acid rain, when abel looked up at cain

we began the weeping and wailing

Birdman

Birdman is 19 years old, and is the first Galerian Rion encounters. I'm assuming he's called Birdman because he is always levitating, don't recall his feet ever touching the ground. Birdman is pretty hedonistic in nature. Being a Galerian isn't easy: your Mother is pretty much a bitch cold-hearted, using her own children as a means to an end. Not to mention the medicines used to incite your powers are very painful. Should the Galerians overuse their power, they short circuit aka short, which can be fatal if no Delmeter is handy to reverse the effects of shorting. Think of shorting like your brain being electrified, umm, until you die from it. He's got the most awesome cackle. His attacks are mostly psionic, as opposed to fire attacks that Rion frequently uses. It seemed he was content to have Rion lead him to Lilia, but got bored of waiting and wanted his shot at Rion. Fighting Rion is break from his tedious existence and he considers it the most fun he's had in a long time.

In he end, Rion defeats him, in a sense. They were both hurling psionic energy at each other, but it happens that Birdman shorts and can no longer maintain his attack and is blasted by Rion's energy. Even as he's dying, he's got this twisting grin on his face.