“Never forget that you are of the Tower. Remember your training, and you just might make it out alive.”
Arteus Navarre Irvin

The Magus Headmaster and Chief of Staff of the Eon Tower. A handsome man in his prime, he is the youngest member of the organization to obtain the rank of Grandmaster in several generations. In his younger days, he earned fame as a Reaver by racking up countless accolades and was often given express permission to act as a lone Reaver. Truthfully, he was seen by some as a ruthless and callous sorcerer, and crushed any foe that stood in his way without remorse. His infamy had earned him the moniker “Void Serpent.”

He eventually decided that he grew tired of taking orders under the jurisdiction of the Association, and he decided to use the influence and resources he had accumulated in order to establish his own sect. He, along with some trusted colleagues and people of special expertise, founded what is now known as the Eon Tower. He envisioned it as a private sector in the Association that can act on it's own in various cases and not have to bother with the frustrating bureaucracy of the higher ups. Although, this has made the Holy Church keep an even closer eye on them, must to Arteus's chagrin...

Still, he presents himself as being a poised and cordial man who is polite and professional to everyone he meets. He is entrusted with the most skilled Magus under his leadership, and competition to join his unit is the fiercest in the Tower. However, even seasoned mages who are accepted under his wing often complain that he is something of a taskmaster. Often setting unreasonable goals for his squads and sending them out on what could be best described as suicide missions. It doesn’t help that the high council of the Magus Association is silently up in arms about giving what amounts to an upstart humbug such a high ranking position and responsibilities. Still, even they can’t deny that his methods have produced results that have contributed largely to the organization’s sterling reputation, in addition to producing a generation of expert Reavers.

Arteus has shown proficient mastery in all forms of magic known to the tower, favoring Elementalism, Galdr, and Void magic. There are some peculiar rumors that he’s mastered some forbidden spells, but this has not been confirmed.

CV: J. Michael Tatum
Character Theme:

"...I'll keep going down this path no matter what. For their sake."

Name: Rozemyne Levina

Appearance: Roze is an average height for a Morgenröte woman, standing around 5'6”. She is a young lady with striking features, which usually lie hidden beneath her aloof and shady exterior. Her long, somewhat messy black hair stretches past her shoulders, with bangs that often hide her left eye. She wears traditional female magus robes, albeit slightly more modern and personalized to her specific tastes. She usually has a very taciturn expression on her face, but can show intense emotion in certain circumstances.

Race: Human

Sex: Female

Age: 23

Magic Divination: Elementalism (Arch-level Fire, Water, and Wind magic) and Galdr (Beast Summoning)

Abilities: Roze possesses the ability to manipulate the elements of Fire, Water, and Wind. All of which she wields to deadly effect, having a talent for them at a young age. In addition, she developed a strong connection to animal spirits, three Greater Ones in fact. Animals that each represent one of her elements, increasing her combat capabilities and bond with nature.

Caienne - a werebat-like creature with vermillion fur and wings ablaze. The creature can conjure flames in various ways, from concentrated rays to literal streams of combustion that render all in its path to cinders.

Devion - A sinister and translucent shark creature that can call forth can control mighty oceanic currents

Icarus - This summon takes the form of a large and beautiful pheasant-like avian with a brilliant emerald down. With its magnificent wingspan, it is able to command gales mighty enough to shred and decimate anything caught in their wake.

Triad Witchcraft: Beast Possession - Roze is considered something of a prodigy in the field of invocation and evocation, possessing an awareness of nature spirits and being able to commingle with them even at a young age. Traits that are more commonly seen in Belua and Fae. This talent, nurtured through experience, has allowed her to bond with her summons strong enough to be possessed by them. This invocation achieves a type of, “fusion”, where Roze physically takes on their bestial qualities and increase her physical and magical attributes.



Arch Witchcraft: Triad Evocation - The pinnacle of Levina’s beast soul manipulation. By channeling a great deal of her mana, she takes the spirits of Caienne, Devion, and Icarus and blends their essences together, creating a single entity from their energies.

Caligo


A large, monstrous creature with a pair of wing-like appendages extending out of its lower body, with parts of it lined with dark, silver, bony armor. A perfect hunter, the creature boasts superior speed, power, and durability compared to the separate beasts that made it. It also has access to all of their elemental abilities, in addition to a hazy substance that it can spread around its vicinity. The haze has an acidic property that can melt anything it touches. Being made up of three predatory animals, the chimera’s temperament is nearly unmanageable, and even Roze has trouble controlling it often. Which is why she would rather not perform possession magic with it, if at all possible.

Arch Witchcraft: Triad Invocation: Silber Chimäre - This brand of Beast Possession is something Roze uses only in dire circumstances. Already using a large amount of mana and concentration to maintain and direct Caligo, Roze must dedicate all of her willpower to will the chimera’s essence to meld with her own, and thus perform the final beast possession.

In this form, Roze takes all of the spellcasting and physical capabilities of Caligo, but unfortunately she also takes on all of its predatory fury. Highly unstable, if Roze cannot maintain proper focus, she runs the danger of going to a “feral” state where she can’t differentiate friend from foe. Worse for herself, Caligo’s will may win out to where its the one in control…

Equipment:

Roze wields her sorcery using a powerful magictech staff named Gungnir. It has a large catalyst crystal in the top of the scepter that changes color depending on the summon she evokes. Other than that, she’s the type to travel lightly and simply carries small provisions and a couple of combat knives standard for traveling mages.

Brief Background: An archwitch and veteran reaver to the Tower, Rozemyne is a powerful elementalist and beast spiritualist born in a small residential district in the Republic. She commands high proficiency in manipulating the elements of Fire, Water, and Wind. In addition, she can summon familiars using evocation in order to further augment her spells.

From a young age, Roze had set herself apart from her peers and demonstrated a talent for manipulating spiritual forces, being able to hear the echoes of animal souls and them having an affinity for her, traits more often seen in Belua and Fae Folk. Graduating with high marks and quickly rising from junior to adept, Roze eventually became one of the youngest archwitches to ever achieve the rank in recent years.

A stoic and somewhat somber person, she rarely speaks about her past and seems to grow uncomfortable when it becomes the subject of conversation, leading some to believe it may be riddled with tragedy. To Roze herself, there was a particular mission where she was the sole survivor in her early days as a journeyman magus. While a prodigy, she was still so green, prone to all the misgivings and pitfalls of youthful unpreparedness. Her squadron wiped out, she steeled herself for the end, bloodied and grasping her broken staff.

There was a single individual, they weren't with another battalion and walked the danger zone alone. Stride like a veteran and the pride of a wolf, they tore through the ranks of the rotted beasts as if they were newborns. After dealing with the monsters, The individual turned to Roze and mended her wounds, she couldn't quite find the words to speak, still in shock with her life flashing before her eyes.

They turned to Roze and spoke first. “Mourn your comrades with dedication. Don't wallow in hindsight, make your pain your strength.” That was all he said before leaving. She didn't understand what he meant by those words back then, but she's internalized them. Perhaps it's why she's become so reserved, focused on honing her abilities to prevent further tragedies

Eventually, her dedication allowed her to soar to the rank of Archwitch, allowing her renown to reach the ears of Arteus, who promptly offered an invitation of recruitment into Eon along with private instruction. While it doesn’t show, her loyalty to the organization is unwavering, and values her allies on the field.

Extra bits:

• Roze grew up having strange hobbies that weren't traditionally “feminine” by old standards, preferring to play in marshes, abandoned buildings, and waterways. As a result, she found it difficult to make other female friends.

• To appease her spirits, Roze will every so often make animal sacrifices to offer them. There is a special ritual room in the Tower dedicated for her process

• Due to her connection to nature, Roze never had much difficulty making Belua friends. Hence, she has a strong bond with Rue, Lapis, and Xashan.

• Roze, to her surprise, has developed a sort of bond with Bellum, due to the older woman's attempts to appeal more to her bestial femininity.

• Whilst completely unknown to Roze herself, the fame she has earned with her beast possession magic has earned her a large cult following of fans, enchanted by her appearance.

Some better know Roze as the Witch of the Triad.

CV: Brina Palencia

Character Theme:

"The sheer thrill of the hunt is all a Reaver needs. What say you, greenhorn?"

Xashan Vhastia

A veteran Reaver who's been at Eon since it's inception. Back when he was a solo freelancer, he was a magus of some renown. He had the opportunity to fight alongside Arteus on a few missions and was notably impressed with the man's mastery over the six principles. Eventually, Arteus told him of how he had the idea to establish his own personal sect at the Magus HQ, and invited him to join it when it he got it running. He felt a natural kinship and intrigue with the man and his proposal, also being someone who likes to do things his own way. He's consider him a brother in arms ever since.

A bestial Belua, he has the looks and the disposition of a proud lion, and has the power of one to boot. While in battle, he puts his proficiency of Elementalism and Alchemy to full use. The wields the power of Earth, mainly using it in the form of sand. His impressive alchemic knowledge allows him to transmute it into countless tiny strands of a golden alloy that he uses to supplement his combat, both close and mid range. These skills have earn him the moniker 'Beast of the Golden Sands'.

He's quite jovial and enjoys joining friends in a good laugh, but he can also be very snide and domineering. It's put him at odds with others more than a few times.

Brunhyldia Amelia Selini

"The Void contains vast knowledge, and the Light shall be the guide."

An immensely powerful sorceress whose expertise in both Thaumaturgy and Void theory is known far and wide. Both she and Arteus served under the same regimen during their time before founding Eon. Both were regarded as prodigies by even the High Council of the Association. Many people find themselves off put by Irvin, but she trust and understands his intentions more than anyone, having fought with him for so long. She assists him in overseeing the daily goings of the Tower and providing support for new recruits.

Much like Irvin, she has fully mastered all six principles of sorcery. In particular, Brunhyldia is able to freely combine the energies of both Thaumaturgy and Void to create the sinister magic known as Chaos. It is a rare and primordial ability that allows her to influence phenomena around her in various degrees.

For other magical abilities, she gathers around her alchemic crystals that grant her a high level of control of void energy not usually seen, transmuted from an unknown substance that seems to resonate with black magic. Along with this, she generates purifying light in various forms. From weapons to shockwaves, she can also make chains that even bind miasma abominations.

Her power has caused her to the earn the moniker, "Witch of Chaos", throughout the magus world.

"I'd advise you to take your training and studies seriously. Otherwise, I might just decide to cast you away into the watery depths."

Ruecian Valeniquen

A serpentine Belua with the appearance of a handsome young man. He serves as a combat instructor of sorts, drilling newcomers to the Tower on their specific field strategies and battle tactics. He is a man of few words, and when he does speak he expects those he's instructing to listen as if there lives depend on it (which it rather does...).

While appearing cold and rough, his has a soft spot for those close to him, particularly his little sister.

A powerful Elementalist and Inovker, he calls forth a mighty Ryujin spirit to drastically increase the power of his water and ice abilities. Naturally, the Tower quickly sought him out for his skills and battle insight.

"Such is to be expected of a genius like me~"

Evelyn Grace

A young magus who recently received her license from the Association. Standing out amongst her peers, her application to the Tower was accepted and she hopes use Eon as a foothold to establish a career as a world famous witch. She's mostly motivated by delusions of grandeur, due to hearing of the accomplishments of the more senior members. Her heart's in the right place at the end of the day though.

She has high proficiency in Element manipulation and Void usage. In particular, she can combine the elements of fire and lightning to create a plasma-like element she calls 'star'. Using the essence of Void, she can lessen gravity's hold on her - allowing her to fly around on her staff. She can also use this ability on her surroundings, levitating objects and other people as she sees fit. She's also currently perfecting a technique that fully combines her elemental techniques with her usage of void, something she refers to as a "Nebula Field".

"The voice of the gentle streams have been troubled as of late..."

Lapis Valeniquen

Another recent addition to the Eon team of Espers, she is Ruecian's younger sister. He objected at first to her joining the field, but seeing the promise she held and feeling it'd be easy to keep an eye on her, he placed his faith in Arteus and his team to keep her safe.

Like her brother, she can freely conjure and manipulate water. She is usually seen with her familiar, Hachigan, a spirit resembling a tiny octopus. She also has a unique esper ability that allows her to communicate with sea-faring creatures, calling it the 'voice of the stream'.

She's a bit more forth-coming and friendly than her older sibling.

"I'm a man of simple pleasures. Booze, guns, and the sweet smell of reconstruction at work!"

Johannes Childes

A senior Reaver whose led a sterling 40 year career in the field of monster hunting before the Tower was created. A gritty old timer who underneath the roughneck bravado offers a profound insight into the world of magitech theory and battle tactics. It's no surprise that shortly after conceiving Eon, Arteus personally sought him out and insisted that he join their fold. The Tower's robust system of magitech weapons are an attribute of his creative mind. He's retired now, and mainly serves as the Tower's blacksmith/mechanic and as an advisor for aspiring alchemists and budding magitech researchers.

Even at his old age, though, he's still willing to volunteer for the most dangerous missions with a childish smile on his face, eager to test out whatever new firearm or tech suit he's toiled away at. You'd be hard press to find a better gunslinger, using a self-transforming alchemic gun with bullets to boot. He also imbues the bullets with various elemental effects to further bolster his attack power, though he sometimes uses too much power and becomes more of a danger to his allies along with enemies.

