[hider= Magus] [u]Magus[/u] Age: 24 Species: Human Sex: Male Appearance: Magus’ figure is unassuming, being slightly shorter than average and being scrawny. He has pale white skin, clearly a result from staying in-doors to much. He has short, white hair and his eyes are light blue. Personality: Magus is intelligence, cunning, and willful. Before his introduction to magic, he was lethargic and unmotivated. However, being introduced to magic, he has found a new spark of life. The rush of arcane energy surging through him, and the relief of solving a complex problem in a spell’s design are both equally excubranting to him. Magus is not particularly social to people he does not know, but is capable of cooperation if it means furthering his goal. While it might not be immediately obvious, Magus does value loyalty, and if a person is loyal to him, he will be loyal in return, but to those who are duplicitous to him, he is fully willing to be duplicitous in return. History: Magus is not his given name. He shed his birth name long ago. The person he was before was poor, weak, and an outcast. However, even then, he had a keen mind and a strong force of will. He could see cracks in the facade of the world. It helped contributed to people thinking he was a freak. Eventually, he would stumble across a group of wizards and sorcerers. They had posted an ad for a job that was too good to be true, a job that required no training, no experience, and paid well. He thought that it was some type of scam or criminal recruitment, but he felt a pull to believe it was true. He was able to shake the feeling, and hold that it was some type of trickery, but his curiosity got the better of him and he went. They were hypnotizing people into being their servants, but he had the force of will to resist their mental intrusion, and the presence of mind to not show it. It was quite easy to fool them. They were to egotistic to presume that a mere mortal could trick them, making them all to easy to manipulate. However, this turned into a golden opportunity for him. He was able to learn magic right under their noses, by simply taking their books and reading them. Whenever he was caught, he would just say that he was doing research for another member of their group. Eventually, members of the group began to suspect his trickery, but by then, he was useful to them, and they believed they were in control of him even without mental manipulation. Manipulating them was actually quite easy, as they were egotistical and foolish. It only took a few honeyed words, and the occasionally begging and grovelling. He studied under them for four years. In fact, by implanting the idea that others were using to complete their rituals and do the appropriate studies for them, members of the group began to actually use him for these services only helping him keep his ruse. During this time, he had discovered an old, unfinished spell that could enhance the magic powers of the person who cast it. In secret, he worked on completing this spell. By this time, it was such a common place thing to see him reading old, musty spell tomes and preparing arcane rituals, no one questioned it. By time the ritual was fully complete, it was to late. He had grown to strong for them, he had been reborn as the Magus. Other: [Hider= Magic Spells] Total Score: 40 [u]Rite of the Arcane Tome[/u] Timed Casting (0), Indefinite Duration (2), Long Onset (0) Major Expenditure (0), Rare Gadget (0) Mythical Intensity (2) Complex Method (0), Rare Situation (0) Touch Range (1), Medium Target (1) Total Score: 6 Effect: Through a long and gruelling ritual that must be performed at a nexus of arcane power, the power of gemstones and incense can be infused into magical book in order to bind it to a person and transform it into an Arcane Tome. The Arcane Tome is capable of defending the mind of the person it is bound to, reducing the effectiveness of mind-altering effects by enhancing the person’s willpower and through warding magic placed on the tome. The Arcane Tome also enhances the magic of the wielder, granting them in an enhanced reservoir of magical energy and allows the user to cast spells written into tome at greater power than they would otherwise be able to. [u]Arcane Inscription[/u] Timed Casting (0), Indefinite Duration (2), Long Onset (0) Major Expenditure (0), Rare Gadget (0) Mythical Intensity (2) Complex Method (0), Rare Situation (0) Touch Range (1), Small Target (0) Total Score: 5 Effect: Through an arcane ritual, spells written inside of the arcane tome can be inscribed into mundane objects. The ritual must occur within in an area of heightened magic energy, and uses gemstones and incense as an expenditure. [u]Arcane Recharge[/u] Timed Casting (0), Instant Duration (0), Long Onset (0) Minor Expenditure (1), Rare Gadget (0) Mythical Intensity (2) Complex Method (0), Rare Situation (0) Touch Range (1), Small Target (0) Total Score: 4 Effect: Through an arcane ritual preformed at a region of heightened magical energy, the caster can either imbue or recharge an object with magical energies. He is able to restore his own magical energy by recharging his Arcane Tome, which turn would naturally cause the energy to flow into him. [u]Manabolt[/u] Instant Casting (1), Instant Duration (0), Instant Onset (2) Minor Expenditure (1), Rare Gadget (0) Mythical Intensity (2) Simple Method (1), Any Situation (2) Long Ranged (2), Small Target (0) Total Score: 11 Effect: Using a simple hand gesture, and a command word of “Potentia”, the spell manifests an orb of destructive arcane energy that can launched towards a direction. Using the spell draws from his internal reserve of magical energy. [u]Reactive Barrier [/u] No Casting (2), Indefinite Duration (2), Instant Onset (2) Minor Expenditure (1), Rare Gadget (0) Mythical Intensity (2) No Method (2), Any Situation (2) Personal Range (0), Medium Target (1) Total Score: 14 Effect: Drawing from his internal reserve of magical energy, whenever the castor would be damaged, they are protected by a magical barrier. [/hider] [/hider]