MAIN GOAL ⫻ Yoko's primary desire is to locate her brother Goro. She has no clue where he's at, but she's on the trail, and she will find him. While doing so, she wishes to honor her Grandfather's dying wish: recover the scattered artifacts and breathe new life into the Hatanaka name. Despite her initial disdain and reluctance for the magical world, she feels responsible for maintaining the Hatanaka legacy. This isn't just for her family, however. Still, it's for herself, and Yoko wishes to prove to the world that she is not only worthy of the Hatanaka name - but she is the gold standard for Hatanakas, warriors, Adepts, and whatever category you can stick Yoko in. In addition to this grand mission, Yoko seeks personal growth and a clearer sense of self. Her time away from magic, working various jobs, and honing her physical skills have shown her the value of normalcy. Yoko wants to find a way to integrate her duty with her desires, and she hopes to carve out a life that is true to who she is.

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Yoko’s philosophy revolves around self-determination and authenticity. She believes in the importance of being true to oneself, even if it means bucking the norms and breaking from tradition. This mindset directly responded to her upbringing, where she felt suffocated by her family's expectations and obsession with status and prestige. Yoko values honesty and straightforwardness, often rejecting pretense and false niceties, favoring genuineness. Her time spent away from magic, working various jobs, and honing her physical skills has reinforced her belief in self-sufficiency and the importance of personal freedom. However, Yoko’s encounters with magic and her experiences during the battle with the Stygian Snake have instilled the girl with a profound sense of duty and responsibility. She recognizes the importance of understanding and respecting her heritage, even if she initially rebelled against it. This sense of duty is deeply intertwined with her desire to honor her grandfather’s dying wish to reignite the Hatanaka legacy. Her philosophy now balances individualism and familial duty, where she strives to honor her past without being confined. Despite her bold and assertive demeanor, she deeply empathizes and cares for those she loves, particularly her brother Goro, her grandparents, and the few people she considers friends. This compassion extends to Shirakawa-Go, where she takes on the responsibility of protecting them from the paranormal. Yoko believes true strength lies in protecting and caring for others, especially when it requires sacrifice.

SECRETS ⫻ One of Yoko's most closely guarded secrets is the depth of her fear and trauma from the Stygian Snake incident. While she outwardly projects confidence and resilience, the memories of that night and her subsequent Kindling-Event haunt her. She often experiences nightmares and flashbacks, which she keeps hidden from everyone, including Goro. This fear is compounded by a lingering sense of inadequacy, stemming from her initial inability to protect herself and her reliance on Goro during the attack.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Yoko identifies as asexual, feeling little to no sexual attraction toward others; despite this, she has a strong desire for romantic connections and is open to dating both genders. Yoko longs for someone who can appreciate her complexities and see past her tough exterior to the compassionate and fiercely loyal person underneath. Additionally, Yoko harbors a strong desire to have a child. This is due to her need to continue the Hatanaka lineage and honor her grandfather's wish. She envisions raising a child who can inherit the family's legacy with pride and autonomy, free from the pressures and constraints she experienced.

FEARS ⫻ Yoko’s greatest fear is the possibility of losing her brother, Goro. His sudden disappearance has left her vulnerable and desperate. The thought of facing the magical world without his guidance and support terrifies her. This fear is about losing a loved one, but also about confronting the responsibility of continuing the Hatanaka legacy on her own. Goro has always been her anchor, and going on without him fills her with dread. Yoko is terrified of being perceived as weak or incapable by her family and herself. This fear drives her relentless pursuit of self-improvement, but it also threatens to consume her if she cannot find a way to balance her ambitions with her limitations.

REPUTATION IN OLD COVEN ⫻ One of the many terrors of the Old Coven, Yoko had to be near-literally dragged along the fight kicking and screaming. She was not happy to be here, nor did she want to be, and the young Yoko was determined to make that everyone's problem. She was seen as bold, overly aggressive, and difficult to work with, constantly challenging authority and testing the patience of everyone around her. Her frequent fights with Amy Nakamura, leadership, and other influential members only cemented her as a troublemaker. However, Yoko's relationship with the Coven was shaped and defined by her association with Goro; his influential status within the Old Coven essentially was a shield that protected her against backlash. Members who respected Goro were more lenient towards Yoko, hoping she might eventually follow in his footsteps. Despite her rebellious streak, some believed that, with the proper guidance, she could become a valuable member of the Old Coven.