While not on the job one can usually find him in either his personal atelier, which serves as more of an arms factory and alchemy laboratory for the Tower, or drinking the night away at any local bar in town. Be prepared for his shop to reek of rusted metal, chemical fumes, and cheap liquor.

Name: Naomi Schuller
Appearance:

Race: Belua (Galah)

Sex: Female

Age: 20 (+7)

Magic Divination: Elementalism (Wind Specialization) and Alchemy (Transformation Specialization)

Abilities: By an large, a noncombatant by nature of being a Avian Belua, and possessing hollow bones and tender wings, Naomi specializes in Defensive Magic and Mobility Magic, with a few Offensive Spells.

Zyphering: Naomi’s bread and butter spell, a form of Mobility Magic that uses her natural-born control over Wind Magic to lighten her body further, and - unashamedly - run away from combat, nine times outta ten. That one in ten, however, she’s a tough target to hit.

Natural Weapon: The most unused spell in Naomi’s arsenal, as it’s, in her own words, “More hassle than its worth,” as it’s only purpose is to grow her fingernails and toenails into talons, and sharpen their edges, as well as the edges of her wings. However, she grows heavier as a result, requiring [Zyphering], ‘lest she be a “flightless bird”.

At that point, she’d rather run away than deal with the several hours of nail treatments and preening.

Crimson Cockatrice “Icarus”: All Belua have a “bestial” side to them. Some embrace it. Some do not. Some... fear the beast inside. Naomi is one of those that fears her own nature - predatory, never prey; her pink wings a mere warning of the flame awaiting fuel. Once entering “beast mode”, Naomi’s wings turn crimson and the air around her falls under her sway, becoming superheated thermals that lifts her and scorches her foes to the point of spontaneous combustion.

However, like her persona’s namesake, while Naomi’s “possessed” by her inner beast, her wings are slowly burning away, and eventually, she will crash and burn; a truly flightless bird, until her wings grow back.

Gentling Breeze: A thinker, Naomi does have some interest in combining two Schools of Magic into one, and while not as prolific (see: annoying) as Nadia is in the task, she has her own Unique Spell, “A spell that soothes the heart and soul of the angered and depressed with a gentling breeze...” and can pacified the wild beast in pain.

Equipment: Not one for fighting, being unfit for the task by the nature of her birth, Naomi carries around a light satchel of the necessities: a feather brush, a waterskin, a small tin of benne wafers, three empty journals, two inkwells, and a pen nib that she can supply a feather for as needed.

As per a Belua to Belua suggestion (see: unsubtle command) from Xashan, she carries a small, chipped dagger - broken in a training accident - holstered on her thigh, because, “You don’t get to decide who does and doesn’t want to fight magically. Always have a blade.”

Brief Background: A recent graduate of a branch of the Morgenröte Research Institute, known as The Menagrie, dedicated to Magizoology - the study of Magical Beasts. An Avian Belua, Naomi had a natural affinity to the subject, holding top marks and cultural insights as to the nature of her magical progenitors. Having such accolades at her age, it was less of a question of “when” and more of a question of “why not” as to how the field had swallowed her whole, and drained her talent.

The reason, no-one was taking someone like her - short, cowardly, introverted, scatterbrained - into the field to study, meaning that she’d no real experience to showcase, and therefore, generated no interest. Especially, as her chosen thesis was a study of Cryptomagizoology - the study of Mythical Magical Beasts, the Divine Animals.

Nobody was looking for a “future crashout”. Except a certain collector of “nobodies” named Arteus Irvin, prodigal, bastard son of the Reaver Association and indomitable, uncertain danger to the Holy Church. Founder of Eon Tower, he was scouting talent, far and wide, and her research papers - few and far between - caught his attention. It was a simple negotiation: her insight, his funding.

A match made in modernized Heaven.

The rest is history barely worth the recounting. People came and went, and Naomi regarded them all with equal introversion - taking conversation as one would sips of water, quick and short, unless the topic at hand was one of Magizoology, or especially, Cryptomagizoology. Any method of the two, and she would launch into a diatribe that could rival even Nadia.

However, she is somewhat slightly spoiled by Arteus’s passiveness, and rarely leaves Eon Tower grounds beyond a wall around the gardens kept by Bellum. Recently, though, she’s broached the idea of... venturing beyond the walls. Perhaps, the recent restaffing has inspired her a little...

Extra Bits:

• Well not vain, Naomi is very finicky about keeping her nails manicured and pedicured and her wing feathers well preened, much like Simple Avians.

• Though she studied in Morgenröte, Naomi was born in and immigrated from Haearn Pelyn, so she has a notable accent.

• Gets annoyed whenever Kiff asks for a feather, as he always wants a tail feather.

• Favors Bellum, like most, because she’s a ray of light in a dark world, and a cornucopia given life.

• Made a promise to Elaine to never “fly close to the sun reckless” unless it was the only choice.

• Feels that Childes thinks less of her for being a pacifist Belua, and hasn’t approached him to repair her dagger

• In a legendary event, once talked to Nadia about fusing Mythical Beast Spirits for twenty-seven hours. They both passed out mid-debate, and it has not been allowed to finish.

• Naomi’s CV: Caiti Ward (Velvet Scarlatina)

• Naomi’s Character Theme: FIRE BIRD

"By combing alchemic reactions along with invocation, you'll then achieve perfect harmony as a synergist. What is a synergist, you say? Well, I'm so happy you asked!"

Nadia Whitsett

A interesting alchemic scholar born to a family of invokers in the republic. She often goes on about wanting to usher in a new sorcerous principle that she calls 'synergy'. Based on what she says, it's based on strengthening the power of a invoked spirit and the amount of time it's summoner can maintain it in the Material World by utilizing alchemic reactions to continuously transmute nearby energy as fuel. As one would guess, she hadn't gotten much ground with her theory as of yet.

Still, it shouldn't be ignored that her alchemic and galdr knowledge is superb for one in her field. So much so that even Arteus decided that she be fit for the tower as an invocation adviser.

Being from a family of such, Nadia can summon various sprites around her, she supplements their abilities by utilizing various potions and transmuting magical energy from a grimoire she carries with her.

"Feel free to take what you need from the library. Just make my life easier, and return everything on time. I also would appreciate a generous donation every now and again~"

Kiff Luther

A magus who spent his days in the past exploring ancient ruins. He'd tell you that he was a respectable archeologist, but other will say that he was a treasure hunter with questionable morals. Still, he was able to collect countless grimoires and magical artifacts during his escapades. Wanting a quieter life, he decided to quit the seeker gig and open a bazaar. Many were impressed with the items and texts he had for sale, but didn't appreciate the outlandish prices he sold them for.

He eventually gained the eye of Arteus, who convinced him that he knowledge and wares would be more appreciated at his private sect. He now serves as a librarian for Eon, which houses countless grimoires and magic items.

"Goodness, so reckless aren't we? Let's fix you up."

Elaine Gardner

A seemingly mischievous, but kind apothecary in service to Eon. She was once a magus who acted as a medic out on the field, assisting in purifying areas and people of miasma that haven't fully succumb to it's effects. She actually close friends with Brunhyldia and agree to join the Tower at her request.

She earned her name by the impressive way she imbues her potions and medication with Thaumaturgic effects, being able to cure those afflicted with the early stages of miasma corruption.

Name: Bellum Madeline Hawke
Appearance:

Race: Pharendal

Sex: Female

Age: Secret

Magic Divination: Elementalism (Fire and Water Dual Specialization) and Alchemy (Actualization Specialization)

Abilities: A dual major in Horticulture and Agriculture, Bellum is a woman that has green hands, not just thumbs. By and large, her magic is dedicated to growing plants and rearing animals, but she can weave boons (and branes) into any meal.

However, a former Reaver, and soldier, she has a few tricks in her cookbook.

Sweet Golem: The first of three Golems that Bellum can summon from her Cooking Grimoire. Sweet Golem abhor fighting in all its form, and will do anything to sooth over friends fighting each other, and, in combat, prioritize healing. However, because of this, they are fragile and break easy.

Sour Golem: Second in the Golems under Bellum’s creation, these dour things constantly seek to get in the way of others goals, sabotaging pranks, and in combat, functioning as shields. Tougher than their nicer counterparts, they can take a few solid hits before going down.

Spicy Golem: Last, but not least of the Golem, these hyperactive buggers are never still, never tire, and never read the room. If friends are busy, they are bothering them, seeking to play, play, play, and in combat, all they know is FIGHT. In the middleground of their fellows, they tend to destroy themselves before enemies can out of sheer reckless behavior.

Equipment: Rare to leave Eon Tower, Bellum’s carry-on consist of... well, kitchenware and her grimoire. The basic needs of a witch in the kitchen. On the rare, rare occasion she ventures beyond the walls, she carries along a staff made by Roze to replenish her Mana.

Brief Background: Born a simple child with simple dreams to a Faefolk Mother and Human Father, Bellum was never one to think herself destined for greatness. Maturing into a simple woman with simple dreams, Bellum was never one to believe she would amount to much.

However, war does not believe in destiny or self-worth. It demands it.

Before Eon Tower, before Arteus, before the Association, before Morgenröte, there were Monsters and Monster Hunters.

Soldiers with one goal:


Lieutenant Bellum Hawke was one such soldier.

But that was before.

Not one to live in the past, Bellum presents as a simple woman with simple goals: present the best that food has to offer, and unify everyone at the one place that everyone is equal.

The dinner table.

As a senior member of the Administrative Staff, Bellum spends most of her time keeping the hearth warm and the home sweet, alongside her Golems, and the other apprentice. Her strides are marketable and celebrated, but she takes no pride or joy in doing what comes naturally to her. A bonafide caretaker, and a passionate chef, the kitchen of Eon Tower comes bustling to life at mealtime hours.

It is only in the quiet time of the night, with the crack of a bottle, and the pouring of a little cooking sherry, that the facade drops - if only for a moment. A sip. A prayer. And, she’s back. Tomorrow’s a new day, and there’s tell of new staff in-coming!

Extra Bits:

• Bellum is acutely aware of her weight, and takes no offense to slights. A dash of Alchemy will do that for her.

• Rarely, Bellum will visit upon Kiff for leads on ancient recipes of Faefolk in the Years Long Gone

• Once a month, Bellum will visit Naomi for the day, and leave with a covered basket.

• Thinks that Nadia is sweet and well-meaning, but also an overly talkative lady sometimes.

• Can be a little standoffish with Elaine at times, as their motherly natures clash.

• Every year, like clockwork, Bellum will join Childes at the Reaver Memorial to honor their fallen with a drink and laughs. Only Childes knows this day is also her birthday.

• Bellum’s CV: Mallorie Rodak (Frieren)

• Bellum's Character Theme: Madeline - Intro

Marianne Farnoir Ixnil

One of the 12 Apostles that serve directly under the Grand Cardinal of Flugell. She gives direct orders to Grisha behind the scenes and has taken a particular interest in the activities of the Eon Tower.

Name: Grisha Penworth

Appearance:

Race: Human

Sex: Male

Age: 42

Magic Divination: Galdr (Remembrance Magic) and Elementalism (Grand Magus-level Mastery of Fire, Water, and Earth Magic)

Abilities: A man of the history of the cloth, of the Gods, and their means of warfare. By forcing himself down an untold sect, Grisha would return a man changed - visibly aged, but frighteningly powerful.

Arms of Alexander: Summoning the Remembrance of the Machine God of the Pelyn People, Grisha shapes earth and fire into metal, and that metal into the arms of the Living City, Alexander.

Extremely powerful, able to launch explosive missiles in large, costly salvos, draining great deals of magic. However, these arms are also extremely durable and can block great deals of damage, making them quick shields.

Unfortunately, due to the sheer weight of the metal clockwork, Grisha can barely move himself without...

Legs of Alexander: The second Remembrance of Alexander, specifically the legs of the Machine God. Not designed for attack, but mobility, boiling water within the metal frames to allow for rocket-propelled movement and limited flight.

Allowing for deceptively fluid and swift motions, evasive maneuvers, and gap-closers, the magic required to pull water from the air and convert it into fuel is immense, and Grisha will walk rather than flight to support his arms and legs.

Aware of his upper limit, Grisha does have a trump card to surpass it in the form of...

Frame of Alexander: The final Remembrance of Alexander, the frame, or body, of the Machine God. Solely to reinforce the Arms and Legs, and modulate the magic costs to power them.

It can be summoned alone for the sake of acting as nigh-impregable chest armor, but the inability to move with any real speed, Grisha rarely summons this until pushed to do so.

By combining the Arms, Legs, and Frame, Grisha can access his “break glass” option...

Crown of Alexander: The hidden, fourth Remembrance of Alexander, the crown of the tallest tower, which, when combined with the three Remembrances of Alexander, allow him to become the Avatar of Alexander, the Machine God, the Living City.

However, the form is not without its punishment, as “Humanity is not allowed to play God, even for a moment.”

Grisha does not use Mana to power this form, but his Lifeforce, aging him years in minutes. After his first usage, Grisha had physically aged from his early forties to his late seventies. Tethys would pull his age back, physically, but visually, he appears to be in his late fifties.

