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[b][u][color=palegreen]Full Name[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]Leon Aldehart[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=palegreen]Age[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]Twenty-two[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=PaleGreen]Gender[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]Male[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=PaleGreen]Species[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]Human[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=palegreen]Personality[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]Leon’s intellect and mind for strategy often come as a surprise to those who first meet him, because he is quite frankly a bit of a meathead. Not in an intellectual sense, but rather he acts like a typical twenty-two year old guy. He is brash and blunt and isn’t afraid to get a bit rowdy, oftentimes taking risks that are a lot more calculated than what would appear.

He can be quite smug when the opportunity to flex his brains comes around, oftentimes disparaging his guild members for failing to come to conclusions as quickly as he might - an arrogance that is usually met with a stinging cheek.

He has a lot of pride and can be very easily riled up with a few choice jeers, especially from those he admires as rivals. Being a relatively new mage, he doesn’t quite stand up to a lot of the other members of Fenixtear and this has led to him developing a bit of a playful competitive streak.

Despite his mind for tactics, Leon has yet to come into his own strengths as a mage and can become quite frustrated when he isn’t succeeding on the same level as his peers. His true talents lie in directing allies, planning out careful stratagems and protecting his friends with his supportive magics. He just doesn’t quite have the patience and real world experience for that sort of thing as of yet.[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=palegreen]Strengths[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]✦ [color=palegreen]Supportive Ally[/color]: Leon's healing and supportive magics make him a valuable addition to any team.
✦ [color=palegreen]Strategist[/color]: Leon has a keen mind for tactics and is able to quickly form complex stratagems once he's got a good grasp on a situation.
✦ [color=palegreen](Almost) College Educated[/color]: Leon is adept at deciphering magical languages from different time periods. A niche skill, but can come in handy when dealing with all manner of magical script.[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=palegreen]Weaknesses[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]✦ [color=palegreen]Wet Noodle[/color]: Leon's magic is almost entirely supportive. His few offensive options are not enough to hold his own in a fight.
✦ [color=palegreen]Insecure[/color]: Leon hasn't yet learned the value of his unique skill set, instead comparing himself to other mages and feeling as though he often comes up short.
✦ [color=palegreen]Inexperienced[/color]: Despite all his strengths, Leon lacks any real experience when it comes to the tasks a mage is required to perform. He lacks the composure of someone who has spent their life honing their skills. He can't yet be depended on to follow through when it really counts.[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=palegreen]Guild[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]Fenixtear[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=Palegreen]Mage Rank[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]C Rank[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=palegreen]Guild Mark Location[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]Right Shoulder[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=palegreen]Magic[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent][u][color=palegreen]Fae Scholar[/color][/u]

In his efforts to decipher the Fae Codex, Leon stumbled upon the secrets of the Fae realm and the elusive creatures who inhabit it. As well as the long forgotten spells and tactics employed by a group of ancient mages known as the Fae Scholars; brilliant strategists who enlisted the aid of Faeries in combat.

Wielding potent Fae Magic enclosed within the codex, Leon specialises in assisting his allies with a slew of supportive abilities such as shielding, healing and enchanting. Additionally, he may summon Pixies from the Fae Realm to his side to assist in executing his carefully planned stratagems.

While not known for their offensive capabilities, the Fae Codex does enlist a small range of offensive magicks that the mages or yore would have used to defend themselves in a pinch.

[hider=Spell List (Fae Scholar)][u][color=PaleGreen]Summon Faerie Companion[/color][/u]: Leon may call upon the aid of creatures from the Fae Realm known as [i][color=palegreen]Pixies[/color][/i]. Small, sprite-like Fae who exist only in the ethereal planes. As such, Pixies cannot be physically harmed - but will momentarily disperse from our realm if struck. They will return to their own realm if Leon receives critical damage.

Each unique Pixie possesses their own spells, and Leon can mentally command his companions to execute these magicks even when he himself is unable to cast spells. Though depending on the bond between the Scholar and his Fae Companions, the Pixies may cast spells of their own free will in order to see their ally well.  Fae spells are channeled by the Pixie, but utilize Leon’s own magic power reserves to cast.

Leon is only capable of summoning one Pixie at a time. Changing summons in the heat of battle still proves to be quite taxing for him, so he is generally stuck with whichever Fae he chooses for the entirety of a fight.

[color=palegreen][u]Scathe[/u][/color]: Fires a quick dart of malignant Fae Magic from the Fae Codex at a foe within short to mid range. Deals minor fire damage and afflicts the target with [i][color=palegreen]Glimmer[/color][/i].

[i][color=palegreen]Glimmer[/color][/i]: Target’s silhouette is outlined with Faerie Fire for a short period, revealing their location even through darkness or magical invisibility.

[u][color=palegreen]Physick[/color][/u]: Channels restorative magic onto a single target over an extended duration, allowing them to recover from moderate injuries. Healing effect halved whilst in combat or other high stress situations where full concentration cannot be maintained.