ROLE IN THE BATTLE WITH THE STYGIAN SNAKE ⫻ During the battle with the Stygian Snake, Yoko's role was primarily that of support. Goro taught her various Rituals passed down through the Hatanaka bloodline that boosted the Abstractions of others, ensuring she could contribute to the fight while hopefully keeping her name off the memorial. Yoko used her Rituals to enhance the Abstractions of her allies and boost Emotional-Fields - though her spells were rudimentary compared to her brother's mighty and more advanced feats of Orange-Lux.

FLAWS ⫻ Yoko's social skills have always been lacking. She's not a talker; she's a doer, and while this attribute helps her sometimes, it often works against her. She simply doesn't know how to sit down and talk things over, preferring instead to jump to violence or escalate situations. Her most glaring flaw is her excessive pride, which often manifests as a stubborn refusal to accept help or admit mistakes. This pride is a shield from years of feeling inadequate compared to her prodigious older brother, Goro. Yoko's pride drives her to prove herself, but it also blinds her to her limitations and the value of collaboration. Her need to stand out and be strong on her terms often leads her to act recklessly and jeopardize herself and those around her. Her abrasive demeanor and unladylike manners express her internal struggle; Yoko has always felt like an outsider, a misfit who doesn't belong.

This feeling of alienation was exacerbated by her family's expectations and the constant comparison to Goro. She rebelled against these expectations, embracing a new persona to shield her vulnerable core until it stopped being a persona. Yet, this armor she built to protect her ego only pushes others away when Yoko only wants to be accepted and loved. Despite her fierce exterior, Yoko is plagued by a deep sense of insecurity and self-doubt. The trauma of facing the Stygian Snake and the subsequent (attempt to) return to a mundane life left her struggling to find purpose. Yoko yearns for normalcy yet is drawn to the magical world she fought so hard to escape. This duality leaves her constantly questioning herself, torn between the life she wants and the duty she feels compelled to uphold. Her reluctance to embrace her magical heritage is not just a rejection of her family’s legacy but also a rejection of the pain and responsibility it entails.

Adding to her internal conflict is a mild case of survivor's guilt over the death of Ella Brooks, a dear friend from the Old Coven. Yoko was on the sidelines when Ella died, unable to intervene, and the guilt from this event has lingered. She often wonders if she could have done more and if her hesitation makes her less deserving of the life she now leads. This feeling compounds her sense of alienation, adding another layer of emotional distance between her and those she cares about.

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Yoko was born and raised in Shirakawa-Go, a village in the mountainous Gifu Prefecture in Japan. All the girl knew from early life was the Hatanaka Estate, an ancient manor on the very outskirts of Shirakawa-Go. From the moment Yoko learned how to walk and talk, there was a distance between herself and her family and their magical roots. She was rebellious; her parents wanted to preserve their image, so they pressured her to fit it - but Yoko wasn’t that. Then there was her older brother, who was everything she was not. He was a wise, considerate prodigy who discovered and even embraced the Hatanaka family roots at a young age - while Yoko was oblivious to them. Yoko always stood out in school due to her unladylike, rude, brash, unapologetically assertive demeanor and temper. Her actions have often led to unnecessary controversy and attention on Yoko, but Goro was the only person who could get through to her. She held Goro in the highest regard, and he could temper the child when her parents couldn’t. Goro never introduced her to magic, as he felt she was unready.

The siblings had grandparents who lived in America (St.Portwell, Oregon, specifically), and they occasionally visited them (or when Yoko got in trouble) between school terms. Yoko didn't like America (or Americans) all that much, but she loved her grandparents to death and would love to visit them whenever possible. One such dramatic visit was during the Stygian Snake's rampage throughout the St. Portwell, and one night, Yoko was roused awake by one of the Stygian Snake's minions in her room. Naturally, Yoko freaked out as it tried to kill her, and the event was enough to cause Yoko to undergo her Kindling-Event. However, it couldn't save her, and Goro burst into the room with a glowing Odachi and cut the creature in half with a glowing Nodachi. Oblivious to what was happening, Goro grabbed Yoko and fled into the night as it was no longer safe at her grandparent's house.