As a result, Marianne swore Grisha to never use the Crown unless she asked him, “If smoking is sin, then why does God appear a fire?” to which the answer is, “If smoking was a sin, God wouldn't appear as fire.”

Equipment: Grisha is a simple man of the cloth, and carries necessities for travel, a pack of cigarettes, and his bible.

Brief Background: A humble, but inpatient man, Grisha Penworth was a rambunctious and reckless youth, determined to, like all boys, prove himself in the eyes of a woman; though, at the time, she was but a skin-and-bones child in rags with eyes of honeyed gold. From his childhood, Grisha followed behind his own, personal Goddess, Marianne Farnoir Ixnil. As she rode through the ranks of the Holy Church to the seat of Apostle, he would stay in her shadow, and rise through the ranks of Inquisitors.

There would only come one time that he would stray from her shadow, called away by destiny to safeguard her future, so he claimed. This would result in the first and only time Marianne would exercise her control over him, making him swear to never use the full power he'd obtained within the Library of Alexander, the Living City of Pelyn.

That event would introduce him to Tethys, as well, and cement the unspoken belief - even to Marianne herself - in his path. Known as Sentinel Penworth, Grisha would gain Ambassadorship, assigned to act as mediator and negotiator between the Holy Church and her opposition. Though, his impatience tends to negatively impact tense affairs, as he will cut in to directly state the visitation goals.

As a result, he is also known as Grisha the Demanding, much to his chagrin.

Extra Bits:

• Grisha smokes Porphura, though neither confirms or denies any relationship with the Grave Wardens.

• Grisha has a relationship with Marianne that changes depending on who you ask. Tethys sees to understand it best, and likens it to soulmates.

• Grisha claims to owe Tethys a life debt and dotes on her more public.

• Grisha regards Alexandria as a “Bullish brat with zero sense of feminity,” and regards her as more of a daughter than an equal.

• For some unspoken reason, even to Marianne, and unseen by Tethys, Grisha has an undisguised disdain for Artues, which effects Eon Tower as a whole.

• Avoids anyone from Pelyn or Altaria, as they can sense his true nature as the Avatar of Alexander.

• Grisha’s CV: Jeff Nimoy (Nicholas D. Wolfwood)

• Grisha’s Character Theme: Discombobulate

Name: Tethys Aria Zaerado

Appearance:

Race: Belua (Phoenix)

Sex: Female

Age: 21 (+10)

Magic Divination: Thaumaturgy (Sage-level Healing Magic), Espermancy (Spontaneous Clairvoyance), and Elementalism (Divine-class Fire Magic)

Abilities:

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Equipment: Tethys is as sheltered as one can be, so she overcompensated by being a minimalist as she can be, and carries only a feather brush, nail files, and a bag of mixed seeds to munch on.

Brief Background: Tethys was never born, but always was; never lost, yet never found; a force of Divinity, a being of Morality; a Phoenix, hatched from an egg that no-one laid.

A member of the Holy Church since the days of its founding, Tethys has never known anything else for as long as she can remember, for all her lives; short as the twinkle of a dying star, and impactful upon the soul.

Raised in shelter, Tethys knows so little of the modern world, and it knows little of her beyond the visions that her past lives have used to “feather her nest” and keep her home nice and comfy, whether that's achieved through benevolence or maliciousness.

However, recently, Tethys has felt compelled to follow Grisha and Marianne, taking to adventuring away from her nest for the first time in twenty-one years; a fledgling taking flight for unknown reasons.

Perhaps, the new Eon Tower?

Extra Bits:

• Due to the strenuous nature of Precognition, Tethys doesn't recall what she's foreseen to minimize brain damage and prolong her life.

• To Tethys, Marianne is something of a sister and a rival.

• Despite claiming Grisha and Marianne to be soulmates, Tethys will hang off his shoulders like a girlfriend.

• Tethys has a passive-aggressive disdain for Alexandria, as Grisha dotes on her

• Tethys is the oldest of her rebirths by one year.

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"I wouldn't be here if I didn't think you weren't worth investing in. Keep as you are, and our relationship will blossom into something inconceivable."

Donovan Krausser

A benefactor who first met Arteus during an Association conference, who expressed a peculiar curiosity in the ideas the sage presented. After which, he personal offered to sponsor the Tower and supply it with resources to bolster it's independence.

He's actually the owner of a well establish corporation that specializes in the study and exorcism of apparitions; he lends his knowledge to the Tower as part of the staff, serving as an apparition advisor. He lost his right arm in an unfortunate accident, and had it replaced with a prosthetic made of a special alloy.

"I've no interest in heroics or gallivanting around for ungrateful common folk. If you've need of an errand dog, go ask one of those fucks from the tower..."

Lucius "Vagus" Gravewood



An apparent vagrant and infamous magus, Lucius is a loner who chooses to make his own way in the world. His appearance is marked by sharp features, most notably his mean-looking eyes, causing those around him to adopt a sense of unease and caution. It certainly doesn’t help that he has a blunt, unpleasant way of speaking along with having a bad attitude and general unfriendly disposition. All that combined with the fact that he’s rather lazy when it comes to most things and dresses like a ruffian, and it’s no wonder why most find him to be an unsavory chap.

Despite this, he’s actually quite skilled in the art of magic and combat, being able to easily rival the most experienced magus with little to no issue. Although, he integrates martial arts in his style more so than your average mage; many find their bodies being burned by the pain of broken bones and bruised flesh rather than by a fireball. Nevertheless, he’s shown high proficiency in various forms of sorcery and is actually quite intelligent.

In fact, his techniques and abilities are rather similar to another famous sorcerer’s…

He goes by the name "Vagus" in all instances, and doesn't take kindly to being called anything else.

"If Her Majesty, The Queen wills it, then it shall be done."

Giselle Kostovii



A young Fae who was sent from the Great Ithaca Forest to act as an emissary for the Eon Tower. She does her part to maintain a healthy standing with the other members of Eon, but often clashes with Arteus as she feels his methods are too extreme. She tolerances him nonetheless, eager to improve relations between the Magus Association and the Fae Kingdom for the sake of the Queen who placed her trust in the young warrior.

She wields a large ornamental bow while out in the field, well known in the forest for being a master sniper. Blessed with high magic aptitude, she combines her archery with holy magic so that her arrows dispel curses. She also utilizes flora magic to use the plant life around her to aid her in a pinch, in addition to using a familiar to further assist her. Her summon is called Feyln, a large moth with silvery wings. It spreads scales by flapping its wings, achieving various effects.

Name: Paashi "Pash" Longfang

Appearance:


Race: Belua (Reptile)

Age: 22

Magic Divination: Alchemy

Abilities:
Fabrication - By breaking down materials and putting them back together on a microscopic, though not molecular, level, Paashi is able to effectively transform any amount of raw material into another state, though cannot edit the material itself. For example, he can turn steel into gears and mechanisms, or turn iron ore into processed iron. This effect works best on metals, though can be used with a much lower speed and precision on wood and stone. He hasn't tried to use it on anything living, and doesn't know what, if anything, would happen.

Lesser Transmutation - Paashi's ability to transmute material is relatively limited, only being able to turn materials into other, similar materials, or mix materials together without needing tools. For example, he can temper iron into steel without a forge, or create bronze from raw copper and tin. He hasn't experimented much using this ability on plants, though knows it's possible to some extent, and has never tried to use it on any animal, living or dead. He figures that, theoretically, he could do something nasty (like separating the iron out of someone's blood, or mixing it with lethal levels of lead), but hasn't found himself needing to do that, and has no desire to try unless absolutely necessary.

Infusion - Paashi has found himself able to infuse specific magical effects into Septarium, effectively absorbing the magic for later use. He has extensive experience using this to store Elemental magic, as well as the other types, albeit to a far lesser extent. In a combat context, he uses his so-called "Spell Grenades", palm-sized pieces of Septarium infused with magic from other magi, giving him a variety of options so long as he has the time, connections, and Septarium, to remain well-stocked. The power of the spell he can store within the Septarium is directly connected to the size of the piece.

Equipment:
URR Prototype v0.218 - A custom piece, this magitech rifle was made through years of effort prior to showing up at the Eon Tower. The intention is to make something safer and easier to use than a revolver-action rifle, without the sacrifices to fire rate that come with a breech-loading rifle. The lever-action rifle totes a ten round capacity, solid accuracy, and the capability for a high rate of fire. The only problem lies in it's reliability, as the weapon's mechanisms are extremely finicky, and are prone to break down or jam if not frequently maintained. Additionally, he's been testing different types of ammunition made from Septarium and infused with various different types of magic, but has yet to get that to a point he's comfortable using it in the field outside of emergencies.

Spell Grenades - Palm-Sized pieces of Septarium, each infused with different spells. These spells aren't particularly powerful, however the beauty lies in their versatility. They don't need to be used my Paashi to activate, the only requirement it to break the shard. This isn't a problem for Paashi, being a Belua, and able to just chuck the small and deliberately weakened chunks hard enough to break them. Upon breaking, the crystal releases the stored energy, with even a small breakage being enough, though the subsequent release of energy is more often than not enough to shatter them. These each hold relatively minor effects, however sudden bursts of flame, bolts of lighting, waves of energy that muddle thoughts, minor teleportation, or minor healing are all very useful in a pinch. This versatility comes at the cost of power however, as more potent spells can't be stored in pieces of Septarium that are easily portable, and are significantly harder to break in most cases.

Brief Background: Paashi grew up in the Desert of Melchizedek in a relatively minor Beluan tribe, to loving parents and a protective older sister, Morali, whom arguably doted on him more than his own mother. At the age of fourteen, he left to a market with his sister, and when they came back, the tribe had been either killed or enslaved. Within the year, they left the caravan that made up the remainder of their tribe for greener pastures, ending up in Morgenröte. Here, Paashi learned alchemy by using passion and dedication to make up for a lack of talent. He's dedicated and hardworking, and rather empathetic. Additionally, the Belua is incredibly intelligent, although he usually ends up rambling if he gets started on mechanical or magical concepts.

Additional Information: Passion for music. Suffers from mild insomnia. Loves black coffee.

Character Theme:

Name: Conner Griggs

Appearance:


Race: Human

Sex: Male

Age: 21

Magic Divination: Galdr

Abilities:
Conner has 4 spirits that he can summon at anytime. He can comfortably have 2 out at the same time, 3 if he pushes himself though it will drain him considerably.









Bond - An ability that lets Conner "invite" a spirit into his body. With it, he temporarily gains enhancements and powers of a spirit that he normally would have, such as Welk's agility, Kai's combat prowess, Toa's s strength or Zoe's blessings.

Telepathic Link - Due to his prolonged connection to his
spirits, Conner can communicate with them telepathically. This is especially helpful for Welk, Kai and Toa as they cannot speak normally like Zoe van. Conner can talk with his summons at anytime, whether they are physically there with him or back in the Spirit Realm.

Equipment:


Conner's personal magitech revolver. Fires strong concussive rounds that uses the ambient energies in the environment to change its properties. For example, colder climates make the bullets more piercing. While in hotter climates, the bullets become highly explosive.

Background:



Misc.:


Conner enjoys reading books. His favorite genre is science fiction.
Zoe(CV: Chiyo-chan from Azumanga Daioh) likes to call him "Grig" from time to time. He's doesn't mind.
Welk(CV: Timon from The Lion King) is smart enough to play chess.
Kai(CV: Revy from Black Lagoon) likes listening to classical music.
Toa(CV: Malaphite from Leagues of Legends) actually has peculiar a sense of humor.

Name: Leilani "Leia" Suldevi

Appearance: Leia has sharp features and thin lips. Her skin is pale, like she doesn't get enough sun -- although this is far from the truth. She has an athletic build from her years of training. She tends toward modest and hard-wearing clothing, when she's out of her armor, favoring blues, grays, browns, and black. She does like an excuse to dress up a little, but rarely wears actual dresses, preferring clothing that can be fought in if necessary. She is at home in her armor, which is a combination of leather and plate, easy to move in with practice but still providing protection to the important areas. She carries her sword nearly everywhere, a longsword with a blue-green stone in the crossguard and a tooled leather sheath.

Race: 3/4ths human, 1/4 fae

Sex: female

Age: 22

Magic Divination: Elementalism; Void magic

Abilities: Leia is an accomplished spellcaster, wielding force and the various elements to great effect on the field of battle. She is used to fighting with both sword and shotgun, and she has experience with various other weapons, both melee and ranged. A signature move of hers is to curse a single opponent, draining their energy and using that mana to bolster her own.

Equipment: When in the field, Leia carries a longsword and a magitech shotgun that allows her to channel magic into the chamber of the gun, which then amplifies the power of whatever element she used. She wears armor that is a mix of leather and plate, which she is able to put on without help.

Brief Background: Leia grew up in a suburb of Altaria. Her mother is a renown mage and historian; her father a captain of the local guard. Leia discovered her magic powers at a very young age, and immediately her mother started training her. Leia is not her mother's equal in talent, but through extensive study she's learned a great deal. At six, her father started training her in the use of weapons, in keeping with the child's goal of becoming a Reaver. Here also she had to devote herself to training, which she did with a will.