[u][color=palegreen]Adloquium[/color][/u]: Instantly recovers minor injuries on a single target with a burst of curative sorcery. Grants the target the effect of [i][color=palegreen]Galvanize[/color][/i].

[i][color=palegreen]Galvanize[/color][/i]: Projects a magical barrier around the target that is able to absorb a heavy amount of damage before dispersing.

[u][color=palegreen]Succor[/color][/u]: Channels for a brief moment before releasing a radial discharge of curative sorcery that recovers minor injuries on self and all nearby allies. Grants [i][color=palegreen]Galvanize[/color][/i] to each affected person, but with the shielding effect only being able to withstand moderate damage before dispersing.[/hider]

[u][color=palegreen]Fae Contracts[/color][/u]

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[color=silver][i]The Resplendent Dawn[/i][/color]
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A Pixie of the Fae Realm and one of the first Fae Companions Leon learned to Summon. Lorelai is kind and nurturing in spirit, with a wicked fierce sweet tooth that often leads Leon into various expeditions across town to acquire something that might please the little fairy. She is highly receptive to Leon’s wishes when called to his side and is well versed in her own form of curative sorceries that may accompany Leon’s own in battle.

[hider=Spell List (Lorelai)][color=palegreen][u]Embrace[/u][/color]: Lorelai grants continuous regenerative properties to Leon whilst summoned. Though the healing is miniscule, it is a persistent effect that can add up over the course of a battle. Leon may command Lorelai to attach herself to one of his allies instead, granting them the effects of [u][color=palegreen]Embrace[/color][/u].

[color=palegreen][u]Whispering Dawn[/u][/color]: Lorelai releases a radial blast of curative sorcery from her current location, granting significant regenerative magicks to all nearby allies for a short duration. Capable of healing moderate wounds over the course of its effect.
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[color=silver][i]The Gentle Breeze[/i][/color]
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A Pixie of the Fae Realm and one of the first Fae Companions Leon learned to Summon. Melia is cheeky and mischievous, with kleptomaniac tendencies that often land Leon in hot water with his guildmates. Whilst she is fond of Leon, she is far more interested in her own entertainment and does tend to get bored if he doesn’t provide her with enough excitement. Melia specialises in enhancing her allies' combat prowess.

[hider=Spell List (Melia)][color=palegreen][u]Mischief[/u][/color]: Melia attunes herself to Leon whilst she is summoned, and will send out a malignant bolt of Fae Magic each time he strikes an enemy or casts an offensive spell. The damage of these bolts is minuscule, but can add up over the course of a battle. On Leon’s command, Melia can attach herself to an ally and grant them the effects of [u][color=palegreen]Mischief[/color][/u] instead. When attached to agile and fast foes, this effect produces much more potent results as Melia will automatically adjust how fast she fires bolts based on the speed of her current companion.

[color=palegreen][u]Fae Wind[/u][/color]: Melia enchants nearby allies with a gust of magic wind, significantly increasing their speed, agility and reflexes for a short duration.
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[b][u][color=palegreen]Equipment[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]✦ [u][color=palegreen]Fae Codex[/color][/u]: A magically preserved tome from an ancient civilization of mages. It goes into great depth on a race of beings known as the Fae and how Scholars of yore learned to utilize their whimsical sorcery. Written in a long forgotten language, this codex acts as the catalyst for Leon's magic. As he continues to decipher more of its contents, more Fae Techniques may become available to him.

✦ [u][color=palegreen]Aetherquill[/color][/u]: Standard writing utensil. Utilizes an unnoticeable amount of magic power to draw on surfaces and in the air.

✦ [u][color=palegreen]Prosthetic Arm[/color][/u]: Leon's left arm is a prosthetic forged with a magically enhanced alloy. An outdated model by today's standards, but it is highly durable and fully functioning as a substitute for his lost limb.[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=palegreen]History[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]Leon grew up in a small fishing hamlet along the south-eastern coast of Fiore, about a day's travel from Hargeon Port. His father was a fisherman, his mother a chirurgeon at the local medical center. Leon’s two older brothers, Patrick and Lilothy, worked alongside their father at the docks, often taking to the seas in hopes of a good catch. He and his siblings loved the sea, spending most of their days either swimming, fishing or relaxing by the beach.

As a young lad, Leon held a deep admiration for his father and hoped to one day accompany him and his brothers on one of their treks into the limitless blue. On his tenth birthday, his wish would be granted. A family fishing trip on his dad’s boat. He could barely contain his excitement - a feeling that would last until the storm clouds rolled in from the horizon and encompassed the sky around their small ship.

