretenses, hoping they will help him capture his beloved companion and prevent its death at the hands of the Hellknights.

Now, with the Lao Shu Po, Free Captains, and Xenowardens converging against the Hellknights, Lucan clings to hope, desperate to counter the immense and insurmountable threat he himself unleashed upon the cat he still calls his own, despite its dire predicament.

Aside: As a hail Mary play that he believed would likely amount to nothing, he offered frantic prayers to the god Oras, begging the creature to develop resistance to the shapeshifter’s influence.

Beneath all of Lucan’s madness, he is haunted by an unbearable truth that surfaces in brief, fractured recollections:

Sir Meowglen was never just a cat—and never actually a "sir" for that matter—but was, in fact, his wife, transformed long ago by transmutation magic in an experiment gone horribly awry.

Will Lucan remember in time that his wife is the cat? Or is he doomed to kill her with his own hands, live unknowingly beside her in feline form, or be murdered by the shapeshifter that now possesses his transmuted wife?