At sixteen she applied for and received her magus license from the Magus Association. She then set out on her own, taking at first very minor contracts from the local Adventurer's Guild, then somewhat more challenging ones. However, in order to truly grow her skills, she decided to apply to the newest of the Magus Towers, Eon.

Personality: Leia is a determined and hard-working woman. She strives for excellence in whatever she does. She is competitive, and is constantly measuring herself against the bar set by her parents' achievements. She's friendly enough, but tends to be blunt in her words, which can be off-putting to others. With friends she relaxes a little, letting her guard down. She is immensely loyal to those who have her trust, and does what she can to support them. She has a strong moral compass, but she is also pragmatic, willing to do the dirty work when she believes it is required. She is level-headed, keeping her cool even in stressful situations. Failure and helplessness scare her, but her greatest fear is being forced somehow to harm those she cares about.

Other Information:

Name: Hector Wyland


Race: Human

Sex: Male

Age: 27

Magic Divination: Galdr, Thaumaturgy

Abilities:



Equipment:
Freischütz: A well-maintained revolver-action rifle that Hector has carried with him for several years now. A foolish purchase by an impressionable noble youth has now become his lifeline. The make of the rifle is top of the line, durable and sleek with each part functioning smoothly for the user, with a cylinder release on the bottom that allows it to fire six shots in succession before needing to be reloaded. The gun itself is made to be conductive to Galdr incantations, allowing the user to channel spirits within it for increased firepower, or along the length of it to enhance stability.

Elemental Cartridge: A limited stock of ammo used by Hector that mimics the usage of elemental magic. Comprised of energised crystalline dust that is suffused with elemental energy mixed with gunpowder, Hector only brings these out in case of an emergency due to the severe damage they can inflict on his firearm, along with having enough explosive force to break his arm if he isn’t careful. Despite being elementally charged,

Bayonet: A simple steel blade roughly ten inches in length that can be used as a simple knife or attached to the end of Freischütz.

Brief Background: Nobles of Caigehn are born into lives of leisure and slow death. Sons poised to prey upon their father’s fortunes like vultures, and daughters locked in gilded cages as prizes for other families to earn for marriage. Hector was born to such a life, third son of four and without prospects to earn his father’s fortune through succession, he would idly tell himself: “The church is the path to status”. And so, with such a selfish motive he would expect a seat at the Theocracy of Flugell, only to be abruptly shuffled off to a missionary on the tail end of the border with the Great Ithaca Forest

Ambitions snuffed and with his coinage spent on a gun to protect him from the savage wilds teeming on the edge of his paranoia, Hector was a miserable half-baked priest who was as pompous as one would expect a social climber. For seven years he would languidly perform his duties as a member of the church, healing his “flock” when needed while cursing his luck behind closed doors, his icy heart thawing over time as those around him cared for the belligerent priest in his weakest hours. From the kindhearted but stern farmer who dragged him out to learn an honest day’s work, to the baker’s young daughter that made him a clumsy, miserably made cookie that was in the shape of his face (It wasn’t), Hector grew to slowly become a better person before his new life was torn out from under him.

To a Magus, an abomination is an enemy. To a flock of normal people, it may as well be a walking natural disaster. Claws of silvery shadow, eyes filled with hate for the living, an abomination single-handedly wiped out the settlement that Hector had called home, his only saving grace being that he was felled by a river, flailing into it as his right eye was cut apart.

Drifting down river to Ithaca, Hector would lose and then regain purpose; He would become a Reaver, trained in Galdr by the Fae spirits that were begged for aid by a mysterious white serpent. Now, he has joined Eon, hoping to lay waste to more abominations with like-minded Magi.

Anything else we should know about you: Quiet and reserved, Hector is afraid of opening himself up to others after losing his flock. Despite this, he is the type to silently look out for others as best he can without directly involving himself.

Herne has been by his side ever since he awoke, the snake’s origins a mystery even to its Master.

Name: Remila "Rem" Indagrund


Race: Gnome

Sex: Female

Age: 31

Magic Divination: Alchemy / Elementalism

Abilities:

Equipment:
Archaeology Kit: A simple set of brushes, picks, various strength magnifying glasses, ink roller…just about anything that someone would need to conduct research digs or jot notes down, the tiny bundle Remila carries in her pack has it all. No whips included.

Golem Bakery: The specialized mold that Remila uses to bake her golem cores. These create the brain and heart of any of her golems, with the body being formed around the fresh core.

Brief Background: Arcadia is a land full of innovations set for the future, but young Rem always was more interested in what had come before it all. The precursors, the rise and fall of kingdoms, even something as simple as why the races were all so different from one another. Born to a modest family, lifelong workers of Krauser Industries, Rem was convinced that her life would be spent tinkering like her family on a magitech production line.

It wouldn't be until she was old enough to leave her home that she'd join as an extra set of hands for magitech excavator maintenance that she discovered that her passion lied in archaeology. Each of her golems was something she improvised from her own family recipes for golem cores, with each helping her achieve greater efficiency both in her studied and in defending herself, the G-Smallers being the culmination of her core refinement of splitting one mind over a hundred bodies.

From then on, the eager gnome would pore over countless historical tomes and decipher ancient scrolls in a bid to uncover anything she could about the world before; Until one day she came upon a centuries old ruin that felt...off. There were no bones within, no records, nothing save for a bound urn wrapped tightly in chains. Remila didn't remember anything after touching it, suddenly finding herself under the watch of Eon Tower...

Name: Triss Bloodflame

Race: Dwarf

Sex: Female

Age: 20

Magic Divination: Elementalism(Fire/Earth)

Rune Crafting:A lost craft of the dwarves ever since the rise of Magitech. This outdated magic imbuing technique has been passed on through the Bloodflame lineage.

Elemental Runes - Fire, Water, Wind, Earth and Lightning. All these magical properties can be stored in minuscule inscriptions— A hollow imitation of the elements, a one-time use for those inept in using basic magecraft.

Abilities:

Giant's strength- Triss Bloodflame is strong, like really strong due to her dwarven ancestry.

Cataclysm break - Triss plunges her sword into the ground, creating multiple volcanic fissures around her area. (Consumes 1 fire rune)

Surtr's flame - Triss has a regenerative rune inside her, an inner flame that can never be extinguished. Any non-fatal wound or injury she obtained during combat is healed over time.

Equipment:

Famished Edge - A faulty greatsword with 5 rune slots embedded in it. This heavy blade is flawed and is guaranteed to break upon impact when swung with excessive force. Despite its fragile design, it magically restores its dents and crack, making it more durable and grows slightly bigger in size.

Brief Background:

A rune knight dwarf that stands tall amongst the best fighters of the realm. A honorable warrior and a blacksmith at heart.

An Orphan who is under contract by one of the ███████ family and is trained to become their super soldier.

Triss Bloodflame is a charismatic gladiator in a fighting ring held by the ███████ family in Margorotte for profit. She is one of their champions and their top prized fighter.

She always puts on a show whenever she's up—always a full seat, Always a main attraction for the people to see.

Triss has gained popularity and celebrity status amongst the crowd and the guild adventurers. So much so that her reputation has become wayyyyy exaggerated than it already is, Stories like that she fell a dragon with her bare fist or that she is one of Arteus's relatives. Each rumor people spread about her is ridiculous than the next.

Triss tries to deny these baseless claims, but people think she is being too modest and still idolize her. She is truly suffering from her own success.

Despite her imposing and revered figure, She is more sheepish than you think, Underneath this stoic and modest persona shrouds a timid self-critical girl who always second-guesses her decisions but always figures out how navigate around the situation.

She was given a pardon to join the Reavers in search of her quest. A quest to create a weapon that will slay even the Scions.

Name: Einer Devaron

Race: Human

Sex: Male

Age: 20

Magic Divination: Thaumaturgy and Galdr (the latter is mostly unused)

Abilities:
Einer casts his magic by playing various music with his lyre.

• Song of Este - By playing a mellow and peaceful tune, all those who can hear it feel their pain disappear and their wounds close up slowly. Perfect for those recovering in healing wards or those healing from injuries after a fight.
• Song of Yavanna - By playing an inspiring tune, albeit quietly near its target, grievous injuries and deep cuts are healed until the flesh was as if undamaged. Only one target must hear the song for the magic to take effect, which is why this must be played quietly.
• Song of Vana - This tune evokes emotions of safety and confidence, and that is because all those who hear it are protected from minor curses cast on them. Works best against area-of-effect curses.
• Song of Nienna - A song of pure sorrow and misery that actually helps purge any curse from an afflicted. The song is long and the target afflicted must hear the whole music for the curse to be lifted. May require several replays depending on curse strength.
• Song of Varda - A song of celebration that cleanses an area of Miasma. Monsters and other Miasma beings are angered by this melody and will seek out the source and destroy it, mostly ignoring everything else.
  
  Summon Kastul
  A draconic familiar of Einer that he never bothered to call forth again after the first summoning due to personal reasons. It was only named Kastul when Einer's child sister screamed out the word when it was summoned.
  
  Martial Arts
  Einer isn't defenseless in close-quarter combat. He knows some moves to take down enemies who gets too close.

Equipment:
Einer's Lyre - A master-crafted instrument made specifically to project Einer's magical abilities to the fullest. Commissioned by Einer's family.

Iron Knuckles - For when Einer needs to get down and dirty as he always wanted.

Brief Background:
Born to a noble family in Flugell, Einer was not like other boys growing up. His form was more feminine, slender and graceful. His skin was smooth and unblemished, he was beautiful... the beauty of a woman. So much so that he had been mistaken as a girl multiple times in his life, even from his own family who knew he was born a boy. Outwardly, Einer politely waved this off but inside, he resented this view of him. Resented himself for being born with such a body.

But perhaps a show of abilities and heroic deeds could change his image into a manlier one, Einer thought. Alas, his only callings in magic were in Thaumaturgy, the magic of healing and staying behind the frontlines, and in Galdr, where you ask something else to defend you or fight for you. Try as he may, Einer could excel in no other field of magic. Fortunately, he decided to hone his Thaumaturgy over the years anyway, just to not let down his family. However, his draconic familiar was forgotten after the first summoning.

With that avenue closed, Einer decided to try more physical combat. A fruitless venture too, as Einer's body was not suited for strenuous exertion of physical effort. Lifting and holding a sword in a stance already proved too much for Einer, so most trainers recommended he use his fists instead. Although, he was told not to rely on it too much and simply focus on his magical talents.

However, Einer's pride and desire for change had not given up yet. He could not find the answers he was looking for here in home, so perhaps he can find them somewhere else. And that lead him to travel to Morgenröte and continue his research there. He enlisted in one of the newer Magus Association Towers to sustain himself, although it would certainly be lucky if he finds what he seeks in the Tower itself.

Anything else we should know about you:
Einer is a great cook. A talent he practices but cares little for as it is also a skill that no one really needs.

Name: Damian Florestas

Race: Human

Sex: Male

Age: 24

Magic Divination: Espermancy, Galdr







Brief Background:

Despite his unassuming looks at first glance, Damian goes by another name; photographer of world renown, The Beast Whisperer. So named due to his skill in photography, beastiary knowledge and fondness towards animals of all stripes. Despite displaying some rather... eccentric behaviors, Damian's knowledge and services have remained in high demand.

One of those eccentricities lay in regards to his companion, a raptor-cat of rare pelt and coloration who travels with the man and rarely leaves his side. Her name is Chloe.


Now, in prior years Damian has felt he had neither the time nor the interest to accept the invitations sent his way from the tower. After completing a recent job however, Damian decided it was finally time to see what all the hubbub was about. Venturing to the Tower was to at the very least listen to the Headmaster's request, alongside sating his own curiosities...

Anything else we should know about you:

Damian is a calm character, a professional known to stay focused on the job but equally known to relax when not. Apart from his reputation for excellent quality, Damian is well known for treating all clients equally, regardless of bearing or birth. Having traveled the world Damian holds a unique perspective from meeting and learning from people of all stripes, one that's a little more open to the stories of many.

This has garnered some annoyance from the upper Echelons of society, their long held beliefs being challenged. Damian on the other hand doesn't really care for his skills, achievements and reputation allow him to essentially do as he pleases. If a client proves uncooperative it's their reputation that gets damaged, not his.

Another point of contention is Damian's lack of affiliation with the Mage's Association, as Damian works as a free agent without oversight. While it has led to some slander from certain Nobles, their slander has never held water with many finding quick reason to stop. While words spoken against him barely garner a reaction, mistreatment of those unable to use magic or of common animals is a line that many learn never to cross. Though apart from bad food there really isn't much that ruffles his feathers, so to speak.

To the consternation of many, either in genuine interest or to get dirt on him, none have been able to gleam anything past what is already widely known. To many he is an enigma wrapped in mystery....

Name: Vidi

Appearance:

Race: (Appears) Belua

Sex: (Appears) Female

Age: ???

Magic Divination: ???

Abilities: Unquestionably powerful, Vidi rarely engages in combat herself; opting to stay at the rear, and command her Handmaidens, Living Dolls, that serve her needs.

