dragonsbloodsnowcone may we have some Beru lore??
Briefly - Beru is another team lead, like Scott, but from another empire (Gaithon). He's gregarious and fun, and overall a pleasure to be around. Sort of an opposite personality to Scott.
Gaithon is a much different empire to Eutharious. It's much smaller, older, and more cohesive, its peoples' relationship with the Locks is very different. Movallo is the resident Lockian diplomat. Traders are recognized and welcomed. Being *the* team lead is regarded as a prestigious job. There were no ulterior motives for that initiative, there.
Beru went through schooling and training for that job, and was chosen for the role. Unfortunately, early in his career the Lock that stepped up to watch out for him missed a beat - there was an accident and he should have died except that a smaller lesser will, Rylelion, happened to be around and stepped in. Beru was looped into Ry's will as a result. He still has control of his human body, but Ry is not beyond using him to communicate and do things - which was frustrating at first, until they got into a flow. Beru has no access to Ry's abilities, beyond not dying/having his body rebuilt if it receives enough damage, and he loses a little bit of himself every time that happens. He can talk to Ry internally here and there, and they've built up somewhat of a repertoire. For the most part he carries on like he normally would.
It is not the greatest existence, but Beru makes the best of it. His situation is ironic, given that Gaithon's previous team lead was caught doing some not so cool stuff and Movallo went out of his way to loop that lead into his will and intentionally disintegrate him over a painfully long period of time.
Outside of that - he becomes good friends with Scott, and gets involved with Jeih's shenanigans when Scott's team is finally introduced to his own.