After some fleeing, cleaving through the monster-infested streets of St. Portwell, they came across it: the Stygian Snake. And not just the Stygian Snake, the Sycamore Tree Coven, who opposed the serpentine menace... Goro helped them and eventually was introduced and invited to the Sycamore Tree Coven. Yoko wanted nothing to do with this Coven, the Stygian Snake, or even magic, but Goro pressured her into it, knowing the threat that the Stygian Snake posed. Yoko had to be ultimately dragged along, kicking and screaming, as Goro gave her a crash course in magic... he taught her some of the spells that were passed down the Hatanaka bloodline, primarily the support spells, so Yoko could stay out of the line of fire while also contributing towards defeating this world-ending threat.

However, that did not stop Yoko from being one of the Old Coven's many problem children. The young Yoko had the social skills of a brick; assertive and rebellious, she made it clear that she wasn’t happy to be here and constantly beefed with everyone over every little thing—especially with her “arch-rival” Amy Nakamura. On the other hand, Goro was seen as the model Coven-brother and was beloved by the Coven, working closely with influential members such as Jinhai, Britney, Jack, Amara, Kari, Ashley, and others. They were at war, and Goro was a quintessential member of the Old Coven, so Yoko’s behavior was tolerated. There was one person Yoko was friends with... Despite Yoko's best efforts to push her away, Kari Wilson reached out, offering friendship and support even though she never wanted it. Kari’s genuine kindness and patience slowly broke through Yoko’s defenses, and they eventually became best friends. Through Kari, Yoko met Ella Brooks, who also became one of the few friends Yoko had in the Old Coven.

However, tragedy struck before the Stygian Snake was defeated. Ella Brooks, one of Yoko’s few genuine friends, was killed by a horde of Apparitions. Ella's death struck a deep chord within Yoko, intensifying her feelings of inadequacy and igniting a fierce survivor’s guilt. The Stygian Snake was sealed, and then suddenly, they were harder on Yoko, and the weight of this tragedy bore heavily on Yoko as the Stygian Snake was eventually sealed.. Before Yoko could be voted out, the sibling’s time in America ended, and the two returned to Japan for their next school term. In between terms, Goro returned to America to spend more time in the Old Coven, but the Old Coven self-destructed after returning to Japan.

But Goro believed he had finally cracked it; the secret to magic and invigorating the Hatanaka legacy was connecting and learning from others. Yoko, on the other hand? She thought it was all rubbish, that her life was better without magic, and that she could not care less about the family legacy. After graduating, he chose to attend university in St. Portwell and learn from magical experts like Britney and Kari Wilson. However, returning to Japan was easy because he had a teleportation artifact made in collaboration with Kenshiro Murakin. Goro tried to teach Yoko more about Magic, but she wasn’t interested, so he gave up.

However, leaving magic behind was more complicated than anticipated. Shirakawa-Go’s tranquility was suffocating compared to fighting against the Stygian Snake. Yoko tried to play it off but was haunted by what she went through against the Stygian Snake — and, more deeply, by the death of Ella Brooks. The guilt of standing on the sidelines during Ella’s death gnawed at her, leaving her questioning her role and responsibility. Going to school felt trivial, and she was frustrated and pent-up. She went to the gym to channel her aggression into something positive. The gym became a sanctuary to the girl as weightlifting, running, and martial arts became her daily routine. Martial arts, in particular, became something she desperately needed: discipline and an outlet for her inner turmoil.

In an attempt to gain some financial independence and to defy her family’s expectations, she took a few part-time jobs. She got a job in a cafe, a local convenience store, and even as a farmhand during harvest season, which gave her a break from her inner turmoil and allowed her to interact with Shirakawa-Go on her terms.