Rite of Miasmatic Creationism: Vidi can manipulate Miasma as if it were simple magic, and uses it to create her Handmaidens, Living Dolls of Flesh and Blood that serve her needs so she needn’t dirty her hands.

• Scarlettina “Scarlett” Ishval, the Grave Warden
  
  Surveyor of Yesterday, the Graven Warden is the sole practitioner of [Historians’ Magic] - a fusion of [The School of Galdr] in combination with the [The School of Espermancy] that uses Miasma as a resource instead of Magic.
  
  Summoned by Vidi, Scarlett commands Death as a weapon - quite literally. By summoning a Spirit to her side, Scarlett can reshape it into a weapon or armor. The more willing the Spirit, and the higher the Grade of, the stronger the weapon or armor; additionally, she can translate the Spirit’s ability into her weapons or armor.
  
  So much so, Scarlett is actually naked, and each article of her clothing is a contracted Spirit that feeds off her Miasma as part of their contract, leaving Scarlett in a constant, lethargic state.

• Mochizuki Lupina, the Gunpowder Saintess
  
  Surveyor of Tomorrow, the Gunpowder Saintness is the sole practitioner of [Philosophers' Magic] - a fusion of [The School of Alchemy] in combination with the [The School of Elementalism] that uses Miasma as a resource instead of Magic.
  
  Summoned by Vidi, Lupina creates ammunition where there is none, shaping the Elements and Miasma into shells for her shotgun - the material form of her twin brother, Baast, a victim of Vanishing Twin Syndrome, and her Guardian Spirit. Bending the elements and science to her whim and will, Lupina is rarely without ammo.
  
  However, her prideful nature and storied past has lead her to quite the ego, however her... pettan build is a stinging point in comparison to her younger brother's oppai build.

• Phillipa “Kalos” Hemos, the Celestial Reaper
  
  Surveyor of Today, the Celestial Reaper is the sole practitioner of [Explorers' Magic] - a fusion of [The School of Thaumaturgy] in combination with the [The School of Void] that uses Miasma as a resource instead of Magic.
  
  Summoned by Vidi, Kalos wields the power to bend moonbeams and sunbeams into Darkness and Light, Frost and Flame, in the forms of twin scythes, Dusk and Dawn, which can be married into a single twin-headed scythe that burns and freezes known as Twilight - but only during the aforementioned period of time known as the Twilight Hour.
  
  Despite being a raised by, and notarized as, a Sister of the Holy Church, Kalos is easily the least religious woman of the cloth, in manner and dress, usually clashing with her fellows.

Name: Scarlettina Ishval

Appearance:

Race: Pherendal (Elf/Human)

Sex: Female

Age: 25

Magic Divination: Historians' Magic

Abilities: Due to her connection to Vidi, Scarlett has access to a powerful, but demanding form of magic that mixes Galdr and Espermancy into a singular Magic known as [Historians' Magic] and gives her the ability to use [Miasma] as a resource to exercise unprecedented control over Spirit and imaginative affairs.

Traven's Eye: Less of a physical eye, and more of an esoteric crystal mass that takes the space of Scarlett's heart, and connects her to another being in another dimension. As a result, Scarlett has no heartbeat, and her veins flow with Miasma that any sensitive enough can notice with focus on it.

Removing Scarlett’s “heart” will not kill her, but it will break her connection, and cause her to go into a feral state to survive until it's returned - or reclaimed, as she will hunt for it relentlessly.

Miasma Manipulation: Scarlett can connect herself to another dimension from which Miasma, the planetary blight, originates, and manipulate it to cause controlled multiple Spirits at once.

Scythe Combat Training: Scarlett has extensive combat training involving scythes, and can carry a collapsible one beneath her coat, preferring to use it before her [Historians' Magic].

Breathless: Due to the artificiality of her heart, Scarlett does not need to breathe to facilitate the movement of oxygen, as her body seems to operate by absorbing ambient Mana.

Miasma Immunity: Scarlett is completely immune to Miasma, and actually benefits from it with her unique magic.

Historians' Magic: A form of [Synergistic Magic] previously unknown to the Material Realm, utilizing Miasma to summon and repurpose Spirits from Beyond into weapons and armors.

• The Ossuary Octuplets [+]

  
  , in clockwise order: Francine, Vivian, Emily, Laura, Samantha, Gina, Ophelia, and Jacqueline who make up Scarlett's visible clothing and weaponry.
  
  Francine takes the Incognito Form of Scarlett's jacket, as she loves soaking in the sun, and her Spirit Weapon Form is a tower shield that can be wreathed in fire to allow for a burning tackle.
  
  Vivian takes the Incognito Form of Scarlett's undershirt, regulating Scarlett's body temperature since she doesn't sweat, and her Spirit Weapon Form is an oar that can be soaked with water and made denser.
  
  Emily takes the Incognito Form of Scarlett's right sock, while Ophelia takes the Incognito Form of Scarlett's left sock, as both prefer to be unseen, and have the shared Spirit Weapon Form of a paired bladed quarterstaff that can be used as twinned katanas.
  
  Gina takes the Incognito Form of Scarlett's left heel, while Jacqueline takes the Incognito Form of Scarlett right heel, as both like to think that the combination of Ice and Lightning makes Scarlett faster, and have the shared Spirit Weapon Form of a pair of stiletto daggers.
  
  Laura takes the Incognito Form of Scarlett's slacks, giving her a more grounded stance, in her opinion, and takes the Spirit Weapon Form of a twin-headed axe.
  
  And, lastly, Samantha takes the Incognito Form of Scarlett's blouse, because fashion is key, and a good shirt ties it all together, and takes the Spirit Weapon Form of a rapier.

Equipment: A pack of cigarettes. That's about all Scarlett carries around of her own accord.

Brief Background: Second-born Princess of the Kingdom of Scientia to the north, Scarlettina Ishval - Scarlett for short - was born to Gren Ishval and Lady Lefay of the Myrkr as a Pherandel, the unity of a Human and the Elvin Faefolk. However, she was born under no moon at the stroke of midnight on All Hallow's Eve, and considered to be a cursed child. Such flights of fancy had no place in the cold, hard logic of the scientific kingdom, but the manifestation of the curse would take root, regardless of belief.

As an infant, no more than eight days. Scarlett would be diagnosed with an irreparable blood disease that caused her blood cells to take on excessive amounts of iron, resulting in her blood being heavy and slow to move, reducing her to a wastrel in her community with a predicted, shortened lifespan...

Condemned by the very nature of her kingdom, Scarlett would be raised as a commoner, in secret and silence, spoken of only in past tense. However, in a kingdom, gossip is part and parcel, and the smartest tend to be the nosiest, and rumor begets suspicion.

By her tenth birthday, Scarlett would be uncovered, not by enemies or political rivals, but her own sister, Violettina “Violet” Ishval, First-born Princess, who suspected that her baby sister had been alive due in part to following hush money and research funds to the common folk. Realizing that her only rival was alive, Violet would arrange an assassination attempt, but a lush and lazy, the huntsman would be routed before his attempt was even attempted.

Still, the damage was done, and matters had to be handled. Unable to do anything about Violet, Gren would call in a favor to one of his business partners, Donovan Krauser, to room and board his daughter, as his adopted daughter, and make whatever remained of her life as productively as possible, putting her through schooling, and an internship, if she made it that far.

Fast-forward five years, and Scarlett can be found attending Morgenröte Finishing School for Girls as the loner, the loser, Queen of the Goths, having thrown away her love of the scientific for a spiteful passion for the occult. As the ringleader, Scarlett would found the A5 Coven, named as such all the members had the letter “A” as the last letter of their given names - creating a place for herself and four of her fellow “Witches”.

For a time, things were good and the A5 Coven stood strong, as a diverse gang that controlled a good portion of the school. For Scarlett, it was the ultimate expression of rebellion, until they came across real, divine magic in the form of a transient artifact, a ouija board that spelled out a single name:


And, an offer of power in exchange for her broken heart...

Smash cut ten years later, and the former princess strolls the sandy dunes of Melchizedek, walking the streets of her hometown with a simple mission in mind. However, before she can greet her elder sister... duty calls, and pulled her attention to the siren call of her Benefactor and Recreator.

Materializing, Scarlett has her service pledged to Arteus and Eon Tower as a Reaver.

Revenge would have to wait...

Extra Bits:

• Scarlett’s personality tends to drift between hot and cold, but always slightly detached due to her partial lack of Humanity. Even when she's emotionally available, it presents as “off” and “alien” in a sense.

• Scarlett's dominantly right-handed, but writes with her left hand.

• Scarlett has deep pockets due to smart investments and works in real estate despite her appearance.

• Scarlett CV: Stephanie Young (Nico Robin)

• Scarlett’s Character Theme: Faust VIII Theme

Name: Mochizuki Lupina, Mochizuki Baast

Appearance:



Race: Dire (Predator/Prey Belua crossbreed)

Sex: Female

Age: 25

Magic Divination: Philosophers' Magic

Abilities: Due to her connection to Vidi, Lupina has access to a powerful, but demanding form of magic that mixes Alchemy and Elementalism as a singular Magic known as [Historians’ Magic] and gives her the ability to use [Miasma] as a resource to create Elemental Rifle Shells from thin air.

Miasma Manipulation: Lupina can connect herself to another dimension from which Miasma, the planetary blight, originates, and manipulate it to create ammunition.

Traven's Eye: Less of a physical eye, and more of an esoteric crystal mass that takes the space of Lupina's heart, and connects her to another being in another dimension. As a result, Lupina has no heartbeat, and her blood has a constant presence of Miasma flowing through it that any sensitive can notice with focus on it.

Removing Lupina’s “heart” will not kill her, but it will break her connection, and cause her to undergo feral [Malfestation] until it's returned - or reclaimed, as she will hunt for it relentlessly.

Tonfa Combat Training: Lupina’s past gang afflictions have made her rather skilled with the tonfa, a Yoake-Haun weapon.

Breathless: Due to the artificiality of her heart, Lupina does not need to breathe to facilitate the movement of oxygen, as her body seems to operate by absorbing ambient Mana.

Miasma Immunity: Lupina is completely immune to Miasma, and actually benefits from it with her unique magic.

Philosophers' Magic: A form of [Synergistic Magic] previously unknown to the Material Realm, utilizing Miasma as a resource.

Boombaastic: The Spirit Weapon Form of Lupina's little brother, Baast, and a modular rifle that can be loaded as a shotgun, or as a marksman rifle, depending on the bullet he “swallows”.

Baast adamantly refuses to be thought of as a mere piece of equipment, and considers himself the highest tier of firearms possible.

In his words, “I am the Excalibur of Firearms.”

• Snapdragon Snarl:
  
  A shotgun blast of fire that emulates a dragon’s fireball of legend. Lupina cannot fire this at much range, and uses it, by and large, to control and overpower at close-range. Due to the simplicity of its construction, Lupina can produce these shells en masse.
  
  However, these shell are not as strong as her other bullets.

• Lilypad Lancer:
  
  A rifle round of compressed water that has immense cutting power, punching through even the toughest material in one or two shots. Unfortunately, the construction of this bullet is fragile and fickle, as water is subject to change under heat and cold alike.
  
  However, for it difficulty, it's stopping power is unmatched.

• Anemone Assault:
  
  A shell that releases a powerful explosion of air, knocking targets backwards and far away. Its direct killing potential is moot, but its indirect killing potential is unlimited, as the burst can knock targets off buildings, bridges, ledges, and edges galore, as well break bones and necks in equal measure.
  
  However, if Lupina is not careful, she can get caught in the blast.

• Tulip Takedown:
  
  A shell that releases pellets of solid earth, and serves as a more damaging option over [Snapdragon Lance] or [Anemone Assault] and their area of denial effects. This shell has less killing potential that [Lilypad Lancer], but more immediate stopping power than anything else.
  
  However, it's a very dense and difficult shell to pack.

• Magma Magnolia:
  
  An advanced round, combining the area of denial of [Snapdragon Snarl] and punching pellets of [Tulip Takedown] to fire a shell of flaming, molten rock that rupture into pools of magma, doing immense damage and blocking paths.
  
  This shell takes several minutes to create, and it's something that cannot be done on the fly.

• Hyperstatic Hydrangea:
  
  An advanced round, combining the explosive power of the [Anemone Assault] and the puncturing potential of [Lilypad Lancer] into a single rifle round that can freeze a target in their track by shooting through them with an icicle.
  
  Like [Magma Magnolia], this shell cannot be created without the time to focus.

Equipment: Lupina carries the usual affair of a soldier of her high standing and a few feminine pleasantries and toiletries in an easily hidden clutch.

Brief Background: The acuity of a Predator. The acumen of Prey. The danger of someone born to both. In Belua culture, the act of breeding across this line was taboo, more so than crossbreeding specieses. On the mist-shrouded continent of Yoake-Hau, the union of Predator and Prey would give birth to the physical embodiment of “a wolf in sheep's clothing” as Mochizuki Lupina came into the world with a hungry bleating and a mouth full of fangs, a newborn spirit of Harowin.

And, she wasn't alone. Though created as twins, only one child would be born. The other, the first to be conceived, would not survive the strain of coming into existence, and would become a victim of Vanishing Twin Syndrome, folding into Lupina, and becoming her strength; awakening as a Guardian Spirit.