Miraculously, the ship was relatively unharmed. Leon was not so fortunate. He had lost his footing whilst the ship rocked back and forth and fell into the deep abyss. Lilothy jumped in after him, a rather confident swimmer at the young age of sixteen, and was able to secure his brother to the lifebuoy - but they were not alone in the water. Leon doesn’t remember what the creature looked like, but he will never forget the struggle and the searing pain in his left arm as the sea beast made off with both his appendage and Lilothy. Despite heavy blood loss and trauma, the storm had settled enough for Leon’s family to make it back to shore and rush the boy into his mother’s clinic.

The loss of Lilothy took its toll on the family. Leon’s father was never able to work at sea again, drowning his sorrows in a constant drunken stupor. His mother became cold and unfeeling as stone, she chose to bottle everything up in order to keep her family together. Patrick ran away from home about a year later at the age of nineteen. Leon’s rehabilitation was long and painful, and the advancements of magical prosthetics allowed him to utilize a mechanical left arm that functioned just as well as his real one did. 

He was housebound for a few years; partly due to injury but mostly trauma. He focussed on his academics to pass the time; it was a nice distraction from the constant memory of that day. Over time his body grew stronger, and he was able to somewhat come to terms with Lilothy’s death. Though he was never able to love the sea as he once did - in fact he now held a deep fear of it. He spent his remaining youth mostly keeping to himself with a nose tucked in a book. It was lonely, but at least he was able to better himself in some way. Watching his father deteriorate into a shell of a man was motivation enough not to follow suit. Lilothy had given his life so that Leon could live - he ought to make the most of it.

It was with that ambition that Leon was accepted into one of the top magical universities in Fiore; Era University. An undergraduate in the field of ancient linguistics, a degree he had no real attachment to but was proving to lead to many employment opportunities in Guilds. For the first two years of his studies, Leon excelled. It wasn’t until his third year when the stress and workload really began to take its toll. An upcoming assignment had him particularly vexed, leading the young man to sneak into the campus’ restricted library to hopefully give him an edge over the other students. It was here he would stumble across a dusty old Codex.

Seemingly abandoned by even the college’s librarians themselves, the dusty old tome was written in an ancient language he hadn’t encountered before. Having spent the last two and a half years of his life learning how to decipher ancient languages, Leon thought there was no one more suited to tackling the task. 

What started as a mild curiosity quickly turned to obsession. Leon began flunking his classes, paying more attention to his discovery than his actual work tasks. For inside the forgotten codex lay scattered tidbits of information of creatures known as faeries and the realm they inhabited. Of course, every child grew up hearing of faeries in their bedtime tales - but to think such creatures actually existed. Leon eventually deciphered the method in which the Fae Scholars of a long lost civilization used to summon forth faerie companions to aid in battle and learn their elusive fae sorceries.

The first time he attempted to summon a fae didn’t go exactly to plan. He unknowingly unleashed a swarm of malicious pixies into the entire campus. They wreaked havoc for a solid week before the faculty was able to expel them back to where they came - leading them straight to Leon and the Fae Codex. He made up an excuse that the book belonged to his mother and he wished to decipher it as an extracurricular activity. None the wiser to his little expedition to the restricted library, and beaming with praise for the lads’ dedication to his craft, the faculty let him off easy. They warned him not to become too wrapped up in his task and that his actual studies were more important. To his credit, he made a genuine effort to put the codex behind him - but curiosity always got the better of him. After the third incident involving a wayward faerie, Leon was given an ultimatum - hand over the codex or be expelled.

Leon didn’t regret dropping out of university - his fascination with the fae codex and his newfound companions trumped any desire to achieve a tertiary education. Though he was left with a bit of a predicament. He had come to Era in the hopes of preserving Lilothy’s memory by living a life he could be proud of. Returning home would leave him in the exact place he had started. So instead he used the remainder of his savings to acquire travel to Crocus, the last place Patrick had made contact with him from. However that was quite some time ago, and despite his efforts Leon was not able to locate his brother and was instead left homeless without any money. It wasn’t easy to make an honest living in Crocus, but as fate would have it there was one way Leon could continue his studies of fae sorcery and earn a bit of coin to get by - joining a back alley independent guild by the name of Fenixtear. His last month at the guild has started to plant ideas of grandeur in his young mind - Leon Aldehart, fully fledged wizard of Fenixtear. Though he still has quite a ways to go before achieving that dream.[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=palegreen]Extra Information[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent][u][color=palegreen]Thalassophobia[/color][/u]: Leon has a deep seeded fear of the ocean and other large bodies of water. He becomes quite tense and anxious whenever he is around them and will almost always refuse to go swimming anywhere he can't have his feet firmly planted.

[u][color=palegreen]Language Barrier[/color][/u]: Leon's Pixies are capable of understanding human speech, but they themselves only speak Fae. Leon has a very basic grasp of the language, but it is impossible for him to ever learn how to speak it himself as the phonetic components cannot be mimicked by human vocal chords.[/indent][/indent][/hider]