However, magic was never far behind, and she was drawn to inexplicable events and magical disturbances. She used what magic she knew to solve them, feeling a mixture of resentment, duty, and, worst of all, certainty. As she dealt with each new disturbance, she couldn’t help but think of Ella and wonder if things might have been different had she acted sooner. This sense of guilt, combined with her growing realization that she could never truly escape magic, pushed her to confront the reality that, like it or not, she would be dragged back into the magical world. This duality between the life she wanted and the legacy she couldn't escape did not make her particularly happy, but her survivor’s guilt complicated things. She couldn’t shake the feeling that perhaps she owed it to Ella to be more robust — to take control of magic before it controlled her. Eventually, Yoko decided that if she was going to be involved in magic, it would be on her terms, so she finally asked Goro to teach her.

Goro was delighted that Yoko had finally understood everything and prepared for this. He took her to the basement of the Hatanaka Estate and opened a portal to the Hatanaka Sanctuary. The Hatanaka family used a personal dimension for generations, which hosted their castle. This place was surreal, but Goro trained Yoko in more magic and taught her some spells. Even though Yoko didn't take to it initially, he eventually specially tailored his training regime to her. He also took her to the Hatanaka arsenal, giving her several artifacts.

Then, he cut her loose in Shirakawa-Go, where she used her artifacts and spells to keep Shirakawa-Go safe from paranormal threats between training and work. However, her grandfather’s health deteriorated, and Yoko and Goro returned to America. On his deathbed, their grandfather’s last wish was never to let the Hatanaka legacy burn out, to renew it, and to carry it onto the next generations. Their grandfather also asked them to find the Hatanaka family’s missing artifacts.

Yoko prepared for the adventure of a lifetime... Only for Goro to tell her that she was not going. When Yoko asked why, he told her she wasn't ready: she had only recently begun learning magic and fighting monsters. Despite Yoko’s insistence, he took off on a multiversal adventure but occasionally returned to drop off artifacts he found and train Yoko. While Yoko just pretended everything was okay and went back to her routine.

However, eventually, Goro went dark. Yoko had no idea where he went or where to find him. Thus, it seemed like it was up to Yoko to honor her grandfather's wishes and find her brother...

... Except she had no idea how to get back into the Hatanaka sanctuary.

TYPE ⫻ Adept.

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Orange Lux. Yoko's Channeler is an antique comb gifted by her grandmother.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ The Hatanaka magical arts encompass three distinct disciplines, all of which were passed down to Yoko by her mentor and brother, Goro Hatanaka. Each of these disciplines represents a different pillar of magic that the Hatanaka family upheld. In the Ritual Discipline, practitioners delve into the ancient practices that tap into the essence of Orange Lux, harnessing its power to imbue strength, resilience, and protection upon themselves and their allies. Armanant, on the other hand, focuses on combat spells and techniques honed over centuries, allowing wielders to transform mundane objects into formidable weapons and nullify the advantages of their adversaries. Lastly, the Weaponmaster Discipline embodies the renowned craftsmanship of the Hatanaka lineage, celebrated for its mastery in crafting legendary weapons. While Yoko is enthusiastic, she is behind because there was a lengthy period of her life in which she wanted nothing to do with magic.









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MAIN GOAL ⫻ Selena wants to set herself up to live the rest of her life comfortably. To do this, she seeks out connections with people to form her own “family,” like a mafia without the moral bankruptcy. Selena wants to develop enough connections and working relationships with people that neither she nor they have to figure things out alone. All of this stems from her personal history, as her younger brother recently became the head of the Gallagher family, and is looking to tie up loose ends.

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Selena sees life as a chessboard. The wrong move can leave you hopeless, so it’s always important to thing ahead a plan carefully. And someone has to lose in order for someone else to win. Anything that can’t survive scrutiny shouldn't, and though Selena may seem cold to those who aren’t familiar with her, she simply thinks realistically about the paranormal world. Having any amount of magical power is dangerous, because someone else will decide what to do with you if you don’t decide for yourself. Selena is less concerned with the right and wrong of it all and more concerned with not being the one who gets trampled. It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and Selena refuses to go hungry.