Raised to the best of her parents' ability to shield her from the reality of a prejudiced world, both within and without, Lupina would grow up rather sheltered. However, even the strongest shelter was a simple, huff and puff away from being blown away. Protected, Lupina’s world would be shaken by the execution of her father, after the Wolf Belua was pushed to the edge, and demonstrated exactly how strong a Predator could be, when it was taken there. Unfortunately, mob rule tends to stand tallest in the smallest communities.

Picking up the shambles of their lives, Lupina’s mother would take to a new life across the ocean, and settle in the outskirts of Morgenröte to live a nondescript life in real peace. However, Lupina had been broken, and awoken, by the first true act of violence against her, and seething hatred would brew within her.

Flash-forward five years, and second-in-command of Morgenröte Finishing School for Girls - infamous - A5 Coven would be elected, due to her affiliation with the local gang, known for dealing the street drug ‘Slipstream’ as she was an street enforcer and pusher. However, a burgeoning connection with her Coven-mates would start to turn Lupina’s life around, causing her to seek escaping... but, blood was blood, in Belua culture, and a message was sent to Lupina by the hospitalization and coma of her mother.


In a rage, Lupina would accept the offer of the supposedly Divine Spirit that the A5 had summoned via a cursed ouija board. Her broken heart for the power to do what needed to be done. In her bloody path of destruction, Lupina and Baast would come across the man that would become their “Alpha”, a vagabond named Vagus, an old commander of the army Lupina would join to spite him.

Ten years would pass after that chance meeting, and Mochizuki “Vagus” Lupina would be on patrol in the heart of the Republic of Altaria, as a detached envoy from Morgenröte’s Magus Association, with her brother in hand - turned from a Guardian Spirit with no form into a unique rifle that never left Lupina’s side.

However, her marching orders were to change, as the siren call of her Mysterious Benefactor rang in her chest. Stepping out into the dark, Lupina would go AWOL, in the dead of night, and materialize within the confines of Eon Tower.

Soon to follow a parallel path to her adoptive father figure...

Extra Bits:

• Lupina loves meat dishes, even though she struggles to digest them, causing Baast to police her meals

• Despite being the big sister, Lupina is the fussy, little sister type.

• Lupina is fiercely defensive of the title “Vagus”.

• CV: Lupina: Wende Lee (Arisawa Tatsuki) / Baast: Stephanie Sheh (Inuoe Orihime)

• Lupina's Character Theme: Lamb God

Name: Kalos

Appearance:


Race: Half-blooded (Human/Belua)

Sex: Female

Age: 25

Magic Divination: Explorers' Magic

Abilities: Due to her connection to Vidi, Kalos has access to a powerful, but demanding form of magic that mixes Void and Thaumaturgy as a singular Magic known as [Explorers' Magic] and gives her the ability to use [Miasma] as a resource to shape sunbeam and moonbeams into weapons.

Miasma Manipulation: Kalos can connect herself to another dimension from which Miasma, the planetary blight, originates, and manipulate it to cause controlled mutations to her body.

Malfestation Resistance: Thanks to [Traven’s Eye], Kalos has more resistance to Miasma than most can dream of, allowing her to weaponize it.

Traven's Eye: Less of a physical eye, and more of an esoteric crystal mass that takes the space of Kalos's heart, and connects her to another being in another dimension. As a result, Kalos has no heartbeat, and her blood has a constant presence of Miasma flowing through it that any sensitive can notice with focus on it.

Removing Kalos's “heart” will not kill her, but it will break her connection, and cause her to undergo feral [Malfestation] until it's returned - or reclaimed, as she will hunt for it relentlessly.

Explorers' Magic: A form of [Synergistic Magic] previously unknown to the Material Realm, utilizing Miasma as a resource. Unlike Scarlett and Lupina, Kalos's magic is simple and direct, and almost limitless in potential.

• Saintess of the Sun: During the day, underneath the sun, Kalos can manipulate the beam into strength, increasing her physical attack and defense, and empowering her scythe, Dawn, with flaming attacks that can catch her foes on fire.
  
  However, this increase comes with a decrease in her speed, and limits her range to close-quarters-combat, and Kalos is only granted half of this power during overcast and rainy days.
  
  During a solar eclipse, Kalos is granted double this power, but it is completely nullified by a lunar eclipse.

• Maiden of the Moon: During the night, underneath the moon, Kalos can manipulate moonbeams into speed and reach, increasing her movement and attack range, granting her scythe, Dusk, the power to sling arcs of frost and freeze over distance does.
  
  However, this comes with increased fragility and weakness, as Kalos is more specialized to attack at mid-to-long range, and her power increases with the phases of the moon, being at its zenith during a full moon and its weakness during the new moon.

• Tyrant of Twilight:
  
  Unlike the longer and easier to maintain [Saintess of the Sun] and [Maiden of the Moon], this spell is only possible during the Twilight Hour, but combines Dawn and Dusk into its true form, Twilight, and makes Kalos into a near-prefect avatar of combat.
  
  Her only weakness: twilight is naturally fleeting.

Equipment: Kalos only carries her twin scythes, and travel necessities.

Brief Background: The first bell tolled, and her shell broke. Small, almost imperceptible affair, as the hidden chamber was rife with blood and bodies; limbs torn away, stomach and chest gutted, forming a nest of viscera...

A plaintive chirp escaped the halfbreed newborn, small lungs powerful enough to prove her existence, and seek out someone to feed her... unaware that the one she sought was dying beneath her, stomach exposed from the crude cesarean to extract the egg from her womb.

Pitiful, she was, the attention she sought would be answered, as a hulking figure walked over - not stomping, not tromping, but striding like a beast half his size. He was covered in blood, soaking into selfsame hued scales, and adorned in leather armor that had seen wars and deaths more than anyone could fathom. The not-so-lumbering beasts would approach, and stoop down to set a wicked claw against her pale, squishy neck; her cry silenced, not out of fear, but primal recognition.


“Steady on, wee bonnie lass...”

His voice was deep, commanding, a roguish brogue stolen from another land, and made his own signature speaking pattern. His presence was demanding, imposing beyond the pale, yet he held himself as someone calm and calculating. He was everything her instincts wanted her to be...

“Born under such auspicious circumstances. Seems that the Witch spoke true.”

His claw would curl, inward, not upwards, and lift her chin to expose her inhuman eyes to his.

“A child of mine, meaning more. How amusing...”

Reaching down, the man-and-half-sized King of Reptile would reach behind the newborn, and pulled at her weak tail - the meat separating, defensively, painlessly, and unnoticed, as he stashed it in his satchel, before pulling out a hunk of dried and salted beef, and dropping in into his daughter's hand, before unceremoniously swaddling her in the overcoat of her dying mother.

“You've done your part well, lass. I'll see to mine, and she, to hers.”

Fifteen years later, and we come across Phillipa Kalos Hemos, ward of the state, headache-inducing adopted daughter of Marianne Fairmor Ixnil, laughing madly over the bloodies bodies of “Enemies of the Church”, twin scythes in hand, tail raised in defiance; the Menace of Morgenröte Finishing School for Girls and the Muscle of the A5 Coven mixing business with pleasure, and fitting herself for expulsion, if not for her connections.

However, once graduated, Kalos would be sent deep into Ceigehn on “religious sabbatical” - a.k.a., being grounded as an religious adult, as far as Marianne was concerned. However, after ten years of isolation, Kalos would get the summon that she so patiently waited for, as her the siren call of the Unmentionable Goddess, and gleefully waited rematerialization within Eon Tower.

Eager for a well overdue family reunion...

Extra Bits:

• Kalos only answers to her given name when spoken by Marianne, ignoring anyone else addressing her by it.

• Being cold-blooded due to her half-Belua nature, Kalos expresses symptoms of low-blood pressure upon awakening, and power-naps instead of fully sleeping.

• Despite her expressed bloodlust and mania, Kalos will not kill children or pregnant females - humanoid or animal.

• Kalos's CV: Kari Wahlgren (Tayuya)

• Kalos Character Theme: DMC Netflix EP

Name: Alyna Leshenaii

Appearance: https://i.imgur.com/IoqreBu.jpeg

Race: Fae

Sex: Female

Age: 24

Magic Divination: Void Magic, Espermancy

Abilities:

• Void Magic [+]

  Limited Mark-Based Teleportation - Nothing large-scale or teleporting things to the moon or such craziness, please no, but a rather small-scale level of teleportation which is just used to move herself, her puppets, and her toolbox/tools either to where she is or back to wherever they were sitting before she teleport them to where she is. Not a spell to be used on living things, as it hasn’t ever been tested nor designed for such.
  
  Lesser Void Ward - A protective magical shield wrought from Void Magic, based on some kind of spell used in Thaumaturgy from what she remembers, that is black in color but is rather semi-transparent in nature and is used for defense. It utilizes the gravity effects of Void Magic to try to ‘redirect’ away oncoming attacks away from those within its boundary, allowing it to survive somewhat bigger blows by not simply trying to ‘block and stop them’ outright. It can be cast as a ‘flat 2D pane’ or alternatively a ‘curved hemisphere’ to protect one’s self. It isn’t a full protective bubble, however, just a directional defense thing.
  
  ***Bonus: Attacks passing through the caster-side part of this ward outward and away from it, at least unintentionally, are accelerated faster (to be faster moving that is) to a minor degree.
  
  Void Flare - A signature spell of hers touching upon her more ‘instinctive’ and ‘raw’ use of the Void as a child, or at least being inspired by it in an actually controlled fashion, lashing out with a burst of dark energy emitted from a point on her body she directs the spell to be emitted from (even from the surface of her clothes, simply to avoid the awkward situation otherwise). The energy is emitted in a similar manner to flames or fire, flickering and licking up and eating away as best as it can at whatever matter it comes into contact with (not energy, just matter).
  
  While she has trained it a fair bit to improve its power and efficiency, and try to gain some better understanding of her affinity for Void Magic to boot, this spell can be said to be in its ‘nascency’ and stronger or alternatively-shaped or even larger-scale variations of it as new spells could be possible depending on GM ruling and thoughts on the matter/etc. One can visually compare this spell’s appearance and form to a ‘solar flare’ rather well, though simply as a side effect of being more of a ‘raw use of Void Magic’ on her part it does cause some rather minor and small-scale distortions both spatially and visually as simple enough side effects.
  
  More training and focus can further hone the range and coherence of the attack, eventually leading to something more akin to a “Void Bolt/Ball” being fired off in the long run that surpasses the original spell proper and might be considered its ‘own thing’ perhaps?
  
  ((Note: Secretly she nicknames this spell with the dorkier, edgier, and sillier-sounding name of “Void Eater” because to her it ‘sounds cool’. She would be highly embarrassed if this information was learned or got out by mistake somehow from her own lips. Do with that what you will.))
  
  Void Jet - A channeled version of “Void Flare/Void Eater”, simply put, that acts akin to a flamethrower of dark energy with a similar flame-like aesthetic/form as the former to boot inherently. It is notably a more focused attack than the former spell it is derived from, and has greater potential range, but unlike the former it requires focus to use and isn’t as quick to use either.
• Espermancy [+]

  Control Threads - The creation and extension of psychic threads from the user that are used to control and manipulate things, whether it be a tool like a hammer, a magitech-laden puppet/marionette, or potentially even a corpse or something like another living thing (in this lattermost case is, just to make a note, subject to “Strength of Will” theory, naturally, as much as it is inherently to GM rulings and things like ‘not using it on other players unless they agree to it OOC explicitly’ and so forth). More limited in range than something like telekinesis at a base level, even if training can perhaps extend the range of these threads based on user skill/training/experience depending on GM rulings, but allows for more complex manipulations and fine control at a base level as well as a trade–off.
  
  Normally is most often used by her to control/use simple tools, grab/manipulate stuff close enough to her while working (make a sandwich either dance on its plate or float over into her mouth to take a bite before putting it back being two simple examples), and control her magitech puppets. Though it is of note that she desires to create a way that, at least for her puppets or similarly purposely-designed-devices, would allow her to more remotely control them at even greater distance than threads allow (this would be, if possible, a specific something for her to get help with developing or to realize during the RP at some point or another…like a wireless control spell or device that is even more limited in exchange for much better range or something).
  
  Mental Partition - Aside from the threads she can create using espermancy, this is where the singularly greatest amount of effort has gone into Espermancy on her end of things in terms of raw practice and tinkering with it. It creates separate but connected ‘rooms’ inside of her mind that allow her to process/think in parallel within them, in doing this allowing her to process raw information and make calculations much faster and efficiently than normal. It is, essentially, like turning the brain into a psychic computer in OOC terms and is an ability that can assist rather well in the learning process (it doesn’t replace experience or getting it, just makes learning and retaining information far more efficient). She does wish to keep furthering her skill in this particular area of Espermancy as well in the future, she hopes, to make it even more useful potentially.
  
  Indeed, it is also useful in controlling her puppets while multitasking in the field. It used to take a number of Control Threads to control each of her puppets, yet between training with the Control Threats/puppets and growing this ability she has used this to assign a singular thread to each puppet and then assigning a number of her existing/already created mental ‘rooms’ or ‘partitions’ to control each puppet and their internals far more efficiently. This might also have been a ‘cheat’ way for her to improve control over her puppets at first, however, when training was getting on her nerves using Espermacy/Control threads in the past.
  
