Ryner Lute

Ryner Lute is the main protagonist of The Legend of of the Legendary Heroes anime and light novels.

Ryner looks like a lazy guy, but is actually the strongest magician in his country. He is going on a journey to search for Heroes' Relic by Sion's order.

Appearance
Ryner is a tall, young man with a brown messy hair and has brown eyes.

Personality
In the anime, he's a bit more openly angsty and suicidal, compared to the light novels where he was more desensitized to all the crap that he/other Cursed Eye bearers go through or, on occasion, simply didn't even brood on his situation versus in the anime.

As Ryner notes, life was so much easier when he was Heroic Neutral. He didn't have to be responsible for the lives of countless people, attempt to outmaneuver others, be willing to kill people, etc.

Every time he's gone berserk (or nearly has) has been because he witnessed the slaughter of his friends.

Alpha Stigma
The Alpha Stigma is one of the four curses that was passed on to humanity from the Dark Gods of ancient times. The alpha stigma gives the user the ability to analyze and copy any magic they see used, even only partially completed spells as demonstrated by Ryner when fighting the spies from Gastark. It is even shown that not only can Ryner copy magic but it seems he empowers it as well as seen in episode 1 and in the light novel he can overpower dozens of other mages while using the same spell as they are. In most cases of alpha stigma bearers they don't live past their childhood, when an alpha stigma bearer is put under extreme emotional distress they activate the madness of the alpha stigma and cause themselves to destroy every one/thing around them including themselves, and is almost always irreversible unless acted upon immediately after activation (closing their eyes). When Ryner was a child through some ritual performed by his father and the sacrifice of his mother he made a contract with the goddesses and place a seal on his alpha stigma, allowing him to deactivate it with enough will power. The ritual his father performed also placed a Dark God within him, when his madness is activated the Dark God takes over and makes him several times more powerful than a typical alpha stigma user, it also gives him the power to dematerialize anything he sees (demonstrated in his fight against the Estanbul soldiers and the Gastark spies). Because most Alpha Stigma users don't live past their childhood, they are not able to activate the true power of the Alpha Stigma. By the end of the series, Ryner had just begun learning about the special power he possesses. It was mentioned by Ril Orla that he was "The Solver of All Formulas" it was also mentioned later by Sion and Lucile in mysterious contexts. Sion had also said that he wanted to kill Ryner before his true power activated, so he could save Ryner from his fate before he became immortal and forced to walk the desolate and fiery war torn waste lands alone for all eternity.

Trivia

 * According to DYD Vol. 3, Ryner claims that he likes the tea that Ferris makes when they are eating dango.
 * Claugh, Ferris, and Ryner are the only ones who do not use any suffixes when addressing Sion.
 * Ryner gets his lack of motivation and sleepy eyes from his father
 * According to DYD Vol. 4, Ryner tells Ferris he has no memories of his parents or his childhood, but he feels he is roughly 19 years old.
 * No matter how much he shouts or complains, Ferris usually ignores him once their usual banter has reached an end. Nevertheless, Ryner is really enjoying her company. • Ryner hates red skies because they remind him of things he wants to forget; likewise he also dislikes evenings.
 * Ryner rarely impresses Ferris; one instance is when she was writing a book, and he commented that although he’s not a writer, he thinks she needs a “setting page”.
 * In the novel Ferris writes, she is the hero Ferris Eris and the heroine is Ryner. They “play out” several scenes in reality as well along with their usual banter. They send a copy to Sion with a request for instant publication; this just makes Sion laugh. Instead he turns their “stories” into two picture books “The Failure of the Gluttonous Princess” and “The Story of the Sleepyhead”. The books sold really well, and all the money went to Iris Eris for drawing the illustrations. Ferris and Ryner, however, were really upset about the plots developments.