SECRETS ⫻ Selena stole more than just the Greymoon Cloak from her family, and knows more about what they’ve been up to since her departure than she lets on. Over the years, she has regularly undercut the Gallaghers and spied on them to ensure they can’t get to her.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Pansexual

FEARS ⫻ Selena fears being helpless, unable to win a situation that she’s found herself stuck in. She knows that despite her capabilities as an Adept, she isn’t perfect. Her goals make other people’s enemies her enemies, and she doesn’t want to be in an impossible situation.

REPUTATION IN OLD COVEN ⫻ Selena was known to be a no-nonsense voice of determination in the old coven. She did not have any patience whatsoever for stupidity, or people trying to be something they weren’t. She took the coven’s purpose seriously, and didn’t respect anyone who thought it was a joke. Selena cared about saving the world, and considered it much more important than partying or being dumb kids.

ROLE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST THE STYGIAN SNAKE ⫻ Selena worked to keep the coven from imploding by ensuring the right people did the right thing, with as little error as possible. If someone fucked up, she got on their ass about it. Of course, Selena wasn’t a hypocrite, so she often stepped in to do things herself and show others how it was done. Sometimes this meant laying waste to mindless Apparitions by the dozens, and other times this meant doing proper research, but she often found herself filling multiple roles.

FLAWS ⫻ Selena's pride means a lot to her. She worked hard to get to this point, and she'll be damned if she lets anybody take that away from her. She has an ego, and that means she doesn't believe she has anything to prove to anybody.

Selena’s story begins at the age of eight, when her parents worked tirelessly to dove a Kindling Event. Before she found her way to St. Portwell, because she found her way into the Sycamore Tree Coven, there was no Selena Phoenix, only Selena Gallagher. Born into a family of elite adepts with international connections and power, Selena was raised to be the next generation of a longstanding legacy; A legacy marred with cruelty, political subterfuge and aristocratic influence. The world of magic has always been one ruled by the strong, and Selena was just next in line to take the proverbial throne of high society. From a young age she learned to channel her Lux as was taught to her by masterful Adepts, and she was forced to learn the political landscape of the entire world by the time she was 10. Selena had everything, but she hated all of it. Learning so much about so many things and so many places, she resented her ruthless family, and it only got worse as she grew older and understood them better and better.

So when she was 16, she snuck out during a "party" for all of the family's close political allies. She made it look like an accident had occurred, to distract and throw people off of her trail. She broke into her mother's room and stole a priceless artifact, the Graymoon Cloak, and vanished into the night. Having the foresight to think ahead, she manage to steal plenty of money on the way out. Then, Selena got on a plane and never looked back. Her journey took her to St. Portwell, a city she had heard much about in the clutches of her family. It was here that she encountered a minion of the Stygian Snake, which she quickly dispatched with her red Lux. It just so happened that a certain heroic Adept with a knack for lightning found her and got her into the coven.

She made allies who became friends, discovered a world that the Gallagher family would have never told her about and did something that really made the world a better place. She was there for the coven's downfall, and made sure to keep contact with some key members after she left. She went on to work up a network of her own connections in the paranormal world, and fell into a life of freelance living, where the people she met and established a relationship with insulated her. She wanted to be untouchable, and wanted to share that quality with the right people to have as much freedom as she wanted.

One such person she wanted to work into her “family” was Goro Hatanaka, one of the best members of the Sycamore coven, the gold standard. She booked a flight to Japan, and began her search for him.

TYPE ⫻ Adept

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Red, White and Purple Lux

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Selena is a classically trained Adept who learned a wide range of spell at a young age. Many of her spells collectively revolve around her affinity for knowledge and study. As such, Selena has amassed a well-rounded spellbook for combat, everyday use and support in a group effort.





LIMITS ⫻ A common trend among many of Selena's combat-oriented spells, the Book of Shards, is they don't use Lux to be cast. Rather, they are Lux, pulled from her soul, directly from the source to give her spells more substance. As with all Adepts, her Lux is the source of her Emotional-Field. These two things mean that, in practice, prolonged use of her offensive magic will make Selena temporarily less paranormal, resulting in her Lux weaker and her natural resistance to incoming magic weaker. There are two ways to manage this. The first is to simply avoid using the Book of Shards to fight, and the other is to flee the fight while her magic recovers from the strain.