  On the average, though, she uses it to accelerate taking in and processing general information and making calculations, or do things like control puppets and keep an eye on the area simultaneously, or in doing things like cooking while mentally working out some sort of homework or project details at the same time, etc.
  
  But even if her mind can process things at such incredible speeds, and multi-task very well indeed, it crucially doesn’t speed up her body nor does it make her faster-moving physically. Not unless she learned enough Thaumaturgy or something of the sort to augment her body as well or such things. So no, this won’t help her dodge attacks in terms of speed or anything, but she can control her puppets at faster speeds and move them more quickly or could use this to even calculate the trajectory of projectiles or the like.
  
  Telekinesis - The power to move things with one’s mind. Thorough with it having taken a back seat to her use of Control Threads, however, it is still a useful tool when helping to hold smaller parts in place, pick up and move things out of the way while working, and even perform a feat like moving a crate of project parts alongside herself (and having one or more of her mental partitions maintain it) as she mulls over something else while walking somewhere.
  
  Familiar Sight - Magic allowing one to view the world through one or more of the senses of a familiar at even long distances, though she uses it via her Control Threads to also see through the eyes of a connected magical construct. It is possible to use this magic to see through one or more of the senses of another living thing as welll, but due to the factor of the "Strength of Will Theory" this would either need to be a mutually willing target or for the user to overpower the target (itself a riskier factor).
• She possesses a deep affinity for Void Magic that, based on examination of her by other mages, is unnaturally high (both for a Fae and in general). This has the effect of making her much more sensitive to the magic, and thus able to better detect, learn, and grasp/understand it as such. As a mage, it presents her with a rather high inherent talent for Void Magic that, with hard work, is seen as having ‘incredible future potential’ for her as a mage in general.
  
  At the same time, this deep affinity has other less-desireable side effects. This is best shown as it lashes out from her body in response to her extreme emotional states, those of a negative sort in particular, and lashes out likewise when in extreme enough physical states such as when she is ‘near death’ or experiencing issues such as extreme hunger/starvation. It is theorized that this is a ‘defense mechanism’ or ‘survival mechanism’ of sorts, even if an unintentional or instinctual one, though this odd personal phenomenon regarding Alaea and her affinity hasn’t been fully studied as of yet. The moniker of this Void-lashing-out state has semi-officially been given the moniker of ‘The Hunger’, which itself is due to it being originally witnessed when she was starving as a child after the destruction of her home Feywild.
  
  ((This isn’t intended to be some ‘auto-win’ affinity or ‘mary sue’ type of trait, but rather simply an abnormality of herself personally that has its pros and cons. Only exception would be if the GM’ing team wants to use it for something and has a use for this peculiar affinity on her part.))
• Magitech Engineering - Exposed to the development of magitech and likewise exposed somewhat to Krauser Industries via her adoptive Belua father ultimately after being taken back to the Republic of Altaria with him in turn, she would turn what began as a young childhood fascination with magitech (after first seeing some) and begin learning how to design and make it from her adoptive father at first. This mostly amounted to personal tinkering at first under the guidance of her adoptive father, but would via proper education in the matter go beyond this more so over time.
  
  By current times, she can be considered a generally solidly adept at the craft. Most often, though, she maintains and tinkers with mechanisms within and designs for her own Espermancy-controlled puppets and potential components for them (or future projects).
  
  ((Mind that she hasn’t learned any Alchemy, at least as of yet, so it's all hands-on work on her part.))
• Cooking - Hardy, basic-grade, household-tier cooking capabilities akin to a single person or wife/husband who has learned to cook in a general sense one way or another. Stews, gravy, roasted meat, soup, an understanding of generally-widespread or particularly local seasonings from where she’s lived, how to make bread and flour from scratch, the sort of basic, hardy cooking capabilities one might expect to learn from remembering what little she saw her mother cook and teach in the past as well as having to cook for a tired ‘old-timer’ of an adoptive father whose cooking skills amounted at best to even more rough ‘basic survival’ levels.
• Fae Sight - Allows Fae and Myrkr to see if a person’s intentions are pure or dishonest, and can see it displayed in their sorcery. (An inherent racial trait.)

Equipment:

• Her toolbox of magitech-tinkering tools, marked with magic (just like her puppets listed below are also marked) to recall and dismiss the toolbox and even the specific tools within it as needed.
• Puppet 1 - “Petto” [+]

  Example Of The General Style Of The Puppet [+]

  

  
  
  Her first ‘completed’ puppet after working on prototypes, created in the style of a humanoid puppet used for performances. Its simpler metal body is painted lighter tan and wood-like color, and it really is just featureless otherwise on the outside to boot while also possessing rather simplistic joints and a great range of movement. Yet in return it compensates with the second greatest durability/defense, second greatest flexibility, and second greatest overall resilience at base than the other three puppets she uses these days. Going along with its overall simplicity, the magitech gadgets installed into it are likewise on the simpler end of things.
  
  Its forearm segments each contain a lighting-element-infused metal magic wand mounted in an ‘activation device’ that is directly attached to its highly durable internal skeleton, which when used allow it to channel or alternatively fire lightning bolts from its connected hands (or just the forearms if the hands were lost). The upper arms of the puppet each also contain a magitech device that produces a hemispherical/half-sphere magical barrier when deployed, allowing the puppet to protect itself as well as be used to protect its controller/others to some extent. Within its chest segment it has three mounted shortened/sawed-off magitech shotguns in an upside-down triangle configuration within it, and these can poke through three usually-closed slats on the chest area of the puppet to fire either standard, fire-element-infused, or ice-elemental (combining wind and water elements) shells (these are the rarest in this lattermost case due to the element combination). Each of the thigh segments of the puppet’s legs also currently also contain a spool of durable but flexible enchanted wire tipped with a fine-pointed conical tip, said tip can be swapped out for a poison-dipped one or a serrated tip or even an element-infused one, that can emerge from one of three small slots on the each thigh (the front, the back, or the outer side of each thigh respectively). These wires with their tips can reach up to eight feet out from the puppet’s thighs (at most) and can be used to ensnare targets or attack them alike, offensively and defensively, as well as being able to be retracted easily back into the shins of the puppet via the automatic spool mechanism they are attached to (itself attached to the durable skeleton of the puppet as well).
  
  While this is its current loadout, Petto overall was designed by her to be a ‘testing platform’ for simpler integrated magitech devices as well as be used in the field alike. It was made to take a beating, switch out body segments or segment-contained devices for new ones, and is the simplest to maintain out of her three puppets overall to boot. It has also seen the most wear and tear, despite the replacement and repair of its parts, but it has lasted until current times well enough and stands at a height of 5’9”.
  
  ((OOC: Its name is simply derived from the original Gepetto, who in turn is from the story of Pinocchio, and who in turn was a marionette.))
• Puppet 2 - Gwath [+]

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  As a puppet, Gwath is overall much simpler than Petto and seems to be a ‘step back’ in most senses, but at the same time it is also the most simple, flexible, and durable of Alyna’s puppets while being the ‘least magitech’ of the bunch as a consequence. Its segments are made of thicker 2D pieces of metal that are painted black, like unto a shadow, while its joints are spherical and 3D by their design and allow for a rather large range of movement and flexibility in their own right. Its ‘head’ looks fierce, monstrous, with demonic ‘tusks’ that jut up from near the front of its open-able metal jaws that are filled with rather sharp cutting-type teeth (the whole mouth is designed to cut things well when closed overall to boot) as well. Further, its profile stands as oddly ‘mostly 2D’, and it inherently as such lacks compartments or 3D space to contain devices or contraptions for the most part. Mostly. Its feet are overtly 3D compared to most of the rest of it for the sake of its operation and use. It also, as a note, can be packed up in a smaller crate or container than her other puppets.
  
  Gwath’s hands are designed with sharpened claw-like blades on the fingertips, but given that it has actual moving fingers attached to the same common spherical joints used on its body (and for its wrists) it also has a rather surprisingly dexterous capability with its hands compared to the predecessor when it is being controlled. Its fingers are also segmented with little spherical joints, and its fingertips can even be replaced with other 2D or potentially 3D segments to enhance its grasping capabilities or allow it to use a simple weapon like a sword, a weighted club, or even a spear in its hands as an alternative. Its head, however, is useful for cutting things with its ‘fierce bite’ as well, and indeed the head can alternatively be swapped with a 2D style replacement that has its sharpened teeth mounted on a hidden chain attached to a magitech device that moves the chain rapidly (like a chainsaw, so in this case it is really just a tool rather than a weapon).
  
  Its creation was a test of ‘minimalist designs’ for potential puppets, ones incorporating tools and potential combat capability, on the part of Alyna. It still finds occasional use without fully leaving the ‘rotation’ of her equipment, usually being most useful in the field in shredding brush and (if using the chainsaw-mouth head attached) clearing trees. Sometimes it is used to cut certain materials for her as well with its standard head and its notable cutting potential, and as a weapon it is a simple but effective one that does the job nicely but lacks ranged potential or even more magitech gadgets/parts. She could have the ‘claws’ on the fingertips dipped in something poisonous, as with an attachment used with the puppet Petto, and it is of note that the odd profile of the puppet makes hitting it at times more difficult than with her others to boot. Truly, its pure durability and resilience is its greatest feature atop a bed of simplicity and a fiercely-painted exterior design.
  
  ((OOC: Its name means ‘shadow’ in Tolken’s Sindarin elvish, also referring to Indonesia shadow puppetry in particular IRL in this way and in its design in a sense.))
• Puppet 3 - Elipiloea [+]

  (Can’t Find A Good Image To Roughly Approximate This One)

  
  
  Her third puppet, itself being a step into a ‘semi-automated’-type humanoid puppet that features greater complexity in design than Petto’s more simplistic overall design. Yet its parts are more fluidly connected, its joints are generally spherical and rather flexible but are also less overtly alien and stand-out in their appearance, and a consistent and armored thickness gives it greater defensive capabilities and offensive potential than its predecessors. At the same time, conducting power from its torso to elsewhere in the body means its spherical joints are more limited in their movement and thus are less flexible than its two predecessors.
  
  Within its chest lies a self-designed ‘steam engine’ that uses a design roughly based on old vertical steam engines in turn. A fire-elemental core boils water in an internal chamber at the bottom of the torso, which rises up as steam and powers/moves the parts of the compacted multi-piston vertical/compound steam engine in the upper part of the torso. Steam collects within the upper/middle torso, then, which is collected/drawn in and is channeled using an enchanted part within the mid-torso back down into the internal chamber at the bottom of the torso. Further, if the water level of the engine gets ‘too low’, a water elemental core within the lower mid-torso will begin to conjure more water into the lower chamber to compensate. It can also go into ‘overdrive’ temporarily, wearing down its engine more and putting greater strain by outputting extra water and extra heat to push its internal engine harder (this comes with risks if pushed way too far, naturally, as a result). As a result of all of this, the puppet’s torso is designed to be thicker and denser than the rest of its body in order to protect and insulate this steam engine component. This while having a ‘maintenance mode’ that opens its up from the bottom around the hip joints with hinges on the upper arm joints to boot.
  
  But what does this engine power while the puppet is active?
  
  The left and right hands/fingers of the puppet are able to be magnetized at will, making it good at picking up or finding metal objects amidst a dusty workroom or holding onto an opponent’s metal weapon, but this has more uses than this for a reason.
  
  The hands can retract back onto the forearms, remaining magnetically attached strongly during this time, while a set of four gun barrels set around a central rotating rod emerges from the forearm. Each barrel of each set is etched on its rear (the rear of it being contained within the forearm for protection) with a set of chain-reacting enchantments, and when tapped by a densely mana-charged crystal the chain reaction in each barrel rapidly conjures metal, shapes it into a bullet, and then generates a measured explosion at the base of the barrel to ‘fire’ the bullet. The barrels automatically rotate around the central rod, being powered by the internal steam engine of the puppet, and each ‘tap’ of the crystal (doesn’t have to hit as hard as a firing pin) sets off the enchantments in each barrel in a set order to fire a metal bullet. Or in short, the puppet’s forearms contain a rudimentary magitech gatling-style gun with smooth barrels on the inside, one which begins firing as soon as it begins moving rather than needing to ‘wind up’ to do so. What these weapons lack in precision, ammo variety, and the like, however, is made up for in rapid-fire capability, a lack of need to ‘reload’ at all, and the use in potentially suppressing targets in effect. These weapons do, however, have to take a few seconds to get to ‘high speeds’ when spinning and firing, not going from nothing to the fastest they can just out of the blue. Further, between a mild enchantment on the central rod that helps ‘cool’ the rotating barrels the rotation of the barrels also seeks to keep them cooled.
  
  Its ‘eyes’ (set on a much more human-like face) are also able to be switched out internally in the field, ranging from those with literal ‘telescopic’ sight, to ones able to detect heat, to finally ones designed to detect concentrations of mana. She can use magic to ‘see’ through the eyes of her puppets, much like one might use to see through a familiar’s eyes, and this allows her to use this puppet in particular for scouting as well.
  