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MAIN GOAL ⫻ Connor doesn’t have much he wants in life. He just wants to outlive his enemies and see them dismantled before they can hurt good, honest people. To that end, he and Sirus have made plans to come home to St. Portwell, only to be held up by a certain orange Adept on a quest for artifacts.

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Connor lives by the belief that the strong are responsible for the safety of the weak. As someone who considers himself one of the strong, Connor makes it his goal in life to stamp out threats to the people who don’t deserve it. The Morningstars, the Dollhouses, and the corrupt PRA directors of the world are his targets, like a shepherd defending the herd from an angry wolf.

SECRETS ⫻ Connor’s Abstraction has significant impacts on his mental state, something he keeps close to the chest in case anyone exploits it. All of his constructs amplify a specific emotion in him, making him more aggressive, more stubborn, or more protective, or any other emotion depending on which are active. This isn’t the most groundbreaking secret to have, but it is something that someone could use against him.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Connor has never allowed himself the time to explore the part of himself that feels such things for others, so he never found a name for how he feels. He simply chalks it up to “something or another thing,” and leaves it at that.

FEARS ⫻ Being truly alone in the world is something Connor never wants to return to. That state of being against the entire universe, where it was impossible to be any closer to rock bottom on countless levels, still haunts him to this day. Even if he doesn’t admit it.

REPUTATION IN OLD COVEN ⫻ Connor was dependable in a fight, albeit not so dependable when feelings were hurt. He took no shit and rarely gave any in the first place, unless someone really deserved it. But above all else, Connor was scary. Once, an Apparition made by the Stygian Snake had set a building on fire with him inside, and several members of the coven found him covered head to toe in burning clothes, still fighting the culprit like he wasn't even phased. Many people in the coven thought he was clinically insane, an actual psychopath, or some combination of the two. Despite his unhinged nature, Connor always got things done when he set his mind to them. He was honest, hellbent on keeping the coven alive to the end and outliving the Stygian Snake, and he never held back.

ROLE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST THE STYGIAN SNAKE ⫻ Together with his masterwork machine, Sirus, he led a whole squad of constructs into battle against the Snake. Massive guns firing on it to beat it into a corner, grenades turning whole swathes of its minions into ash, drones flying overhead in entire flocks to treat the wounded... Connor came alive during that battle. He supplied the other frontline fighters with their own weapons of all shapes and sizes to compensate for less offensive Abstractions, and pushed himself to extremes that most wouldn't dream of, a mix of quartermaster, commander and soldier.

FLAWS ⫻ The same violent, unhinged nature that got Connor so far is the same thing that holds him back. People have died because they drove him over the edge of a cliff that he’s always close to. Deep down, Connor always has been a fundamentally damaged person, unfit to live a normal life among the Blind. For him, snatching one more day on earth from the jaws of death is the only thing that makes life feel like it has any meaning. That’s all he’s ever known.

In a place far from St. Portwell, beneath the notice of the greater paranormal world, there was a town known as Felton. In this town, a cruel being known as Lady Razorback ruled with an iron fist, stamping out every trace of hope anyone had for rising up and taking control of their lives. Felton was a place where the weak suffered, walled off from the outside world by a mix of magic and mundane factors. Starvation and sickness were an everyday fact of life, right alongside fresh victims for the field of crosses in the heart of town. To an outsider, Felton was in many ways similar to the Pit; Cruel, a monument to terror and suffering, home to atrocities that should never be named.

And it was in this hell that Connor Bray was born.

Connor’s earliest memories include running through bombed out warrens, climbing through desolate ruins to find shelter, and seeing visions of incomprehensibly powerful entities he could not name. From before he was old enough to understand the world itself, Connor understood the existence of magic, and of the things that went on in his home. Ever since he could walk, he fended for himself, cutting and running when someone bigger than him thought he’d be a cheap kill. By the time he was roughly 10 years old, Connor realized that he, too, could use magic. So he scoured the ruined stretches of Felton, beneath the foothills of Lady Razorback’s “kingdom,” to gather up materials that he needed for the visions he had.

He didn’t fully understand how he was doing the things he did, but they worked. Day after day, Connor would go through immense physical pain as his body burned up from the inside out, casting Lux into the shape of a machine without a channeler, something he didn’t know he needed at the time. The pain was debilitating, but like a solid block of marble being chipped away at over the course of a lifetime, he finally created a magic construct that called itself Sirus.

No longer alone, the two of them survived together for the next few years. Sirus watched Connor’s back, and helped keep him safe from the occasional starving animal that got too close. But eventually, Lady Razorback discovered that a new Adept was running around her little territory, so she sent her enforcers down into the trenches to look for him and his creation. An offer of power was extended to Connor and Sirus, but they both refused. They hated everything about Lady Razorback’s authority, having heard the countless whispers of her history by other “subjects.”

This wasn’t good enough for the ruler of Felton. Though she gave Connor time to consider the offer, she eventually came down hard on the child. Her loyal soldiers were sent to hunt Connor down for sport, using powerful magic to bring him to heel. But together with Sirus, they survived. Perhaps it was by sheer luck, or the fact rang no one truly understood Connor’s magic abilities, but they managed to beat the soldiers back and retreat deeper into the ruins. When they were safe, Connor an Sirus realized they needed to fight their way out. It was unthinkable to do so, Felton was all they had ever known. But the choice was clear, stay in hell or claw their way out.

And so, through great pain and meticulous planning, Connor created a a pair of weapons that would make their escape far more easy. A blade of burning steel, and a pistol that fired explosions instead of bullets. Side by side, they cut a bloody path out of Felton. An Adjoined bound to the soul of a dead military captain was split down the middle with the sword, an Agent with a spear of solid light was reduced to ash, and over a dozen more fell victim to them as they carved through Lady Razorback’s forces.

They found a vehicle, one of the jeeps used to move supplies and “offenders” around the town. Sirus took the wheel while Connor stuck to shooting, and after a seven hour struggle, they made it past the walls of Felton. They escaped and drove down endless roads for days. They lost track of just how long they were out there, but it felt like no one else passed their car until they reached a city on the west coast: St. Portwell.

Their lives changed for the better as they met the coven. Connor came alive, grew up and met so many people. He learned so much in so little time, it was like becoming a whole other person in the year that he spent with them. Connor quickly made himself known as a dangerous person to cross, but he always did right by the coven members who deserved it. Those like Ashley Stone, Kari Wilson, and Goro Hatanaka who acted as the foundation of the coven. But once it was all said and done, after all the damage was mended, Connor and Sirus made it clear they had unfinished business to take care of outside of St. Portwell. The violent kind that only they would walk away from.

But before they left, Connor got in touch with Sloane for one last act of coven business. He handed off most of his more powerful weapons, and several duplicates of his constructs to her, saying that he wasn’t sure how long he’d be away. If there was an emergency, or if the Stygian Snake came back, Connor said that he trusted her to use his work however she saw fit.

The coven has not seen or heard from Connor or Sirus ever since.

TYPE ⫻ Adept

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Red, Gold, and Orange Lux

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Connor’s Lux has a strong affinity towards the creation of weapons, and mechanical automatons that have enough intelligence to make their own decisions. Where most Adepts have spells, Connor has an arsenal of energy-based weapons that answer a variety of questions. The process that most Adepts go through to invent new spells is instead a process that Connor uses to construct a wholly new weapon, or a new drone with specific functions in mind. This progress is more along the lines of mundane engineering, and includes a great deal of back and forth, designing and redesigning. Orange Lux is the cornerstone of Connor’s entire “spellbook,” which is then supplemented by either red or gold Lux depending on which of his two affinities he is working with.



LIMITS ⫻ A major flaw of Connor’s Abstraction is that he does not cast spells. Rather, he creates material conduits of his Lux to use as weapons or as answers to a problem. Because of this, a clear weak point in his capabilities lies in the fact that once you take away his weapons, he’s effective a One-Eye-Open. Connor is as magically strong as the weapons or backup he has at his disposal.

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