  To top it off, the right side of the back of this puppet has a protective metal armored covering/holster. Out of this can be deployed, over the shoulder that is, a magitech long rifle with a six-round ammo cylinder attached to it mounted to a type of swivel mount. Using the eyes of the puppet via magic, and the deployed single-barrel gun, it makes the puppet able to attack targets at longer ranges than its other weapons are capable of with greater precision. The gun can then be retracted, and while holstered can switch cylinders to another one if need be. Up to four cylinders, and one attached to the gun itself, can be used with the puppet at any given time.
  
  In terms of appearance, aesthetically, it is closer to a ‘real human’ in shape by far but less so in appearance. Its exterior is a dimer golden color for the most part, not bright enough to stand out bad in the dark or such but enough to give it something of a ‘unique look’ to it.
  
  This puppet is, likewise, her most advanced and recent one that was only finished/completed about a year and a half ago.
  
  ((OOC: Its name in reverse is “aeolipile”, or in other words the name of a simple form of stream engine invented by Hero of Alexandria, and it is based upon old steam power and on the clockwork automata of the past.))
• Puppet 4 - ??? [+]

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  An incomplete project.
  
  Her latest puppet project is yet to be completed indeed, though she has plans for how it will look much more ‘lifelike’ than the others and will incorporate some of her Void Magic into the mix in its functions for things such as ‘flight’ or being able to ‘reassemble itself’ potentially. The level of advancement in it is something she has long debated, however, and some of the particulars have yet to be realized in her design for it. whether to seek out making it ‘just another puppet controlled by threads’, make it a ‘true automata’, or otherwise going through with her parallel desire for seeking out ‘means to go beyond just mere Espermancy threads, something to establish an improved and longer-range means of control of such devices far more efficiently’ that has crept more and more into her thinking and goals for the future over the long-term. It embodies her desire to improve her work heading into the future, her desire to push her skills and efforts to ‘the next level’, and so forth as it currently stands.
  
  The temporary name for this puppet project is “Project Elana”, using the name of her deceased mother to temporarily give a moniker to the work until she can truly finish it. To her, it is a ‘potential masterpiece’ of a work for her, though for now it is mostly a dream stored away as carefully-prepared parts and selected/purchased components she’s brought along with her along with the rest of her work all the same.

Brief Background: ((Note: Was struggling to get it even shorter, ended up with this length of write-up for her backstory at this point. Ugh. Apologies for this. (@_@).))

The child of a far-off Feywild located in the distant northeast of Morgenrote, a more remote and once-isolated location that after exposure to the rest of Morgenrote became known for its peculiar (but still roughly mutually intellegible enough) dialect of the Fae tongue, possession of a minor underground Precursor Ruin it had long cleared out some time ago, and its famous "Saiwess Peppers". A magically-inclined future scion of the magical arts who was born at the zenith of the winter solstice, and bore an unexpected and unnaturally strong (and at the time worrying to some elders) affinty for Void Magic blamed on the circumstances of her birth. The only daughter of a local Healer who combined magical and mundane arts in her craft, and a father who was the first Fae to migrate to the Feywild in over two centuries and worked to help protect the Feywild's territory. Yet who due to an unexpexted monster and miasma incursion from the north she became its last known surviving member when one of the thrice-yearly caravans coming from Morgenrote to visit the Feywild came upon her and the horrific end results of her Feywild's destruction.

Soon thereafter, she was taken in by a widower Belua man named Talgu Heng who had been working with the caravan that had found her. Finding a sort of unexpected kinship with the orphaned Fae girl discovered by the caravan, however, he had volunteered to temporarily take her in with some compensation to be paid to him for the job. While clashing with Alyna at first, however, her discovery of a magitech gadget he kept from his past as a keepsake would become the catalyst for the two beginning to properly get to know each other. From here, ultimately Talgu would take her with him back to the Republic of Altaria after some debate to 'get her a better life' than he could provide as a mere adventurer in Morgenrote. Here, he would work at a friend's garage for a while before a former superior of his who still worked at Krauser approached him to talk one evening. The end result of this would see Talgu take Alyna with him as he returned, at first hesitantly, to Krauser Industries and joined the R&D Department once more.

Giving the girl a chance to further her desire to grasp and make magitech, the topic that had first brought them together, Talgu would also get assistance to further his ward's 'catching up' in terms of a magical and general education as well via the intervention of one famous "Donovan Krauser". Krauser would send the girl to the "Morgenröte Finishing School for Girls", where the Fae girl would eventually catch up with peers and push ahead in her learning, though during this time period would initially drift into a 'rebellious' teenage phase and for a time entered the proximity and sphere of a certain "Scarlettina" who had also been sent there by Krauser. While never a formal member of the already-filled "A5 Coven", though, she would hang around them long enough and well enough that she was even present in the same room on the night of Scarlett and company used a certain artifact Ouija Board that spelled out a certain name. Witnessing the summoning of something horrific, however, the initially somewhat rebellious child would reel back hard onto the straight and narrow in her education and life alike.

Her passion went back into her work, and yet....she had to find out what happend to Scarlett afterwards. She listened in and watched her seemingly talking to her clothing when no one else was around, she saw her build up criminal endeavors both legal and illegal, and in the end would try to remain somewhat close again at first yet would find herself ultmately placed on the other side of a grand divide between her and Scarlett all the same. Even so, life moved onwards....and so did she, ultimately, move beyond this point in time along her renewed path forward. Even so, eventually the time would come as she turned eighteen years old that Alyna would reach the end of what her current magical and mundane education alike would be able to give her. It was at this crossroads that, ultimately, she would make the decision to go back to Morgenrote to further her studies and knowledge beyond the magitech related knowledge she'd accrued already. Entering into a higher magical education, then, Alyna would work for five more years to move her work and grasp of magic and the like along as far as she could push them....and hopefully to find herself a place in the world. Yet the cumulation of all of her years of education and study would, then, help lead her to hear word trickle down more and more about a ‘new tower’ being founded outside of the city. A place called ‘Eon Tower’, one where a famous sage and many associates of his were to set up shop teaching and guiding others to improved learning. In this vein, Alyna would ultimately make the move to transfer herself to Eon Tower to further her learning.

....But, of course, even this wouldn't come as simply as it seemed. Because naturally the carriages transporting people were late with her things to the capital, and now she’s being forced to be late getting there in the first place while transporting her own stuff there?! Talk about a bad first impression!

Anything Else:

• She was born at the height of the winter solstice during her birth year.
• Alyna was named after her paternal grandmother, whom her father hoped to take her to see one day alongside a minority of some of his relatives. Her name is also a name rare to her former Feywild, but wasn't foreign to it at least.
• Is potentially a bit of a dork or geek (also noted in the personality hider farther down).
• Is annoyed more easily by people chewing with their mouth open.
• Morgenrote has established an outpost where her home Feywild's cleared Precursor Ruin is, mostly to keep the miasma and monsters in check but also to enable study of the ruins themselves. Most notable of these ruins is the presence of an oddly intact building that is part of the ruins themselves. This building is an enchanted gazebo-type structure, one with with columns and a shallow pool of reflective water on its floor, whose internal domed roof reflects the real state of the sky above (night or day alike, cloudy or sunny, etc) with perfect clarity. ((Nothing major, nothing too fancy, just something very desireable for archaeologists to find and which felt fancy yet mysterious enough to add flavor.))
• Alyna isn't as sure of her future role/place in the world, hence her pushing of her skills and mastery of them as far as she can. Perhaps she could become a Sage herself eventually? Perhaps she could make a breakthrough in magitech engineering? Many options seemed to be on-board, including the life of a Reaver amidst these as she goes to Eon, in her mind.
• Her prototype or existing puppets have only exploded on her four times....t-that she’s willing to admit t-to anyways! This doesn’t, however, account for other times and when tinkering with particular gadgets or such either for (or not for) her puppets. To her, though, it's just a risk that’s part of the ‘tinkering and leanring process’ in some parts now. Not that safety isn’t important of course.
• She wants to also get to learning Alchemy, if possible, as in not doing so it has made the cost of parts, enchantments, and so forth in her magitech tinkering to be….well, certainly at least being higher than someone who could do the work themselves potentially.
• As a rather young toddler of a child, she attempted to keep a ‘super cool’ large pet slug named Jerry at home back in her former Feywild. Her mother was not amused when a one-day-accidentally-lost Jerry was found eating some of her favorite seasonal wildflowers her father had picked for her earlier that week. Her father, however, got new flowers for his wife and helped move Jerry back to the woods….but laughed about the matter with some of the other men outside of this, especially remembering his young daughter crying out “Run, Jerry, you can make it!” in gobbled Fae toddler words as Jerry was approached by (and soon thereafter captured and returned to the woods safely by) her father.
• Loves spicy foods and has a special enjoyment of them alongside a high heat tolerance, but likewise is rather personally critical of spicy foods ‘having good flavor, not just being hot for the sake of it’.
  
  In this vein, her former Feywild was famous for growing a certain kind of pepper noted in dried/dried-and-ground-up form to have ‘a distinct saltiness, more concentrated high heat, and lovely sweetness’ called the “Saiwess Peppers”. Upon her adoptive father going the serious extra mile for her sixteenth birthday, and getting ahold of some of the noted local pepper plants from her former Feywild (and some enchanted pots to grow them in and keep them alive) due to her missing their taste and flavor, she has reproduced from memory the salt-dried peppers (used either just dried or dried and then ground up) and jars of fermented/picked ones since then to use in cooking and to season food. This in turn has allowed her to remake at least a select few of the recipes of her former home, including ones using fresh peppers, alongside new ones based on local Altarian flavors or her adoptive father’s tastes.
  
  She on this note has some dried peppers, an enchanted jar of ground up dried pepper powder, and a packed jar of pickled/fermented peppers that she’s bringing with her to Eon Tower after ‘replenishing her supplies’ via her father sending her some more from back home to replenish her stocks. To her, these peppers are a distinct ‘taste of home’ she has been able to keep around. In that vein….well, having more than one family and place to have called home now is something to look at as a welcome and good thing in her mind these days (and these peppers and the memories they bring these days bring a smile to her face).
• Saiwess Peppers More Info - The fresh version of Saiwess Peppers are known for having their milder bitterness being present, as well as being ‘sweeter when cooked’ from their fresh form and naturally lacking the saltiness of the salt-dried peppers. They were also noted among the former locals of and past visitors to her former Feywild as being good roasted (where the sweetness stands out a little more in a sense and the normally higher heat is mellower) and being used in stews or soups or such recipes alike (roasted or unroasted). Naturally, use of their seeds also adds a ‘greater heat’ to dishes and these would either be saved for planting the next year or (with extras) were roasted to intensify their heat and either sold to the caravans or (more than selling them to the caravans) would be used for snacking and in certain seasonal recipes.
  
  Her former Feywild also had a recipe for “Four Seasons Soup”, made to celebrate the end of summer and transition to fall and the like, using both dried and fresh forms of the Saiwess Peppers, the contents of jars of sealed/enchanted of pickled/fermented venison and/or fish (each meat used in different pots) as well as other pickled/fermented peppers to boot dug up from being buried underground for a year, and fresh seasonal vegetables all being simmered in huge pots for hours on end. The end result was a savory soup with high heat, complex flavors, and a distinctive sourness.
• Alyna’s Personality [+]

  In terms of personality, Alyna is someone who works to carry herself with a calm manner, and seeks to otherwise generally be polite and amicable when it comes to her general social interactions with others. When it comes to putting herself to work on something or to a task she’s set for herself, she is both a curious mind and can be rather disciplined and hard working in her manner as well. She also seeks to instill a sort of stoic approach to things, in a way, to try to accept what lies outside of her control and to maintain control over herself in persistent or acute difficult times/situations without ‘losing her cool’ (at least until maybe sometime thereafter or when finding some time to decompress or ‘let it out’ properly in her mind). In this vein she doesn’t mean to ‘be emotionless in facing the world and just bottle everything up’, but rather seeks to ‘better control her emotions’ and ‘to persevere and endure the tough times’ rather than simply bottle her feelings up or avoid expressing them forever. She will also speak her mind when she feels the need to and do so without hesitation, something those who know her adoptive father say ‘yup that’s a bit of the old man in her for sure’, but isn’t as unabashed as to just stick her nose into everything with wanton abandon either.
  
  Yet it is also of note that if interrupted in the middle of focusing on a task she is apt to be more or less definitely grumpy depending on who is doing the interrupting and the reasons for the interrupting. This is even more notable a quirk when it comes to her and the matter of sleeping. At the same time, she can still be a bit excitable (or a geek/dork) when it comes to certain matters (Ex: A good meal or new magitech idea) and stubborn when it comes to yet others (Ex: Getting worked up over a project or task she’s set herself to in particular). Further, while time and effort has helped in some healing for her, and she can talk about the loss of her former Feywild and family, talking about ‘that day’ in particular is something she is still sensitive enough to. She feels guilt for her survival yet still as well, among other such things.
• (Removed the longer backstory bit for now to one day, eventually, edit in the Finishing School part of her backstory. Still expounds more on most of her backstory though, than the summary does at least.)